The Steve Dangle Podcast - The Steve Dangle Podcast - Apr 18, 2017 - Dart Guy

Episode Date: April 18, 2017

On this episode, the guys talk about every single moment of the Leafs game, Dart Guy calls in, and the rest of the playoffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Panago Pizza presents S.C.P. The Steve Dangle Podcast with your hosts, Steve Dangle and Adam Wilde. Martin swinging it back for Boyle. Boyle back of the goal. It's shot! Scores! Scores! Are you kidding me? Kapanen slaps it home. What a brilliant pass from Brian Boyle. and the leafs win it in overtime and the dry scrum the capitals get to it fed around the boards and there's no defenseman over there as the leafs play with just one and it is out and down the ice and now 28 seconds left to go on the power play morgan riley skates it out drops for

matt or for marner mitch marner on the wing to van reams dyke chipping it into the corner Marner lets it go. Goes to Bozak. On to the boards and back to the point. It comes to Morgan Riley. Dished off on the far side for Bozak. Centering pass. Scores!

Scores! Tyler Bozak! Holy mackinac! The Leafs have won it! What is that from? That's Joe Bowen from the radio call on Sportsnet 590, The Fan, last night. What happened last night? Tyler!

It was real bad. Season finale, Big Bang Theory. Oh, did he say Bazinga? Mackinaw. He got it wrong. He's an older guy, right? So, you know, he's not down with the kids these days and thought he had it, but no, yeah. You went a completely different route.

I was going to go, well, the Blackhawks finally got on the board. That also happened. How can we talk crap about them? What world is this? Well, the thing is, is that I'm hesitant to talk crap about the Blackhawks because they're the Blackhawks. Dude, 2011, they almost did it. They were down 3-0 to the Canucks, and they forced it to Game 7 in overtime. What happened in 2011 to the Canucks?

They went to the Stanley Cup Final. Oh, cool. And then, according to Canucks fans, nothing happened. Kind of like the Leafs in 2013. Why am I bringing up all those terrible things? The Leafs have a lead in a playoff series! For the first time in 13 years and five days. It's a thing.

So when was the last one? We were 16 years old, my friend. Oh, my gosh. Because we're 29 now. Yes, we are. Isn't that scary? That hurts my heart. And Jesse is 24, question mark?

25. Are you 25 now? I am 25. Wow. He's a man. He's a man. Well, he's been a man with that beard for like the last two years. Look at his beard.

Look at mine. He's a man. People are like, where's Jesse's playoff beard? I mean, he's been growing it for a year. Yeah. He's been there. Yeah. He's good.

So. This is our first show since they won a game. Yes. Yeah. Wow. And so I think it's only best that we work our way backwards because obviously, you know, We know what happened on Saturday night Yes

And after a very tired podcast on Friday We were exhausted You two were exhausted I was great I am dead I need this coffee badly Before last night's game, the fanciest man in the room Hosted a very fancy party

A big ball No, that's not even when my day started I got up at 4.30 to be on TV with you You want to know what time I got up for TV? Tell me, Adam 6.30. You jerk. And an hour later, I was on TV.

I'm surprised you even got up that early. It's so funny. Adam, how long is your commute now? You should share this with the world. I think my commute is a total. I think I counted steps yesterday. I think it's a total of 120 steps. It's insane.

I had to kick you in the balls. Here's how I look at life. Convenience is key. Freeing up time, key. So I, in my infinite wisdom, rented out my condo that I owned, which was towards the Lake in Toronto, and I moved up to near where the Rogers Studios are, and I crossed the street to go to work every day.

It's funny, because Steve knows this. He knows how important time is, because if you're downtown, and you don't want to waste time, you take an Uber back to Oshawa, you're like, I'm not going to wait on the train. And I got that from Hot Wheels over here. Hot Wheels Wild, because he, uh, Adam was like 21

or something. This is another chapter in, that's a different dude. Adam was like 21, and he was at some party might have even been at my house I don't know and he we were like how are you getting home man all the go trains have stopped he's like oh I'm going to take a cab

like man that's going to be like $70 or something he's like can't put a price on time hot wheels and money flew out the window to get home and then sleep in your own bed and wake up the next morning relaxed exactly it's worth it we do that first of all we do that like once every two months

and the if we were to take the train instead it would be like only $20 less especially if you have 2 or 3 people with you so I can leave early or I can take the drunk bus or for $20

extra dollars, sleep in my own bed private ride home the vomit comet at $19 is cool at $29 it's no longer fun but, that's the bus here by the way you haven't taken this philosophy and applied it to your everyday life well, and that's why I'm doing what I'm doing

for the low low price 1.5 million dollars I wish that were the case you can own a shoe box I I haven't been out of this place I

well it's cause it's it's still boxes and stuff so we're still unpacking I gotta tell you the last two weeks have been hell however I've already noticed

a difference in my sleep in my stress levels everything is better everything I think that's cause they're up 2-1 well that helps that does help

okay so you host Maple Leaf Square last night that's right and you I was getting texts from SL throughout the evening

Mrs. Dangle and she was she said that the crowd was absolutely nuts but it wasn't just nuts for the Leafs supposedly if you watched Tim and Sid on TV yesterday you could hear Steve, Steve, Steve

Steve, Steve I haven't seen that yet, I haven't seen any of it so I watched, we watched Tim and Sid in the studio and we obviously saw the Jeff Veyette Leafs are actually good signs which were a thing

and somebody had a Marlander Thews jersey a Marlander Thews jersey there was an LFR 10 sign there was a sign with my face there was a sign

of Ovechkin diving off of a diving board there were a couple promposals for Mitch Marner and Morgan Riley oh my god what else

there was a Buds All Day sign it might have been a Buds All Day chant there was a it was what a pop like it was like

wrestling And easiest job ever. Like, I was so nervous heading into it. I almost passed out during the Leaf game because I couldn't eat beforehand. And so when Nylander scored, I just went, yeah, and sat right back down because I was lightheaded. I just kind of felt that boo. But all you literally got to do is, who likes the Leafs?

Toronto loses its mind. You had to line up for the thing. People started lining up at, like, four. Three or four for an event that started at four. 5.30. I remember being at the first one and now it's all cordoned off and it's all very civil. The first one, it was like 20,000 people

on the street and the cops were like, we don't know what we're doing. Oh my god. It was literally just the game on the TV and then whoever wants to go, just push it. Pandemonium. It was crazy. They had to shut down York and Bremner there. Yeah, they had to go all the way back to the Rogers Center. Craziness, yeah. I don't know if we've ever talked about it on

the show, but to avoid a Vancouver-like situation, that area is actually like I think it's like well designed yeah like game 7 could have got ugly but like there was actually a pretty sizable police force I remember that game 7 and I remember walking into real sports because I was down there

I think we were all just too sad to cause a riot honestly there were it was not where I was wasn't safe for sure wasn't safe but I've told this on the podcast before there was police in horses on horses and they lined up

and they charged a crowd Oh, really? And a slow gallop. Nothing crazy, but they charged a crowd. Yeah, yeah. And the crowd goes, we're going to ride, ride, ride. Okay, those are big animals. We're going to leave now.

Those are large horses. And it, for a moment, gave me, like, pause. Like, oh, that's why cavalry was so effective 300 years ago. Like, because when a big-ass horse runs at you. My grandpa always tells this story of he was trying to go to a soccer game in London. He's a Fulham fan, so he's probably going to a Fulham game. Poor guy. And I know.

And also a Tottenham Hotspur fan. Also, poor guy. Not so bad. And a police horse just bumped him right with his ass and knocked him down a set of stairs. And so he decided not to go to the game. He turned around and went home. He's like, ah.

You know, I don't blame him. No, you don't. I don't blame him. I don't blame him at all. I don't blame him at all. Okay, so you host the big fancy soiree. And everyone's going nuts. and Emily Agard was with me, and she did a great job too

and did some stuff for MLSC Live. We got to throw T-shirts, and to make sure no one died, I waited until afterwards to say, hey, unwrap your T-shirts because in one of them there's a set of playoff tickets. Sometimes they were for Game 3 that night. Other times they were for tomorrow night, Wednesday. There was a Leafs jersey, and I had to yell as I'm throwing it,

Don't rip it! Because fans are like, you're tearing for it. Although you gotta think at most, if you're that hardcore, who down there doesn't have the new Leafs jersey? Oh, I know. Right?

They're probably just gonna... But it's a second one, so that's good too. Exactly. You never have too many. Gary Lehman came on stage. Wendell Clark came on stage. He has a cannon.

He threw a t-shirt. He almost hit real sports. Like, from the stage. He's got a cannon. How was the reception for Wendell? Like, when he got up there, it must have been crazy. It was insane.

And Daryl Sittler came on stage and then left without saying anything because I think he had another interview to do. It was very confusing. And maybe the biggest pop, Dark Guy. Of course. Dark Guy. He will, by the way, be on the show later on in the show. That is right.

We're having him. Jason, he told me how to say his name yesterday. Mascala? Dark Guy. Moscato. No. I don't think that's right at all. I hope it is.

Pretty sure he's like Polish, not Spanish. Moscato. It is now Yeah Corrado He's Italian So Corrado dart guy

So this is your first Playoff game ever Now I've been to a few First Leafs playoff game ever I saw Penguins last year Yes Yes But first Leafs playoff game ever

You walk in the front gate How was it? Talk about that experience A little bit Well it was chaotic Because it was It was only a few minutes Like maybe two minutes

Before the anthem because I was working right up until that point. And I get in, I get to my seat, say something to the guy on my left, say something to the guy on my right, just because I'm sitting alone. You know, Mrs. Dangle, she got a single seat. So in case you missed last episode,

I had this like immaculate seat, perfect distance up in the reds, right behind the net that the Leafs were on twice. And then she sends me a text So I said, I'm like, we can alternate Like second period, you come down here Or something like that, and she's like, no, no, no I got you these tickets, no, no, no

She sends me a text, like she can't see one of the nets She's sitting right next to that giant She got the Islander seats Yeah, I know, and I was like, we were kind of hard On Brooklyn fans But the first thing I noticed The first thing The blue Stanley Cup playoffs paint

It's so beautiful in person It gives you a sense of Importance Like it gives you a sense of This is a different game Even something as simple as the towels Like the fact that everyone had one And they were all going at the same time

I know this sounds stupid And fans are like what is he talking about Towels Man I have not seen this before Not in person You need to come to a Steelers game with me Some towels there They're the best

Some towels Nobody shows up without one It's kind of the thing So let's run through the game And what are you looking at on your computer Because I need your full attention I'm uploading the LFR Adam I'm doing a public service

It's 15 minutes It's like a second podcast Who thought that a team Who thought that a team That was down 2-0 Before the 5 minute mark could come back and win a game. And not only just a team,

a young, inexperienced team against a team that's been there before and is the NHL's top team in the regular season. Not just the team that's been there before, not just the top team in the regular season, but over the past five years or something like that, the Capitals' struggles in the playoffs haven't been defense.

You'd think it'd be the opposite. It's Alex Ovechkin, it's Nicholas Backstrom, It's a myriad of other players that they've had in salmon over the years. Yeah. It's been scoring goals. They have a real hard time scoring goals. Braden Holtby, one of the best save percentages in playoff history. And they're magnificent defensively.

They were under Boudreaux. They are under Trotz. The Leafs are solving them. Like, I'm not scared of Holtby. He hasn't had this crazy game. And I was trying to think back over the season. How many times were the Leafs shut out? once maybe

I can't I don't know the exact number but it didn't happen much and there were every now and then the Leafs would lay an egg oh yeah there was that game against LA

they lost 7-0 they laid an egg but it wasn't like oh Jonathan Quick or whoever the hell was in that oh he's really standing on his head

the one standing on his head robbed game I can think of was Varlamov a two never showed up twice okay

do we know against two LA and LA for sure and I have no idea Colorado was it Colorado it wasn't Colorado that was 3-1 That is 30th in the league

So they have the best non-shutout streak Team shutout the least There you go They're tied for first with the Jets So what I worried about is the Leafs would

somehow beat the odds and outplay the Capitals because I expected the Capitals to outplay the Leafs in every single game every single period But Holtby would rob them So in the opportunities

they had where they were better where they were getting more scoring chances. Holtby would rob him. That wasn't the case, man. He looked... Like, that Matthews goal

looked stoppable. It was stoppable. He stopped it, and there was a funny bounce. Ends up right on Matthews' stick. He scores. Yeah, off of Schmidt's face. Off of Schmidt's face.

Kadri throws one off of Orpik's butt. Hold on, hold on. What? Back it up here. Why are you going to back it up? We're going to go through this slowly. Okay. We're going to go through this game.

You're right, we should save this. So, it's 2-0 Washington, five-minute mark. I was sad. So this is where it's fun, and I'm going to call him out directly on this one. Steve Simmons tweeted that there was literally no atmosphere at all. He said, typical Toronto, great atmosphere outside, nothing inside. And I actually texted...

What was the exact quote? Hold on, Neil. You know what? Well, what was bizarre about the quote? What was bizarre about the quote? Yeah, find it. Hold on. Welcome to Toronto, virtually no atmosphere at all inside the ACC

eight minutes before puck drop. Crazy outside of Maple Leaf Square. Well, does that mean everybody's hanging outside in Maple Leaf Square and not inside the arena? Well, and also, there's no atmosphere when everyone's buying beer and rocking a pee-pee and buying food and trying to get to this. What are you talking about, Steve? What about when the game started?

What about that anthem? That's the loudest anthem I've heard in the ACC in a very long time. He didn't tweet anything after that for another hour, and it was something like Kadrion Backstrom, and then he tweeted his column from this morning. And it's so funny because I actually text messaged somebody in the press box. And I won't say who. But we obviously know a few people that are there.

And I said, just to make sure, is Steve Simmons actually there? And he's like, yes. I think so. Because sometimes these guys will tweet stuff. And you're like, wait a second, are you there? And he was there. And I retweeted it and was like, are you too high up in the gondola to hear the noise? The concourse was full.

So he's up in the gondola already So he's not in the concourse He has no idea Well and also What are the fans supposed to do Eight minutes before the game Yeah They did outside

They just spent two hours outside doing that Rolling out the carpet for the anthem Yeah She's 16 and she can sing like an angel Yeah and she's not even here yet Yeah Now Like it's such a lazy

Is that just his brand though Is that Oh that is so his brand No no no though But is that his way of trying to compliment The people outside No I don't know

Maybe I'm trying to look I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt here And the answer is no It's funny I ran into his son During the game People tweeted us after Because we mentioned that he was on the show years ago

And they said how was that And I said it was very polite Very civil He's a nice guy Like, it's just, I would say to him, what were you watching? And why no update afterwards? So, 2-0, five minutes into the game. It's 2-0.

How is the arena at that point? The arena is great. Well, a little bit deflated, but not as bad as they would usually be. The happiest guy in the arena might have been the guy sitting to my left, who, for some unknown reason, was an Edmonton Oilers fan. What? And what part of Alberta is he from? One of the first things he tells me.

And again, the game has not started. He hates the Leafs. It has not. No, he goes, I tell you, man, this place, not nearly as loud as the Rogers Center. Rogers Arena. Rogers Arena in Edmonton. Not nearly as loud. And I'm like, the game hasn't started.

The game hasn't started. There was a fan. A fan yelled something at the ref like, terrible call. And this guy's like, just laughing at this idiot. And I'm like, what are you? He was nice to me, but I felt like being like, what are you doing here? And he's like, oh yeah, I was at the Oilers game a few days ago. And so I'm like, who is this man who can afford to go to an Edmonton Oilers playoff game,

fly to Toronto, and go to a Leafs playoff game in about a week? Hey, hold on. He clearly only bought the concourse pass in Edmonton. Oh yeah, you think so? So he was a part of it, but he was there. But he never said he watched it, right? This is nothing like the Concourse Pass that I had. I tell you, the washrooms there are second to none.

Shout out to the asparagus vendor out front. Shut up. Did you ask him? Like who he was? No, I was just polite. I got to tell you, when I go to other people's arenas, because that's how I look at it. When I go to Tampa, when I've been to Calgary. I'm always very complimentary.

Always, because I always say, well, because I'm there to go, hey, so what's great about this place? And what's great about this group of fans? You wouldn't walk into someone's house and go, what's up with this dump? That's kind of what it's like a little bit. Why is that okay here? Or why do people feel like that's okay? It's not even that it's not okay, it's just it's stump. Like, you haven't seen anything yet, man.

You don't know anything. I don't know. You know why the arena's been terrible for the last ten years? Because the Leafs have been terrible for the last ten years. Well, and I mean, there's the whole suit thing. Yeah, tickets are a little more expensive. Did you not notice the 15,000 people standing outside? I know.

Just to watch the game? It's weird. There are still suits during playoff games, but it's like everyone realizes. They step up. They step up to the occasion. Okay, I have to bring my jersey. I'm going to look like a stooge if I don't. There was one guy I saw walking down near the ice.

I'm like, what kind of a stooge gets a Leafs Marco Estrada jersey? And then he turned around. I'm like, oh, that's Marco Estrada. That's Blue Jays pitcher Marco Estrada. That's amazing. Hey! That kind of loser. Although in Jesse's words

Jersey fell Because he never played For the team Oh No all celebrities Get a pass No Thank you Jesse

We ought to get a pass Because we are Minor celebrities No we're not Not even close If you're a pro athlete For another sport You can definitely

Wear the jersey You're bending the rules Here man Pro athletes get a pass This is like AEIOU And sometimes why Jesse's net

Like the goal poster Shaped like a flower Just bends everywhere I'm sorry Steve You've never played For the Leafs So, you don't know that. You don't know that.

But he stood, and he witnessed. They needed a lot of people during the 2002 run. They might have had to go to me. They might need you on defense, actually, coming up soon. I was on a pairing with Pierre Hedin. Oh, that was a thing. Yeah? Oh!

When they had no limitations on salary cap, they still dressed Pierre Hedin. Because everyone was hurt. Everyone was hurt in 2002. But why was he your seventh defenseman? Oh, no, I don't even think he was seventh. I think he was, like, 19th. Now, wait, though. Before we continue, I need to plant a little seed.

Okay. The guy on the left was the Oilers guy. Guy on the right had the biggest nachos I've ever seen in my entire life. And that is what I noticed about him at first. And we will leave him for later. Okay. Second period, I switched spots with Mrs. Dangle. So I'm all the way up.

Last game of the playoffs, too. Get it? Get it? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Um, so I go up in the bleeders, people are going crazy. Now, here's the problem.

Hold on, you went up to the bleeds for the second period? Yeah, we switched seats. See, I love my fiancee, I would not have given her that option. Not a chance. Not for one period? Has she got you the tickets? That's not very nice. That's Ruthless Adams.

It's my damn gift, man! Wow! She'd be on her phone the whole time anyway. I know her, and Caprice, if you're listening, honey. There was a girl sitting in front of me who had an even worse seat than I did. She had a wine and Snapchat. She was just having a whale of a time. And I'm sitting, the guy next to her, I'm like, I don't even think she's with this person.

I think this might be a very similar situation. She's like, I'll sit up there. I don't care. I think, okay, if I look at it like this, my fiance loves fashion. She's a stylist. That's what she does all day, every day. she if we were at

New York Fashion Week and I had bought her tickets to New York Fashion Week and one of them was front row and one of them was way in the back I'm not gonna go

hey for the for the Armani show can I sit up front yeah see cause you're a big fan that's what the difference

would be right for Armani cause she's a huge fan of fashion I'm a huge fan of hockey we had a math teacher his name is Mr. Armani it's close

Armani means a lot to me that's right I'm glad you brought that up because that has zero context for anybody else I just thought I would throw it in Adam Listen, I'm only halfway through this.

Okay. Okay, so now here's the problem, though. For that period, because I'm in the obstructed seat, I can't see the Leafs net. Now, the big problem there was the caps came out hot. Then the Leafs took two minutes, two penalties and had a two-minute five on three. Then three minutes later, took another penalty. So the Leafs are on the penalty kill the entire time. So I watched the first 15 minutes of the period on the jumbotron.

Yes, which sucks It sucked a little bit, but again, the atmosphere is great This guy's holding up like a giant Dart guy head That guy's a phenomenon, by the way Dude, you are too far away From where we're supposed to be right now I'm still at two goals to nothing

Five minutes in Oh, I forgot about the Matthews goal How can we forget about Austin Matthews? Because Dart guy got the crowd I guess pumped up, right? Yeah, two things changed the tide of the game And I'm dead serious I am dead serious

It was a morgue It was sad Everyone was sad After it was 2-0 And then They pull out Dark Guy They put Dark Guy on the screen And he stands up

And he's going Come on, come on And people lost it Dark Guy is a phenomenon He is a force of nature The building went nuts It wasn't just a Like they could have brought out Curtis Joseph

It wouldn't have got the same reaction as Dark Guy I am dead serious So he goes nuts Next shift comes. Kadri. Woo! Just giant hit on Orpik in the corner. Puck comes along the end boards right in front of the Leafs.

Blue line Komarov. Woo! Just giant hit. I don't even know who that was. Right before he goes off. Woo! Kadri on Orpik again. Line change.

Matthews comes out. Goes up the middle. No one can stop him. Stop. Goes off Schmidt's head. Puts in the rebound. Colby gets the first one. Rebound.

Little celebration. If you slow that down, the stick handling that he does, that Matthews does in that moment, is pretty unbelievable. Like, his hand-eye is unreal. I might be attributing this wrong, but I think it was Barry Trotz said, because people have said, you know, who does Austin Matthews remind you of? He said Pavel Datsyuk. Wow.

And his ability to stick handle in any situation, never, ever be done with a puck, Yeah, a little bit. I see it, man. He's nuts. He's absolutely nuts. No play's ever dead with him. No play's ever done with so many of the guys on this team. But I tell you.

Sure. I'm watching from home, and I'm sorry. I've got food in my mouth because I haven't eaten. That's okay. Watching from home. And, Jesse, I don't know how you felt about this, but I was watching from home, and never did we feel out of it. So we went and go two and a half.

Not once. Not once. No, I'm like, no, no. Like, it still felt good. You still felt like, no, no, they can do this. And it's funny because, of course, Ovechkin has a bomb, and everybody on Twitter is talking about this bomb from Ovechkin. And then Matthew scores, we're back in it.

And then this silly rebound that Anderson could have deflected a little further into the corner, but I don't know how he would even have had the chance to, that Kuznetsov puts in at an impossible angle. Yeah, you've got to give Kuznetsov credit there. incredible reaction time to even get the shot and then yeah that angle was

70 something degrees it was unbelievable but he celebrated the goal and you're not supposed to do that well and he did that in the other game too

now we'll talk about that in a second he scored in the last game I think and he went ahhh he was on the ice

he was on the ice oh yeah he was right at Anderson and was like ahhh I think it was at Polak you don't do that Canadians don't well Canadians

Canadians don't do that Now No I gotta tell you We So it was 3-1 going into Intermission I believe No

2-1 going into first intermission 2-1 going into first And then yeah Because Netzev scores You gotta I gotta say You missed a doozy Of Coach's Corner

So yeah You guys were I saw you in the Facebook message He was ripping on Zaitsev Pretty good Pretty good Now Not without merit

I don't think Nikita Zaitsev Came out and played very well He was on the ice for both goals, and while JVR, I think so, while JVR... I know it was the first one for sure. On Backstrom goal, JVR let him go, and thinking Zaitsev would pick him up so JVR could stay high. Seemed like a bit of a miscommunication. But stay with him. Just stay with him. The rush is there, and then you can get back up.

My thing with Zaitsev is there was going to be rust. Like, what a... Man, your first playoff game is game three, you're coming off a concussion. Who knows how Like 100% sharp he is It wasn't a good one Now my problem with Cherry dumping on Zaitsev Like it was warranted here

But didn't he talk about him Like during game 2 When Zaitsev was not even playing He's been talking about him Since the 7 year contract Was rumored Yeah he keeps These little

These little jabs He doesn't like the 7 year contract And we know that And that's why I think The thing that frustrated me Was the It was the fact that

You know he'll He'll talk about Zaitsev not being great, and then if you point out a player like Aaron Ekblad, who was minus 21 this year, is Aaron Ekblad a bad defenseman? He's very pick-and-choosey with his plus-minus. So it was kind of one of those plus-minus is a BS stat anyway. It doesn't tell you a whole lot.

He's 83. Yeah, exactly. I give him a pass. Let that go. So Leafs kill five on three, And then While you're sitting up In the bleeders

Unbelievably And then A minute and a half later A bench minor Which I was I yelled at the TV I had the dog asleep The dog fell asleep

On me last night No one in my section Picked it up No one noticed Like was it a blatantly obvious Yes They were all In the offensive zone

And then Morgan Riley Tried to get off And it was like It was bad It was for a good Like 5-10 seconds Yeah Pretty obvious

That sucks It does suck But Both They were able to kill Both of those off and the dichotomy of Martin Marincin in that game. He's been amazing.

He's been so good the last two games. Boy, though, the grenades. He had two or three real bad. Like, pull him out with his teeth, just in front of the net. Marincin loves to throw bombs, but I tell you what, he was out there, I think, for the entire five on three,

and then he was right back out there again for the bench minor, so. I gotta say, watching Leo Komarov, You really, and the numbers back me up on this a little bit more, but when you watch Leo Komarov play defensive hockey, he's a wizard. He's killing it on the, I don't know if we talked about it last show, but he's played himself out of being the Leafs' fourth-line center. He's been too good on Kadri's wing.

Yeah. Like, he takes enough face-offs. He could probably handle it, but no. Well, why have him there when you can have him on the wing, right? Exactly. And you can play him at center. And now you've got Brian Boyle, right? Absolutely.

Absolutely. Um, so, so that happens, um, very, that was kind of, would you say that's probably the key moment of the game? Oh, killing that off? Yeah. I'm, and it was so dumb too. Uh, I mean the Hunwick penalty is whatever, but Martin just throwing those bombs at Tom Wilson.

He didn't need to. You had to know. You had to know. And Wilson's got sticky gloves. Like, Matt, he's not going to go with you. Not in this series. You need to stop. And if he does go with you

It's because his team's down Let him drop the gloves Yeah, let him drop the gloves And then don't drop yours Whatever It's his problem now Hey, do you want to win the fight Or do you want to win the game?

Right Are we on the radio? We're not on the radio tonight So I'm just going to keep going then Great, I'll take a break Because I was going to stop there Really? Oh really?

We're only going to talk about this In one segment? That's not going to work So then they kill Yeah, they kill the too many men Penalty Which, can you imagine If they had scored on that too many men?

penalty uh yes i can that's a different i sat there the whole time going imagine i was thinking i was sitting there with the dog lying on me snoring the dog snores uh and i'm wondering what are the storylines going to be coming out of this you know like this is not this is not going to be pleasant for mike back i tried really hard to push that out of my brain because it's an ongoing thing that has happened a lot this year what you you watch minors uh the bench minors And for some reason lately They ice the puck a lot I've noticed that too

No I wonder what that is Supposedly the bench minors problem was an issue in Detroit Then something happens And Caudry scores a goal Off of Brooks Orpik's butt Which is hilarious because they were going at it all First and second period And then of course the puck has to go off Brooks Orpik's butt

And into the net And it's Brooks Orpik What's Brooks Orpik's size? I need to look this up He's a very big boy I mean, he's not in the league for his foot speed. I don't think he ever was, even when he was younger. He's 36 now.

So HockeyDB has him at 6'2", 221 pounds. That's a big boy. He was battling with downtown Connor Brown, who is, it says, 6'185. So probably less. They always inflate those just a little bit. Yeah, 100%, probably less. and I've seen him in his t-shirt and after a game and everything.

Yeah, you're probably right there. There's no way Goudreau's 5'9". No, not even close. No, they thought he was an intern when he first showed up for training camp. They wouldn't let him in the building. I know. Which is amazing.

It's amazing when you think about it. Supposedly, someone at Maple Leaf Square told me yesterday, it was around like 5 o'clock, something like that, 4.30, Morgan Riley's trying to get in the building and security's like, where are you trying to go?

He's like, the frickin' locker room. What? Because, well, who, it's Morgan Rielly. He's missing teeth, though. Let me in, I'm trying to, I'm preparing for a playoff game. I'm high strung right now. You should know what Morgan Rielly looks like. Like, you should know what the Raptors and the Leafs look like.

I think it was just a misunderstanding of communication. But anyway, the point I was trying to make, or pick Connor Brown, the knock on the Leafs has been they're too small. It's heart, man. It's a little bit of determination. Like, Zach Hyman might be the grittiest player they have. Which we have to talk about him Oh what a game

But we'll talk about him in a sec Connor Brown Going toe to toe And he caused that goal A little bit of a Darryl Boyce assist Dare I say He was battling with Brooks Orpik And if he's not battling with him

That puck probably just goes right into Holtby's chest And not off of Orpik's ass He scored a Grabner He did, he scored a Grabner You're right And then 39 seconds to go 39.9 seconds to go

I believe William Nylander Sorry Zach Hyman Wins a puck battle Behind the net Which people Are like

Well that doesn't happen All that much And four or five times During the game Hyman Drew the attention Of two or three capitals Behind the net

He wins puck battles Wins puck battles But like even Even if it's Even if he doesn't Come out with the puck Just the fact that attention has been drawn away From those two murderers

Those assassins that he's on a line with Matthews and Nylander By the way During the game You know, you pick up different things When you're actually in the arena I think the Capitals are Very worried about Mitch Marner

Something about the way they play against that line They are scared to death Of William Nylander They're terrified of that guy And the thing was, I noticed that Bozy, Marner, and JVR had a kind of a, not that they were bad, but a quieter night. Marner had a lot of shots blocked, I think. Yeah, Marner, it seemed like he kept having to Leroy Jenkins up in the middle of the ice. It's ironic because Bozak got the game winner.

Yeah, it wasn't that it was bad. Marner was taking it upon himself a lot. And I wondered, because every time after you'd see the Matthews-Nylander line, and Washington couldn't handle them. They could not Could not handle them Now And Washington had their Fair share of moments too

Let's be fair Where they were playing Keep away with the Leafs And it was It was very scary Like hold the fort scary Did we talk about Heavy shifts?

We're not there yet Hang on Okay okay Hang on Zach Hyman Yes Wins a puck battle Dogged

The puck skirts out to Austin Matthews Who is also behind the net Who passes it Perfectly To William Nylander Who takes a shot And is robbed by

Holtby Absolutely robbed But no one's there for the rebound and no one's there for Willie. Why? Hyman and Matthews going to work

wide open. Don't leave William Nylander alone. Don't do it. It's like Ovechkin a little bit. It's why would you leave Ovechkin alone? Why would you?

Well, because his line mates and he knows how to get open. Nylander's done that so many times this year especially on the power play. Again, like Ovechkin.

Why would you leave Nylander alone? Well, they've figured out how to just get them open. Yep, absolutely. And they tied it. It's not just that they scored two goals there. It's not just that they tied it right before intermission. How on earth did the Leafs survive that period? They go down.

They're losing to start it. They go down 3-1 about five minutes in. They kill off a full two-minute five on three. Then the bench minor. Then they score. Then they score again. That's just focus and concentration. Determination.

How on earth? A little bit of luck, too. Now, here's the thing. Tons of luck. So that's the almost fainted goal for Steve. 39 seconds to go. Nylander scores the goal. I stood up, saw a little bit of gray in my vision, and just went,

and sat right back down. Head rush. Well, I just want to say. I hadn't had anything to eat or drink. I was too nervous. 39, William Nylander's old number. Just throwing that out there. Illuminati.

Wait, it wasn't? What 39? 39 was William Nylander's. 39 seconds he scored it 39 seconds left I believe 39 wasn't it 62

was also 39 I believe last year in the last 20 games or whatever that he played with the Leafs I think it was 62 pretty sure it was 39 oh you know what

it was 39 in the NHL 62 with the Marlies I think yeah damn see Illuminati check out the big brain on Brad confirmed

so third period no oh can I ask you which line leads the NHL playoffs in Corsi Three games in

The Matthews line? It does Can you guess What their Corsi percentage is? Ooh Fifty Seven Percent

That's very high Sixty seven point one one For three games Can you guess what the second closest is? Uh This is really hard Which line? Yeah, and what team?

On the Leafs or on another team? On the other team Just in the NHL Who's doing really well Is it someone on the You know what It might be someone on the wild ironically Not on the wild

Preds Whatever line Forsberg's on Johansson, Forsberg And Arvidsson 63.86 So there are four Four total percentage points The best thing about that chart

Is the third team What's the third line? What do we have? I didn't even write it down. Oh, you didn't write it down? No, no, I can look it up. Where did you guys get this from? Because it was on, I saw it on Marvel.

It's from Corsica. Ah, Corsica. But, um. Here, I got it right here. The third line was the most interesting. Ah! It's a team that hasn't won a game. The Wild.

No. No. Blackhawks. No. Who else hasn't won a game? Flames. Yes. What line?

Goudreau? No. Backland. Nope, you were right the first time. Monaghan, Goudreau, Furland, 62.5. They're playing that good. And they haven't won a game. Now it's, oh my gosh.

We'll talk about the Flames later on in the show. Yeah, the playoffs, man. Heartbreaking for them. Brutal. So here's the thing. Third game of the series to go in an OT, but this time it's with a twist. The Caps take a penalty. A high sticking with 15 seconds left in regular time.

And it's, I believe, on Connor Brown. Or is it Matt Hyman? Hyman. Hyman behind the net. This freaking kid. And they had, listen, somebody slashed Mitch Marner's stick right out of his hands and they didn't call it. But they had to call this. Well, this was, this is what I said in the video.

Like, I was, I was like, man, I don't know if that's a penalty. Oh, you think it wasn't a slash? No, no, no, that has nothing to do with it. Yeah. You know, it's, it's just. It's playoffs. I still, yeah, I guess I just still am a little confused as to what is and isn't a penalty in the playoffs. I would assume that the refs are a little confused too

Why is there a different standard? Call it the same or don't, right? Well, and then for, like, I think the second straight game First two periods are full of penalties Third period, they completely put their whistles away And then they call one in the last 15 seconds Like, if Caps fans had any complaint here I think it might be consistency

Yeah, but then the Leafs can make the same complaint Because Marner should have been That should have been a penalty on whoever slashed Marner's stick out of his hands And I get the consistency thing I'd be just as mad if I were a Caps fan But it was a penalty Here it is I found this from Andrew Berkshire on Twitter

So yesterday he tweets Leafs Caps scoring chances were 28-27 for the Caps But 15-10 for the Leafs in high danger chances 11-11 in chances on net Scoring chances from the start of the third on were 13-2 for the Leafs. Zero on net for the Caps.

I think they went 15 minutes without getting a shot. Registering a shot. 13 minutes. The one asterisk I will put on that, it says zero on net. Shots that hit the post don't count. Yeah, I guess. It's stupid. It is kind of dumb. Kuznetsov hit the crossbar.

No, it's not a shot on goal. He hit the crossbar! Is there a goal there without the posts? Does the goal exist without the posts? Is it a part of the netting? If you hit the side of the net, is it a shot on goal? I think it should be front.

Frontal. Post and in. Now I'm definitely, I watch. No, but do you hear the spirit of the word? It's shot on goal. You didn't hit the goal. I suppose you're right. But here's the thing.

If it goes off the post and goes in the net, is it a shot? Because it went in. Yeah, but. No, no, it should be about where it hits, not where it goes. Because if you're, no, no, no. That's talking out of both sides of your mouth. If the shot is on the outside of the post and goes into the corner, it's not a shot. If the shot is on the inside of the post and goes into the net, it's a shot.

Because it's a goal. But Jesse, that means that you're judging the shot based on where it ended up after it hits the post. Now, what if the shot hits the post, comes back out, hits the goalie in the back and goes in? Is that a goal without a shot? No, because it went in the net. It's a shot on... But the guy didn't shoot it. It went off the goalie.

The on-goal part of the term is just, does it have a chance of being a goal when it's being shot? If you throw a puck along the end boards, it takes a weird bounce on the stanchion. It could go in the net. But it was a shot on, did it have a chance of going into this square? That's the goal. I mean, the guy who took the shot will probably tell you. There's just an area inside the net where you can go, and if it goes in there, it's a goal. It's very confusing.

It's a little bit confusing. And if it's a shot on that target, it's a shot on goal. And the other ones are just shots. It just seems like it's the closest thing it could possibly be to a goal without being a goal. Yeah. And it's not a shot on goal, though. It's not. No, I know.

I'm with you and still think it's weird, but... It's weird, but it's not how it's determined. It's like the high-sticking call. Yeah, I get it. I don't get it, but I get it. But I don't get it, but I get it. It's hockey. It's the gray areas in hockey

So okay we go into overtime There's a minute 45 as soon as overtime starts Of penalty time And we bring back Big Nachos Guy Here's that little seed It has sprouted buds all day Did you Dave Chapelle us? Have you not seen the Dave Chapelle specials?

I've seen one of them The first one I'm not sure which one is which Anyway we'll talk Nachos Guy So meet Mrs. Dangle Right before the third period actually So

Apparently Nacho's guy Who's there with his wife Told her he goes hey I have an extra seat In the club lounge Like if you guys want to use it So that you don't have to go back up to the bleeders You can use it We're like are you serious

And so he's not there to start the third So I sit down and I talk to her I talk to his wife and I go, is he serious about this? She goes, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, and he's just in the washroom so tell your wife to come back, she can just sit in his seat until he comes back. That's really cool. It was really cool

so we just sat there together in these immaculate seats for the first half of the third and then I see him and he waves me and I'm like, oh shoot, okay okay. Brings me up to the club lounge, just explains to one of the waitresses, I guess this guy's like a big cheese or something and I get to just chill

in there and that's where I watch the rest of the third in overtime. Club Lounge is pretty cool, eh? It's pretty... Well, I've been in there once, but it was a regular season game and Gustafsson was in net. Needless to say,

it wasn't nearly as high stakes. Jesse has his jersey. What? That's true. That's what I wore last episode. That's right. And if I remember correctly, the Leafs won that night

and they were in a playoff spot at the time. Well, there you go. Times change, though. They did change. So, she's in this wicked seat. I'm in the Club Lounge in another wicked seat.

standing is unbelievable. What luck! What crazy luck to get that opportunity instead of... I wouldn't have missed it if I was in the bleeders, because it was on the net I could actually see, but like, what

luck to get that seat. It was unbelievable. Which brings us to overtime. That's right. With 38 seconds left, Nazem Khadri. We also miss Kuznetsov hitting the crossbar. Oh, well.

When he should have taken the shot. We were sort of talking, yeah, we should have gone there first. You're right. It wasn't just that he hit the crossbar. That should have been a bang-bang one-timer. He should have shot it initially. The Capitals have been, like, I don't want to say anything about the Capitals not performing to the best of their abilities because that just sounds like I'm saying, oh, the Leafs are smoking mirrors.

They're not actually this good, blah, blah, blah. But the Caps have been getting in their own way all series long. All series long. And that goes to Holtby too Like I was saying how he's looked mortal He's looked mortal in that Everything is bouncing around in front of him And that's not his fault, that's the defense

And it's also, I mean, the plan of the Leafs Connor Brown was working hard for that Bozak worked hard for his tip-in goal Matthews was dogged You know, kind of created his own luck on the first goal But how doesn't Kuznetsov blast that? Blast it, rip it, do whatever you need to do You have the whole net

And then he waited Still had the whole net And hit the crossbar It was so odd Just watching it A lot of passes Into the feet A lot of

Missed one timers A lot of fanning on shots The Caps look shook I was a little I was a little worried In the third period When the Leafs fans Started chanting Ovi

I was like Let's not It was Holtby Oh it was Holtby We heard Ovi And I think the announcers Even said Ovi The broadcaster said

It was Ovi But I guess it was Holtby It might have been Holtby then I don't think so Because I was like Don't tempt fate here You don't want to piss off that freaking gun He played, by the way

Less than 16 minutes Why do you think that is? I don't have an answer for that I don't know He played great He scored a goal He's got two of their goals in this series How many goals have they scored?

Three plus What was the last game? 4-3? Yep And then 4-3 again? Yeah, backtrack 4-3 So three, nine He's got two of their nine goals

why isn't he on the ice 16 minutes like i get that he doesn't kill penalties but they didn't take a lot of penalties though they didn't take a ton what's the deal like he should have been on the ice a lot in the first we know he was on for at least one shift he scored a goal he was on for like the entire power play was it like how much even strength time did he play i that's a good question i don't know supposedly in the double ot game he played about 24 minutes Which also seems low. I mean, in a playoff game, it's Alex Ovechkin. He should be playing that, like, per 30.

I know that when Barry Trotz took over, they asked him to play less. They wanted to spread the minutes around so they could get the best out of him while he was playing. So you could have a fresher Ovechkin. I think that's the theory behind it. And I think he also wanted, I think Barry Trotz wants to keep the Ovechkin-Backstrom, can't remember who else is on that line, away. Is it Oshie? Yes. It's Dangle because you play.

Oh, that's right. They want to keep them away from the Kadri, Komarov, Brown line. Yeah. And that's such a compliment to Kadri, Komarov, and Brown for how well they play, but that's one of the best lines in the league. Top five, right? You should just be throwing them out there. Put them out.

Don't be afraid. You can put Crosby up against whoever you want. You can put McDavid up against whoever. Yeah, you want to maybe avoid unfavorable matchups, But you're on the road. He's already got a goal tonight. Let him go. Let him go.

Like, is he battling an injury or something? Maybe. We don't know about it. Maybe. He doesn't play like he is. No, I don't think so. So, 38 seconds to go. Overtime.

Power play. 38 seconds. No, it was early in the overtime. No, 38 seconds to go in the power play. Oh, sorry. Nazem Khadri. Tyler Bozak. Set play JVR in front of the net.

and you could see them setting it up. We've seen it enough now where it's like, you don't know how it's going to happen, but you can see it in the replay. That is a setup play. They practiced that. Well, it's a nightmare, too, if you look at it. So Marner works really hard behind the net.

Again, play behind the net that sets the whole thing up. But the nightmare is Kadri's got the puck along the end boards, right? He's got Riley open at the point. He's got JVR at the side of the net ready to do a standard JVR tip. He's positioned and it's difficult to move him He's got Marner relatively open At the other side of the net And he's got Bozak in this neat little Bermuda triangle

In the middle No cap has taken anybody Because they don't know who to take There's all these options And they threw it at the option I was expecting the least I thought Kadri just shot it I didn't know that shot was tipped when I first saw it Throws it right at Bozak

If I was a defender in front I probably would have taken JVR maybe Marner I wouldn't have thought they were gonna just bomb it into the slot at Bozak

tips it in one of the loudest pops I've ever heard at any professional sporting event ever let's talk about that pop right next to yeah sure

because I have experienced that too an overtime playoff game where the Leafs win that's right you saw was it the last time

they took a series win Gary Roberts yeah it might have been Gary Roberts against the Ottawa Senators in three it was triple overtime Triple overtime is $11.51.

And it just, like, the ACC exploded. So anytime anybody comes in and says, that's why I took offense, I don't take offense, but that's why I take exception to the Edmonton guy coming in, because you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Like, you just told me that I'm in there. Like, fuck off, man. That is such an old, that is a Steve Simmons tweet.

That is lazy. And with no offense, not no offense, that's Steve's brand. But honestly, that is just lazy insult. That's just lazy. Respectfully to Steve Simmons, he would come on the podcast. And defend his opinion. And he would just be like, it was boring in there. It was boring in all my years.

Eight minutes before the game, it was boring. I'd be like, it was eight minutes before the game, Steve. God bless him. He's the only one who can block out all that fucking excitement. Like, he walks in past Maple Leafs effing square, and he's like, nope, I'm not absorbing any of this energy. None of this positivity gets through to me. First home playoff game in four years. Everyone's losing their mind.

He's just, nope. Nope. I'm not impressed. No. How Toronto of you. He smokes now. I bet you jaywalk, too. I got arrested for it.

No, it's, whatever, man. It was a loud pop. I'll put that just below You know what When Benino made it 3-2 In game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final Last year Holy shit

That was loud It's not my instinct to cheer for the Penguins When everyone stood up You just do it All the light was blacked out around me Because everyone stood up Before I did I was scared

The gold medal goal Crosby that was mind blowing still probably hasn't been taught but that was loud that was loud and it was in the club lounge

imagine how much louder it would have been like I'm in this padded room it's a restaurant it's not in quite in the stands oh my god

it's pandemonium I just started I didn't high five or hug a single person I knew like it was just ah buds all day just yelling at people

high fiving it was nuts last fall I got to see 49,000 people jump up and scream when Edwin hit the home run

oh you were there at that freaking game that would have been crazy that was the biggest sports moment I've ever witnessed in real time that's magic

yeah extra innings bottom of the 10th that's why we love sports walk off home run walk off it was unbelievable to win the one game

playoff I regret not being there and I regret not being at the the bat flip game I do too but I remember

Watching the bad flip game Here at Kiss And thinking Like Like it was just You go nuts Wherever you are But man

I was literally rolling My jersey was filthy Because I was rolling On the floor Like in basically agony Like anxiety agony Like just rolling around And how far we are removed

From all of that With the Jays this season 2-10 boys Holy shit 2-10 I went to the home opener And I went to Sunday How many

You've only got 13 more games to go We've already given away a pair Only 12 So Steve will be there every weekend Until the end of the summer 12 doesn't seem like much until you factor in 12 weeks That's a lot of baseball 12 times 3 hours

That's why I can't understand people get season tickets That is a lot of damn baseball man You must just not have anything to do 81 times 3 No the game starts at 1 on Tuesday It's like who the fuck is going to that game You have to be off

There's one tomorrow that starts at 1 o'clock Here are you serious in the school? They I think it might be the school day one I'm a school day games are crazy And I I'm I'm excited for that because we get to watch Jesse and I get to watch that in studio I can now is way better the Jays were primary for a while in the city Here's how secondary they are right now, especially with their record You know how many people are going to the Leafs game tomorrow who might get Jays tickets just for something to do Like, hey, we're going downtown anyway.

Want to just get Jay's tickets? Just flippantly Jay's tickets. And then if the game's not done by the time the playoffs... Let's go. I would do that. Just leave. If I had tomorrow off, I would do that. Why not?

Why not? Super Sports Wednesday. And now, is there any way you can get tickets for tomorrow's game? Leafs? Yeah. No, so I'm hosting Maple Leafs Square again. And then part of the perk of the job is I get a reservation to Real Sports. So they couldn't...

You guys want to join me in real sports? Can we come? As a perk. That's pretty tough, man. They should at least have a box where it's like, okay, if you're a staff working at Mabel Square or whatever. But do you know how many people work there? A lot of people work there. You're like the VIP of the staff.

The part-time guy we hired to do three nights for us. That's the guy. Literally the silver medal to Scott and Danielle. well and I will fully just concede not professional enough to handle the press box in this situation

I can't do it cause you don't cheer in the press box so I will cheer so that's why I can't do it sometimes you just want to be a fan man it's way better Sportsnet has told me a couple times

hey man we'll get you credentials It's not a It's weird Like I'm not Chris Johnson Right It's not the way I like to watch Leaf games That's fair

You still get to be Part of it No you don't You get to see it You get to witness You get to see Look at all the fun Those people are having

You get to sit at Your laptop witness Witness Yeah You know what's You know what's cool Just sitting there With your laptop open

As everyone races To tweet the thing As fast as possible Like With all due respect to Kevin McGran I love you buddy But I would rather be sitting next to like

Someone in a jersey Yeah You know That's fair Chris Johnson It's all what you want out of life man All those guys Here's okay

So Steve I know I have a question I have a question I have a question after We have not Touched another series That's okay No that's okay

I want to talk three hours Well we gotta bring on We haven't even talked about the captain We have to bring on Dark Eye Because we are 15 minutes over When we should have called him But that's okay looked up and went

mmm so here's here's my quandary sitting on the couch last night and Caprice is on her phone she's obsessed

with this app called Bunz I don't know if you've ever heard of it but basically you just trade stuff I know the creator

do you know the creator she well the creator is a genius that's all Caprice does is meet people and trade stuff

she's cool as shit that's amazing good for her she must be doing great oh yeah I think Caprice would like to meet her maybe we should

put them in touch but the Caprice is like I'm surprised you didn't go because I could have gone I could have bought a ticket and she said I'm really surprised you're not there

and I said oh and she said I think you should go on Wednesday I think you should go she said I think you should spend the money and go you should just go well listen it's a lot of money for her to say that that's a big deal

because it's a lot of money It's $250, $300. On that note, I've never told Mrs. Dangle the price of the wedding ring, an engagement ring, and I never will. And I've made a vow. I'm like, I will not look at the price of these tickets. I don't want to know. I'm not interested in that information.

Don't look and get tours in the mouth. No. Nope, nope. I had the ticket still in my pocket this morning, and I realized, and I pulled it out, and I put it on the table without even looking at it, and hopefully she's throwing them out by the time I get home. I don't want to see it. Question.

Do I come to Real Sports with you guys on Wednesday and buy tickets potentially? That's a great question. I'll ask. We're allowed to come, right? I assume so. Is it catered? I'll pay for your meal, whatever.

I'll pay for my meal. I'll pay for my own damn meal. Can't put a price on time. Can't put a price on time. Hot Wheels, why? Is it a free meal? Wild, my sugar dad. I was through $40.

We ordered some wings. Here's the thing. If I buy a ticket, getting down to the Leaf game on time would be very hard on a Wednesday night for me. I'm off work at about 7 o'clock. And you don't want to miss a second. You don't want to miss a second. However, there is a chance they could play Sunday. In this damn series, there's going to be a goal in the first two minutes.

There's a chance they could play Sunday. Yeah, because... It's going to be a Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday week. You can totally get there on time. You think so? If you voice track your last break, say you do your voice track for the 6.40 break, and then you leave here at 6.30,

game's not starting until 7.15 with National Anthems. You got 45 minutes to get to the ACC. So do I hang out with you guys at Real Sports, or do I go experience some damn Maple Leafs playoff hockey? Because either way, they are coming back to Toronto. If Toronto loses one game, they're coming back to Toronto one more time, and it'll be on a weekend.

But that's not going to happen. Or I buy a ticket for the second round Oh yeah, so you'll have See, that's the thing So you can hold off So do I hold off? I hold off on Wednesday, right? Hold off on game four? I selfishly want you to hang out with me

So I can't answer that Objectively Oh, Steve's thinking of Steve Fuck you guys Because of the worst friends And it's like the nicest thing He could have thought right But of course we make it a terrible thing

But it's the nicest thing he could have thought I want to hang out with my friends Oh are you so selfish I've been asked Like similar things And over the past year I've learned to just be like My answer is obviously This because of this

For selfish reasons straight up Make this decision yourself. Right. Do not. You're looking at the wrong person for advice. Okay. So Real Sports Wednesday. Friday's in Washington.

If that is what you choose to do, Adam. Friday, they clinch in Washington. If I'm even allowed to bring you guys. Oh, you might want to check that. Oh, yeah. Friday, they hopefully clinch in Washington. How unbelievable. That would be amazing.

And then we're looking at game one of the next, or game three, I guess, of the next series. because I don't know if they're going to have home ice advantage. No, throughout the playoffs, they are guaranteed to be the road team. Yeah, you don't recede. Oh, there you go. Now, let's all chill. Let's all chill a sec. Because they're up 2-1.

Oh, yeah, listen, I know. Can I be pie in the sky for a minute? Totally. Well, and I don't want Leafs fans to get too far ahead of themselves. No. And I've seen some. However, the reason this is so fun, or part of the reason this is so fun, they went into this playing with house money.

they won more. They won on top of the house money. It's awesome. It's like you've already won a million dollars and somebody gave you a million more to play with. They go, yeah, I'm rich anyway. I won a million dollars playing scratch tickets. Yeah.

And now I'm up to 1.3. And the scratch ticket was a birthday present. Yeah. You didn't even pay for that scratch ticket. Yeah, true. Now, I want to shout out the Caps fans. First off, I want to say to all Caps fans, You have been polite

You have been reasoned I have to say Justin Fisher was tweeting Some very funny Not STP fans Tweets at the Capitals last night Which were trade Holpe And trade Ovechkin

For guys Trade Ovechkin was my favorite Trade Ovechkin for guys Who will actually go get the puck Rather than wait for it Great And then Holpe Never came up big in the playoffs

One of the best Say percentages in the playoffs ever Yeah Now I think it's hilarious but I want to say to the Caps fans we know

you might see some belligerently fans who do not because they exist we're sorry however we know this sucker ain't over

and the Leafs know this is not over and the Caps know this is not over but we would like to thank you for being so polite we understand the

frustration we've been there we've been frustrated too but I believe I checked the scores before we came the score of game 4

right now is currently 0-0 the score of game 5 Currently 0-0 And those are the next two guaranteed games Did you check that? I checked that beforehand Game 4 is currently 0-0

I don't believe it can change until tomorrow night Are 70% 10-70% of game 4 0-0 I believe they are to start I'd have to verify that stat Steve what are you looking up? I am trying to look up a stat Can't seem to find it

I think Nazem Kadri was part of a series I think we talked about this last show He was part of a series back when he was in the OHL I think this is when the Knights loaded up And they went out and they got John Tavares And Michael DelZotto And they already had Nazem Kadri Kadri was like relegated to like second line center

Behind Tavares In the OHL But they were no match for the Ridiculously also stacked Windsor Spitfires That game Sorry that series Spits 1 and 5

Oh so they blew out the Spits right? Or sorry they blew out the Knights right? Every single game went to overtime It's an OHL record Never happened before This could easily Have been 3-0 Capitals Easily

3-0 Leafs They were up 2-0 In the first game Agreed But let's Call it what it is here An even series Three overtime games

And again Like let's say Washington somehow Not even somehow Wouldn't be that crazy They're only down one game Let's say they come back And win this series

The Leafs have gotten Have already In three games Gotten Every little bit of experience that I've wanted them to get in these playoffs. I would like to see how they are later in a series

you do need that, but like I mean just scratch it off playing with the lead, playing behind penalty killing, power play, overtime, double overtime needing a big save overcoming the goalie, just battling off bigger guys

coming up with a big gritty shift, like that Kadri Komarov and then Kadri again Big shift. Shift. That was the roughest shift of the season. Where did that come from? Kadri's still such a funny player in this league.

What is he? What is he exactly? Do you want to know what the topic on Buffalo Sports Radio was this morning? I would love to know. Why can't Tyler Ennis score 30 goals like Nazem Kadri? What a great comparable. Thanks, Buffalo. But why does everyone always talk about the Leafs?

Buffalo's talking about the Leafs By the way, I also saw a tweet at Mark Masters Somebody from Edmonton Was like, why don't you go dust their balls And I was like I'm like, okay And this guy, I guess People were like

People People said to him Like, dude, why do you follow him? He's a Leafs beat reporter And he's like, I don't follow him, he was just retweeted into my timeline And I had to explain to him I'm like, listen man It's

I had to jump in I felt like No I am defending Mark Masters Adam Why did you jump into A random Twitter conversation Because

Because I was bored I shouldn't have done it But anyway I had to explain to him What a Leafs beat reporter was And I said They have them in Edmonton They're just called

McDavid Stalkers Why don't you dust his balls Like so dumb Like Why don't you dust The team's balls I just had him Like with a makeup brush

Trying to Dust some balls No one in Edmonton Carries water for the Oilers No no one it's just silly they're all very objective

oh yeah every now and then they're like let's cool it with the McDavid and Mark Masters is pretty even like he's just he just gives the information

he's a good reporter yeah Chris Johnson Kristen Schilton Dave Alter yeah they're all great James Myrtle

James Myrtle I just think it's just I just thought it was hilarious you go after a Leafs beat reporter for being a Leafs beat reporter it's just amazing again it's just

it's one of those things that's so obviously ridiculous I would just like ignore that although I know I might have to give him props for the... Why don't you go dust their balls?

I've never heard of... Oh, you! And he had a... The great thing was his Twitter account... Zach Cassian played like Eric Lindros. Why don't you stop dusting his balls? The hilarious part about his Twitter profile was the Oilers logo was, like, so filtered that it wasn't even the Oilers colors anymore.

Oh. It was just, like, a bad Oilers color. Like, it was just, like, oh, man. Everything's wrong about this, man. Bobby Cappuccino Retweeted this guy He was I think he was an angry

Caps fan And he read his profile And it was something like Go Caps Free Charles Manson Oh That is Twitter's fucked

That is an interesting Twitter free Like oh my god That is an interesting combo That's not a stance I thought people took Leave it to Bobby To find that guy too

He's the guy 100% He's the guy Alright let's call Let's call our boy Dark Guy If he's still around Hopefully he's not at work here.

Oh, my God. Balls. Oh, no. What? What? We're still on the air here. What? What did you find?

It's completely irrelevant. Oh, can I see? I'm uncomfortable saying that. We'll talk about that in a second. Yeah? Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Hello.

Hello, is this the infamous, and now totally famous, dark guy? Absolutely, it is. Hi, Jason. It's Steve and Adam and Jesse from the Steve Dangle Podcast. How are you, buddy? Oh, fantastic, guys, and yourself? We're okay, man. Yeah, it's been an okay 24 hours.

How about you? It's been a crazy 24 hours, but I'm loving every second of it. You sound like you might have blown out your vocal cords last night. Uh, came very close anyway. Now, I want your take on this, man. Well, okay, sorry, first of all, can you once and for all pronounce your name for everybody? It's Jason Maslico.

Okay. Jason Maslico. So dark guy. Well, I know. Exactly, exactly. Yeah. Um, yeah, uh, when the Leafs were down 2-0,

the camera immediately goes to you. I think you turned the tide of that game, man. I'm serious. Well, you know what, as amazing of a suggestion as that is, I'm thinking Nazem Kadri and Leo Komarov, a couple monster hits there is what turned the tide, but I'll take the credit if you want to give it. Well, who got them going, my friend? Who got them going? Jason, let's talk about the beginning, how this all started, because Jesse and I actually talked about doing this. I said to him before the weekend last weekend, why didn't we drive down? It's a long weekend. Why didn't we drive down to Washington and go see the game?

We should have done that. Why didn't we do that? And you did it. So how did you decide that you were going to do that? And then we got to talk about how this whole journey started for you. Well, you know, I started looking to see if there was tickets available. And I realized that if we wanted to go down, there were still tickets at a fair price. So I hopped on Google, saw exactly how far of a drive it was going to be,

and said, you know what, nine hours is nothing. I can do that nonstop. Let's go. So I had put a thing up on Facebook if any of my friends were interested in possibly a road trip, and a couple guys jumped on board right away. That's so Canadian. Nine hours, that's nothing. That's so typical of this country. For the Leafs in the playoffs, it was nothing. Now, Jason, when you decide to go to this game, but you're not just going to the game.

Like, Jesse and I, if we had gone, we'd have just gone to the game, worn our jerseys, gone, whew, and then left. You go to the game with your enormous beard, and you shave your head, and you shave it into a Stanley Cup, and you paint your face. And go Leafs. Let's start with the Stanley Cup. Who did the hair job? His name is Aaron Dorian. He's got a shop called Precision Hairstyles. It was precise.

In Waterloo. Okay. Very precise haircut. It was awesome. Is that where you're from, Waterloo? Born and raised in Sudbury, living in Waterloo now. Amazing. Okay.

All right. And then who did the face painting? So the first game in Washington, I had cut out a template of the maple leaf and had my friend trace it, and then I had just filled it all in afterwards. Wow. That's a veteran move. And Mr. Dorian there was kind enough to open up his shop that was closed for the day and touch up my hair.

He darkened up the dye on the Go Leafs Go and did the makeup for me so I didn't have to worry about it when I got down to Toronto. Now, you know what it is to be a long-suffering Leaf fan. Yes. How cool is it to be not only a Leaf fan, but right now, the Leaf fan? i i can't honestly i've been asked that question a lot and i i can't even put it into words to describe it for anybody what what this has been like for me uh to have this kind of closeness to the to the fan base and to the organization uh it's just mind-blowing did derringer end up getting

you uh those game four tickets yeah i'll be meeting derringer tomorrow uh uh i have to call him a little bit later there's a possibility I might hop on his show tomorrow morning but yeah I'm definitely going to be meeting him before the game and we're going together. Will you please say hi to John for me he is one of the nicest people I have ever

Oh look at you guys just both of you on a first name basis with John Derringer I'm going to call up John Say hi to John. Listen to him all high school. I love their show but John was gracious enough to like buy me a coffee and we hung out and

And what a great guy. So you're going to have a fun time. You know what? Obviously, I've never met him before now, but he's got to be something fantastic to go out of his way to want to take me to the game, you know, just because I painted my face blue and drove down to Washington. So this is going to be awesome.

When the Maple Leafs, like, how did the Maple Leafs get in touch with you? Was it over Twitter? Like, how did they find you? Lou Lamorello grabs a phone and just goes, get me Dart Guy. A representative from the Maple Leafs Twitter account had tracked my Twitter account down and sent me a message saying, what are you doing Monday night? And I said, well, hopefully going to a Leafs game. That took me a minute to go, wait a second.

That's a veteran-free stuff move. Wow, I'm in awe. I'm in awe. That was very good. Jason, you've experienced the energy, and now you've experienced what it's like to be at the Air Canada Centre when an overtime goal goes in. Can we dispel the myth, finally, that there's no atmosphere there?

Well, I'll tell you, I've been to a lot of Leaf games, regular season games in Toronto, and last night changed my opinion on a lot of the crowds. They blew the roof off the place there last night. So I, for one, was very impressed and happy to see it. Do you have any idea how many interviews you've done? Because yesterday at Maple Leaf Square, we wanted to get you on stage, but it was everything we could do to tear you away from all the cameras.

Do you have any idea how many interviews you've done? If I had to take a frugal estimate, I'd say about 30 or so. Wow. I believe it. Well, because I was tweeting about you, Jason, and it was funny. I'm tweeting about Jason, and I throw out the tweet. I'm like, by the way, I would love to have him on. And all of a sudden, I get a retweet from Jason going, it would be an honor. And it's like, whoa!

I was like, whoa! That's amazing! To give you guys an idea, like a behind-the-scenes thing, and I don't know if you heard this part, Jason. You might have. But when we were backstage there, Wendell was the one going, I got to get a picture with this guy. he wanted a picture with you did you hear him say that no i i didn't hear him say that but the

the funny thing was uh wendell and i had actually met uh last march um there was a a pro-am uh charity hockey tournament tournament for alzheimer's and uh i was uh involved with that and uh during one of the promotional luncheons uh wendell was there uh with percy talker Mike Krushelnitsky, Mark Napier, and I had a chance to spend a good 5-10 minutes with Wendell then. I actually got some pictures from that day on my Twitter account and on my Facebook. Wendell's such a nice guy. He was fantastic, but to know that he wanted to seek me out for the picture is absolutely crazy, because like most Leaf fans growing up that are in my age frame, Wendell's the man.

Absolutely. I mean, he got a great reception on stage yesterday, Gary Lehman, Daryl Sittler, too, but dart guy. Dude, you're a force of nature. They went nuts for you. Jason, also, I want to talk about a special moment that happened last night. Okay. There was a couple in their, I would say, mid-40s who approached you, who, one of them has jet black hair and bears a startling resemblance to her son, who happens to be Austin Matthews. Oh, my God! So you met and took a picture with Austin Matthews' parents. Yes.

What was that like? And they came up to you. Yes, they came up to me, and I was, again, at a loss for words. I didn't immediately recognize them, and I felt bad for that. But, I mean, I had met so many people yesterday, my mind was just spinning. But, yeah, Austin's father leaned over, and he said, number 34 is my son. Number 34. for. I took a step

back and I looked at him and I said, oh my god and I gave him a big hug and told him what a good job they did raising a god. Dude, so I'm on Matthew's Twitter right now. I'm looking through his likes. His last four likes are all about you.

We should screen grab that and send that to him. You should keep that. Are you telling me Austin Matthew's Twitter account is liking my post? Yeah. And anything about you? His most recent one is you tweeted a picture of you with his parents. Then there's one from DannyAllStar15, the name of a more iconic duo. It's you and someone named Sydney Escazon.

I'm not sure I've ever heard of her. And then it's another one of her and you. And then another one. The front is a cigarette, a lit cigarette with Toronto on top of it. and on the back, on the nameplate, it says Dart Guy and the number is 69. Nice. Nice.

Matthew's like that. That is amazing. That's amazing right there. Yeah, there's a video Steve was showing us before the show even started, Jason, of, you know how they raise the banners at the beginning of the season? Yes, Jeff.

Have you seen this, where they put you on the banner? I caught that this morning and I was dying laughing. So where do you go from here? So you go to game four and you're kind of, you are for all intents and purposes, you're our

representative, man. We voted you into hockey fandom parliament. Are you going to turn this into any sort of, like, is there business opportunities that have come your way? Are you going to be doing a Honda commercial sometime? Like, what's the deal? Where do we go from here?

Well, you know what? I would take any opportunity that was put my way. I mean, this has been such a great experience for me that But I definitely wouldn't turn anything down. I have had a couple messages, one from a beard company about promoting their products. Amazing.

You should. I had another one from an amateur wrestling company out of Barrie, Ontario, that was interested in me doing some guest appearances at their next couple events. Oh, that's so cool. Come on. Really? That's amazing. So do you think you'll do them?

Well, I'm going to discuss a little bit further with them and see what they had in mind. Uh, uh, so, uh, and we'll see what, where it goes, but, uh, like I said, uh, I, I'm not in a, I don't, I don't really want to turn anything down, uh, from anyone. Uh, this, uh, this has been also great for me. Uh, if I can help somebody else out along the way with a business or, or whatever the case may be, uh, I'm going to do that. Jason, I gotta be honest. I'm going to be just blunt with you here.

Okay. So you, you, you've, you've taken this mantle. This happened completely by accident And by the way Everybody that follows me now Has changed their picture to your face So every time I tweet something And all the likes are just your face

I'm going through my Twitter right now I can't go more than 5 or 10 posts without seeing your face But the best part about this For me Is that not only are you taking this and enjoying this But you are a kind and gracious And fun guy You're not a douchebag

And it's such a relief to know you're not a douchebag man I really appreciate that because a couple people on the internet actually did call me a douchebag. What? I appreciate you saying that. Well, that's the internet. I get called that every day, man. Welcome. It's a rite of passage, really.

Yeah, really. You're not doing anything right until someone's calling you a douchebag. You're not doing anything at all. This man got on television, looked every eight-year-old in Canada straight in the eye, and said, Smoke! there was that yeah there was that blog yesterday and i was like oh my god oh my oh let's let's pretend nobody smokes okay um go ahead steve why um why did you have a dart in your mouth

it was a tie game i was stressing out there so it was just kind of like uh it was like my comfort blanket to get me through to the intermission or the end of the game so I could get out in a light one. Is there a place to smoke in Washington? Because I don't think you can do it at the ACC, can you? Is there a place to smoke? You've got to go outside. You've got to go outside. And you can't leave? In the ACC at least. Why don't we ask the

guys to smoke? So you went through the whole game yesterday without smoking? No, no. The ACC, you can there's no privileges. Rogers Center doesn't allow it. You can't come back in, but the ACC does. Actually, this is the craziest thing. So I don't know

I don't know what needs to be wrong with you That you would leave yesterday's game But someone left during the third period There were people waiting outside Just watching the games on the TV And they were like Hey, are you going to use that ticket? They go, no, here, knock yourself out

They get into the game for free! Amazing For the third period and the OT winner! Who's leaving at that point? Right? That's crazy I would never, never I could never understand that

I mean, whether you got the tickets for free or you paid for them, what do you do when leaving? It's a playoff. You would have to hear, like, someone is either dying or about to be born. Like, there would need to be some kind of life happening there. Yes. Well, you know what? Dying, I might leave.

If my first born was coming, I'm not leaving that game. You're going to be in labor a while. Yeah, it's going to be a bit. You're good. It's going to be a bit. How about I watch this win, and then I come see you? Absolutely. Oh, my God.

Well, Jason, honestly, man, I hope you enjoy the hell out of this, and I hope it's a long and amazing playoff. And thanks for making time for our show, because I know that everybody has been down your neck about coming on. And thanks for being such a great guy. You know what? No, thank you guys for giving me the time and the kind words. And actually, Adam, I'm under the impression that you're a Dunville boy.

a dunzo boy or you know some people from dunville i might have some mutual friends dunville from dunville i i do know we have mutual friends my fiancee's from bowmanville uh okay there you go but yeah yeah i think we do there were some people that messaged me that know you and i'm from scarborough originally okay yeah yeah yeah so so maybe hopefully we run into each other just socially one of these days. I would thoroughly enjoy that.

You know how to get a hold of me now so we can make that happen. You know what? Maybe we should do a little podcast get together night

for one of the playoff games and if there's like an away game and you're not going to, maybe if we get through the second round or

something like that we all agree to meet up at some bar somewhere and we all hang out and we owe you a beer anyway. First of all, he's

going to be going to every game. That sounds good to me. I'd be totally the game for that. Someone is going to give him two tickets to every game. One for him and one for someone to sit next to him and feed him

grapes. This guy is royalty. And James Myrtle says hi. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, James was one of the first articles out about this after the Washington Post ran with it, so I really

appreciate what he did to help this movement, too. Well, Jason, we're going to be in touch, and thanks so much for making time for us today, buddy. No, thank you, guys. It was my pleasure. Thank you so much. Go Leafs go, bud.

Woo! Go Leafs go. Later, man. Right on. Dark guy. What a wicked dude. That went way better than I could have even hoped because he's such a nice guy.

Oh, he's so nice. He's so nice. Come on. Steve and I talked about it quickly this morning because you met him yesterday. Yeah. But you didn't tell me that he was that nice, right? Like, it didn't come up.

It was very brief that I even got to talk to him because, like, we were delayed a little bit going on stage because CBC, CP24, Sportsnet, a bunch of radio stations, everyone wanted a piece of this freaking guy. We couldn't tear him away. We couldn't tear him away. We're like Daryl Sittler standing right there. To put him up in front of 15,000 people.

John Tory walked by the stage dressed as Abraham Lincoln, the mayor of the city. No one gave a shit because dark guy was right there. I think he might have even gone dark guy. We're serious. Why was Tory dressed up as Abraham? I have no fucking clue Yeah, I didn't know what he was referencing

And like someone else there was dressed as Elvis There was another guy as Trump There was Trump makes sense Because that's just kind of a character I mean, it's cultural, right? It's a cultural thing What was Lincoln?

The Lincoln? Okay, Lincoln might be some kind of a Washington gag Trump might be some kind of a Washington gag Elvis? Well, you can pretty much find an Elvis anywhere, right? It's like Ryder fans There's Elvis fans everywhere A Ryder's fan dressed as Elvis

That's all you need We should talk about the other series Yeah, I guess Okay, did you see the I'm assuming you saw the highlights, right? No You haven't seen the highlights I went straight to bed last night

Are you serious? Okay, so I watched After the Leafs' overtime game They went right to Ottawa-Boston Did you see it, Jess? I saw the Preds' winner, actually Okay, so we'll get to the Preds in a sec Okay, so here's

Let me set this up and on Bobby Ryan How would you say Bobby Ryan's season went? Oh, very poorly Very poorly Very poorly Bobby Ryan, I think, is the Phil Kessel Slash Larry Murphy of Ottawa

Right now Like, he is the whipping boy, right? And here's where it gets worse, because Ottawa's up. They're up, like, I think it was 3-1 or 3-0. And Boston, Sorda is coming back, and David Backus is coming in across the blue line with Bobby Ryan, but he loses the puck. And Bobby Ryan is back playing defense, and that's not Bobby Ryan's strength.

We know that. Misfire is on a pass. David Backus collects this Misfired pass Like attacks him immediately Bobby Ryan then blows a tire Then loses a glove Then loses a stick

Both gloves Both gloves And stick How? And falls on his face It is the craziest fall I've ever seen How?

And then David Backus Literally with about Two feet clearance Boom Right in past Craig Anderson Unbelievable And then that kind of That triggers the comeback

The Bruins tie it Craig Anderson has Huge saves In the third period And here's here's where it gets great ready because

Riley Nash takes an elbow from Bobby Ryan in overtime they're fighting against they're fighting against the boards and Riley Nash

takes an elbow so what does Riley Nash do what would be the smart thing to do in this situation you get an elbow from a player on another team what do you do you just

you take it and accept the power play right except Riley Nash didn't do that what did he do he punched Bobby Ryan in the face

glove on what are you doing And guess who didn't get a penalty? Bobby Ryan. I did see this clip. Pierre Maguire blew a gasket. Because I saw, I did see that clip. That is absolutely, unequivocally the wrong call.

Horrible. Horrible. But sometimes they don't see the initial. Sometimes they see the retaliation. Which is why you don't retaliate. Which is why you do not retaliate. And you know this. And it's overtime.

It's unfortunate that that led to the game-winning goal. It is. It's very unfortunate. For Bobby Ryan, though, it was great. I'm just showing Steve Bobby Ryan blowing a tire. Oh, I got to see this comedy. How do you lose both gloves? Is it coming up right here?

There's the play right here. How did he do that? It's Toronto Maple Leaf-esque. That is That is I've never seen panic like that As in Here it's gonna slow down here

Oh my god He needs to use some of that Tom Wilson stuff Get his glasses Here we go 3-1 Boston Oh Oh What are you doing

Now Now here's Here's where it gets fun Because That's one of those plays where I guaranteed someone still went Frickin' finuf Yeah

What a pile on I was like what I was at the Jays. Sorry. Hang on. Let me just quickly say this. Riley Nash punches Bobby Ryan in the face. Bobby Ryan and the Senators go on power play.

Who scores the game-winning goal? Tell me. It was Bobby Ryan. Bobby Ryan. Gloves on? Gloves on. He didn't whiff on this one. Sorry, what were you going to say at the Jays game?

I just wanted to say congratulations to Bobby Ryan. Oh, it was Kendris Morales hits into an inning-ending double play. And the guy in front of me goes, frickin' Jose. It's just like, what a Toronto sports fan. Were you at the 11-4 game? I was. I left when it was 7-1. When our 20-game winner went down.

Although apparently he's okay. Well, this pitcher comes up, I forget his name, and it's his first MLB game. I'm like, oh, that's kind of cool, let's stay. Okay, let's leave. You should probably check out, by the way, from the Ottawa game. First off, the Carlson pass to Hoffman Yeah, I gotta watch it Which is

Steve This is the most bananas pass you've ever seen I saw I saw a slow motion clip of that on Twitter Where they showed that Not only was it like Just perfect tape to tape From like 150 feet away

The puck In the air Stayed flat The entire time Such a Carlson there He just like The last airbender Just whoosh

Unbelievable So last thing Game's over Game's over Ottawa Ottawa's going to the dressing room And Apparently I saw more than I thought

Yeah, really Yeah, you've seen this all In freaking Boston of all places They don't have those covers To cover the players So Boston fans are What are you, nuts? Boston fans are throwing garbage

Of course And by the way Any fan group can do this But Boston's a cantankerous bunch, okay? Yeah, yeah And in Boston Like in any city You should have the cover

On the players Like they do everywhere else Yeah, yeah So they don't And one of the fans Decides to grab A player's stick and I believe it was

Bobby Ryan's. Carlson's was not. Well, no. Because Carlson was behind Bobby Ryan. Bobby Ryan's trying to pull this stick down and Carlson smacks

the guy on the hand with his stick. Yeah, I hope he doesn't get hurt for that. Well, no, he didn't. The in-arena crew forcibly removed the guy even though the game

was over. No, I mean, I hope the league doesn't fine him or something. What are you doing? They won't. They won't. He's just trying to get a stick.

Maybe I'm like a couple $5,000 fine. No. Well, I haven't seen the video yet. I just saw the still And I was just like Oh fucking Boston

I just thought I just thought Okay so you're mad Your team lost I'm gonna grab his stick Man imagine how blind Mad you gotta be Man I'm not just

Pointing out Boston This could happen anywhere Yeah It really could Totally But it's hilarious That it happened in Boston But okay

If I were to be like What city Yeah so this happened You have five guesses One of your five Probably Boston Boston Philly Boston Philly

Or Philly Boston Might go Toronto Buffalo Might Toronto Buffalo Buffalo A Buffalo. You know, it's been so long since Buffalo was good, I don't remember.

I don't know if they're fans. Now, Buffalo, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, they're pretty nice normally. It'd be Philly, Boston, and then I'd say Buffalo or New York. I think you get some angry New Yorkers. I could see Brooklyn. I could see Brooklyn if the Islanders were in it. Lots of empty seats, just rush to the front. Why? Why? They're not...

He doesn't even go here! In Brooklyn, you can't see them leave. It would never happen. That's funny, man. That is, I can't believe that happened. Hilarious. And Blackhawks finally score. Oh, we're not there yet.

Not there yet. You, I'll let, sorry, Adam's driving the car. Let me, let me drive. I'm the guy in the passenger seat who does this every now and then to make sure you're awake. I have no room in this car because it's Adam's car. Let me drive this car. And there's no room in Adam's car.

That's right. Jesse's sitting in the back like, do you think there's something comical about the size of my automobile? I'm going to have back problems for the next 40 years. Jesse's eating his knees. That's so great. Steve, quit your bitching back there. And then Jesse sits in the back.

Oh, this is terrible. Even Berkshire was like, this car's small. Oh, yeah, I forgot we drove them. Calgary. 4-1. 4-1. And they were up 4-1. And believe me, we know, Calgary, we know.

I just want to say the Leafs got on that bandwagon before it was trendy. Yeah, yeah. It's trendy now. So Calgary goes up 4-1. And Randy Carlisle's like, I'm going to put my boy Jonathan Bernier in there. oh he swapped out he sure did I got a text

from Jen Neal last night going what was the condition on that trade again that's awesome it's true so Anaheim comes back

and it honestly the 4-3 goal I have to be honest with you looks like a high stick when you see it it is definitely a high stick

there's been a lot of controversy in that series and I'm very behind on that series I need to check it all out it's a high stick it sounds like Calgary should be

doing better than a 3-0 deficit. They deserve better. And then Shea Theodore ties it. And then 90 seconds into overtime, who scores the OT goal

for Anaheim? I'm going to go with someone not annoying. It was Jonathan Bernier. The Jonathan Bernier. Amazing. Leafs. Leafs.

Former Leaf great. They lost the trade. Who do you think? Corey Perry. Corey Perry. 90 seconds in and it's freaking... It's always Brad Murchin

and it's always Corey Perry. The one clip I did see of that game is I think Corey Perry's Dick got lost in the Flames bench. And I think it was Matthew Kachuk was just like, he had his foot on it. And wouldn't let him get a stick. I like Matthew Kachuk.

He's fun. It's just, it's the king. It's the master and the apprentice. Yes. Really? Yes. All right. And you said it.

Chicago finally scored. Finally scored. Still lost. Up 2-0. They lose 3-2 in overtime. I did see the game winner there. 141 minutes they went without scoring in the series. Pecorine is Pecorine

again yeah so what happened you know you know what's you know what's extra embarrassing

so the Leafs what's the Leafs thing stand witness in this 100 thing the Blackhawks slogan their tagline one goal

so after game two I saw this picture it was one goal and then Pecorine's face nope one goal Pecorine's face nope

That's brutal man So Kevin Fiala Was the guy They got Crawford on his side And I believe Kevin Fiala was like

A 2014 draft pick He's pretty young Yeah I gotta look him up Steve Birch was really Big on him Left winger 5'10 I think he played In the

Swiss league And had Over the moon Numbers For someone his age In the Swiss league Nope wrong Swedish

But even so He is Swiss, played in the Swedish league, sorry Close That's pretty good, the fact that you got that far You didn't do that I'm impressed Whatever And for the people who gave me hell

As I said, when we were talking about our playoff brackets About the Blues Wild Series They didn't play last night It is the boring series, man Unless you got a horse in that fight That's the boring series It is I mean, the most interesting thing to happen in that series

Is Bruce Boudreaux going Dagganit we were good And we deserved it Do you think like he's just going fuck my life He must be I feel bad for him I do The Wild are from what I've seen Anyway just

Unbelievably outplaying the Blues They're just cold and unlucky And Jake fucking Allen Jake Allen Is giving the Wild Blue balls Oh wow No, I didn't know what he was going to do with that.

What did you think? Do we like that? What's wrong with that? It was interesting. It was interesting. It was an angle I didn't think you were going. Yeah. So I'll give you creativity marks for sure.

You made a right turn on a NASCAR track. It was a little odd. I'm a little uncomfortable. I took out a bunch of cars with me. Thank God. That was a little strange. So where we sit from today. Anaheim is up over Calgary 3-0.

It's not looking great for Calgary right now. However, I still think they get a couple games in this series. Calgary? Yeah, I think they can get a couple games. I mean, they should have already. I think they do. Especially in Calgary. There is only one series in the West that isn't looking like a sweep at this point.

What's that? Edmonton-San Jose. And Edmonton leading San Jose. Pretty cool. That, I think... You know what's funny? There's only two series I think I'm wrong on

In my bracket Toronto I have the Caps Winning the Cup I have I have Toronto Winning the Cup That's awesome

That's great I also have Nashville Going to the finals And I have San Jose beating the Oilers Those are the only two I'm wrong on

I have to look back I was in such stress that day To try to get it in time I was looking at Jesse I'm like I'm not even going to be able To enter our own bracket challenge Because of the awesome website Great tweet from

Leah Kessel That's a stupid website. Great tweet from Leah Kessel. Teams that had 10-plus game-winning streaks this season. Philadelphia Flyers did not make the playoffs. Calgary Flames losing 3-0. Minnesota Wild losing 3-0. The Columbus Blue Jackets losing 3-0.

Moral, don't do it. Yeah, well. And the Leafs were smart to avoid winning 10 straight. Finish in eighth. Get into the playoffs. Second to last day of the season? Yeah. Maybe you'll lead a series.

That's right. Can you say leadership? I can. Columbus. I'm the captain. I am really surprised that Columbus is down 3-0. Yeah. Me too.

I'm really surprised. Poor Zach Rowenski, out for the season now. That sucks. What a nut job. He returned to that game. With a full cage, too. Like, I'm not a doctor, but I looked at that, and I'm like, his face is broken. And, yeah.

And then they confirmed that his face is literally broken. Oh, after the game. After he went back on the ice. Cool. Like, the doctor probably didn't even, like, do an x-ray or diagnose it. Like, the second he walks in the room, oh, you're here to see me about your broken face. That must hurt. Like, think about all the muscles in your face, right?

It's a long recovery, if I remember correct. I think Derek Bugaard broke Todd Fedorek's face. Broke his fucking face. And I think it was, I want to say eight-month recovery. I might be wrong there. Wow. Might be wrong there. how does that heal

like if someone makes a joke you probably don't want to laugh oh everything sneezing eating sneezing hurts regularly yeah coughing blowing your nose you can't

if you got sick you would have to yeah you would have to do the which by the way is the weirdest thing to watch I've never done that who was it I want to say Ben Lovejoy? I can't remember The Reverend! Yes It was one of the HBO 24-7's

that had the penguins in it and this guy, he blocked a shot with his face during the game and then they're on the team playing after the game and they're interviewing Crosby and he's just talking, talking and then he briefly looks off camera and he goes Oh my god, Benny! And they just pan the camera over to his face

and it's just ballooned up because of the air pressure from flying and he's like Is it bad? it's real bad that's a really dangerous injury there's a lot of stuff in your face

you don't really know about I do want to quickly touch on Pittsburgh because like Montreal New York kind of thought

Montreal was going to win that one anyway Boston Ottawa I thought it would be pretty evenly matched it sort of has

been Caps Leafs we've talked about and by the way we haven't said this but Kasperi Kapanen

scoring two goals was pretty amazing didn't even touch it people were like can you just do a podcast after every game and I'm like,

I wish we had time. Penguins. That's not going to work. Penguins lead the series 3-0. How did this happen? Marc-Andre Fleury, for sure, in the first game. And then I think from there,

if I read, I want to say Mike Darnay properly, the Penguins have just been dominating them. The Blue Jackets ran out of... With all their injuries. I know. They ran out of their magic.

But, like, I mean, it's funny. you keep looking at the Penguins and you go oh their defense and all this injuries they're still one of the strongest teams in the league up front like if you can get to their D if you can get there

and I mean they're competent Pittsburgh's done a really good job at developing spare parts we've seen that up front and it's clearly working behind them too what's Connor Sheery make? I don't know. What's Brian Rust make? What's Jake Gensel make?

Oh my god, how did they get him? Darn it He's cranking them out of the ballpark In these playoffs too He's writing a lot of good stuff They got him in some It was some nothing pick And some nothing trade

Third round pick Jake Gensel Jesse just brought up their cap friendly So I gotta go down, down, down Okay, Gensel is making $734,000 I'd still take that Thierry is making $667,000 in 500. I would also take that.

That extra 500 is a big deal, by the way. He's an RFA. I think he might get some money. Josh Archibald, I don't even recognize that name, $659,000. Tom Kuhnhockel, $625,000. Brian Russ, $640,000. Scott Wilson, $625,000. Carter Rowney, $612,000.

and Tom Sestito 575 two guys in their defense Cameron Gaunt 575 I hate that Tom Sestito makes more than us there's something about that

that just chafes me Chad Roadwall I'm sure he's a nice guy 575 and Brian Dumoulin 800 grand wow Justin Schultz

1.4 that's not fair Ron Hasey 1.4 just over Mark Strait who they also got at the trade deadline

1.7 that is depth that is the same model as the Blackhawks you have your core guys you pay them a shit ton and then you just

fill around the rest with just pieces but like that's something else like all those guys making not even less than a million like less than 800 grand

yeah that's value it's unbelievable here I found what'd you find I found maybe you can insert this

oh Benny and then they go over to his face okay yeah you have to get Jesse to insert this let me see they're all wearing

Christmas sweaters Come on, pan the camera, damn it. Oh, wow. Yeah, he's not having a good time. It looks like he had like a twin at birth that remained in his face. You know what I mean? And Dan Biles, my Penguins coach. Times have changed.

Times have changed. The Leafs have a very... A really good team. Oh, sorry. A very interesting stat. What was that? Okay, bye, Jesse. Oh, hold on.

You'll want to hear this before you go to the bathroom. Before you go to the bathroom. No! The Leafs have two more wins in their series versus the Caps than the entire Thrashers-Jets organization does in its history. Wow. I looked this up. You know that they've never won a playoff game.

They made it once, if I remember correctly. Thrashers made it once, and the Jets made it once. And they got swept by the Rangers. That was when Sean Avery drove Ilya Kovalchuk nuts. Isn't that crazy? That's unbelievable. That's not fair. I feel bad.

I mean, no wonder it didn't make it in Atlanta. Like, if you don't know... How many... How many of the Blue Jackets have? I think they only have two. Two total wins ever? I think. Because they made the playoffs with Steve Mason.

Yeah. I think they got swept by the Red Wings. They played the Penguins. Did that go six or seven? If it went seven, they'd have three. I don't remember. I don't remember either. It doesn't really matter.

No one... If the Leafs end up losing the series, no one's going to be like, Well, they did win a few games. No. No one said that after 2013. I think it's BS that, I mean, it just shows that it's why they're doing, I think that stat, I'm not trying to be a snotty Leaf fan,

I'm obviously trying to get under your skin a little bit, Winnipeg, but that stat shows why the expansion rules are so aggressive this year. Because when you have a market like Atlanta, the conditions by which Nashville, Atlanta, Columbus, And Minnesota came in under Were aggressively bad Like they had access to nobody They were basically on their own

And they had no money And no revenue sharing High picks but no revenue sharing back then And high picks are what? What's that? That's two, three years down the road Like I think, what was it? Minnesota's best player was like Stacey Roost But they've managed to get

Marion Gabrick very early Jesse, the stat that I dropped was that the Leafs have two more wins this playoff series than the Thrashers-Jets organization has ever had. How are we counting that? That's not fair. Do we bring over the Atlanta stats? I think the Jets stats should... The Thrashers didn't win anything.

The Coyotes should not have access to the Jets stats. That's what I'm saying. Jets stats should be in Winnipeg. Is it a Winnipeg team? It should be Winnipeg stats. stats do not belong to the organization they belong to the city

semantics to me they're called they're still called the fucking Winnipeg Jets like whatever whatever so all that history is with the Coyotes

I think so okay I think that's how they look at it it belongs to the city that means Shane Doe needs to come back to Winnipeg

yeah yeah and get mad when they don't win either I wasn't traded well unfortunately we don't have time

But there was this really great article, 37 Things All Girls in a Relationship Think But Never Admit To, from Narcity. And I thought it would be a fun listicle to go through, but we're going to have to save that. I just thought, you know what? Can we save it for after the playoffs, man? Dick around in the regular season. I wasn't actually going to get into that.

I just saved it. So let's do the press conference, shall we? The Presser S.D.P. The Steve Dangle Press Conference. Steve has to go. I'm going to go to sleep the second I get home. But, um, question. How do you feel about bandwagon fans

who only became fans of the Leafs yesterday? I don't give a shit. Okay. I don't give a shit. Like, it's just, whenever people get on bandwagon fans, I don't think it's actual frustration with the fans It's just them going Look at me

I am the most hardcore cheering person You are the least hardcore cheering person Your cheering Is inferior to my cheering You know what You have to look at things like The Raptors I love the Raptors

But I watch maybe two or three regular season games Like front to back But I'll watch all the playoff games But I don't have that much time Like I watch Basic I think I watched 75 Maple Leaf games

This year I can think of Six or seven That I missed You have your Your team You have your team right Your number one team

And then you watch The other team sparing And I love And it's not that And like I just And then there's Jesse Who just has

30 hours in a day Yeah I have sports on In my house Every night My fiance is Literally the most She'll watch stuff On her computer

Because I'm like Okay the J's are on Or the raps are on Or whatever I have the I have literally She gives me the TV every night I watched

I watched the Raptors I think game one Like I don't even know What game they're at In that series One Yeah they play Is it still just one?

Yeah it's like Watch game one I've been to two Jays games Went to the Leafs playoff game Been covering the Leafs playoffs And even yesterday I was like This is a lot of sports

This is a lot of sports It's tough So I don't blame people For jumping on And I don't You know what If this is what it takes you To be a Leaf fan

Great welcome Well, and I said, if you weren't a Leafs fan, I can forgive you. They were not worth cheering for for a very long time. I did it against my better judgment. If you became a Leafs fan this season, you bought low. Congrats. That's smart business. You manage your emotions effectively.

Yeah. I can't hate you for that. The other thing, too, is that kids respond to those who are successful. They respond to the stars, right? So, like, Steve, you talk about it at the zoo. What kind of jerseys would you see there? In 2007, I saw more Sens merch in Toronto than I saw Leafs merch because the Sens were good and made it to the Stanley Cup final.

Then they quickly tucked that in the closet. Then it was Jonathan Taves, Sidney Crosby, a lot of Ryan Getzlaff, especially because of 2007, a lot of Caps, a lot of Ovechkin. A lot of the Capitals jerseys you saw in the crowd yesterday were kids. My cousin is a Sharks fan because the Sharks are good. Yeah. I became a Leafs fan because of Doug Gilmore. Exactly.

We grew up when the Leafs were good. Exactly. So the Leafs are now good again. So you're going to see a bunch of kids now starting to buy Austin Matthews jerseys, which I'm starting to see everywhere. I work with a guy named Frank Ferrigini on Breakfast Television. Thank you, Flowers. His kids were always Leaf fans, but it was hard for them because they lost every game.

so they'd also have like a Chicago Blackhawks jersey they'd also have whatever I cheered for the Red Wings for a portion of my childhood because they won

well because Chris Draper visited the high school and he's from the neighborhood so there's all that neighborhood pride and everything but yeah

they also won like I wouldn't have really cheered for them if they finished last every year exactly so I feel like man

if there most people at this point would be bandwagon fans and who the hell cares let them be fans let them enjoy it in their own way you don't get to decide

how someone else enjoys something. Yeah. And if you are a hardcore fan, it means more to you. Yeah. And your reward for that is it means more to you. You'll feel it on a different level.

Yeah. Steve. Yes. You don't know this, but you put your friend in a horrible predicament. Uh-oh. Who's my friend?

Your friend, AW. What did I? I don't know who you're talking about. Adam Watt. Oh. So on Friday. What a dumbass.

I need to go home. On Friday, you got this man over here. Tickets for the Toronto FC. I know. On Friday, the Leafs play the Washington Capitals. I know. What, Adam Wilde, are you going to do? And a fan on Reddit wants to know if you're going to be doing a meetup at the game.

Well, first of all, I'll answer for him. He's not going. You're not going? Fuck no, the Leafs play. I forgot you were bringing this up, but I told Steve in the elevator this morning, I'm like, listen. It's Mrs. Dangle's family's season tickets So they're great seats

They're great tickets And I was like Season seats since day one I don't want to be They're from Scotland They loved TFC when TFC were shite for 10 years They loved getting really hammered And shouting abuse at TFC

And they were even there for the Defoe year They were there for the Defoe year It's a bloody big deal Danny DiCchio Danny DiCchio Every game at 24 minutes in I'm going to call SL

And I'm going to say Listen, I have to relinquish these tickets I will give them back to your family I'm sure somebody will use them I cannot go to a game and enjoy it While the Leafs are in the playoffs You have a phone With the Sportsnet Now app on it

I am not an Islanders fan You can sit at the game and watch the other game. No, I cannot. Yes, you can. You should attend. That was your birthday present, Adam. I know.

It's not that I'm not grateful. I didn't even know what date the game was. Well, how would you have known? Well, if I had actually known the date, I would have been like, wait a sec. You can't plan for that, though. The playoffs could go on for the next two months. You don't know.

Could. Will. Well, will. I mean, playoffs with the Leafs. Anyway, last question. So you won't be there? No, that's the final question. I will not be there.

That was the final question. I will not be there. Maybe I am an ungrateful bastard. Steve, why do you get such shit gifts? We managed to trade a pair of our Blue Jays tickets to get those tickets. Oh, really? Oh, shit. She bought high, didn't she?

She did. She sure did. You guys really made an investment. Hopefully, listen, it's baseball. This happens. Andrew Walker had a good tweet. 162. Yeah.

The equivalent of week one of the NFL has passed by. Yeah. That's it. So they lost the first game. That's it. That's it. Just so I know, is that a playoff beard? I'm trying.

Okay. No, I'm just checking. It's not very good. No, I wasn't making any... No beard is good in the first four days. It's not very good, and it's like a little bit blonde, too, so it's even worse. It's not very good. All right.

Jesse, keep trying. Call me little boy, Jesse. Keep trying, little boy. Can you tap him on the head? You can just pat him on the head. Just pat him on the head. Don't wreck it in perfect terror, though. Your team will win.

It's because of this. It's because of my whiskers. So good luck to all the teams playing tonight. Good luck to all the fans cheering for them. Go Raptors. Let's go Raptors. Let's go Raptors. Even it up.

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