The Steve Dangle Podcast - Stealarz | September 29, 2025
Episode Date: September 29, 2025On this episode of The Steve Dangle Podcast, 00:00 Come see us live at The Rec Room: https://sdpn.ticketspice.com/sdp-x-the-rec-room 04:00 The Leafs have a lifeless game on Saturday 13:00 Anthony St...olarz signs an extension 45:00 Calle Jarnkrok 52:00 Mason McTavish signs an extension 1:06:00 Cam Fowler signs an extension 1:12:30 Is Morgan Reilly a Hall of Fame? 1:20:00 Marc Andre Fleury play his last game in Pittsburgh 1:23:00 The Toronto Blue Jays win the American League East Join us at The Rec Room: https://sdpn.ticketspice.com/sdp-x-the-rec-room Join Drew & Stew Pick Em' ➡️ https://app.sparc.fun/point-spread/dspe Check out https://sdpn.ca/events to see The Steve Dangle Podcast live! Subscribe to the sdpn YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@sdpn?sub_confirmation=1Join - SDP VIP: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0a0z05HiddEn7k6OGnDprg/join Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/thestevedanglepodcast Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sdpvip/subscribe - Follow us on Twitter: @Steve_Dangle, @AdamWylde, & @JesseBlake Follow us on Instagram: @SteveDangle, @AdamWylde, & @Jesse.BlakeJoin us on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/MtTmw9rrz7 For general inquiries email: info@sdpn.ca Reach out to https://www.sdpn.ca/sales to connect with our sales team and discuss the opportunity to integrate your brand within our content! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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good nose rub that's right yeah they love a good strong you listen i love it is there is there a
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No, you've never rubbed your nose.
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Adam, it's OK.
I'm weird allergy kid.
Yeah, thank you.
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You know what?
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And he doesn't know.
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do you ever get tired of that no no it's the most like recognizable thing about me well that imagine
that in that skin of yours upset that people told him that he yells a lot i mean that's your thing
could be worse jesse it could be uh freaking um cam stewart from drew and stew first time i met
him dangle how you doing you're thicker than i thought oh my god cam is a fucking maniac
i love him thanks man it's great to meet you too you're thicker than i thought
all right what how did you respond thank you thanks man
cam is if you've never checked out druid stew it's one of the best football shows out there
it's just so good but cam is he isn't real we're all hallucinating him simultaneously he is he is
a movie character he's unbelievable he's so funny and very good like they're they have a great show
i love it anyway uh let's talk about i i have i want to start with something uh and then we'll
get in the actual stories this weekend because obviously there's a stoller's extension and
there's some other things we got to talk about whatever but i i want to start with this
saturday's game sucked if you were watching it it's a preseason game it sucked right
it was one of those like lifeless leaf losses too like we've seen that before where they're like
yeah we're not gonna play good tonight we're just simply not um and it's the worst when you know
you're watching that oh yeah and you're like i gotta stick it through to the end here it's like
eight minutes and you're like oh no it is a scrimmage but there was no heart and soul until
like the last five minutes it was so leafs uh it's very late you can't take anything from these
games in terms of like the competitive aspect or the final score or anything like that you have to
take something you have to take what's the point in playing you have to take the individual efforts
and how the lines are meshing and like how the power play looks because they're working out the
power play and those things but in terms of a final score and i'm not worried about that i'm
worried about the effort look against montreal if you're looking at individual effort jesse there
was none everybody had a zero out of ten uh-oh until the last five minutes so jesse you can
only look at individuals or it's best to look at individuals adam what individuals stood out to you
none of them they were all oh stop it one of them stood out to you but in a not good way
which one is that i don't know what you're hinting at just give it to me you know every season adam
picks a guy no that's not how that works every season adam picks a guy no and i think your guy's
Nick Robertson Adam oh he was he was bad that he was bad there yeah I was Steve I would never oh
that one for sure that was bad he's not my guy every time no Nick Robertson booster actually
but I feel like man Saturday he got it was everything so so the first couple of games
where he played everything that good about Nick Robertson was Sean through I think right
Saturday I felt like everything about why he didn't play in the playoff Sean through
hemmed in not not some of the some of the the plays were not great in terms of like just clean
simple passes and that's a bit of a clunky player at times yes and that drove me nuts against the
AHL Montreal Canadiens yes but Nick Robertson had a mediocre practice on Saturday oh there's a week
and a half of training camp that happened before that and there's like a week that's going to
after that yeah it's it's one half practice where he wasn't that great he's displayed a lot of good
stuff before that and those to me are just as important as the practice that happened on
saturday and he'll look great with the sharks i'm sure because it's happening this is important
because you go to the practices by practice you mean the exhibition game that's what happened
on saturday that was an exhibition game and in the morning they had training camp as well
uh that was there and that's also practice i think i think of those things as equivalent
just seeing how they're out there scrimmaging and then seeing the scrimmages against Montreal
the preseason game like those things in my mind Craig Berube is taking as much from those moments
as he is from the game there and the game is just I think like the purpose of it is to just get the
air into these guys lungs so they're used to going at certain speeds for 60 minutes and it's not so
much the technical aspect of like how are you excelling uh with the puck or in these drills
because that's what the rest of training camp is for so here's a question um are the next two games
practice plus because they're the last two pre-season games and it looks like they're
just straight up using the roster that they intend to use opening night i mean so this yeah
this is gonna be my point hang on because i didn't even get the chance to make the point
that i was trying oh okay which is i'm done with pre-season yes and pre-season is way too long and
that is why that is why i was kind of making that point is that it was a dud game they did play
lifeless uh nobody really had a great night and then our next game's not till thursday and this
is nick robertson's third preseason i know i know like he's what what are we doing why are we playing
so many preseason well because i think that's an audition for another team i don't think he's
gonna be here i really i think they're gonna trade him you're really being mad no i think
you're gonna trade him i i because i that's not his guy i think cali yarn croak is gonna
make this team i think he's more valuable to it overall i think uh it's looking like easton
cowan well but my point is and i'm just before we get into the least roster uh i'm glad they're
shortening preseason even more i hope it's four games or less in the future because not only do
i have to sit on that stupid saturday night game for a few days i gotta sit till next thursday on
it and matthews ain't playing there either right we know that he's only gonna play two
so we're gonna play now we got saturday next week and then we gotta wait till the following
friggin wednesday to get this like enough you know how that game didn't matter austin matthews
wasn't in it and he skated with the guys in the pre-game skate with the group that was gonna play
and they just took the game off yeah because he didn't because they're like he looks fine
jesse you probably missed this but kipper seemed a little miffed that uh he was not playing actually
yeah he was like i don't know why he chose not to play i was like oh okay because you know kipper's
in nhl right he knows because we don't want to hear another story in november about how he's
in germany getting evaluated for nuclear but it's also like surgery i don't know his nude school
right old school a little bit like no get in the freaking game it's saturday night it's toronto
it's montreal okay well matthews how about you play in the game you play 30 minutes and between
every shift you hack a dart and drink a beer all right let's go full i liked it i liked that
that was really interesting because i wonder if from his perspective there's like there's
obviously going to be a lot of insight from like playing yes you know so yeah does he know
something that like we don't in terms of the locker room looking at that or is that an old
school way of looking at because i don't think the modern guys would have a problem with it but
with the old school guys i think they would yeah i think they would and i think that's what's
interesting about it so i listen i i don't care personal so microcosm how seriously i don't either
but i i think you could have wrapped pre-season this week what are we doing yeah yeah i'm by the
way the reason i'm relying on on your takes is uh i missed the majority of the game while you
you save whatever you were doing i guarantee you is more entertaining i was looking for you could
have been at the hospital getting a lobotomy i was looking for close it was that bad i was looking
for a friend of a friend's lost dog in the dark for two hours that's why you weren't texting me
back about nick robertson because if you were that's right you would have been like yeah you
know what adam you're actually right on this one you know and i like nick i've been boosting nick
for a year and a half you know what's relieving but annoying you know you know what happened in
the end what dog just came home at one they always do just came home at one in the morning i had a
dog and and he ran away once and then i looked all over the neighborhood for him and i found him at
my back door and my other dog was panicking yeah because the one dog left and she knew
it wasn't good that he left right right he had no idea blissfully unaware that was charlie when
iggy got out and went to the pound and i picked him up from the pound and he was like why are
you taking me away from this glorious yeah look at all these cats look at these butts i can sniff
and these cats all these butts and cats and this nice man came and put me in a van
it was great it was great they're the dog catchers now are significantly less scary
than they were in 101 dalmatians i do think that they've they've changed their um they've
changed their brand yeah significantly they they've gone away from oversized butterfly nets
yeah exactly i feel really bad for oversized butterfly net manufacturers yes because their
business must be suffering well they pivoted to fishing right you got to put the net under there
so you got to pivot yep exactly q-tips it's for cleaning your keyboard uh anthony stallers
four years 3.75 million per this is four years 15 million for those one who do the whole math thing
um great deal for the team and the goalie uh currently six nhl teams are paying at least
one goaltender more than the leafs tandems combined number overall the combined cap ranks
19th league wide for the leafs and and that is from anthony petrelli maple leaf hot stove who's
awesome and it's only going to get better because those two stolars and wall are locked up for the
next two seasons after this yeah seven point it's either four two or two four yeah i can't remember
it it's absurd jay cottinger makes more than the both leaf goalies now he's jay cottinger
uh and he put he can play 60 games on his own and it seems like the leafs tandem is going to
struggle to hit 60 games this year too um but you know this is two of them there yeah there's
the interesting thing about anthony stallers is the way they were framing it on saturday
uh during the broadcast was hilarious it's like well you know you sign them the extension i can't
remember if it was signed or not i don't think it was i think it was sunday and they're like
you signed an extension and you don't worry too much about that extra year because they were
talking about four or five years at that point because there's not a lot of hard miles on that
body i'm like wait a second this guy's had his knees reconstructed but the i think the point
they were trying to make is in-game action he hasn't been beat up the same way a guy who'd you
know like a connor hellebuck would who's roughly the same age yeah i mean there's different kinds
of hard miles i think yeah but i think i think that's a it's a different point but it's an
interesting yeah but it's like this car has less miles but it's been in you know five collisions
you might you might look at the miles a little differently yeah plus like the number's so little
that if he is if it is hard miles on the body you need to go get a starting goaltender he's being
paid like a really good backup yeah like so there's really no concern with this deal and we've
been teased for weeks with a 4.75 and for it to come in a million under it's unbelievable what we
i don't think it was that long ago we were like what if it's over five yeah what if he gets like
Adam asked that question and for it to come in under four is nuts like uh yeah there's risk to
the term like if his knee goes again you know is he gonna have a third 925 season in a row like i
don't know but uh term with a rising cap is a luxury luxury and the there's give and take here
you know Tavares is likely to decline because time is undefeated here's some term and you give us
it's less than four and a half million dollars ridiculous Tanev the same like I look at that
contract totally differently uh stolars and the great thing about all three guys they're good
they're good yeah they're good right now that's what i care about it's a uh it's a really um
it's i can't believe that we're living in an era because we weren't in this one for so long
where the leafs are getting good contracts on the books and they did always find like value
contracts like i will always michael bunting what a great signing that was great but they were going
to get in like one or two a year yes but they never got it from their stars and the big question
was always how come the bigger players none of them none of them want to take quote-unquote take
less anthony staller's case um i kind of see where the leafs are coming from here because he probably
wanted like four and a half over three years or something like that if you look at it um you add
that fourth year brings the AAV down but this is a guy that you know something goes wrong in the
first couple months of the season and you're not going to get that money ever again you might as
well just take it well what I was saying in the video like I was I was trying to lay it out like
okay let's say he completely lays an egg this season well now you're going into free agency
and someone's going to pay you they're going to pay you that they're definitely not giving you
that term they might give you that cap hit okay well let's say the next contract doesn't go so
great and now you're now you're struggling again and how do you make up that 15 million what are
the odds that you're able to make up that 15 million there's three guys i think about when
you when you mention something like that and you guys will know one of them intimately the first
one's cody franson the leafs offered him a five-year 25 million dollar extension 10 years
ago can you imagine what five million bucks man and a defenseman would be 10 years ago he fumbled
the bag he turned it down and then i went i think he got injured went to buffalo never made that
kind of money went to europe for a little bit too came back uh another one is uh former leaf
john clingberg who had a 50 million dollar deal on the table oh it was bigger or was it bigger
than that i thought it was seven times seven i thought with the stars no i think it was eight
times eight whoa turned that down obviously i'm struggling to remember i think that was from
merrick when he was still on 32 thoughts and the other one i think about was rumored but i don't
fully know that it was offered uh was taylor hall and taylor hall was supposed to get eight
times eight or something like that marty baron back in the day supposedly wanted like six
ended up signing for one wow like i don't know it's and it's like as somebody who's never been
offered uh 15 million dollars over the next four years um it's a i i don't know how you say no to
that klingberg was eight times seven eight times seven oh okay well damn 56 yeah and i am gonna go
out on a limb and say he has not made that up that's mean he's well i i don't know if he's
made half that up yeah he's made a great living playing hockey but 56 mil he won't make that for
the rest of his career yeah and i look at the anthony stoller situation and i'm not reporting
anything but i suspect the negotiation went something like if they want if you wanted 4.5
million dollars had to be on a three-year deal and if he gets that extra year you bring it
significantly down but over the course of the contract four times 3.75 is more than three times
4.5 yes making about 2.5 million dollars more over the length of the contract so he probably
looked at that and said i'll just take the extra money in the extra year and that's what he makes
this year he makes 2.5 this year yeah because he's not gonna if he if he waits and he does the
three-year deal for the 4.5 he doesn't think at the age 34 when that deal expires that he's got a
four million dollar deal to make up that difference that he's leaving on the table there
so this made a whole bunch of sense when it came down the negotiation side of it and this is his
last chance yeah so and what i mean by that so he was a free agent a couple summers ago
and the leafs got him for 2.5 times two uh he's gonna turn 32 in january i think
and he signed a four-year deal this is your last big cash-in like unless it's there when you're
36 turning 37 you can't bet on it being there i mean it's it's unlikely frankly and you're able
to secure 15 million bucks that's probably more than he's made in his career so far
probably yeah probably like the leaf steel was five mil well and he had to be a suitcase right
he had to he had to you know bop around and you know philadelphia anaheim uh florida edmonton
succession edmonton edmonton had stallers yeah he was highly touted at one point he's your second
round pick he was traded straight up for cam talbot like earlier cam talbot oh my god and uh
it took them a while um uh stolars has a 16 team no trade clause that kicks in
uh the i guess applies to year one of the extension goes to 10 team in years two and
three and then a five team in year four okay cool just thought i'd let you know i mean just
getting particular you don't get a podcast we got time so well and think about it um
why would they trade them well because it's not going well if it's not going well
who wants or not going well yeah yeah exactly or uh act you i'm off that's making me i was
ranting about that to my wife who pretended to listen it was very kind of her that's that's
three syllables and oh yeah that's the secret to a good marriage is is feigning interest in
your partner's things that you're not particularly interested in but you love them right she i am
she will i will point out to myself that she's not interested in this before she does but you
still do it most of the time but i still do it now and at the end i go thank you for listening
so thank you for your attention to this matter you want the broadcast to switch back
or switch to your you say actuma it's not actiyamov it's aggressively wrong i'm sure both
of them are wrong actiyamov is aggressively wrong yeah we you played the correct one where you got
the russian the the way to say it yeah the most russian way possible but is is it not fair to say
like he's englishized it so this is the way he wants english to say it oh why stop there let's
just spell it every time we want to say it let's just say every letter it's either it matters or
it doesn't listen if that's the way he wants it said then say it that way but i think we've come
to the conclusion it doesn't matter act him off i'm dying on that hill here lies steve three
syllables you're not even saying it right yourself okay whatever you say
actually i think it is it is no it is a jam of there's a little thing uh with
lorenz lorenz it's lorenz enough so it's actually it's both because mark masters they had a thing
on they have a thing on tsn about how to say the name it's actually lorenz head
masters is on and they're talking about the the name so he mark masters
so what did he do steve he asked the fucking he asked the fucking guy so on saturday morning
uh masters went up to steven lorenz and he asked the fucking guy and he got him to record into the
phone did he hold a knife to him what he wanted him to pronounce your name yeah toronto media
giant butcher knife and he said that when you go to where's he from nova scotia steven lorenz
waterloo how dare you where's where the name originates from oh i don't know where his name
originates from when you go to that town it's lawrence but he said say lorenz outside of there
everybody says lorenz that's fine but if like his i forget if it's mom or dad so i should
had all the info before i start talking but like when you're talking to his family and where
they're from it's lawrence but for him in the public and everybody it's lorenz ah well it's
lorenz to me and i i listen to the report and jonas siegel jonas another one of these what
steve jonas siegel go he calls him lawrence in it i'm like damn it jonas of course talking about
this is toronto media being difficult names are a trip i know someone whose last name is cicerello
and i'm like oh that's and they're like yeah it's supposed to be cicerelli but they arrived on the
boat and they some guy was just like meh just some other italian just read it glenn has a bunch
of different spellings i am letters don't matter uh they actually don't when you go back and you
read english from 100 years ago people like what's happening to our language uh like 100 150 years
ago the people nobody spelled anything right it's fucking hilarious i'm like you guys are you guys
are so full of shit the group of the group of people that says that i'm like you you shut up
nobody has spelled anything right ever you'll live now let's talk about uh the fact that steven
lawrence or lawrence born on april 13th 1996 i was born april 13 1988 so i just want to that's
great man birthday twins uh i want to talk about him and i want to talk about a list of the names
okay i'm just going to throw a list of names at you simo benoit hooray bobby mcmahon joseph wall
matthew nice john tavaris william nylander anthony stallers what are we doing with these names
all of these names have negotiated contracts either as free agents under or extensions under
bradshaw living and thank you for making that longer so i could take off my sweater and the
and all of them are great deals benoit solid deal they got him for nothing they signed him to
nothing and he's still making nothing and he's quite valuable uh bobby mcmahon came out of
nowhere they were going to wave him then he scored a hat trick and then he was really good
signed him to what is it 1.35 like nothing yeah i think it was times two i kept telling myself it
was three uh joseph wall signed that extension last year i was like wait a second shouldn't
hear in that boy was i wrong 3.66 that's amazing william neilander 11 and a half in retrospect
looks incredible if he repeats what he did last season and was heading into free agency this
summer what's he getting 14 he's getting at least what marner got yeah like with inflation 100 oh
he's getting more than what marner got marner took a marner took a haircut to go to vegas yeah
marner did not max his value uh is he getting more than what rantanen got uh yeah because
rantanen also didn't take the max that he could have gotten if rantanen goes to open market and
goes i want to make the biggest amount of money then he's making 14 14 and a half to the blue
jackets 15 mil yeah it could have been um and there's one notable miss with brad uh as in terms
of contract extensions that he didn't do good and i have a feeling i know why david conf ah yes uh
well it was his first order of business it was his first week and i think shanee was a big fan
uh because otherwise because even to all of us observers at the time were like what what it wasn't
a great start it wasn't oh but i think i i want to just highlight the fact that this front office
operates so much differently than how it did three or four years ago in terms of how it retains
players and the expectations of salaries and things like that they are really going to the
wall for the team to keep that number down can i ask adam while the question please is brad
living good or is kyle dubas just bad i don't think i i think you can't do you can't say and
this is what's so frustrating you can't say anything about dubas with the least without
mentioning shanahan you can say tons about dubas in pittsburgh because shanahan's not there
but also the ownership group changed and things are got complicated there's always outside factors
at a certain point somebody's gonna have to take the thing i think we can all probably agree that
the role players and star players that have signed in this group when this part of Leafs history
is a far different far cry from what it used to be and you know respectfully Matthews was worth
every dollar uh I think Marner was I think he lived up to his contract I don't think he didn't
live up to his contract I think in the playoffs he didn't play to the to the area we needed him
to play william kneelander always outperformed his contract in the regular season signed this
one then was the second leading scorer in total goals last year and then was a monster in the
playoffs and always is i gotta go back it's not about marner not holding up his end of the bargain
uh bargain it's his peers from when he signed signing for significantly less yes and that is
ranting in is that that's on the leafs who offered him the deal the leafs and that's where the
differences i i do think there's a little bit of there's the the winds have changed on that one and
listen star player like matthews you're gonna be like yeah what do you want to make austin
like that that that is a an easy one that guy scored 69 goals once he scored 60 another season
hey that's the 15th best player in the nhl you're talking about according to the nhl network yes
he scored 60 goals in in two nobody didn't do it last five minutes ago like what are you doing
yeah um what 33 goals is a significantly down year for me in how many games he scored at a 94
point pace but let's talk about i just i do want to say that i think that's a significant change
and it's worth looking at because it has taken a couple years for people to adjust to the post
dubas and now post shanee era and frankly uh i understand that because they were here for like
both of them for like 10 years forever so now that we're out of it it is sort of interesting
to see them getting good value contracts for players i mean using their leverage the least
feel downright normal you know what i mean like you had to put a caveat on everything they didn't
conduct business the way most teams do and and like look at how many depth guys they lost or
like even middle of the lineup guys they lost because they would be smart enough to scout them
and sign them and then they performed well just like we all thought they would and it wouldn't
be enough and guess what it's payday and now you got to do it again because it's it's like they
opened up all these micro windows like this is the bunting micro window and you blew it okay
here's the hyman window you blew it connor brown like at the at the contract that the leafs pitched
out the door i think he was making 2.1 yeah it was years ago but oof you couldn't afford that
i got one for you what well no but but here's the thing steve like so uh
20 goal season bobby mcmahon what's he make 1.35 right 20 goal season i make 3.2 who am i
20 goal season 3.2 not on the leafs obviously not anymore 20 goal season 3.2
got a 3.2 million dollar contract out of it for four years and played with three teams over the
course of that four years now an oiler it's not mccabe it's now barry capitan oh oh man he used
to make 3.2 2019 him and andreas johnson signed those two contracts and it's like i even look at
those and i go those needed to be smaller well and there is no excuse for those not to be smaller
with Kapanen and Janssen the the praise for those deals was yeah but there's bonuses in them and
then they can just pay those bonuses and then trade them oh so the genius behind those deals
is you just fire a money cannon and all their problems and it's not our our money so I don't
give a damn but at some point that must have worn thin on ownership like oh okay so you've built in
all these contingencies for if we need to get rid of these deals what if they were just good deals
right what if they were just great good deals for good players and we kept them
yep how about that how'd all those picks work out all that stuff that you got for yanson and
you know yep i'm looking i'm looking draft picks are magic beans and they take forever even if you
it yep i mean the andreas johnson was making 3.4 million now i know he got injured but like
he was a good player he was a good player but he wasn't a 3.4 million dollar player and he was an
rfa mason mctavish just got 7 million bucks and andreas johnson in 2019 was getting three and 3.4
when the salary cap was 72 million bucks i think i think everyone know we have to go back and
actually autopsy this because this is there are some i just i'm blown away when you go back and
you look in retrospect people have their strengths and dubas i think is good at taking a team on the
downturn and turning their assets into picks yes he did he did a good job of that with the leafs
he's doing a good job with with the penguins um man he was a horrible negotiator and at the time
i was like maybe maybe not maybe not and enough time has passed holy shit he was terrible and he
hasn't done a much better job in pittsburgh uh true living so far is doing a pretty good job here
with with rfas ufas all of them jesse what do you think the reaction in the leafs room today will be
for anthony stallers walking in because i know he was he was off yesterday i saw the ryan leslie
post which was really cool on the leaf social media what do you think it'll be i had high fives
all around high five like what a great deal it's such it's such a new era in leafstown you know
with the big change in ownership and the president down like all those things you're talking about
dubious i think you're very right to bring in shanny it's both of them you know it's who knows
who's the negotiator in those deals but it's a turning of the page where guys want to stick
around and stallers is built for the market he always praises toronto nothing phases him he's
he's the same way like willie where it's this guy can play here under the pressure he seems to
really enjoy it yeah and he thrives in this opportunity i think for him to get these
opportunities so late in his career i like that from players because they appreciate more what a
truly great chance it is you know when you get things when you're young you might not understand
the opportunity you have when you come into the league and all of a sudden you're ushered into
a starting role or you're in the lineup every night and those sorts of things to have to wait
to 31 to try to be like hey you're our starter heading into the season the backup's not here
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earn this job you're our number one starter in toronto at this age he has an appreciation for
what a privilege that is because it took him so long to get there so i think he's got a great
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him to be a hundred percent still don't know what's going on there but right now you have
two goalies in net who i think look around every day and go holy shit and that stoller isn't reimer
who we haven't talked about reimer like we're all like god that's so weird and he's like i know
yes it is indeed what is going on here it is so gosh darn weird he would say it happened on friday
we haven't done one of these shows in our studio no since reimer signed the pto and i think they're
setting it up so that he's going to be signed at least to an ahl deal like at minimum he's with
the marlies today he's not going to go to muskoka with them yeah so i think like that's the bare
minimum that we get through the next week because i don't i don't i assume his fitness is up to
snuff like he's they know what they're getting in him that he can hang in the nhl if they need to
and i think like the high ceiling is he's the backup goalie on day one i could see he'll be
having that job for a little bit and then maybe they bring up reimer but reimer like he like you
said he's like a what the fuck happened how am i back here kind of moment i don't think he's ever
said those words no he's no first of all yeah he's never sworn his life but yeah there's another guy
who's like wow i'm back in in ford performance in scotia bank arena i wonder like if there's a
point necessarily signing him to an nhl deal until you need a start um yeah i'm just gonna say can
you can you run out dennis hildeby or does he he's got to pass through waivers
no he'll be he doesn't clear no no so you do you want to start reimer guys at the ahl level
i think you sign him to the ahl deal like i don't think you you waste a contract slot right now like
that's where i'd start reimer get him into some games and everything i think hildeby is very good
to be a backup in case because the stars will have all the games and then he'll raise your
break glass in case of emergency right only the leafs know the correct answer there yeah because
we we have no idea what's going on with with uh stallers but uh sorry wool yeah um what i uh what
i've said in other places in other videos reimer i mean yeah he's 37 man three days younger than i
am um but he was the only goalie on buffalo last year with a winning record he was the only goalie
in buffalo last year with the save percentage above 900 it makes sense why they would get rid
of him yeah you could argue he was a sleeper agent because he might have screwed up their
draft pick because he was like kind of good for them down the stretch like is he what he was
in toronto man you know what i uh discovered over the last few days there's a sect uh there's a
section of leaf fans that always thought he sucked well there was a section of the most of the media
always thought he sucked yeah and i i guess i forgot about that the only guy in the media i
heard stand up from was don cherry everybody else was like this guy sucks and jonathan bernier is
going to be better and blah blah and they were wrong he had like a 920 and this crazy winning
record and they're like and and awful up front awful on the back end you know what we need to do
they get rid of upgrade goaltending upgrade the only thing that got us to the playoffs at all and
it makes sense that the the gm at that point is the guy that cannot stop speaking to the media
which is dave notice i think he was probably probably feeding that through i think that was
the vision of front office and that is why you heard people saying they don't like grimer they
don't like grimer he's not good he's not good he's not good and i can there were i mean you
could hear it from like randy carlisle there was that clip where randy's like just okay and and
Reimer was like oh is that what he said well I thought it was good yeah I I'm reminded why I
liked him so much 10 years ago when when he was a leaf because it wasn't just that he was performing
well it's that I had to like I felt like I had to rally against those voices and every 40 save
performance he put up in front of a dog ass team i was like see see see um anyway but like that's
so far in the past you were the one who brought up that he's never worn this leaf logo he's never
wow that's like that's not my mind he's never worn this leaf logo he was traded in february
2016 the leafs didn't win the draft lottery for matthews until april 2016 he was drafted by john
ferguson jr when he was drafted was less than a month after smoking and restaurants became
illegal in ontario wow it didn't become illegal until the end of may 2006 that's funny and he
was drafted uh toward the end of june 2006 like there's so many you could look up like what the
hit songs were what what was big in theater he was drafted in the last days of adam and i being
in high school yeah like it's it's been a long journey yeah um and the fact that he's still
he was one of only nine players from the 2006 draft class to play nhl games last year
wow crazy crazy like there were over 200 players selected and he's one of nine good for him over
500 games played like listen there's there's a reason i took his stuff down and and i stick to
it um you know you gotta have well he's got his beliefs i got mine um but in terms of stopping
pucks it's something he can still do oh yeah well that'd be interesting i'm sure he'll get a good
pop if he plays oh yeah yeah even if he's the backup goalie and they do like hey here's the
on the day one here's our full roster and everybody comes out like biggest pop his first
win at home
and the glove up to the sky like people
are going to mark out like crazy oh yeah
it's going to be like a like edge
returning in the Royal Rumble
it's just it's
it's surreal did you know
in the 1213 season
he finished 23rd in heart trophy
voting yes he got one fifth
place vote yes amazing one
fifth place vote and it was Jesse Spector
and by the way I didn't know he deserved
it because man there's no way that
team would be at the not mark specter to be clear yeah other specter yeah i never thought that was
incredible yeah i mean his he argued it too it was it was most valuable to his team he was the
most valuable leaf they're a lottery team without him yeah they're a lottery team without him maybe
they could have got nathan mckinnon the the team in front of him clouded people's judgment on him
because the team was hot garbage but he propped it up so people always thought he was kind of bad
because the entire team was bad but he was competent back there to be fair to like it had
been a long time since toronto had watched a good goalie and it'd been a long long time since
toronto had watched a good team and so when the goals go in the camera goes to the goalie and so
your your mind is instantly like hey what the hell did he do whatever and you know for for people
back then like the online the bevy of online information we have now was just not available
there was a few sites like extra skater and that sort of thing that could tell you that but none
of that was taken seriously and i think you know when you go back and you watch that leafs team
from 2012 2013 or the seasons before when he became optimist rhyme like those teams you know
i i was giving nick robertson a hard time about saturday's performance and it wasn't good but the
entire team would regularly play like that this was a team that could never break out this is a
team that it was hey you're up five to one it'll be five five by the end of the third i guarantee
like they were they were really bad poorly constructed no vision and the ownership group
which was the teacher's pension plan didn't give a shit and and i know that from people inside the
organization who told me they didn't give a shit um it's it's a it's a as much as we have complained
about the lease leafs in recent years and their lack of playoff performance when we started this
show we were just talking about the lack of playoffs in like period there were no but we
didn't expect that it was going to take 10 years to get a couple of second rounds out of them but
that's what that's what happened you know it was like six or seven months after we started the show
that we got to talk about our first leaf game hey because because it was may 2013 no no no the the
lockout had already happened lockout had already happened we no no i'm saying we started may 2013
they had already been a limit oh yeah i know that third round and that yeah it's crazy it is crazy
it's crazy times josh chloe uh did an article in the athletic about this and callie you know people
i was excited when he came back last year and he wasn't great but um what happened apparently was
that he was in real like serious pain and when he was after the season was over he and his family
went to greece to just go on a vacation and the pain was so bad that even going for a jog was
going to be a problem and then somewhere through july the pain sort of disappeared and the hernia
that he had he had a sports hernia this was last summer this is like this oh this like a couple of
months ago okay uh and it's the the the pain and that sort of thing didn't really dissipate until
july of this year and so he was playing in serious pain through the first two rounds last year and
people were giving him a lot of shit i get that uh but i think based on what we've seen in this
preseason we talk about individual performances jesse of the three guys conf roberts and yarn
croak on the bubble he sure seems like the guy that's going to stay yes because if cowan's going
to make the team which it looks like he might then yard croaks forward number 13 so they're
kind of telegraphing what they're going to do with uh their lineup and i had it up and now it's gone
let's see if jesse who has been to the camp can guess it all the way through fully while you while
you're pulling it no no just read it yeah sorry yeah okay so luke fox uh maple leaf's opening
night lineup taking shape best bet uh nize matthews domey mcmahon tavaris kneelander
dakota joshua nick waugh matthias macelli lawrence uh lawton cowan and then he i'm gonna have to add
the extras for him because he doesn't add them i think the extras are yarn croak robertson my
guess is cowan unless he's spectacular get sent down eventually and yarn croak becomes the regular
there um on d mccabe tanev carlo riley or riley carlo oel benoit if cleared for contact my guess
is if he's not ready for opening night it's philip myers he's by far the most likely to get claimed
in my opinion um so there's your max roster now you have your goalies stolars and that's where
it gets a little probably he'll be for the first little bit until rymer plays a game or two but
um uh the leafs just sent a bunch of players to the marlies like an hour ago too yeah so
including our guy barbellini oh yeah but um you know i think i think it'll be i think it'll be
kind of cool to see how this team sort of shakes out and then are you losing conf and robertson
on waivers or are you making trades this week because we at least might get some trades you
don't no you just keep robertson as an extra is there a is there a is there not a limit in terms
of how many players you can carry yeah yeah so you have three extras and my extras are yarn croak
robertson myers what about the front he gets waived okay unfortunately and you might you might
lose him uh camp i just i don't think anyone's taking that no maybe and if they do like
sayonara sorry two years left on it too yeah like that that's gonna clear even front makes a mill
jesse what do you think david or david com for nick robertson might be worth in a trade like
what can we reasonably expect how much you just want to draft pick back and and the cap space
right nick robertson you're not i don't think you should trade him i don't think that's a smart move
because you don't need to trade him you can just scratch him and keep him on your roster you're an
injury away from needing him yeah like he could very easily play a lot of games for this team and
probably should and then comp you just get a draft pick in the cap space if you need to do that he's
also might clear waivers yeah robertson like he was we we gotta we gotta change our words like he
was a regular in the lineup he wasn't a mainstay i guess like he played over 50 games that's a
regular he played more than half the games way more than half the games um yeah the playoffs
are the playoffs but we're we're angling for an 82 game friggin uh slog here and you're gonna need
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Well, guys, book it.
The Ducks are going to the playoffs.
Mason McTavish has signed $7 million, six-year deal.
And according to Pat Verbeek, he's going to have a lot to catch up on.
Do you really believe that?
well i do i think the ducks in the playoffs yes that you're locking them in as a playoff
yes yes yes i think people are criminally underrating the ducks i think they're a really
good team i think that philadelphia is gonna have to eat so much shit when cutter goche goes off
this year um it's it's bonkers what that kid is leo carlson's amazing like there is this team is
really good and they're mean and they're big like you think about okay this defense has truba and
gudas on it and i'm not saying they're the best defenseman in the league but i don't think you'd
want to have your head down adam and they got one of the best young goaltenders we've seen this
generation it's true adam i will buy you a ducks jersey of your choosing okay not the orange one
of your choosing with a player of your choosing if they make the stanley cup playoffs and by
Bye-bye, Steve means we're going to email fanatics and ask for one.
Yeah, or maybe they'll give...
Oh, you know what I'll get?
A Steve Thomas.
Steve Thomas was a duck, and I love Steve Thomas.
My boy, Stumpy.
Love him.
A little purple Keith Carnegie.
Dude, this is a...
Oleg Tverdovsky.
I think that this is a pretty good deal for both sides.
And it kind of...
Every time these deals happen, I'm like,
you guys couldn't have done this?
This could have been an email.
This could have been two weeks ago.
Yeah.
yeah this is about where everybody expected it to be well but i think it was a two year i think
i think he wanted two extra years or something and they didn't want to do that and then so they
settled on some somewhere in between i don't know they they grinded him he he wanted more
he probably wanted to cash in on the crazy cap um it's not the best time to be an rfa
unfortunately yeah but when he's 28 when this contract ends sure could be great but in the
meantime you're gonna have to kick ass take names and then i don't know be a second liner who makes
like 20 mil who knows how things will be at the end of it yeah um you know i thought this was a
bit of a ridiculous line for the ducks to take until you made the comparison to the knee lander
stuff with the Leafs like this is the first real deal you know Dostal doesn't count he's a goalie
it's he's also signed yeah yeah yeah but they had to negotiate that yeah right yeah and you know
he's a goalie so it's a little odd but when you made the Nylander comparison you know he's the
first RFA in what is going to be a large group of expensive RFAs Zellweger, Michukov, Lacombe,
it's pretty carlson goche yeah they're all up man except for yeah mitchikov is up seneca
eventually zellweger's up yeah we'll see if seneca makes the team it's looking pretty good
carlson and goche are all up colangelo is too in case you yeah they they took care of business
they took care of business now they got the player it's it's a shame that he's gonna suck
in their own GM's words
because training camp
is so important.
I mean, it is kind of important.
What are you referring to?
Well, because Pat Verbeek said
he's like he's, you know,
he's a new coach, new system.
He's really going to have to
he's going to have a lot
to catch up on
and I hope he's ready
and blah, blah, blah, blah.
This is before he signed.
Oh, he was
trying to break him publicly.
Yeah, I was a little lip service
and well, did it work?
Maybe it worked.
Here he is.
I mean, listen,
at the end of the million bucks,
I think he's doing OK.
Yes, yes.
i always love like with stolars we were talking about it's it's a far smaller amount of money
and it's way deeper into a career where he hasn't made all that much money when a guy this young
what is he 20 21 22 22 when a guy this young and it's like well you settled for what does he get
49 million instead of 51 i'm like what what was all that for yeah i'm curious to know what
the negotiation sticking point was like what was was mctavish asking for more i think it was it was
it was the term apparently oh he didn't he didn't want to go i think that he they didn't from what
i understand i could be wrong on this i could have this reverse but i'm pretty sure they didn't want
to go that long because if you go into those years right because this goes this takes him to 28 he
goes to 30 you're buying ufa years which brings the money up see my guess is he wouldn't want to
go that long i don't know well if i'm the ducks too like i probably wouldn't want to go that long
because it's it like mason metavish is going to be a good player but he's not that player right now
yes career 22 goal scorer yep like you don't want to pay you're not you don't want to lock in for
eight years just in case you want to have a contingency plan here right yeah yeah like i'm
not i'm i wouldn't be jumping at the opportunity to go the full eight years yeah we've we've done
the show for long enough like at the end of that contract it might be a different league
like you don't know what the market inefficiency is going to be at the time you don't know
like what's going to be uber valued 10 years ago alex de brin cat was the guy everyone missed
and you know things have sort of cooled on him things have sort of cooled on
a lot of players like him not all there's still guys like you know cole caulfield and stuff like
that but teams want beef yeah right now and who knows maybe seven years from now it's completely
different yeah you don't want to lock up uh something that's such a good point because you
don't want to lock up something that you don't know is going to be valuable to you six seven and
eight years yeah you know like your first line centers of the world who are big and going to
score goals that's always going to exist in the nhl and is that him like i don't know if he's a
a career first line center yeah we don't know that yet like we it's not a guarantee what mason
mctavish is going to be your your defenseman your right shot defenseman who maybe put up points or
is big and great at defense always going to be valuable to you your goaltenders too
goaltender a little different because you never know that's a year to year thing yeah you never
know how long that goal is going to stick so we're getting to the like do we want to lock up for that
long and with mason mctavish i still think there's an unknown on how important he's going to be to
the ducks in seven or eight years from now so six makes it makes sense yeah i'm gonna be your number
one center well you're not our number one center right now probably not well and you know i see a
lot of people putting charts out there and that sort of thing and you got to remember this guy
plays for the ducks and when he was drafted the ducks were way worse than they are right now and
right now they're still close to the basement until they start playing i forgot he was born
in zurich this is a guy who like sorry i'm distracted by the wrong man that's great um
adam's in the middle of a sentence yeah i don't give a shit yeah adam blah blah blah anyway go
when you look at the metrics for any player that played for the ducks in the last four or five
years they're all bad yeah yeah doesn't mean are they all bad players yeah that's my conclusion
well they were who's the best example simone benoit no cam fowler oh fuck what a pickup he
was peak like hey maybe not judge the guy who's on an awful team and then the blues locked him
up we haven't we didn't talk about that yeah not yet not yet not yet we haven't i haven't talked
about it we're on the ducks but yeah so like who knows what mason mitavish is going to be on a good
team where was he born though switzerland you forgot that can you believe that anyway i just
I carry that information around with me,
but Steve forgot.
I think you look at this team and you go,
there is a good mix of veteran guys
and there is some young, exciting talents.
Like Carlson and Gauthier to me are like,
you got to get into the 60, 70 point range this year.
That's the expectation.
Mason McTavish has got to be up there,
but I think they're far more high scoring.
What I love about it is they're protected.
You've got big boys back there.
Granlin can come in and add a nice scoring touch as well.
But Kreider, Killorn, Strome, Vetrano, Paling,
these are not people you mess with.
I think playoffs is pretty aggressive,
but I definitely agree with you
that they're going to take a step.
They're going to be better.
Here's what I see with the Ducks.
This is why I'm so hard on the playoffs angle, okay?
If St. Louis doesn't go on another insane St. Louis run,
which is what they're known to do, right?
Calgary's in the playoffs.
If Calgary is good enough to get in the playoffs
with the no goal scoring that they have,
but they rode their goaltender and god bless them there's you can't tell me the ducks don't have a
really good shot so the ducks were have been a lottery team and next year i think i can join you
and they'll be in the hunt like we're talking about sorry they'll be in the flock hey
that's an old video game kids and use the orange gun anyway orange it was perfect yep um uh we're
talking mid-march still playing meaningful games they're making the playoffs not mathematically
eliminated probably out of it they're making the playoffs my my issue with the ducks being a
playoff team is you're banking on st louis and vancouver to not make the playoffs and i have
both of those teams ahead of the ducks and if you look at the standings from last year the ducks had
80 points st louis got in with a tiebreaker over calgary at 96 what if vegas and edmonton miss
so what do you want what if vegas and edmonton miss i don't think that's very likely why not
so i'm gonna pencil in those six teams that were in the division spots last year the jets stars
avs knights kings and oilers i don't think anybody here thinks that those teams are gonna miss right
uh no so there's six spots already taken and the last three spots between the wild blues and
Canucks I'm giving two of
those spots to those three
teams Minnesota I'm also
moving Minnesota up I don't
think there are places like
the Kings are they in that
division they're not in that
division no oh well yeah I
guess a little bit in place
of the Jets well I think
maybe not in place of the
Jets the Jets had a crazy
regular season but would it
would it shock anybody that
call you're walking it back
again you have if you if you
want to replace the wild that
you said they're not a
wildcard team so who do they get because they because i because of the injuries last year
that's what i mean they weren't going to be a wildcard team they were going to be a top three
so who are you pushing down is what i'm probably colorado okay and then i don't think st louis
makes is and i think the ducks get in ahead so vancouver also doesn't make it vancouver's got
a lot to prove man like they every year we say this about vancouver they have so much talent
on that roster if demko is healthy lincoln was great they've got a great goaltending tandem i
think it's one of the better in the league but you are asking so much of guys like hey philip
heatle can you play a full season can elias petterson go from what he was last year which
was a 35 36 point guy and it magically over four or five months healed the knee that bothered him
the entire season last year 35 points is not good yeah more than that but it wasn't much more than
that honestly yeah yeah i mean you're you're asking a lot of you're you talk about me like
we always talk about this season to season major point swings are hard to do right um it's even
harder as an individual player and peterson had 45 points excuse me he really wasn't that far
that's what i'm saying like i i i i think that there is in 64 games yeah you don't have jt
miller you didn't have phil roenick a lot of last year so that sucks quinn hughes was injured that
sucks you have two goalies you have two goalies that are good i the thing about the vancouver
canucks is it's always there you can look at their roster the last five years and every year
from the the magical run and over covid to now they should have been in the playoffs that team
was always good enough so you're taking the eight playoff teams from last year taking out the blues
putting in the ducks yes and then you're set i think so okay i'm not i'm not convinced on the
canucks until they show me interesting they fell apart last year i mean they were listen we know
that organization is chaos top to bottom the players are great they seem to love it there
the fan support's unbelievable um but the i just i just think that when you have chaos at the top
it filters through management and goes all the way down and that chaotic team did only miss by
six points yeah yep and they might miss by four this year the ducks were a minus 42 goal
differential i feel like that'll be different i i understand the theory with them i need to see it
in practice i get it we haven't because i'm telling you i'm using the same argument against
myself right i'm saying the canucks need to prove it so do the fucking ducks oh yeah but i think if
there's a team that's going to take a giant step forward and make the playoffs this year in the
west it's them i even have them leapfrogging utah 32 teams need to prove it adam well thank you
so many games man i love when we speak in general isn't that so great favorite thing
Now, Ken Fowler of the St. Louis Blues, what a magic run he had.
Also, just that take is not as ridiculous as my Blackhawks make the playoffs take.
So like it's that's wild.
The Ducks making the playoffs is at least more reasonable than that than I was last year.
I'm I'm less upset at you for saying it and more upset at me for having a take,
arguing it, listening to you and then being like, you know what, Jesse's right.
That's called respect, though.
You respect your friend.
You're like, man, he made.
Yeah.
And he didn't deserve it.
I did not deserve the respect.
You are correct about that.
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Cam Fowler has re-signed in St. Louis.
He was, you know, traded by Anaheim last year.
And everybody kind of had this guy on the scrap heap.
And I got to say, he was unbelievable for the Blues,
not just in the regular season, but in the playoffs too,
and earns an extension.
Torrey Krug, obviously, as we know,
is never going to play again.
And he is going to,
he's going to make $4 million again this year.
But next year, he's making $6.1 million.
and this guy is 33 now so already over a thousand games and this guy this contract's going to take
him to like 37 38 i they're i don't know if there's a better story in the nhl last year in
terms of player with a renaissance run where's he gonna end in terms of games played i don't know
but but you see my thing with cam yes is when he was traded to st louis what did everybody say
this guy sucks well yeah bum why uh his numbers were bad because he was a duck right and what
happened when he went to st louis had a good team and had a goaltender who could stop was scorching
was you know he had 10 points in that seven game series they played in the first round
how many people need to leave the shitty teams and go to a good team and they're like oh that
player is good for us to realize that advanced metrics at least the publicly available ones
do sort of slant towards the good teams what a shot we should point out how cartoonishly
different his blue stats were from his uh duck sets yep with the ducks in 17 games no goals
four assists minus seven in 51 games with the blues nine goals 27 assists 36 points nine goals
36 points would be respectful respectable for any defenseman in a full season um only eight
penalty minutes plus 19 and yes again in the playoffs two goals eight assists 10 points in
just seven games god bless him dude like and six two two ten i'm sorry what am i not supposed to
like here shoots left boo like the guy is i don't i don't want to toss this out there
i think you do because you're about to say it because he's never really been in the conversation
for anything what does he gotta do people like i'm gonna get shit all over for the
what does he gotta do by the end of his career to be in hall of fame conversation
because again he's at a thousand and forty two games played already the bar for the hall of fame
is not very high he's going to hit he's going to hit 500 points by halloween yeah might get
long before halloween can't fowler man yeah camp cam fowler yes yeah wow yeah no everybody gets in
well like everybody gets in these days it's not it's not a high bar it's i gotta do a little more
they gotta expand the hall of fame in toronto yeah like with we ran out of name space with
forwards it's a little easier to be like this is the bar and here's what the peers and here's
with defense i'm a little less acquainted but like if he's toiled in anaheim he's gonna have to be
blistering in st louis maybe but like with defensemen you could make the argument about
like how important they are defensively in their era right so like i feel like even if you don't
have the points you could be like he was good at defense and that's a hall of fame worthy defense
plus he has all of the games hall of famer it's it's tricky like you look at a guy like tyson
berries numbers even like he was in his era a top 10 offensive producing defenseman but but we
watched him and no he could not defend he knows he could not defend oh it's an interesting i think
cam fowler gets into the hockey hall of fame really yeah when it's all said and done yeah
especially if he like the plays through that contract in st louis and he ends up with uh
well how long would that be in the nhl well it's almost i mean it's probably 16 17 yeah 17 year
nhl career top defenseman in the league like all the time like spending your whole career with
anaheim then going to the blues for the end of it and like he's a hall of fame he was drafted in
2010 and played right away 10 goals and 40 points as a rookie defenseman in the show that's so hard
He also will be, when he hits 500 points,
that'll tie him with Ed Jovanovsky,
and I'm assuming OEL will have more than 500 points at that point.
Jovo Cup.
That's 77th all-time in scoring for a defenseman.
When he hits 500.
When he hits 500.
And he's going to cruise past 500.
Yeah.
I'm just saying.
He's going to, by the end of his career,
I don't think people understand
because he's kind of toiled on these teams.
people don't understand the tier of player he's going to put himself in that's a really all-time
accomplishment i'm like really surprised here me too yeah but like he's been around for long enough
that like he's he was on a bad team for long enough that we forgot about him
yeah and but he was still putting up points that entire time the fact he's just signed a three-year
deal already well over a thousand games let's say he plays 70 games on average for those three years
he's probably going to sign another deal this guy's going to end up near 13 14 1500 games by
the end of his career that's hockey hall of fame worthy that's a that's a when you hit a thousand
it's special and every hundred after that puts you in an echelon that i i don't think people
understand like 1200 games is extraordinary and unless something really untoward happens to him
he's gonna cruise past it i got a question for you okay as the guy who is i think most equipped
to answer this question in all of hockey okay is morgan riley a hockey hall of famer
so when it's all said and done let's go ahead morgan riley has the herculean task of uh being
a leaf which i don't people don't understand that it hurts him immensely yeah because they're like
oh he played in toronto he also played with some of the worst defense partners in the history of
man like just terrible so to give you an idea riley is already at 500 points do you know where
he ranks in all-time points in the entirety of the nhl history morgan riley yeah i mean pretty
far back i don't know what his points are where he has 500 wait among defensemen amongst everybody
everybody okay morgan riley makes the page so they cut it off at 500 points and morgan riley
has 513 career points uh-huh he ranks 545th all-time in career that's pretty amazing if you
could man if you could draft somebody today in the first round and be like they'll be in the top 500
all-time scoring you take that traffic every day and he's a defenseman that's amazing he's not the
top 500 he's in the top oh sorry top 600 but 545 there's like a all time there's 110 years in the
nhl everybody who's ever played hockey in the nhl he's 545 that's pretty cool that's so nearly 200
games less than cam fowler already has more points uh has a doesn't have as many goals i'm interested
to see where that ends up there's no guarantee but by the end of riley's career so he's 31 he's
going to need some health like fowler again played straight out of being drafted i can't remember
where he played uh riley was drafted 2012 didn't make his debut until the next year in 2013
or was it two years later doesn't matter uh again fowler is going to end up with more games played
yes like far more yeah games played yeah those two players i think are two players who a lot of
people have complained about for a long time they're not as good as their numbers say and
this and that and that and by the end of their career like when these guys are 40 year old men
like what's riley gonna do fall down that list i don't i mean guys are gonna pass him for sure
but he's going to pass more guys than he has passed by he's going to end up top 500 maybe 400
all-time in points and if you make that list defenseman then yeah who does he cruise by like
i love looking at the trends of like we we have a bar we understand generally what gets you in the
hall of fame and then i love looking at guys who are halfway or two-thirds their way through their
career and going holy shit they're on a tidy little pace you're gonna hit that bar fowler
and riley are are they're those are two wonderful names if i make it i would bet both of those
players the hockey hall of famers by the end of both of them and riley's another one just like
fowler no individual hardware yeah like but that's that hasn't stopped guys in the past it should
like i i look at the guys who get in and the bar continues to drop and individual trophies and
winning stanley cups hasn't stopped the players from getting into the hockey i think we could
we could probably ask the committee to stop only focusing on guys that played in the 80s and 90s
like they can you can start electing guys who were like 2010s guys now i you can do that i hate
picking on this player but uh and he's a forward so he's not exactly comparable pierre turgeon yeah
when i start talking about games played totals and point totals
he's why those things when you get above a certain bar they stop looking at the individual trophies
and they go okay he's crossing all these bars turgeon just shy of 1300 games that's a bar
over 500 goals 515 that's a bar uh over 1300 points there's a bar there over 100 playoff
games there's a bar there 97 playoff points there's a bar there and the only individual
trophy won the lady bing which yeah like is that a hall of fame is that a you know
that's a tiebreaker at best like 500 goals goes ahead of having a lady yeah and like where like
okay he started playing in 87 so i definitely don't remember his full career i remember probably
the back half of it i think at best he was the best player on his team a handful of years was
he ever in the top five player in the league conversation was he ever in the top 10 player
in the league conversation or and you could take this back to cam fowler and morgan riley were they
ever in the top five defenseman conversation were they ever in the top 10 defenseman uh conversation
but if you put up enough it almost doesn't matter they reward longevity a lot the hall of fame
committee they're like this guy's been around the game for a long time you know what he deserves to
get in the the one longevity one that uh pissed me off because it uh there you know uh it's a
3,000 hits gets you into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
There is a bar for players, it's mostly forwards, that is indisputable.
Every single player, every single retired player who has scored 600 or more goals is in the Hall of Fame.
That was not true for a while because of the Hall of Fame's weird thing against Dave Anderchuk.
Yeah, that was strange.
640 career goals.
wins a cup in his like last season too but here was the problem 1600 no it wasn't his last season
second last he was he was pretty bad in his last season it was kind of a difficult thing
1639 games played though that's a lot of and they were like well he was just in the league for so
long people said the same about marlo well it's kind of crazy he was in the it's hard it's hard
to be in the league that long and to play that many games and he still scored 640 what are you
doing keeping him out of the hall of fame he had to wait like how many years to get in like a lot
it was double digit years jesse how come you don't know the amount of years uh a lot of years that's
so many years yeah anyway this i just went on a little yeah tangent here i'm sure we're at a
three-hour show well we got it we got it very quickly do a little shout out to pittsburgh
because Marc-Andre Fleury played,
we think, his last game.
But then Pierre Lebrun tweeted
that maybe in January,
teams will try to induce him to come back.
Let me say this.
Alan has been telegraphing this for months.
Alan has been saying this about older guys.
I think Max,
the reason you're not hearing anything
about Max Pacioretty
is I would bet the same.
Yeah.
Like if Detroit were somehow
in the playoff picture
and his family lives in Michigan,
I would not be shocked to see
Max signed in Detroit
for the playoff run.
I'd also not be surprised
to see the Leafs go,
hey, Max, you were great
in the playoffs last year.
you want to join us in mid-february or something like that and and then just uh you can you can
trade a draft pick or you can just sign a guy well and with cap flexibility the allen's point
is like you couldn't do this before because nobody had any cap flexibility but now that they do
it's sort of like yeah some of these guys don't need to go to camp they don't need to you know
what they can bring some of these teams also don't have assets well the leafs like some of
the leafs really have the late the panthers don't really have assets like yeah but they've got it
they got a stanley cup yeah they do no but what i'm saying is the the contending teams some of
them have been trying to contend for so long that they just have nothing left and i don't know you
might as well try to sign a guy for free yeah yeah 100 and it's uh so i you know maybe it's not his
last game but i feel like it no it it was also a pretty beautiful site in pittsburgh like the
amount of people showing up it's like a you know columbus game or something like that and and and
how uh warmly he was received and i don't know i loved it i loved it it was great it was great
it's it was you know what good on the penguins too like he belongs kyle dubas on down oh yeah
100 and dubas is good at those things flurry retiring as a penguin felt right gonna be crazy
when he wins the cup in florida oh no gonna be crazy do we want to enjoy some scenes from flurry
and crosby at practice yeah for one last time so we can have a tear in our eyes here they are
look at all these pranking people put a big 29 on so far one time oh mcclainy
mcclainy would have stopped it all of the all of the things they were posted on social about him
like signing autographs for fans just at the practice it was it was such a it was such a
great moment that they would do this you know because like it doesn't matter it's the preseason
we do this a million i can say this a million times so the fact that you turn a meaningless
game into something special for an individual who clearly wanted this and appreciates what
special place pittsburgh is to his his whole life like it's cool that the penguins would do this i'd
be great if justin brazeau could get out of the way he's all six million feet of him oh that's
he is so big he's so damn big that's a big his ass is at the crossbar he's huge man dubious
getting him anyway i'm so pissed yeah the one who got away yeah justin brizzo absolutely one of
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oh it's mangum sorry when will
there be an apology to the jays
in their front office on the cj
show when they win a game in the playoffs
Yeah.
They have not won a game in the playoffs.
The last time they won a game in the playoffs with Shapiro at the helm,
it was Anthopolis' team.
It was 2016.
The first year that they were in charge of the team.
Yeah.
They're not out of the woods yet.
No.
I'm real happy they won the division, but let's go get a championship.
Everybody who watches the Jays and has followed this Jays team
over the course of this past decade is cautiously optimistic
about how the division series can go,
but we know not to get too high yeah things can always take a turn you know what's been crazy is
watching yankees fans dig up all the mets shit from the uh from the one soto signing today
like online all the yankees accounts are like oh yeah and wouldn't you mets fans like losing
their minds about how excited they were about soto were the big brother now i saw somebody say
and like they fucking go out against the marlins that was brutal man sports is fucking rough anyway
yeah the the when it comes to the jays man uh uh listen these guys were given 10 fucking years to
do this this is not even bare minimum shit no disrespect to mark shapiro who i've interviewed
and i like immensely i really like the man but i think if you were to give him truth serum
and and say hey mark do you think it's acceptable that it took you 10 years to get here
right he'd be like no yeah and it should have happened earlier and we had some pretty stunning
losses the reason that this has been so spectacular is because this should have been last year's team
like the 2014 finish last in the american league east they've missed the playoffs it was a disaster
season but the expectations heading into 24 were that they were going to look like the 25 season
so heading into 2025 we were in the depths of hell as blue jays fans like glad he was unsigned
uh heading into spring training he had a deadline being like i'm not going to negotiate anything
after that the otani stuff had happened in recent memory that was the offseason previous and this
past offseason it was not getting one soto it was not getting roki sasaki and everybody was like
okay you can't do anything here yeah you guys have had enough kicks of the can at this give
somebody else a shot and rogers because they love shapiro and atkins and john schneider and
everything they got going on there was like no we're gonna keep going with this no matter what
happens and nobody believed in it so it's spectacular that now we sit here at the end of 162
and they've won the division and their big signing never played yeah santander never made it to the
lineup until uh well he played in in the springtime they got injured didn't play the whole season then
he's got in last week or so and it's it's been a collection of individual efforts that i don't
think anybody expected like eric lauer i'm so happy he got to have the final out to seal the
deal for the division championship because that's somebody who was not supposed to be in the starting
rotation or came out of the bullpen entered the starting rotation was one of their best starters
for the entire summer and then when they're like okay we got shane bieber we don't need you anymore
eric lauer he's like okay i'm cool with that i'm gonna go to the bullpen and do my thing because
that's been the attitude for the entire blue jays roster where everybody is in it for the guy next
to them and everybody has played specific roles on this team so that they can have success and
that's how john schneider and his coaching staff and all the analytics nerds coach this team it's
we want a bunch of different guys who can fill a bunch of different situations so whenever we
need something we have somebody to help and that's why they re-acquired ikf to fill in everywhere on
the uh everywhere on the diamond ernie clement plays everywhere davis schneider has been like
fucked around all season where we're only playing for certain pitchers and he's always cool with it
because they all have this this one gold series yeah he writes i i gotta ask you too because
like you know when they got Jimenez from uh Cleveland I think uh people were like well
his batting sucks and like that was the problem with the Jays last year nobody could fucking hit
um but like with him and IKF and that sort of thing in the infield if you need a defensive
stop and it's the late game and you can switch guys out like they've got one of the stronger
defensive infields I think I've ever seen them have right like they've it's kind of crazy like
their ground ball outs and that sort of thing are going to be um huge for them in the offseason and
I'm excited about the way they've handled this.
I think George Springer having a renaissance year.
George Springer's season is, I think,
the most unexpected out of everything that happened this year.
Because last year, he's 35 years old.
He has a terrible season.
And you're like, okay, it's over.
You've hit that age where it's done.
The age one, you're done.
A large part of why no one expected things to get better.
yeah and he had one of the best careers of his entire one of the best seasons of his entire
career like his i think this is his highest batting average ever in his career his second
highest on base percentage his like third highest uh ob ops like he had a career year and he's been
such a a great person for the off-field stuff and he's been like the the spirit animal of the team
itself yeah and and and he's he's backed it up by having one of the best offensive performances
on the field then he he's led the mage since the all-star break i think he leads the league
in ops and batting average like he's been unreal and it's spectacular see and you mentioned the
the fielding there they have platinum glove players in alejandro kirk behind the plate
varsho and center field and andreas jimenez on uh whether he plays short or second and come when
boba shets ready who knows but like they have they've built this team to have top level defense
and they really emphasize doing the little things right the extra stuff right where it's not we're
just not going to be the yankees where we want to hit home runs we want to play great defense we
want to be great around the base pass like they've really built a great team top to bottom what's the
so i know they've got some tough roster decisions are burrios and scherzer pitching in the post
season for these guys and are they starting or are they out of the bullpen if they if it's me
and i am doing it i do uh gosman and then bieber and then you savage and then you see how it goes
in game four okay wow that's what i do are those guys on the postseason roster oh scherzer and
and uh and brios scherzer i don't know if it makes sense to have him out of the pen
okay like i don't know i'd have to i'd have to take a look at the roster right now i probably
wouldn't have burritos on the roster um wow i think those are your three starters and then
your bullpen over the last couple weeks have been so good that you just trust your bullpen i love
that flirty now if you make it already it's been awesome love him if you can't bring burritos on
the roster like does that mean he's gone for the whole postseason or no he's just gone for that
round that round so you can you can you tweak your roster is he just tired like what happened
i'm not like yeah just by the end of the season it's just not there you know so like they they
didn't really need him because there was a point where they had like seven starters going and then
they cut it down to like six and then they're like five and then the season's so close to being
it being over and like the games are so important that they can run like a four-man rotation out
there and he just is getting squeezed and right now you in this series the five-game series you
don't need that many starters and if he's a starter in the way he's stretched out it's like those are
the three guys i'm pitching yeah i remember when they first made the playoff surprisingly with
and they're like we're gonna save him for game three and they didn't make game three
because fucking charlie montoyo's like yeah why would we pitch our let's save our best player for
the last game you fucking morons like this is the kind of shit the jays have subjected us to
so yeah sorry long answer to the short question well no apologies well i'm really excited for the
playoffs but like it just sucks that like no one's streaming yes i'm gonna be streaming the division
series on the sdpn youtube channel we're gonna have a little jay's postseason watch along fuck
yeah jess so what does that start that starts saturday's game number one sunday's game number
two i think it's if they play game three on the same day the leafs open the season
so we gotta see if that's a day game or not we don't have the times of the game but yeah we'll
talk about that when we get closer to game three or maybe game four is on the home they might not
even get to game four could be a three-game switch because it's a five-game series but
at least one two and three you'll see me uh on the i don't think i'll see game one because i'll
be watching the leafs preseason action uh which i love so much saturday night i can't no they'll
be playing a day game i guess i'm okay with that the major networks will put the jays in the day
well i i think unless it's yankees like oh yeah we don't know the last time the jays were in the
playoffs it was all afternoon games yeah so but but you know if you got new york or you got boston
yeah that's prime time you know the jays have never played the yankees or red sox in the playoff
isn't that crazy that's that's a wild well they've also been terrible for a long time yeah and there
is yeah behind those two yeah it spoke to like the the years between 94 and 2015 and just how bad
this damn organization has been for that long a generation literally like i grew up knowing the
jays are just kind of bad but they have those two great players delgado and holiday yeah sure love
them and they'd run through yeah just like roger clemens of the world oh yeah i remember a.j
burnett yeah so fucking pumped about a.j burnett now that was that was on the cusp of getting good
yeah like they were like trying to do some stuff and that didn't work out but yeah yeah a lot of
dark years i'm so happy that we're not there anymore me too yay go jays fans go cj who sat
out most of the season and will now be watching uh i'm excited for shame what do you what's the
ruling on that if you are so out on this team i feel like it was completely justified like if you
didn't believe at all i i didn't believe at all like it's fair i think there are no rules on fandom
and cj was justified and i actually kind of admire how long he stuck to his guns we're talking
in first place for a month and he's like no okay well do it i'm starting to feel a little stupid
but you know screw these guys but and it was hilarious because towards the end of last season
like the end of the hockey season he looked smart like they were and and all the predictions
they're they're bringing them up today like i think there's baseball images that precede
unfortunate events um and it had like all the baseball insiders like jay's fourth fifth fifth
fifth fourth like that's the highest they had them yeah nobody was counting on the orioles to
be dog shit this year either no the Orioles coming in we're supposed to be a playoff team
thanks for nothing by the way and the Red Sox were supposed to be bad yeah it could have used
the Yankees loss in their Baltimore Jesus yeah seriously um the Mets shit man just just if you
want some hilarious stuff there are some serious Mets rants going on right now Yankees fans are
giving it to her context for the Mets stuff that I was talking about the Mets in July as recently
as july had the best record in major league baseball all of it and they missed the playoffs
on the last day 45 and 25 or something yeah no it's even worse and they only got oh when they
were first yeah and they only got to 83 wins yeah it was it's one of the most epic collapses
there's been in baseball it's and they have i think the second highest payroll in all of mlb
yeah yeah they're disgustingly off i had a conversation and then we'll close out the
show but it's funny i i had a conversation with somebody out of new york um a couple weeks ago
aaron judge not was not aaron judge uh oh that was a different call um but they were talking
about because you know when you talk in like creative concepts or you know agencies where
you're talking about like sales stuff um the you have to if you're not selling to canadians
and canadian companies who understand the place that hockey has in this country then it's difficult
and you have to compare it to other sports so when i talk about hey here's what the toronto
maple leafs mean in this context here's what the canadians mean here's what the oilers mean here's
what mcdavid means whatever so i said like toronto's sort of the big city in canada so the
closest comparable would be like they're like the yankees but imagine the yankees and they and they
don't win and they never and the guy looked at me and he's like so you're the mets yeah and i was
like oh he's right shit he's absolutely right like we're the mets without the presence of the
yankees yes yeah we don't even have anyone to make us look bad we just do it on our own yeah
the leafs aren't the little brother to anybody no it's just subway series against ourselves and
lose anyway 100 yeah and i just thought that was just that was a steve i had a i had a message for
you because i said this on my channel last night about the jays winning and they clinched on the
last day and they clinch in a tie break the jays didn't even win the division outright they have
the exact same record as the yankees they win because they beat the yankees in more games uh
in their series they went on head-to-head get good skill issue but the tie if anybody
ever gets on you about caring too much about a game in october in november december in january
about the leafs show them the standings in the major league baseball there's 162 of these games
That's so many games!
And it still came down to the final day.
Every win that the Jays had in April, May, June, July, August, September mattered.
Every single one of those games.
So when you are yelling about the Leafs' West Coast swing in Anaheim and all of California
where they drop an ugly one to San Jose, that game could matter.
calm down is like the you know what fan is short for fanatic so don't don't let me do it to you
either you know don't let adam to do it if you lose lose honestly yeah yeah those those games
matter hey you know you know how many points the calgary flames missed out on the playoffs by zero
they tie zero fucking points yeah imagine they had one more of those fucking yes imagine they
pushed one of them to overtime an additional shootout loss yeah that's it yeah that's all it
every point matters every win matters cam fowler that would have cost cam fowler millions of
dollars yeah well he had 10 points in seven games in the first round oh i'd be like if he doesn't
get it that would have cost him millions of dollars adam might have a point like yeah he
probably got to ask for a little bit more because he had a very good round yeah that's matt baleski
made 20 million bucks off one good half season yeah man i'm telling you man no when you when
you sit with a team all season long and you see like the jays were spectacular at making games
that shouldn't be close close and then winning those games in the end they led the league in
comeback wins they almost set the franchise record for comeback wins in a season and if they don't
fight out one more of those wins they don't win the division you know when you see steve lose his
mind in the regular season what you see him lose his mind when the leafs are losing early and give
up yeah that's always when it happens and people are like yo bro it's game 62 or it's game yeah 32
doesn't matter but it's the jays are like the jays it's like a game 136 and they're down four or five
runs and they're like we are not going to quit we're going we are going to come after you and
even when you lose those games you still gain something that is the shit that like championship
teams they do that they do that why i'm so high on this james team and like i think they can
oh beautiful they could win the world series this year and it's scary thoughts the city needs that
they could do it man i haven't seen toronto like we got our asses handed to us over covid toronto
was like on like a hot streak after that before the raptors championship but with the rise of
the raptors the leafs were doing better 2019 was sort of the culmination of it all right
it was amazing and then the next year okay we're gonna fucking knock your teeth in and put you
through two years two years in ontario of sitting inside away from your friends and family it has
taken half a decade to recover
from that and the Jays
doing this could
really be just a really great moment
for the city let's hope they win a fucking game
yes especially
when her son's in 2016
we're looking for what a game
not a serious no
just a game start with a game yeah yeah
let's baby steps here that's right
the game we are how are you going to react
in game 26
when I don't know who's
it gonna be it's may it's probably gonna be willie doesn't back check enough and a goal goes in the
back of the net like an absolute psycho gonna act like a complete psycho and you're gonna love it
and you're gonna tell me to calm down and i'm not gonna do it yep and then and then and then what
the cycle repeats this i there was recently a you know steve you gotta stop yelling
Or you're going to lose the long time listener
And I'm like
Couldn't be that long
The bakery makes bread
Is what he said
You walk into the bakery and you're like
Is that yeast I smell?
This place is bullshit
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