The Steve Dangle Podcast - Lasagna | March 4, 2020

Episode Date: March 5, 2020

On this episode of The Steve Dangle Podcast, who wore the crown?!? (00:00), the Leafs lose to San Jose Sharks (05:10), Jack Todd gets the crown for the worst tweet of all-time (12:30), the NH releases salary cap numbers (19:30), the NHL isn't changing emergency backup goalie rules (22:00), we talk about COVID-19 fears(32:15), Sens fire Jim Little (38:30), does anyone actually enjoy the shootout? (42:00), will we see full face protection in the NHL? (53:28), WE HAVE A LIVE SHOW TO ANNOUNCE! (56:00), trading Hyman (1:00:00), it's game 7, which defencemen are you picking? (1:01:00), Soshnikov (1:04:00), which GMs will be fired and who wins the Jack Adams? (1:07:00), and who makes the playoffs? (1:19:00). Originally aired: March 4, 2020 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/ILag1m5t74A 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

Panago Pizza presents S-S-D-P-P The Steve Dangle Podcast With your hosts, Steve Dangle, Adam Wylde, and Jesse Blake Let's go! That's a 10.30 start, eh? Me! No, not me

It's garbage Throw all of California away Throw in the garbage I mean, if the right earthquake comes along Wow Or if climate change just keeps up True Someone saw my LFR video today.

Yep. It's like, what if we just move the West Coast closer, and Earth is like, gotcha, fam? And I'm like, cool, wait. Hold on. Wait. Wait a minute. Well, you know what? Why don't we just do this?

Why not? Why not, guys? Why not? Why not get into the Crown Royal segment? Was I supposed to do it? No, no, not yet. It's Who Wore the Crown. Live generously and life will treat you royally.

Why not? I already did it. Pour yourself in front of Crown Royal, because we're going to talk about Who Wore the Crown, where we, with the help of you, recognize one Leaf player each show. Why not? That gives it their all for the blue and white Because it's our town, it's our crown Not what you have, but what you have to give

Let's crown that leaf that lives generously By giving it all for their team Brought to you by our friends at Crown Royal Live generously and life will treat you royally Let's get into it, Stephen Dangle Whoa, Adam You know how you just carried that whole segment there? I just read off a script, honestly

Yeah, but you carried it You just carried it With your Michael Jordan shirt That you've never worn before Probably done a bunch of You done some pecs, bruh? Is it chest and back day, bruh? Right?

So you're sounding good Looking good, right? But then you apologized Why did I apologize? I don't know why you would apologize Because you did a great job That's why my crown is going to Jack Campbell You did a great job, Jack

You jerk Stop it You took mine Stop it You took my big comfy blanket pick Well You jerk Guess what?

There's room enough for the both of us under this blanket under this I happen to bring a backup blanket really you see

that's very nice of you you see you know what he did he was very very good yes like what I don't know

if I know his teammates like him but if I was sitting next to him when he was like yeah you know this one's a little

bit on me I would have literally interrupted his press conference and gone shut up shut up I like his non-stop, can't stop, won't stop positivity. I do enjoy that about him.

There will be nothing that will take him off his positivity. It's a shame that if the Leafs make the playoffs, they're probably going to get the lightning. Because don't you want to see him versus Marchand? Like Brad just literally spits in his face, and he's like, well, gosh, what, is it raining out? Are you assuming that Campbell will see the ice? What is happening?

I mean, at this point. At this point, I don't know. He does play two of the games this week, too. which is good. It was sort of surprising when they started him, but yeah, no, Jack Hamill was the right guy, and it's nice to get Freddie Anderson some rest. My crown goes to Austin Matthews.

Goal 47 on the season. 46. 46 on the season. 47's coming next. Sure it is, and I'll give him the crown at that point, too. No, but in all honesty, Austin Matthews, what do you say? He's just been great.

He's been great, and that's been great. And he's also great. Yeah, and even when they stink, he doesn't. That's what a superstar does. Thank you. That's what we've been saying. And also what superstars do is when they have bad to mediocre games, you're still like,

oh, they have two points. Not that I'm saying he had a bad game against the Sharks. No, he had a good game. He scored so many times this season. I'm like, man, I really didn't like Matthews tonight, but he scored. That's besides the point. Jesse Blake. It's back. It's back, ladies and gentlemen.

The return of the motivation crown. Oh. I'm handing out my crown to one player who I think needs to pick me up for the next two games in California. Probably someone in a bit of a crown rut. Yeah, yeah. I don't think he's honored enough.

It's been days. He's out on the West Coast, and he's probably working on his tan a little. But he already has a gorgeous tan, so he doesn't need to work that hard on it. I'm giving him a little bit of crown to boost him up for the next two games. I think William Nylander deserves the crown this week. Hopefully he hears this And he hears that he got a crown And is like, hmm, I didn't really deserve it last time

So I'm going to go out And I'm going to play extra hard next time So I earn both crowns Double crown performance Next game he'll earn this crown Which I am bestowing on to him now Ahead of time It's like when you get a loan from the bank

And they're like, hey, here's all this money Pay it back to us with a little bit of interest Hey, William, here's your crown Here it is. But next game, I expect a little bit of interest. A little bit. You've got to earn the next crown, plus a little something on the side. That's who gets my crown this week.

Hicks, for sure. I, you know, oh, never mind. It's a conversation for after. Everybody besides Hyman, Matthews, Marner, got just destroyed five on five last night. Yeah, they did. I'm sorry. That's just how it worked. Right.

So motivational crowns, we give them out. That's what we've got to give out this time. Hey, that's Who Wore the Crown for this episode, brought to you as always by Crown Royal. Next time the puck drops, why not? Why not? Live generously and treat your Leafs crew to a Crown Royal old-fashioned. Okay. Why not?

You know, I was watching Tim and Sid yesterday, and it was Alex Sixero and Sid Sixero. Brothers. And it was funny. They were talking about the Leafs. And Sid, weirdly enough, because Sid loves to troll Leaf fans. As I mentioned to you last episode, I'm not sure if you've heard it, you are the Evil Empire Leaf fans. Everyone likes to troll you.

So just leave it alone. Anyway, Sid, for once, wasn't trolling the Leafs and going, hey, you know what? They've won three in a row. They're looking pretty good. And Alex is like, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second. I hate to be the voice of reason in this room, but they could lay an egg tonight in San Jose. They're not on their time zone. They have been up and down a lot lately.

They've been there for a couple days. That was just one week. It's, you know, it's sunny. It's beautiful. I don't know. They could. And I'm thinking at that point, I'm like, no, they will. and I went to bed and I woke up

and at 4am because they put the highlights right at the top of the hour on both sports channels equally I got to watch the Leafs not be good and apparently they couldn't execute anything and that's the thing is that I watched some of the highlights and that sort of thing

the issue seemed to be that San Jose had their number and that they weren't executing on little things like passes and through the neutral zone really struggled their passing has been brutal for a month now And I wonder if part of that's the injuries on the back end, but I actually I took my foot off the pedal today Can you move a little closer to the mic? I took my foot off the pedal and my mic away from my face

What do you feel? What do you think? I felt some mercy today. I did. They had a genuinely terrible second period It was awful. They were outchance five on five. I believe attempts was 25 to 5 It's insane. It's ridiculous. It's inexcusable Shots, I can't remember what the actual shots were in the second period But Leafs barely got outshot in the third And they outshot the Sharks in the first And they somehow came out of that second period Where they were garbage

With two goals to the Sharks' one And a tie game And arguably the sexiest goal of the Leafs' season Maybe second Hey, Willie has the sexiest goal of the Leafs' season Watch yourself I mean, that Marner goal was pretty cool That was like two games ago

Man, there was the Willie goal Austin to Mitch Yeah, the spin-a-rama. And then Nauston to Mitch. Right, right. Which is not the way it's supposed to go, but here we are. And then the game-winning goal I thought was a really stupid bounce. All of a sudden, you're chasing the game.

50 seconds later, Evander Kane scores. And he roofed it. That was full. It was a game that got away from them, and Martin Jones was actually good. He was. Doesn't it suck when bad goalies have a good game against your team? And Martin Marincin is still in just at least offensive zone god mode. And he almost tied the damn thing up again, or game-winning goal, to put the Leafs up.

Can't remember. But did he have a good game? Listen, Adam. He might have almost tied it up, but did he have a good game? He had a good game for Martin Marincin. Like, what do we expect? What do we expect? I expect him to become this guy that they keep telling me he is.

No one's telling you that anymore. Yeah, he's pretty what he is. It's funny that no one's telling us that anymore. No one. I think what he is is like a fifth defenseman, and that's what he's playing. A fifth? Seventh. Okay, here's one.

Minimum. Nick Barton, who we brought up last podcast, now has a Martin Marincin jersey. Yes, he does. The number on the back of the jersey is 52. Should be 69, but whatever. Go ahead. Totally agree. But what I asked on Ice Surfing, what is higher, the number on the back of that jersey or the amount of people who have it?

Whoa. Good question. How many cousins does he have? He better have a lot. He better have a lot, and the Leafs better ship to Slovakia. Because I'm thinking the number's higher. So, like, why are we expecting Godmode out of this guy? Dude, they're down three defensemen.

Kali Rosen ran the second power play unit last night. How did that go? How did you feel about that? I was like, you know, I didn't blame Sheldon Keefe for taking Sandin out for one night. I think that's worthwhile. He's gotten banged up. He's logged some hard miles for his young career. It's not like he's been particularly spectacular.

And you want to get Lily Grin in there. You don't want him to just rot. Also, if Sandin plays under 36 games, we get an extra year on his contract. Is that true? Yeah. He becomes a UFA a year later if he plays under that. They need to keep him out. If they just scratch him for a couple, like four more games,

you get a full more year of him as an RFA. Yeah, do it. Yeah. Why would you not? No, exactly. I agree with why would you not, but watching him last night, or watching the team last night, I'm like, maybe that's why not. I think, dude, he's good enough to be in their top six.

Cody, CeCe, and Morgan Rielly apparently are on track to be back next week. So that you can get Sandin out of the lineup for four games if that's what it's about. Yes. And by the way, it should be about that. And I'm sorry to say, Rasmus, I'm sorry to his family, I'm sorry to his fans. But unfortunately, that's the way she goes. And the thing is, is that, you know, Sandin in and of himself, he hasn't exactly played where it's like, oh, we can't keep him out of the lineup. Right.

I think he's been good. He's been good. I think he's been good, but there are definitely plays where the one that just made me laugh was Patrick Maroon. Just ragdolling him. Oh, against Sandin. I was like, when? Last night? Against Tampa.

I was just like, oh, poor kid. It's literally a kid against one of the beefiest players in the NHL. Yep. Yep. It's a bummer. Right? Welcome to the show, man. Welcome to the show.

Yeah. But it doesn't shock me that a player like that has a night or two off. Now, I'm going to assume that Jack Campbell gets to start against the Kings tomorrow. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I was listening to the radio broadcast last night. And then you give Freddie the start against the Ducks on Friday, right? That is my assumption.

The really interesting stat I heard for the San Jose game, last year, Freddie won his first game in San Jose ever. That guy played on the Ducks. Wow. It was like his first win in seven tries. So I don't know if they were reading into that or what, but yeah, I would like to see Jack play against his former team and then Freddie play against his former team.

Although it's hard. Anaheim is so far in the rearview mirror for Freddie Anderson at this point. He played like a season and a half with them Or two seasons or something I assume the Kings matters to Jack Yeah, I doubt Anaheim does I don't think so I mean, this used to be murderer's row

This used to be the hardest, hardest stretch of the season For the Leafs whenever they did this These are the three worst teams in the Western Conference And I wonder Even though, yeah, okay, they laid an egg Had a bad game I guess they're lucky Florida packed their bags Because it doesn't seem like Florida

Wants to make the playoffs either What happened? I don't know, man. But I'm wondering, to me, it just seems like this is still not what we want to see. You can't be. These are the worst teams in the Western Conference. Come on. Well, no, you're allowed to drop points to really bad teams, and it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter. Who says that? You see the Jack Todd tweet today? No, what did he say? It was difficult for me to see. I'm blocked, and so is everyone else. Who is Jack? Oh, Jack Todd is the, he's the grumpy Montreal Canadiens guy?

Yes. Okay. With the OK Boomer picture. Okay, what did he say? It is, though. It is, though. I'm not going to put it on screen. No, don't.

Oh, this is a great tweet. Adam, would you like to read it? Woo! Hall of Fame tweet right here. This is NHL by Matty Logic, by the way. Oh, yeah. Jim Matheson can't touch this. Canadians have almost caught Florida, which is true.

They have. They've almost caught a team that's five points out of the playoffs. So, it's far. They've almost caught Florida. Give them eight points, the eight points they dropped against Detroit, and they're going to be ahead of the Leafs, third in the division. Add four more, they lost to the Devils, and they're solid, rock solid. So, the problem is not the talent.

See, if they had simply won six games that they had lost, They would be higher in the standings. That's bad. And no one else. For no one else is this true. I think who wouldn't change spots in the standings if they won six games that they lost? I think maybe just the Red Wings. And whoever's in first.

Hey, a winning habit, which is a Habs blog, tweeted Adam and said, Hey, you know what? It's a fan-sided website. Hey, you know what? Just give them points from every loss. They'd set records and win the President's Trophy. There you go. And then Jack wrote back and said, stupid, period, comment, period.

If you're going to be a jackass, the D.A.R. is right over here. Oh, my God. Oh, Jesus. And then someone replied and was like, 4-0, blown lead to the Rangers in November. And he said, that one, too. So add on a couple. Whoa. Add on a couple.

Seven wins. We got the seven. He said that one too. Guys, guys. Racking them up. So add 14 points to their 71, and they've got 86 points. Guys, the Montreal Canadiens are really just a point behind the Tampa Bay Lightning. The problem isn't the talent.

The problem is that they did not redo those games. No, we need to adjust, though. Because the Leafs blew a 4-1 lead to Montreal, and Montreal won. So because they won that game, you've got to take them away. And the Leafs get three, because it was on a Saturday in October. Right. And Babcock was playing. And Babcock was still the coach.

And Babcock was still the coach. That's a five-point game. Five-point turnaround. That is an unbelievable. Do you hear the footsteps, Tampa? Just unbelievable. Leaves are freaking coming. That's an all-time take.

It's a really... Wow. I get the logic, but if they, listen. If they simply won games. If they had simply not been swept by the worst team that we've seen in a generation, they'd be fine. If they had simply not gotten swept By the worst team since like The expansion thrashers

You know The Tampa Bay Lightning won the 2019 Stanley Cup Had they not simply been swept You know if you take away those four playoff games That they played They're undefeated What about this one from David It's like they went 16 and friggin 0

David says I almost have as much money as Jeff Bezos If you take my current net worth Subtract my debt Give me the salary of Tim Cook There you go. Hey, true. I'm almost Jeff Bezos.

Actually, you don't want Tim Cook's salary. What you want are Tim Cook's stock options. They keep the CEO's salary small. The stock options is where they make their money. This is the important part. Because that's how you hide it from taxes. You're wasting your time on this hockey show. I'm just saying.

No, I'm not, because I'm not a CEO. Hey, this is Adam Lyle doing a podcast by myself. It's just about housing, taxes, and Russian history. Let's go. It's simply the most boring podcast In the history of the universe It would get a million listens You think so?

Jack Todd would love it Jack Todd would love it You know what, listen Anybody can find an audience out there For any subject There are podcasts for everything iHeartRadio with 250,000 podcasts Find yours

That's too many I know we're on that platform That's too many It's too many And I keep saying to them like Hey, which podcasts though? Nah, all of them No, a quarter of a million

All of them No, but which ones? Like there's a podcast for every person in Regina Yeah And then some That's ridiculous Hey have you heard this podcast? No that's not my podcast

That's your podcast friend Jim The dumbest thing Wrong Jim The dumbest thing Netflix has done Is not just have a top ten list Well they finally got one They finally did it

But it's what a decade too late Just have it there and be like Hey this is the number one show Everyone go watch it And then everybody can watch the show What I used to be, what I used to like, at least, it used to be easier anyway, in radio, when you're doing a pop culture show, it's like everybody sort of watched the same show. So like Jersey Shore, everybody's watching that so you could make Jersey Shore jokes and people would get it. You know, Game of Thrones was sort of the last show that everybody sort of had a good idea of what was going on, even if you hadn't watched it.

But there's like so many great shows now that if you make a joke, nobody knows what you're talking about because it's so fragmented, right? So I'm glad Netflix is doing that so hopefully a few more people will glob on to some of the more popular shows make my life Easier, and that's just my personal opinion you have exactly six days to make jokes Yeah, yeah, that's the other thing is once they're out then it's like all right if you don't make the joke today Yeah, everybody's already seen it. It's old if you don't fuck with cats If you make a Marie Kondo joke now, you're old.

Oh, I know. I know. I do it all the time. You know, that's what the youths like. Marie Kondo, right? Am I right? Vote for me.

Like last December, Black Mirror was a big thing. Oh, yeah. One, they did the Miley Cyrus string of episodes where it ended with the Miley Cyrus episode. And then they also had

the choose-your-own-adventure one. You can't reference that anymore. If you make a Bandersnatch reference, what is that? Things are moving too quickly. Get in the now, man. What is this? The news cycle. It was not a good game. Should not be dropping points, no matter what

Jack Todd says about the points that the Leafs should have made up. But, I mean... They've had worse losses. I'd put it that way. Right, right. And watch out for those Montreal Canadiens. Because if they ever figure out how to get back in time And beat the Detroit Red Wings

We're in big trouble If the Red Wings had simply not lost the vast majority Of their games Imagine where they'd be They'd be chasing a cup You'd see Dylan Larkin hoisting the cup above his head And the other ones So the NHL has told teams

The salary cap next year Is going to be between 84 and 88 million dollars That is just a Ridiculous range I heard it was between $10 and $100 billion. I mean. And they were just like, here you go.

Pretty much means the same thing, I think. Right. However, I do not fault them on this one. Really? Yeah, because the salary cap is tied to revenue. And even though we're most of the way through the season, we're not through the playoffs yet. And I hate to bring it up, but we don't know what's happening with this whole coronavirus thing. And a lot of the NHL teams revenues, a lot of the teams that don't make a lot of money,

which, by the way, most teams don't make money in the NHL, a lot of them are tied to door. And they may have to play games in empty arenas this spring, guys. This is where we are going to. Forget 84 at the low end. If this gets really bad, the cap will go down. Yep. Yep.

Totally. Because it is tied to revenue. And then everyone's boned. Yeah. So this is something that, you know, you better, like, I mean, for obvious reasons, and we're not a very serious show, the coronavirus thing is somewhat serious at this point, getting more serious by the day.

However, the effect on sports... For anybody not watching, Steve's putting on Purell. Hand sanitizer. The effect on sports, like, listen, we are supposed to have an Olympics this summer. We may not. They said it's happening. The IOC said it was happening.

The country of Japan said, well, it might not at that time frame. And the IOC is like, yes, it will in Detroit. Or Detroit. And Japan's like, well, I don't know. This is, I mean, it's all sort of, what are you thinking right now? So it's, I think, I don't often throw the NHL a bone, I throw them a bone on this one. They just don't know. And I don't blame them.

How would you know? That's true. That is true. I would throw them a bone if this wasn't just the same thing they did last year. Yeah. If it was reactionary to this reality, I'd be like, oh yeah, good on you. But they did the same thing last year. They did.

So when I saw that tweet, I'm like, 84. It's 84. That's the cap. I'm not sure if this broke. I think this must have broken after we had our show. But another thing the NHL has talked about at the GM meetings, by the way, the GM meetings are happening right now, is the emergency backup goaltender situation. Now, if you are not a Leafs or Canes fan, you must know a little bit about David Ayers. But essentially, if you are Scott Foster, but if the Leafs basically were thrown a gift and they blew it.

but what could have happened was the Leafs could have sent an employee in to play for the Carolina Hurricanes against the Leafs, and if the Leafs had lit him up, imagine how angry the Carolina Hurricanes, who are fighting for a playoff spot, and everybody else. People would be mad. Super mad.

Now, Carolina is currently sitting three points out of the playoffs. They would be five points out of the playoffs had David Ayers not come in, and had they not played great hockey. Let's be honest. The Carolina Hurricanes played great defense that night And a lot of Canes fans reached out When we talked about it and said

Hey, you didn't talk about how great we played I'm sorry, that wasn't the story We were distracted That really wasn't the story to us Who works for them Delete, delete Works for Coca-Cola Coliseum Thanks Twitter people making shit less fun

By the way, MLSC Still part of Coca-Cola Coliseum But anyway, I just I want to I found it so funny that the GMs that it was going to be brought up and it was funny

because people were like well they're only bringing this up because it's from Toronto well no it's not really that it's just that if Toronto had won do you know how embarrassing

that is for the league like it would have been awful I don't think I mean it's a very very cool story but if you're a sports fan

do you look at this story and think wow the NHL's really got it together no no it's possible that this

that this stuff can happen so What was interesting In the GM meetings Is it came up Apparently it was bandied about For about three seconds And then they were like

Yeah we're not going to do anything about it And this What happened is the best option They don't even want to Compile a list Of local guys Who played Semi-pro

Or pro once Like you don't want to do that? I heard That the Like goalie for U of T Or something like that Which is At least a university

Canadian university In shape Not in his 40s guy He's frequently there And it was just like his night off Poor guy That sucks And they're just like

But just for him You're like I could have played in the NHL Dude you're there for your One in a billion bajillion chance And you missed it It's like finding out The guy behind you in line Bought the winning lottery ticket

Why has no one done an article on that guy That's the story I want to read. Do you understand this has happened twice ever? Ever. And it could have been you Saturday night in Toronto. Like, think about that. You could have been in the Hockey Hall of Fame just like David Harris. Yeah, man!

He's in the Hockey Hall of Fame forever. Like, I got a free beer fridge. Did he? That's what's important. That's who? Okay. I just saw that tweet and I'm like, ah, here comes the free stuff. Good for you, Dave.

Good for him. Yeah, man. Free stuff. For sure. I was hoping that he would keep, like, not that he shouldn't give some of that money to charity, but I hope he got some of it just to keep for himself and go on a nice vacation. So the Hurricanes gave a lot to, I can't remember the exact name. It's a liver, is it not? Kidney? Kidney.

Kidney, because he friggin' had a kidney transplant in 2005. But isn't it funny that the NHL GMs wouldn't do anything? And people were like, you know what, that's the right decision, except that whenever a problem comes up, the NHL GMs are like, you know what, we'll talk about it for about 30 seconds, And we'll sweep in another rug and kick the can down the road for next time There must be a better There must, must, must

Be a better way to do it Than this Yeah, I got it here, and I'm about to get assassinated by everybody in hockey media Stop having the GM meetings In Florida Stop having them in a warm, comfortable, enjoyable Place to be You come to Toronto, and you have it somewhere

Far off the subway line And a pain in the ass to get to Have it in Edmonton When it's cold Have it in wherever Don't have it somewhere nice Have it right on Richmond, Adam You could have a lot of fun in Toronto

You could have a lot of fun You could have a lot of fun in Edmonton I'm just saying, it's colder You could have a lot of fun in Edmonton I've had lots of fun in Edmonton Is one of the solutions maybe just having a skater Dressed as a goalie? That was so years ago

There's a liability with that, right? Because then you've got your very expensive, amazing player Who is not meant to be a goalie, gets injured Years ago the Leafs almost had to use that option And they had had Like an emergency discussion with Hey guys if both our goalies get hurt And they narrowed it down to Colton Orr

And Carl Gunnarsson Almost got net In baseball if you're on a pitcher You use a fielder That's the only logic I think it's more serious than people are thinking Like it's not just Like forget David Ayers

You know those are two goalies who were like Really really hurt But I think back to Remember a few years ago Roberto Luongo had to come out of a game Leafs-Panthers And Al Montoya Who I think had gotten hurt earlier in the game

Went back into the game And they had their emergency goalie ready to go And he was on the bench and fully dressed and everything And Al Montoya played the rest of that game Hurt The Panthers ended up winning Because again, of course But I don't think Montoya played another game for the rest of that season

Yeah. So I got a question. If you were a goalie, okay, would you show up to every Leaf game if you got paid $100? So you get free Leafs tickets and $100, and you're the emergency goalie. Literally just cover my parking. Right. No, not even that. Well, yeah, yeah, whatever.

Cover my parking at $100. But you get to go to every Leaf game. That's the perk, right? You get to go to every game. So here's the thing. I'm just looking this up right now, and I'm sorry that I tuned out for just a second here. No. If you paid an emergency backup goalie every game who's qualified, 100 bucks,

you multiply 1,230, because that's how many games there are in the NHL in the regular season, times 100. It costs the NHL, are you ready for this? $123,000 over the course of a year, which by their standards is a rounding error. There are billions, billions, and billions, corporation, and $123,000? You couldn't find that in the budget to bring guys to the game who are... And no disrespect to David Ayers, but do you really want this to happen again? It's not just that it happened, it's that it happened in Toronto.

See, I don't think that has anything to do with it. No, no, I do. Okay. Because there is, so we had a 42-year-old Zamboni driver, once again, who hasn't played in God knows how long. This is the greater Toronto area. Dude, get any major junior goalie, okay, you can't get him. Get any university goalie, okay, you can't get him.

Get any junior A goalie. I'm sure there were guys in the arena at the time who have played goal in, like, beer league that are a little more fit than David Ayer. There were probably guys who played for the buzzers or something or, like, whatever, who you could have had. But my point is be prepared. Have them in the arena, pay them $100, and say, hey, here you go, here's a couple tickets, watch the game. Cost you nothing. Yeah. Cost you absolutely nothing.

It's a little weird for them to make no, like, no move on this. Yeah, I think that's weird. Let's move on. You know what's amazing about my stupid little idea? You throw a Junior A goalie in there, he plays five minutes to close out a game. It's a great story. It's super inspirational. Yard sailed his college eligibility in the States.

Oh, really? I assume so. He played professional hockey. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's so stupid. It is so stupid, but I bet that's the rule. No, that would, yeah, because he would literally have to sign the contract. Why are they the worst?

Why are they the worst? Do they have to be the worst? Like, you don't have to be that bad. I guess they, I mean, they make a lot of money. They're just awful gremlins. but it's true hey, another story with Carolina and Craig Wyshynski

tweeted this out, and it's funny when Leaf fans say it, it's whining but he goes, have we discussed how murderous the Canes schedule in March is? They have 16 games in 27 days with back-to-backs, with travel

every single weekend they play on the 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th 12th, 14th, 15th 17th, 19th, 21st, 22nd, 24th, 26th. Leafs get one of those. Penguins, it's all, it's insane. It's all back-to-back.

The Leafs had that in, did they not have that in November? They had something like that. Yeah, it was something crazy. But no, you're a complainer. But no, no, no. What? What? I mean, it sucks.

What? But here's the other thing. The Canes can take this opportunity, because they're in a playoff spot, or sorry, in a playoff fight, and get really sharp for the playoffs. You sound like Rod Brendamore. Rod Brindamore said Because they were like Oh my god

You know You're March And he's like Well look at the opportunity In front of us That's how you have to look at it That's a great coach God damn

Before we move Too far away from the emergency Backup goalie discussion What did you guys make of The Colin Campbell quote That Eric Francis tweeted out What was that? Where he said

How is this? Campbell said I called Hurricanes GM Don Waddell In the second intermission And said Can't one of those two guys Please come back

Well, based on the emails that were leaked several years ago, there's no reason to believe that Colin Campbell cares about NHL players and their safety. Now, that's what that quote is. My understanding... Jesse, you go on your phone, Google Maps, find the lie. He's right. Find it. But my understanding about that is that it was sort of like a joke.

Like, oh, can't they come back in like it was a joke? If that was the joke, then fine. That was the tone, apparently. Also, he doesn't care. Okay, both can be true, though. I think this particular case was a joke. Both of your points can be true. I mean, based on the emails, I don't disagree.

He was joking. Also doesn't... Because, yeah, I saw that blow up on Twitter. I was like, that could be taken a lot of different ways. They're merely bags of money. With ice skates. Yeah. I mean, that's all they are.

Typing Colby Campbell, Mark Savard. If you're wondering, I am a little hot under the collar. Have you ever talked to Mark Savard about that? No. I'd like to talk to Mark Savard about that. If he was ever not working for an NHL team again, which I definitely hope doesn't happen. Which we ruined. We should have had him on the podcast in the summer.

We should have had him when we had him. Now he's working with the Blues. What have they ever done? Yeah, exactly. Nothing. The NHL, this is the NHL policy on coronavirus, by the way, or COVID-19, which in my humble opinion, I know that that's the scientific name for it. However, if you have two names for one thing, people start to think it's two different things.

And I definitely have seen on Twitter, people don't know that COVID-19 is coronavirus. And I think that's dangerous. I'm actually serious. I feel like that's actually dangerous. It's coronavirus forever now. The NHL has banned its employees from business travel outside North America in response to the widening coronavirus outbreak. You cannot leave even on vacation. And if an individual ends up in a location affected by COVID-19 on their own, the league is mandating a two-week quarantine before the person can return to work.

So that means, let's say you ended up in, well, the United States has it, but let's say you end up in one of the hot spots. Italy, South Korea, China. You are not going back to work. So your one-week vacation turns into three. So wait, the media told all these people that they have to quarantine themselves? Sorry? The media told all these people they have to... No, no, this is Gary Bettman.

Oh, Gary Bettman? Yeah. Well, why would he do that? Why would Gary Bettman do that? Yeah, was he, like, did he consult, like, medical professionals and stuff? I'm not sure where you're going. Are you telling me medical professionals are behind the quarantines and not the media? Sorry, I've been reading the wrong shit.

The sarcasm in this episode has been off the charts. I'm missing it. I must not have slept well last night. I've been getting too many tweets from never bothered by anything guy. I hate never bothered by anything. Oh, it's just another one. I've been through this before. Just another one.

Go lick a subway pole then, you frigging chode. Anyway. Oh, gosh. Yes, Adam? What? Speaking at the conclusion of the NHL general manager's meeting Wednesday. I got coffee in my eye just now. Commissioner Gary Bettman said the NHL is aware of and focused on all possibilities

as it continues to monitor a fast-moving situation. If the league employees go to a place that's on the list of countries that have an issue or while you're there, that country comes onto the list, when you come back, we want you quarantined out of the office for two weeks until we can see if symptoms develop. He added, it's currently up to individual teams to decide their own travel protocols. The clubs know that's what we're doing, said Bettman. They've been advised.

They're free to adapt or adopt as much or as little of that policy as they want to, at least for the time being. Bettman added the NHL has been in communication with both the Center for Disease Control in the United States and Health Canada and in regular contact with all 31 franchises. The commissioner described the situation as day to day as the virus continues to spread around the world, but declined to speculate about the potential of having to hold games in empty arenas or postponing the playoffs. At this point, he says it would be premature to pick any one of the possibilities, especially because it may or may not become necessary in North America. We're staying current, we're staying in communication with the appropriate people, and we'll deal with it when the time comes. Which, you know what? He's a lawyer. What else is he going to say? Yes, but also, for anyone who doesn't think this could happen, remember that the NHL recently had an outbreak of mumps. Well, especially when you consider, especially over the other leagues, the amount of equipment you're wearing, the amount of sweat.

It's disgusting. And it's like, well, because your body turns into a sweat oven. You are literally, you are just soaking in your own sweat. Because your sweat doesn't have anywhere to go. It just stays on your skin. You meet all these fans, and you shake hands with all the training staff, and you're just germs. If one person in the NHL gets the common cold, they infect 200,000 people.

It's unbelievable. Look at what the Leafs had earlier this season with the flu. It's like five guys, six guys. It's great like that whenever I see one reporter with the sniffles. Mm-hmm. I'm like, oh the Leafs are about to have like a bad Two weeks. Yep. Yep The most reporters and that means they're most likely to get sick. That's my medical opinion. Canada currently has 33 reported cases And Washington State has a total of nine deaths I think the United States has something like I think they had nine or sixty seventy cases or something

So listen It's a thing The never bothered by anything guy Is you're too much The person who tweets out I'm never shaking hands again Until this is eradicated Is also you're a little too much Let's just take a breather

Look at the numbers as they come in Wash your hands which you should do anyway Yeah why haven't people been Washing their hands regularly Guys wash your damn hands I want the picture of Lord Kitchener Wash your hands Lord Kitchener wants you To wash your hands

Oh yeah you're supposed to wash your hands for 20 seconds 20 seconds What do you think I got time to burn That's unbelievable to me Well Listen I'm a bit of a germaphobe but I still went to Waterloo shaking all kinds of hands And then I washed my hands for a minimum 20 seconds

Afterwards It was actually a lot longer than that There's also if you're really paranoid about this Apparently Purell is just selling out everywhere So there are ways on YouTube That you can make your own Purell Oh, and and it's actually no no it's scientifically safe. Don't worry. Sure. I'm sure it's I'm sure those youtubers know what they're talking No, these aren't the smash that like button youtubers

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It's definitely not a scam Sorry, whenever I see him advertise shit That's obviously a scam I'm like, you live in Calabasas You do not need the money Go get in another fight Anyway, sorry Yeah, it's weird when YouTubers

Advertise that stuff Like scammy stuff I'm like, why? You don't need to If I was as rich as Jake Paul You know what I would never do? Like get punched in the face Often

Yeah, but I guess that's what makes him Jake Paul I guess so I don't get the appeal, but then I don't have to. It's not for me. What did that TikTok guy call it? Nose beers? Anyway. Nose beers.

I don't know. It's beer that you put up your nose, I assume. Okay. Is that a thing? Yeah, for sure. Wow. All right. It's definitely a thing.

Listen. Hey, did you see the news this morning about the senators? They fired their president? It was Super Tuesday. Yeah. Jim Little, who has been on the job for five months. Sorry, two months. He was only on the job for a little.

Two months. End of the show. Senator Zona Eugene Melnick named Little the CEO on January 10th. Of this year? Yeah. They say his conduct was inconsistent with the core values of the team and the NHL. Since 2017, the Senators have parted ways with CEOs Little, Tom Anselme, he used to work for the Leafs, Cyril Leder, COO Nicholas Ruzitsky, and Chief Marketing Officer Amy Deziel.

I have my own quote on this. Oh, from Haley. From Haley Salvian. One of our favorites. Hi, Haley. Gary Bettman, from the Board of Governors meetings on the Jim Little firing. It's not what you think, or what's being suggested. It's not one of the things we had been discussing at the board meetings in December. It has to do more with internal operations.

You know what's a bad way to start a sentence? It's not what you think. It's not what you think. Well, they did make it seem like it's like he was caught doing something. Like, conduct inconsistent with the core values. What do you instantly think? Right? Everybody knows the answer to that.

Of course. That's not necessarily fair to him. Good. That's not fair to him. But, so if it's not what you think, here's the thing on this one. Who do you believe? Gary Bettman or Eugene Melnick, though? I'm leaning towards Bettman.

I'm leaning towards it's not what you think. And I'm reserving judgment until the whole story comes out because I don't trust the Senators' organization one bit. They were so close. Yeah. Since it's March. Like, you were so close to having a relatively normal season. They were so close.

And these guys might get three top five picks. Mm-hmm. Oh. Did you see the stat from Sportsnet Stats? It was, so the Islanders started, I want to say it was 16-3-1. Since the end of that streak, the New Jersey Devils have a point percentage of .511. The Islanders are .500. So since the end of their hot start to the season, the Islanders have been worse in the standings than the Devils.

Wow. If that keeps going, and if the Hurricanes manage to actually win a bunch of those games that they have in hand, and who else is in there? The Blue Jackets can somehow hold on. I don't know how they're going to be able to do it with all their injuries. The Islanders can miss the playoffs, and the Sens could, theoretically, pick first, second, and fourth. Wow. The Rangers are four points out as well.

And have more wins than, I think it was the Islanders. They do. No, Columbus. Columbus. The ping pong balls would have to bounce a crazy way. Yeah, but wouldn't you love to see it? Right, right. I mean, not just for Senators fans, but just for chaos theory.

If you hate the loser point, by the way, have a look at the Eastern Conference wildcard picture. It's screwing everything up. Yeah, well, because Columbus has 14 overtime losses. Boston. They have seven wins worth of losses. Jack Todd loves it. Boston is 0-7 in the shootout. in a make-believe part of

hockey. They're 0-7. Now, to you, does that say they're better than their record suggests, or worse? They're much better. They're better. Yeah, that's a coin flip. They're well over 100 points at this point. They lost 7 points on nothing. Yeah, those are ties. Interesting.

Interesting. I wonder what their overtime record is. Their overtime record is... I don't know. They have 12 wins in overtime. I used to be pro-shuto because I was like, well, you gotta end the game and whatever. The more I think about it, The more I think, first off, three on three, there would be a goal so quick, it wouldn't even matter. You go four and four for ten minutes, and then you do three on three for ten minutes.

There's a goal in there. But my question beyond that is, are ties so bad? No. No. Like, if you play a full extra period, that's a lot. But if you play a full, let's say it's four and four for five minutes, and then it's three on three for five minutes, And if you still don't have anything You've at least got

Half a period of exciting hockey that you went through Because it was going to be exciting And then you got a tie So you think 10 minutes to round 3 and a tie? Yeah, why not? I think And then everybody gets one point One

Ties are okay in the NHL Because they have a point system It's not just wins and losses They have an effect on the standings Just like soccer There's no legitimate effect because it's just points. It's a little different. It was just wins and losses.

Plus, you should go three on three for 10 minutes with a shot clock. It's a Brian Burt suggestion. That's a great idea. So you avoid this damn circling the puck back. Bring it out of the zone. And there's no more offsides. You go no offsides. 30 seconds.

In a 30 second or 20 second or whatever you want at shot clock, which is shot on goal. And if you get your own rebound. See, hold on, hold on, hold on. If you take offsides out of it, is it hockey? It doesn't matter It's closer to hockey than the shootout Fair, okay, that's fair

It's entertainment value Versus integrity Right, like the shootout is more Entertaining than the game just stopping But it's also Made up fantasy nonsense Right We went from Jim Little to this

Hold on, we're talking hockey The shootout's just so far from hockey It just doesn't feel right anymore It sort of sucks, it's not even exciting Like, it's sort of like, oh, okay, I'm going to sit through this crap. Like, does anyone really, honestly, I want to ask, leave this in the comments. Does anyone out there actually enjoy a shootout? And maybe it's because, maybe I'm biased because the Leafs have never been good in the shootout.

That's not true. They have been. Have they? Oh, yeah. It just feels like they've been bad at everything. I don't know. The J.R. and Lupo era, they were unbelievable in the shootout. There you go.

The Leafs were once good in the shootout. That's my question for the episode. Anybody actually enjoy this anymore? It's funny to think that gold medals are decided on shootouts as well. In multiple sports. In multiple sports. Like Wayne Gretzky didn't get to go in a shootout, and that's the biggest travesty in Canadian hockey history.

Yeah, and they put Ray Bork in it. Yeah. Yeah. Who was the coach of that one? Mark Crawford. Was that Mark Crawford? Yeah. That was a bad move, Mark.

But that's supposed to be the pinnacle of hockey and sport. It's the Olympics, and there's a shootout that we're deciding this thing? Cool. Come on. Yeah, plus, it's the Olympics. Just keep going. Right. Keep going.

Like, what's the rush? You got to go to a commercial? They'll wait. It's the Olympics. Like, who cares? I understand if it's, you know, if it's Senators New Jersey on a Tuesday night. I get it. Sorry, guys.

Or like Senators LA and it's like the West Coast time. Yeah. It's 1 a.m. on the East. I get it. You got to go to your newscast. I get it. But like, during the Olympics, like during the second round of the Olympics, it's, oh my God, whoever wins this goes to the gold medal game.

Also, no, you don't got to go to the newscast. I'm watching this for the hockey. Most people are watching this for the hockey. You think I landed on this hockey game by accident? Here's the problem. People are turning on at 11 to see CTV News. Go to bed. They need to see Anne-Marie Meadowick.

They need Anne-Marie. We're leaving these people behind. Excuse me. Hey. But also, let me throw this out there. The news, in many cases, is higher rated than the hockey. Yes. Damn it.

It's true. Not in Canada, but in the States. Peter May is retired, and now I don't want to hear from anybody. Okay. When he was doing the National, I wanted to hear the news. But now he's retired. Well, and then when they used to have Hockey Night in Canada, well, they still do have it on CBC, but when it was a CBC product,

he would do the first ten minutes of the National between overtime periods and the playoffs. I always thought that was kind of cool, right? Oh, yeah. That is cool. He was like, here are the stories. Let's go, go, go, go, go, go. Hockey.

It's like, that's a great idea. Why don't we do that? War is about to break out, and it'll have to wait. they dropped the puck. And we now return you to the Sends and Leafs. Like, it was just, that was cool.

Yeah. That was cool. And you could tell he liked that, too. It's a challenge, something different, right? So, I don't know. There's ways around this

that we can make this more entertaining. I just want to see them try. That's it. Try something, dude. That's a lot. Are you, okay, so you hate the shootout.

So you're saying you hated T.J. Oshie against Russia? What was better than that? Well, maybe more hockey. More hockey probably would have been better than that. Do we like hockey, though?

Have we decided that? And Americans might go Are you going to keep that same energy for the Jonathan Taves World Junior thing Yes It was a shootout Wasn't that a shitty way to lose It's a shitty way to win too

But at least they won How many World Cup finals Have been decided on free kicks It's stupid Spoken like a true Italian Up until 2006 The Italians in the shootout It's just a terrible luck

I think it was 1998 or 1996 I want to say four No, but there was one in like 98 or something I think it might have been more than once Oh, probably, yeah Just known for it It's bad Just run around for like an hour and a half

And then it's free kicks Soccer, they're more worried about Like the guys just run out of energy, you know Okay, hear me out I'm going Brian Burke here Bring the Nets closer in overtime that's not bad why not

that's not you play half the pitch three on three three on three and you bring the nets 20 feet closer or something

on either end that's not bad it's not I just revolutionized soccer Steve Dangle everybody yes Adam it's sort of funny the time after

the trade deadline is always super weird because you would think first off that you would hold the general managers meetings before the trade deadline because

that's when all the GMs are together and you think they can get creative together in the same room. But they don't do that because I think that the GMs view it as, here's our vacation in Florida, let's do a little bit of work and have a few drinks and hang out. I'm telling you, they've got to have it somewhere inconvenient and uncomfortable. Right.

And I'm not saying being an NHL GM is easy. It is not. It is a 24-7, 365 job. Doesn't mean that they're all good at it, but it is. Here's all the GMs fly to winnipeg you drive three hours north and you hold the meetings in the first coffee shop you find and that's for the gm meeting it'll be at tim hortons yeah probably in brandon what are the odds

pretty good pretty good if you go to like alberta it might be a blends or is that bc no bc's blends i've never heard of blends yeah i don't know because you've never been to bc well i've been there but like a couple i've only spent like 48 hours in bc yeah well that's enough time for a blends i sure did i was at a wedding there was no blends at the wedding oh so that's a shitty wedding shitty bc wedding no blends yeah right that's what the b stands for so what is blends coffee that's what bc stands blends columbia blends columbia what were you gonna say adam no i was just gonna say that there's not a whole lot going on in the nhl right now I was looking through the stories today

and I'm going well that's boring and that's boring and it's kind of like oh yeah post trade deadline and it's the ramp up to the playoffs and it's the general managers meeting so part of it is the media are all down there too and they're taking a bit of a breather and so some of the stories

are like ah we'll pose it on the weekend but you do obviously they do their check in but they're there to have a good time too and I don't begrudge them that Elliot Friedman likes to get a little crispy Does he? Well, good! I think, man, when you work that kind of job, you should probably blow off some steam at some point. Oh, after the trade deadline, I'm sure Elliot's like, yeah, no, I earned this. It was him and Kyle Bukowskis, and I can't remember what else, and they are very obviously wearing shorts under their blazers.

Yeah, yeah. They deserve it. And when they take off after July 1st is over, the free agency thing's done. I don't blame them for that either. They throw their phone in a volcano. No, never to be heard from again. Would you ceremonially throw your phone in the water at your cottage? Because I'm assuming you have a cottage in this point. And every year you tell your employer, I need a new phone because I wrecked my old one.

I would do it until I needed it and until it became an island. I would build my second cottage on my phone island. Out of phones. There you go. Yeah. Dude, you work for a phone company, right? Or a communications company. Just do it.

They don't view it that way. No. They very much do not view it that way There's a bunch of shellfish walking around With like an iPhone 6 It's moving a little slower than I thought It's moving a little, well, yeah It's because it's a 6

Now did you read that the European Union There was a lawsuit that passed Apple And I think in the United States as well Apple will have to pay everybody that had An iPhone 6 and I think below And some 7s as well $25

because they intentionally slowed down their phone. I don't believe it. It's happening. The minimum that they can pay out is $310 million. I think the maximum is $500 million. Adam, would the company that gave me an iPhone 11 do that? I don't think so. They admitted no guilt in the lawsuit.

So they're paying people, but they're not admitting guilt. Then I don't find them guilty. what do you find them then wonderful we started doing this podcast this year right okay good yeah just checking yeah good good it's the best okay well listen maybe we should do our announcement now should we do that sure we also have a whenever we get there we have 173 press conference questions we need to get through oh so okay okay i have a question for the press conference okay we'll save it we'll save it oh you do announcement well hang on hang on why don't we why don't why don't you guys why don't we start the press conference okay i'll get the

announcement ready to go okay steve question question from steve we got away from music The Steve Dangle Press Conference Question for Steve From Steve Go ahead In our lifetime Will we see Full face protection

In the NHL Yes, that was one of our questions Oh, there you go Last night, Arturi Lekanen's skate came up Hits Johnny Boychuk right in the face You see the instant panic skate off Lou Lamorello announced today Johnny Boy Chuck received 90 stitches.

Oh, gosh. And a lot of them were on his eyelid. Whee! But his eye's fine. He's expected to make a full recovery, et cetera. He had 90 stitches on his eyelid. Is that all? That's all.

That's a small place for a lot of stitches. You know, he's a hockey player. You know, well, I don't know if it was all on his eyelid, but he's a hockey player. You know, he's like, couldn't have gotten 10 more. 100%. He wants that triple digit He wants to be able to say it I got a hundred stitches

Ninety Ah I wonder how many players In history have had A hundred stitches on something Like Boreasalming Probably Boreasalming That skate to the face

Was nuts Terry Sawchuck Maybe cumulatively Yeah Yeah I don't know In one fell swoop How many

Can you look up How many Taylor Hall had When he got stepped on By Corey Potter Also that was That was a point Jeff Merrick brought up On ice surfing

Like no real rule was implemented after a guy's head literally got stepped on by his own teammate. It's crazy, isn't it? So what do you think? 30. 30. I'm surprised. He looked like a mutant after that poor guy. I just, like

Jason York, you know, played in the 90s, early 2000s. He was saying yesterday, he's like, I'm soft now that I'm a former player. Like, there's no reason for it. And you got these billionaires, these huge companies with million, million, billion dollar players and they're missing needless time because of injuries that could have

been prevented. It doesn't make any sense to me and people go oh well you're bubble wrapping the game what's next bleh bleh bleh followed by ridiculous scenarios. Dude, net guards exist and I know they don't protect for everything but net guards exist and cages exist. Right and who'd you rather see play? Sidney Crosby or someone else? Yeah well and Owen Nolan had his his career as a Brian Burrard Ended Brian Burrard

His career as a Leaf Ended Both because of Needless iron injuries They didn't need to happen And I saw A lot of people go Well it's harder to see

With a fishbowl Or it's harder to see With a cage It's harder to see Without a cornea Yeah I've heard that I'm not a doctor

You might want to Google that one But I've heard that So here's the Oh you don't want to hear About eyeballs getting Sliced open Oh you don't want to

Hear about that This is a fun way To start the press conference I agree Maybe How about we do the announcement Should we do the announcement Yeah there you go

Alright guys Oh you don't want to hear about that Ladies and gentlemen A Steve Dangle podcast Live Yeah Yay You already know that Steve Dangle

Will be in Kingston, Ontario Jamaica Oh Kingston, Ontario April the 4th April the 4th Be with you Guess what's going to happen

After his book signing We're going to the mansion In Kingston And we're doing a live show At the mansion And then We're sticking around for the game so we can all hang out.

Yeah. So we're doing 506 Princess Street, The Mansion in Kingston, April the 4th, Steve Dangle Podcast Live. Check out info at mansion.rocks. .rocks? Is that, what is that, R-O-X?

Yes. Actually, no. You know what? Just Google The Mansion Kingston. It's themansionkingston.com. The Mansion Kingston. If I can do it, then the listeners can do it.

So I click it. But Adam, I can't see my screen because I was stubborn and wanted to prove to all my friends that I'm a guy by not wearing a cage at Beer League. 506 Princess Street? That's right. Kingston, Ontario. Saturday night, April the 4th. What time?

Well, that is to be announced. Just wait, okay? I believe it's probably going to be around 5 o'clock. Like around, okay, 5? I'm just asking questions to people. People will be asking. It will be a ticketed event. Oh, okay.

This is an alcohol-serving venue. charge will be 10 bucks come hang out with us it's going to be super fun love Kingston and love Kingston in the spring

and in the summer because things start to get really warm Kingston's one of the in Ontario one of the cities that no one gives any credit to

is one of the most beautiful cities in the province it's also one of the places where you can do the most outdoor stuff it's a great size but you can get out

in the country in no time you can hang out and picnic by the water there's tons of history Kingston is one of the... So if you've never been to Kingston, you should come. You could go see the Front Nacks.

Yeah. The Nacks. Yeah. As I call them. Obviously. No, no the Nacks. Jesse. What?

I know what I'm getting. What do you mean what you're getting? Oh, at the mansion. I know what I'm getting when I walk into the mansion. Oh, food-wise? What do you got? What do you got? Getting the Hangover Helper.

Mmm. House Burger. Topped with bacon. Cheddar, Swiss, portobello mushrooms, jalapeno peppers, and mansion sauce. Oh. This is a really nice website. Goddamn. Yeah, it is.

Can I just say? Look at that sandwiches menu. Damn. Anyway, so come hang out with us. Also, mansion mac and cheese, worth the drive. There you go. All right, there you go. Yeah, it's just up to 401 from Toronto.

A couple hours. That's it. So we'll see you in Kingston, April the 4th. Or, you know, if you're from there. And, hey, guess what? More live events to come. Just throwing that out there. We love you.

Give us some more questions. This one is from DanaPapa9. Okay. What do you think it will take for the NHL to mandate full face masks? That was the question I was going to ask. I hate you so much. And then you beat me to it. I had to give her the shout out.

Sorry. As usual with the NHL and safety, an answer that is so unpleasant it's not worth saying on the show. Jazz Jackrabbit underscore wants to know, should the Leafs sell high on Hyman in the offseason? Absolutely not. Adam? No, you're both blasphemous, wrong people. I don't think so. I think you keep him.

Yeah, I think he's pretty valuable. He's part of the core. His salary might not say that, but I think Zach Hyman is 100% a part of the core here. He's a well-liked guy. I don't think you can replace him. I think there are guys on this roster that are at least 70% or 80% replaceable. I think he is not. Confidently, I don't think he wants to play anywhere else.

Or whatever. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. And I think the Leafs will do everything they can to keep him here as well. He is one of the first trades Kyle Dubas made with the Leafs. He might be the first. Yeah, the Greg McCaig for Zach Hyman trade with Florida was before Lula Amorello was the GM. Awesome deal. Great deal.

Awesome deal. People forget that, eh? No one gives Kyle Dubas credit for finding Zach Hyman. There's, like, look up, there are pictures of Zach in a Panthers jersey. That's crazy. With frosted tips. Wow. I'm going to look him up.

Okay. This one is from our girl Dua. Dua. No. What? I said Dua Lipa. Oh. Hypothetical.

It's round one, game seven of the playoffs against Boston. The Leafs lead 4-3, and there's 60 seconds left. Face off in the Leafs zone, and you're icing your current lineup of defensemen. So, no Riley, no Muzzin, no CeCe. Which two defensemen do you put out there? Barry Dermott. Oh, my God. Very good question.

They can make passes. Barry Dermott. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. This question's awful. Barry Dermott. Throw this in the garbage. That's the only answer there can be.

A Marincin and a photocopy of Marincin. Wait, what? I would put out Marincin and a piece of paper with his picture on it next to it. That's not part of the current Leafs lineup, Jesse. You're cheating. I think Marincin, Dermott. Why? Because...

You don't trust Tyson Barry? First of all, no. Absolutely not. Learning things about Steve today. Neither does Sheldon Keefe. Look up how many seconds Tyson Barry has ever played on the penalty kill. It's very few. It's not very much.

This would be, I assume in this scenario, it would be six on five. Right. So it's essentially like a glorified penalty kill. Right. And last night I didn't enjoy Watching Justin Hall Barely Even attempt to whisper into VanderKane's ear

On the first goal So, Dermot I know is at least a prick And Marincin has a 75 foot reach Oh this is dark Do a no thank you Why is Steve wrong? I think Steve's wrong because

So who did you say? It was Dermot Is it Marincin on the right, Dermot on the left? Because Marincin, as you said in the last episode, is a pink can being shook at Home Depot when he has the puck. And the thing is that Marincin is good at zone entry denials. But at this point, they're already in the zone. So I'm looking for people that can pass the puck. And Tyson Barry can pass the puck.

To who? Well, the thing is, they have to get control of the puck. Good luck. Right, but they have to. So, if you're asking me for my best odds, those two guys are the better skaters. They are better offensively minded. So, if I put them out there and go, Okay, I want you to pretend this is the offensive zone, but it's not.

And I want you to get the puck out of this zone. Those two are going to give you the best opportunity. Period. End of story. Connor Hellebuck for MVP. Here's the other thing, though. So, it's Game 7. Final minute of Game 7. No penalties getting called.

I want Travis Dermott breaking wrists out there. You know, it's lawless It's friggin' lawless And you just tell Martin Marincin Greenlight We'll pay whatever fine you get Oh fuck, that's a dark one Let's move on Alright, this one is from

Elite Leafs At Elite Leafs We'd like to know what that looks like Sorry Nikita Sashnikov has 27 goals And 21 assists In 58 games played For Ufa, Salava

You live Salome, you're live Thank you In the KHL I like Jesse's pronunciation Do you think A reunion with the Leafs Could slash should be

An option for next season Why not I doubt he wants to But I think he'd explore it But if you could have Especially with a different coach And a coach that had him a lot

If the Leafs are looking For winger depth You have to think I think they're going In the next season With like five or six million In remaining salary To sign like six guys

Someone's getting traded This offseason everybody They're clearing some cap. They've got to clear some cap. No, no, no. That's what they have next year. They've got like $5 million. So they're going to have to clear cap.

It's not a question of if, it's when. And you're going to need guys like Soshnikov or someone like that. I mean, he's what, 26 now? 27? He's not that old. And you could have him come in and be a depth option. If he ends up like Timoshev and then he ends up on waivers and halfway through the year Detroit claims him, so what? But the point is, yeah, why wouldn't he do that?

Dubas was a fan. Sheldon Keefe was a fan And this is a guy who has got some real bite That the Leafs are kind of lacking Why not? And he's got some friends And he can score In the Leafs organization

He can score Can score I think it all depends on how he went out With the Leafs If he went on on bad tone or not I think it was bad But that's That might have been because of the coach though

I, yeah, they Supposedly he wasn't a big fan of how they handled his injuries Which were Fair I would also Well, and sorry A couple factors I think Dan Milstein is his agent, so that helps.

But if you're Sash and you're looking to get back into the NHL, don't choose the Leafs. Yeah. You want a team weak on wing defense. Choose the Sens. Detroit? Choose Detroit. Choose, I mean, Edmonton went out and got Tyler Ennis.

Yeah. Sashnikov on Edmonton? He'd do great. Excellent fit. I would also say it's the KHL. Right. And the numbers. Go look up the all-time leading scorer in KHL history.

I'm sure it's like OHL numbers Sergey Mozakin And he's like an 8th round pick of the Blue Jackets Back when they had that And he probably could have played here, we'll never know He doesn't want to though, he likes it there Consistent KHL All-Star Nigel Dawes

2005 World Junior Tim Snipleton was a friggin KHL All-Star It's not the same It's not the same sport You're not the same This one's from stattheobvious underscore. That's a good name.

I'm going to do a little slash on this question. How many current GMs do you think will be gone before the start of next season? So, slash, who do you think is getting fired by the time next season starts? Who's going to fuck off? I'm sorry. That just

reminded me of my boss when I was in landscaping. Everything had to be the F-bomb in it. So, instead of going hey guys, can you go around to the front? They'd be hey can you fuck off to the front? It was great. It was one of those, right? Oh my God.

But at the end of the job, he'd get you a pop and a wheel, right? No. No, he would not. No, he was a gigantic a-hole. I got stories for the book. So GMs are going to be fired. Jason Botterill's got to be one for me. Botterill's top of the list.

I think Dale Tallon is low-key on his way out in Florida. Generally speaking, when you sign a $10 million goalie who sucks and then ownership tells you that you need to cut $10 million from the budget, you're probably going to get shicked hands. Do GMs who've already been fired count? No. We're asking like who. Because like Ray Shiro was already fired.

Who right now is going to be fired between now and September? Now and September. Botterill for sure. Botterill. Talon's a good candidate. Talon I think is going to. I think Talon's gone. I think it's time for Stan Bowman to go in Chicago.

That's my opinion. Ooh. You might be right there. Yep. And listen. I know he's done great things. But Doug Wilson has left the Sharks in a really rough spot I don't think it's his year

But I think you better watch Because they're not getting better Unless they get a great goalie And even then, what are they? That's an interesting one I think they probably If you're Doug Wilson Your whole job is to pitch management on this being a one-off

This will not happen again We're going to go right back to contending next year We had all these injuries, we're going to be fine If the Sharks are right around the same spot Around Christmas Off with your head He won't be gone by September, but he might be gone by Christmas Next year, and it's not because he's not a very good

General manager, but the last couple years Kind of like with Stan Bowman, you're great Until you're not, he's made some decisions I still stand behind I know Eric Carlson puts up a ton of points That was the wrong deal The Vlasic deal is rough on them now Although, at the time, he didn't.

Not trading Thornton? Yeah. Yeah. Like, come on. Yeah. Well, and I wonder how much Thornton held that up. I don't know. But he's like, I only go to legitimate contenders.

Well, what is that? What's a legitimate contender? Tampa was a legitimate contender last year. They got swept. I would be like, put me on a playoffs. Yeah. Simmons didn't. Give me a chance to fight.

He obviously didn't have any options. Yeah. So he's like, well, Buffalo's closest. I'll try them. Yeah. And I think he's a business owner in this area. I think he owns property and stuff like that. That's what I guess.

I know he owns a lot where we grew up. Great. Okay. You know, that's the thing. I think there's probably three or four guys that you can definitively say, because a lot of them have been replaced, and a lot of them are teams that are like, we're rebuilding. Now, if you had a rational mind, Bergevin in Montreal would be on your list. Yeah, that's a good one.

You cannot put him on your list. Jeff Molson is not going to fire Marc Bergevin. It doesn't matter. It's not going to happen, especially not this year. Maybe, I mean, they've missed the playoffs now. And assuming they do, you know, assuming that, again, that they don't win four games against Detroit between now and April, they are, the Montreal Canadiens need Carey Price to play at a 920 save percentage

to make the playoffs. And that's a lot, that's a tough ask in today's NHL. I just don't think that they are a good enough team and they've missed the playoffs now four out of five years. I mean, in Toronto, I could tell you he'd be gone. Oh, yeah. But it's different. It's different because you've got a singular guy.

Dude, yesterday, Michel Therrien was trending because Habs fans were calling for him to come back. No. No, don't, no. Don't make it worse. And this is how it goes. There's two names in the conversation if Claude Julien gets fired, which there's no reason to fire him. But there's two names in the conversation. Michel Therrien, Gerard Gallant.

That's it. No, okay. French name, French name. If I'm a Canadiens fan, what I want is a guy who's competent and is willing to learn French. Mike Babcock. No, no Guys, we're talking about GMs Oh, GMs

Sorry, I was talking about coaching And Julian will be back next year, by the way Perseverance is such a weird GM They're loaded on prospects They're loaded on picks He consistently wins trades He's got tons of cap room He cannot give away his money

He's never weaponized it, though, the way he should have And he could have given away his money He just refused to do it So this is the thing I think each year he thinks that they're ready And then he goes well I better keep that cap We might need to add it to the deadline And then unfortunately it doesn't work out for him

That Montreal system is the best in the sport Is it not? It's close, it's right in there man I really like it If these guys can turn the corner and be NHL players soon enough Then Marc Bergevin has saved his own rear end And he deserves to be commended for that For building a system, it's not easy

He might get the martyr ring The Dale Talon ring I don't think so The guy who built the team but gets fired ring He's got a contract till 2022 Or the, what was it, the Who won in Who built Anaheim for Berkey to win it

It was, he ended up in Ottawa And he has sadly passed away now Oh, oh my god, Brian Murray? Brian Murray Brian Murray built the Ducks And Brian Burke finished off the Ducks Bunch of Brians though They made it happen

Next question Yeah Comes from Chris Pronger was good Yeah V. Corey Haslam He's just wondering If the Leafs make the playoffs

Is there any way Sheldon Keefe Is up for Jack Adams No You don't see it They gotta be Staggeringly good The only way a Toronto coach wins the Jack Adams Is if they surprise

I think the way it's voted on Especially Reporters will go out of their way to not vote for Toronto things I mean you could see Not that Toronto's deserved a lot of things in terms of individual awards in the last 45 years. But you can see based on the votes, even when Curtis Joseph was at his best,

Freddie Anderson when he was at his best, not even a Vesna nod, and deserved a couple years of that, at least when it comes to Cujo. Not even like a nomination. I think that there are people that will go out of their way to not vote Toronto, and I understand why. It's because everybody's based out of here,

so you don't want to seem biased. I don't see a Jack Adams in the future for any Toronto coach. The only time I thought maybe it could happen was Mike Babcock when the team squeaked in in that first kind of run that they made against Washington. And he deserved consideration that year. He did. He was great. I would, man, if they squeak in, John Tortorella really needs to be front and center in that conversation.

Someone at Sportsnet yesterday was like, why not Todd Reardon? A team that was supposed to be good and is good with Washington. Like, what's wrong with that? I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I just think that's not who it goes to. Not usually. You know who I would give it to is Bruce Cassidy. He took a Stanley Cup winning team, or sorry, Stanley Cup losing team,

and allowed them not to be hungover or complacent. They had a short summer. They came back, and from get-go, from day one, Boston has, and people are like, well, they went through a couple slumps. They have 96 points. What kind of slump is that? They went through a couple 10-game stretches where they went 500. Yeah, oh, God.

Can you imagine? The Boston Bruce Cassidy to me And John Tortorella Are the two nominees That are shoe-ins At least in the Eastern Conference

In the West I mean I can see Colorado Jared Bednar With the injuries He's had Nathan McKinnon man I'm telling you

Yeah but like It could be a Bednar McKinnon kind of year And how do you not Look at Dave Tippett With Edmonton That's a good one Shit

I like that Like that is That might be it Yeah I'm just leaning So much towards the Bruce Cassidy thing because I think there's not enough

recognition for just oh the great team is doing a great thing I agree we always want to reward oh the underdog they did this thing but what about the

team that just beat up on everybody because they're the best you gotta reward that sometimes who won it last year was it John Cooper like just because

the lighting were so undeniable I don't know who won it I think it was well and that's great he should have they were that good yes

and then the playoffs were you you could if Winnipeg makes it I guess you could throw a couple votes It's at Paul Maurice as well. A lot of Winnipeg fans just had aneurysms.

Barry Trotz. Barry Trotz. Because they surprised. Hey, they came out on no more team. Oh, last year. Yeah, he did deserve it. Oh, I thought you were saying this year. I'm like, oh, they've been trashed.

I didn't mind that. I don't mind that at all. No, that was shocking. I picked them to finish 10th last. Yeah, me too. Me too. No, for sure. Yeah, no, for sure.

Next question there, bud. Next question, bud, comes from David Air Season. wants to know, are you growing a mustache for Austin slash the playoffs? No. You did it last year, Steve. No, I didn't. I grew a beard. For the playoffs, you grew a beard. It was bad. Are you doing it again? Yeah.

Every year. Every year I grow the beard. Adam, will you be joining, Steve? Well, even if I tried, you wouldn't be able to tell because the Leafs have never been in the playoffs long enough. I want to know how long I could get it. I couldn't. It's not as full of years. You know what? I'll do it. You guys are growing playoff beards?

I'll grow a playoff beard, sure. Do you grow playoff mustaches? Can we do that? No. Why not? I've already done November, and I think that's my last time. Dude, it's disgusting. I hate...

I don't like getting up and looking in the mirror and hating it for a month. I don't like it enough as it is. Okay, I'm going to grow... We'll do beards. You're not going to do a mustache either. No, I'll do a beard. I'll save the... I haven't done Movember since, like, 2013 when I had the wicked handlebar.

Remember that? Yes, I do. It was delicious. So I might do that again Okay In November Screw you for even having Like

I know Follicles there or whatever I know it's I'm lucky I don't know what it is I got lucky Bear baby bum Alright so we'll do

Playoff beards And we'll get all the listeners Everybody listening It's nice that yours Is all prepped and ready Mine's getting ready Now are you gonna let it grow I can

If that's what we're doing For the playoffs That's what we're doing Yeah yeah Okay Day one of the playoffs Now are you gonna shave Or are you gonna let it

Are you just gonna keep it I'll probably just Let it go Okay I kinda like that you got A bit of a head start because I want to see how crazy yours can get. Like, it might just be a week, you guys.

I want to see how crazy you can get in a week, Jesse. They might lose in the first round. No, whatever, Tampa and Boston, watch out. The we're okay some nights Leafs are coming for you. Let's not hype up these beards and then they last for six days. I think I'd be afraid of you if you were clean shaven. My dad grew a goatee for the better part of a year and then he shaved it off and I was like, don't come near me.

I'd look like a child. Yeah. Because you minus your age like 10 years when you have a beard. When was the last time you didn't have facial hair? Because I have known you when you didn't have it. You shave the mustache sometimes. Yeah, I shave the mustache just to keep it lower than the rest of the beard because it looks ridiculous and the mustache is real thick.

But I don't know. It's been like two years. Sometimes I cut it all the way down and then it's just stubble everywhere. But yeah, it's been a while. All right. All right. Well, that's what we'll do. That's what we'll do.

Play off beards, guys. I look younger when I grow a beard This one's from Look at that mango Hey look at it If you put one lasagna On another lasagna Is it two lasagnas or one big lasagna

One big lasagna I think it's one big lasagna You have to look at it like the Power Rangers It's a Megazord Yeah it's Megazord For sure Go go big lasagna By the way

I just want to thank that person for giving us the idea of putting a lasagna on another lasagna. I think we should do that. I don't know why more people are not putting lasagna on lasagna. La Manas? Not tonight, but I'm down. Stacking lasagna. Stacking. Final question.

From 5A1AMander. There's a real name. I think, no, they were spelling Salamander with a five and a one. All right. Which teams, not currently in the playoffs, will go on a run? I'm going to change this to, what do you guys think the final playoff picture is going to look like? Looking at it right now.

Besides the obvious. What do we got? Can I cheat off your screen? Yeah, yeah. I'll bring up the playoff here. The playoff race. The standings. That's the word I'm looking for.

Go, go, big lasagna. So in the East, we're going to pencil in the top three in the Metro and the Atlantic. So we'll pencil in Washington, Pittsburgh, Philly And Boston, Tampa, Toronto What do you guys think the wild card Looks like in the East I want it to be And I think it's going to be

Columbus And I think the Carolina Hurricanes Are going to get in It really could be anybody The East is just full of teams Dying to not make the playoffs Yeah Here let me go up to them

There are a lot of rebuilding teams in the East. The Flyers, by the way, everyone is sleeping on the Flyers. Everyone. I was crazy wrong about them. They're 8-2 in their last 10, and they're 2nd in the Metro right now. Right now we have a Philly-Pittsburgh first round. Yes. Pittsburgh just lost 6 in a row.

They won last night. They have 82 points. So they're probably going to be 3rd in the Metro. The Leafs have 78 points, 3rd in the Atlantic. Islanders have 78. Blue Jackets have 78. Carolina 75, Rangers 74, Panthers 73, and then beyond that, Montreal 71. You should

have beaten the Red Wings. But out of all the teams in the wildcard picture, Islanders, Blue Jackets, Hurricanes, Rangers, Florida. One of them is above 500 in their last 10, and it's the Rangers. Cis Jorkin is still out with injury. Oh, Kreider hurts them so much. I want to say the Rangers so bad? Because Columbus right now is in the second wildcard. They have 32

wins. Both the Hurricanes and Rangers have 35. And even the Panthers, who are, let me see, five points back of the Blue Jackets, have 33. They're five points back and they have more wins. I want to say the Rangers in the East, but right now I just don't think we're going to get any surprises. It'll probably be, I will say I think the Islanders are going to miss. They've been brutal. Yeah. Now, it's not gone well for me when I've bet against the Islanders, but on this one, I

think Carolina, there's such an undeniable spirit to that team, and Columbus is just dragging their own corpse. Right. Like, it's crazy. Well, and what might hold the Hurricanes back, on one hand, there's a shitload of points up for grabs. On the other hand, are either of their goalies back yet? Because on back-to-backs, you're really going to test that depth.

Like they have Nadelkovich And I don't even know who the other guy is Guys, Jim Littles made a statement Oh Jim Littles, fired CEO of the Senators This is breaking Now we know why He said, I was looking forward to helping the team and the city

And the Ottawa Senators I wish the employees, the players, and the coaches well They deserve our support The statement made today by the team contained some language That deserves some clarification On Valentine's Day, the owner and I had a personal disagreement Over an approach that I had been pursuing I am a strong-willed person, and the disagreement included me using some very strong language with him over the phone, including swearing, which he did not appreciate, and for which I later apologized.

In these events, to my knowledge, sorry, it was these events, to my knowledge, which led to my dismissal. Any other inference from the statement is wrong. Very interesting. So that was Valentine's Day, and this is two weeks later. Huh. Very interesting that Gary Bettman's like, it's not what you think. I mean, Eugene Melnick meddling in his team's affairs is for sure one of the things I thought. That's exactly what I think.

So let's get back to the playoff picture. I just thought you should hear that. Playoff picture is, I think we can pencil in St. Louis, Colorado, Dallas. I should probably look in the West. So you agree with Steve's picks in the East? No, my picks are Columbus, Carolina. Are those Steve's picks? Oh, yes, yes, sorry.

Yeah. Jesse, what are yours? In the East? In the wild card. I 100% agree that the Islanders are going to fall off. I love, Carolina just seems, the last couple years, they've seemed to just be able to rally their fan base and the guys there. So I don't want to bet against them. And I'll take the odds on Columbus.

So yeah, I agree with you, Adam, with Columbus and Carolina. Oh my God. Let's go to the West. Hey guys, the Eugene Melnick accounts are alive again. Remember the quote-unquote Eugene Melnick defender accounts? Oh no. So JackMax14140182. Wow.

I truly feel sorry for capital our capital the capital o on this one capital o Nur as well, so he capitalized our capitalized owner constantly let down by the people who he trusts It's hard to find good people who appreciate the opportunities. He gives bravo for taking such switch a swift action Mr.. M. Hashtag sends fans. Love you love that you get such high standards. Hashtag Kiev sends fan. Yeah sends go Oh, boy. Damn. This sounds like the sort of thing where we're wrapping up the podcast at the worst possible

time. I know, right? Ah! All right. In the West. Holy shit, the Pacific Division. Okay, so yeah, Dallas is comfortable. See, I think you can...

I think we'll... Well, the Central Division's cool, but the Pacific is like, I don't flippin' know. Some of those might even fall. Yeah. Edmonton's making it. Vegas is making it. Yeah, let's pencil in those two. So we got five spots in.

St. Louis, Colorado, Dallas, Vegas, Edmonton. So we've got three spots left. And then you've got Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Minnesota, Nashville, Arizona, all within three points of each other. Yep. That is unbelievable. So pick three teams. I'm a fan of Vancouver.

I like those young guys. I think they're going to sneak in. Especially if Markstrom comes back. They need Markstrom. That's very important. Goaltending, it's overrated as a narrative. They literally just need goaltending. Right now, Calgary is in a top three spot in their division

with a negative five goal differential. That's ridiculous. Yeah, they had a rough start, though. Look at Arizona. Outside of... Wow. Yo, Taylor Hall is burning money. Burning it.

Burning it. Hey, underrated? John Chayka for the GM conversation? Maybe getting axed? Oh, getting axed. Dude, you went all in and got worse immediately. Yeah. So Taylor Hall, in 62 games, has 50 points.

In how many games? 62. Nope. Dude, MVP. You're the MVP, and we paid you. 15 of those are goals. Taylor Hall has 15 goals on the season? Yeah.

What? He's got fewer goals than Zach Hyman in more games. Is Zach Hyman going to double the number of goals that Taylor Hall has this season? He just might. He just might. William Nylander will. That's a given Watch out Ovi

Oh man What is it I cannot keep up with the Preds They were one of the hottest teams in the NHL And I just found out they lost three straight It's hard to know what the Nashville Predators Are up to It's hard to keep up

But I'm going to say this So for the third Pacific Division team Because that's what we've got to pick And then we'll pick wild card teams next Third Pacific Division team to me Vancouver Canucks I think Vancouver's going to do it

and I'll tell you why tell us Adam tell me there's there is there's such a thirst and a hunger with the Canucks players

to win right now they want this so bad Pettersson's playing injured Bastard's out Markstrom's out they want but the stories around the Canucks

even though people are really mad at them in Vancouver are great they're once like imagine the Canucks if they make the playoffs

in a third spot in that division, that is a huge accomplishment given what they've gone through this season, the adversity they've faced. So I have to say, I think Vancouver can do it. There's something weird about the Calgary Flames. Now, they are my number one wildcard pick. I think they're

going to be in the wildcard, but the Calgary Flames have had a weird year, just like the Leafs had. You know, the Bill Peters stuff. The Bill Peters incident aside, him not being their coach is the best thing that happened in their season. We knew it needed to happen. We knew it couldn't happen

because Treleving had already gone out of his way to hire Bill Peters. But Bill Peters not being their coach is the best thing that could have happened in their season. But they still are a deeply, like the Leafs, deeply flawed team who are a little bit inconsistent and we can't figure out why. And just because I hope and pray that they do.

So Connor Hellebuck has a chance at the MVP. There you go. The Winnipeg Jets squeaking in at number eight. Sorry, Minnesota. Sorry, Nashville. See you later, Arizona. I say Vancouver, Nashville. In the wildcard

Now who is your Pacific Division Third team Actually I think That'll be Vancouver Calgary gets pushed Down to one of the I think we're all

We all agree Vancouver gets that Third slot And I'm gonna throw This hot take out there Edmonton makes The final four I think so

They're gonna beat The brakes off of Whoever they play In the first round They're better Guys The only thing I'm upset about

Is that we're not Gonna We may not see An Edmonton Calgary First round Edmonton Vancouver Is gonna be good But it's not

Edmonton Calgary Imagine this year we see a Philly-Pittsburgh and an Edmonton-Calgary. Yeah, that's unreal. That's better than pizza, right there. Okay, calm down. I would eat that over pizza any day. Not Panago pizza. No, I wouldn't do that.

Panago pizza. If you took those two rivalries and stacked them on top of each other, is it one rivalry? Good question. Right? You know, it's funny. Panago pizza, based out of Vancouver. Right? So what are they cheering for, do you think?

Where do you think the fourth man? I'm saying Arizona sneaks in. Wow. Vancouver, Calgary, Arizona, somehow. Putting my bets. Arizona. I think so. They've invested too much.

Phil Kessel is going to will that team to the playoffs. They've invested too much in this team for this year for them not to just at least sneak in losing the first round. Sportsnet is screaming for the standings to stay put right now 5 Canadian teams making it, hell yeah you know what you guys are going to hate

Phil Kessel's point totals from this year not great what does he have, 30? he has 14 goals and 22 assists in 67 games, that's 36 points not good I mean diminished roll

but we also knew this was going to be His career trajectory When he falls off It's going to be Sudden and steep This guy had 92 points Like what Two years ago

Yep Yeah He does one thing And he does it On a World level Yeah it doesn't work out And that's

Like I mean It was cute When he was in his 20s Yeah Now it's not cute anymore And you're gonna fall off hard And now you're just gonna be This overpaid guy

He's getting paid By three teams Could've won the Consmite three years ago Like Or something like that What a bizarre career. Listen, he was an awesome hockey player.

He's still obviously good enough to be in the NHL. Yeah, but... Also, is it fair to say, okay, if it's Kessel, if it's Hall, who leads the Coyotes in points? Maybe they just can't score. The way they play hockey, it's... Good players go there to die right now. Kind of.

Their goals against Is like Top three in the west And then their goal four Is bottom three in the west You're not going to win a lot of games that way And you have two star wingers who can't be arsed Defensively

The way they play hockey It's you don't score and you don't allow goals That's how they're playing They're trying to win one nothing games It's not a good fit Neither of those guys are a good fit for that team Maybe that's those moves were surprising

both of them when they were made and I wonder if Sheikha might know I better do it now. Well, and they were able to dump Galchenyuk in the Kessel deal

like, I don't think, like, I don't know. But Galch is on an expiring deal. Kessel's not. Rates. Rates.

That's tough. Listen, great place to live. It'd be a great place to play hockey. I just hope they win sometime. You know, like really win.

Like really become dominant. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, we're going to wrap it for today. That's it That's Bean the Show But we'll be back

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