The Steve Dangle Podcast - Wylde Wedding | January 29, 2018

Episode Date: January 30, 2018

On this episode, a cop took some edibles (00:00), the All Star Game and Brock Boeser the GOD (07:30), Gary and Ron at the ASG (18:00), the strange Dubinsky story (30:00), Jagr cleared waivers :( (44:00), Leafs practice lines (52:00), and the story of Adam Wylde's Wedding Day! (1:05:00). Originally aired: January 29, 2018 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/LYdwNYPfWtc Follow us on Twitter: @Steve_Dangle, @AdamWylde, & @JesseBlake Follow us on Instagram: @SteveDangle, @AdamWylde, & @Jesse.Blake Subscribe to us on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/steve-dangle-podcast/id669828195?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Panago Pizza presents S.T.P. The Steve Dangle Podcast with your hosts Steve Dangle and Adam Wilde Do you ever have a coffee that just doesn't take? Like it just doesn't work? I think maybe your tolerance

Speaking of tolerance Speaking of tolerance So there's some guys who took some edibles Okay, are we ready? That's a perfect segue Yeah, yeah, let's maybe start with that. You want to start with that. I don't know okay Do you I was not even paying attention so I can't tell you whether it was good say we're not cool I will leave it to the audience for the first. I know I'm gonna cut it off so nobody knows what we're talking about

No, that's good. Have we started then oh, yeah, Steve. You got a thing I need to get some schmutz here. Some schmutz? On today's episode, Adam is an old Jewish man. Well, he was already a 60-plus-year-old aunt. And now he's also a married man. No, the story we wanted to start with is this. How do you not acknowledge that you're married?

Well, we'll get to that. Obviously, we're getting to that. Hold it up for the listening audience. Rub it against the mic. We only have one cam today. Scrape it. Yeah, I can't find the other. So there was a report that two officers from 13 Division here in Toronto raided a dispensary Saturday night.

And then early, and that's a marijuana dispensary, by the way. Can you explain how those are a thing? Well, it's funny because we're legalizing it July the 1st, which is hilarious because July the 1st is Canada Day. And that is a public holiday, which means that all of the places that would sell you weed will not be open. There's going to be some wacky signings. Trudeau did say that it probably won't be July the 1st Oh okay it was going to be July the 1st They're probably not going to make it for that

So it'll be sometime during the summer And they're going to do like an LCBO type thing Which is if you don't know If you don't live in Ontario Basically we have government controlled liquor sales And so it'll be government controlled weed And they'll sell us weed from buildings But not the

They won't sell us joints From the same building as the alcohol Because god forbid You wouldn't want to promote people being irresponsible That's crazy No because now they're going to go take public money and buy other buildings and then dispense from that.

That's what they're going to do, Steve. Oh, good. Isn't that great? That is great. You paid for that. You elected that. Super happy. Anyway. They broke my weed. Two officers from 13 Division raided a dispensary Saturday night because dispensaries are all over the place here in Toronto and police are supposed to kind of leave them alone, but they

don't. I just... Yeah, it's a weird gray area. And then, so basically what'll happen is these people get charged and then once it's legalized, the charges apparently will be dropped. But early Sunday morning, They ate some of the rated edibles while still on the job Now when they didn't get high fast enough The cops allegedly made the rookie mistake

Of consuming more edibles Because it takes time Rookies That actually does The weed eventually did kick in At which point the officers were allegedly so high That they had to call their colleagues They're now suspended

I mean yeah Now here's the thing I know that they're supposed to be held to a higher standard But I have a real problem With things like this Leading to ending your career That bothers me a little It doesn't sound like that's going to happen though

Well they might get fired man You know how the public is with police officers Alright let's go through the layers of wrong There's a lot of wrong But I feel like okay You're dumb once and you come that close You probably learned from it This is a different level of dumb

This isn't I was dumb once This was in one thing You were dumb a couple times Yeah like okay You speed once You're probably fine You get caught speeding a bunch of times They're eventually going to ding you

You get caught drinking and driving Alright now we're Now we got next level punishment This guy holding up my fingers Stole Next finger evidence Illegal evidence of that That is already illegal

And then Became intoxicated So I guess that's four with the illegal evidence then tattled on himself See, I think that was the one smart thing. He did. Nope. No, you have gone gone about his shift Yeah, you call someone who's gonna cover your ass so you don't lose your job Oh So you're saying he should have done it a fifth illegal thing and called up another cop who would have been like no No, not a cop probably a different friend like your wife

You wouldn't ask him to be a cop, dress up like iDubbbz, and just be like, I'm a police officer for the rest of the evening. All I'm saying is he probably should get fired. Should get fired? Should definitely get fired. I mean, he probably should, but I just, I feel like we're all dumb at least once in our life. Don't we get, don't we forget, don't we get a life mulligan? Do we think that's his, do we think that's his first one? Well, I mean, listen.

That's a confident thing to do. First one he got caught for. First one he got caught for. So you get copy and dumb again Then you're in trouble If you open up the mic and say Fuck you Toronto Consciously

Just be like hey this will be fun And then you go live on the radio and say Fuck you do you deserve a second chance Fuck you this is Adam Wild Take care I mean under my own reasoning yes but no See that's not even enough Bad things

Fuck you this is Jax On CHFI Like, he just says all these wrong things. Now I'm thinking maybe fired. Yeah. I think you can do one level of dumb thing where you don't get a second chance. This is one of those things where I would be like, all right, suspend him, but don't fire him.

And then it comes out that he's been fired, and I go, that's about right. Yeah, fair enough. I mean, I would have done it, but yeah, fair enough. No, I couldn't even argue. Here's the thing I'm wondering about this whole thing. where at what point does that become

a good idea that you go yeah oh the whole thing yeah well like where you where you raid the dispensary and go

you know we've only got four hours left on our shift it's low key a good idea is it yeah

Jesse driving high in a police car for like a Seth Rogen movie exactly yeah if it's super bad okay

exactly this is Toronto and it was it's Toronto's pretty serious and we're you know we're already uptight as it is so like you know that's why i'm like i'm just saying where the hell does this become a good idea what what's wrong with that question i think it became a good idea uh when he took off his hat and tried to call backup with it i think that's what it became a good idea okay a good idea to call for backup the first part

when he like decided to do the thing in the first place i think i'm gonna go with before the repercussions that's when it was a good idea as soon as there are repercussions that's a bad idea most things are good in that order right man right and then it was like oh hindsight 2020 yeah yeah if you're like hey i'm gonna get blackout drunk with my friends we're gonna have a great night that's low-key a good idea right because you're like we're just gonna get and then you end up getting blackout drunk and you get in a bar fight or something then you're like oh that probably wasn't a good idea that part where i swung on the bouncer was a poor idea but initially Sometimes that's what they get, you know, as certain hockey players and certain rock stars have done.

Hockey players in certain cities. Not to name any names. This is what we talk about when there's no hockey. Yeah, well, I was going to segue and just say, tell me when it became a good idea to include video replay in the All-Star game. That was so tongue-in-cheek, though, right? It was tongue-in-cheek, and people were like, yeah, but Wes McCauley. All right, can I be the wet blanket? I don't care for Wes McCauley.

I bet you'd like Wes McCauley if you met him. Totally. Yeah. Totally. He seems like an amiable guy. I appreciate that he's a ref that shows charisma, and I appreciate that he does it during actual games for some reason, but to do it in the All-Star game, I was just like, fart, get off my television.

I didn't tune in to see you. I barely tuned in to see them. Get out of here, Wes. Who won? Pacific, I saw in highlights. Who won the All-Star? Who won the MVP? Besser.

Ah! Because I saw Friedman's tweet. So you really didn't pay much attention. Okay. First of all, it's the All-Star game. Second of all, a Canuck won MVP. What a failure. What a failure of a weekend.

$500,000 weekend, man. His contract bonus. And then I guess he got the bonus for winning and the bonus for getting the car. Bonus for showing up. Yeah. Yeah, that's not a bad weekend. I would say that's a good time. And you get to spend that in the delightful city of Tampa.

You don't have to spend all the money there. Exactly. I mean, I'm sure they would appreciate that. I shouldn't dump on the whole weekend. There was a better reason for why we didn't watch the skills competition or the game. Oh, I'm getting married. Yeah, I'm getting married. Yeah, Adam got married.

We'll talk about that later. Do you want me to read off the best of their money weekend? Yeah. So it was 212.5. As all rookie bonuses are, because that's the number they settled on. You know what it'll do? 212.5. Don't look at William Nylander's salary.

212.5 plus 895. 212.5K for the All-Star Game invite. 212.5K for the All-Star Game MVP. 91K for winning the game, like everybody on the team splits 91. He has 25K for winning the accuracy on Saturday. And he gets 10k because all all-star players get 10k and he got a new car and he adopted a new dog Did he yes these I'm one of the puppies he adopted one of the puppies Man I know he's 20, but like that's a lot of responsibility for being 20 pack that in that's your best weekend ever

How do you top that winning a cup you have to and it has to be on the weekend? Oh? That is a good point if you do it on a Wednesday You can't be like, the following Wednesday's the best. You're wrong. Unless you've spent the whole week leading up to that partying with the Stanley Cup. No. No, man.

I think that beats it. But this was... No. It's Jesse. I don't know. Would you take All-Star Weekend and Puffy, or would you take several days of partying like TFC did after they won? And Saturday, Sunday, going nuts in your home city.

See, you can party any weekend. Yeah, but no, you can't Stanley Cup party. That is a different kind of party. No, but say you win it on a Wednesday. The Stanley Cup parties is the Wednesday night, Thursday, and Friday kind of you're extending the party. And then the weekend comes, and they probably just sleep all day. Saturday? Yeah, you're sleeping.

That's three days of partying with the Cup. It's a lot. It sounds like a lot. It's too much for me these days. He probably packs it in. The second it's Saturday, he goes, boys, I'm going home. Exactly. And besides, it's not like this is ever going to top my All-Star weekend.

Exactly. I'm going to bed. Best weekend of his life. He lived his best life Besser life Be besser if he won the cup I'm just saying I don't think that'd be besser at all

I think it's nice for him It's nice that a Vancouver Canuck got the national spotlight They don't get that a lot these days And I know that they're sure upset about us not talking about Brock Besser And you know what He's had an incredible rookie season Has he? I haven't seen I haven't been paying attention

What happened to Clayton Keller though? Oh, he's on the Coyotes. All right, open and shut case. What do you mean, what happened? The weed cop could have solved that one. All anybody could talk about was Clayton Keller. Because he was the only, I think. And I mean, the guy's got 36 points in 50 games.

It's not bad. Oh, but how many goals has he had? 14. He scored most of them in the first few games of the season. I was about to say, wow, so he slowed right down. Yes. Besser's got 24 already in 46 years. So you want us to talk more about Clayton Keller?

No, I'm just wondering what happened to him. Like, you know, that's all anybody could talk about. And Vancouver Canucks fans are going, but Besser's doing great too. And people are like, yeah, yeah, yeah, Clayton Keller. And then... Who was doing this? It was like at the beginning of the season

because he went on that ridiculous streak, right? And Besser was doing great, but it was always, it was always, well, Clayton Keller's doing great. And then all of a sudden, you know, the spotlight's gone. Well, now the Oilers are bad. And now the Hawks are bad. And now there's other stories to talk about other than Brock Besser.

He finally got his weekend. Like, the rookie race is often like this. It's not like last year where it was Matthews and Line A literally out of the gate. Yep. For the entire time. Who was even, who was the other person nominated for the Calder? I don't even remember. Wierenski.

Oh, well, yeah, he was pretty good. Yeah. Okay. But, I mean, no one actually thought he was going to win. No. This one, you have a hot two weeks to start the season, and everyone's like, don't know how you're going to catch Clayton Keller. Can't do it.

Coyotes. And then Besser comes. How are you going to catch Brock Besser? And then Matt Barzell comes. How are you going to catch Matt Barzell? It's a much more even race this year, for sure. Your clear-cut winner, Charlie McAvoy. Obviously.

Or Kasperi Kapanen. I don't think so. But he was recalled today. You're right, Andreas Johnson. He was recalled today. so it was nice that Brian Boyle got to play in front of his

formerly home fans, but beyond that Kid Rock I guess the reason Kid Rock played and everybody pointed this out oh, you're actually trying to have a conversation yeah, I'm actually trying to bring this up oh, do you want me to just move on? no, keep going

well, I'm getting to the best part which was literally the Gary Bettman interview that was the best part of the entire weekend my follow up question was going to be Jesse, when did you get out of bed? What do you mean? Yesterday? Yeah, technically.

Fairly early. Like around 11. Okay, mine was a little after 12. Okay, yeah, because we had to go drop off the suits at... That is... Which is... Why do they make you do that? All right, do you want to just get into this, then?

That is the most evil thing. What's more interesting right now? What's more interesting right now? The wedding talk or the all-star game? You know how many people just screamed wedding talk? Okay, all right. I can honestly say I don't give a shit about All-Star Weekend because it's very boring. I've never cared about All-Star Weekend.

I'm just pretending to care. Well, we'll just delay what you had and we'll get to it. But I think we need to talk about the extreme injustice. It is really stupid. Of Moore's and other establishments. Yep. Making you return your suit the day after the thing that you rented it for. Almost certainly a wedding.

Or prom. It's almost always a thing where you don't want to go out the next day On a Sunday I think that's cruel I remember Having my friend Zach who was in our wedding party He got married in Halifax Obviously

So much worse I had to go get the suit there I had it delivered at a Moors in Halifax Which was great But then I chose to fly out early in the morning So the Halifax The Halifax airport is in the middle of a field In the next province

Like it is so far away from the actual city A guy in rain boots standing there With a candle Yeah you just It's insane it's so far out of the city It's like a 25 minute drive So I'm like oh god you know There's no moors open

And I gotta get on the road So I had to haul that stupid suit All the way back to Toronto and I'm hungover And then cause you get on that little You get on a little plane that's like you know the pack of gum planes Like For two and a half hours And then you land

And then I'm like hold on Even though I'm hung over and feeling terrible I must stop at Moore's so they don't charge me Another $25 for this stupid suit So that's what we did And I'm like sweaty and gross walking to the Moore's Like here take it 3 o'clock in the afternoon Okay I have a great business plan

So you know how like Home Depot Most Home Depots have a restaurant in them Like it used to be Harvey's In Canada and now it's Subway I think Yeah, Moore's should definitely have like a McDonald's Or something like this Great idea

Just on Sundays even Or you could just pay an extra 10 bucks Have a hot dog stand outside of it Like Canadian Tire does for some weird reason They'll charge you 25 But I would be more than willing to pay 10 extra dollars Just to extend it one more day They should just tack it on at the beginning anyways

And be like, hey everybody, you get two days afterwards And just add it on to the beginning price of the rental And nobody would ever notice And nobody would ever care Nobody's gonna ask Because nobody's gonna be like Sorry, Moors, this tux is too much, and I am in a wedding party, and I'm $10. Well, Jesse, though, I mean, think of the rush of customers Moors must get on a Monday.

Think of the rush of people who are like, I need a $200 cardigan today. Oh, it's just packed in there every Monday. By the way, Moors is a suit company for all of our American listeners. Panicked 17-year-olds running in there needing a button extender for prom. No, it happens all the time. They're just packed on Mondays Let us return the suits on Monday That's all I'm asking

You know what people always say? Moors on a Monday is like Grace O'Malley's on a Thursday Cougar night? No You didn't go to Gracie's every Thursday In Ryerson? No

I couldn't afford that Nevermind my joke I was drinking basically coolant from the local kick and stabs in Scarborough. Okay, perfect. Yeah, it is a little strange. But you know what? They do a great job.

That's the problem, is they do a great job. Everybody uses them. Because they do such a great job, and they make it so easy, except for that one thing. And they can change that one thing. All I'm asking for from Morse is more time. Morse time.

Right? Do you know the guy? Clever. More? Yeah. Dom. On a first name basis, Dom. Okay.

He's a good guy. I didn't know his people. I didn't know if he knew who he was. Suit company owner. I didn't say that. Just clubbed that over the head. Yeah, well. I was explaining the joke.

Okay. You see, here's why that's funny. The best part about All-Star Weekend was this. It was Ron McClain. It was Gary Bettman. And it was Gary Bettman being the most Gary Bettman he can be. And Ron McClain being the most Ron McClain he can be. And, you know, it's funny.

I would encourage you to listen to our episode with Ron. Because we ask him specifically about talking to Gary Bettman. And so I took what he said. and applied it to this interview, which made it significantly less frustrating. And to paraphrase, he said, remember when you were speaking to Gary Bettman, you were speaking to a lawyer.

It's not necessarily, like, you can't look at it like it's just a guy, like your friend. He's a lawyer, and he's representing the interests of his clients. Yeah, I saw a bunch of people go, well, this is just proof that Bettman and McClain have zero chemistry. What?

And I'm like, that's not a host and co-host. That is a That is a host And a guest That is an interviewer And a subject There doesn't need to be chemistry I thought they were fine together

I think it's just Ron asked the question That everybody's too afraid to ask And one of the things was Gary said I think the problem is That the city of Calgary expects the Flames To pay for their arena Completely And Ron said and why don't they

To which Gary deferred and went into, well, they had two different proposals that were really cutting edge, and they were going to because I guess the southwest of Calgary needs development, and he goes into the southwest development proposal, and then Calgary didn't want it southeast, and he's like, well, they're not going to get the Olympics

now because they won't have a hockey arena. Even though the Olympics just approved of the Saddledome? They said it was fine. Oh, they'll need a new arena for that. And then Ron McLean asked, well, Gary, why don't you just, you know, the arena's there. Madison Square Garden continues to be upgraded every, you know, 10, 15

years. Well, that cost them a billion dollars. Well, that's fucking New York. Right? Well, Gary, why don't you frig off from politics like you said you were going to? How about that? And then he denied that they used Seattle as a threat to move the team. Which was categorically false.

That's just a lie. Right, as they did with Edmonton. And he said, oh, they take the Edmonton deal in a heartbeat. And Ron's like, but they don't need the Edmonton deal. Calgary does not need the Edmonton deal. Edmonton needed the Edmonton deal. This is just proof that rich people think you're stupid.

Well, one city is in Alberta, and the other city's in Alberta, so they're like the same. Ask any... What is it? Caligonian? Calgarian. Caligonian. Caligonian. Caligonian now.

Ask any Caligonian or Edmontaxian. And they will tell you they're the exact same. You can be a Terontarian. Terontites. Torontite? Torontite. Torontite.

And Vancouveronian. I'm just trying to... I just fucked it up. Okay. Vancouver. Listen. There you go. Nope.

I'll take it. We'll take it. We're settling for 10 here. No gold, silver, bronze. Look. They're not the same, Gary. That's what I'm saying. Is that what you're saying, Brooksy?

Is that what I'm saying, Betsy? I don't know. I didn't want to call you Brooksy. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. But, no, I mean, it's just Let's just call it what it is It's propaganda

And that's his thing, that's fine I mean, he's doing good by his employers Which are the owners who don't want to pay for things What makes me laugh is that In the most fiscally conservative province In the country They call it Canada's Texas You should call it Canada's America

Because it's a lot Well, it's a lot more like America And it's funny, they would say the same about Torontonians. Which, that's false, though. Well, they would say it's false, too. Just because there's, like, people here, like, that doesn't make it the states. It's a little different. I mean, they are, they're very conservative.

There are some very American values there. Or North American values, I guess I should say. In Calgary, there are. It's very much the place where low taxes, freedom, cowboys. Apple pie. Apple pie. Bald eagles. The president.

The point is, the point is, I don't know how in the most conservative province and the most conservative base, Stephen Harper's writing, my grandfather lived in Stephen Harper's writing. Leader of the Canadian Conservative Party lived in his writing.

We're not talking about the hockey prospect. We're talking about the former prime minister for our listeners from like Chicago or something. That is conservative Canada. That's where it all stems out from. How do you expect that city to go, yeah, we're going to cough up 250 $300, $400 million

for a new arena when there's a billionaire that owns it? I don't know. I feel like we've had this conversation before. I'm more bothered by the fact that Gary Bettman just got on and said Gary Bettman things. Are you bothered by that? I just don't... See, it bothers me when

it's a surprise. That wasn't a surprise. It bothers me when he just gets on there and says the same things, and when he doesn't say the same things, says lies like the Edmonton thing. Or the Seattle thing. And I'm watching this going okay, this is my employer but why are we

speaking to this man? He doesn't need to be spoken to? He runs the thing. We kind of have a big 12 year deal in place with the thing. He's got to talk to the guy who runs it. Fart. Just fart. But, then they ask him

about review? He had a great take on that. Good take. Except here's the problem with Gary's take. And I'm paraphrasing again. Mr. Bevan's take was this. You know, it was put in place To be a guideline Like there was an egregious error

Right But the problem is And I was watching Tim and Sid this afternoon Because I had the afternoon off Or I had the afternoon off today And that is the only reason Well, it's because I'm usually on the air when they are But Tim was on, saying

But of course they're going to take it to the nth degree It's in the rules There's millions of dollars on the line here They're not just going to go, oh, I mean, it's close but we'll just let it go. He's absolutely right about that. Get in there, clarify it in the rules. If you expected some sort of gray area to work out in the

we're not going to be obnoxious about this, then you're wrong. Come on, you know that. But there's no rule. How do you succinctly write, come on? Because that's what the rule is. That's the suggestion. You can't.

Is the Matthews goal against Colorado was goaltender interference. You can't leave it to that. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Well, then you how do you write it? You have to write it you find a way Yeah, I didn't Gary Bettman makes eight million dollars a year find a way and I'm sure he's surrounded by people that make millions of Dollars as well find a way you have a lot of degrees. We're not the ones creating the rule book They have people to nail it down to the point where you need to write it so you can get it, right? Yeah, yeah, they know how to do that and they haven't done it yet Which is ridiculous and it sounds like they're finally gonna fix it because the rule is crazy at this point

Ray Ferraro had a had a good take that I can't remember if I ever touched the rule is terrible. This rule is terrible. So the Colorado goal was disallowed And or sorry the Matthews goal against Colorado was disallowed and the following night or two nights You hear no game the Leafs are playing the Blackhawks arteman Isimov falls on Frederick Anderson like as the puck is going in and that goal counts now what ferraro tweeted as we're all freaking out about the fact that that goal counted is they should have both counted as i look at it and i go you're you you're probably right it wasn't the most egregious thing again there's that word but it was the issue is consistency and having one rule to rule

of them all would kind of make things a lot easier, right? But just logic. Logically, you look at the Matthews goal from two nights before and then this one. Surely neither of them count. But apparently it did. I don't even think at this point it's an issue of whether

any of the McDavid goal have counted. I don't think it's an issue of whether they should have counted. It's just a matter of, hey, what's the rule? And let's all know what the rule is and then determine that and then go back and be like, hey, should these goals count? Because right now

we don't know what the rule is so we can't really make a determination if these goals should have counted. Just make a clear rule. That's all I want. I think, you know,

yeah, make the clear rule. Well, then, or don't have the rule. Let everybody do whatever the fuck they want. Yeah, because they know this is bad for pacing and people are like,

well, doesn't it matter that you get the call right? I'm sorry. The thing that matters most is the entertainment value kits. That's how you sell the advertisers. That's how you keep

people interested. That's how you attract new fans. If you want to tell me that getting the rule right like that is the way to go, goodbye NHL. It will just slowly erode away. That's why I felt like I was being a grumpy old man when Wes McCauley came on the screen

at the All-Star game. And I just didn't want to see him. I think they were trying to tongue-in-cheek poke fun at themselves after a rough week. But part of me was like, not funny. Fix your sport. It's not...

Oh, it's funny that the sport is broken and no one understands the rules? That two of its biggest young stars. Get off my screen and fix it! Two of its biggest young stars were robbed of goals. It's not... And openly mocking league officiates? Yeah, these weren't just anybody. This was Austin Matthews and Connor McDavid. Oh my god.

I can't remember who it was. Oh! I think it was Down Goes Brown. Okay. Said the next big goal that scored, or whatever, doesn't matter by who, when they score, they shouldn't celebrate. They should just themselves skate to the

a timekeeper's box and start whispering to them like they're trying to ask to go upstairs to review the goal. That's the next evolution. And that's how you get fined, ladies and gentlemen.

No, no, absolutely not. Okay, we'll celebrate now. How is that? How do you get fined? That's how you Terrell Owens pull out a pen out of your pocket inside a football

and you get fined. So what's the Matthews point? That's like a Jagger salute. I hope he keeps doing it. Yeah, I hope he keeps doing it. What about McDavid yipping at the ref? Go look

I'm shocked he wasn't fine for that I'm so glad he wasn't You shouldn't be openly mocking an official By the way, ballsy Because they hadn't won the shootout yet Oh yeah How much bigger of a story would that have been if they lost? The whole game would have been a crazy story

You're right I didn't even think of that The whole context of everything changes Well they should have won in regulation to be fair With the tap Because that was at the end of reg I doubt this will be a factor But if it does

If the Oilers go on some crazy run To try to make the playoffs Which I really hope they do Because that would be a really fun story It would be pretty fun No, Darlene That's what I want to see happen They miss by one point and get Darlene

That would be the best case scenario for them, I think But they're missing a very Possibly valuable regulation win It's true That is true That's a good point Yep They didn't get as big of a win as they should have

Here's me writing the league's post-cup win article Half-step win versus a full-step win A little bit So, yeah, we're all tired of that shit I think we're ready for it to be done What a great way of putting it, Adam Yeah, I think that's what it is Nobody likes it

I think every team has been burned by at least once Maybe except for the Vegas Golden Knights Who have a horseshoe lodged directly between their two cheeks Can we just talk about how Gerard Gallant won again? Yeah He won at the All-Star game for crying out loud He's having a year He's having a year

Besser had a weekend, he's having a year And Vegas flu is definitely a thing. There's no question. Their record is absurd. They've lost four games at home. No, but you brought it up earlier that you think it's a thing, and I think the record is, like, it's gone on for this long that it has to be something happening with teams going into the city

and maybe partying too hard or maybe just not being used to the new place and just something in their heads and not being able to play in that arena. Do we ever get a chance to talk about the John Tortorella weird quote? Where he told his team to go out and party? I like my team to play a little guilty. And then they had to send one of the players home. Brandon Dubinsky. Yeah, and that's what I thought.

I was like, that is odd timing because the next day or two days later, Dubinsky was sent home and has to deal with a personal matter. And I have no idea what that is. Well, the personal matter was the eye injury that he's trying to come back from. But I don't think anybody believes that he's dealing with the eye injury still. You don't have to go home to do that. You can rehab an eye injury on the road. He said he's going to visit doctors when he goes home for the eye injury. That he's supposed to come back.

He's supposed to play that Thursday because he recovered from the eye injury. And then the Tuesday they send him home because they're like, it's still happening. His eye is still injured. And then we haven't heard anything since. Now, they say the personal issue is potentially career threatening, but they don't say it's the eye. That's what's interesting is they're like, well, he needs to look after his eye. And there's a personal issue that's potentially career threatening. Is that the Athletic article?

This one is CBC Sports. That is a really concerning headline. They followed up on the initial reports. That's when they said about the eye injuries going to the doctor. And then they never gave another statement. Okay, so now I don't want to suggest that he got into trouble in Vegas. I will. I'll say, boy, is this what that looks like.

It sure smells like it, doesn't it? Yep. And here's the other question. Eye injuries can be potentially career-threatening. I do not, and listen, if it turns out that that's all it is, fine, that's all it is and he needed to go home to Columbus, the eye specialist capital of the world, to

get it sorted out, now maybe there's something about Columbus, I don't know we all have 20-20 vision here when I'm in bed and I smell bacon, you know what I expect to find downstairs? bacon, this smells like something does it smell like bacon for you? a little bit of bacon well, so

so here's the thing, I was listening to I was listening to 31 Thoughts podcast and I was listening to 31 Thoughts. Yeah. That's a thing we couldn't say like a month ago. I know, right? And it's great. It's good.

They were talking about, Elliot Friedman and Jeff Merrick were talking about the heydays of going out and partying. And they tell this story about... The 80s? Yeah. 1980, Daryl Sittler and some of the guys on the Leafs, I guess it's Punch Imlach's second go around with the Leafs

and he's an old school guy. Oh, you broke your foot? Put it in some ice. get back here tomorrow and they all hated him of course because generational divide the guy's like

a military boot camp guy and I guess after practice they all went out for a liquid lunch on like a Wednesday and they set up Punch M Lack's face

at a dart board and started firing darts at it and they invited invited a Toronto Star reporter to just come and hang out with them wow

unbelievable and he wrote a story about it unnamed players or whatever but what's funny about that is that that would never happen today You can never, but can these guys, I always wondered, and they talk about this, and there

are very few guys who can actually, like, first off, with all the cameras that are out, pictures are being taken, and just the competition level, how guys have to take care of their bodies now, it's become, like, do you even drink during the season? The answer is an emphatic yes. Yeah. Like, this is the other thing. The competition is so strict But professional athletes

The stories I hear The stuff I've seen I have no idea how they do it They bounce back They are freaks They're all 19 forever I think their bodies Are just at a different level

From what I've been told What they've researched There are bodies that are genetically predisposed To be able to handle this stuff They're all related And just when you're exercising rigorously every day for 20, 15 years straight, your body learns to adapt to things. And I think you can handle your alcohol at that point.

Yeah. If you go out partying, you want to play the next day. Yeah. Yep. Maybe. So who knows if Dubin's got in a little trouble in Vegas. Because he rejoined the team that weekend. How do they even do it secretly?

So I wonder, well, I would guess in your hotel room. I think money can buy you secrecy at some points. Yeah, well, there are certain clubs you get into where... Well, you can't go out and have a good time is what I'm saying. You can. You can. There are clubs you can. Publicly.

Publicly, there is. There are spots you can go. It's difficult. In this city, there's tons of them. For example, like... That's a good point. I've been to them. Like, you can go.

Can we leave out many details of your bachelor party and say that, well, we saw two people. Didn't we say it already? No, no, we didn't name names. Remember we talked about the LFR, but we never named names. Yeah, there's an NHL player right there. Two of them. Two? Two.

And they were literally just sitting there, texting and nursing one drink with a security guard standing there. And people were coming up. So they can't even talk to anybody because... And I'm sure that wasn't their whole night. Yeah. I mean, it sure seemed like it. Oh, Steve.

That was the only part we saw. That's like saying, well, that looks like the entire iceberg. Adam. Well, see, you... Adam, you left. Jesse and I shut the place down. Adam, really? question for you. Oh my goodness. Oh, I didn't know that.

Oh yeah, we saw the place in the light. Oh. I have a question for you. See? It's about a good friend of ours. Uh-huh. I believe his initials are S-G. Ah. I was just wondering. S-D-G? S-D-G! Yeah, okay. If you put the brackets around the D.

Right. I was just wondering. My middle name is Dahl. Sorry. Do you think our good friend S-bracket or quotation D-G is naive? Wow. I mean, He's a tad I would say innocent

Oh that's a much better word Oh good I'm not dumb I'm just precious Thanks I used the incorrect word I'm just cute Naive is incorrect

Innocent Innocent Of course So Someone texted me recently Don't take this the wrong way You're cute They weren't talking about my features

They were talking about my personality And I did take it the wrong way a little bit That's not a bad thing at all That's not that bad. Yeah, I told my wife, and she went, no. A little bit like Hermione. Anyway, I wondered if John Tortorella would be changing his tune a wee bit after saying, I want my players to play guilty,

or if he'll just never say that in public again because he just sent a leader home. Yeah. Yeah, the sequence of events was poor. The timing sucked. And it's really not John's fault. He was just being honest. But, you know, being honest these days is one of the...

Boy, it'll bite you. A little bit. Did you guys see the photos from McDavid's birthday party? No. I saw the Photoshopped ones you did. No, there were TMZ ones? I saw the Photoshop where they took the couple from the airport. Jesse did that.

That was this guy sitting here. Oh, you did that? Yeah. It was on Tim and Sid. He did that. Very good. Very good. I didn't know that was you.

I should do better branding, you know? What did the, yes, you should. No, I should just have a, I don't know, my naive gullible child brain. Just forget things. No, well, the photos were just, they were on TMZ because they were in a club and there was a bunch of girls and there was a bunch of bottle service and it was mcdavid partying in vegas what happens in vegas is sold to publications exactly wow yeah so it happens it does it has to now uh jacob true about six to eight weeks with an ankle injury mark shifley's already out this

is gonna take them this is gonna take them right past the trade deadline six weeks from now is past the trade deadline six to eight weeks he's out you're winnipeg wow if you're winnipeg you gotta hold the fort right you gotta hold the line a little bit and by the way the fort is leading the central but if they played 500 hockey for a 6 week stretch and then he gets Shifley

and Trouba back that's not the worst thing in the world right you don't need to I mean Sheveldayoff would rather the next time Sheveldayoff makes a trade Christ will have come back I mean like he's just one of those he's just one of those guys like he takes forever

He's so going to make a trade by the time this is uploaded Yeah, of course People are saying, this is the time to make a trade I gotta look at it and think, no Let your guys be your guys And then you get Scheifele and Druba back Well, and also you have Dustin Bufflin as well Yeah, and Tyler Myers

Yeah, so like That is bad But not cataclysmic No It's a little bit like when Zaitsev got knocked out of the lineup Just because that was up on the screen Bad, but not cataclysmic Did you know that Winnipeg is 17-3-1 at home?

In most of their next few games. The Winnipeg flu. That's crazy. That's almost as good as Vegas. I think their next, 10 of their next 20, 10 of their next 20, 10 of their next something are at home. Like, they're playing like a big long home stretch now, too.

Which is super good. 10 of their next 20, they'll be half. Ooh, that's great. They're playing an average number of, yeah. They are playing an average number of games at home. Well, I want to know what the Central looks like. the central it's it runs down winnipeg nashville then st louis which is 66 65 and 63 points wow so adam here's how completely different the central is from the atlantic

if winnipeg goes 500 for the next stretch they are boned why do you say that so they have 66 points they're in first nashville is right behind them with 65 and nashville has three games in hand and st louis who has played one more game is three points behind with 63 the two wild card teams dallas and colorado both central division teams 60 points and 57 so dallas is six points behind colorado with two games in hand is nine points behind but okay they're also eight two and oh their last 10 and had previously won 10 straight before losing two straight because hockey is a dumb sport. And then there's Minnesota, who is actually

tied with Colorado. They've just played one more game, and they're also a Central Division team. And this is weird that I'm going to say this, but... And then there's the Blackhawks, who are kind of out of it. And gonna make it. Somehow. I'm sure they'll figure out a way.

I'm sure it's going to help them make it. Jeff Glass will stand on his head for the next four weeks. Jeff Glass has looked good. He's looked decent. He's looked decent. Mr. Glass. Mr. Glass, the glass wall The glass wall, it's not good Bulletproof glass

Plexiglass Yeah, sure More like, alright So Let's stick with the glass wall Don't throw pucks at it He's really good at making the first save But that's it

Because he's broken after that He's shattered I think it would go right through Do you think it would go right? Imagine the article comes out when Chicago doesn't make the playoffs and be like glass, playoff hopes

shattered. It's just a picture of him. That's so cruel. It would be amazing. I want to know how it's not Jonathan Taves' fault at all. Oh, it will never be Jonathan Taves and Patrick Kane's fault. Nah, I'm just being a jerk.

Joel Quinville should be fired and Taves' leadership called into question. apparently that's what they're talking about Joel Quinville is going to get so much money if he gets fired that could be the best thing that ever happened to Joel Quinville they would have to miss three straight years for him to be fired at least

if Joel Quinville does get fired first off who do they replace him with second because there's nobody else out there Jesus Jesus is coming back I always said that because you made that but also but also

who fires their coach to pick up Joel Quinville? Because that's what would happen. Oh, immediately. Everyone. Who do you think it is? Mike Babcock. And you know what would be super awkward? Because inevitably, it will leak who was interested, right? So the coach

will probably know. So who's the coach that you fire? Alain Vigneault. You think so? Out in New York, bringing Joel Quinville. Let it ride. That'll be fun. You know, if I'm Joel Quinville, I'm not sure New York's the job I want. They're heading for a rebuild here in the next couple years, I think. This is not going to happen.

It's not even worth talking The point I was originally trying to make Is no, Winnipeg still needs to be good Yeah But I still think they can be They can drop a couple spots Like at this point they have no idea who they're playing in the first round But Connor Hellebuck's gotta be

Amazing He should be nominated for the Vesna At least the way things are playing out right now Remember when their starting goaltender Was Steve Mason Yeah And the Leafs lit him up for seven goals. And then Calgary in six, I think, the next game.

It was bad. It was bad. It was a bad start. We will catch Clayton Keller, though. It's that first 15 games. It's that, woo, 15 games in, things are crazy. And then it starts to settle out. You know what I mean?

Kapanen. Kapanen. Yarmir Yager is out in Calgary. He's officially, they basically, they put him on waivers. He was obviously unclaimed. Looks like he's going to play out the rest of his Year in Europe It's kind of the end

But people And I saw some tweets people saying How many players have ever been assigned to the team they own He part owns Gladnell That's funny Does he really? I think so yeah You might want to look that up People said they wish that he had gone out better

But I kind of look at it kind of like He went out like a warrior Like he went out He tried and he tried and he tried and he just wasn't good enough anymore. And to me, there's something romantic about that. Absolutely. Not everyone can be Ray Bork.

And Ray Bork could have kept playing, though. That's the thing. And also, Ray Bork didn't have his cup. Yager got his before many of you were born. Yeah. Twice. And, I mean, this was how he was always going to go out. Like, this isn't a tragedy.

Right. This was how it was always going to happen. His age was going to show His body was going to fail him He was going to play until Nobody wanted him anymore He was a free agent Couldn't get a team to sign him

Got one to sign him, went through waivers No one claimed him He's done This is the last bit Jager had to give In the NHL Unless it's not I don't think you believe that

There was a time where we looked at Jager and his little KHL stint and we went imagine. Imagine what could have happened if he had just stuck around and then he came back and played like another 10 years. So I don't know. I tweeted today like if

history has taught me anything, he's going to take a three year hiatus and come back and play for another 10. I could definitely see him play next year on an NHL team. Oh man, I don't know. He's not fast enough. That's the problem. It's the foot speed. It's a copycat league, and most teams are going young

and cheap. And Jersey. Old and cheap is common. Like, look at the Mike Camilleri for UC Okanen trade I kind of look at. Those are guys in the summer, you sign in like August, September. Something like that.

You sign them for like a mil. Maybe less. And you can let them go if it doesn't work out. It's not the 90s anymore. You can go out and get another jogger. There's lots of Yagers now. It didn't used to be that way.

Yeah, interesting. I kind of liked it, though. I kind of liked that he just went until he couldn't go. Yep, 100%. This is how he was always going to go out. It's appropriate. It's appropriate. Not everyone has to go out.

I don't know. I think of Nicholas Lidstrom as a less extreme example of Ray Bork. Lidstrom could have kept playing. Most NHL greats, Like, most guys who play over 1,000 NHL games could keep going beyond what they did. Yes, but they don't on account of they got, like, enough money and they're happy with what they've achieved. And they've spent the last 30 years of their life playing hockey every day.

Yeah, and they want to hang out with their family, you know? Whereas Jager's just like, no, no, I'm still having fun and, like, making money and I have no wife or kids. So, did you see all those pictures last year? Yeah, I'm having a good time. So I'm going to keep doing this. What was that story again? It was a...

I believe it was the girlfriend of the captain of the Czech... Junior national? Yeah, junior team. And him... Hooked up? They studied... They did their homework together. Did they do the sex?

She was in a relationship with the dude who was the captain of the Czech junior team. Yeah. And she ended up with the auger. Imagine your childhood idol stealing your girlfriend. I should steal him, but sure. And then the pictures got out. Didn't she threaten him? Supposedly it was somebody else.

Oh, and he said, go ahead and release them. I don't care. Yeah, because, like, I don't know. What, are you going to blackmail a single guy? Oh, no. You know who's going to find out? I think the joke we went with at the time is like, oh, he's going to get some sort of terrible elbow injury from all the high-fives

around the locker room of whatever team he was with last year. Florida? One of the most disappointing whimpers to the end of their career recently was when Curtis Joseph, not Curtis Joseph, was when Brodeur was just, when he went over to St. Louis. I was just like, come on, dude. Just retire. Don't go and play four games there, whatever it was.

And now he's employed by the front office. And I think that's the whole reason they got him was just because they wanted him in the front office anyway. I got to do an update, too. I feel like I was writing something. It was years ago. I think it was, like, when I just started with Sportsnet. The all-time leaders in, like, points and games played

and, like, wins for goalies among players who stayed with one team their entire career. Because when you switch teams like Brodeur did at the end of the year, or at the end of his career, you lose the record. Yeah. So he had the record. Oh, easily.

The second you go to another team, you lose it. I think the... I might be wrong here. I think the current leader for goalies who have played with one team their entire career... Sorry. The career wins leader for goalies who have spent their entire career with one team, I think is Henrik Lundqvist. Huh.

And like top five is Marc-Andre Fleury. Oh, well, no. He lost it. He's done. Yeah, that's right. Because he's on Vegas now. So times have changed. Yep.

And Steve Eisenman, I think, is the all-time points leader for players who spend their entire career with one team. Or is it Lemieux? No. I would think it's Mario. Yeah. Who are you competing? Players who spent their entire career with one team.

No, who are your two guys you're thinking of? It's either Eisenman or Lemieux. So who has more points between Eisenman and Lemieux? I think one of them's 7th and the other's 8th. I've looked at this list a lot. what's it like being married Adam is it different it's kind of the same

so different right it's pretty much the same Mario Lemieux has 17 1723 points okay Steve Eisenman has could have just looked up the list that's not how you

follow the Eisenman on Google Steve Eisenman has 1,755 points. So he has more. So he has more. Wow. Told you. And a few more games.

And a few more. And a few more games. Errol Lemieux is ridiculous. So yeah, that's an interesting thing. I gotta look up. It's funny you... Which one of you said Curtis Joseph? Oh, I tongue-slipped when I was mentioning Broder.

So I saw him at an alumni game recently in Oshawa. Leafs versus Habs. Holy crap. Kujo still got it. He was the star of that game He was unbelievable The Leafs stunk They were bad

And it was just like old times Relying on Cujo And he's still doing all these crazy flexible saves Because I guess he's one of the younger guys At these alumni things And he also is in incredible shape He stays in shape He was good

Nice guy too Loves talking about I don't know if I've ever met him Yeah, I met him once at a book opening, and he's just a really nice dude. He's just great. Just a really good guy. What a guy. Yeah, I'd like to have him on one day.

Hopefully we can. Let's do that. Yeah. We'll do a remote podcast in Keswick. I don't think he still lives in Keswick. He probably does. That's where all the rich people live. Is that true?

No. Okay. I have no idea who lives in Keswick. Nikita Zaitsev could be back Wednesday night, which means Roman Polak is definitely still playing. So which of the three... Did you see the practice lines? No, what were the practice lines? I was stunned.

Well, okay, the practice lines were all weird. From when? Today. They had practice today. Who's... Is everyone back? Just like hanging out? Yeah.

Except for Matthews. Oh, shit. Matthews, so the top line was Matt Martin with William Nylander in the middle and Zach Hyman. Okay. I think that one might not stick. I'm going to go out on a limb. That's so funny. Soshnikov took part in practice, which was interesting.

Riley skated on his own and Zaitsev was in the lineup Marler Marlow, Kadri, Marner Van Riemsdyk, Bozak, Brown And then Komarov with Sashnikov, Moore, and Kapanen Komarov slash Sashnikov, Moore, Kapanen So Gardner, Hainsey, Zaitsev Dermot, Borgman, Carrick, Borgman, Dermot, Polek

So I'm not really sure what That's how Kristen Schilton had it Yeah, who am I looking for? I think his name is Dave McCarthy had it a little differently. Is that his name? I feel like this is his first year on the Leafs beat. I'm not sure.

While you guys look up that, I was going to say, I thought they would get today off the entire weekend, so I didn't think there would be any Leafs news today. Oh, no. Remember, they've got to keep learning how to play hockey. Remember that. They must continue to learn hockey. It's very strange to me that they wouldn't just get this day off. Gardner

Hainsey, Dermot Zaitsev, Borgman Carrick. Yeah buddy And who's the extra? Polak Buddy Yeah buddy Which means Gardner's getting scratched next game

And Polak's going to play with Hazy Well Riley's not even back No I know That's not fun Oh well he can't play He's suspended technically for Wednesday's game Because he was elected No he wasn't elected to the All-Star team

I'm thinking he got the replacement spot But he never actually got it No, well, they were considering him and McAvoy, and neither could play. Okay, yeah. That's crazy. You know, I find it interesting that... They just replaced him with a forward.

Ah, it's Braden Point, fine. I found it interesting when I saw this morning that they'd recalled Kasperi Kapanen, and it was kind of like, oh, that whole thing that we've been yelling and screaming about, it seemed to look good, the last two games going into the All-Star break. Now, I hope it continues.

But where does this go? At the beginning of the season, you could be like, look, it's a numbers game. He's the easiest guy to send down. But it's looking more and more like, okay, he is clearly, he's got no business in the minors. He's good. And there are players on this team that he could replace and is better than.

It's key that he is a good fourth liner. Not everyone can be called up and be a good fourth liner. I think that's, I kind of think that's part of Josh Levo's problem. I think if someone were to get hurt and you put him on the third or second line or something He's better there. Yeah, I feel like he's not the greatest fourth liner. Kapanen embraces that role. He lays

hits. He's fast He's nasty. He's got a little scoring touch. Plays shorthand. He can kill penalties He does it Weird question. Sure Super weird question Let's say you've got

two defensemen that can kill penalties And that's it let's say you're the Leafs and you have two defensemen that you reliably count on to kill penalties why don't you ever throw three forwards and one defenseman yeah I have kind of wondered that like why not have your fastest

guy so let's just imagine you got a pretty fast Leafs team right so you've got Kapanen that's a good guy Connor Brown's a good guy to throw out there Zach Hyman's a good guy to throw out there who else could conceivably do it. So who'd you say?

Hyman? Mm-hmm. Komarov? Komarov. Brown? Brown. Marleau that you use sparingly? Komarov. You already said it. Yeah, yeah. Moore. Moore, if he's playing. Soshnikov, if he's playing. Yeah, if he's playing. Kapanen, if he's playing. So, like, if you're trying to give

Ron Hainsey a break, why wouldn't you throw three forwards out there? Or, like, three-on-three overtime. Like, how come the Leafs always have to have a defenseman out there. I've never understood that. Think of how deep that team is up front

in terms of talent. I guess because the two defensemen that you mostly use, Morgan Riley and Jake Gardner, are two of the best players on the team. Yeah, and then after that, I don't think you need to use one. Yeah, I agree. I don't think you do. And yeah, maybe for your third shift, you just throw out three forwards. Like, I would love to see... Willie, Austin, Mitch, go.

You guys talk it out on the bench which one of you is going to play back or figure it out on the ice. Go for it. Go for it. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. You don't need to have Ron Hainsey out there in 3-on-3 overtime.

I agree. Let him have a rest. I agree. See, I wondered about that. I've always kind of thought, if you've got a weapon like Kapanen on the fourth line, who's not going to get a ton of minutes anyway, so he's going to be fresh, get him out there. And that's, again... Like, special teams are not the same.

Why do you need... That's, again, why I wonder, and again, not to take swipes... Screw it, throw a three defenseman. Not to take swipes at Matt Martin, but again, I wonder about that role. because, so what, so he doesn't do special teams and he's very, very, like, you know, the fourth line doesn't play all that much. Wouldn't it be better served to have a guy in there?

And I'm not saying it's Josh Levo, but wouldn't it be better served to have a guy in there who can play special teams? So you can have two guys on that line, three guys on that line that can play your shorthand. I'm not going to take anything. I think he's had a good year. Yeah, in the fairness of this conversation,

I'm not going to take anything away from Matt Martin. So what does he do? Supposedly he's a good locker room leader. Okay, fine. I'm not in there, so I'm not going to say that. Yeah, need that. He fights, keeps the flies off, as Mike Babcock says. Okay, what else?

He hits on occasion. And usually that puts him out of the play. Yeah, or leads to an instigator. Or it doesn't, despite the fact that it's clearly an instigator. Without taking away any of those things from him, you've got to do more. You've got to do more to stay on this team. It's too hard. It is too hard to be a forward for the Leafs.

Like, if you're going to have blemishes, you better be Mitch Marner. Mitch Marner's got a ton of blemishes, but God, he's Mitch Marner. Look at the things he does. Look at the good things he does. Can you do those things? Jake Gardner has blemishes. No, but I do this, this, and this. Well, this, this, and this doesn't add up to what he can do.

Right. Jake Gardner has blemishes. But he's not a forward. Martin Marincin and Jake Gardner both have blemishes. Martin Marincin's not on pace for 45 points. Or 50 points, whatever it is Gardner's on pace for. Can you do what Jake can do? No.

Do you have the same faults? Yes. Get off. Sorry. Right. Okay. It's, Matt, no insults whatsoever. Gotta be better.

Look at Josh Levo, can't get in the lineup. Well, I wonder too if, with Nikita Zaitsev back in the lineup, is there a need for Polak to play? No. Because if the whole rationale was him killing penalties and being dependable, You got your penalty killer back You have Hainz, you have Zaitsev, what do you need? The thing that has bothered me about

Polak on the penalty kill, like okay fine I saw some people say Like oh his role on the team Is actually very key Who are these some people? I don't remember It's key in that he is A stop gap

In the meantime Like they don't actually plan on using him long term But like they have so many young Defenders Like, wouldn't they be better off developing these guys? Like, have they ever thrown out Connor Carrick, just here, try it? Come on. I think they probably had to last year when he was a top four guy on this team, right?

I don't think they did. I don't think they did. I think it was always, they loved Riley on the PK. Hunwick. Hunwick, Polak. Hunwick, Polak was a pairing. I'm trying to think, did they have Zaitsev kill penalties last year? No, I don't think so.

He did mostly penalty or power play. Which is so weird that they're like Forcing him to do that this year Well that's what they did with Morgan Rielly They put him through the ringer last year And now he's playing power play Too bad Yeah

He didn't play any power play last year It was Zaitsev and Gardner It was bizarre And weirdly his numbers are up Weird Remember Morgan Rielly was bad last year And everybody was wondering why he was bad Like it was just weird to me that like

They tried Borgman at the beginning of the season And he struggled And then they were like Okay we're done No more Of that He's bad and will always be bad how do you know

if you don't try it that's always been my wonder well maybe they know in practice Polak's better on the penalty kill now okay I'll give you that but why not try it with a clearly more talented player like Dermott for example

maybe that's what they're doing and I'm excited I'm excited to see what the Leafs look like with I mean even without Morgan Riley in the lineup that is one of the better looking lineups we've seen this year Is it just because Polek's out? Not just because of that, but I think you're optimizing your lineup.

I mean, okay, so before— I love the idea of keeping Gardner and Hainsey together. Me too. But then, you know, do you put Riley and Zaitsev together? And how did they play together when they did? Because I would imagine that they were pretty offensive and no defense. Yeah, well— And Riley's having one of the best seasons of his career with Hainsey.

Yes. Well, and now Gardner's having one of the best stretches of his career. With Hainsey. God, who would have thought that Ron Hainsey would be the straw that stirs the drink? But, like, at some point, like, okay, what Hainsey's been credited with is passing information on to Riley. Well, surely he absorbed some of that. And, you know, every teacher at one point in their life was a student who was taught, you know, maybe Riley can pass on some info? Maybe he can be the guy who drives his line?

I don't know. Well, I would expect him to be. But it is interesting. Ron Hainsey for sure has taken on a leadership role in terms of grabbing Travis Dermott and being like, are you going to get in there or whatever? Remember at the end of the game the other night? Yeah, that was funny. And I'm sure Travis Dermott appreciated it.

Tell me what to do, man. Oh, yeah, and Hainsey was like, oh, he did some sort of interviews. I didn't really mean anything by it. It's just we have a system, and I'm making sure he knows exactly where to go. And then the play ended up working, and Dermott was the guy that cleared the puck. I'm sure he doesn't need to tell Riley that, because they've done it enough times. They know we're going to go here, we're going to go there. Do you think when Riley comes back that Travis Dermott's the guy that stays in the lineup?

Yeah. So who comes out? Because Riley is a left shot? Yes. Who they sometimes force to play right. So here, can you bring up Dave McCarthy's thing again, just so I can look at it? If I remember it correctly, I want Gardner-Hainsey to stay together. So do you do...

I keep that together. Dermott moves down with Carrick. Riley... Sorry, let me just say what it is. Gardner-Hainsey, Riley-Zaitsev, Dermott, Carrick, I think. Over Borgman. Yeah. Borgman's had a bad stretch.

Yeah. So maybe it's okay that he takes a few games. And again, maybe they could just send him down for a bit. Well, now the... What did Babcock call it? The rotation? that makes a little bit more sense now with this lineup, I think. Maybe not a true rotation.

I mean, Dermott should never be coming out of the lineup. No. Unless you're sending him down for, like, contractual reasons for some whatever. Travis Dermott is an NHL player now. Yeah. And let's not forget he can play the right, too. So, yeah, some nights you have him on the left with Carrick, and other nights maybe you have him on the right with Borgman.

I don't know. Double rookie pairing. Eh. Eh. I don't know how keen Babcock would be on that idea. I don't think they have a choice. It's not like Polak's never going to play again. He'll play.

Come on. I know. I know. Just the thought of mentioning it. All right. Do we do the press conference? Sure. All right.

The Presser SDP. The Steve Dangle Press Conference. Hey, Adam. Hey, Jesse. Can you run down what happened to you on Saturday? from 9 a.m. until 9 a.m. on Sunday. Is that an actual question, or are you asking that, Jesse? No, it's a question.

9 a.m. until 9 a.m.? It's from Bill Lastname. Nye? No, Bill Lastname wants to know. Like the mayor? Sure, Lastname. Okay, so I took my dog for a walk at 9 a.m. The first of my groomsmen arrived at about 9.45

The last of my groomsmen Arrived about 5 minutes Before the Before the photographer was due to show up His name is Jesse Blake That was me In the meantime there was sandwiches and cheese And grapes

Not Don What's that? Not Don Imagine he was just your wedding day hype man Watching me play Grand Theft Auto Oh what are you doing You gotta steal that car You gotta punch that guy in the face

Take his money We had a We watched Steve play Grand Theft Auto Because it was very entertaining to watch That was weird No it's fun to watch I was like Anyone else want to play

No You guys were like no It's like a movie Yeah It was fun We were hanging out And I was so nervous It was like nice to have a distraction

So we just kind of had some Champagne and orange juice Sorry Prosecco and orange juice It's not champagne It's not from the region It's not from the same region Even though it's the same thing

And we hung out And then we got our pictures taken Huh? Amy Schumer says that As a vagina in a TV show About kids going through puberty What? Big mouth

Oh big mouth where Amy Schumer's the vagina Yes She is so fucking hilarious in that Isn't that sentence ridiculous? Yeah So the line It's not from the Champagne region of France Amy Schumer says that

As a vagina In a television show On Netflix That's 2018 You want to watch a funny cartoon Big Mouth on Netflix It's by Nick Kroll John Mulaney

And it is so so funny And polarizing and inappropriate Oh yeah well This show is a little polarizing and inappropriate I went to watch the trailer I just went to watch the trailer And I've never seen Like it was like

It was like 60% dislikes Oh yeah Why is this How is this allowed A lot of people were very indignant Oh my god God forbid there be any truth Because it's so true

Like some of the stuff that happens About kids going through puberty And it's funny Really funny Anyway But no But no So we hung out

After that So basically we put our suits on Got pictures taken And then I took mine back off again Because I'm like I'm going to spill on this thing I brought sweats I'm smart And we should talk about Steve taking off his suit

Oh well See when you take off your suit You gotta put it back on again The problem with Steve is he doesn't put his suit in one place He left his suit in many places So there was a big rush at the end And I believe to find, was it your pants? Definitely your bow tie.

Just the bow tie. Oh, and the script. Yeah. Or not, the speech. Yeah, Steve's like, oh, I can't find the bow tie. So all of us are looking in the hotel. Did you find it? I did.

Yeah, so it was hanging off a stand-up steamer that we have for Caprice's business. And then Steve's like, where's my speech? And luckily I had seen it under one of my big couch cushions and I knew it was there. I would have never looked there. And I'm like, it's under the couch cushion. Steve goes, okay, good. And it was the most Steve moment to happen Because it was

You almost went to the wedding without a bow tie Yeah you were like You could tell he was considering it Okay I'm just going to have to accept that I can't win this I was not considering that You were considering it You had to be Well Jesse you can't rip on me too hard

Because about an hour later I was a bro Oh yes And by a bro I mean you volunteered me for an idea But I mean I agreed to it I believe we'll get to that part of the story That happened when we got to City Hall Adam keep going Well, I mean, from there, we did take, we took, instead of booking limos for the day,

I was like, oh, I'll just take Uber. And so we just booked Ubers. Tubers. Tubers, for sure. I added to that trademark, patent pending. Oh, okay. No, I copyrighted it. Put it on your shirt.

Nobody can take that. We'll sell it. Okay. All right. I will sell it. Okay, it's floof. It's a floof. Okay.

Why do you keep getting that there? How do you do that? I don't know, man. It's weird. Why do you put it on your eye? I don't know. Tell your story, man. Anyway, no, we got there.

tell the story about City Hall because I don't know we got to City Hall we're sitting by the elevators to go up so Adam can meet his lovely bride we were told by the way

not to come up because there's no place to hide in City Hall so they're like you can't see her before she gets married so you have to stay three floors below

and hang out with your guys and there's like other weddings walking through it's like a conveyor belt of weddings in there so anyway that's Adam Wilde

so Alanis walks in this is all after Alanis who might be the most famous woman in Toronto because the other the other wedding party

that was happening after us they stop and just say is that Marilyn? Is that Marilyn? Alanis. Oh sorry, sorry.

Is that Alanis? Is that been dead? Is that dead now? Alanis? Yeah. I mean people still call her that. Like I still say

congrats Alanis and stuff on her on her Instagram all the time. She uh I think people know and I think that's what's fun about it

and there have been several threads on our Reddit page about so who is Alanis Morissette really Adam's mom? And I'm like, Alanis Morissette's not old enough to be my mom. Later in the night, I told her She's like 18 when I was

born. Are you kidding me? Come on. I told her I was nervous about my speech and she went, Alanis loved it. Alanis loved it. And I was like, thank you, Alanis. My mom thinks it's hilarious. Anyway, so yeah, the wedding after us that was coming up,

the bride stuff. I think it was both. I think it was the bride And then Alanis calls and she's like, where's the man who's getting married? Let me go shake his hand. And then she did that. It was very nice of her. And I saw her do that.

I was like, ah, the kindest person on earth. I'm in her presence right now. Anyways, after that, I had forgotten my pocket square in my suit jacket case thing because I didn't know it existed in there. How could you? Yeah. So I said to Steve, Steve, can I have your pocket square, and I'll go find some scissors, and I'll cut it in half, and we'll both have a pocket square. Which is actually a great idea. They don't expect you to return the pocket square.

I took his pocket square, and I went to security, and I said, security, do you guys have scissors? And then he's like, no, we don't have any scissors, but I have an X-Acto knife. And I said, I am not capable of handling an X-Acto knife. Can you please cut this pocket square in half for me? And he did. That's a great idea. Yeah, my dad went to the hospital for stitches. Yeah, me too.

I got six stitches in my... I forgot, you and my dad have like matching scars. Pirate scar. Yeah, just cutting a box. So him and his buddy, they held up the pocket square and they shivved it right in half and then I walked over to Steve and I gave him his half and I got my half?

Because the bow tie wasn't the only thing we couldn't find. It was the pocket square as well. Mine? Yeah. No, we found mine. Oh, it was Jesse's that we couldn't find. No, I just never had one. We were in shambles. We were not adults.

We ended up both having a pocket score, and you can continue the story. Yeah, so anyway, we got up. No, we took some pictures before. Oh, we did some pictures, and then we did that video. You need to check out my Instagram. It went like semi-viral. Yeah. 60,000 views?

60,000 views, 3,800 likes, which if the pictures after it, I've never posted the pictures after it, that would be the most liked thing I've ever had on Instagram. That's a lot. 3,800 is a lot for me. not for Justin Bieber, but for me, it's a lot. And,

uh, I, basically it's a video of the groomsmen, uh, and me on the steps. Just, let's look it up. I'm not even gonna wreck it for you.

I think it's, it's pretty funny. So I don't know. Was that your, that was like your idea, wasn't it? I forget. It was Derek's idea.

I thought it was yours. It was kind of, I think it was yours. It was Derek. Yeah. It was like mine, but it was like, it was like a combo of ideas.

Essentially. Like it was supposed to be like, you walk down the stairs at prom and Derek, I think my groomsman Derek makes a joke about oh we should have one where Adam's walking down the stairs and we're all doing oh my god oh my goodness you look so nice but then I told my mom I'm like we gotta do this

but it's gotta be a video and my mom knows how to shoot so my mom shoots this dumb video and of course it went viral it's well shot I thought it's very well done it's almost like she's done it before yeah anyway so my dad and mom and all of us were hanging out down there and then we went up to

the actual The floor that it's on Which is the third floor of City Hall in Toronto I wasn't allowed to look right as I left the elevator Because my fiance was right there And then walked into the room And it's weird because you're standing there In these little City Hall rooms

And it's not like a church where there's like An organ playing or something like that It's non-denominational and they've got like a little Bose stereo In the corner that's you know puffing out as much Smoke as it can but there's you know There's too many people in there The officiant had like a remote As well as like the things she was reading

she was like the music's playing and then she's turning up the volume down again yeah and uh and so we so i'm standing in there and it was just it was very funny because like you know your your life goes into blur mode right you don't you don't that's a weird moment you don't totally process yeah yeah it is weird and um the guys were all standing to my left and i'm like you know what i should you guys should probably get out there and grab like the the bridesmaids right Like, you should probably, you know, walk in together. And it's so funny. All of them except for Jesse had done this before.

So it was like, no problem. No, like we, normally you have like a rehearsal dinner. We didn't do that. Right. So normally you go through this. We did. We went through the steps at Steve's wedding because it was a Catholic wedding and those were involved.

And you have to, there are steps to that. Whereas us is like going and grabbing and there were already well-trained monkeys at this point. So we kind of, you guys all went out, you grabbed a person each. what was hilarious is Mrs. Dangle did not end up with you you didn't walk in that was weird and funny

so she looks at me right as she's walking in with her friend Alex and she's like look at my date it's a hot date and then you know the doors open it's the spice of life the doors open

I see Caprice and I have to tell you I think My now wife is a I've always thought she's a beautiful woman But I've never seen her like that It was just Like she was stunning You cried like a loser

So I did cry but here's the reason I got damn loser What an idiot So I tried to keep my emotions I try to keep my emotions in check I'm like I'm not going to cry And I look over at her mom who's walking her down the aisle And her mom is just in tears

And I'm like I'm like, broken. Done. And that's when I started. Yeah, that was your mistake. Don't look at the parents. I was just tunnel vision on Mrs. Dangle. Dads, I think, are a little different. Dads of that generation are expected to keep it in check.

Keep it in check. Not the weddings I've been to. No? No. Oh, man. I think that's kind of the one time they kind of let loose. Do they? And shed a little tear.

Because I don't know. Did Mrs. Dangle's dad break? No. See, that's what I was thinking about. It was him. So I was able to look at her mom who cries at everything. So it was silly to me. I'm like, well, this is just a day that ends with Y.

That's nothing. Key, if you're going to get married, eyes on your wife. Or, I guess, groom to be, whatever. Husband to be, sorry. Don't look at any old people. Whoever you look at in the audience, don't look at any old people. Old people crying is the single saddest thing In the universe

I can hear my stepmom sobbing She's not even an old person But she's in her mid-fifties So she's not an old person at all And I'm just hearing her go And I'm like, no, I can't look at you I can't, I can't Your father, I think, held it together

Yeah, he's very stoic I think when you're talking about that generation I think your dad's definitely that type Totally, yes I mean, it's funny he's getting more emotional as he gets older and his dad he had like a quadruple bypass when I was like

14 and after that you know life was so precious he just cried at everything like we bring the dog over and he'd be like this dog is so beautiful and he'd just start crying he's just so full of joy that's a weird thing as you get older you feel

frail right so anyway that's how he explained it to me so back to the wedding Caprice is walking to Moore's and I'm like oh my god and you know it's funny You don't even know what to do It's like you forget what to do with yourself And I remember looking at Caprice And she's so nervous and I'm so nervous

And I'm trying to get a read on how she's feeling And I can't even get outside of myself Like you're kind of We're both kind of looking at each other like Here we go And you know I can't remember A thing the officiant said I know she read a poem or two

I know that she said She asked me to repeat some stuff And You did I remember when You and Caprice Tried to leave the The room early

Oh yeah Without signing Your marriage license She had his kiss And then we're like Okay we're done Right And then

It's like the movies In the movies They don't show you Awkwardly sitting there In front of the whole Congregation Yeah She's like

We're gonna take a Brief musical interlude Click click click click With the remote Up comes the music And then you know She presses the wrong The wrong button

Hey mom Say the way you move Sorry not Led Zeppelin That's for after So Steve witnessed Because I was just kind of like People were like As I'm walking in you have to make a signature too

I was like Steve And then I brought him in and I'm like You'll remember this right I had to sign something on the way in And then After the ceremony I had to sign again And there was some moment where

We need a witness And Adam just goes who wants to do it It doesn't matter and the officiant is like, um, it does matter who signed the papers outside. I'm like, oh, sorry, me. Come on over, Steve. So you guys came back inside and you signed.

My signature took 45 minutes. And then we... This is about Steve. I was trying to make fun of myself! Which you should do in this moment about you, clearly. And Jesse did make fun of you. You tried, he did.

Damn, I can't even make fun of myself good. Don't get coffee on the Sportsnet logo. I will get coffee on the Sportsnet logo. Scott Moore will be down here so fast. No, I... No, we're good. I know you're fine, man. You're fine.

Tell your stupid story. So, yeah, then we go to... About your wedding. We were going to get pictures taken at Toronto City Hall and around the Toronto sign, but it's raining. And it's January, and we're like, listen, it's plus seven in January, which for our United States listeners means

it's seven degrees over freezing, Which for January in Toronto is a freaking blessing We will count our blessings We'll go to the restaurant They had food, they had hors d'oeuvres We had our pictures done Family pictures done or whatever I remember going down the stairs

Steve was one of the MCs Along with Caprice's bridesmaid Jen They called us in Each couple And then we all sat down at a table together It is boiling hot in that room already Because it's an old Toronto Row house building

Was a house, is now just a restaurant And it's a place called Ruby Watch Co Friends of ours own it Some of the best food I've ever had In my entire freaking life Oh my god I kid you not, it is one of the best restaurants in the city Period

The seafood was especially unbelievable They had this little, I don't know, pita bread I guess it was The little like red lobster biscuit Oh my god I'm not even talking about that Those are their cheddar biscuits The triangle pieces of bread that were like

Dipped in some oil I had about 4 or 5 of those You had the whole damn plate It was so good I nearly cried Our appetizers we did like lobster mac and cheese And lamb shank on a stick Stupid good

And there was some other great stuff But that lobster mac and cheese was insane Your cocktail was just Gasoline That was pure fuel Caprice had a cocktail named after her which was called Caprice son, which is funny Caprice son get it right Steve Man, so and then mine's I took credit for that. I cuz I came up with it Why why does he get credit for that I came up with because I think he came up with it

Yeah, we asked you who did you ask we asked Steven Jen? I think Steven the MCS yeah, and you came up with bad ideas, and I came up with a bag When did you ask like several days before you this is how we are very disorganized right the fact that that wedding went the way it did is a freaking miracle. Why so far in advance, Adam? It was a miracle that things went off as well as they did. So you asked Steve to name a drink for Caprice?

Well, because we were trying to come up with names and we couldn't. Because at this point, you've got to understand, a month ago... Stop trying to discredit me. No, I didn't give you credit. On the day of, I remember we had a mini-argument because I said, you didn't come up with that, Steve. Yeah, because you were telling me...

When could you have possibly done this? You were telling me about things that I was there for. And so I didn't believe that ever happened. So I wanted to ask a third party. Right. Someone who was there. I can witness that. I can give this man credit.

And you're not going to let me give you credit? Okay. You don't get it. You are going to be a spectacular parent. Oh, my God. You will argue your kids in every corner. I don't want to. They'll be well-behaved.

They'll just shut up. They'll know there was anything. It's just incredible at never being wrong. Yeah. Anyways, continue your story. Well, and the thing is that you have to understand, the way I think of things, my dad perfectly summed it up in his wedding speech about us. Adam has a thing, I oversimplify things. And I tend to find that it works.

People overcomplicate things. I oversimplify things. Wedding went perfectly great. It was a fantastic party. There were some things that, you know, maybe were a little last minute, but they happened. Like the whole damn thing? Like the whole thing. And guess what?

It still happened. You're right. So that's the way it should be done Keep it simple kids That's the way it should be done then Listen advice with Uncle Adam And so yeah anyway We sit down we have some great food

Here's the key thing you need to do with your wedding If I can recommend one thing I'm going to recommend a couple things But if you hear nothing else that I say tonight Listen to this You make sure those damn speeches happen During food Not before food

Not after food during food. Why? Because everybody's sitting and their mouths are full. So they shut up and they're fed. Right? I can't stand where I gotta be at weddings and I gotta listen to some asshole's inside jokes about

the bride or groom for 45 minutes and then I get to eat my appetizer. Screw that, man. Screw that. I went to a wedding where each bridesmaid got a speech. Oh no. Are you out of your mind? Why? Are you out of your mind? And then we had

sleep out like what what how different they were all the same six identical speed that's what I was gonna say is that like how different can anybody speeches be Wow if I had all my groomsmen give speeches how different would they oh you enjoyed high school really oh great did you get drunk and do stupid things whoa whoa you still only have heartedly mentioned because you know this family here we can't say well then don't say it bring out the lobster bread thing. Lobster bread.

Lobster mac and cheese? Bring out the salad. That's how desperate I am for these speeches to be over. So you didn't do that. No, we didn't do that. We believe wholeheartedly that you should be eating and listening to a nice speech. And maybe talking a little bit, because that's what people do. What was great is that people were really engaged

in the speech. All of them. I was yelling throughout all of them. Yeah, Steve's was awesome. And I remember my dad came... So my brother-in-law, my eldest brother-in-law, Todd, Todd is, you know, he's been married, he's kids and that sort of thing. And Todd's 47. There's a big age gap between first and last child in the family. And Caprice is obviously the last child.

And Todd said, everybody was wondering how anybody could follow up Steve's speech. And then your dad came in and crushed him. Oh, he was great. He was so good. And it was like, well, it's a little unfair because my dad is also a former broadcaster. So it's kind of like, you know, that's what, that's what the family does. No, man, that was pressure. Really?

You were really good. Your speech was fantastic. Speech at Adam Wilde's wedding though. Like there's like, there's like 19 Gemini award winners in that room. Like I felt like. American listeners have no idea what that is. Canadian listeners also have no idea what a Gemini is. What is it, a Canadian Emmy?

Canadian, yeah, Canadian television award. There you go. You know who had the best speech of the night? Adam. You thought so? Yeah. I thought your speech was so good it made me like when you mentioned

the tinder off the top first off I want to thank the hard work of people that created tinder like right away you got everybody and I was like that is so good at radio you said fucking did I? yeah you for sure said it oh okay you pulled a Costanza

nobody seemed to mind I don't think and you were able to like summarize your love for Caprice in a speech and you got and then like somebody Caprice grabbed the mic and called her friend a pirate hooker

at one point and there was a lot of drama and it was a fantastic speech that was my favorite speech of the night oh thank you Jesse I appreciate that I was wondering

what your thoughts were and I want to get to them in a second after I've finished kind of summing up the night because there was a lot going on and I'm sorry I hope I'm not boring everybody

the reason I want to ask Jesse is Jesse's never been to a wedding before so I wanted to he was curious about his impressions but they're not all that

Ruby Wachko yeah and they're not all that fun sometimes I've been to some not fun weddings There's more clothes Yeah so

We get to eating and then we get to dancing The other thing I'd recommend is Why the hell does anybody cut the cake anymore I told Caprice That was such an inconvenience to your name I told Caprice, I'm like, before him, nobody cares You know nobody cares about this right Everybody needs to watch the cake cut

I'm like why, what does it matter And when you did it Nobody fucking cared Caprice's mom really cared Okay Caprice's mom really cared about everything that night though, right? Sandy, her name is Sandy. Sandy was on Sandy Fire.

She was on Fire and she was, every moment, this is the best moment. And I was like, because she was all like, I love her. She's so sweet.

She was on the verge of tears all night. So it was always up here. No one wants a Charlie in the box. And she's like, I just want to, she grabbed me at one point

and she's like, I just, I just love you. And she's just pinching my cheeks. She's like, I love you so much. What a mom.

Oh, she's the, she was mom and out of heart and she should. That's what happens. The night's basically hers Yeah, really So we're cutting this fucking cake And no one cares

And I didn't want to say it to Caprice at the time But I fucking told her so And here's the thing I do this for a living I have to do Not party planning But I gotta keep people entertained for a living That's what I do

And I have a pretty good sense of what people care about And what people are like Yeah, this is a weird tradition that I don't quite get anymore That's why we kind of did away We did away with a lot of traditions that you normally see at weddings because we don't personally care about them You didn't keep any of the cake, eh? I have no idea where the cake is Okay

Well, so that's a thing So I didn't realize So I'm cutting up the cake I didn't even have the cake I did not have a piece of the cake It was a pretty good cake It was really good We're cutting up like the top

I had two slices The little top tier Which you're supposed to keep You're supposed to freeze that And like have a piece on like your first anniversary Why would I just get a fresh cake made at the bakery Go down to Longo's and get a Cinnabon. I'll just go back to the place that made the cake.

And have them remake the cake. So as I'm cutting it up, I realize this and I'm like, ooh, I made a mistake. And then I told you and you're like, oh, that's a thing? No. I don't care. I don't care. I want year old frozen cake for dinner. If you preserve it well, it's good.

You're supposed to freeze it for a year? You know what it was better? Fresh. Just like the chewiest cake ever. You're just like, like, it's like, it's a piece of meat. I'm sure the carrot in our cake is aging very well. So if we go, when we go to your house, is there a piece of cake in your fridge right now?

There has been since 2014. What are you supposed to do with that 10th anniversary? Uh, I think it's firstborn child or it depends. It's a, it's an interchangeable, ridiculous firstborn child. Yeah. Let's celebrate with food poisoning. That's gotta be dangerous, man. Yeah.

You guys make fun of me for putting my jeans in the freezer. I was just not eating that. SL's like going to have a kid and her immune system is going to be down and you're going to eat

fucking five-year-old cake? Yeah. Oh, man. That must be a Catholic thing. I have no idea. Might be an SL thing. That cake is older

than 80. That is the first... 80 is younger than the cake we have in our fridge. Okay, that's... Okay, this is the first I've ever...

I cannot be a Catholic thing because I've never heard of that before. Maybe it's a Scottish thing. It might be a Scottish thing. Maybe it's an Aberdonian thing and I have no idea. Maybe it's just like to toughen you up because Scotland's a, you got to be tough, right? You know how angry it makes me every time I'm hungry that there is a cake in the freezer

that I can't eat? That's, yeah, that's, that make me crazy. One of these days I'm just gonna, like when I'm like a hardened married vet, like five years in minimum, I'm just going to be like, I'm going to take this pressure. I'm going to, I'm going to eat this cake and she'll be mad at me. But for how long? It won't last. But this memory of a cake will last a lifetime.

How long would it take her to notice? The birth of our first poor child. Saving the top tier. There's so much going on. Saving the top tier of your wedding cake. Saving the top tier. Tradition. Back in the 19th century, couples saved their top tier for the christening of their first child.

Today, couples generally wait a longer period of time after their I do's before having children. So they'll save us life slice or tear of cake for their first wedding anniversary 19th century. What did they freeze it with I? Know they had iceboxes a Seinfeld episode dedicated to that, but like like that's that's really bad I don't know how far back I bet people died. I bet people fucking died like That's back when you could die from a cold you want to tell me that five-year-old cake and kill you back then Freezers although they probably didn't wait five years. They probably they probably had kids like right away In 1913, freezers were invented for home use. And before that, it was ice boxes.

You'd got a big piece of ice, and you'd put it in a box, and that's how you kept things cold, but you didn't freeze it. So you'd keep it nice and dank and wet. Yeah. Mmm, moisture. In a wooden box. Mmm. So, yeah, wedding tree.

Where were we in the wedding story? Well, anyway, cutting the cake. So we got in the way. We did the first dance. First dance was really great. And then, you know, by the third, here's the thing. First dances are weird because you want to have the first dance, and I understand the premise of the first dance, but my thing is, do we have to do the whole thing in front

of everybody by ourselves? I feel that's a bit weird. The thoughts during mine were, songs are long. Did you have that? We picked a five-minute Blue Rodeo song. Oh, God. Sorry, Caprice picked a five-minute Blue Rodeo song. So I was like, all right.

Freebird. Yeah. We picked a 12-minute song with a guitar solo for five minutes of it. So Caprice and I thought, or we told Tom, our DJ, who was fantastic, by the way. He was so much fun. He, to invite everybody in by the third chorus. Just invite everybody in. Smart.

And people did. And then that was great. And we finished it off, and it was great. And I feel like I didn't see Caprice most of the night. Like, that's the other thing when you get married. You don't actually hang out with your partner at all. No. You do that up front.

Yeah. You're working the room the whole time You're not talking to your fiance You're hanging out with I was basically hanging out with my groomsman You have a lot of hugs and a lot of hands to shake Because there's a lot of family you haven't seen in quite a while Yeah and I had a small wedding

And there was still family that I hadn't seen in a long time So there was that And then we danced And then Jesse And the guys decided to start Taking off their shirts Jesse? No this was not Jesse's fault

No, well, Jesse took off my shirt, and he pulled it so hard that in the morning I couldn't get the cufflinks out of my shirt, and I realized my Maple Leafs cufflinks are fucking bent, or one of them is really bent. I'm going to take it to a jewelry maker. It'll be fine. Oh, no, I'm so sorry. Those are the nicest cufflinks. That's the one. Oh, no.

The cufflinks that the Leafs gave me are bent, but it's not your fault. You don't know. You're a bad person. I'll take it to a jewelry guy. He'll fix it. I am so sorry that happened. Jesse. I feel like Jesse won't.

The wedding's over. Spoiled forever. Call the divorce lawyers, people. Divorce. The cufflinks. The divorce lawyers. It's just annulled. It's just annulled.

Yeah, it's not even. If you can't even make it to divorce, you're just at annulment, you know something went wrong. That's wrong. Done. You married Britney Spears in Vegas. No, so Jesse, that is not typical of weddings. It's just for whatever reason at Derek's, the entire wedding party was just down to their underwear. Yes, we were.

And maybe ties? I don't remember. Yeah, we ended up in our underwear, and Derek started just shaking up beer cans. Formula One-ing the dance floor. Stone Cold Steve Austin. And they scolded him at his own wedding to tell him to stop.

Guys, guys, guys! Come on! I have some wild friends. They get a little crazy. Oh, I can tell. I was one of them. Yes. It's like 9 o'clock, and I'm getting,

hey at some point shirts off and i was like i was like dude no and then they like they just come up to me and they start they go okay here's what it is bow ties offensively deep v's let's go and i'm like guys it is quarter after 11 there's a lot of wedding to go yeah so we had to yeah like go all the way down to chest hair territory and then put your bow tie back on and then by the end of it it was just no shirt and your suspenders we were magic mike xxl yeah actually well jesse looked the jesse and derrick actually looked apart no offense wow wow oh my god i've just been waiting to say that just to bug you i didn't actually mean that but i've been saying that oh my god i just had i was like i was like when we get to that part i'm gonna say that jesse and derrick

look like i've been planning that all day see what people who don't know who are listening There was only three of us. Oh, I got it, too. And I was like, well, great. Everybody gets to see my love handles now. Oh, yeah. Someone posted a photo with the caption over it. Magic Mike before photo.

I'll take fat chaining, Tatum. You are not fat. Get the hell out of here. No, Steve is built. He's like a truck. I was kidding, man. I was kidding. Not a sturdy truck, because Adam, my shoulder is freaking killing me, because Derek and

I picked you up. Oh, yeah, they picked me up during Ice Ice Baby. I was holding the butt. Yeah, you were holding the butt. It's a lot, though. It is. Well, that's why Jesse's got, it's good for long fingers. He's got long fingers.

He can hold all the butt. I can grab all the cheek. Yeah. But yeah, it was during Ice Ice Baby. I'm like, you guys couldn't have picked a better song than Vanilla Ice? Anyway, it was... It's got a good, it's got a good... Yeah.

Anyway, we had a really, I mean, I thought the dance floor was fun. And there was time to go home I know you guys kind of kept partying for a little bit longer But it was time for us to go home We went home, Caprice got some late night snacks Got rice all over the couch Which I had to pick out all the next day And we just hung out and did nothing

We went across the street There was a bar across the street Oh, the cowboy bar There was a live band The frigging guy in the band The lead guitarist The lead guitarist is the guy from the band Aberdeen

which wrote the song for the LFR theme. What are the odds? Al Rowe. I was in bands with him in high school. You were. What a ridiculous... It was right next door to the opera house and I was telling Jesse, I was like, you know Adam

performed there, right? He's like, what? It's so crazy. There's a YouTube video floating around, right? We watched it. What do you type in? Don't even... No, no, no. We're telling the entire audience to go watch this video. I want that hidden I thought that was private

I thought you just had access to that Anyway we'll just leave that for now But um Yeah it was a fun time I mean it was really I mean Jesse So here's what I want to know Jesse Can I tell everybody what to search Fine okay so if you go on YouTube

And you type in the Rebblers At Opera House Dash 18 so that's the word 18 You will see Adam Play the Opera House Adam who I think was 17 16 or 17 not well

no he is killing it it's important that you know that I was not very good and you spell Reblers

R-E-B-L-E-R-S well there you go it's currently at 295 views our next episode I'm going to bring this up in the press conference

and see how many views it has wow and just leave the comment Jesse sent me whoever hosted that I don't know

whose video it is it currently has zero comments Wow I don't know who Joey Bobberton That's Russ That's Russ

The guitar in the band Joey Bobberton Okay Yeah He posted on November 1st 2008 2008 10 years ago Wow

That's crazy There's videos on YouTube That are 10 years old There's videos on YouTube That are like 11, 12 years old Wow It is crazy So yeah

So yeah Jesse I want to know A guy never been to a wedding What did you What were your expectations And were they surpassed Were they not Like what did you think

So two things really I was I forget who I was talking to and who told me this and I was telling them how this is my first wedding and they said

well this isn't really a wedding this is this other kind of fun Toronto hipster wedding where we're just kind of throwing a party

at a restaurant and I said apt description yeah and I said wow this is really cool because this is just like

a Saturday night where you're just at a at a restaurant you look fantastic yeah except and the food is great it's like a fancier just night out

on a Saturday where you're just with your friends at a restaurant there's a dance floor music playing get great food and you look amazing

for some reason and you're just having a great time so it was an incredible night and yeah the other thing Adam called me on Sunday or yeah you called me

and then I called you back and I was telling him how it was one of the best nights I've had in like years like one of the best nights of my life in dozens of weeks

like one of the best nights of my life that I can remember. It was such a good time. So yeah, I have no complaints about the entire day and how everything went off without a hitch. It was just a good time. I love that that was described to you that way. That was how we wanted it. We didn't want

a very traditional wedding. And no offense to anybody that's had them. I had a blast at Steve's wedding. It was very traditional. But it was, you know, it's one of those things that like, for us, we're just non-traditional people. We could care less about a lot of that stuff. and it's not because

we don't like it it's because we like trying new things and that's what we got to do with this wedding was try a bunch of new stuff and it worked right

and well and like smaller smaller wedding smaller venue like that's a good thing like I've been to weddings Italian weddings

that might as well have been at like the Metro Toronto Convention Center like where they have exams 400 people no one knows anybody like there was

that's no fun I don't know if I like that there was a wedding where like Minona who's like the matriarch of the family was notoriously sort of snubbed

while the bride and groom were going around saying hi to everyone. And the reason they did that is because they weren't 100% sure who she was. If you don't know who a grandmother of one of the families you invited is, maybe they shouldn't

have been invited. That's stressful, man. 400 people? That's too much pressure to put on the bride and groom. I think Adam threw the perfect wedding. As someone who's never been to a wedding before I think that's how a wedding should be I had no bar to jump over to be honest

There was no pre-existing It was perfect It was just a party for your family and friends I couldn't have asked for more Every wedding I've been to has been unique And it's been appropriate For the couple that Threw it

And yours was that I've been to cottage weddings That were appropriate for that I've been to good Woodbridge weddings I should throw that out there That they're fun and I enjoy food They're really good It just needs to match the couple

I've heard of Italian weddings That like turn a profit Oh the busta Yeah like that they make And there are issues now in Woodbridge My friend and groomsman Philippe was telling me I've been to Italian weddings where they have

They hire a police officer to watch the cards, the gift box. What is it? The booster? The booster. Because you can get in there and walk away with $30,000 or $40,000.

Legit. Easily. It's just one card box, gone. And no one's there to stop you. So it's an easy smash and grab thing and it's been happening more and more and more in Toronto. Wow. Because the Italian community is,

like in Arlumpit, they're in Woodbridge, right? That's where the majority of them are. Woodbridge, Maple. That's where they're all. So that's where they go And they find out where these weddings are And they go and they take it

Italian weddings are now hiring cops Off duty cops to just watch But it makes sense There was an Italian wedding I went to It was a friend of ours who wasn't Italian But she was marrying an Italian guy Enormous family We were the table who didn't know anybody

But at least we knew each other And these two guys just walk in And they were either looking to wedding crash Or who knows Maybe they were looking for the big ol' box with all the money in it, and Mrs. Dangle, of all people, all five feet of her, walked up

and started grilling these guys on what the hell they were doing there. And? They left very quick. Oh, wow. They left extremely quickly. Yeah, she's not to be messed with. Oh, she has a terrifying aura about her. Just, I don't know, imagine

if someone five feet tall got in your face. You'd be like, they're crazy. They know something. They can do something. do you remember the thing from this past summer or were you oh you might not have been there yet so we were we were we had rented this house

um and we were gonna go to a wedding the next day and these two guys walked into the wrong house they just walked into the wrong house and all of us half of us were sitting there quietly the other half were like hey are you like can we help you can we

Mrs. Dangle get the hell out of here wow Didn't ask any questions Get the hell out of here Wow Damn And you know what they did? They got out

They got out They left Yeah, that makes sense I mean, yeah Don't mess with her I would suggest this to Anybody that has any You know

You take a risk Having a winter wedding But I will tell you this One thing that people said Was It was sure nice To have something To look forward to in January

Because by the time Summer hits You have your wedding in August Everybody's been to At least three beforehand Right? And you're the fourth wedding on the list And it takes up your entire summer

You are planning that your entire summer And you can do everything You can tell me all day That no, no, no, we're ahead of the planning We're good Trust me, that last month before the wedding You are running You are running to get it done

It's not true What do you mean last month? You mean last couple days? Last couple days for me It's not true Yes it is It's absolutely not true What do you mean?

We had almost everything done Okay, well you had Mrs. Dangle Yeah, so that's a cheat code for sure Yeah, like, come on That's like playing Grand Theft Auto and having all the weapons Come on Fair Okay, like, come on

Fair She's on it Caprice and I are not on it And anyway, so what I would recommend is don't have your, like I'm not saying don't have your wedding in the summer What I'm saying is don't be against having it in the winter Prices are lower And it gives people something to celebrate in January when there's nothing to do

That's all I'm saying Well, time has gone on I've gone to more and more September-October weddings and stuff like that. I think it's starting to become a trend. It's nice. It's such a pain in the ass. It's legitimately difficult to book any venue anywhere. Or a church.

It's difficult to book a church. The House of Gwad. You can't even book it because it's already full of weddings. So people got smart and they're like, all right, when's the weather still okay? Fall is beautiful. Yeah, and no one's there. October. Yeah.

Well, and what was great about Steve's wedding is that you could actually take pictures outside. And that's the one thing we didn't get, right? Like, you know, you were outside. It was green. It was beautiful. It did rain, though. It rained a little bit. Yeah.

But, I mean, it was pretty, right? And we had a fun time outside. It held off. Anyway, that was the wedding. And you, by fluke, booked it for a weekend where there was no Leaf Game. Yeah. Completely. Because I booked it a year and a half ago.

Totally by fluke. It was funny. I was grateful. Caprice said It was like We were up late one night And she's like, okay, I'm just going to book this thing And they get back to us

And I'm like, okay, we got the 20th and the 27th of January 2018 What do you want to do? And I'm like, well, 27 is Daryl Sittler's number So that's got to be some sort of good locker, right? And that's it So here's the fluke Total fluke, the week before I'm doing the Leafs Nation podcast

With Sasky And who's our first guest? We did three shows in a row Daryl Sittler so I had to tell him so I told him and he like in his very Daryl Sittler way was like well that's very nice

but I got to tell Daryl Sittler that I booked up my wedding on the 27th because of him that's crazy yeah which is that was kind of neat

that episode's coming up and like a year ago you weren't even doing that podcast the podcast didn't exist it wasn't even a thing in the universe and then a year later

you're doing this show hanging out with my boy D-Sids and you're talking to D-Sids you're talking to City Boy City Boy I like that I like that

and then you're telling him about your wedding that's crazy Adam's life is dope and he does dope shit. Yeah. That was, uh... You like that. I do.

I'm a big fan. Um, yeah. Steve once told that to a girl after he told her that he was writing a book. I did. I did. I was running distraction for you. Oh, yeah. Were you?

Or were you just bragging about your book? I was 100% listening. That was at my bachelor party, was it not? Because Steve said the whole way... Being the wingman is so hard, okay? And you don't appreciate the hard work that I put in. On that entire weekend Steve would just be like my life is dope, but I do dope shit I got it from Berkshire. He was the first to say it. Oh

Yes, all right. That's it. Sorry Jesse. Did you get that person's number? Yeah, you did shut up. No, I did my job. Did you ever text them though? No, because his life is dope and he does dope shit. That's not the point. I did my job I'm not there to hold your hand through the thing you get a number get out You know what was one of the funniest things that happened all night? When Steve gave an incredible speech. He did. Your speech was phenomenal.

Phenomenal. What was wrong with it, Jesse? Go ahead. What was wrong with it? I want to hear. And then he saunters back over to the table. He says, hey, did anybody get that on video? Oh.

Then we all said no. No, we didn't. None of us did. That's fine. I think the reason was that at your wedding, the speeches were fantastic. Nobody got them on video No But I

It's fine that like You had to be there Yeah you live it in that moment Also I'm not so arrogant Where like Beforehand I'm like Watch this You're gonna wanna get this

Oh you didn't set up a tripod Yeah Yeah Hey bros Welcome to Adam's wedding A job Cut I keep leaving the podium

No no you just Press on the bar right Yeah just hop Hop it up and down Yeah Whoa Whoa Like share and subscribe

Get ready to smash that like button Smash that marriage button That would have been really funny If we'd given you like a YouTube square or something That would have been good Anyway, that was how the wedding went I hope I didn't bore you with the story Well, I mean

You should have known a wedding story was coming When you started with So here's my wedding Yeah, right, and if you weren't interested You could have tuned in at that point Oh, I'm sorry, should we have talked about all the hockey that happened over the weekend? Yeah, really Oh look, Brad Marchand got booed

Probably should have been there Again, fun for the people there Yeah, that's what it's for That's it Do we have any more questions? One of the questions on the Reddit page The reddit.com slash r slash stevedangle

Is now That Sorry, I'm trying to find who wrote it But I don't have it here It says something along the lines of Oh, there it is Whoa black Betty wrote that's the playing field is even now Congratulations Adam by the way will Adam or Steve be first to have a useless paperweight and by that they mean babies

That was the part of my speech that I forgot to write in Was uh Adam and Caprice? I just want to congratulate you on no longer having to deal with when you getting married questions You have now graduated to when are you having children questions? Do you have a date plans? No, I think it's going to be a while for us. For sure. Like, we're not there yet.

We just aren't, like, it's, I mean, if it happened by accident, then it happens. But, like, it's one of those things we are definitely not planning for, for sure. The score is currently two dogs to one. Yeah, and I think we're in the process of, we're going to buy a house probably in the next year here. And we're probably going to get a second dog. Because, I mean, Charlie's worked out so well. So that would even all the odds, because Steve's still up one house to none. Yeah, he's up a house, and he's up a dog.

Yeah, yeah. You got to step up your game, Adam. That's true. I do. I do. So, yeah, I'm thinking about doing that. Lazy jerk. I know, right?

DieFools wants to know, what is your go-to drink? Just in general. You're at a bar, unlimited money. What drink do you order? Depends on what kind of night it is. If it's a cool, chill, laid-back night, because there are different nights. Yeah, that's interesting. If you're at a classy bar, and you're just hanging, and you're having, like, a lounge,

and you're hanging with your buddies, and it's, like, it's a quiet night. Piano player? Piano player at this bar. Leather chairs. That's so key. Right? So that, in that case, I'm going with an old-fashioned. Bourbon. Don Draper. A little bit of orange. A little sugar in that. And that's close to the drink that I had

named after me for the wedding, which was rocket fuel. Holy moly. My Aunt Nancy had one of those. She said, woo! That went right to my head. I had half of one, and I was like, I'm going to stay at half of one, or else I'm not going to deliver the speech.

get up there so old fashioned but if it's one of those marathon crazy nights I like to keep it light so we go with a vodka soda with a lime but you do not put the lime in your drink cause that's gross gin and tonic is good

not quite vodka soda though doubles what you want to do with a double it's not because you want to be obnoxious if you want to be obnoxious that's your thing Like, my thing is always, how do I limit my time at the bar? How do I limit the amount of times I need to go to the bar for my drink? And a double vodka soda, because, you know, most bars you go to, there's three bartenders and 85 people trying to get a drink.

If you can get two of those, walk away, that's good for 25, 30 minutes, right? Rather than one little shot in here and, oh, now I got to go back up again. So that's my thing. If you're at a party bar, get your doubles, get out of there. Word to the wise, you may have noticed a trend Where every time you have draft beer You wake up with a terrible headache I have news for you, it's the draft beer

Generally speaking Don't do that at a bar The stabbier the bar The dirtier the pipes are For that draft beer, likely The more toxins you're ingesting And the more hungover you will feel Have draft beer at a brewery

And nowhere else Have bottles Your friends will look at you funny And then the next day You'll be the one charged with going out and getting the food Probably Because they will be immobile That draft beer is brutal

It's so bad It seems like such a great idea There's nothing better than sitting down on a patio in the summertime And having a pint But if you push it much beyond that And they're dirty taps Baby, you're in for it It doesn't matter what you do

Because at that point it's not about being dehydrated right that's just about it's literally about the upkeep of the pipes used to dispense it's bacteria yeah yeah so you can't drink water that out you have to like you can drink away a hangover right the steam whistle tour or something i went on they explained how often you're supposed to clean them is it a lot it's more often than any of the places we drank in and scarborough did because at those places it's never okay without saying the name of the establishment You know the one that we drank at less often? Yeah.

The band used to play shows there. Yes. How often do you think they cleaned it? Probably never. Probably never. Weirdly, it was very common to have a two-day hangover. They seemed like this particular bar would let us play there, and they'd pay us each $75 or whatever, which was fine for a band, right?

It's great. I saw the owner get in a fistfight one night. Yeah, but the owner clearly owned the bar just so he could drink his own beer. like he was just he was one of those so it was a it was kicking and stabbing for sure and and the bar down the street wasn't as bad although it looked dingy er it was far better run anyway well I guess we're done for tonight but more questions oh sure we do you want more sleepy emoji one minute two minutes go Are all muffins English muffins because muffin is in English?

Yes. Yes. Okay, next question. To satisfy you, yes. Why, if the NHL is a North American league and is so concerned with growing the games, why haven't they tried growing the game in Mexico? That's a good question. I don't know.

Hey, there's an interesting one. No. Could Mexico City ever support an NHL franchise? Yeah, they could because they've got 30 million people there. So, yes, they could. That's what I'm saying, Brooks. Here's the problem, I think, and I don't think anybody wants to say it, but I think there are things about Mexico that make the NHL nervous.

I think there are, you know, and I think those things have been alleviated a lot lately because they've done it, but there has been a huge... I don't know a damn thing. Okay, well, there's been a huge issue with cartel stuff in the past. Absolutely. I mean, let's call it what it is. And Mexico has really regained control of itself in the last 10 years because it knows that there is enormous opportunities like that.

I'm sure the thing Mexico City wants most of all is an NFL team. Wow. And I think it would be a phenomenal success. It probably could support two. What it probably also needs, why isn't the MLS in there? Mexico is huge into soccer. And I know they've got teams in, I guess there's other leagues. Yeah, I don't know what the league is called, but they have a professional couple, professional leagues down there.

But you know, again, they could support an MLS team for sure, right? So I think we're going to see that because I think Mexico is big time on the upswing. You know, with those, you know, with some of the stuff that happened in the 80s and 90s, I think, you know, it gave people a little bit of pause. And I think rightfully so, business-wise, are you going to want to go into a country where you're not quite sure what you're getting into, right? When you go with the safe bet. And shows like Narcos don't help the reputation of an entire country. Yeah, exactly.

And Mexico, for the most part, has always been fine. I know Fargo has scared me away from North Dakota. But I think in this case, I think, yeah, why not Mexico City? And I think the question is, is the interest there? And if you do want to get in there, if you're the NHL, you probably want to be in there first, kind of like what they got in with Vegas, right? Because Vegas is eventually getting an NFL team. But Vegas has embraced the Golden Hawks because they're the first.

Golden Knights. Golden Knights. I played for the Golden Hawks. They've embraced the Golden Knights because they're there and they're there first. And I wonder if the same thing will happen if you did Mexico City. I think it's kind of fun. If you can have a team in Florida, if you can have a team in Dallas, I think Houston's another market that could definitely use an NHL team.

It's a top 10 market, top 5 market in the states No reason why there shouldn't be an NHL team there After Seattle There's a very short list Of markets that seem interested And Houston's on it Yeah, so Mexico City for sure I think there should be MLS, NFL

And I bet basketball would kill there too They've played games down there The Spurs have And they played an NFL game down there They sold out that giant 100,000 seat stadium And it's not as though Mexico doesn't have expendable cash like there's tons of money there so you can there is it you know the demographics may be a little bit different but there's money to be made in mexico and you

if you include mexico in that i think the first league that successfully pulls that off is in for a huge payday because they're then you get your spanish language broadcasts i would imagine to become instantly more valuable it's like if you're espn and you have you carry the games in spanish anyway i mean god like that that tv deal all of a sudden goes through the roof because you mexico is what 90 million people yeah but you worry about how much of the population is english speaking because that's your main market and that's but then all of a sudden latin american is a new market right exactly like you like a city like la i think it's like 55 percent percent are latino you're throwing a lot of numbers right i mean like like and all the way down the coast

there that's you know new mexico uh arizona texas they were all part of mexico so you know there's a huge yeah of course back in and then there was in a mexican-american war and that's they took all that back i knew about california yeah no that's where that's where the states won it all because they attacked mexico and they yeah anyway history lesson but i think there's a huge opportunity there and it's just a matter of you got to find the right business people to to jump in and you know cross-border stuff's always hard look at what you know canada struggled could eat I think Canada can have three NBA teams, for sure. You can't tell me that Montreal and Vancouver can't support NBA teams.

But because of the cross-border stuff, that imaginary line we always talk about, it's tough for Canada to do it. How can Canada not have an NHL team in Quebec City, which has two and a half, sorry, a quarter of a million more people than Winnipeg? Well, because it's across the border and it's French language speaking. Imaginary line. Imaginary line in this imaginary, anyway. Mexico City would be great. You know what would be cool? It's not something I've ever even thought of.

You know what would be cool is if they figured out some way to do like an outdoor game in Mexico City. They've done it. Have they? They have done it. That would be sick. Like, you know, those like 100,000 person stadiums. It was an international game. I don't remember.

Well, Mexico was playing, I think. I don't remember who they were playing. That's awesome. Well, I'm all for it. I think the ice was probably bad. Wouldn't it be sick if we could fly down to Mexico for the Stanley Cup Finals? Or an All-Star game or something like that? Wouldn't that be amazing?

I don't know, man. A lot of people barely survive Nashville. Here's the thing, I think, with the All-Star game, too. If you're going to tweak the format a little bit, why wouldn't you have an All-Star game in a non-NHL market from time to time? I was just going to say that. Why don't you have that in China? Why don't you have that in London?

Saskatoon. Well, no. Why not? You don't do that in Saskatoon, man. No, no. You're trying to draw the international audience. Everybody come to Saskatoon in January. Yeah, no, no, no, no.

You won't need to. Saskatoon will show up. I know. Well, we know that. But Saskatoon's not the market you need to win over. London, England, Beijing, Tokyo. I was just trying to think of nice things for Saskatoon there, Jesse. Flint, London, Manitoba.

Bring the All-Stars to the world. And if I was going to start, if I was going to dip my toe in for Mexico City, first thing I'd want is an All-Star game. I think that'd be neat. That'd be cool. And it's cool for the players, too, because they get to go somewhere neat that they've never been before.

They still, I don't know. Players still hate going, I think. I don't know. Interesting. Anyway. Also, now Eric Carlson's going to join the Lightning, so there's that little repercussion. Oh, yeah?

Why is that? No, it's not actually going to happen. Unless it does. Apparently, Austin Matthews asked Drew Doughty about coming to the Leafs, and I guess he didn't. And it's tampering. Is it tampering?

I don't know. Can players tamper? No, according to the rules, it's like definitely tampering but they're not gonna say anything or do anything about it in a million years on account of every player does it yeah and also like why can't it be see then you get into the tricky territory of context so what happened was i know we're trying to wrap the show up but uh matthews said to dowdy on the ice hey so you coming to toronto and dowdy laughed and and then skate it away.

But you could easily argue the context of humor there, because Doughty created this huge hubbub in that interview he did with Craig Custance. So Matthews could just be like, well, I was kidding. I mean, are we just taking it verbatim? Or can you suggest something like that, but tongue-in-cheek?

That's why they're not going to make anything of it. It's a dumb story. Yeah, players don't talk, you're right. Yeah, nobody talked to each other, nobody said anything. No. Anyway. I know what's written in the rules.

I'm not sure when our next show is going to be. I'm not sure if it's Thursday or Friday, but if it is Friday, because at least playing Wednesday and Thursday and Thursday, so it will probably be Friday. Might be Friday. I will not be here. Well,

damn. So you guys will have to do it and you'll have to see how much the Rebblers video peaks on YouTube and Jesse. Nice sunglasses, my friend. Are we recording Friday morning? Potentially. If I do the LFR Thursday night.

We can do Friday night. We'll talk. why are you like cooler with your sunglasses I don't know I just feel them on you put sunglasses on inside you instantly feel cooler right all of a sudden alright we're done bye follow the guys on twitter

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