The Steve Dangle Podcast - Hockey Eve | December 23, 2020

Episode Date: December 23, 2020

On this episode of The Steve Dangle Podcast, Leo joins the show and we talk about The Wiggles (00:00), the NHL is officially back! (09:00), the NHL is trying to find ways to get more revenue (27:00), NHL taxi squad details (43:00), Kucherov might hit LTIR (53:00), Adam wants everyone to pump the breaks on the Montreal Canadiens (58:00), shoutout the NWHL (1:03:00), and the press conference: eggnog, Adam vs Lowry, Leafs hot takes, & secret santa (1:05:00). Originally aired: December 23, 2020 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/rnjmbp4nGMs Merch: https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/fancydangleshirts Follow us on Twitter: @Steve_Dangle, @AdamWylde, & @JesseBlake Follow us on Instagram: @SteveDangle, @AdamWylde, & @Jesse.Blake Subscribe to us on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/steve-dangle-podcast/id669828195?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

the steve dangle podcast with your host steve dangle adam wild and jesse blake and joined by another member of the sdv family please welcome leo who looks exactly not like steve exactly exactly he looks he looks like my brother-in-law Leo, can we get a smile for everybody? Bubble, bubble, bubble, guppy, guppy, guppies. Bubble, bubble, bubble, guppy, guppy, guppies. That usually works. Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, guppies.

Nothing? People listening to this must be so confused. Yeah, well. It's a show called Bubble Guppies and it's great. How does the Miss Persona theme song go? I forgot. Are you on the Wiggles yet? Are you doing the Wiggles?

Oh, a little bit of the Wiggles. Emma's his girlfriend. I don't know if you know that. everybody loves emma emma's emma's a rock star that's that's leo's girlfriend is emma a member of the wiggles she's the yellow wiggle she had the yellow shirt on okay and she's so they they went through jesse there's like a documentary on the wiggles it's so fascinating they so they they started off as like a new wave punk band in australia and then a couple of the members formed this kids band and they started touring and then they became the wiggles and started then

they got a tv show and a whole bunch of things and anyway they've been doing it for like 25 years and three of the four guys said okay we're gonna retire so they did this enormous goodbye to the original members at like a stadium full of like 20 000 people in australia and then and then so they bring on uh locky emma and uh i forget what the third guy's name is i feel so bad anyway so they bring in these new guys and they've got uh anthony who's the one of the originals and uh i guess the australians like flat out rejected them like they'd be doing tours and they were like no like i'm not going to that show they were they said it was like when a band gets on the other side of their their career and it's like well we were playing to half empty houses and blah blah

and then somehow they were able to kind of turn the corner make a whole batch of new songs and now they're on like netflix and everything and they tour the entire world so they're and emma is by far the most popular wiggle there has ever been it's not even like elvis like the new wiggles yeah yeah she's she's yeah can you imagine get the old guys back like they're old man they want to retire yeah also the kids watching it don't know they don't know the old people exactly they do know they get over it there's a song called wake up locky because he keeps falling asleep lachlan and uh in the if i put on um uh i have a little alexa for ebby so you can do like white noise you can do music you can do all those things

because those those noisemakers for kids are like you know the white noisemakers are like a hundred dollars and you buy an alexa for twenty dollars and you put it in the room and it does the exact same thing plus all the other shit plus it's also a smart home yeah exactly exactly so anywhere in my house i can say hey play this in everly's room and it'll play so just a pro tip for parents don't waste your money on any of that fisher price toys russ stuff go get an alexa and use it in the room and it's so much easier um but the um uh sometimes they'll play the older wiggle song so this wake up locky song is wake up tim i'm like oh who's this tim you ever heard that's an old song and they just swapped in the new person's name right that's right oh to cover okay no no i'm on the other

people's side you can't do that are you pro like you gotta write a new song well they do like blues clues where they've redone everything yeah did they did they at least use the theme song no it's a different theme song now no new show completely new show steve is still the executive producer cool um and so is what was the other guy joe uh and now it's josh and leo i i gotta tell you i gotta work a little bit to get him to smile as you saw earlier in the show the second josh comes on the screen leo's just like it's my guy that's my guy josh i i think it's a tie between blues clues and bubble guppies okay for his favorite show i think bubble guppies keeps his attention the best they even have a new dog right no it's it's still blue are you thinking

about blue's friend magenta no no i'm pretty sure the original blue would not survive this amount of time you know wow okay we don't they must have had a new blue by now you know this couldn't be this like lassie you know it wasn't the original or air bud the original air bud and air bud volleyball or whatever yo and golden receiver he would have been a senior at least yeah uh jesse's jesse's a liar that's what you need to know about uncle jesse is he's a liar he's got his hockey pants you see that yeah well so if you're watching the youtube feed steve's wearing the ryan reynolds gift uh sweater thing with was which is so beautiful that i'm taking off sweater so soon i'm so hot right now of course leo's there too leo's gotta

go yeah because he's bye-bye bye buddy bye-bye oh man he's growing so fast bye-bye he's six months yesterday here we go yeah ev is uh everybody i've just hit 18 months you're gonna stay i think he's staying all right everly's 18 months 18 months yeah well actually she'll be 19 months in on the 31st so like yeah she's five months away from two years old when do you stop the months i think it too i think it too well like i think after one it's like one one and a half two and then it's just two three four isn't it i don't know you tell me dad i'm not gonna i'm new to this my kids two and a half i'll just say they're two until they're three that's done we don't need to get into you know everybody's like oh they're 36 months they're 38 months no one knows what that

means just just give them the uh give me your months am i what is do you say you say you're 32 and a half steve because you are well you're there's no you stop you stop adding the halves okay that's no i'm 32 until i'm 33 like i know i might remember your your one punch in the face of your law yeah one legal punch i still if you walked around and said i'm 32 and a half i might use my one punch like that's that's terrible you're right you're correct grown adult saying that i do like the one legal punch i i i do think it's you know the more i think about it there's some wisdom there it's a great platform sure is think of how much i think of how honest it would keep society we'd have to put some parameters on it you know you'd get a warning it's not like

you got to get a punch card though yeah yeah and like we should maybe have like a limit on you can only be punched so many times and it's like a coffee cart right and you get like a little hole punch every time yep something like that there's it's good law i'm telling you it is if you're ben Shapiro. How many times is he allowed to be hit? You're going to die. I mean, does one person get the punch? No, I think you should only be able to take one legal

punch as well. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah, you can't stack punches on someone. As much as I think Ben is the worst. It's like a vaccination card. I wouldn't want him to get pummeled. I don't want that for anybody. It's one per person.

Yeah. Take one, give one. okay okay okay that's interesting and then like what if your friends agree like all right i want to use my one legal punch and you go oh i wanted to use it on him too on that then you got to discuss amongst yourself like who punches harder there's only i think one way to solve that and that's the legal way and fair for everybody is rock paper scissors if you don't do you just do like best of three rock paper scissors it's you know uh you have one of the guinness people there to verify it and that's the person that wins it doesn't matter how hard they punch it's a quality

not you don't do it with your hands like we're writing it down in an envelope and then you seal it and then you hand it to the other person then you open it and it says rock oh so there's no like oh you showed your head a little quicker redo we're writing it down we're doing an official i like it there's no review for like crossing the plane no in the air hey yo does the nhl listen to this podcast by the way because i think 100 i think we just won i think we just we did the rule change guys we'll get to it in a second they shouldn't be listening to this podcast for advice because you know what just happened for for everyone watching the youtube version you've been watching me kind of touch my face and play with my hands going what the i just realized the

The water bottle I'm using for this show today is the water bottle my wife uses to water the Christmas tree. So it's a little piney. It's covered in sap, and now it's all over my face and hands, and now my mouth tastes like pine. Have you heard of a more Steve thing to happen on Christmas? No, but now I'll never drop anything for the rest of the show. Now, okay, so we've got great news. The NHL has released all their important dates for the year, which is fantastic. I think the Leafs and Canadians kick it off on the 13th, 2021.

Very excited. There's new divisions. There's new matchups. NBC actually has an article about their dream Stanley Cup matchups. One of the teams that made their dream Stanley Cup matchup, because a lot of Eastern versus Eastern and Western versus Western conference teams can now make it right, which is kind of neat. Sorry, can make the finals and play each other.

One Canadian team made their list. And the team that made their list is, I want to pump the brakes on this team. I want to pump the brakes on this team before we get going. I know. Because it's outrageous, the hype around this team. And sure, maybe they got better, but it's a little outrageous, the hype around this team. You think Toronto's hype is big?

Is what I have to say about that. And I think you'll agree. They haven't earned a damn thing yet. But let's talk about this for a second, okay? So the NHL is back. And it's funny that, did you see? Do you think it's funny how? I do just think it's funny how.

I find it funny that when the NHL finally did announce their dates, there wasn't like – you know when you get into the preseason in September and you start to – that excitement builds and it builds and it builds. Did you ever get the sense that people like on this particular time were like, okay, finally we have an answer? Like just fans seem exhausted. No, it's a mess. It's an absolute mess.

And when you – okay, Adam's not that interested in how much – I'm going to be mad if you close the door. He left. so adam just walked out of the podcast and mid question but steve answer it please sorry i'll just pretend i'm not here so no it's it's a mess um you know especially like here in ontario you got leaf fans you got sense fans you get fans of a bunch of other teams and uh like in in canada in most parts of canada right now our priorities are a little caught up because we don't know if are even going to be able to go anywhere or see anybody or go to stores or anything um and then

they're doing this weird trickle of news one by one by one by one at like the busiest time of the year when even if covid wasn't going on people's priorities are just different right uh yeah you know there's all these there's hockey news today there's like a bunch of signings and it's december 23rd yeah it's december 23rd you know how many habs fans are gonna tune in january 13th to go what the when did for leak get here that's a good point who's 67 that's hilarious but for leak when did we get him you know holla is on the preds again and grandlin and grandlin yeah two guys who i always mistake for the other yeah for some reason and then there's grandlin and there's there's a there's a few grandlins and they're both michael grandlin like you know what i mean

several they're both m grandlin it's just uh no it's um it feels like when the nba season was announced um yep this is it and it was all at once and there were a few things that needed to trickle out but that was it it was mostly most of the news we were waiting on was like transaction like harden is still an interesting story that i'm following but like jonas gets re-signed and i mean that's it really um so now like we know the seasons they're playing they played a game yesterday that counted they're playing the raptors uh start their season tonight uh the nhl has five teams who as of yet do not have a confirmed home arena four of them are in canada there's this super cool north division this all canadian division that a lot of hockey fans including

myself are excited about and more than half of the teams don't have a confirmed home arena right for their games that are in like two weeks was the north division a bad idea in terms of should they have just had the canadian teams play in the u.s and i think i think it was a money thing that's so hard like because where okay we're talking about a money issue right so teams are going to ads on helmets for the first time let's say there's 30 players some odd um plus trainers plus coaches for simplicity's sake we'll say teams are traveling around with 40 guys you gotta have room and board for 40 guys for every minimum four months and that's going to save you money that how big are your helmets you're gonna have to sell a lot more than one capital one ad

beaver eye size there's a lot of advertising space the league is full of adam jesse or i or jvr does jesse have a big head i do have a large head he has an underratedly large the john carrey moon shaped head yeah yeah but um like i i just don't i don't know how it's financially feasible for that many teams to do that if it's the raptors it's one thing that's one team and they happen to be owned by like a super rich corporation yeah but then you do this and then what if it ends up they're all playing in different spots anyways you know what if ontario got to try and get a try yeah we'll see i i think i think it'd be interesting if um like to me what would make sense in ontario is if you don't have the hub city be a major city

like what if belleville or kingston you know they've got arenas there you just need a sheet of ice right you don't really no one's going to be there so why don't you just use the facilities to be nhl quality i guess i guess yeah and also i mean london would have families families like this isn't this isn't the playoff bubble where you tell guys okay you're going to be here two months max this is four months plus playoffs right so what what happens if you make the stanley cup final you're not going to see your family from january to july that's not in my contract you know there's not a lot of guys who are going to be down for that or there are some guys who are like i'm single and i don't care i can't wait to see all these fun places and go out

and hit the town oh wait can't do that or at least the nhl is wagging its finger and going we're strongly discouraging that you do that we're which is like steroids we don't like it we're not gonna check but we don't like it not fans of the steroids we're not fans of that thing that makes you stronger and faster and sell our product i remember that's why we crack down on exactly one person per year it's always one it is always one they have to well you got to put it keep up appearances but um what's interesting is that like i remember in the uh i think it was the early 2000s late 90s there was like a news report and a bunch of nhl gms were like well you know steroids wouldn't

even help an nhl player like you got to look at what okay the way the game is played is very different from swimming or football or baseball you know you don't want to get all bulky and because that's what the perception at the time was that the only thing steroids did was make you big and bulky and that is not true and also there's a ton of players that need to get big and bulky but um it's also that's not what it does you know yeah yeah exactly lamb star strong was not big and bulky no he rode a bike no martin st louis is looked like a tour to france cyclist from the waist down and like a boxer from the waist up like he's just but no by the way you know muscle would not help you know who else looks like marty saint louis

sean mckenzie right those gams i thought you were about to say austin matthews and then i remembered the other most jacked person sean mckenzie sean mckenzie what the hell whoa i was like damn sean those are those are some legs that's what i'm saying he he infuriates me because you can tell it was just one day he decided i'm fit now like i remember it like on instagram he's like i think i'm gonna start to get fit and i'm like that mother and then he didn't do it yeah in like three months he's like all right like i got my canadian olympic uniform in the mail they haven't told me what event i'm competing in but i'm sure i'll succeed at it yeah adam vancouvered in was at his house just giving him tips yeah as one does made that up but yeah adam vancouvered in

uh canadian kayaker and a member of parliament no yeah no did he win gold he did he won gold and he's like he got a couple olympics right yeah he was pretty good oh yeah at least two or three and i think he won a ton of world championships too he's good at the yak very good at the yak and and i i think sean is doing i forgive me sean i don't know what fundraiser sean is doing right now can we look that up because he was the reason he was showing off the dem legs is he's doing a cycle for charity and a bunch of his cohorts at sports net uh we're uh we're helping him spread the message so uh i will read it to you right now this is a tweet from sean mckenzie it says who wants to watch me struggle for a great cause i hate running i suck at swimming and this is the

first bike i've owned in 15 years so i've signed up for iron man 70.3 in july you can enjoy my training struggles but it will come at a cost i will be raising money for sick kids nice i love that all right i need to i'm not freaking going anywhere though yeah i would i'm so jealous of people who can do what he does i know it's it's amazing and he looks great and good for him but it just oh you know just oh he looks like jack we're jealous yeah a little bit i think we're allowed to be are we not we're allowed to be jealous yeah anyway sean sean fantastic legs well done sir um and best of luck with the iron man because there's no way you know there are things in my life that i really want to do that would be like under the bottom that would

be in the basement of lists the things that i would want to do i have no interest in a marathon triathlon i all the respect the people that do not a chance in hell no thanks i did i did tough mutter once which is why i haven't done tough mutter twice but i've done it once heard it was fun i got the shirt i still have the shirt so everyone can think i'm jacked and i do it all the time did you write your time on the shirt so everybody could know no what's that about adam what's that about i love when people are like yo this is my max like they do like a fitness thing and then they have to write their like stats down and then it's like these are my max squats these are my max bench oh it's like oh man you were such a man like holy the only time i did

that get over here and do me you are such a man i did do that once so i will go over there and do you because i did that for uh the cn tower climb oh okay okay well that's like for charity and it's a walk come on yeah it's not easy it wasn't a walk for me was i did you run old ass i oh yeah i uh 1645 there you go all the way to the top how many for people that don't know how many floors oh my god it's uh i think it's 144 flights of stairs six flights of stairs can't see six six flights of stairs steve made the whole time 16 minutes we raised money for fisher price he was ridiculous oh man that's funny it's 144 flights okay okay so let's let's get to the nhl dates that matter here okay here's what you need to know about the upcoming season

december 31st training camps open for the seven teams that did not participate in return to the in the return to play plan uh so we've got loser teams one through seven anaheim buffalo detroit la new jersey ottawa and san jose those are your losers uh and then january 3rd training camp opens for the other 24 teams um and then january 13th regular season begins each of the eight teams in the east central and west divisions will play each other in their division eight times and each team in the north division seven teams based on canadian or in the canadian teams will play each other nine or ten times awesome april 12th the day before my birthday three days after jesse's we have a trade deadline so it's not that much later than the normal trade deadline like a month

month and a half not much let's push back a bit that's normally when the playoffs start right around there so that's kind of neat uh end of regular season is the 8th of may may 11th the stanley cup playoffs begin the top four teams in each division will qualify for the playoffs first two rounds will be interdivisional the first place team will play the fourth place team and the second place team will play the third place team wow how crazy is that the four teams that advance from the second round to the semi-final will be seeded by their points total in the regular season you know like it should be done so that's fun because we're guaranteed to have a canadian team in the stanley cup semi-finals that's cool the final four will consist of a canadian team no

matter what love i think it's very funny because i saw some people going oh of course they did that for canada like the nhl probably came to that decision kicking and screaming are you kidding me yeah they're not rigging this to have the edmondson oilers in in the eastern whatever the hell it's called conference final let's also hold on they want the same they want chicago they want boston they want new york la la come on guys what country paid four billion dollars for the nhl rights the the country above the one that would go oh four billion yeah okay so this can't this country loves loves hockey so much we paid as much as disney did for star wars for the nhl disney paid four billion dollars for lucasfilm they're the same those are the same number

yes um in retrospect lucasfilm was the better bet sportsman should have bought star wars they should have watched star wars you imagine but i am carolyn cameron welcome to tonight's screening of rogue one i would watch that and she's like she's got the buns a lightsaber i would watch that yeah absolutely i actually i think what would be a great you know we were talking about um a little while ago what would be great for first intermission because obviously headlines i think you need to move to the first intermission but i understand why they keep it in the second intermission to keep people around it's a great segment the first one should be head-to-head lightsaber battles to the death so you know you have to like i'd love to see

i want to see um i want to see berkey with a lightsaber i want to see david amber with a lightsaber i feel like david amber would be the sleeper to win that he doesn't he doesn't need it no he doesn't even well like because david amber is has been fit forever then you got sean mckenzie who's new fit newish fit like jacked so you see the two of them go at it who wins right is it the experience the grizzled vet and david amber or is it the young upstart and sean mckenzie's gonna be the young calf you think so or calves in sean's case hey you see because anyway it's part of the leg the last actions the last possible day for the stanley cup final july 9th the deadline for teams to uh to submit their protected list for the 2021 expansion draft is 5 p.m july 17th

four days later that's happening this year yeah four days later on the 21st you will get the 2021 nhl expansion draft which will happen at 8 p.m eastern on sports net uh and then you've got the first round of 2021's nhl draft two days later the next the two to seven uh will be the 24th and then 28th restricted and unrestricted free agent signings begin right before the long weekend at 12 eastern standard and you can expect one mr dangle to be completely just your july's toast for you by the way it's toast but i look at that and i go god that's fun it's gonna be great that's a lot of fun that's gonna be great as long as it doesn't uh like hockey people are impossible to get a hold of in august as it is yeah they're all well they're just gonna throw their phone

in the pool so do you start do you start the next season then in in october i wonder i think that's you start to try to get it back on track you might start a few weeks late because if you're the if you're the nhlpa like what's your magic number for the amount of weeks you need off guaranteed i would say eight eight i need eight weeks because you think about well maybe maybe you want 12 but what i would say too is for the pa this is a great opportunity for them to say okay shorter training camps guys because the training camps why are they a month long they don't need to be a month long the leafs played uh i believe it was nine preseason games last year don't need to do that stupidity three three maybe two yep and really do we there you go you make up a whole

week are we going to pretend that these coaches and these gms don't already kind of know they know they know it's well how many players around the nhl are we talking about that this makes a difference for i don't know who wins it in the last game you like maybe a goalie or two i like i don't i don't know man i all you're doing is uh like getting guys hurt i think that's what you're doing you're playing more games and guys show you what they got in the more games that you have because your star players are getting hurt yeah or they're not playing anyway every year it's some stupid crap like jack eichel uh you know ruins his knee and there's the season tuck it in tuck it in it's done yeah i i'm getting to the point now where i'm almost like if i was if you're from

a mathematical perspective and i'd be curious to get a stats person on this what what could be the possible rationale for ever dressing a superstar in those games even if it takes them two or three real games to really warm up who cares like i would rather them warming up in real games than than in a preseason game where it doesn't matter wouldn't you like all their timings a little off or whatever okay fine it's three four games i i wouldn't i wouldn't want to dress like if i'm buffalo taylor hall and jack eichel are not seeing the ice in the preseason except let them in the building you don't put them in a place where they can see the building nope they're gonna go to jack eichel's restaurant and they're gonna eat precisely for 21 minutes and then they're gonna go back and

do whatever that because whatever the heck else is on his itinerary which is so insane you know remember that remember that i do i imagine that has been screwed up a few months probably a little bit oh man he's gonna have to push outside of that comfort zone now um so uh steve mentioned it earlier obviously the nhl and and elliot friedman actually put out a great article this morning at sportsnet and talked about um just how the nhl is going to go hard at at finding new revenue which you know it's funny in retrospect their job is to make money right that's your job and the nhl signed like a piddly little 25 million dollar deal for for gambling rights you can bet the next time that comes up it's going to be like 10 times that you can bet adam ah hey in fact i

would place a bet in vegas if it was available um but they should be if the nhl really maximized its potential in advertising and in, um, in, in just flat out, you know, in gambling and that sort of thing, there wouldn't be money problems if they really went hard at this. And it seems like the impetus is now there, anybody that was standing in the way of there being, um, advertising on jerseys and advertising on helmets. Obviously you've seen what a boon it's been for the NBA and you've got 10 to 15 teams that are, are barely passing or losing a lot of money. Why? you don't need to do that you don't need to have that now and there's a lot of rich teams going we're making all these equalization payments but we're not doing all we can as a league

to make as much money as possible and we should jump on that but um you know there are concerns adam because people go well you allow one ad on a helmet then all of a sudden you get an ad on the jersey and then it's five six seven ads on the jersey and then you become a european team if manchester united's main logo on their jersey can be the chevrolet logo like i don't care i don't either put ads on the jerseys who cares i had a man you jersey just because i thought it would just because i thought it looked cool when i was younger because i'm an idiot um and i remember being like is their nickname votaphone what's votaphone like i didn't know what votaphone was it's not a thing here and yeah exactly jesse that's that's a very good point now i don't want

it covered like some austrian league team or whatever austrian league teams are barely scraping by all right it's not the same and it's very but it's not going to happen seeing what the devils have done and what the capitals have done it's clear that the mandate is it can't look ridiculous and you need to incorporate your advertising into our uniform and not the other way around. Because someone, sorry, what just? No, go ahead. I was just going to say,

you have to give these people more credit. Like they know what they're working with. They're not going to put a Squarespace logo on top of the Montreal Canadiens logo. Like they know what they have and they're going to be reasonable about things. I hope they give that to the Montreal Canadiens logo. I hope it's right over top of it.

Right on top of it. Can't even see it. It's just peeking out the corners. That's what I'm hoping. The NBA player with a TD bank. Yeah. Tattooed on Marshan's face. Let's go.

Right there. The NBA did it a couple of years ago and it was all very reasonable. And now it's just a part of the jersey. Yeah. And then you know the jersey's vintage based on which sign, which sponsors on it too.

Is it Rakuten? Is it something else? Like, what is it? They have a different jersey every year anyway. And like, what is more annoying to you? A jersey on your team's helmet or talk of work stoppages every four years i'll tell you what mine is like guys they people like don't go to panthers games for example like think you got to get supplemental income there's all

these teams i'm i'm sick of every year talking about a different team for relocation or you know no one's going to this game or guys it's such a small sacrifice i don't think it's going to be a slippery slope to anything it's just it's a slippery slope to the league that produces the thing you like staying afloat which is difficult this year like yeah stop crying i don't care crying i really don't care no man i promise it'll be okay like i want this league to do well you know as much as we we go oh my god i can't believe they're making this choice or that one this is a this is one that really you can't disagree with from a financial perspective and it's not going to like like okay if you look at an epl jersey the manchester united logo is this big the

chevrolet logo is this big you know what i mean it's not they're not going to that it's now you do got to give credit to the people who are making us think about it though because the people making us think about it do you they're the reason no they're the reason why the advertising on the helmets are subtle right because in germany uh someone sent me a picture today it's a black helmet and they just slap like this giant white triangle with yeah and it says like the okay the spangler cup for example is a great concept it's a visual atrocity they they all the jerseys are are brutal the helmets they dress the referees up as cows have you seen this like with what with black and white spots because they have like some sort of dairy sponsor

i'm google it google it i swear to god look up spangler cup referees i swear to god okay but the nhl is not going to do what the spangler does it's like the spanglers for your fourth line guy who wants to play internationally once he's out of the playoffs like come on We know the difference, right? No, there's a pull and whatever. Here, pull and shove. Pull and shove.

You need the people. Give and take, I think, is what you're looking for, by the way. Thank you. Give and take. Here, let me drink some more of this coffee here. The people making a stink about it are the reason why it's going well. Does that make sense? That does make sense.

The capitals says capital one. That makes sense. yeah and it's blue and red that makes sense for the maple leaves maple leaf fine foods that'd be that makes sense that's great the devil's prudential center satan prudential satan yeah advertised by hell that'd be hilarious south park satan that would be kind of funny if south park did that jersey devil's brought to you by satan that'd be great miroslav shatan it's just go devils you guys go devils you guys um yeah no i think there's lots those two sponsorships are just the arena sponsors right because capital one arena

and prudential center right so i guess well for at least logical is just scotia bank so i wonder if this is extra money or if this is replaced money because one one thing i can't remember who came on our show maybe it was berkey was talking about is like scotia bank for example they had that enormous deal with mlse to rename the scotia bank arena scotia bank arena right uh and now no one's going there no one's going there so they're not getting their money's worth so are the leafs gonna have to slap scotia bank on their helmet are the bruins that's why i said td bank like that's a very real possibility that the bruins will have this green logo on their helmet and just be jeremy jacobs face whatever i do just him scowling just him scowling

yeah it's like he's got no money to that point i'm poor i'm jeremy jacobs i'm poor that'll be fifty thousand dollars smaller this year i wonder if uh i wonder if scotia is getting a kickback for the raptors playing in tampa you know because you don't you don't have any of those the 41 games or 72 divide by two or whatever it is you don't even get the the over the arena shot yeah yeah you know what i mean you got to recapture that those services if you're scotia bank right i think I think if they're really that broken up, I don't think they are. But if they were, you know, you could always just extend the deal a year and just say, listen, you know, or season and just say, listen, you know, pandemic year, let's keep the payments coming.

We'll lower them on the AAV and we'll extend it a year. But I doubt, I think if you sign a deal like that, MLSC would have protections built in for something like this. I just, you know how litigious companies like that are. And I feel like there would be protections and it's sort of whether they play zero games or they play all the games, you have to pay the money and that's the fee and that's what it is. Did you see the lawsuit by I think it was the MLB is suing the insurance company because in their policy they have an act of God clause where they're supposed to recoup lost revenue in case of a loss of in case of an act of God. and they were like hey you owe us like a billion dollars for this past season insurance company because of sorry because of all the revenue we lost and the insurance company is like no we're not paying this so now there's a lawsuit right now i think it's in california uh it's like mlb

versus some insurance company that was those protecting them on case of an act of god and they're like hey we don't have three billion dollars that you're missing so i wonder don't have the money to they're probably just it would sink the company i bet right so i wonder how that's gonna play out hey so what if we just don't have it the thing is that at that point you have to do a payment plan so you'd have to work out like a 10 or 20 year payment plan where x amount of dollars from that insurance company is going to the mlb each year and uh because you don't you don't bankrupt 20 year yeah you don't world war yeah you don't bankrupt the insurance company what you do is you make them make payments every year so say it's three billion dollars then you've

got to make a 300 million dollar payment at the start of each year to the mlb until it's done adam what's what's it like being the only adult i don't know if that's if that makes me an adult i think it's just and also this insurance company if that's true the way jesse told it they're gonna lose so they're suing uh mlb is suing um aig uh aig's got three billion dollars come on factory mutual uh and interstate fire and casualty company they may know those those three companies aig for sure does aig's got big money they couldn't come up with a better name aig i think it's interstate fire and casualty company i think it's probably an horrible state it's the worst name for a company i think i've ever heard how dare you

interstate fire and casualty company hey guys we're gonna start a company and casualty is gonna be in the name we're gonna get past no the you almost died insurance company right you're in extreme pain insurance the a bro someone die company like it's a horrible name our condolences insurance my condolences it's just the organist from i think you should leave smashing plates oh terrible terrible anyway sorry this is what i'm talking about adam you're the only adult jesse's like man how are they gonna do this i'm like yo i've never thought of that how they might actually do that right here's a reasonable explanation that's a silly name

that name's ridiculous we all bring our different things to the show and that's why it works the uh the lawsuit says that mlb purchased top shelf all risk policies to protect baseball against the risk of uh catastrophic economic losses so they had these plans in case there was a pandemic and then of course a pandemic happened the insurance companies are like oh i mean the insurance company you know it's so funny you know of course the mlb would pay that because it's a great write-off too right that's a business cost that you write off and um for you know for them it makes a lot of sense and and in you know sheltering money from taxes but beyond that it's funny to me that that the insurance companies would actually fight this because it

may end up costing them even more. If you've got a case that's like egregious, right? A case that is wasting the court's time. And to me, I mean, it's somewhat tough to argue, but there's a chance here that if the MLB wins, they also win costs, meaning that whatever it costs them to hire the lawyers and spend the time and put the lawsuit together, and this could go on for years. But at the end of it, the insurance company could be on the hook for that too. And they could, And in certain cases, I think in law and to our lawyer friends, please reach out and correct me if I'm wrong. If a lawyer is found to be misleading a client a little bit or pushing them to do something that they're not, they're never going to win. The opposing counsel can actually go after

that lawyer and make that lawyer specifically pay for it. Wow. It's crazy. So yeah, it's a risky position. Like being a lawyer is not, like I know everybody like universally, you know, the joke about lawyers but it's not a um it's it's a pretty risky profession in certain certain regards for sure and i think it'll be interesting to watch this mlb case because i think there's going to be a lot of precedent setting with this there's going to be a lot more companies that are not sports companies that are boring we make toilets like something like that where which they're going to go after the insurance companies for the money that they paid into a policy for and the insurance companies are going to say sorry you're gonna have to fight us for that toilet and casualty

company yeah well yeah do you know what i'm saying like this is going to be interstate toilet and casualty 20 2021 is going to be very interesting for that i think anyway yeah interstate fire and casualty and toilet company we dip you in the toilet so that you're no longer on fire interstate if you burn or die company like it's a horrible name it's an aggressive name yes there might be like an old-timey company and they were like one of the first ones right yeah back in the day you had to be extremely specific yeah it's like what do we brand rebrand goods tobacco ing direct is tangerine you can rebrand or rebrand come on man that's no no i'm not feeling interstate fire and casualty company um the other thing uh so yeah don't worry about the advertising on the helmets

you know what i would like it to do though i would rather like to talk if we could get that advertising on helmets to lower the tickets for the game that would be super d-duper lmao adam so what do we know about taxi squads guy what do we know about taxi squads um they all have a driver's license um they don't like uber squads i'm just gonna say they're of cameras matt duchesne's driving yeah no in all honesty do we know anything about how that's going to work have we heard anything specifically about that okay so here's the thing i know for a fact they have posted that information uh but so much has broken over the last few days and this relates to what we started the show with uh i don't know i don't know what it is i haven't bloody seen it

there's too much there's too much i hate the way this guys want me to read it yes please for the That was me. That was called dragging. So here is the Taxi Squad plan as outlined by Cap Friendly in very nicely bulleted form. Thank you to them. Minimum

four players to a maximum of six players. Waivers are required for players who would require waivers to be loaned to the minors. Stupid. Recalls for NHL games must occur before 5pm Eastern. No, Jesse, I need you to back up okay i need you to back up can you read that two bullets ago one more time so bullet

number two was waivers are required for players who would require waivers to be loaned to the minors so stupid if you have a player who requires waivers on your roster but then need to move them to your taxi squad that requires waivers yes of what it sounds like so here's the funny part okay so let's i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna put a scenario in front of you that is very familiar to leaf fans let's say freddie anderson and jack johnson both go down with covid okay don't want that to happen let's say they do jack campbell don't put that evil on me i'm not jack johnson jack campbell so then the leafs try to call aaron dell and the opposing team says yoink we claim him no goalies are not uh subject to that oh because that would have been a hell of a scenario that

would be a boss freaking move that's a lou lamorella move oh you're gonna call up a goalie we're gonna claim no goalies can't be subject to these rules because like you just said okay all right fine fine fine i call that that's a lou rule for sure they know he would have done it okay yeah it says in brackets excludes goalies if less than two goalies are available to play for the team okay there you go um recalls must occur before 5 p.m uh one goalie required on the taxi squad for teams with less than three goalies on the active roster last day of training camp is the first day players can be loaned to the taxis taxi squad taxi squad dissolves when the season ends taxi squad members can practice with the team join team activities travel with

the team not required though taxi squad members cannot practice or join activities other than those with the nhl team ahl team activities for example are not permitted if a taxi squad player is deemed unfit to play injury illness covet isolation etc the team can request they do not count towards the six player limit cap hit effective on the team's cap hit while on the taxi squad is the equivalent to if the player were playing in the minors so bracket buried cap hit injuries make it zero that's stupid yeah i yeah just make it zero you a-holes guys absolutely no one planned for this to happen like they're complicating it a little yes just make it fucking zero it's one season i don't get that uh i'll continue there's a couple more points

injuries players injured while on the taxi squad are assumed to have been injured while in the minors uh compensation one-way contract standard nhl salary rate two-way contract minor salary there you go so if you try to bury austin matthews on the taxi squad you're only saving 925 grand on the cap is that how that works had a two-way contract then like i think boyd is it trevor boyd travis boyd travis uh travis boyd i think he's got a two-way deal doesn't he and then he would then it would be different for him i think because he gets paid one one way and one one uh travis boyd uh no his minor salary is 700 grand oh then it's variable so it doesn't matter but uh okay well that's another interesting wrinkle with nick robertson is he costs more than minimum yep

he's uh 850 yeah or no sorry 821 against the cap okay sorry just just a little thing just a little thing dude this is gonna get real convoluted and complicated real fast yeah there's a lot of stuff in that well i just don't know why they didn't make it zero but i guess they were worried about the rich teams but i'm like you know what at that point it's like just have the have the six guys like i don't know just have them max out your guys have them there you don't know like with covid you just don't know like i just like what are we doing well one guy gets it let's say you're gonna have to isolate god knows how many yeah and you're gonna you're gonna empty out i wonder how many times this season a team is gonna empty out their taxi squad in a day

like a single day i wonder too that's a good question steve they're not the thing is the nfl has a covet exemption list surprised we don't have that in the nhl the nfl also has rosters of a million people i know but if you had a covet exemption list what i mean is if austin matthews gets coveted again um then he would have to sit on the covet exemption list and the leafs save the cap or if it's any other star player or whatever then they sit on the covet exemption list until they're done but it doesn't seem like they're that exists unless they said this is ltir like It said, so I read earlier, they go on LTIR, so it just acts like an injury. But when you're on LTIR, you can't come off it.

It's 28 days or 10 games. So once you hit LTIR, you're on there for a minimum of 10 games. Now, 10 games isn't, sorry, the same length. Knock that off. 10 games, and I'm all phlegmy because I'm drinking black coffee. I'm sorry. isn't the same as a regular season because 10 games here might be, what, like 15 days?

So you'll come off of that a lot faster, but it's still, there's a minimum for LTIR. Don't want anyone going on LTIR right before the playoffs, that's for sure. Yeah. Or at all, the season's too damn short. Yeah, it's a lot. They could have shortened that.

Maybe they did and we've missed it. But anyway, long story short, pretty good plan, excited to get going. I think exhausted before the season even started. So I think that's why, you know, it's good for us because we're going to, you know, kick it into high gear here at as of the week of January 13th, which we're all, you know, very excited about back to two shows a week. But until then, like we're going to take next week off and then we'll be back that that first week in January. And I think what's important is that we have something to look forward to in 2021. The vaccines are coming. Everybody says it's going to be tough winter.

well, here's the deal. We've got NBA back. We've got hockey back. We've got lots of great things to sort of look forward to and keep a staple to our couch. And and then hopefully by, you know, at least Canada supposed to get of the new Moderna vaccine. It's 20, sorry, 40 million doses, which is good enough for 20 million people. And I think they got 70 million of the Pfizer, which is 35. And by the way, we only have 36 million people. So we can dose people multiple times if we need to. And that's really great for us. The United States probably has, I don't know what their contingency plans are, but I'm sure they have it pretty much covered. So, you know, I was reading an article in the Globe and Mail the other day that says by April, 50% of Canadians could be

vaccinated already, should they choose. They're hoping for all by July, September. Yeah. Like that is like considering how long 2020 has felt, right? We can do three more months. I can lock down for three more months the only thing i hope the only thing i'm i'm sad about is the local businesses that are really suffering right now if you got a local business if you're in a lockdown position like we are try any way that you can to to support it whether it's curbside i think they were even in ontario looking at like getting rid of curbside and it's like okay so you just so they're just going to shut their doors and reach out guys reach out we need to know who you are we need yeah we can if we can help you on the show if we can advertise uh advertise you

uh we would love to shout you out at the beginning of each show and sort that out in the next in 2021 and also let's um i just reach out by the way stevedanglepodcast at gmail.com uh and then beyond that i i was talking on the phone and i won't say who but there's a major retailer like a major international retailer in toronto that i was getting a gift card for for somebody and they said to me hey by the way we're shutting down for the entire month of january they're just shutting the story and they said the gift card won't even work online so just so you know the person that gets this gift card will not be able to use it online we'll have to wait did you say hey i don't want your gift card well i figured you know what they can wait for four weeks i'm still doing it

but the reality of it i would absolutely not have bought it no oh i don't care what like they're gonna be fine if they wait till february they'll be fine okay trust me it's just it's the gift card they want if i if i was like i'm not sure no no i get it okay i believe you don't worry about the quality of the gift let's focus on the focus here is the gift card jesus yes okay was it a piece of plastic did it come wrapped like what was the envelope it was hurting cats with you two honestly it's it's crazy sometimes keep you on your toes what have you considered this point uh i love you guys uh so yeah anyway long story short the uh um there's gonna be a lot of that and so we've got hockey we've got basketball we're getting baseball in the spring

um chances are we'll be able to go see a baseball game this year see it live uh and i know in certain states you could but we couldn't hear that would be really great sorry safely see it live safely see it live sorry for the confusion and and i want to go see i want to go see a steelers game even though their season is melting away in front of them i want to go see a steelers game next fall and i just give me the vaccine and let's go are they it was for wanting it with the whole season yeah yeah they are they're just steve they're but you know what though they got away with a lot of shit they shouldn't have it's you know it's it's like with it just it's like that 2013 leafs team there's a lot of stuff that they kind of just the ball went their way so anyway long

story short we will do the press conference now and it'll be a bit extended we got about 20 minutes let's do this oh let me get a bubbly hang on well here well okay while he gets a bubbly um i just want to do a quick prayer for chris johnston's thumbs uh what i'm just i'm looking at his twitter timeline and just the the volume just the volume of news is staggering uh he tweeted this each of the nhl unrestricted free agents to sign contracts in recent days has done so on a one-year term eric holla in nashville grandland in nashville duclair in florida for leak in montreal sherry in washington is an interesting one in kajula in arizona which i think was a good pickup for arizona by the way 700 grand drake kajula i like him i like he's one of those

the the cap screws up the perception of a lot of guys and makes you think they're not nhl players I think he's fine and like just this is how long playoff injuries can linger Alex Nylander had successful surgery on Monday to repair a meniscus tear in his left knee and then CJ added it's a

playoff injury that lingered and eventually required surgery and the Blackhawks were done like at the beginning right like August something like that or the beginning of September which are we doing Kucherov

The potential with Kucherov there So, okay, before we get to the press conference Fascinating thing going on here The Tampa Bay Lightning, they re-signed Cernak, they re-signed Volkov Sergeyev was done A little while ago They're wildly over the salary cap

And they're almost over the off-season Salary cap, and they still have to re-sign Anthony Sorelli So everyone's like, how the hell are they going to do this? The rumor is that Nikita Kucherov, whose Cap hit I think is nine could get placed on ltir so what i saw was um travis yost he's like okay the fact that people

think the tampa bay lightning would put their uh their two years ago mvp on ltir just to be cap compliant proves how badly we need hockey i think all it proves is the heinous shit so many players play through that if it makes sense for them, they can just pull it out of a hat, shut it down, and get surgery or whatever they need. You know what I mean? Like, Evander

Kane a few years ago was perfectly happy to play the rest of the season. And then Dustin Buffman throws his tracksuit in the shower, and he goes, you know what? The shoulder, I gotta get it fixed. Fuck you guys. And so he

He goes in and gets it fixed. They're always in a perpetual state of, hey, maybe I could get surgery on this. Henrik Lundqvist had a heart condition most of his career. It just came out. But it no longer makes sense for him to play. In a lot of cases, too, surgery is the option that will come back and bite you later.

Like, you know, it could be a six-month recovery with a surgery, but an 18-month if you rehabbed it. But overall, in the long-term, rehabbing it would be better. That's why McDavid rehabbed. mcdave yeah that's the that was the whole sports net feature it was fantastic so it's it's interesting with that what a mutant like just an that's a crazy story yeah that's why it makes me laugh when like parents um like there's um there's some rich parents in toronto i'm not sure if you know that and they'll take their kids and they'll they'll put them in like training programs at like

eight years old and i'm talking about skill development i'm talking about weight training and which an eight-year-old shouldn't be doing but what's funny about it is that the hope is that you know well they'll make the nhl blah blah the kids that are going to make the nhl pretty much you almost know already like it's not and i know there are some late bloomers and stuff like that but you know as well as i do look at eric carlson built different with that uh with that achilles injury way back well and he just healed up i mean there's been some long-term effects but the the speed at which he recovered stamkos's bones how do you how do you just mended he was in a walking boot in like three weeks a femur yeah yeah or whatever it was that was a

different break he broke a lot of he broke a lot of stuff he's had some um oh by the way i want to quickly mention this um and this is not going to make me popular but here we go uh can we pump the breaks on the Montreal Canadiens or a Stanley Cup contender oh that's if you're can we pump the breaks on that so so now to be fair to NBC they they put together six cool matchups that would be great because these teams would never play each other in the finals because they're in the same conference fair and one the last matchup was Montreal Boston which from an original six perspective I get but what the hell are you talking about much listen Montreal had four good games for really good games against the penguins right really good games uh and then had a pretty

good i think it was philly in the first round yeah uh series they played them real tight real tight like really good really really good and they've made some great additions this year i think i mean i think especially the toffoli one well i don't think we talk enough about tyler toffoli and what he's going to do for them and the young guys getting gosh anderson is also big although i've got i mean that was a hell of an injury but we'll see um and it's a hell of a contract but can we just wait until we see them play before we go lumping them in and i and i you could say well we should do that with the leafs too you're absolutely right the leafs have earned nothing and done nothing they didn't even make the playoffs well i would agree with that assertion

but let's not pretend that 23rd place montreal is all of a sudden in the in the in the conversation for stanley cop just yet well yeah a few years ago you gave the leafs the title yeah and look how it worked out it didn't it didn't work out too well we've learned and and my point in all of this is montreal could be a much better team and should be a much better team but you saw i'm in the playoffs i am in the playoffs too but you saw what dallas and tampa were doing you saw what vegas has done do you put them in that category not yet not yet those teams are and with the exception Dallas is in and out but perennially top teams in the NHL it's tough to get there and I just think it's a little much to think Montreal all of a sudden magically is going

to be Stanley Cup final I could be wrong could be eating my words I'm happy to do so Canadian division is going to be so good it's going to be sick it's going to be so good like let's maybe wait and see if the team gels yeah oh god I can't wait that's fair I really can't wait it's going to be it's going to be the next four months in this country are going to be war it's fun it's just going to be yeah fun war we get to see conor mcdavid and leon drysaddle 10 times how great is that oh i mean freddie anderson might not agree but like i think it's pretty great it's great i and what i was saying this so i was a guest on the wing wheel podcast yesterday some dicks love those guys talk about the red wings all the time but i was talking about the

canadian division and having to play these teams so many times and it's going to force the leafs to get good at something that they've struggled with which is seeing the same teams in a series right it's going to build rivalries it's going to build nastiness i think these are going to be competitive um physical games and you know you might go well why is that good for them they struggle at it no no they're either going to get good at it or fail anyway yep you know what i mean yep so i'd rather them if they fail at it just go ahead and miss the playoffs and don't waste our time and let's be honest here wayne simmons is going to war and i like it when simmons is going to war joe thornton no i don't want no but wayne simmons is going to war oh i know i know gojian

will be fun too but wayne simmons come on no it's it's wayne simmons job is not to fight for everybody no it's to drag everybody into the fight well it's also to get the other team to commit to one that too right to like get them off their feet like what leo kamarov used to do a little poke here a little slash there other player retaliates they get the penalty we don't have a player that does that not one player the the last dance they were talking about scotty pippen yep and like just listen just fight just we'll be there with you just fight you know what i mean and that's that's what the leadership group on this team has to do kiprio was it on this show or on his own show where because i was talking about guys on the leafs i would love to see just

throw a punch once to stick up for themselves mitch awesome i think that was his show he said you know who i'd love to see john tavaris wow dude it's never even occurred to me but if tavaris just one day threw off his gloves that who is who is sitting forget who's not watching who's sitting through that i'm standing up and pressing my face to the television like it's a toy store before christmas even are you kidding me that matt's used to do that you or get his get people in a headlock that was always every now and then you know why because matt's was six foot five and doesn't need to take your shit i want to see jt do it just once just once crosby buys himself room once every like two seasons you know what i mean and it'll be a weird fight like i'm fighting

matt niskanen and you go what cool like he go look at sydney crosby's fight card it's all weird names but there are names on it you got to put some names on it okay love that now let's do the press conference sorry one more thing uh we also have to hand out uh shout out the nwhl oh yeah yeah yeah yeah so news there adam big uh big big television deal with the nwhl uh they're getting nbc in the states cbc in canada that's fully broadcast which is awesome great news uh that's february 4th and 5th for the isabel cup yeah yeah that's gonna be sick that's gonna be awesome we I've got to stop talking about Digit Murphy and get her on. Yep, would love that.

Yep, she needs to be on the show, head coach of the Toronto Six. Isn't she the head coach, GM, president? Head coach and a bunch of other stuff. Parliament, Senate, you know. Oh, yeah, I am the Senate. Digit Murphy, Michael Scott. All right, press conference time. The Presser SDP.

The Steve Dangle Press Conference. All right. So first question comes from JD Geldert. He wants to know. Is this a burner account? I don't think so. You make that name up. Eggnog, good or bad?

It's good. It's real. Yeah. Listen, sugar milk, I'm in. i'm in you enjoy eggnog like just drinking in a glass like adam do you put rum in it okay well i'll answer that adam keeps leaving mid podcast eggnog is good for like one you can have one oh there you go all right oh in adam's fridge eggnog that he's chugging that's friggin gross no bro that's so gross delicious did you pull that was that next to exactly three

chicken fingers, Adam? And a bottle of Cholula hot sauce? Get a life. Hold yourself. Just so we're clear, I went grocery shopping after that, okay? Eggnog's good in things,

but drinking it on its own isn't very satisfying. Guys are wrong. It's delicious. Delicious. I don't know. I think your boy's going to have some sketch. That's kind of gross that you just did that, Adam. yeah man i do more i wish there was more i wish there was more there i would drink more jesse there is a 20 minute time limit on the rest of the show because adam's just

yeah i'm worried about your stomach all right all right i'm full i'm on eggnog next question this is from at oh jets oh on twitter why did steve respond so rudely when andrew berkshire brought his child a children's toy oh what happened here steve well um oh show or your name um andrew berkshire well we we've had a discussion on the show what the best starter pokemon was and we're not talking about all your goofy starter pokemon we're talking about the original ones we're talking about charmander we're talking about squirrel we're talking like stone cold steve austin here right now one charmander

One Squirtle A Cheeseburger Bulbasaur And I said Squirtle's the best Because I prefer Squirtle Adam and Jesse Are heathens Who prefer Charmander

Adam are you also Charmander? No I'm a Squirtle guy I'm all Squirtle Sorry Adam for slandering your good name Idiots So Berkshire sent my child a Charmander, and all he does is he just

looks at it and then drops it, because he's six months old. But, I sent a Squirtle to Berkshire, and it's the talk of the town in the Berkshire house. His kids love it, and there's a reason for it. They have good taste. Better than their dads. They must take after their mom.

Do they sell Squirtle Squat Squirtles? Because I want the one with the sunglasses. Surely. Somewhere. somewhere i'm gonna look for evie i just i wanted to find a squirtle that came from the same series as the charmander that he got for leo and i also wanted to make sure it would get to his house before christmas right fair enough for less than a hundred dollars there was there was one it was like shipping from australia 112 i'm like for a doll yeah that's yeah insane uh next question

comes from 265 kilometers on Twitter. I dropped the mic. Hi, Dan. Dan says, I know the Leafs have too many forwards and it might be overkill, but how great would it be if Kyle Dubas

was unwrapping a Corey Perry on a league min on Christmas Day? Your boy would have a lot of videos to delete and a Corey Perry jersey to buy because I've never seen him do anything untoward ever remember that time Pavel Datuk instigated a fight with

Corey Perry and then sucker punched him I do that's how I would look at it would you like to know what I have heard unverified oh unverified so don't I'm not Chris Johnston don't uh don't quote me quote me but I have heard that they spoke but that it was it was sort of like we got room for simmons or perry and simmons is number one on our list so we're going so we can get simmons we're gonna get them do you think taxi squad changes that i don't know i don't know but i think cory perry wanted to be a leaf i'm always i'm almost positive cory from what i heard i'm almost positive cory perry wanted to be a leaf so i don't know well so i i tweeted this october 6th i go you have two players both are right shooting uh right wingers whose production is tanked due

to injuries but both are still hashtag not fun to play games one is age 32 had eight goals and 17 assists for 25 points in 68 games last season or the other is age 35 with five goals 16 assists 21 points in 57 games last year who do you pick 32 86.2 percent of voters picked the 32 year old the 32 year old is wayne simmons the 35 year old is cory perry yep so even though cory perry had a his stanley cup final was fantastic he was good with playoffs great he didn't have a good season guys he didn't so what what do you go with what do you it's it's a tough call but like every year teams go and throw a bunch of money at a guy who you know had a good playoff series and then it never works out like you know look at the edmonton oilers after the 2006 stanley cup

final they handed all those guys big deals and like i think i think of guys who like remember sean bergenheim yeah it was like unstoppable for one playoff run and then was just kind of sean bergenheim you know and that's fine but cory perry man 35 it's tough yeah room for one of those on the team right that's it spets has got softer miles anyway next question this one i'm gonna direct it to steve so steve uh adam you're not allowed to weigh in here this is from cono lmo 16 on twitter who would win in an ass off kyle lowry or adam wilde kyle lowry come on now it's a good butt you know kala it's a it's a good butt but it's a versatile butt it's a championship winning butt i love adam but that thing is uh it's aesthetic that ass isn't in the

nba it's not a functional ass it's an aesthetic ass you know it's not oh it's functional but it's not built for an 82 game nba season but are the hockey miles it endured harder miles than the average bear but you're asking me to compare him to kyle lowry yeah no come on now i'd put listen adams adam please do not take this the wrong way i won't adam's ass is adam's ass to asses is what jake paul is to boxing jake paul is a better boxer than you or i he's a better boxer than most people he's not a better boxer than professional boxers you know what i mean that makes that's a good comparison yeah so adam i mean if i saw adam walking down the street i'm looking but i'm not

like also i want him to be i want him to be a minute eating point guard on the raptors you know yeah fair now i'm uncomfortable let's move on that was a that was a deep dive yeah well adam you know we spent a lot of time together all right next question adam you're allowed to weigh in again okay uh this is from at underscore alec r7 one rational slash hot take prediction for the leafs upcoming season adam you're up first hot take for the leafs this year uh boy they're the second best team in the canadian division is that is that a hot take no no it's hot like they miss they're a second best team sorry the leafs are going to be the second best team in the canadian division and they're going

to the second round so that's mine this the playoff uh slump ends this year they win at least yeah because it is i mean they didn't even make the playoff so that's a slump too they need to bust that slump first there's there's that they will and they'll make the first round and they will win it and then who knows by the way for those asking i think calgary or vancouver might be ahead of them i also think edmonton's got an outside shot because you know uh but the thing with edmonton that you always have to do when you're doing the percentages is what if one of those guys gets injured they're still that guy but it's a little less dominant right we can admit that so it's always like you know i don't know i don't know i mean they're pretty freaking amazing

but i gotta thank the raptors for raising toronto sports's bar he's like i want the leafs to win a series and i'll be happy and it'll be fleeting if they lose in the second round that's not why we watch and the ah the reigning semi-finalists know why we watch like blue jackets fans will have that series against tampa forever yeah and they'll look back in it and it'll make them smile you know the lead uh the blue jays beating the rangers the texas rangers the bad flip we'll always have that they didn't win the world series you know what i mean so you'll have those fond memories of that playoff win but let's get a championship boys let's go did you see uh tom brady's tweet recently of the afc finalist

banner of the indianapolis indianapolis colts no all right so tony dungy longtime colts uh head coach he was on a show and he said that tom brady didn't crack the top six quarterbacks in terms of difficulty when he was coaching so he's like there's five other guys i could name who are harder to coach against and then the clip went viral on twitter and tom brady responded on twitter and he he tweeted out a photo of in the colts arena they have a banner that says afc finalists and it's like 2014 the year they lost to Brady I forget what year it was but it's whatever year they lost

to Brady is that a real banner yeah it's a real banner hanging in their arena in their stadium so he dunked on them hard I was like Tom Brady when did you get a personality you hang that in the

bedroom of an 8 year old not from your NFL team's stadium and they've won championships oh that's terrible you know i i gotta say that one of the funniest tweets i've ever seen was tom brady would be so cool if he wasn't so fucking weird like right like he's weird man he's really weird but he's but there's something about him like i like you but uh you're weird i would hang out with you but you're a bit of a weird maybe not for more than an hour i don't want to get into why i can't eat mushrooms or something could did you

invite tom brady to the party like he could come yeah but like he can also leave hey man if there's a party at all tom i'll go to the party with tom and i think it'd be great because there'd be a party at all i'd be happy i'll sit there and talk to him about the six different types of water in his book i'm excited god what a weird guy weird guy you just you're wired though to pick the brains of weird people i love that isn't that why you're on the show find me the weirdest one in the room and you'll you'll catch me with them all night oh yeah and you've already read their book i hope so no i've listened to their book i've listened different all right you guys want another one yeah all right this is from at tml underscore

chandler do you guys uh have you done any work on the expanse and draft and who the leafs might be protected uh no because you'll get plenty of that from me trust me I'll I'll find a way to yell and scream about the Leafs losing Adam Brooks can I be honest with you I think it's just too early for me to care I think that's that's why I haven't haven't even brought it up like I know there's some articles already kind of circulating and the chances are the Leafs are going to lose a pretty good player Justin Hall Travis Dermott something like that but I'll be honest with you i want to talk about games we've spent most of 2020 talking about not games and i just would love to talk to talk about a game i want to talk about the drama of two teams playing each other

and somebody going home a loser and somebody going home a winner i can't wait for that i watched sick of speculation i watched every second of the brooklyn golden state game yesterday because i was just like this is nba basketball that counts and it's a blowout and i don't even care because it's real basketball yes like i'm desperate for sports to be back katie didn't play right oh he played he was unbelievable he's gonna win the mvp this season that's my that's my bet for the year he's fantastic did kairi sage the floor again or he saved before the game and he was also really good during it brooklyn looks really good kairi seems like one of your friends is like man you're so talented but you're such a knob like i just again be so cool if he wasn't so weird he's

I've read enough about him and watched enough about him that he's you tolerate Kyrie that is Phil Kessel that's Phil Kessel he's going after LeBron and stuff and I love LeBron I think LeBron rules

after Malkin we still loved him Kyrie Irving is better at basketball than Phil Kessel is at hockey to be fair but they're both champions they're both champions and had significant roles in their championship i think that's that's a guy you figure it out with okay i read though he has a tendency to bring down his team like a yes that's the only thing

with his outbursts i think durant manages that though i don't think the celtics were built to handle kairi i don't think kairi's the one i think he's the two and he is yeah and i think durant being there i think is going to be like but durant it's a little dramatic too from time to time like i mean he's got what has he got six burners that he admits to yeah and he's a guy kairi's comments about lebron came on durant's podcast when they were talking together you know so he's he gave him the platform to go spew the i never played with a guy who can make the last shot comments you know so like what a ridiculous thing yes you did yeah god the nba the drama's so much better i'm really getting addicted jesse sent us a james harden article that we encourage

you recently and and and the james it's basically what happened with houston and james and how for like eight years james harden has had all the last calls on when they practice personnel decisions it sounds a little like what the sends were hinting eric carlson was like in in ottawa right there was a little hint of that maybe to a much lesser extent but yeah there was like oh talk of like when he left there were some reports the players were excited that they would just get to practice and not have eric decide when they're practicing um i think with uh i think with harden there's a little bit more at play than the practice is 100 and i'm not trying to compare apples to apples there but one thing i do think is weird is that the out of the raptors are

apparently in on harden which he hasn't said he would accept a trade to the raptors anyway but i don't believe that they what are they going to do that they're going to like they they made the right concessions for kawaii they made the right concessions for kawaii they got their championship to me james harden is the kind of guy where it's like you have to make every concession or he won't play no you they made the right concessions for the right player he threw a basketball at a rookie the other day and then went to the rippers allegedly allegedly people like well i don't like well there were people there that saw it and then there's other people like well i need to see video otherwise i don't believe it it's like well how would you the only thing with

acquiring james harden for the raptors is you do get him for two years yeah and it's a guaranteed guaranteed 50 win team like it's not like he's he can't lead a team on his own and bring it to a conference uh conference finals which he did and they lost terribly to golden state but you're there to get rosen wraps so they're no they're better than the de rosen they went to the conference final and we're a 51 team yeah one time yeah they go every time this is one of the this is an mvp this is one of the best scorers of all time and then you know can you when kyle's contracts up next year and you've got a max slot available can you bring kawaii can you bring like someone like you can just see them mature you know yeah or you're giving them up you know i don't know

interesting yeah that's an incredible sport it's amazing yeah anyway sorry i don't know and then yeah are you going to tolerate him wanting to go to strip clubs every night right now do you want to well all the strip clubs in toronto have unfortunately started to close so maybe he'd keep them in business i'm pretty sure for your eyes is gone which is where all the hockey players used to go and i know zanzibar is and brass rail probably on the edge and like there's not it's not a huge strip club scene here you imagine wow zanzibar is like that's like an aesthetic part of the city yeah like because you can see it from space it's a historic sign it's all like it looks like guys if you've never seen the zanzibar sign at toronto it looks like uh like like vegas

in the 60s 70s 80s like light bulb after light bulb after light bulb blue you know like blue and yellow and white and everything that's going to get your attention isn't it from isn't it in a scene from the hulk there's a there's a scene from the hulk where he's running down the street at another bigger different version of himself i can't remember the name of that character what which hulk though well that's the problem the ed norton hulk the other that's the problem yeah i don't know what you're talking about there's more hulks than spider-mans and there's too many of those yeah and they're gonna be all three of them in the next movie oh wonderful that's that makes sense that's great that makes perfect sense how's his uncle i've seen the story the same way a

thousand times does he get shot by a guy i when he's out looking does ben get shot by the joker does peter seem mad angry yeah it's outside the opera uh does peter seem mad is he upset does he give you an upside down smooch yeah actually the new spider-man i i think i don't think there's uncle ben at all like he's just not there he just they didn't even include him like we've done the death story yeah we get it he dies it's just um just sorry spoiler sorry guys you guys are being mean to the story of spider-man oh man i'm not here for it no spider-man is that friend i relate to spider-man because spider-man is that friend who goes hey did i ever tell you about followed by a story you've heard five times you know what i mean yeah tell you the same thing

over and over here's a hot take i really enjoyed the andrew garfield spider-man there you go i thought him and emma stone were adorable in that first movie the world would not agree with you i don't care i like transformers too so because you've got to watch it with the raw crush you gotta watch it with that mind the moment when i learned to turn my brain off at the theater is when i started really enjoying movies enjoying life a little bit yeah that too yeah um anyway final question final question final question comes from at josh prokshek on twitter you're a part of the leaf secret santa who do you want to buy a gift for and what are you getting no this is easy zach hyman because one time i asked him what he wanted for christmas

because i forgot he was jewish um oh my god what do i want for christmas uh for you to do your research yeah did you do that and he answered the question because he's a gentleman god bless him happy hanukkah oh god i'm so stupid um amazing i've never heard that story can you elaborate where was this what happened so no i did um i was filling in for sofia jerks of it and i got to do the sometimes i got to do the leafs room very rarely but i usually did the visiting room um when she wasn't available to do it uh then one of the very few times i got to do the leafs room it was right around christmas

and they wanted to do a christmas feature where you know you just go around and go what do you do you want for christmas and everyone i think we did connor carrick and frank corrado and i think mitch marner was in there and he decides to have it was it was the 1617 team i think and uh i just asked zach hyman and he just sort of goes um well i i think i'd like uh and then he went on with like the things he would like and it was like a few days later i was just it was one of those moments like shower moments where you just go oh like in the middle of your And I realized what I had done. I'm like, you moron, you idiot.

Yeah. So I'll never live that down. Um, I, I think I would like to get Jack Campbell in the secret Santa. Um, however, he would want peace on earth and that would be very hard to deliver on because Jack Campbell is a nice man. So I, uh, I love Jack. I like Jack Campbell. I'm starting to have a big crush on Jack Campbell, like a little bit of a man crush.

He's pretty wicked. so uh also a great commenter on instagram can we say that oh he's an elite commenter he's pretty good so what would you get him peace on earth is what you you have to say you can actually um what would i get jack campbell i would get jack campbell um i don't even know uh i would i would get jack campbell at ps5 and he and i could play online together because we do things because we're friends jack campbell and our friends i don't know if you know this or not we are not friends in this magical scenario but in this scenario yes jack hamill and everybody's jack hamill that's right well you you could be friends with jack hamill and not know jack hamill and i feel like

jack hamill will be okay with that he'd be like yeah we're friends we don't know each other but we are he's just that kind of a guy i would i would like ilya mikhayev and i would get him the world's nicest spoon oh i like that you know you always want to get some someone something that they're going to use yes and i would like i would like to get morgan riley and i would get him tj brony i love this i love this i love this um and uh jesse you have to answer it too oh um i would get uh william nylander obviously of course and i would get him a nice uh sony slr camera so that his instagram pictures can always look incredible you could also get him prosciutto that's very deep reference steve but thank you that's how many percent of the people

listening to the show get it no prosciutto is like a big kneelander thing tweet at him if you get prosciutto how many people understood that we're about to find out wait as if you didn't understand okay no a lot of people will understand but what percentage is that yeah five percent of people they're all gonna tweet us but best best oh here's a list russian hockey players 20 to 1 let's break it down you guys for christmas i'd like two new friends how about that for christmas i'd like two new friends who appreciate me let me just let me just hang this up hope someone puts two new friends in it that was a good one jess steve's hanging up his stocking jesse that was really really good by the

way this is this is the longest jesse and i haven't seen each other for uh a long time it's true yeah um jesse and i see each other most days so uh jesse i i have to say it's a little weird going three four days without seeing you yeah it's been there was a couple days until the pandemic kid i think it was like every day for like three months jesse and i had seen each other so yeah i know how's it feel not being a friend i just realized why i'm so hot i went for a walk before this with iggy and i'm wearing pajama pants under sweatpants there you go as well as a christmas sweater so i'm dying right now also screw you guys for actually seeing your friends this is pre-pandemic we don't see each other uh we just work together

so it's a meeting it's not a it's not actually a hangout so it's not a barbecue it's a it's not i've never been to a barbecue with you guys all right we must wrap it up for the year uh this was undoubtedly the toughest flipping year that we've ever had on this show but the reality for us is it showed us who the real ones are and uh the real ones are you thank you so much for continuing to listen even then even when for the majority of the year there was no hockey to talk about at all uh there was a lot of a lot of stuff that happened this year social upheaval pandemic um so many other things and thank you for coming back uh and hanging out with us through it all and 2021 looks a lot better but hey 2020 looked pretty good too uh and hopefully hopefully things

kick off on time and we're ready to go and by july everybody's vaccinated and happy all right merry christmas happy new year we love you thanks for listening no just thanks for listening be safe and have a happy new year yeah happy we'll see you before the new year actually so will we no we will not there's no show actually there's no podcast next week steve oh there isn't well then f you i say happy holidays but apparently i just wish merry christmas to everyone anyway so have one or the other it doesn't matter we're gonna stay safe everyone happy holidays bye the steve dangle podcast follow the guys on twitter at steve underscore dangle at adam w y l d e and at jesse blake

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