The Steve Dangle Podcast - Doug | April 29, 2022

Episode Date: April 29, 2022

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Because given the way that Boston and Tampa went last night, I want to know what's in Jesse Blake's head. Now, if you missed Wednesday's show, Jesse, what was your opinion on who the Leafs were going to play in the first round versus Steeps? It looked like it was going to be a lock that it'd be Tampa. And? There's still two games to be played, so we'll see how it plays out.

What happened? What actually happened? Tampa lost. Boston won. so there's a chance tonight if Tampa doesn't pick up a couple points that at least

so to be clear if Tampa wins Tampa they can lose Tampa can lose pretty sure yeah they can lose if Boston loses

yeah but if Boston wins Tampa needs one point that's it yeah oh I'm marking it down as the Bruins winning tonight

okay yeah cause okay so right now we've got Matthews Tavares Marner Campbell all out

I don't know about Nylander yet but I bet he's gonna sit as well let me look Who are the Bruins sitting? They'd probably be on the ice right now. That's a great question. I haven't said.

They have not said. You look up the Leafs. I'll look up the Bruins. Okay. All right. So I'm going to MikeyStevens81, who also, Mike Stevens, good friend of the show, was also commenting that, for you equipment nerds, Mark Giordano has changed his stick. It is now red.

Okay. Or is it now blue? Who are the Bruins sitting? Who are the Bruins sitting? That is Steve's. I'm looking. I'm looking. I'm trying to.

Okay. Nope. Nope. no i have their lineup from yesterday so here we'll work on that we'll work okay okay we'll work on that um keith uh this is by the way tonight will mark the first time sheldon keith has coached a full 82 game season with the leafs oh my gosh ever that's crazy and still only just uh yeah there were we forget man there were times where it didn't look like we were gonna get through a couple months ago wasn't that long uh joey anderson is also going to be recalled from the

marlies this afternoon is going to play tonight versus the bruins i'm going to be there steve's going to be there at least are going to go with seven defensemen um and you know are they really yeah yeah yeah they don't care man so i well not not only they don't care but i think it's going to be interesting because i definitely think that the people that do care will be the people that get a shot and i think that's important right like i i do think this game is important for one reason and one reason only which is if if we have to go far enough down the depth chart Sheldon keeps going to be looking at this game and going who can I trust who can I plug in for

five minutes just to give Matthews and Marner a break because I'm going to run them out there 23 to 25 minutes a game yeah I know I know and also like based on yesterday's rushes it looked like Simmons is going to be in the lineup and Clifford is going to be in the lineup just go

the whole hog and call up Curtis Douglas what are we doing here oh maybe they will just no okay well here's a scenario that could happen okay right and we're going to be there for it right so right now it's leafs lightning yes that's what it is right yeah what happens if the islanders are up say four or five nothing on tampa heading into the third games that i believe start at roughly the same time the bruins one of them is going to be on their phone and they're going to be like uh

Uh, and they're going to identify that one of the Leafs is going to be on their phone and go, uh, they're going to identify that. And then both the Leafs and Bruins spend the remainder of the game beating the shit out of each other because they know they have a playoff series against each other in a couple of days. Right. I also want to let you know that, uh, sports that just put out a poll. Hey, Maple Leaf fans, which one do you, which team do you want the Leafs to play in the

playoffs? Bruins or lightning. and currently uh the bruins are winning 70 i would much rather play before i mean me too but like they're both really good if i'm tampa i i want to lose this game and face carolina and just feast well because the freddie anderson's not going to be available for that first round right that's the glance is not bad but like no freddie their defense is great but i don't know i don't trust freddie's gonna get vesna votes right like it's probably it's a big difference okay so here's here's a question guys because we i don't think we've focused enough on this the thing that jesse

said wasn't going to happen has halfway happened if are we willing to put donuts are we willing to donut bet because you guys have a definitive side both of you have a definitive side are you guys willing to put donuts on this yeah i am the only thing i think about is if i'm tampa i'm throwing the game because you don't want to play the Leafs because you rather because there's an easier opponent and

either way I'm on the road so it doesn't matter for me like I'm not playing for home ice or anything that's true yeah so do I want to play in coldish Toronto or very close

to home Carolina all three of the Leafs Bruins and Lightning could sit players tonight yeah all the Leafs Bruins series could be decided by a Leafs team that's

sitting four guys in a Bruins team that's potentially doing the same mm-hmm like I what's the point of playing Patrice Bergeron tonight? What is the point? A guy who has battled injuries and et cetera, Pasternak the same.

The fate of the entire Eastern Conference could be decided by three teams who don't care. No, you take it. It's almost like the battle for eighth Vegas versus Dallas. We're both going to lose and one of us will get it. And someone on Twitter, I think it was Clark Aitken pointing out, oh, you know, what could go wrong?

The last time the Leafs needed an Islanders win in the playoff picture, you know? What happened there? That's when the New York Islanders were playing the New Jersey Devils. Oh, the Devils started Clementson. And the Leafs needed an Islanders loss of any kind. The Devils tied the game with, I believe it was a John Madden goal, 0.7 seconds left. And I lost my mind. shootout comes

and it's Scott Clemonson for the Devils versus Wade Dublowitz for the New York Islanders what a matchup on game 82 baby Devils I can't remember their shootout lineup from that night but like their best offensive weapons weren't even used

I don't think Patrick Elliott shot and sure enough Wade Dublowitz took it from the Leafs took it from the Leafs I'm sure they would have gone on a big run. Oh, no, they would have died. But still.

It's annoying. I wanted them to make it. So are we not going to put donuts on this, gentlemen? Oh, I'm putting donuts. Jesse, are you going to put donuts? Will you throw down some donuts? I also, when I look at the series, I also would rather have the Leafs play Boston. It's a better matchup for them.

I know, but we're asking you what you think is going to happen. Are you sticking with the fact that nothing's going to change? Yeah, what I thought going into this is that they'll face Tampa. But, yes, that's what I think is going to happen. But I would rather them face Boston. Are you going to throw down donuts on what you said last show? Yeah, you weren't talking about that. You weren't talking about what you would rather.

You were talking about what we were talking about. Steve's trauma being ridiculous. Should I place a bet where I'm going to cheer against winning? I guess either way I win. Yeah. Yes. Yes. You're hedging your bets.

Jesse, you're walking away from your take, Jesse? Jesse's not sure if he's down with this whole fun thing. That's not what I want to happen. Oh, no. Don't be honest about it. Is Jesse walking away from his own take? No, just take the bet. Are you guys seeing this?

I just want to say. I think it's going to wind up. Tampa is going to get a points tonight versus the Islanders. It's going to be over. Or maybe the Leafs win. I don't know. But I think it'll wind up Toronto-Tampa. But I hope it winds up Toronto-Boston.

I want to know what stupid thing is going to decide this damn thing. Do you think it'll be some sort of bad penalty? or could it be a missed goal call? Something that we're going to analyze like the Zapruder film. You think so? 100%. I'm not. Can I be honest with you guys?

I'm different from the both of you. I just don't care. Whatever we play, we play. And I feel like either way, they're in tough. Nah, but there's one matchup that's better than the other. One's the back-to-back Stanley Cup champions who have a goaltender who can stand on his head for four games and win a series. and Kucherov and Point and Stamkos

who is breaking records only held by Gretzky and Yari Curry. The other one is Boston who's aging. And is trusting Allmark and Swayman as their goaltender. Allmark's been pretty good. Swayman's been pretty good too.

Unless Tampa breaks popcorn eating records tonight. I'm not afraid of any of those players. I think the Islanders are going to find a way to light up Brian Elliott and And then it'll be up to the Leafs to control their own destiny. And the most traumatic possible way for it to happen is the Leafs have the lead on Boston and the Bruins mount a comeback, winning the game, heading into the playoffs, securing

a berth against a team they have beaten the last three times they've played. The Tampa game also starts 30 minutes after the Leafs game. I think it's a 7.30 start for Tampa and a 7 o'clock Eastern start for the Bruins. I don't know if this means anything to you guys as well for your varying opinions, but the Boston Bruins have won four straight games and are 6-4-0 in their last 10, but four of those have come in the last. That's so good! So they're winning.

Do you really want a Boston team on a streak, Jesse, going into the playoffs? Yeah, yeah. Give me Boston over Tampa every day. Every day of the week, give me that. Exercise those demons. I'll take second line Eric Holla. You know, that's where they play them. I don't know.

The best story is there isn't a bad story. Like, I was talking to a friend about this. They either get a chance to exercise their demons or a chance to test. Like, imagine the two-time Stanley Cup champions. It's like playing the final boss in the first round if they have to go up against Tampa. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah.

It's like Bowser. bowser first castle and then you have to go up against like i don't know those dudes who throw the pickaxes right i always found more difficult you know those annoying pieces they were annoying because they go back and forth and fire it you know fire like a zoo bat yeah there's always two of them there's always two of them okay so okay so no donuts i'm assuming no donuts here i'm happy to bet doughnuts. Listen, do you want doughnuts Monday or not?

We always split them. It's never like, hey, you get away. These are my winnings. They should be. They're your winnings. You should take them and run. In the end,

I think my original prediction will be right and Tampa will get points tonight. Yes. That's what I think is going to happen, but I would rather the other one. Okay, so...

Put your doughnuts where your mouth is. So are you putting doughnuts on this, Jesse, or what? If you want to bet doughnuts on that, yes, I will do that. Whoa!

We finally got there. all right i just got my freaking dentist degree one of these days we're gonna find a bet that's good enough that steve or jesse is gonna have to bet donuts and they're gonna when we do our event in montreal everybody's gonna get a donut oh my god one of these during the playoffs we're gonna have a full party donuts thing i love it and one of one of the two of them or me i don't know but probably likely you guys now um two and five Canadians will hear the words, you have cancer. That's why every step and dollar raised matters. On September 19th, join thousands in Toronto for the Princess Margaret Cancer

Foundation Walk. Challenge yourself, friends, and family to walk 21 kilometers in support of life-saving research. Together, we can carry the fire and help create a world free from the fear of cancer. Register today at pmcfwalk.ca. When you're a mid-sized business, you need every competitive advantage you can get. Like an AI solution that works for you, not against you. SAP Grow is built with AI embedded at its core, working across every system, and it's ready to go from day one so you can hit the ground running. Bring it with SAP Grow, AI cloud ERP for any size business you may not have noticed this but sheldon keith kind of blew something today yeah and you want to talk about it because maybe you were at work well it was yesterday and he just

i don't know if everyone noticed it or not i'm trying to look it up right now but he blew that the leafs are hosting whoever they play in the first round on monday yeah this is mark master's tweet from about 24 hours ago sheldon keith says game one for the leafs is on monday night i as someone who works for the rights holder i didn't know he could know that yet but also we haven't been in this position very many times in recent memory where the leafs are the home team so whoever they're playing in the first round they're the host so so they get to know that i guess is that an advantage i don't know i'm almost positive someone pulled him aside and was like you shouldn't have said that wow you shouldn't have said that and i wouldn't be at

all shocked if it was subject to change based on what happens tonight because all but two teams in the nhl are playing uh tonight and that will greatly potentially alter the uh playoff matchups and the only two teams who aren't playing aren't in the playoffs and for some reason they're playing sunday which is allegedly the day before the playoffs begin i thought yeah i thought the second was that's a makeup game oh is it yeah yeah that was uh cracking and jets that was oh man when the jets had a uh tornado warning they canceled the game do you remember it was like last it was like two months ago or whatever oh wow or yeah i think it was torn out tornado maybe it was you know winter it was blizzard blizzard blizzard it was like it was like 50

centimeters in a day yeah yeah wow yeah it was a weather warning and they moved the game that's after the season. But in Winnipeg, you could get a tornado warning. Well, Winnipeg is home to the windiest intersection in the country. Is that right? Yes. I don't know why I know that. Okay, I don't either. I think it's going to be, first off, that Kraken-Jets

game is just going to be, just can't miss television. It's going to be Kraken. Mason-Appleton Bowl where Appleton is back with the Jets anyway, so it doesn't matter. There it is. So if, knowing that they start Monday, does that give does that give them a bit of advantage like like let's say because we were talking about the

lightning and the bruins right one of them is going to play carolina one of them's going to play the leafs maybe the carolina games on tuesday does that change anything at all or is it sort of just it's a schedule and that is what it is it is what it is okay and that is why like tonight's game is kind of important like if okay the leafs internally have a team they would rather play in the first round they do i don't know who that is but surely they do like you know what do they do all day well surely they surely they've spent some time yeah they're if you're the leafs right now same for the draft like you need to have a list right because going into the fourth round you're going to have players who you want but those players may not be there because you're

like a hundred picks into the round yes surely they're like all right we take on tampa here's how we're going to handle it if we're going to take on boston here's how we're going to handle it so they're heading into tonight and they have a preferred opponent how do you handle that how do you like all the players on the ice have a preferred opponent like this isn't this isn't your typical um you know after the deadline players um still play for pride they play because they want to win i'm sure there's some players tonight who are just you know clearing their minds and they're just like oh i want to win the game no matter what i'm a competitor but there's going to be guys on both sides tonight going and i'd rather play this team or i'd rather play that

team i think we're we're gonna i wonder what a fascinating cinema to follow it'd be kind of funny to see like if you could if you could give them all truth serum what would be like each player would be different what do you think the Leafs lean more do they do they lean more former Stanley Cup champions or do they lean more boogeyman I think boogeyman I think boogeyman like every uh players are dirty liars when it comes to their legacy and when it comes to their numbers you know I uh I asked um I don't I don't remember if I ever said his name but since he's retired and since we've made up now i'm gonna go ahead and say it was peter holland okay who uh grabbed uh right before i was going to interview him in guelph before his draft year he grabbed

the draft rankings from me like the papers and he just read them to see where he was calvin dahan where was he oh man he was high i know he was i know he got drafted like 20th or 21st 15th oh 15th Oh, my God. Okay, all right, all right. And Calvin DeHaim, I was talking to, and he said, yeah, I think I'm ranked, like, 42nd. And I was like, who guesses 42nd? And he was ranked 42nd, so he knew.

These guys know. So the Leafs know. Listen, if you beat Tampa, you'll have everyone's respect, certainly. but surely brad marchand who has not had to come up with a new canucks chirp for 11 years yeah lets them know every single time he plays them what the score is and surely they want to shut him the fuck up yeah surely i want to know how many guys are left over from the 2019 series that are currently on the team because i would think a lot of that plays into a factor of, hey, we want to avenge that

and we remember what they did to us. Well, I think the two that matter the most do. I mean, ideally, you would want Chara from this season playing for Boston as well. The liability is sort of that he was. I can't believe they didn't trade for him, to be honest. You think they should have? I think the Leafs should have.

Just for the pickup. Oh, I know. I'm surprised no one did. Nobody? Well, he was pretty bad. So what? Like, to even do my idea of, fuck it, put him on the left wing, fourth line.

that's true okay what do you got there jess i got jt morgan riley william neilander jake muzzin austin matthews mitch marner and that kerfoot no because that's it wow that's the end of the list really that is not much because it was two playoffs ago like you forget right it was just about three if he cracks the But he wasn't cracking the lineup. He was professional practice, Justin Hall. He was there. He was there.

He was certainly there. Yeah. Yeah, that was... Wow, that team has changed a lot. That was Hall-O-Gianna. So what about Boston? What do we got on Boston from that year? Oh, Boston.

Well, the top line right there, bing, bang, boom. And now, is Pasternak coming back? Surely. Yeah, yeah. Pasternak will be there game one. Neither goalie was there. McAvoy would have been there.

Gryzlik. um DeBrusque was definitely there oh yeah yo DeBrusque ate the Leafs alive like he ate them up late late in both series too 2018 and 19 yep that's like end of

list though so it's Bergeron Pasternak DeBrusque and wasn't Charlie Coyle there because they just picked him up I remember thinking and I think I said this before I remember thinking that was like oh that's a nothing trade that just got a little because I was watching Boston. No, I didn't. I was like, ah, shit.

That's perfect. Shit. That might have been one of the best pickups that year. That was a great third round pick. Really strong. And Ryan Donato. I think that was Chuck Fletcher's last year in Minnesota. Maybe that's what did it. Thanks again, Chuck! That's what did it. It was the nail on the cuff. It's Charlie Coyle. Thanks again!

So for the Leafs, there's quite a bit of guys, and I would think like Marner, Matthews, John Tavares especially, Morgan Riley, care a lot about what happened in 2019. Riley was there for all three yeah Riley's been here forever he was he was technically

wasn't he technically in the Leafs organization in 2013 as well he was yeah that's what I'm saying every single every time every time yeah and quietly he might not have been in the lineup but he was in the organization yeah and quietly Taylor Hall had 61 points this year

yeah but according to Jesse that's shit so yeah in comparison to the rest of the league it's not that great it's it's with scoring up you're absolutely it's not fantastic but maybe it's a different role i don't know i think at this point he's like i've won the heart i've scored a bunch of points and i've played like three playoff games i would like to do more he was such a good playoff player in junior and i believe he did well in the first round and i'm like oh man this is the i don't know if you can call it a coming out party because he's already

won a heart trophy but i was like this is when taylor hall finally tears the playoffs up and he didn't really do it last year hampus lindholm we know like everybody's hurt at this point but we We know Hampus Lindholm has been struggling with some injury. We know David Pasternak's been struggling with some injury. You know, I want to know what you guys think about these defense pairings, because it looks like at this point, Lindholm, McAvoy, Gryzlik, Carlo, Forbert, Clifton, not as formidable maybe as, you know, when that included Torrey Krug and Zidane O'Chara, you know,

a few years ago, but still pretty good. Pretty good. McAvoy is pretty damn good. I mean, he's not underrated based on his contract. but no, he's maybe underrated based on public perception. Like for, you know, he doesn't need a six foot nine frame to be an asshole. Like he's, he's a, he's a battering ram out there and he can snipe on you on the power play and, and everything. He's a, he's a great player.

And the rest of the guys just sort of fill in as really good fits for the Boston Bruins. I wonder about Hampus Lindholm as a fit, but maybe they looked at it and they went, listen, we're tough as shit. We're always going to be tough as shit. We need a guy who can move the puck. well i thought mcavoy was that guy though he's one guy one guy you need more you need more okay they're playing them together and bruce cassidy's never been somebody who's had like the stars on his back end he's always been able to make the team play a certain way and find the best out

of these defensemen who are just kind of there you know we we don't look at the names we don't really stand out and we're like oh my god that's a big name defenseman but boston always plays great solid defense how very new england of them yeah yeah just like to sound insulting because he had char but like he had washed char right char's been washed for a few years yeah cassidy got there in 2019 2018 2018 i think not sure so yeah he didn't have prime time char but boston we never look at them and say ah you know that's a weak defensive team no he plays a great system never i think um i think the thing too is i remember this you guys we were there one of the boston games and famously it was a six nothing boston win and we were all there uh and darcy tucker

had to remove himself from the Air Canada sent us down, and Darcy Tucker had to remove himself from the crowd because he was so upset. But I remember in the second intermission, I was getting a beer, and a Boston fan came up to us, and of course we got Leafs jerseys on, and of course they're giving

it to us, but they were actually very respectful and fun. And after about the fourth goal, they were like, okay, we'll stop. The one thing the guy said was like, listen, no offense to you guys and whatever, you have a good team. but your coach is getting out-coached to hell.

That was Babs. That was Babs, both series. And Bruce Cassidy, you really see the difference between great coaching and good coaching in the playoffs. Yeah. Yeah. And really, you look at it.

I mean, those games both went down to the seventh game. Those series both went down to the seventh game. And so many times, so many times it could be put on coaches because the teams were pretty evenly matched. Good goaltending sometimes from Freddie. Depends. But if you ask Boston fans,

they were they were hard on tuka as well great scoring uh defense that could show up or completely disappear depending upon the day but it was the little things that bruce cassidy would do especially when it came to uh deploying marshan and bergeron and pasternak in that second series oh my god um in a way that um allow them to not only get out of the leaf skin but but get into their their heads you could see in body language in certain games the way that he especially when he used home ice advantage against the matthews line and then i sometimes you know that was to those were the tavaris martyr years as well remember they played together and tavaris had 47 goals the the the issues that they would have dealing with pasternak and bergeron and

martian and how it would eat at their confidence you know it's interesting great she's not here though that's good he's not yes it is good they would get a ton of great depth performances up front too again as uh especially as the series would go deeper i also read a quote from sheldon keith yesterday that he's thinking about reuniting tavaris with nylander why what yeah why how why why why that didn't work for 65 games and they had to go away from it forget that it didn't work what you're doing is working why are you changing that no willie on the third line it just adds a whole other different weapon and to your point adam about the outcoaching thing bruce cassidy's been there since 2016 i got that right has he been there that long yeah both of those series

i would argue both of those series back-to-back years he outcoached uh babcock like i don't think i think you're a hundred percent on it i don't think there's any arguing that you're nailing and this year i hearing that like that i'm like no keith don't do that i don't want another situation where we see cassidy outcoach a leafs coach well i wonder if they're preparing for boston because a shutdown i don't i don't know if a shutdown line makes sense against tampa because they're like which line do you key in on they're all freaking ridiculous with boston they do sort of have one right i mean it's not like you let you know guys like coil and hall go rough shot on your team but uh it definitely makes more sense to key in on guys on that team if i were

to say anything to add to jesse's point from earlier i think the thing that killed the leafs against the bruins both both times was their rigidity they would go into the seventh game bruce cassidy would have a completely different game plan and they would go i don't care even though that our game plan clearly isn't working we're just going to stick to it yep and i'm hoping so here's so he's flexible we've seen keith be flexible we've seen him put lines in the blender yep sometimes when you get too flexible you get loose and he had a problem with that going back to willie putting willie in the center position in game seven what on earth it wasn't game seven it was elimination game yeah five because there was only five game series yeah yeah same different

that team i said from the from the get-go that team didn't the the leafs management didn't believe in that team the bubble team they didn't believe well after the airs game they didn't get zach bogosian who they were gonna get what a waste of everyone's time yeah that series was i think though you know what i feel bad for that team because i think they started the year with babs and clear like the first you look at the first 20 games versus the first 20 games with keep two different teams oh right they wasted 20 games and steve i remember the big argument we had back in the studio with the purulator truck about like hey steve you can't fire him right now you're like why we're wasting everybody's time here this is gonna happen it's going to happen and it happened

exactly the way i thought it would right but i think and and i i'm bringing that up because it It happened for sure. And I wonder if they just... Remember when Keefe came in and he was like, I'm just trying to build the guy's confidence up. I'm like, holy shit. These are the Toronto Maple Leafs and they're this not confident?

Like, this is bad. The Keefe timeout became a thing. Like, I don't... He must hold the record for timeouts taken by a coach who's winning. Like... He must hold the record. That was a tough year.

It was a tough year. And then we were slamming to COVID. So I give that team a little bit of a break. And they did give us that pretty amazing, you know, comeback in game four. oh yeah that game was cool that game was it was really cool that was uh natalie and i's first date that night oh really yeah we watched it at the bar together it's just such a shame i believe if i'm not mistaken game five was the next day or was yes it was yes it was it was like it was no

no game four uh it was on friday game game five was on sunday i don't know one of those was a back-to-back and i was just like yeah um one series that i think yeah it has firmed up and i think that this is going to be a fun one guys and i know we'll do a full playoff preview these teams played like a week ago and they want each other oh yeah they wanted calgary nashville awesome calgary nashville is going to be incredible it's not going to be close well you don't think so you see sorrows yeah a couple days ago it would have been but sorrows would have been cool being less than 100 wait hold on did i miss i missed that he's out yeah it looks like oh yeah If he's not there, I'm thinking like six games, five games.

And then last night, the puck went behind Nashville's net. What was it, like up in the air or something? And Dave Riddick went to go get it, and he ran into the goalpost and fell down. Yeah, I saw that with the thing this morning. He's okay, though, right? Yeah, it just looked really funny. That's why it's okay to laugh. The Leafs actually, you know, the Brits are facing the same thing the Leafs are facing,

going into the postseason with big save dave being your only healthy uh player uh healthy goalie that sucks oh my god yeah poor guy poor guy honestly i mean no you can't you can't rule out teams that are built for this nashville is built for this the problem is they're going up against the team that i would call the prototype why would you call them the prototype because Daryl Sutter's behind the bench and they basically constructed their team to be good in the playoffs

and I think what they accidentally did was they built a good regular season team too. So if you're John Hines you've got a great team. You've got Roman Yossi with 95 points. Wait, I'm John Hines? You're John Hines in this situation.

I think he looks like Voldemort. Dushane puts in a great year. Forsberg puts in a great year. You don't want to throw this away, but UC Saros is a little hurt, and he had a 918 save percentage all year. Your choices are, Jesse and Steve, Connor Ingram, who played two games, went

1-1 with a 302 goals against average and a 906 save, or big save of David, 12 games, sorry, 17 games, but started 12 of them. He was 6-3 with 4 overtime losses, a 357 goals against average, and an

886 save percentage. Connor. You go Connor Ingram. 100%. Also, this is the first time we've talked about Conor Ingram on the show since when? Does anyone remember? Oh, I don't know. The reason you don't remember is because it was one of the remote episodes. None of us remember anything from those episodes.

But he was, I believe, part of that match-fixing scandal in Sweden. Remember Tier 2 Sweden? He was? Yes, he was the goalkeeper. Man, you got a memory for some of this stuff where I'm like, I don't know how he thinks about these things. Steve, how would I question for you? Why are you starting a goalie who has two career starts in the playoffs when you have David Riddick?

Because he might be bad. Yeah, you know what? You know what David is. Yeah, you do know what David is. That's a little disrespectful. Let him at least prove that he's bad. How many games do you think there are? You got one.

It's a seven-game series. You got one. You got one. So you'd give Dave a big save game to start. Give him game one. Calgary's going to light him up, hopefully. I don't want Calgary to lose in the first round I think that would be very disappointing for their fan base

in their season Game over Calgary launched last night with Adi James and Peter Klein Jesse would have coached the 86 Habs and lost I don't know who this Patrick Waugh kid Oh yeah Connor Ingram is Patrick Waugh That's what you're saying

I don't know about this Mika Kiprasov kid I'm going with Roman Turk That's you Connor Ingram is one of the greatest goaltenders of all time. Patrick Waugh. He might be. We don't know.

There's only two starts. Who's to tell? Okay, you got big save Dave numbers up. Get Ingram. Get Ingram. What? I got Ingram's numbers. He has two career starts.

He's got two career starts, one win, one loss, 302 goals against average and a 906 save. What about in the AHL? I don't have those. His AHL number is 915. save percentage in 54 games 270 save percentage that's more indicative of the goalie he is

than the two NHL games what about his numbers in last year 899 and an 898 Sweden and the NHL I thought we were giving everyone a mulligan what did I do what did I say

I thought we were giving everyone a mulligan for what for COVID I gave the Leafs a mulligan for that year I hear you guys up all the time I didn't say that I'm getting best takes from both sides And I try to sift through them

What are you mocking me for The thing about Jesse and I is people get us confused All the time We're the and podcast I have two dogs Named Bindi and Cedric I host the Virgin Radio Morning Show I said I give the Leafs of Mulligan

On the 19th season because of Babs And the COVID thing What's happening with Conor Ingram's numbers in Sweden? You tell me, Jesse. You said it. No, he was a very highly touted prospect for a long time. I am not going to judge him based on one offseason. Okay.

But if you're Calgary, you can't, whoever they go with, you can't let that goalie in the series. Because here's the thing with the playoffs. Correct. Is if that goalie, whoever it is, if it's Big Save Dabe, who does go on runs or has in the past, that's why he has the thing and Connor Ingram who had some good AHL numbers

and the thing is that Nashville you got nothing to fucking lose you got nothing to lose you're here that's great UC Soros is out if you lose your fans are still going to chant thank you can we have another it's great but I just

Calgary has got to dominate from the get go and they have got to because what will happen is if they dominate game one the other goalie will go in so it's big save dave first let's say conor ingram would be the next game if big save dave gets lit up but you have to go hard at conor ingram again so you have to get both hard of both goalies because you let either of them in the series it's a whole different ball game great teams lose all the time because of some fucking goaltender we've never

heard of uh i think it is game one is going to be a war zone uh boretzky tanner janeau um milan lucic mad chuck and exactly right but i think the longer this series goes uh you're going to be able to use roman yosi as printer paper i i think the flames are going to zone in on him forget the goalie they're going to go after him and they're going to flatten him flatten him every single time because you would think you'd be avoiding the top defenseman right it's going into his corner every time now that they still have ekholm he still exists he ain't yosi so okay if i'm daryl sutter puck into yosi's corner wham puck into yosi's corner wham every single time lindholm lindholm lindholm lindholm that's the guy just send him in after everybody jesse which city

is the better nashville calgary or nashville that's a good question and does the winner of the city of the series get to keep the rights to nashville you know what this is the country music bowl oh yeah we're calling it the country music bowl right here sports net that's the angle i'm angling for this series that's the narrative it's nashville and nashville taking on calgary and calgary um who's the better nashville calgary or we're gonna find out that's really that's really funny man i like that it's a good one the cowboy boots bowl i like that is the stampede better than everything that i've never been in the stampede you have uh adam you've lived out in calgary is the stampede better than everything that nashville so you're calgarian listening to

this or you've lived in calgary is the stampede good or is it just this thing that you're it's the gravitational pull of the stampede is so hard so heavy that you must go to it because the thing is the stampede feels good is fun and then after worlds afterwards feels a little awful awful and you're guilty you feel guilty at least if you're single sometimes if you're not and i i it's kind It's taking a trip to Nashville. That's right. It's not cheating. It's stampeding is what they say in Calgary.

Jesus. Yeah. So I'm not kidding. The whole city shuts down. The way you make the stampede sound is like the way I look at Tough Mudder. I'm proud I did it. I'm never doing it again. Except next year, you're like, okay, 10 days of stampeding.

Let's go. 10 days. 10 days. Now, all the best acts, all the best parties and chuck wagon races and all the other things that you want to go to they all happen in the first five to six and if you're like really hardcore and you want to stick around for like the rodeo belts or whatever they all they all still happen towards the end of the week but the best performances you know when you get like snoop dog followed up by like big and rich yeah yeah that's amazing snoop dog was i think why am i

surprised he's showing up to anything he'll do anything yeah for sure do they have the bachelor party ride along pedal bikes where you drink on the they must do they have those yeah do they have doesn't count so no not not like if they do they don't have them because stampede is sequestered right it's in its own park around the stadium so you don't have uh in nashville those people get out of the way of those uh bachelorette parties on those on those things like there's just this it's like they run the city it's like car car mega bike car everybody's hammered on this but like and everybody's drunk on the road in nashville yes all except for the driver but they're all hammered yeah and there's a there's a okay i don't know if you've ever seen one of

these but these the they're they're like those big uh cycles where everybody's peddling and then they have a bar in the middle and there's just a bartender serving them stuff they're called pedal taverns no sorry adam said it nashville man nashville's wild you know what i just realized what uh the leafs gave dave reddick the opportunity to play his first game as a leaf against calgary last year he lost yeah there it is there it is we saw what a ridiculous and how are there how is there more than one of those i remember kevin who was showing us around who's uh who's the best we went to the 16 finals with him by the way that was six years ago gentlemen how can you can you

believe that but how easy it is to fall off the back of that but the thing is is that cars totally respect them like oh yeah no that's part of the economy here we need to make sure that they in toronto be like get the fuck out of the road yeah in nashville they're like oh no we all have time No, you guys get drunk. Have a good time. So glad you're here in Nashville. Oh, look, there's a massive one. It's called the Honky Tonk.

Of course it is. It's big. That's big and blue. Is that a bus? Is that a pedal bus? They got a whole big bus. I hear that thing behind me. I'm changing my route.

Now, if you don't know this. Look at the size of that. It's a school bus. They cut out the middle of. Some may know this. Some may not. But I guess Nashville is the bachelorette party capital of the world. I'm sorry.

I'm just imagining a drunk Miss Frizzle. Seatbelts, no one! You know what you never see on the honky-tonk bus? What? A white dress and a jean jacket and a cowboy hat. You never see that. No, never. And a sash.

That's mean. And a sash. You never seen a sash there and pink balloons. No, you're crazy. Never seen it. It's only you. You're crazy. Oh, man.

You got it. So, okay. All right. But is there a way without UC Sorrows that Nashville wins the series? Is there a way? Yeah. What's the way? Connor Ingram stands on his head.

Connor Ingram. No. Calder Canning. The real Connor Ingram. The real chances. How do you pronounce Dave Riddick there? Is it Riddick? Riddick.

Riddick. I say Riddick. Sorry. They have a Norris winning defenseman. They have a great system. They have guys who we haven't seen play at this level, play at a certain level all year long. Big factor. Max DeShane.

And Calgary, I think this is the biggest factor in the entire series and the biggest factor in their entire playoff run. They've never been here before. There's a very young team with a first line that is absolutely a first and second line that are absolutely on fire, who have never done this, who are trying to do it for the first time with a lot of pressure. And who knows how they hold up in the playoff. Now, Jesse, there's going to be a lot of people who are like, wait a second. Goudreau's been there. Lindholm's been there. Not really.

Not really. Not in this position. Sutter, Lucic. Your head. Oh, friggin. Markstrom. No, not really. No.

Goudreau. Yeah. He said Goudreau. Oh, he did? Yeah, he did. That's okay. You can say it again. Wait, did you mean Johnny or Barclay?

No, who's the guy that. No, sorry. Blake Coleman. Blake Coleman. I get him and Barclay. Blake Coleman. Yeah, same line. Blake Coleman.

Yeah. I'm thinking about the big players on Calgary in this current iteration. This Calgary team, all we've had out of this Calgary team is underperformances. Every single season, we're like, hey, when are they going to put it together? And then they finally put it together. Now we have to see what they do in the playoffs. It's not the worst point. They're head coach, though.

Yeah. There's a guy who's done everything in life. Like, literally. Literally. That's why I'm not too worried about the point. doesn't he deliver what was it horses or cows or do you ever have you been listening to the gift that is daryl sutter press conference oh they've been great what also he's jacked what the hell yeah he's like wearing a shirt and the shirt is ripping yeah because he does stuff when he's not

coaching hockey he is like literally like uh like uh freaking samuel l jackson with his eye patch has to like come and get him we need you and he's just like nick fury yeah nick fury thank you i I had Tyson Fury in my head, but I knew that was wrong. And it's, no, I gave that up. No, Daryl, it's your time. It's time to come back. And he visits him on his farm and gets him to

agree to coach the Calgary Flames again for the ninth time or whatever it is. Second? Is it second? Those are the same. Those are the same. They're the same. He is the coach of the Calgary Flames forever and always. And he was there when they went

to the final he's got unfinished business i'm not too worried about calgary you're not too worried about okay so let me ask you this because we got a team that still can't score in the dallas stars and we got i know we're gonna do again a preview but i have to ask about this series because it's crazy dallas colorado literally what's dallas's goal differential negative 10 yeah they're the only negative goal differential team in the playoffs yes yeah they're actually the only negative goal differential team for like 10 places if you rank them in the league except for when the Leafs lose by 56. That's right. That happens. Sometimes you go up by

three and then you lose 56 to three. So the abs in Dallas. The thing about Dallas is they can play boring. And heavy. Do they have a single shot? No. Because dude like Sagan

skilled feisty player he's not healthy. He hasn't played a healthy game all season. Ben heavy grinding punishing player. He hasn't played a healthy game all season. Radulov is a fun little hybrid of the two of them. He hasn't played a healthy

game all season long. They got guys. Ottinger's a great goalie, and he's only going to get better. They certainly have guys, but I'm not buying what they're selling. Not against Colorado. Their defense is always great, because they got

Klingberg, Haskinen, Lindell, Hackenpah, I forgot they had Hockenpah. They're not going to go down easy. I don't think Colorado is going to run them out of the building. I think it'll be closer than people think. But I'd still select Colorado to win.

But I think it'll be a close series. Yeah. A little bit like Nashville, Carolina last year where you're like, why is this still going? How did we get to game seven? Was it seven? I believe so. Seven or six.

Yeah, seven or six. Okay, now I got a fun question for you guys. In terms of the league, okay, I like looking at goal differential because it does get a little goofy. And the goofiest one is that Arizona, who is in 31st, has a negative 107. Montreal has a negative 106. They're 32nd. Yeah.

Okay? They each have one more game. Oh, who's going to win? Who will win the negative goal differential race this year? Okay, who's got who? So Montreal, Canadians. I need to know the last games. They're playing Florida.

But Florida is going to be resting. Who's got nothing to play for. The Arizona Coyotes are playing the Nashville Predators, who also, I believe, don't have anything to play for. I think Montreal wins tonight. Yeah, Montreal wins. Yeah, because they clinched last place. I think so.

Even if they win tonight, they own the last place tiebreaker over the Arizona Coyotes. I think they go out, St. Louis gets them fired up for the last game of the season. It's been such an awful year. They got the number one overall draft pick. I think they go out and they beat Florida on a nothing game. And Sam Montembeau beats the team who got rid of him. Carey Price might start.

Or that. Could be that. I don't know. I went with the storyline, but that wouldn't be the same. So you're going with? Who wins? I'm making it into a graphic. We're putting it on Instagram.

Go. I think both teams win, and Montreal wins the negative goal differential. So they'll finish with worse goal differential. Who finishes last? Oh, wait. That's who wins. No, sorry. Arizona wins.

Arizona wins the goal differential. They're both going to win their games. Arizona wins the goal differential bowl by being worse. Who do the Coyotes play? The Coyotes play Nashville, and they're currently 107 under par. Yeah, I agree with Steve. Okay. I'm going to go with Montreal.

I'm going to go with Montreal. And the reason I'm going to go with Montreal is because I feel like Nashville's literally, because of UC Sorrows, they're going to sit everybody They're going to sit everybody Yossi should not play This is Does Connor Ingram start or Dave Riddich?

Oh That's a It's got, oh man You'd think Riddich, right? Ingram? No, because Riddich played last night I mean, they're not really in a place where okay let's rest the guy who's played two games here we go

listen guys we don't want to we don't want to overstretch him going into the playoffs that's too much is that a long season for anyone who's upset by any of the takes that we've had about your team uh just know that there are thousands of clips out there of us being wrong yeah it's oh my god if we were afraid to be wrong we wouldn't have a podcast no exactly well and that's so funny because that's usually the reason when people get upset that i get is how do you have a podcast to be raw i simply made one oh man well we'll have to duck out in place of all the undefeated ones oh you're you were wrong about a sports thing where it's entirely unpredictable and anything

can happen that's what's fun is it i don't know it's fine okay being right's cool right it is and i love to dunk i love i love to i love to highlight i was right across in the air but i do think it's kind of fun when you are wrong because you're like because you i i i love this because i know if it's a really bad one like if it's a bad take i come into the show i'm like i'm gonna get lit up and it's gonna be fun those days are fun they are fun it's fun it's fun it's like you ever you ever wake up with a hangover but you go huh i haven't had a very long time but it's you're like oh well i had a good time um i had a good time uh i do want to take a second uh in this show to just shout out um uh the launches of game over toronto and game over calgary so we game over calgary

with audie james and peter klein yesterday so if you're flames fan just so you know how this works live show after every game on the youtube channel then it is available to watch on youtube later if you can't make it um but we encourage you to be there because obviously you can write in questions and join the chat and the chat's great and the chat's moderated by the way um you know our mods do such an amazing job with that sort of stuff so you know the great thing is about our chat is it's actually productive and you read it and you're like oh okay so there's some real cocky stuff going back and forth here which is great the other thing is um we got game over toronto and um i i guess we can't really talk about who the other host of game over can we

because yeah this episode will come out like half an hour before that announcement goes live okay So if you're on Leafs Twitter, you definitely know her name is Rahafisa. And we're so excited to bring Rahaf on as well. So here's a lot of people are asking. We didn't talk about Harnash and Armand. Well, I'm going to in a second. Oh, I'm going to. But we haven't.

When? So Harnash and Armand, too, are game over Toronto picks as well. People are like, wait a second. There's multiple hosts here. Why are you doing this? Well, the reality is everybody that does this also has another job. and we're figuring if we're going to do this 82 times next year it's very rare that you're going to find andrew berkshires out there who will make the time and can make the time and

all the other things that need to go into that so why not have some team shows well and also berkshires had to rely on julian for a couple shows absolutely he's had to do uh we all rely on julian uh honestly who doesn't um harnish patel and arman pentaki are are such great guys when we did the interview with them they applied together as a show and we hadn't seen that and we're like okay let's give this a shot we checked out their podcast they do a leafs and a raptors one i think mondays and thursdays or sundays and thursdays like we used to and there's just a um there's like a magic between the two of them they're good friends uh they you know they're from mississauga and work in the hamilton area uh i know that uh uh i believe that there's a

connection between uh our own robert malloy and harnish patel because i think harnish uh is a part of the robotics community in southern ontario like i think i don't know if it's the fighting robots like the ones you used to see on tv but they are and and i think robert's involved as well excuse me robert is low-key competing with julian for most jobs i don't know how i don't know i don't know how it is and armand obviously you know just like they've been they've been longtime friends so it was really cool to see that it was really cool to see peter and audie yesterday obviously we had um some tech issues and stuff like that but that's why we start before the playoffs it's gonna happen these guys issues on watch the Leafs game with Steve Dangle like

oh yeah yeah oh yeah you you have yeah you have just it just does and I think um what's cool about Peter and Audie is they're gonna bring like a uniquely Calgary Flames perspective to this right like they are really well known within Flames Twitter community um they've got great setup they got great insights and like when we interviewed Audie he took a break from his job and then went into his car do you remember that and did like a FaceTime he's like oh yeah I'm just on a 15 minute break in my car and then i think our our interview went 20 minutes he's like i gotta get back to work and we're like okay yeah i go sorry um and then uh rahaf is brilliant and funny and fun and can't wait for her to host her first show tonight so definitely jump on and give

her a shout out and essentially jesse i think the way it's going to work is um in toronto they're going to trade off yeah we're going to once the playoff schedule is out because that's been holding us up on finalizing how everybody's going to host all the games once that's settled we're going to figure out like who's gonna take which games but yeah they're gonna trade off and have different hosts and tonight we're just gonna be joined by omar hey tic tac to omar amazing by the way tic tac to omar had the most social media post about the leafs today i've ever heard he's like isn't it hilarious that most people's um uh most people who work for the nhl teams basically or like the leafs i guess their entire strategy for the first round social media wise is based on

tonight like he's like they had to do basically double they have to do a boston version of things and a tampa bay version of things and he's like literally it's it's on and it's on a bunch of guys on the leafs to decide who it's going to be really who don't play for the least regular i got a little glimpse of this when i started at sportsnet uh for the 2015 playoffs but there is essentially going to be one person just going running around with their head cut off oh yeah to try to put this schedule together and get it out as soon as the games are done i remember i don't know if you guys remember this but in like 2009 there used to there started to be social media jobs out there for companies and i remember reading a top 10 list of jobs that wouldn't exist

uh in five years and and one of them was social media coordinator and the the uh the author said that uh we we would have social media figured out in five years we'd know all the platforms so there'd be no need because everybody would know how to use it and here we are like 15 years later everyone's gonna know how to fix their car they all have one they all have one they know how to fix it adam you also mentioned you mentioned this off air i think uh but you wanted to thank everybody who applied yes yes yeah i think so i want to get back to everybody via email so i'm gonna try to do that as well but give me some time i don't think you got the time for that We got a lot of people.

We got a lot. We got a lot. And I just want you to know that we legitimately went through every single one. So it was really cool to see. Thank you to everybody who did apply, who can make the time. And remember, we are rolling out more markets next year. We just haven't figured out which ones they're going to be, but I'm sure you have a pretty good idea. So if you are in one of the markets that was not included this time, that's okay.

We're going to have more in the future. And remember, it's going to be probably more than one person that gets it because it's going to be rare to find somebody who can do all 82 games plus playoffs. So we're really looking forward to where Game Over goes. Thank you for such a great reception to both Adi and Peter and then Harnish and Arman. And obviously, we look forward to Rehef's first show today. It's going to be very, very cool. Very excited about the network and where it's all going.

And this is exactly what we hoped, right? It was sort of the reason that we're doing this, full disclosure, is that the jobs that i used to be able to get the just used to be able to get steve used to be able to get you know steve you started in like part-time highlights jesse you started as an intern in a program that can't exist anymore because it's quite literally illegal i started interning too yeah i started interning as well we were all three of us run paid interns i think you could still have university interns for like a month right but you can't do it for like six months like jesse you worked a long time before they hired oh yeah for free yeah yeah it worked out like after i was graduated

which that at that point it was illegal yeah because i wasn't was that illegal back then though yeah if you're not doing for course credits i think it was just turned illegal wow yeah if i'm familiar i interned i interned for 10 months 10 months for free oh dude and that two years yeah it's and you know you and and i'm i i'm happy that i had that for sure but i also think that you know i don't look at this as an internship this is a job and the the thing is is that as as media cuts back and it's happening everywhere it's happening in the states it's happening in canada the jobs that used to be able to get you in the door where you could come on and you know try it out like my first job in barry where i got i think seven bucks an hour uh which was awesome

i was like oh my god i get to be on the radio for six hours every day that's more than i thought you made it was amazing for that um uh well it was definitely more than the quality of the show because i sucked oh i had nothing to do with you it's had everything to do with it being overnight and Barry. Well, those jobs don't exist anymore. And so we want that opportunity

for other people as well. That's why we're doing Game Over. Like, people are like, why are you even bothering to do Game Over Toronto? We have Steve's LFRs. I don't think that makes any sense.

They're two different things. And I want you to try them out because here's the thing. Even if you can't watch Game Over, you can listen the next morning. It's all going to be up on audio and Spotify so you can watch,

you can listen like every other show that we do. You're going to be able to see it on video. You're going to be able to listen to it. And it's going to be a great recap

and it introduces you to more people that have real talent and are really exciting and we're really excited about. Is that fair? Absolutely. Absolutely. Every interview that we did

with Adi, Peter, Rahaf, Harnesh, Arman, we were just like, oh, I love you. This is going to be amazing. What a great fit. And yeah, thank you to everybody who applied.

You know, we might be reaching out next year. Yeah, I mean, for a lot of them, it wasn't even like, oh this is bad like no it's just here's what we have right now here's what we have right now there were uh you know better fits some of you were you know we got some really young applicants as well and it's awesome uh some people who i was like all right i don't know if this is gonna work but

jesus the editing's amazing and just so many talented people out there it's great and we're gonna keep working on that now jesse uh we do have to do a little special shout out to jesse who troubleshoots, launches, teaches, does all the things behind the scenes. Everything. Everything behind the scenes. And of course, Andrew, who called me last June with the idea and he was like, I feel like we need to do

something after the games. Like we've missed an opportunity with the Habs, haven't we? That's what he said. Yeah. And that's where this all came from. And so it's been. Well, it's like they made the cup final this year and I figured we could capitalize on that. By having them. Yeah. They won. Totally. If all

things go the way they should, they should win the Conor Bedard Cup and things will be fine. Oh, boy. Yep. Oh, boy. Maybe they'll even win the Differential Cup. If they can get Shane right, I think that would be Berkshire Stanley Cup.

Yes. Just so he doesn't have to go through this. And I love that he's no longer pretending not to be a Habs fan anymore. I love it. He's not? No. Oh, he's now a Habs fan.

Yeah, he said he wasn't. We'll see about that. Jesse, can we do a little bit of a longer press conference here? Yes, we can. Thanks for watching!