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Can you guys hear that or is it just me?

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Just making sure.

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No, I can hear it.

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Okay.

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Because there are definitely a bit of
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Anyway, welcome back.

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Welcome back to Lose Late Night.

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It's been a bit of a break.

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I apologize.

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But I have some news.

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I got engaged last weekend.

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So thank you so much.

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Thank you so much.

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Appreciate it.

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So I was not watching a lot of preseason
as you know.

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doing other things like planning and
visiting family and such.

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So I'm back now and happy to talk about
Leafs as we are the week of the first

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games.

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It's so exciting hockey is back for real.

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And we also have a friend joining us
today.

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Chris Hurley.

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How you doing, buddy?

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doing fantastic and congratulations on
that big achievement.

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Oh, thank you so much.

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Beaner, I see it seems like you are
finally back at home broadcasting from the

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basement again for a change, which must be
nice.

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Yeah, I just got back from a week in
Myrtle Beach for training, so there's

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definitely worse places to go for
training, but it is a million percent

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better to be back at home.

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Hell yeah.

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So I guess there's a couple little leaps
and news things we should touch on before

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we get into our main portion of the show,
which is the season previews.

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But we found out today that Jake Muzzin
and Curtis McElhaney have both been moved

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over to the staff side.

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So Jake Muzzin, I guess, retiring, which
is good, I think, for his long term health

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and his body, because, you know, we've
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that

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it's important for him to be able to, you
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his life.

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And I don't think playing hockey was on
the table again.

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So I'm happy that the Leafs were able to
find a position for him.

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I guess he's a pro scout.

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So good for Jake and good for MLSC.

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Yeah, and he always had a very good pulse
on the room, right?

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Like he had a very good connection with a
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right from when he got traded there.

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So I think it's good to keep him around
for that kind of thing.

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So as of today, Muzzin, obviously Matt
Murray with his surgery, both placed on

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long-term injured reserve.

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Also, Connor Timmons placed on LTIR as
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Missed that one.

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Oh, and backup.

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So does this mean that Muzzin is on LTIR
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Yes.

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I didn't catch that.

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I thought he retired.

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It's very like, uh, like, Pronger-esque.

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Like, uh, I think he was still on LTIR
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in the front-off.

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Oh man, okay, well, I missed that detail.

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Interesting.

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So, McElhaney is obviously not hurt and
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cool.

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So, I mean.

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he's definitely been around the league.

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He knows what it takes to be an everyday
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He was never a superstar, but he knows
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being a superstar.

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So he was definitely a very valuable
goalie to a lot of teams over the course

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of his career.

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Yeah, I mean, he played everywhere, right?

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But just one thing back to Muzz and two, I
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nice to have like another veteran leader
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that everybody liked, like you mentioned
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room.

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One, if I'm not mistaken.

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did we lose Curtis Sanford in the sense as
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We might have, I haven't heard his name in
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McElheny was the backup for Matthews and
Marner's Rikier, was he not?

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I was trying to remember when he played
for the Leafs, but you might be right.

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I think he was.

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Yeah, I'm sorry.

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I should know this stuff.

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It's been a summer of trying to focus on
family, so I'm a little rusty.

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he would have been around the...

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Obviously, we sacrificed him for Garrett
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So I'm pretty sure that was around that
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Wow.

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Good call.

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Other Leafs news, we got Nikki Bobby
getting sent down to the Marlies while

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Frazier Minton's making the opening
lineup.

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A lot of people said they saw this coming.

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It was nice to see, you know, Frazier
Minton being a little breakout star.

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But I mean, it hurts.

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You know, Robertson's had a really tough
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like what was it, mano and a broken leg
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It's just the guy has not had a good like
full season.

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So it's really rough to see that, you
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surpassing him and maybe it's gonna be the
end of the road soon.

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Well, I don't know if I would go as far as
to say the end of the road.

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Like, he showed, to me he showed a lot of
promise this preseason.

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Like, that's what you want to see from a
guy in his position.

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Because he was flying all over the ice, he
was very dangerous offensively.

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Um, but it might just be the fact that
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season.

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the type of player that he is, get him top
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than bottom six minutes with the Leafs,
right?

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Yeah, I just think that with these other
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Minton's gonna be a full-time guy.

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Like, they're probably gonna wanna put
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positions.

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Like, I think what we're getting to, and
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road is maybe the end of the Leafs' time
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Like, I think they might look at moving on
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starting to maybe take the spot where they
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I wonder if it's a because with Minton,
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them out before you can send them back.

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There's been a lot of talk I know in TSN
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just dominating juniors getting a crack at
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So I wonder if that's still on the table
and it's more so let's get him nine games.

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Let's get Robertson nine games and let's
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putting

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Robertson backup.

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It's not about there either.

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Yeah, so there is that chance that they're
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Like, have I missed something?

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Is Cowan still in camp?

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I don't know, I haven't heard anything on
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Let me just check.

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at all the transaction pages that I can
see and I have not seen them send him

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down.

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He wasn't at the game that Patrick and I
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I know he was still in camp then.

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from Kyle Cushman nine hours ago, for the
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and Mikko Koken remain on the Maple Leafs
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Still cuts to come.

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Well, today they sent coconut down.

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He's on the list.

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from cap friendly an hour ago, it appeared
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roster for now.

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All other players who were in camp have
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was placed on IR.

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This left Toronto $11.4 million dollars
above the cap.

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So, like you could reward Cowan for having
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hell, you can even give him the nine games
and then send him down because I think,

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ultimately I think the plan for him is to,
like you were saying, Chris, just to

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dominate Junior.

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Like he can go back and he can be a part
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the hunters were using him towards the end
of last season, they have a lot of faith

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in him.

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So it's not like they think he's just, you
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They're going to give him the type of
minutes that the Leafs want him to get.

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So he can go down there.

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He can rule the roost, kind of give him a
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know, doing what you were supposed to do
in the off season for putting on a good

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show in the preseason and we'll see you
next year.

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fair.

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Okay, last thing we got to touch on with
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Lafferty goes to the Vancouver Conox in
exchange for a fifth round pick.

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A lot of people saying this not great
because of what they gave up to get him

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and McCabe.

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But I mean, obviously there's salary
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other things.

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we got less than he was worth.

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But I mean, the Leafs aren't exactly in a
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like I said, 11.4 million over the cap.

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Lafferty was a good fast piece, but I
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talking about all these kids that are
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So I think thanks for your service.

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But like Ilya Mikhailov, have fun in
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Yeah, like I was a little shocked when I
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definitely a valuable asset, especially in
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someone that's that fast, but it's almost
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Like he has all that speed, but he doesn't
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with it.

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He doesn't know what to do when he gets
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Yeah, and like Mikheyev too, they're fast,
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at least with Lafferty, he did play the
physical edge a little bit more than

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Kapanen and Mikheyev did, but at this
point in time, I definitely do not mind,

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you know, giving that extra chance to
McCann or Robinson, Minton, whoever, over

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Lafferty because unfortunately those type
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you can easily go and get if you need it.

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Hell, even nigh as we haven't mentioned.

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I think it's got a play factor into two is
having some guys that are waiver exempt on

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this roster that if we do need to maneuver
pieces around throughout the season, we do

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have the younger guys who can go up and
down and it just creates a little more

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flexibility in terms of the roster where
as we've seen in previous years, we're

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kind of stuck with what we're stuck with
and there's not much we can do about it

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throughout the year.

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Yeah, and I mean really, what was I gonna
say?

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I had a thought and it just disappeared
like poof out of my head.

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It'll come back to me.

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Oh shit, anyway.

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Oh yeah, the waiver thing.

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So it would be, we're probably gonna lose
Lafferty to waivers anyway, so getting a

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fifth round pick back for him is better
than just losing him to nothing.

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Like we're probably gonna lose Martin
Jones for, so I mean if somebody wants

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him.

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He cleared?

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Oh, shit, I missed that.

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Well.

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if I had to go to Tampa or something.

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I don't know if it was maybe just the fact
that it was Dubis doing it, like we'll

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have to see if he puts anybody on waivers
with the penguins, but this is maybe this

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is a sign that things are changing.

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The Leafs that were actually able to clear
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How does Martin Jones clear waivers?

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But what's his name?

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Last year, the fucking Harry Satari
doesn't like it.

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This must be a do this thing.

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There's no way like this doesn't make
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We've been living in a world where
absolutely nobody clears waivers just

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because.

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And now Martin Jones goes down.

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OK, whatever.

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The old boys club heard Dubas say we can
and we will and decided, you know what?

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That little fucker, we're not going to let
him wave anybody.

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Oh, fuck.

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Who's this 30 year old nerd coming in here
telling us how to do it?

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You know what?

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Let's band together and let's give this
guy a piece of our medicine.

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We don't even want that player, but we're
gonna claim him.

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Yeah, they're not gonna play.

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that's why I don't get this.

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Like, it seems like there's a lot of teams
that could use Martin Jones.

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Like there's a ton of teams that are not
in super solid goaltending position.

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So I don't know, man.

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Thanks, I guess.

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Let's go to it.

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So the Pacific Division, we'll start with
the winners, the Vegas Golden Knights, any

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there's not really any changes to this
team.

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They're kind of running back the victory
squad, if I'm not mistaken.

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And.

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see what they can do.

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I don't know what else to say about this
team.

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They lost Kessel, they lost Smith.

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Now Smith was a factor like.

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that was the one.

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I knew there was something I was
forgetting, but yeah.

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Full year of barbacheve though will be
good.

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absolutely.

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Yeah, I was going to mention that.

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He was an under the radar pickup for them,
definitely.

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It'll be interesting to see if you ever
hear anything from Robin Leonard again.

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Because technically he's still on that
team.

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Is Aiden Hill going to be able to be a
full time goalie now?

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that he led them to the promised land?

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Or is Logan Thompson gonna come back in?

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Like Thompson was an all-star, played
great, and then got hurt.

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They did have Lorraine Brosseau as well,
but now he's back in Winnipeg.

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Yeah, and you've got Logan Thompson on
766K.

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And I mean, they paid Aiden Hill, so he's
making almost five mil.

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But it's the that's why I think it's
interesting that somebody like Martin

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Jones clears because this is not a super
solid tested goaltending thing.

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They got lucky twice.

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And, you know, here they are kind of feels
like where the Leafs are at, which is why

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they have Martin Jones.

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Anyway, Patrangelo and Shea Theodore are
still in the back end.

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Like it's going to be it's going to be a
good team.

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Like they're going to be good.

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I don't know if they'll be as uncontested.

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What did they only win by?

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What was the point difference here?

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They won by two points over Edmonton.

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I think that might be a little tighter
between them and L.A.

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just with the additions on L.A.

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side.

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But I don't know.

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I think Vegas is still going to do well.

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I still have Vegas leading the Pacific, I
think, going into next year.

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So what I want to do with all these teams
though is link it back to the Leafs

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somehow and what we should watch for in
the two games that they'll play against

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Vegas this year.

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So I mean, it's not like there's really
any, well, Michael Amadio, Ben Hutton.

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start.

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would more so say like, because you had
those two years in a row, you had McDavid

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and Eichel and then you had Matthews.

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So does, is Eichel now the better young US
sentiment?

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He's won a cup.

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Interesting.

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Yep.

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So that's how I would look at it.

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Like obviously you have the Amadio thing,
you could poke fun at that, but

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realistically, that's probably the way I'd
lean, because now everybody always said,

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you know, McDavid's better than Eichel,
Matthews is better than Eichel, because

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Eichel never even made a playoff series.

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Well then now he goes to the Knights and
they win the damn cup.

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Good point, I like that one.

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looking at that game is we've
quote-unquote have added snot to our

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lineup to be more prepared for the
playoffs and the Golden Knights current

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Stanley Cup champions do it better than
nobody else so I think that's a good

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measuring stick in terms of you know how
can our stunt and this toughness that we

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added and moving on the back end with
Klingberg how does it stack up to you know

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the defending Stanley Cup team.

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Yeah, exactly.

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I think at the end of the day, the biggest
thing to take away from it is, how do we

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stack up against the Stanley Cup champs,
right?

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Like on every level, like you said, it's
going to be the measuring stick.

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So, nothing else there.

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I think let's move on because I don't want
to spend too much time on the West because

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we only got a couple of games against
everybody.

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It's just the way it is, you know, we're a
leaf show.

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Okay, next up Edmonton Oilers.

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Same deal.

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It's going to be, you know, who's better
between Connor and Leon and Matthews and

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Marner.

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We get the return of Zach Hyman always.

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Connor Brown, Cody Cece, the Edmonton
Maple Leafs.

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Yeah, I'm going down this list, it's
insane.

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Cody, oh, Jack Campbell, but I totally
forgot Tyson Barry's not there anymore.

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Nope, he's in Nashville now.

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He is, well, that's the only significant
change I'd say is here.

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We got Matthias Ekholm coming in.

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Um, that's going to be pretty tough, I
think.

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Having a full season of Ekom I think is
gonna do wonders for the Oilers.

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I think you might see a little bit of a
bounce back with Gamble.

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I know it's only one guy, but having a
large minute munching defenseman.

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He's gonna eat up a lot of those hard
minutes on the back end because that's

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what he's always done.

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He's been consistent.

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That's the type of defenseman that
everybody's been saying the Leafs have

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needed forever.

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So if Stuart Skinner keeps progressing the
way he has, and if Campbell can have a

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little bit of a bounce back, I think they
have a very good chance of challenging

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Vegas for first in the division.

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And unfortunately, it's about, like you
said, about the same narrative, in my mind

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anyways, between the Leafs and the Oilers,
that, you know, McDavid, Dricidal,

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Matthews, like obviously McDavid's on a
tier of his own, but.

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You know, a couple years ago, there was no
question Matthews was above dry saddle.

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A couple years before that dry saddle was
about Matthews.

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Like it's, it's that, that swinging
pendulum, right?

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Yeah, that matchup this year is going to
be really the Battle of Ontario, or the

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Battle of Ontario, Battle of Canada in
terms of really who's going to come out in

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terms of, you know, that could be a
Stanley Cup final matchup right there in

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terms of the teams.

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I'm curious to see as to how it kind of
seems like throughout the offseason, you

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could see McDavid talk in interviews that
he needs to take his game to not only just

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another level, but on the defensive side
too.

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And to just, you know, it's not about
putting up, I think

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This was his like, hey, look, I can go and
score at will.

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If you think you're just going to hand out
the heart trophy to Matthews because he

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puts up 60 points.

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But he's going to, I think, going to turn
his game around and go, look, we don't

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need to win 5-4.

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Let's win 3-1.

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Let's win these tighter games.

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Let's play stronger defensive systems.

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And that's what I'm interested to see
Edmondson break out and take it another

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level in that system.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Like I think the combination of having
Darno, Nelson, Tyson, Barry is kind of

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like the same problem that Leafs ran into
where they were leaving their goalies hung

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out to dry.

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So I think having like a more solid
defense behind what is obviously like a

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powerhouse offense, it's going to be a
really dangerous Oilers team for a change

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instead of just McDavid feeling like he's
scoring, like you said, like a seven five

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game just because they have to so I'm
looking forward to it.

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Not to mention you have another full
season of Bouchard being in the NHL.

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Like I saw him play a couple of times for
London when he was in the OHL.

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That kid's an incredible young defenseman.

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Like it really annoys me that he went to
Edmonton because I don't want to see

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Edmonton do super well.

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But yeah, having him have that extra year
under his belt, I think that'll go a long

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way as well.

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OK, so next up, we've got the LA Kings,
who I think are going to be a challenge to

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both the Vegas Golden Knights and the
Edmonton Oilers for first place here.

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It's going to be so tight with the
addition of Pierre-Luc Dubois.

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Their centers are just stacked.

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And of course, the Leafs...

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There's always somebody on every team.

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We got the Trevor Moore thing, which just
comes and bites us in the ass.

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I swear, every time we play them.

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Trevor Moore, Carl Grundstrom.

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Oh yeah, Grunström too.

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At least, uh, Dersie's not there anymore.

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00:20:49,180 --> 00:20:50,565
Yeah, yeah.

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That one was horrible every time we played
them.

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But one big thing, I guess technically,
you have David Riddick as well.

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Or has it, no save Dave for the last
couple of years.

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Yeah.

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Sorry.

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00:21:10,819 --> 00:21:15,583
Their goaltending lineup is Phoenix,
Copley, Cam Talbot and Dave Riddick.

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OK, I take it back.

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They have some issues back there.

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That's what I was just gonna get at.

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The media loves to poke fun at the Leafs
and oh Samsonov's not proven, Joseph Wall

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is not proven, but neither is Phoenix
Copley and Cam Talbot.

402
00:21:29,130 --> 00:21:31,969
Yeah, Camp Talbot who spent all of last
year injured.

403
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,302
Not, well, that's part of being in Ottawa.

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Surprise, you're not injured all the time.

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00:21:38,245 --> 00:21:38,426
But.

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Ha ha ha.

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goes to Ottawa just like falls apart.

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00:21:42,515 --> 00:21:43,516
I don't get it.

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00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,211
You guys even had Dominik Hasek and he got
hurt.

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00:21:46,270 --> 00:21:48,989
Every Goldie in Ottawa falls apart, I
don't get it.

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00:21:49,278 --> 00:21:51,765
they should probably stop trading away
goalies.

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00:21:52,564 --> 00:21:57,867
This is true, Philip Gustafson, Ben
Bishop, Robin Lennar.

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00:22:01,490 --> 00:22:02,710
What was I saying?

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00:22:02,870 --> 00:22:06,533
Like even Cam Talbot, when he was in
Minnesota, they had so little faith in

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him, they went out and got flurry.

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00:22:10,015 --> 00:22:10,715
Right.

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00:22:12,266 --> 00:22:15,073
Holy shit, I didn't realize Talbot was
that old already.

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he's a good serviceable defense or goalie,
but he's not, I haven't seen anything from

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him in the past four years that has said
he's a top of the line starting goaltender

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for a team that seriously thinks that
they're contenders.

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I mean, the last one I would say, like, I
mean, his run from 19 to 22 here with the

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Flames and the Wild played 10 playoff
games with the Flames with a 2.42 and

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9.24.

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So, I mean, he was at least good in the
playoffs there.

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And the next year with the Wild, he played
seven playoff games with a 2.45 and a

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9.23.

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So, he's, it was good until the next year
with the Wild, I guess.

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Shit the bed.

429
00:23:03,522 --> 00:23:06,364
So I mean, yeah, you got to get there.

430
00:23:06,364 --> 00:23:09,486
But I mean, at least he's proven that in
the playoffs he is pretty good.

431
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Otherwise, yeah, he's old.

432
00:23:12,829 --> 00:23:16,112
So no telling that he could do it this
year.

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I don't know.

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00:23:16,513 --> 00:23:22,318
It's like, I'm not convinced that between
him and I didn't realize Dave Riddick's

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only 31.

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00:23:22,998 --> 00:23:24,979
I thought this guy was like 40 years old.

437
00:23:26,121 --> 00:23:29,584
Like anytime these goalies have been on
every single team, I figure it's like

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they're at the end of their career, not in
the middle of it.

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00:23:32,768 --> 00:23:35,209
But like LA's in a weird situation.

440
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They've got some good young defensemen,
Mikey Anderson, Tobias Bjornfoot, Brant

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Clark looks like he's gonna be a stud.

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00:23:42,995 --> 00:23:45,176
You still have Doughty kicking around.

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00:23:45,197 --> 00:23:49,419
They signed Gavrikov, they got Gavrikov
from Columbus last year and extended him.

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So they do have a half decent decor.

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00:23:51,922 --> 00:23:58,466
You've still got Kopitar, who is maybe one
of the most underrated centers of the last

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10 years.

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Like I don't think that's a stretch to say
that defensively the guy's been

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incredible.

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00:24:04,958 --> 00:24:05,339
Yeah.

450
00:24:05,339 --> 00:24:09,357
And I mean, he just signed for a $3
million less deal for them.

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So that's nice.

452
00:24:10,384 --> 00:24:12,326
Yeah, they added Dubois.

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You have Kopitar, Dubois, Denois are top
three centers.

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And if, okay, even if you want to put
Denois on fourth and have Bifield in

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there, if he can actually do what he's
supposed to, like they do have some good

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00:24:23,601 --> 00:24:25,964
young talent mixed in with some guys
who've been around.

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00:24:25,964 --> 00:24:27,886
So they're, they're a dangerous team.

458
00:24:28,254 --> 00:24:30,496
Yeah, and the other thing is they got a
lot younger this year.

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00:24:30,496 --> 00:24:33,739
They were a team that over the last few
years had, you know, been swaying to the

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00:24:33,739 --> 00:24:35,862
older side and that was kind of their
trouble.

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00:24:35,862 --> 00:24:40,347
But Kopitar at 36 is really the oldest one
and then it kind of skips down to 30

462
00:24:40,347 --> 00:24:43,410
before, you know, anybody else is there.

463
00:24:43,410 --> 00:24:47,233
So, I think they've done a good job of
getting faster and younger.

464
00:24:48,244 --> 00:24:49,369
Doughty as well.

465
00:24:49,402 --> 00:24:50,122
Trevor Lewis.

466
00:24:50,122 --> 00:24:53,484
Yeah, but I mean, doubt is only 33.

467
00:24:53,484 --> 00:24:54,224
So.

468
00:24:55,224 --> 00:24:58,186
Yeah, not for defensemen.

469
00:24:58,186 --> 00:25:00,927
Anyway, moving on, let's go to Seattle.

470
00:25:01,247 --> 00:25:08,771
So the Caracken had a pretty good year
last year with former Leaf, Jared McCann.

471
00:25:11,372 --> 00:25:14,753
And I don't know, what do we think about
how they're going to do this year?

472
00:25:16,914 --> 00:25:20,535
We've had a lot of, yeah, they've lost a
lot of players.

473
00:25:20,535 --> 00:25:21,756
I'm just looking over their list.

474
00:25:21,756 --> 00:25:26,459
They lost, you know, if you listen to Jeff
Merrick, Daniel Sprong, an absolute

475
00:25:26,459 --> 00:25:27,319
legend.

476
00:25:27,699 --> 00:25:32,142
I think Carson Sousi on the back end,
Martin Jones, who kind of anchored them to

477
00:25:32,142 --> 00:25:38,905
some wins and really all they brought in
was Kyler Yamamoto and Pierre Edward

478
00:25:39,005 --> 00:25:40,106
Bellamyre.

479
00:25:40,166 --> 00:25:45,129
And I just don't see them, I don't see
them progressing in a forward progression.

480
00:25:45,129 --> 00:25:46,949
I think Baniers will take a step.

481
00:25:47,678 --> 00:25:53,664
In terms of how this links up with the
Leafs, the McCanbowl, I guess.

482
00:25:54,245 --> 00:26:00,492
You know, that horror of a trade, I guess,
in hindsight.

483
00:26:00,492 --> 00:26:05,797
But I don't think it looks good for them
personally.

484
00:26:06,834 --> 00:26:09,698
Yeah, I don't think they'll be able to
maintain what they did last year.

485
00:26:09,698 --> 00:26:14,385
I think they kind of got lucky with a lot
of guys having really good offensive

486
00:26:14,385 --> 00:26:15,968
seasons that weren't really supposed to.

487
00:26:15,968 --> 00:26:19,773
So, I don't know, I'm not saying Jared
McCann is not going to score what was a 40

488
00:26:19,773 --> 00:26:22,757
goals again, but we'll see.

489
00:26:24,284 --> 00:26:31,929
I think realistically you have to just,
you have to just hope that a couple of the

490
00:26:31,929 --> 00:26:38,393
young kids, like if McCann can even do a
little bit less than what he did last

491
00:26:38,393 --> 00:26:42,115
year, I think that'll be golden because
nobody expect him to come in and get 40.

492
00:26:42,556 --> 00:26:47,599
Like Ty Cartes looks like he's gonna be a
good young player for them, came in

493
00:26:47,599 --> 00:26:48,480
towards the end of the season.

494
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,282
Matty Beniers needs to keep progressing.

495
00:26:53,928 --> 00:26:57,871
Belmair is a sneaky addition because he's
one of those players I always hated

496
00:26:57,871 --> 00:27:01,554
playing against when he was on Tampa
because he just he doesn't do anything

497
00:27:01,554 --> 00:27:04,015
spectacularly but he does everything
right.

498
00:27:06,097 --> 00:27:10,781
And then Ellie Tolvin and like the fact
that they got him for nothing from

499
00:27:10,781 --> 00:27:11,802
Nashville.

500
00:27:12,723 --> 00:27:18,487
Like this kid is yeah he's supposed to be
a sniper so a full season with the Kraken.

501
00:27:19,288 --> 00:27:23,595
maybe get some chemistry with some of the
other kids like Tolvanin, Cartay, and

502
00:27:23,595 --> 00:27:25,518
Benirs, that would be a deadly line.

503
00:27:25,698 --> 00:27:28,863
What's crazy, I'm looking at they still
have nine guys from their expansion on the

504
00:27:28,863 --> 00:27:32,669
team, which is drastically different than
what Vegas did, where by the time they hit

505
00:27:32,669 --> 00:27:36,013
the ice, I don't think there was anybody
left from their expansion draft.

506
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:36,960
Yeah.

507
00:27:37,562 --> 00:27:42,270
And then if I'm not mistaken, I think Joey
DeCord was injured before the start of

508
00:27:42,270 --> 00:27:43,872
last season, was he not?

509
00:27:44,434 --> 00:27:47,207
Like from the World Championships from the
year prior.

510
00:27:47,207 --> 00:27:50,353
years with 1.2 with them as well.

511
00:27:51,184 --> 00:27:58,130
Yeah, so like I know he's a backup, but
even though Jones was getting wins, I

512
00:27:58,130 --> 00:28:00,331
don't think his numbers were that great
last year.

513
00:28:01,530 --> 00:28:03,293
No, I think he was high.

514
00:28:03,293 --> 00:28:07,041
If I remember correctly, high twos and it
was like low nines or actually just even

515
00:28:07,041 --> 00:28:08,262
below nine.

516
00:28:09,285 --> 00:28:10,547
It wasn't stellar.

517
00:28:11,089 --> 00:28:11,357
Yeah.

518
00:28:11,357 --> 00:28:13,478
one was really complaining, right?

519
00:28:13,478 --> 00:28:18,002
So if you have Grubauer, go at least even
somewhat to what he's supposed to be.

520
00:28:18,002 --> 00:28:24,366
Decord's healthy, you know, give a 60-40
split, like just over 50-50, and I think

521
00:28:24,366 --> 00:28:28,109
that they maybe not do exactly what they
did last year, but I think they'll still

522
00:28:28,109 --> 00:28:30,470
be respectable and probably...

523
00:28:31,031 --> 00:28:32,431
I'd say they'll make the playoffs.

524
00:28:32,478 --> 00:28:36,302
I mean, they have to beat Calgary,
Vancouver, San Jose, and Anaheim.

525
00:28:36,302 --> 00:28:40,967
So it's not like it's a tough road for
them, but I do think Calgary and Vancouver

526
00:28:40,967 --> 00:28:43,270
are going to be a little tougher than they
were last year.

527
00:28:43,370 --> 00:28:46,573
So that's, I think, the only challenge for
the Kraken.

528
00:28:48,390 --> 00:28:50,552
Anyway, let's go on to Calgary.

529
00:28:50,674 --> 00:28:56,904
So a new coach and some, I guess, a fresh
start for some newer faces there.

530
00:28:56,904 --> 00:29:00,469
So do we think that Hubert O is gonna turn
it around?

531
00:29:02,239 --> 00:29:02,838
Yeah.

532
00:29:02,838 --> 00:29:03,418
think he can.

533
00:29:03,418 --> 00:29:06,960
I think he has that in his repertoire.

534
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:11,902
I think unleashing him a little bit, like
when you hear back to what Carol Sutter

535
00:29:11,902 --> 00:29:16,303
was doing in terms of like never even
practicing power play in a sense.

536
00:29:17,544 --> 00:29:22,366
And, you know, certain decisions where
it's like, hey, we're going to send out

537
00:29:23,066 --> 00:29:30,149
Nick Richie to go take a penalty shot goal
or a...

538
00:29:31,362 --> 00:29:34,665
Yeah, shoot out and it's just like, what,
what?

539
00:29:35,046 --> 00:29:35,286
Yeah.

540
00:29:35,286 --> 00:29:36,807
What decisions are we making here?

541
00:29:36,807 --> 00:29:38,850
It's like, Oh, but he's a good working
kid.

542
00:29:38,850 --> 00:29:42,733
Like, no, he's a stone hand.

543
00:29:43,107 --> 00:29:48,691
he was working real hard in the practices
and I wanted to give him a chance to show

544
00:29:48,691 --> 00:29:51,633
the team what he's got there and sometimes
things.

545
00:29:52,926 --> 00:29:54,286
It's a great oppression.

546
00:29:56,027 --> 00:29:58,669
But it's nice to see some of these
dinosaurs leave.

547
00:29:58,669 --> 00:30:02,450
And I think players overall will be
happier.

548
00:30:02,451 --> 00:30:08,514
It'll be interesting to see how some of
these guys let loose a little bit more and

549
00:30:08,514 --> 00:30:12,656
to see what potential we can get out of
some of these, how they can get potential

550
00:30:12,656 --> 00:30:15,778
out of some of those other guys that
they've spent a lot of money signing.

551
00:30:15,778 --> 00:30:17,318
Hubert O'Enn and Kadri.

552
00:30:17,519 --> 00:30:21,201
I think Kadri had a down year comparison
to what he was coming off of, obviously,

553
00:30:21,201 --> 00:30:22,761
with Colorado.

554
00:30:23,254 --> 00:30:23,874
So.

555
00:30:25,174 --> 00:30:28,956
Yeah, and I mean, Michael Backlund taking
a bit of a pay cut to stick around to

556
00:30:28,956 --> 00:30:30,297
helps the team out a bit.

557
00:30:30,717 --> 00:30:33,719
You know, one of those things that
everybody says Leafs should do.

558
00:30:35,121 --> 00:30:36,741
Nice to see that some people do it.

559
00:30:38,341 --> 00:30:42,002
another player that a lot of people don't
realize wasn't even there last year was

560
00:30:42,002 --> 00:30:43,323
Oliver Schillington.

561
00:30:44,784 --> 00:30:50,066
Like, he is a good young defenseman and he
took a year away for I don't know if his

562
00:30:50,066 --> 00:30:53,008
personal reasons or family issues or
something he went back over to Sweden to

563
00:30:53,008 --> 00:30:54,208
be with his family.

564
00:30:54,548 --> 00:30:59,070
So there was some stuff he had to get
sorted out and he's back like that is a

565
00:30:59,070 --> 00:31:01,631
big piece on their blue line from the year
prior.

566
00:31:01,794 --> 00:31:03,394
So this is on LTIR.

567
00:31:04,872 --> 00:31:12,654
Maybe he got hurt during the preseason,
but he is back over this year But so if he

568
00:31:12,654 --> 00:31:19,176
can be healthy like the Kind of under the
Babcock situation and I'm not gonna get

569
00:31:19,176 --> 00:31:24,218
too deep into that but some of the things
that Sutter does Is just a cancer to the

570
00:31:24,218 --> 00:31:30,499
team like wasn't it late in the season
last year Jacob Pellich Peliche

571
00:31:30,588 --> 00:31:34,571
came up and played a great game for the
Flames and the reporters asked Sutter

572
00:31:34,571 --> 00:31:36,352
about it afterwards and he's like, who?

573
00:31:37,353 --> 00:31:44,278
Like, if you're a veteran on that team,
that can, that's gotta be so demoralizing

574
00:31:44,278 --> 00:31:48,301
to see your coach just completely
embarrass this young kid who came up and

575
00:31:48,301 --> 00:31:52,064
is busting his balls to try to make the
team.

576
00:31:52,885 --> 00:31:56,187
Like little things like that can just be a
complete killer in the room.

577
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,421
You have Matt Coronado looks like he's
gonna be making the team.

578
00:31:59,902 --> 00:32:03,304
Jacob Peltier, like you do have some young
kids.

579
00:32:03,404 --> 00:32:07,807
And then you have, you know, Kadri hoping
to make an impression and have a good

580
00:32:07,807 --> 00:32:10,509
season to warrant his contract that he
signed.

581
00:32:10,509 --> 00:32:13,991
Huerdo, I cannot see him not bouncing
back.

582
00:32:14,322 --> 00:32:16,604
Yeah, I mean, the guy broke records with
Florida.

583
00:32:16,604 --> 00:32:20,208
I think it only makes sense that he
rebounds with a new coach there.

584
00:32:20,208 --> 00:32:21,510
But just an update on the Schellington
thing.

585
00:32:21,510 --> 00:32:23,111
This is from four hours ago.

586
00:32:23,392 --> 00:32:27,336
Oliver Schellington personal was placed on
LTIR on Monday.

587
00:32:27,336 --> 00:32:31,000
He missed the entirety of training camp
and is unclear when he will be available

588
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:31,400
to return.

589
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:32,861
So he has not come back.

590
00:32:33,936 --> 00:32:36,684
The story was that he had come back, so
that's not good to hear.

591
00:32:36,684 --> 00:32:40,153
Hopefully, whatever it is gets sorted and
he can come back.

592
00:32:40,174 --> 00:32:42,540
That's rough.

593
00:32:42,540 --> 00:32:45,347
Okay, so San Jose sharks.

594
00:32:45,347 --> 00:32:46,849
Chris, you wanna start this one?

595
00:32:47,622 --> 00:32:50,424
San Jose Sharks I have honestly bottoming
out.

596
00:32:50,424 --> 00:32:54,666
There's nothing interesting about this
team whatsoever.

597
00:32:54,887 --> 00:32:58,850
I think Carlson's gone, Burns is gone,
obviously two years ago now.

598
00:32:59,350 --> 00:33:04,093
I feel sorry for Logan Kachur, who's just
over there on an island by himself.

599
00:33:05,074 --> 00:33:09,117
On LTIR apparently too.

600
00:33:09,117 --> 00:33:10,838
Just, this is what I'm finding out.

601
00:33:10,838 --> 00:33:13,280
This is why we do these because we learn
things in the moment.

602
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:17,844
Also, did we touch on, what are we looking
for from Calgary and the Leafs this year?

603
00:33:18,084 --> 00:33:19,865
I guess the return of Calgary.

604
00:33:20,382 --> 00:33:20,942
Yeah.

605
00:33:20,942 --> 00:33:22,808
Yeah, that's about all they've got.

606
00:33:23,622 --> 00:33:28,344
Logan Couture lower body was placed on
non-roster injured reserve, given week to

607
00:33:28,344 --> 00:33:30,965
week tag earlier in the off season.

608
00:33:31,346 --> 00:33:34,227
Oof, was injured before training camp.

609
00:33:35,488 --> 00:33:38,049
Ew, that's rough.

610
00:33:38,450 --> 00:33:40,170
Yeah, they're not gonna have a good year.

611
00:33:40,231 --> 00:33:46,674
So on LTIR, they've got him, Radim Simic,
Jacob McDonald, season opening injured

612
00:33:46,674 --> 00:33:52,837
reserve, Mitchell Russell and Nikita
Okotek, and buried.

613
00:33:53,158 --> 00:33:58,051
Oscar Lindblom, it's just like dead cap
Brent Burns, Eric Carlson, Buyout Jones,

614
00:33:58,051 --> 00:34:00,837
like this team is a disaster of money.

615
00:34:01,816 --> 00:34:08,784
Yeah, they've got some young kids that are
supposed to be decent prospects Um that

616
00:34:08,784 --> 00:34:15,952
it's looking like I've potentially made
the team at a camp Excuse me, but There's

617
00:34:15,952 --> 00:34:19,355
not many storylines with this team this
year like

618
00:34:19,441 --> 00:34:23,490
2 million in cap space somehow, even
though they've got Mark Edward Vlasic for

619
00:34:23,490 --> 00:34:25,374
7 mil for another 3 years.

620
00:34:25,374 --> 00:34:26,736
That's insane.

621
00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:28,439
My god.

622
00:34:28,439 --> 00:34:31,829
right now and it is depressing this year.

623
00:34:32,454 --> 00:34:36,562
Yeah, like you look at the money they're
spending, it's they got 37 million

624
00:34:36,562 --> 00:34:41,451
forwards, 18 million defensemen and five
million goalies and they somehow have no

625
00:34:41,451 --> 00:34:42,613
cap space left.

626
00:34:42,613 --> 00:34:44,915
Like horrible.

627
00:34:44,915 --> 00:34:48,413
Thomas Hurdle's regretting resigning that
contract.

628
00:34:48,818 --> 00:34:53,261
Oh my God, yeah, I'm looking at, he's
there till the end of 2030 unless he asks

629
00:34:53,261 --> 00:34:54,742
for a, he's got a no move.

630
00:34:54,742 --> 00:35:01,067
2526 to 2728, three team trade list.

631
00:35:01,067 --> 00:35:02,167
Interesting.

632
00:35:02,808 --> 00:35:05,329
I wonder what three teams he would go to.

633
00:35:07,436 --> 00:35:10,038
More like what three teams could actually
afford them.

634
00:35:10,799 --> 00:35:17,064
But like William Eklund, he was their high
end draft pick from a couple years ago.

635
00:35:17,224 --> 00:35:19,946
If he can make the team and make an
impact, that might be a little bit of a

636
00:35:19,946 --> 00:35:21,067
bright spot.

637
00:35:22,969 --> 00:35:24,590
I'm just trying to go through the names
here.

638
00:35:24,590 --> 00:35:25,791
Philip Sedena.

639
00:35:26,388 --> 00:35:27,929
That was the player.

640
00:35:28,269 --> 00:35:30,272
It'll be interesting to see if he can do
something, right?

641
00:35:30,272 --> 00:35:33,355
Like when he was drafted, he was chirping,
saying that all the teams had passed him,

642
00:35:33,355 --> 00:35:34,716
he's gonna fill their net.

643
00:35:34,716 --> 00:35:36,918
Clearly it never happened with Detroit.

644
00:35:37,279 --> 00:35:42,164
But the fact that a player that young is
willing to mutually terminate his contract

645
00:35:42,164 --> 00:35:47,128
and bet on himself to go sign somewhere
else, like that's saying something.

646
00:35:48,130 --> 00:35:49,166
Fabian Zetterlin.

647
00:35:49,166 --> 00:35:53,088
win more than eight home games like they
did last year, because that is fucking

648
00:35:53,088 --> 00:35:54,209
embarrassing, man.

649
00:35:54,209 --> 00:35:55,709
That's so bad.

650
00:35:55,949 --> 00:35:59,851
Like what are your season ticket holders
are rioting at that point?

651
00:35:59,851 --> 00:36:04,053
Eight for what's the eight out of 41 at
home?

652
00:36:04,053 --> 00:36:07,495
They went eight, 22 and 11.

653
00:36:07,575 --> 00:36:11,277
Can you imagine watching 11 overtime
losses at home?

654
00:36:13,272 --> 00:36:19,394
They do have one of the best names in the
league on the team.

655
00:36:19,695 --> 00:36:22,216
Shakir Mukhamadulan.

656
00:36:25,057 --> 00:36:31,641
And also one of their goalies, Etu
Makenyemi.

657
00:36:31,641 --> 00:36:32,441
Yes.

658
00:36:33,241 --> 00:36:37,083
But then they've also got Kapo Kakenen
still and they sign Mackenzie Blackwood.

659
00:36:37,083 --> 00:36:37,743
So.

660
00:36:38,970 --> 00:36:42,714
Eh, I don't, honestly, I don't want to
waste any more time on the San Jose

661
00:36:42,714 --> 00:36:43,514
Sharks.

662
00:36:43,555 --> 00:36:44,796
Okay, Vancouver.

663
00:36:45,317 --> 00:36:46,037
Um...

664
00:36:48,461 --> 00:36:50,482
Oh, yep, bare bon of, always.

665
00:36:50,663 --> 00:36:56,209
So obviously the big news out of Vancouver
is that they finally named a captain, but

666
00:36:56,269 --> 00:37:00,173
uh, uh-oh, it was not Elias Pettersson,
it's Quinn Hughes.

667
00:37:01,970 --> 00:37:03,135
Awkward.

668
00:37:03,135 --> 00:37:03,657
Awkward?

669
00:37:03,657 --> 00:37:04,921
I think that's awkward.

670
00:37:05,936 --> 00:37:07,117
Yes and no.

671
00:37:09,321 --> 00:37:11,964
I think Hughes is probably the better
choice.

672
00:37:13,567 --> 00:37:17,092
Like, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but
Pedersen to me doesn't seem like the type

673
00:37:17,092 --> 00:37:20,216
of player who even wants the
responsibility of being a captain.

674
00:37:20,216 --> 00:37:22,278
Like some players just don't want it,
right?

675
00:37:22,410 --> 00:37:25,620
Actually, yeah, he's also an RFA at the
end of this year, so I don't think you

676
00:37:25,620 --> 00:37:28,888
want to give the seat to somebody and then
immediately go to negotiation with them.

677
00:37:30,522 --> 00:37:31,680
Yeah, I think.

678
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,933
well, I'm the captain, so you're gonna pay
me more for that.

679
00:37:34,942 --> 00:37:39,343
The thing too is while we see like, hey,
this player is the best player, you know,

680
00:37:39,343 --> 00:37:43,225
who talks in the locker room, who's
leading the guys day in and day out.

681
00:37:43,225 --> 00:37:44,465
And that's what we don't see.

682
00:37:44,465 --> 00:37:50,008
So I'm sure them selecting Hughes,
obviously 23 year old, probably not a bad

683
00:37:50,008 --> 00:37:50,908
pick at the end of the day.

684
00:37:50,908 --> 00:37:55,930
And obviously with them not having Eliza
Pedersen locked up for long term, it kind

685
00:37:55,930 --> 00:37:57,030
of makes sense.

686
00:38:04,626 --> 00:38:08,593
leaves captaincy if we're talking about
captaincy in terms of when does that

687
00:38:08,593 --> 00:38:09,334
handoff happen?

688
00:38:09,334 --> 00:38:13,841
Because I think we all know which way it
should go at this point in time.

689
00:38:15,146 --> 00:38:17,047
Yeah, yeah.

690
00:38:17,048 --> 00:38:22,273
It's just, I feel like if we, am I wrong
that if we start that, they're gonna bring

691
00:38:22,273 --> 00:38:25,677
up the reason that he wasn't in the first
place again, and we're gonna have to go

692
00:38:25,677 --> 00:38:26,957
through that whole thing.

693
00:38:27,678 --> 00:38:28,794
Probably.

694
00:38:29,674 --> 00:38:33,380
Like, as soon as anyone starts talking
about it, they go, well, there was that

695
00:38:33,380 --> 00:38:34,341
time.

696
00:38:34,602 --> 00:38:36,766
And then, I don't know if that'll be good
for Matthews.

697
00:38:36,766 --> 00:38:39,410
And I feel like they might be trying to
protect him from that.

698
00:38:39,791 --> 00:38:40,592
I don't know.

699
00:38:40,592 --> 00:38:41,573
That's tough.

700
00:38:44,286 --> 00:38:45,347
I don't know man.

701
00:38:46,872 --> 00:38:49,738
Mikheyev's hurt or I would say it's the
Mikheyev bowl.

702
00:38:49,738 --> 00:38:50,079
I don't know.

703
00:38:50,079 --> 00:38:51,641
What do we got for Vancouver?

704
00:38:53,824 --> 00:38:54,332
Ah...

705
00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:55,726
Not really a whole ton.

706
00:38:55,726 --> 00:38:56,809
There's nothing, man.

707
00:38:56,809 --> 00:39:00,010
It's like, I never care about our games.

708
00:39:00,010 --> 00:39:01,893
shorthanded goals and lose the game.

709
00:39:01,994 --> 00:39:02,775
Bull.

710
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:05,521
Oh yeah.

711
00:39:06,564 --> 00:39:07,805
The bald head bull.

712
00:39:09,149 --> 00:39:13,144
who frees up number 28 that everybody
thinks should go to Domi, which I agree

713
00:39:13,144 --> 00:39:13,362
with.

714
00:39:13,362 --> 00:39:13,583
should.

715
00:39:13,583 --> 00:39:15,072
100%.

716
00:39:15,072 --> 00:39:20,681
You have Dakota Joshua, who was a Leafs
draft pick, who was on the Canucks back in

717
00:39:20,681 --> 00:39:21,401
2014.

718
00:39:24,887 --> 00:39:27,511
Like we're stretching a little bit here.

719
00:39:27,610 --> 00:39:30,633
Okay, so last one here, the Anaheim Ducks.

720
00:39:30,633 --> 00:39:31,974
I mean, who?

721
00:39:32,495 --> 00:39:35,238
They got a lot of draft picks this year.

722
00:39:35,238 --> 00:39:39,142
They got a first, two seconds, three
thirds, and all the rest of them.

723
00:39:39,142 --> 00:39:42,826
So, I don't know, man.

724
00:39:42,826 --> 00:39:45,689
Leo Carlson, Mason McTavish, that'll be
fun.

725
00:39:45,689 --> 00:39:47,971
They got some fun young kids.

726
00:39:47,971 --> 00:39:48,732
I don't know, man.

727
00:39:48,732 --> 00:39:50,513
This team's not good though.

728
00:39:50,816 --> 00:39:51,482
Thanks for watching!

729
00:39:51,482 --> 00:39:56,287
them finishing actually above the sharks.

730
00:39:56,488 --> 00:39:59,010
They should fall backwards into that
realistically.

731
00:40:00,712 --> 00:40:02,353
But I think that...

732
00:40:04,358 --> 00:40:07,499
with them, you're going to have a lot of
young talent there.

733
00:40:07,499 --> 00:40:10,901
Troy Terry, I would like to see him get
back to where he was.

734
00:40:11,482 --> 00:40:14,483
I kind of want to leave the trade for him
if I'm being honest.

735
00:40:16,144 --> 00:40:20,547
But other than just seeing some good young
talent and some exciting hockey, maybe

736
00:40:20,547 --> 00:40:26,430
some more Michigan's flip over the nets,
anything in that nature.

737
00:40:26,430 --> 00:40:32,073
Other than that, there's yet again,
they're fighting for draft picks.

738
00:40:32,781 --> 00:40:35,507
you know what I'm looking forward to for
Leaf's ducks?

739
00:40:36,712 --> 00:40:39,124
Reeves beating the shit out of Rat Go
Goodas.

740
00:40:39,124 --> 00:40:40,171
Oh yeah.

741
00:40:40,792 --> 00:40:43,755
baby, yes, there is something there.

742
00:40:44,958 --> 00:40:50,805
They were minus, they were minus 129 gold
differential last year, holy shit.

743
00:40:51,872 --> 00:40:52,718
Hahaha

744
00:40:52,718 --> 00:40:55,908
They would have beat San Jose, but it was
all the overtime losses that San Jose had.

745
00:40:55,908 --> 00:40:58,816
They ended up having more points.

746
00:40:58,816 --> 00:40:59,649
16.

747
00:40:59,649 --> 00:41:03,884
actually will fight, if we're being
honest?

748
00:41:03,884 --> 00:41:09,833
Um, Reeves is kind of the cocky person
that I think he would, like he, he was

749
00:41:09,833 --> 00:41:11,736
asked and he mentioned it.

750
00:41:11,917 --> 00:41:14,019
Like he brought the scenario up.

751
00:41:15,306 --> 00:41:18,028
I feel like he might just because he feels
like that's why he was brought in here

752
00:41:18,028 --> 00:41:19,209
specifically.

753
00:41:19,709 --> 00:41:23,413
That was one of the things at the top of
the checklist is get revenge for this.

754
00:41:23,413 --> 00:41:25,935
It's like, well, we only got two games
against him.

755
00:41:25,935 --> 00:41:27,276
We're not going to face him in the
playoffs.

756
00:41:27,276 --> 00:41:28,677
Why the fuck not?

757
00:41:29,533 --> 00:41:30,155
Yep.

758
00:41:32,075 --> 00:41:36,465
Also, we're going to hear another season
of Where is John Gibson getting traded?

759
00:41:38,818 --> 00:41:40,959
Oh, well he gets hung out to dry again.

760
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:43,120
Oh well.

761
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:48,764
So, I guess that finishes off the Pacific
Division.

762
00:41:48,764 --> 00:41:51,266
Do we think, what are the changes gonna be
here?

763
00:41:51,266 --> 00:41:54,348
I mean, we've talked to the top three are
obviously the Golden Knights, the Oilers,

764
00:41:54,348 --> 00:41:55,408
and the Kings.

765
00:41:56,349 --> 00:41:57,689
Any shifting there?

766
00:41:58,992 --> 00:41:59,501
I actually-

767
00:41:59,501 --> 00:42:01,512
I think Calgary sneaks in.

768
00:42:01,926 --> 00:42:02,768
I agree with that.

769
00:42:02,768 --> 00:42:06,557
Yeah, that's what I had too is Calgary
leaf frogs the Kraken and then it goes

770
00:42:06,557 --> 00:42:08,801
kind of Canucks, ducks, sharks.

771
00:42:11,818 --> 00:42:13,058
Yep, I agree.

772
00:42:13,779 --> 00:42:16,941
Vegas, Edmonton, LA probably stays about
the same.

773
00:42:16,941 --> 00:42:19,083
Maybe Edmonton comes in first.

774
00:42:19,083 --> 00:42:20,083
It's pretty up.

775
00:42:20,103 --> 00:42:21,304
That's pretty much a toss up.

776
00:42:21,304 --> 00:42:23,686
I don't think LA is going to beat either
of them, though.

777
00:42:24,867 --> 00:42:26,868
Yeah, Calgary probably makes that last
one.

778
00:42:26,868 --> 00:42:27,269
Agreed.

779
00:42:27,269 --> 00:42:27,989
OK.

780
00:42:28,850 --> 00:42:32,912
We should go through the central a little
quicker because I didn't think we.

781
00:42:33,213 --> 00:42:33,913
Oh, my gosh, it's all right.

782
00:42:33,913 --> 00:42:35,855
Yeah, we're going.

783
00:42:35,855 --> 00:42:37,416
OK, so Colorado.

784
00:42:37,416 --> 00:42:40,057
Any changes and any leaf storylines?

785
00:42:42,706 --> 00:42:44,993
Oh, Jonathan Drewin's on Colorado now?

786
00:42:44,993 --> 00:42:48,040
Man, this guy just fucking hops around the
league.

787
00:42:48,222 --> 00:42:49,545
Thomas Tatar?

788
00:42:50,228 --> 00:42:55,138
Part of me thinks Druid might actually be
a decent sleeper this season.

789
00:42:55,138 --> 00:42:57,370
He's already 28.

790
00:42:57,736 --> 00:42:58,861
My god.

791
00:42:59,047 --> 00:43:02,775
Him and McKinnon were gold and the juniors
together.

792
00:43:04,318 --> 00:43:05,501
Yeah, could be.

793
00:43:05,845 --> 00:43:06,951
I didn't know they played together.

794
00:43:06,951 --> 00:43:07,913
Forgot about that.

795
00:43:08,060 --> 00:43:09,463
Yeah, for the Halifax moose heads.

796
00:43:09,463 --> 00:43:10,271
There you go.

797
00:43:12,066 --> 00:43:13,428
Uh, buh buh.

798
00:43:13,428 --> 00:43:16,593
Yeah, I mean, they got- wasn't Bowen Byrom
hurt last year.

799
00:43:17,732 --> 00:43:18,813
Yeah, he battled injuries.

800
00:43:18,813 --> 00:43:21,855
They got Ryan Johansson in from Nashville.

801
00:43:22,416 --> 00:43:25,442
Jiren, they picked up Ross Colton from The
Lightning.

802
00:43:25,442 --> 00:43:28,809
Miles Wood, Thomas Tatar, round out the
bottom six.

803
00:43:29,435 --> 00:43:31,701
wow, they made a lot of changes here.

804
00:43:32,060 --> 00:43:32,800
Yeah.

805
00:43:33,842 --> 00:43:38,427
So, my car had a lot of injury problems
last year as well.

806
00:43:38,488 --> 00:43:43,513
So, even if you get health out of my car,
health out of Byram, health out of Taves,

807
00:43:44,054 --> 00:43:47,999
I think that they're going to do just as
well, if not slightly better.

808
00:43:48,250 --> 00:43:51,537
Is there any word on any news on
LandisCog?

809
00:43:52,770 --> 00:43:54,116
I don't think he's gonna play.

810
00:43:56,374 --> 00:43:57,301
Yeah, done for the season?

811
00:43:57,301 --> 00:43:58,385
Yeah, that's right.

812
00:44:00,022 --> 00:44:02,164
That's a shame, because he's...

813
00:44:02,285 --> 00:44:05,089
I mean, didn't he just re-sign with them?

814
00:44:07,850 --> 00:44:09,471
Fuck yeah, till the end of 29.

815
00:44:09,471 --> 00:44:11,052
Oh my God, poor guy.

816
00:44:11,633 --> 00:44:18,300
Well, anything with the leafs here, just
best on best, like McKinnon and Matthews.

817
00:44:18,300 --> 00:44:20,422
I think that's really it.

818
00:44:20,943 --> 00:44:23,745
There's no X leafs on this one.

819
00:44:25,702 --> 00:44:26,764
Yeah, nothing.

820
00:44:26,908 --> 00:44:30,574
I'm even trying to pull the beener and see
who they got in the miner system to see.

821
00:44:30,574 --> 00:44:31,072
Hehehehe

822
00:44:31,072 --> 00:44:33,654
Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe
hehehe hehehe

823
00:44:33,802 --> 00:44:37,245
Okay, the Dallas Stars.

824
00:44:37,846 --> 00:44:42,312
Sagan, Ben, Hintz, Robertson, and Mason
Marchment.

825
00:44:42,312 --> 00:44:42,872
Mr.

826
00:44:42,872 --> 00:44:45,595
X-Leaf that everyone thinks we should have
kept.

827
00:44:45,615 --> 00:44:49,280
So that's always the fun one to play
against because he's really good, except

828
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:53,324
last year he was meh, but still pretty
good.

829
00:44:53,324 --> 00:44:54,625
Goaltending's right there.

830
00:44:56,334 --> 00:44:58,317
Did you say he's mid beyond belief?

831
00:44:59,701 --> 00:45:00,016
Yeah.

832
00:45:00,016 --> 00:45:02,281
fantasy, had to drop him really early on.

833
00:45:02,746 --> 00:45:03,227
Same.

834
00:45:03,227 --> 00:45:05,331
That's why I'm remembering he was meh last
year.

835
00:45:05,331 --> 00:45:08,718
I was like, wait a sec.

836
00:45:08,718 --> 00:45:10,702
Yeah, other than that, there's nothing
interesting here.

837
00:45:10,702 --> 00:45:12,205
Oh shit, I dropped a thing on my guitar.

838
00:45:12,205 --> 00:45:12,905
Sorry.

839
00:45:13,108 --> 00:45:17,270
So, wasn't it last year against the Stars
that it was the Battle of the Robertson

840
00:45:17,270 --> 00:45:20,172
Brothers, where Nicky Bobby had an amazing
game?

841
00:45:22,034 --> 00:45:24,356
Hopefully we can turn that into a
storyline.

842
00:45:24,356 --> 00:45:29,099
Maybe Cowan plays a couple games, gets
sent down, and Nicky Bobby comes up.

843
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:31,200
They're a good team.

844
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:32,921
They're a legitimate contender.

845
00:45:34,903 --> 00:45:39,927
Wyatt Johnson, Tidal Andrea, obviously,
Robertson, Pivowski, all the big boys you

846
00:45:39,927 --> 00:45:40,307
named.

847
00:45:40,307 --> 00:45:41,007
Like...

848
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:43,943
There's not a lot of holes in this team.

849
00:45:44,164 --> 00:45:49,815
And then you have arguably one of the
best, if not the best goaltenders in the

850
00:45:49,815 --> 00:45:50,076
league.

851
00:45:50,076 --> 00:45:51,378
That's well, definitely the best.

852
00:45:51,378 --> 00:45:52,479
That's not Russian.

853
00:45:54,043 --> 00:45:57,697
Yeah, and best it's healthy probably.

854
00:45:59,036 --> 00:46:00,248
Hmm, valid point.

855
00:46:01,062 --> 00:46:04,609
Yeah, they also added Matt to Shane in the
offseason, right?

856
00:46:04,927 --> 00:46:06,136
Oh shit, true.

857
00:46:08,110 --> 00:46:09,950
It's going to be dangerous team, man.

858
00:46:10,791 --> 00:46:12,152
I mean, they got to go up against
Colorado.

859
00:46:12,152 --> 00:46:13,312
They're loading up.

860
00:46:13,692 --> 00:46:17,174
Next one, and also dangerous team, the
Minnesota Wild.

861
00:46:18,075 --> 00:46:22,357
Rocking Philip Gustafson and that with
Marc-Andre Fleury backing them up.

862
00:46:22,357 --> 00:46:22,997
It's a good tandem.

863
00:46:22,997 --> 00:46:29,261
You know, I'd love to see Kirill Kaprizov
just absolutely explode this year because

864
00:46:29,261 --> 00:46:31,381
I've got him in a lot of my fantasy teams.

865
00:46:34,262 --> 00:46:36,104
But otherwise, there's no...

866
00:46:36,466 --> 00:46:38,509
I don't see any X-leafs on here, am I
wrong?

867
00:46:40,420 --> 00:46:45,252
Um, they definitely don't have any studs
defensive defenseman wise.

868
00:46:45,252 --> 00:46:45,433
Sorry.

869
00:46:45,433 --> 00:46:48,035
I'm just scrolling through the team here
um

870
00:46:48,035 --> 00:46:49,500
has been there forever.

871
00:46:50,949 --> 00:46:52,253
Jacob Middleton.

872
00:46:52,656 --> 00:46:53,977
like Kaelin Addison's young.

873
00:46:53,977 --> 00:46:59,942
He's supposed to be like he's supposed to
turn out to be a good player but There's

874
00:46:59,942 --> 00:47:04,525
definitely some questions defenseman wise
But they have been a solid team for a

875
00:47:04,525 --> 00:47:09,449
handful of years now and they've been
pretty successful with If they lose a guy

876
00:47:09,449 --> 00:47:14,133
they have a prospect or they're able to
find someone that they can plug in Like

877
00:47:14,133 --> 00:47:17,195
who would have thought zuccarella would
have came there and done as well as he

878
00:47:17,195 --> 00:47:17,766
did?

879
00:47:17,766 --> 00:47:18,788
Oh, he's been fantastic.

880
00:47:18,788 --> 00:47:22,393
And again, somebody who's taken a pay cut
to stick around for another two years.

881
00:47:22,932 --> 00:47:26,795
They got, uh, Dardy's boy, fat pat.

882
00:47:27,496 --> 00:47:28,216
Um,

883
00:47:29,082 --> 00:47:30,967
Yeah, Patty Maroon.

884
00:47:31,109 --> 00:47:32,673
Love to see that one.

885
00:47:33,556 --> 00:47:38,305
So maybe it's that we don't have Shen
anymore, but the Leafs have always loved

886
00:47:38,305 --> 00:47:40,307
getting at it with Maroon.

887
00:47:40,649 --> 00:47:44,576
Or you could have the fact that Mark-Andre
Flurry gave Keefe his job.

888
00:47:44,576 --> 00:47:45,958
So there's that as well.

889
00:47:46,110 --> 00:47:46,890
Yeah.

890
00:47:46,910 --> 00:47:51,514
And I mean, also of note, this is one of
the two years where they're taking a $14.7

891
00:47:51,895 --> 00:47:54,917
million cap hit for Parise and Suter.

892
00:47:54,917 --> 00:47:59,901
So it makes sense that there's some holes
on defense here and they're not completely

893
00:47:59,901 --> 00:48:00,322
short up.

894
00:48:00,322 --> 00:48:04,886
But like, like they've got the guys, you
know, that have been there, Caprizov,

895
00:48:04,886 --> 00:48:07,648
Boldy, Zuccarello, Ericsson, Akk is
consistent.

896
00:48:07,648 --> 00:48:12,132
Like, I think they'll make it up, but it's
still going to be a tough year where

897
00:48:12,132 --> 00:48:14,433
they're kind of handicapped by their own.

898
00:48:15,263 --> 00:48:17,019
Insane contracts.

899
00:48:22,237 --> 00:48:28,486
Okay, the Winnipeg Jets who just resigned
Connor Hallebuyck and Mark Shifely today

900
00:48:28,486 --> 00:48:32,152
to identical seven times 8.5 deals.

901
00:48:32,152 --> 00:48:33,533
What do we think of that?

902
00:48:35,739 --> 00:48:36,540
That...

903
00:48:38,028 --> 00:48:38,769
Okay.

904
00:48:39,574 --> 00:48:40,074
Hehehehe

905
00:48:40,074 --> 00:48:41,160
Hahahaha

906
00:48:41,942 --> 00:48:45,827
Shifeley's not worth that anymore
whatsoever.

907
00:48:45,848 --> 00:48:49,874
Um, I saw that today and I was like, oh,
they locked them up.

908
00:48:49,874 --> 00:48:50,635
Okay, that's great.

909
00:48:50,635 --> 00:48:54,140
And then I saw it was 8.5 and my jaw hit
the floor.

910
00:48:54,466 --> 00:48:56,953
They are both 30 years old.

911
00:48:57,310 --> 00:49:00,151
Like it's, that is astonishing.

912
00:49:00,272 --> 00:49:06,337
The fact like Halibut can still hold it
and probably regretting that contract four

913
00:49:06,337 --> 00:49:08,018
to five years down the road.

914
00:49:08,158 --> 00:49:11,881
But Mark Shifely, I don't know, like I
just plays less and less defense every

915
00:49:11,881 --> 00:49:12,661
year.

916
00:49:13,402 --> 00:49:16,064
Not to mention they've also lost everybody
else.

917
00:49:16,064 --> 00:49:17,611
So it's just.

918
00:49:17,611 --> 00:49:20,494
he's going to play more defense when he's
37 years old?

919
00:49:20,494 --> 00:49:25,457
Yeah, guys, you're just going to stand at
the blue line and just wait for pucks.

920
00:49:25,954 --> 00:49:28,218
38, sorry, because it kicks in next year.

921
00:49:28,218 --> 00:49:31,784
Both these guys will be 38, making $8.5
million.

922
00:49:32,722 --> 00:49:34,600
That is, that's painful.

923
00:49:35,374 --> 00:49:37,164
That's gonna be a shitty bio.

924
00:49:38,503 --> 00:49:42,670
unfortunately it's basically that, that
stay in winter peg contract, right?

925
00:49:42,670 --> 00:49:43,290
Like.

926
00:49:43,290 --> 00:49:44,837
that's pretty much it.

927
00:49:46,378 --> 00:49:52,102
But even if you wanted to, say you talk to
Hellebuck and you're like, hey, if we want

928
00:49:52,102 --> 00:49:55,605
to trade you, we got to get you on an
attractive deal to move at least.

929
00:49:55,605 --> 00:49:57,606
You can't even get him out on that.

930
00:49:58,147 --> 00:50:00,669
Everybody was talking about where is
Hellebuck going to go if they can't

931
00:50:00,669 --> 00:50:01,409
re-sign him.

932
00:50:01,409 --> 00:50:03,731
On this deal, he's fucked.

933
00:50:03,791 --> 00:50:06,293
He's going to waste away no matter what
Winnipeg does.

934
00:50:06,293 --> 00:50:07,413
He's stuck there.

935
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:13,425
See, honestly, I could see a team biting
on Halibuck at 8.5.

936
00:50:15,547 --> 00:50:21,554
Because wasn't the rumors like 9.5 to 10
is what he wanted?

937
00:50:21,554 --> 00:50:22,974
Isn't that what the rumor was?

938
00:50:22,974 --> 00:50:25,035
three years, maybe I would do that.

939
00:50:25,035 --> 00:50:28,277
But the fact that it's seven means that
like, at some point, you're gonna have to

940
00:50:28,277 --> 00:50:31,759
buy this thing out, or someone's gonna
have to you're gonna be paying somebody to

941
00:50:31,759 --> 00:50:36,842
take it on retained or something like it's
not gonna be fun when he's 36, 37, 38.

942
00:50:36,842 --> 00:50:37,822
I mean, I could be wrong.

943
00:50:37,822 --> 00:50:39,123
He could hold it together that long.

944
00:50:39,123 --> 00:50:45,126
But fuck like, especially Shifely, Shifely
more so than Hellebuck, you're gonna be

945
00:50:45,126 --> 00:50:46,547
stuck with this deal.

946
00:50:46,567 --> 00:50:48,428
Like this is gonna this is like Paris a
2.0.

947
00:50:48,428 --> 00:50:49,629
Like why?

948
00:50:49,929 --> 00:50:51,109
Why are you paying?

949
00:50:51,295 --> 00:50:53,084
Oh my god this hurts.

950
00:50:53,591 --> 00:50:54,473
I hate it.

951
00:50:54,541 --> 00:50:59,145
managers are not going to be in the same
position they're in when that contract

952
00:50:59,145 --> 00:50:59,926
ends.

953
00:51:00,226 --> 00:51:06,433
So even if you trade for it, like it's not
a smart career decision if you want to

954
00:51:06,433 --> 00:51:08,714
become a general manager again in the
league.

955
00:51:09,015 --> 00:51:09,306
But

956
00:51:09,306 --> 00:51:11,073
give a shit about that anymore.

957
00:51:11,804 --> 00:51:12,964
Well, no, right?

958
00:51:13,165 --> 00:51:18,569
So you kind of had to do it, because
you're not going to get someone worthwhile

959
00:51:18,569 --> 00:51:20,229
to replace either of them.

960
00:51:20,330 --> 00:51:25,654
The team thinks they're still a playoff
team anyways.

961
00:51:25,674 --> 00:51:28,396
I'm not going to say they think they're a
contender, but they think they're a

962
00:51:28,396 --> 00:51:29,217
playoff team.

963
00:51:29,217 --> 00:51:33,219
And if you're going to give up on your
number one center and your star goalie,

964
00:51:33,260 --> 00:51:37,083
then that's going to just send a ripple
effect on your entire team that, no, we're

965
00:51:37,083 --> 00:51:38,023
rebuilding.

966
00:51:38,878 --> 00:51:39,419
I'm looking.

967
00:51:39,419 --> 00:51:41,646
everyone thought they were going to
rebuild though.

968
00:51:41,646 --> 00:51:45,689
Yeah, like outside of those like, okay,
you have Kyle Connor, you have Mark

969
00:51:45,689 --> 00:51:47,270
Schieffeli, you have Nikolai Ziegler.

970
00:51:47,270 --> 00:51:51,094
It's just like a bunch of guys that are
just essentially mid.

971
00:51:51,094 --> 00:51:55,097
Like it'll be interesting to see what
steps like whole Profetti takes and Gabe

972
00:51:55,097 --> 00:51:56,258
Velardi in their games.

973
00:51:56,258 --> 00:52:00,502
But like, it's, yeah, but like, I think
what?

974
00:52:00,502 --> 00:52:02,923
Nino Nidoraitis 31.

975
00:52:04,505 --> 00:52:04,725
Right?

976
00:52:04,725 --> 00:52:09,369
Like, there's no, like, what does the
bottom of this team look like?

977
00:52:09,369 --> 00:52:10,189
It just...

978
00:52:10,418 --> 00:52:12,439
Vlad Domenicov, 30, right?

979
00:52:12,439 --> 00:52:19,543
Like there's a lot of this, like you
should be amply turning it, like turning

980
00:52:19,543 --> 00:52:19,943
it over.

981
00:52:19,943 --> 00:52:25,806
Like your last year of Shifely, six years,
trade them at the deadline, retain half,

982
00:52:25,806 --> 00:52:26,446
three million.

983
00:52:26,446 --> 00:52:27,847
That's it, a problem's done.

984
00:52:27,847 --> 00:52:30,969
Take the picks, run with it, build your
team.

985
00:52:31,389 --> 00:52:32,146
You know, we saw them.

986
00:52:32,146 --> 00:52:34,810
I feel like they built something that just
didn't work.

987
00:52:34,810 --> 00:52:37,914
Like we're at the end of the road for
this, this team, and it feels like they're

988
00:52:37,914 --> 00:52:42,100
doubling down and re signing a bunch of 30
year olds for extended deals to say, no,

989
00:52:42,100 --> 00:52:43,041
we can still do this.

990
00:52:43,041 --> 00:52:46,305
And I feel like it's you just got to rip
the bandaid off and move on.

991
00:52:46,651 --> 00:52:50,752
They're doing the Penguins without Crosby
and Melkin and Letang and...

992
00:52:50,874 --> 00:52:51,934
Exactly.

993
00:52:52,776 --> 00:52:56,321
And like Josh Morrissey is not going to go
for a Norris season again.

994
00:52:56,321 --> 00:53:01,388
Like, I mean, we'll see, but him and
Pionk, they're the only things holding

995
00:53:01,388 --> 00:53:02,550
down the back end.

996
00:53:02,550 --> 00:53:03,211
Like, what do you got?

997
00:53:03,211 --> 00:53:06,555
Nate Schmidt, you're paying $6 million to
like great.

998
00:53:07,102 --> 00:53:12,561
Brendan Dillon, Dylan DeMello, like it's
all old, aging blue line.

999
00:53:13,130 --> 00:53:17,824
Yeah, and you still, they got dead cap
from Blake Wheeler, like, oh.

1000
00:53:18,950 --> 00:53:20,453
At least they got their pics.

1001
00:53:21,436 --> 00:53:24,897
Kidwise, you have Brad Lambert from a
couple years ago.

1002
00:53:25,517 --> 00:53:26,698
He's a promising prospect.

1003
00:53:26,698 --> 00:53:30,679
They got Kupari and Vilardi in the Dubois
deal.

1004
00:53:30,839 --> 00:53:35,340
So you have them coming up, but yeah, it's
a pretty dry pipeline.

1005
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:40,882
Vili Henola is supposed to have been a
stud defenseman coming up through the

1006
00:53:40,882 --> 00:53:43,642
pipeline for them for a while, but he just
hasn't been able to stick.

1007
00:53:43,642 --> 00:53:45,623
You always have Logan Stanley, right?

1008
00:53:45,803 --> 00:53:47,943
Like nothing's better than beating the
Leafs.

1009
00:53:49,824 --> 00:53:52,867
Well, speaking of beating the Leafs,
moving on to the Nashville Predators,

1010
00:53:52,867 --> 00:53:57,812
we've got Ryan O'Reilly, and Tyson Berry,
and Luke Shen.

1011
00:53:58,974 --> 00:54:01,917
There's your storyline, everybody that
left us.

1012
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:06,072
Yeah, pretty much.

1013
00:54:06,072 --> 00:54:08,636
that O'Reilly and Shen both went in the
same place.

1014
00:54:08,636 --> 00:54:12,724
I mean, good for Shen getting, what was
that, 2.75 for three years?

1015
00:54:12,724 --> 00:54:14,185
Yeah, great.

1016
00:54:15,052 --> 00:54:18,064
I still swear to God I would have given
him eight years by two million.

1017
00:54:18,950 --> 00:54:19,355
Like...

1018
00:54:19,355 --> 00:54:22,722
really, I wish they'd done everything they
could to keep him around, especially now

1019
00:54:22,722 --> 00:54:26,366
that we're looking at the defense and it's
like, fuck, someone's hurt already.

1020
00:54:26,366 --> 00:54:27,267
talking.

1021
00:54:27,289 --> 00:54:29,374
That's my heart talking, because I love
the guy.

1022
00:54:30,422 --> 00:54:33,343
Well, honestly, I mean, I would have given
him 2.75.

1023
00:54:33,843 --> 00:54:37,285
I think, well, maybe they couldn't,
whatever.

1024
00:54:37,285 --> 00:54:38,366
He wanted to leave.

1025
00:54:39,286 --> 00:54:41,808
Ryan O'Reilly got what, four times, four
and a half?

1026
00:54:41,808 --> 00:54:44,149
It's not bad.

1027
00:54:44,149 --> 00:54:45,269
They gave him the A.

1028
00:54:45,431 --> 00:54:51,417
The more I look over their roster, the
very abysmal, their front end look.

1029
00:54:52,970 --> 00:54:55,355
O'Reilly Nyquist's Sizzling Glass.

1030
00:54:55,355 --> 00:54:58,420
Whoa, yeah, it falls off real quick, eh?

1031
00:54:58,641 --> 00:55:03,191
Ryan O'Reilly's there at highest paid
forward at four and a half million.

1032
00:55:03,191 --> 00:55:04,496
Philip Forsberg's on IR.

1033
00:55:04,496 --> 00:55:10,060
yeah, he's on IR, so he's hidden down a
little bit, but that's not a pretty

1034
00:55:10,060 --> 00:55:10,900
looking...

1035
00:55:11,321 --> 00:55:17,545
because Duchenne's gone, Johansson's gone,
Matthias Ekholm gone.

1036
00:55:19,016 --> 00:55:23,878
You're basically hoping that some of these
kids can fill into some of their

1037
00:55:23,878 --> 00:55:24,838
potential.

1038
00:55:25,078 --> 00:55:27,539
Like Luke Evangelista, good young player.

1039
00:55:27,539 --> 00:55:32,201
Cody Glass was, if I'm not mistaken, he
was the Vegas Golden Knights first ever

1040
00:55:32,201 --> 00:55:32,981
pick.

1041
00:55:33,742 --> 00:55:35,682
He's never really stuck in the league.

1042
00:55:36,863 --> 00:55:38,463
Kiefer Sherwood.

1043
00:55:39,064 --> 00:55:40,805
Sizzence has bounced around for a while.

1044
00:55:40,805 --> 00:55:44,207
Actually, he's getting up there in age
Philip Thomas, you know good young player

1045
00:55:44,207 --> 00:55:51,331
like they do have some promising players
But it's not looking good

1046
00:55:51,442 --> 00:55:57,924
So I was just quickly looking, based on
forwards, they have 28%, so Philip

1047
00:55:57,924 --> 00:56:04,026
Forsberg's not included in this, but 28%
of their cap is allocated towards

1048
00:56:04,026 --> 00:56:04,546
forwards.

1049
00:56:04,546 --> 00:56:07,787
The next closest team is the Blackhawks at
46.7.

1050
00:56:09,828 --> 00:56:13,269
So even if Philip Forsberg comes back,
they're still under the Blackhawks in

1051
00:56:13,269 --> 00:56:15,289
terms of what they spend on forward.

1052
00:56:17,194 --> 00:56:20,793
I mean, I know they're a defensive team,
but that's ridiculous.

1053
00:56:22,100 --> 00:56:26,043
But we say that about their forwards with
predators, but you look at their defense,

1054
00:56:26,043 --> 00:56:30,987
Roman Iosi, you have Barry who defensively
he's nothing but offensively he is good.

1055
00:56:31,588 --> 00:56:36,212
Alexandra Carrier has been a serviceable
defenseman, Dante Fabro, Ryan McDonough,

1056
00:56:36,212 --> 00:56:40,198
Luke Shen, like they've got a pretty
decent decor to be honest.

1057
00:56:40,198 --> 00:56:45,104
Oh yeah, but you know, not all those guys
other than Tyson Berry really are going to

1058
00:56:45,104 --> 00:56:46,765
be scoring you a ton of goals.

1059
00:56:47,784 --> 00:56:51,273
Well, Yossi's a borderline 100 point
defenseman.

1060
00:56:51,526 --> 00:56:57,073
Yeah, but well, yeah, I guess if you're
doing that, then what's Tyson Berry doing?

1061
00:56:58,055 --> 00:57:00,658
Like, I feel like they're with him, you
run into the same thing that the Leafs

1062
00:57:00,658 --> 00:57:04,083
did, unless you're putting them on PP1,
like giving them all the minutes that you

1063
00:57:04,083 --> 00:57:06,505
already give to Yossi, like it's going to
be one or the other.

1064
00:57:07,017 --> 00:57:07,681
Yeah.

1065
00:57:10,386 --> 00:57:13,066
Um, do, do Nashville.

1066
00:57:13,066 --> 00:57:13,367
Okay.

1067
00:57:13,367 --> 00:57:13,547
St.

1068
00:57:13,547 --> 00:57:14,627
Louis, St.

1069
00:57:14,627 --> 00:57:16,027
Louis blues.

1070
00:57:16,588 --> 00:57:19,749
They should for the love of God do better
this year.

1071
00:57:19,749 --> 00:57:25,731
They had a really bad season last year
after a really good year where like

1072
00:57:25,731 --> 00:57:28,812
everyone scored a ton of goals and they
signed everybody because of it.

1073
00:57:28,812 --> 00:57:31,993
And then they just went like under 500.

1074
00:57:31,993 --> 00:57:34,133
So, um, do we think they bounced back?

1075
00:57:36,252 --> 00:57:40,235
Honestly, I don't think so.

1076
00:57:42,377 --> 00:57:48,362
What, like, no, I really hope that Reeves
has some little tension left towards

1077
00:57:48,362 --> 00:57:50,024
Bennington from the Minnesota St.

1078
00:57:50,024 --> 00:57:53,847
Louis fiasco that was going on there
because they played a lot out in the West.

1079
00:57:54,207 --> 00:58:01,133
But like the team's been slowly losing all
the valuable players that played such a

1080
00:58:01,133 --> 00:58:03,615
big role in that cup team.

1081
00:58:04,204 --> 00:58:12,852
like O'Reilly, Steen, Bozak, Patrangelo,
Tarasenko, like they're all gone.

1082
00:58:13,373 --> 00:58:16,316
So, okay, Bucinevich is a good player.

1083
00:58:16,457 --> 00:58:18,358
Kapiton's over there now.

1084
00:58:18,779 --> 00:58:23,283
You have, like, Breeden-Shen's our new
captain.

1085
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:27,141
Robert Thomas is supposed to be stepping
up, Kyra is supposed to be stepping up.

1086
00:58:27,141 --> 00:58:31,503
They do have some players, but I don't see
it.

1087
00:58:31,543 --> 00:58:36,285
Like Perunovic has been a defensive
prospect for them for a while that Blues

1088
00:58:36,285 --> 00:58:38,046
fans have been wanting to come up.

1089
00:58:38,106 --> 00:58:41,542
And he's just, he's never succeeded.

1090
00:58:41,542 --> 00:58:47,689
on is Sammy Bias and what he can do in
terms of being healthy and playing a full

1091
00:58:47,689 --> 00:58:47,930
season.

1092
00:58:47,930 --> 00:58:53,837
He only got into 31 games last year, had
20 points in terms of a depth, probably a

1093
00:58:53,837 --> 00:58:55,319
third-line left-winger.

1094
00:58:55,319 --> 00:58:56,605
Plays a heavy game as well.

1095
00:58:56,605 --> 00:58:57,554
Blake, yeah.

1096
00:58:59,878 --> 00:59:00,818
Oh yeah, yeah.

1097
00:59:00,818 --> 00:59:03,580
They got them on a million, so it's a
pretty good deal.

1098
00:59:04,941 --> 00:59:07,382
Yeah, it seems like they're taking a
chance on a couple of guys, but really

1099
00:59:07,382 --> 00:59:10,724
this, oh, Jakub Vrana's there.

1100
00:59:10,804 --> 00:59:12,165
Wow, yeah.

1101
00:59:12,485 --> 00:59:15,307
I don't know, Kyru, Tomas, and Shen,
Buchnevich, like they all had those

1102
00:59:15,307 --> 00:59:22,672
20-goal seasons, and they locked Kyru and
Tomas up for, till the end of 2031 at $8

1103
00:59:22,672 --> 00:59:23,752
million each.

1104
00:59:23,752 --> 00:59:25,676
So, they got a...

1105
00:59:25,676 --> 00:59:26,006
FD.

1106
00:59:26,006 --> 00:59:27,967
They got to build something around these
guys.

1107
00:59:27,967 --> 00:59:30,349
I think we're going to see them, if they
don't start off well, they're going to

1108
00:59:30,349 --> 00:59:34,052
have to make some moves to build a better
team here.

1109
00:59:34,052 --> 00:59:35,313
I don't think they're going to bail on
this.

1110
00:59:35,313 --> 00:59:39,556
They're going to have to figure out how to
help these two out.

1111
00:59:39,556 --> 00:59:41,517
They've really doubled down on a few guys.

1112
00:59:41,566 --> 00:59:42,221
I was just looking.

1113
00:59:42,221 --> 00:59:44,646
that I wanna, oops, sorry Chris, go ahead.

1114
00:59:44,646 --> 00:59:47,308
just going to say, I was just looking at
actually like a lot of the guys are taking

1115
00:59:47,308 --> 00:59:51,471
risk on, they brought on kind of late in
the year, like Jacob Rana had 14 points in

1116
00:59:51,471 --> 00:59:53,632
20 games with St.

1117
00:59:53,632 --> 00:59:55,633
Louis, 10 goals, 4 assists.

1118
00:59:55,754 --> 01:00:01,038
So it's interesting to see, like I think
it'd be nice to see if Bennington can

1119
01:00:01,038 --> 01:00:05,581
figure something out, either fight, get
that monkey off the back or do what you

1120
01:00:05,581 --> 01:00:06,201
need to do.

1121
01:00:06,201 --> 01:00:12,105
But it's interesting because that team,
like to your point at the beginning was

1122
01:00:12,346 --> 01:00:16,186
you know, everybody was scoring goals and
whatnot.

1123
01:00:16,187 --> 01:00:17,947
And it got them their contract.

1124
01:00:17,947 --> 01:00:20,188
And then everybody on that team was like
minus 30.

1125
01:00:20,188 --> 01:00:24,049
If you had them in fantasy last year, it
was like they would still kind of put up

1126
01:00:24,049 --> 01:00:29,690
points, but ultimately it was like minus
30 minus 25 was those guys, Thomas and

1127
01:00:29,690 --> 01:00:34,292
Kyru and it almost made them a detriment
to your team in terms of the plus minus.

1128
01:00:34,292 --> 01:00:37,112
So they had their they have their woes.

1129
01:00:37,112 --> 01:00:40,793
And then you look at their defense court,
Justin Falk, Tori Krew, Colton Pareko,

1130
01:00:40,793 --> 01:00:41,433
like

1131
01:00:41,554 --> 01:00:43,857
three staples on their blue line.

1132
01:00:43,958 --> 01:00:48,625
And you just kind of wonder how does this
go awry with this team?

1133
01:00:51,170 --> 01:00:52,731
But somehow it just did.

1134
01:00:52,731 --> 01:00:54,092
I don't understand what happened last
year.

1135
01:00:54,092 --> 01:00:57,154
Like I don't watch a ton of their games
unless they're playing the Leafs really.

1136
01:00:57,154 --> 01:00:58,855
So I don't know what it was.

1137
01:00:58,855 --> 01:01:03,078
I would just, like you said, watching them
in fantasy, I tried to grab Thomas and

1138
01:01:03,078 --> 01:01:06,941
Kairu like I had the year before and it
just was a disaster.

1139
01:01:07,281 --> 01:01:07,921
So.

1140
01:01:07,979 --> 01:01:14,408
this is where it went wrong is Jordan
Bittington in 61 games was a 331 and an

1141
01:01:14,408 --> 01:01:15,008
894.

1142
01:01:17,547 --> 01:01:18,434
Whoa.

1143
01:01:19,090 --> 01:01:22,673
That's, you know, do they want Eric
Shulgren to go play for them?

1144
01:01:22,673 --> 01:01:26,476
Like probably put up better numbers at
that point versus, you know, playoff time,

1145
01:01:26,476 --> 01:01:31,760
we're talking 32 games, 1.89 in a 9-2-7.

1146
01:01:32,781 --> 01:01:32,938
So.

1147
01:01:32,938 --> 01:01:35,482
and all they've got behind them is Joel
Hoffer?

1148
01:01:36,605 --> 01:01:37,305
Oof.

1149
01:01:37,315 --> 01:01:42,720
So if you look at Bennington's numbers,
it's just been a steady decline.

1150
01:01:43,341 --> 01:01:47,385
Ever since he had his, their Stanley Cup
run and they won, it's just gone nothing

1151
01:01:47,385 --> 01:01:48,445
but downhill.

1152
01:01:50,922 --> 01:01:52,283
Went to his head.

1153
01:01:53,024 --> 01:01:53,725
All right.

1154
01:01:53,725 --> 01:01:54,785
Last one here.

1155
01:01:54,826 --> 01:01:56,667
The Yodes who.

1156
01:01:57,289 --> 01:01:58,169
Oh boy.

1157
01:01:58,250 --> 01:02:00,191
The Salt Lake City.

1158
01:02:01,153 --> 01:02:02,134
Coyotes maybe.

1159
01:02:02,134 --> 01:02:02,934
I don't know.

1160
01:02:03,856 --> 01:02:05,517
We'll see what happens with these guys.

1161
01:02:07,118 --> 01:02:13,362
This to me is the, I'm gonna watch to see
what Alex Kerfoot does, not in stuck

1162
01:02:13,362 --> 01:02:18,045
playing left wing with John Tavares and
William Nylander.

1163
01:02:18,426 --> 01:02:21,168
And to see Alex Kerfoot get some power
play time.

1164
01:02:21,168 --> 01:02:22,929
I liked him here in Toronto.

1165
01:02:24,330 --> 01:02:28,753
I may have been one of the few, but I'll
be interested to see what they do with

1166
01:02:28,753 --> 01:02:29,053
them.

1167
01:02:29,053 --> 01:02:33,876
They've added Jason Zucker to this team.

1168
01:02:34,157 --> 01:02:35,177
So that's...

1169
01:02:35,418 --> 01:02:37,580
You know, Nick Bustead's back there.

1170
01:02:39,284 --> 01:02:42,508
And they've got a couple of young players
that I think will be interesting to watch

1171
01:02:42,508 --> 01:02:44,532
going into this year as well.

1172
01:02:44,532 --> 01:02:48,918
Logan Cooley if he plays as well as also
Matthias Maselli to see if he can build

1173
01:02:48,918 --> 01:02:51,441
off his season last year as well.

1174
01:02:52,642 --> 01:02:55,728
I just love that Sean Dursey and Alex
Kerfoot are playing together.

1175
01:02:55,728 --> 01:03:00,417
It's gonna be like, there's your storyline
guys.

1176
01:03:00,417 --> 01:03:01,960
Like they're obviously gonna score
together.

1177
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:03,341
And Travis Dermott.

1178
01:03:04,196 --> 01:03:08,584
Another player that I'm interested to see
he spent a little while with the Marlies

1179
01:03:08,584 --> 01:03:15,216
is Curtis Douglas That's that forward
who's six foot nine Like

1180
01:03:16,642 --> 01:03:18,285
oh sorry, go ahead and finish yours.

1181
01:03:19,024 --> 01:03:24,134
I was just gonna say, as much as I wanted
him to succeed with the leaves, almost

1182
01:03:24,134 --> 01:03:30,045
strictly just for his size, it'll be
interesting to see him get a chance to get

1183
01:03:30,045 --> 01:03:31,627
full-time NHL minutes.

1184
01:03:32,370 --> 01:03:37,374
I was going to say without looking, can
you guys name the three players taking up

1185
01:03:37,374 --> 01:03:41,977
$21 million of injured reserve space for
the Arizona Coyotes?

1186
01:03:42,394 --> 01:03:43,768
Oh, injured reserve?

1187
01:03:46,688 --> 01:03:47,904
I'm Shay Weber.

1188
01:03:56,604 --> 01:03:57,445
I can't think of the other two.

1189
01:03:57,445 --> 01:04:00,750
The only names that keep popping in my
head are Datsuko and Pronger, but I think

1190
01:04:00,750 --> 01:04:01,550
they're all gone.

1191
01:04:01,550 --> 01:04:02,610
They're all gone now.

1192
01:04:02,610 --> 01:04:06,657
Yeah, I think that's it was ended just
last year.

1193
01:04:11,014 --> 01:04:11,943
or check.

1194
01:04:12,345 --> 01:04:13,805
Yep, Vorechek, one more.

1195
01:04:13,805 --> 01:04:14,471
Uh...

1196
01:04:16,570 --> 01:04:17,112
Um...

1197
01:04:19,221 --> 01:04:20,448
I'm drawing a blank.

1198
01:04:21,390 --> 01:04:22,519
Brian Little.

1199
01:04:23,370 --> 01:04:24,356
Oh Jesus.

1200
01:04:26,146 --> 01:04:32,828
$21.4 million in injured reserve between
these three guys, just so they can hit the

1201
01:04:32,828 --> 01:04:33,548
floor.

1202
01:04:33,548 --> 01:04:40,130
Because even with that, they've still got
$5.6 million in cap space and one, four,

1203
01:04:40,150 --> 01:04:46,832
seven, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13 draft picks
this year.

1204
01:04:46,832 --> 01:04:48,472
That's fucking crazy.

1205
01:04:48,972 --> 01:04:53,054
They have three seconds this year and
four, three seconds this year.

1206
01:04:53,054 --> 01:04:56,127
and four seconds the year after and three
seconds the year after that.

1207
01:04:56,127 --> 01:04:58,877
Like, what the hell?

1208
01:05:01,030 --> 01:05:03,572
Okay, so that's the end of that division.

1209
01:05:03,693 --> 01:05:05,795
Do we see any change happening here?

1210
01:05:05,795 --> 01:05:07,536
Oh, we didn't talk about the Black Hawks.

1211
01:05:08,854 --> 01:05:11,348
to your point that was the end of that
division.

1212
01:05:11,374 --> 01:05:12,174
Yeah.

1213
01:05:13,255 --> 01:05:16,657
I mean, outside of Bidard, there's nothing
to watch there.

1214
01:05:16,737 --> 01:05:20,580
So I don't see just because of that.

1215
01:05:20,580 --> 01:05:24,142
They might be better than the coyotes, but
it's going to be a battle for the bottom

1216
01:05:24,142 --> 01:05:25,543
between those two again.

1217
01:05:26,724 --> 01:05:27,064
St.

1218
01:05:27,064 --> 01:05:29,406
Louis, probably still going to be sixth.

1219
01:05:29,406 --> 01:05:30,086
What do we got then?

1220
01:05:30,086 --> 01:05:31,267
Nashville.

1221
01:05:31,387 --> 01:05:32,688
I don't I don't know.

1222
01:05:32,688 --> 01:05:35,951
It's that middle ground there, the like
Minnesota, Winnipeg, Nashville.

1223
01:05:35,951 --> 01:05:40,493
I see Winnipeg dropping down, but fuck, I
don't see Nashville overtaking them.

1224
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:44,823
Honestly, with regards to playoffs, I see
five from the Pacific and three from the

1225
01:05:44,823 --> 01:05:49,007
Central.

1226
01:05:49,007 --> 01:05:49,660
Yeah.

1227
01:05:49,660 --> 01:05:54,644
Dallas, and then Minnesota's like good,
and then it just drops off.

1228
01:05:55,705 --> 01:05:56,805
It's gonna be rough.

1229
01:05:58,718 --> 01:06:00,480
Okay, that's the end of the West.

1230
01:06:01,462 --> 01:06:02,884
That is the hour mark.

1231
01:06:02,884 --> 01:06:09,814
Should we maybe do the East in a separate
portion or are you guys down to do another

1232
01:06:09,935 --> 01:06:11,577
like 45 minutes?

1233
01:06:12,382 --> 01:06:13,548
You're the boss, man.

1234
01:06:14,790 --> 01:06:15,535
game.

1235
01:06:15,859 --> 01:06:16,729
Mmm.

1236
01:06:16,729 --> 01:06:17,897
Okay, let's do it.

1237
01:06:19,522 --> 01:06:21,063
Carolina Hurricanes.

1238
01:06:22,545 --> 01:06:23,305
They're good.

1239
01:06:23,305 --> 01:06:24,126
They're really good.

1240
01:06:24,126 --> 01:06:26,168
They're actually really, really good.

1241
01:06:26,168 --> 01:06:28,110
And now they've got Michael Bunting.

1242
01:06:28,711 --> 01:06:31,373
So that's just a pain in the ass.

1243
01:06:32,635 --> 01:06:35,617
And Freddie Anderson, who's like
apparently good again.

1244
01:06:36,885 --> 01:06:37,340
Eh.

1245
01:06:37,340 --> 01:06:39,750
Another year in the league for Seth
Jarvis.

1246
01:06:39,750 --> 01:06:42,600
Like, there's not a lot of holes on this
team.

1247
01:06:42,810 --> 01:06:48,775
No, it's like, fuck, I'm going down Ajo,
TeraVine and Kotkanyemi, Bunting,

1248
01:06:48,775 --> 01:06:49,835
Nietzsche.

1249
01:06:51,117 --> 01:06:59,563
Geez, yeah, Seth Jarvis and Slaven, Burns,
Brady Shea, Pesci, Tony D'Angelo.

1250
01:06:59,563 --> 01:07:02,465
Like, fuck, this team's gonna be annoying
to play against.

1251
01:07:04,986 --> 01:07:06,733
Who is Ryan Suzuki?

1252
01:07:08,380 --> 01:07:09,790
I think it's Nick's brother.

1253
01:07:10,978 --> 01:07:13,557
Well, they've got them on season opening
inter-reserve.

1254
01:07:15,522 --> 01:07:16,944
All right.

1255
01:07:16,944 --> 01:07:19,047
And Pyotr Kachetkov on buried.

1256
01:07:19,047 --> 01:07:20,464
Anyway, yeah.

1257
01:07:20,464 --> 01:07:26,049
gosh, they've got Robita's son on their
team.

1258
01:07:27,510 --> 01:07:28,791
Justin Robita.

1259
01:07:31,851 --> 01:07:32,861
Holy shit.

1260
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:36,800
The island returns.

1261
01:07:37,802 --> 01:07:38,707
Yeah, look at that.

1262
01:07:38,707 --> 01:07:40,092
He's on their minor league.

1263
01:07:40,617 --> 01:07:42,344
The island returns.

1264
01:07:42,794 --> 01:07:43,517
Yeah.

1265
01:07:44,238 --> 01:07:45,298
So amazing.

1266
01:07:45,479 --> 01:07:48,142
Yeah, so, I don't know, it's gonna be a
fucking pain in the ass team to play

1267
01:07:48,142 --> 01:07:49,384
against, we're gonna have to play them a
lot.

1268
01:07:49,384 --> 01:07:50,965
I don't know, I don't like it.

1269
01:07:51,792 --> 01:07:54,975
This will be just the return of former
Leafs, right?

1270
01:07:55,055 --> 01:07:57,017
You'll have guys going at Bunting.

1271
01:07:57,017 --> 01:07:59,879
Bunting will be trying to get under Marner
and Matthew Skin.

1272
01:08:00,020 --> 01:08:01,701
You have Matthews.

1273
01:08:01,802 --> 01:08:05,004
It always seems like he tries extra hard
to score on Freddie.

1274
01:08:06,807 --> 01:08:08,168
So that'll be the storyline here.

1275
01:08:08,168 --> 01:08:09,950
They're a really good team.

1276
01:08:09,950 --> 01:08:15,015
The hockey news pegged them as the cup
champions to start the season, so let the

1277
01:08:15,015 --> 01:08:15,935
fun begin.

1278
01:08:16,454 --> 01:08:20,681
Another fast annoying team, the Devils,
who've locked up Timo Meyer.

1279
01:08:20,681 --> 01:08:22,223
They got Jack Hughes locked up.

1280
01:08:22,223 --> 01:08:24,305
They got Jesper Brott locked up.

1281
01:08:24,827 --> 01:08:26,069
Nico Heesher's there.

1282
01:08:26,069 --> 01:08:28,513
Andre Pallat, Tyler Tafoli, Eric Halla.

1283
01:08:28,513 --> 01:08:30,676
Like it's, oh my God.

1284
01:08:30,676 --> 01:08:31,957
Pain in the ass team.

1285
01:08:33,158 --> 01:08:38,061
Yeah, they're another team that's going to
be absolute nightmare to play.

1286
01:08:39,522 --> 01:08:44,526
I actually, I completely respect what they
do too, in terms of how they roll their

1287
01:08:44,526 --> 01:08:50,971
lines, where they're not heavy top six,
you know, kind of rough bottom six.

1288
01:08:50,971 --> 01:08:55,134
I like that they roll a good solid four
lines.

1289
01:08:55,134 --> 01:08:59,617
I watched them play here and it was just
when they played Toronto and they were on

1290
01:08:59,617 --> 01:09:00,797
that streak

1291
01:09:01,038 --> 01:09:02,642
It was just relentless hockey.

1292
01:09:02,642 --> 01:09:05,048
They were just coming in wave after wave
after wave.

1293
01:09:05,048 --> 01:09:07,293
And it's hard to keep up with them.

1294
01:09:10,542 --> 01:09:14,944
Their average age in their forwards group
is 26 years old.

1295
01:09:15,324 --> 01:09:17,085
On the defence, 27.

1296
01:09:17,085 --> 01:09:18,206
Goalies, 25.

1297
01:09:18,206 --> 01:09:21,087
Like this has to be one of the youngest
teams in the league.

1298
01:09:21,107 --> 01:09:22,608
Like they...

1299
01:09:25,129 --> 01:09:25,825
There's always that...

1300
01:09:25,825 --> 01:09:27,127
their oldest player.

1301
01:09:28,662 --> 01:09:30,042
He's gotta be one of them.

1302
01:09:30,042 --> 01:09:34,045
I mean, Eric Halla at 32, Andre Poulat at
32.

1303
01:09:35,626 --> 01:09:39,769
Oh, here, Brendan Smith, 34, is like the
oldest person on the team.

1304
01:09:39,769 --> 01:09:42,910
That's insane, and they really know how to
take advantage of this.

1305
01:09:43,311 --> 01:09:46,553
Like they, like you said, it's wave after
wave because they know these guys have the

1306
01:09:46,553 --> 01:09:47,753
energy to do it.

1307
01:09:50,847 --> 01:09:52,690
Next, the Rangers.

1308
01:09:52,792 --> 01:09:55,540
Honestly, I think the Rangers are gonna
take a step back this year.

1309
01:09:55,540 --> 01:09:56,641
What do you guys think?

1310
01:09:58,568 --> 01:10:01,669
Yeah, I could definitely see it.

1311
01:10:01,669 --> 01:10:05,671
A lot of load on Sorokin over the last
couple of years.

1312
01:10:06,572 --> 01:10:07,892
Because they kind of...

1313
01:10:08,633 --> 01:10:10,894
Yes, wrong New York team, sorry.

1314
01:10:12,155 --> 01:10:13,153
Damn Russians.

1315
01:10:13,153 --> 01:10:15,701
Wrong Russian goalie for the wrong New
York team.

1316
01:10:16,340 --> 01:10:18,584
They were both Vezna finalists, so come
on.

1317
01:10:20,530 --> 01:10:26,043
But like, it's that thing, what's going
on.

1318
01:10:26,043 --> 01:10:26,663
Yeah.

1319
01:10:26,688 --> 01:10:27,429
Wow.

1320
01:10:28,504 --> 01:10:30,284
And I think they're friends too.

1321
01:10:30,284 --> 01:10:33,906
Like what's going on with Lafrenier,
what's going on with Kako?

1322
01:10:33,906 --> 01:10:38,388
You have these high end picks that, you
know, potentially aren't turning out to be

1323
01:10:38,388 --> 01:10:40,008
what you were hoping they were gonna be.

1324
01:10:41,729 --> 01:10:45,090
With regards to the rebuild, it kind of
got fast-tracked because you had people

1325
01:10:45,090 --> 01:10:50,593
like Panarin and Fox, or Panarin and
Truba, sorry, wanting to come to New York.

1326
01:10:50,993 --> 01:10:56,835
So it's kind of that interesting scenario
that yes, they're good.

1327
01:10:57,480 --> 01:11:02,403
they got good a lot quicker than I think
they thought they were going to.

1328
01:11:03,123 --> 01:11:07,346
So is this maybe the year that they do
take a little bit of a step back?

1329
01:11:07,607 --> 01:11:11,810
Like some of their kids are pushing Braden
Schneider, young defensive prospect, like

1330
01:11:11,810 --> 01:11:16,012
Keandre Miller, you know, I keep waiting
for him to step it up and be the stud on

1331
01:11:16,012 --> 01:11:21,756
the back end that he, he should be forward
wise.

1332
01:11:21,756 --> 01:11:23,778
Like we already touched on it with
Laffernay and Kako.

1333
01:11:23,778 --> 01:11:26,139
They, they need more from them.

1334
01:11:26,640 --> 01:11:30,047
So it'll be interesting, but I kind of
agree with you that I think they're gonna

1335
01:11:30,047 --> 01:11:31,510
take a little bit of a step back.

1336
01:11:31,510 --> 01:11:35,333
Well, especially when you have Jonathan
Quick as your backup now to Shisterkin.

1337
01:11:35,333 --> 01:11:38,256
Like we've been talking about, they've put
too much of a load on him and if they're

1338
01:11:38,256 --> 01:11:42,600
gonna split it with Quick, I mean, he's
been pretty shaky and kind of aging out of

1339
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:43,301
his prime.

1340
01:11:43,301 --> 01:11:46,984
So there's not a ton of option there.

1341
01:11:46,984 --> 01:11:49,487
And I'm looking, they're still paying Brad
Richards?

1342
01:11:49,487 --> 01:11:52,129
Are you joking?

1343
01:11:52,129 --> 01:11:54,251
For like a couple more years too.

1344
01:11:54,251 --> 01:11:54,391
Wow.

1345
01:11:54,391 --> 01:11:55,072
Yeah.

1346
01:11:56,030 --> 01:11:59,573
I think just quickly with this team, I
think it'd be interesting to see, like,

1347
01:11:59,573 --> 01:12:05,657
they've got Blake Wheeler at 800k, they
brought in Eric Gustafson, who is, who

1348
01:12:05,657 --> 01:12:11,261
should be good on the back end in terms of
adding some additional scoring touch, and

1349
01:12:11,261 --> 01:12:13,422
they didn't really lose much in the
offseason.

1350
01:12:13,683 --> 01:12:16,605
I think Keon-Ju Miller, I think to your
point, will take a step.

1351
01:12:16,605 --> 01:12:17,665
I, he...

1352
01:12:17,942 --> 01:12:22,484
at 20 points, he followed up with 43
points, I think he's going to be more of a

1353
01:12:22,484 --> 01:12:23,805
staple on that team.

1354
01:12:23,805 --> 01:12:28,407
One I'm hoping because I have him in a lot
of fantasy, fantasy teams.

1355
01:12:29,008 --> 01:12:35,631
But I also heard too, that Lafreniere was
very against playing, I think it was right

1356
01:12:35,631 --> 01:12:38,773
wing, where they saw an opportunity for
him.

1357
01:12:38,773 --> 01:12:42,675
And they've actually started, he's
actually opened up now to that idea to try

1358
01:12:42,675 --> 01:12:43,295
it.

1359
01:12:44,036 --> 01:12:47,038
So they're going to get them a little
higher in the lineup and get them going.

1360
01:12:47,038 --> 01:12:48,438
in a different role.

1361
01:12:48,438 --> 01:12:53,621
So I think without them really losing
anything, yes, I think Quick maybe hinders

1362
01:12:53,621 --> 01:12:57,784
their performance on the back end, but
just Sterken is still gonna play probably

1363
01:12:57,784 --> 01:12:59,884
62 games in the season anyways.

1364
01:13:01,426 --> 01:13:06,589
So I think, you still got Fox, you got
Truba, Conjury Miller, I think takes that

1365
01:13:06,589 --> 01:13:06,929
step.

1366
01:13:06,929 --> 01:13:12,012
They paid the heavy price for, I believe
it was, yeah, Lindgren, and then I think

1367
01:13:12,012 --> 01:13:15,713
to your point, if Brendan Schneider steps
into that bottom six,

1368
01:13:15,886 --> 01:13:17,989
playing alongside Eric Gustafson.

1369
01:13:17,989 --> 01:13:22,434
Like I think you're looking at a pretty
solid team where I don't see them actually

1370
01:13:22,434 --> 01:13:26,680
stepping back if anything, just kind of
holding Pat in the Metro in terms of kind

1371
01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:28,261
of holding that third spot.

1372
01:13:30,538 --> 01:13:34,745
Okay, and leave storyline here other than
I mean Eric Rostovson, but what are we

1373
01:13:34,745 --> 01:13:38,872
really looking for in the What is it four
or five games will probably play against

1374
01:13:38,872 --> 01:13:40,033
the Rangers this year?

1375
01:13:41,620 --> 01:13:45,102
Um, I, Jimmy PC.

1376
01:13:50,746 --> 01:13:53,548
Yeah, no, just how they can handle.

1377
01:13:53,568 --> 01:13:56,911
It's always been a big battle between the
blue shirts and the Leafs, right?

1378
01:13:56,911 --> 01:14:01,314
Like even you go back to the King Hank
days, they was always good teams or always

1379
01:14:01,314 --> 01:14:04,116
good games, or even if the Leafs were
garbage, they were still good games

1380
01:14:04,116 --> 01:14:08,399
against this team, um, two original six
teams.

1381
01:14:08,399 --> 01:14:09,099
They've.

1382
01:14:09,452 --> 01:14:13,614
Even some of the kids that we haven't
really talked about, like I forgot to

1383
01:14:13,614 --> 01:14:19,477
mention Brennan Othman, like a pickering
boy, he's a good young player.

1384
01:14:20,058 --> 01:14:25,181
So just kind of that, how we stack up
against the teams that have been some of

1385
01:14:25,181 --> 01:14:26,541
the best in the East.

1386
01:14:26,561 --> 01:14:32,425
And also on a other side note, there's two
more sons of former NHLers on this team.

1387
01:14:33,405 --> 01:14:37,007
Brian Burrard's son, Brett Burrard, he's a
former Leaf.

1388
01:14:37,572 --> 01:14:40,396
And then Peter Socorra as kid, Adam
Socorra.

1389
01:14:40,396 --> 01:14:41,331
Oh shit.

1390
01:14:42,656 --> 01:14:45,262
I've seen all these names and it's giving
me flashbacks.

1391
01:14:45,358 --> 01:14:47,599
also Riley Nash buried in there.

1392
01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:50,321
First brief stint with Toronto.

1393
01:14:51,563 --> 01:14:55,746
But also in this matchup, right, it's I
think to your point with all those, being

1394
01:14:55,746 --> 01:14:59,990
here with all those former games, it was,
you know, Toronto versus Henrik

1395
01:14:59,990 --> 01:15:00,831
Lungenfuss.

1396
01:15:00,831 --> 01:15:06,295
And, you know, in short time, it's now the
Toronto We Believe versus Igor Shosturkin,

1397
01:15:06,435 --> 01:15:07,196
right?

1398
01:15:08,337 --> 01:15:10,579
So it's original six matchup.

1399
01:15:10,579 --> 01:15:13,894
It's going to be that battle you've got,
you know,

1400
01:15:13,894 --> 01:15:18,303
the two big spotlights in terms of New
York versus Toronto, it's gonna always be

1401
01:15:18,303 --> 01:15:20,125
a big show regardless.

1402
01:15:22,926 --> 01:15:24,806
So next, Islanders.

1403
01:15:24,846 --> 01:15:31,308
So Pierre Engvall, the new favorite of Mr.

1404
01:15:31,588 --> 01:15:36,509
Lou Lamarello, getting a massive $3
million deal for, what was it, seven

1405
01:15:36,509 --> 01:15:37,329
years.

1406
01:15:38,810 --> 01:15:40,310
So I mean, that's fun.

1407
01:15:40,310 --> 01:15:41,431
Good for him.

1408
01:15:41,431 --> 01:15:45,452
Happy to see him get paid and become one
of the boys that is going to stick around

1409
01:15:45,452 --> 01:15:47,112
on the Islanders forever.

1410
01:15:47,613 --> 01:15:50,353
But other than that, I mean, the
Islanders, they look.

1411
01:15:50,673 --> 01:15:51,233
I'm.

1412
01:15:51,262 --> 01:15:54,183
interested to see if Horvat and Barzalk
can put something together.

1413
01:15:54,183 --> 01:15:58,484
I mean, they lost Josh Bailey, who was
even cut by the senators.

1414
01:15:58,505 --> 01:16:01,826
But I don't know, it's a little different
looking there.

1415
01:16:01,826 --> 01:16:06,048
I mean, Lee and Nelson are still kicking,
but I don't know.

1416
01:16:06,048 --> 01:16:08,989
I'm hoping they can get a little more
offensive and a little faster because

1417
01:16:08,989 --> 01:16:10,510
they've been pretty boring team to watch.

1418
01:16:10,510 --> 01:16:13,031
Yeah, they've had a...

1419
01:16:13,031 --> 01:16:13,992
Oh, go ahead.

1420
01:16:14,052 --> 01:16:16,754
Oh, I was just going to say, they've had
some trouble scoring goals, and it's

1421
01:16:16,754 --> 01:16:20,316
interesting that obviously they didn't
bring back Zach Parise, who scored, I

1422
01:16:20,316 --> 01:16:26,340
think, 20 for them last year, and also
losing Bailey, and really handing out

1423
01:16:26,340 --> 01:16:30,723
these absurd, you know, Lou handing out
these absurd kind of seven-year contracts

1424
01:16:30,723 --> 01:16:34,906
to the giraffe, and you know, if he wants
to...

1425
01:16:35,146 --> 01:16:38,949
Yeah, if he wants to pay me seven years at
Liebman and I'll shave my beard, that's

1426
01:16:38,949 --> 01:16:39,749
fine.

1427
01:16:39,774 --> 01:16:45,080
I'll do it, but for him to do that, it
just doesn't seem, they're not gonna take

1428
01:16:45,080 --> 01:16:48,585
a step forward in my mind if anything
they're gonna hurt.

1429
01:16:48,585 --> 01:16:52,210
They were only two points ahead of
Pittsburgh last year and I can't really

1430
01:16:52,210 --> 01:16:58,617
see any changes that they made to be in a
positive line site.

1431
01:16:59,978 --> 01:17:01,721
Yeah, I mean, we played this game a couple
of months ago.

1432
01:17:01,721 --> 01:17:05,207
They've got a total of like, what is this?

1433
01:17:05,207 --> 01:17:08,612
$46 million locked up until 2030.

1434
01:17:09,054 --> 01:17:10,596
That's crazy.

1435
01:17:11,118 --> 01:17:13,581
Like half of their salary cap was already
spent.

1436
01:17:14,416 --> 01:17:18,441
One thing you can say about a team that
Lou builds, which is funny because he

1437
01:17:18,441 --> 01:17:26,210
didn't do it with the Leafs, is he gets a
goalie, locks him up, and then he gets the

1438
01:17:26,210 --> 01:17:27,191
defense score.

1439
01:17:27,708 --> 01:17:33,091
Like realistically, the Islanders, Ryan
Poulak and Adam Pellek, great defensive

1440
01:17:33,091 --> 01:17:33,571
tandem.

1441
01:17:33,571 --> 01:17:36,072
Both are very good defensemen.

1442
01:17:36,092 --> 01:17:37,273
Noah Dobson's coming up.

1443
01:17:37,273 --> 01:17:39,954
He showed last year he can shoulder some
of the load.

1444
01:17:40,175 --> 01:17:42,036
Good young promising defensemen.

1445
01:17:42,036 --> 01:17:47,319
You have Alexander Romanoff, who they
punked from the Canadians, who I think can

1446
01:17:47,319 --> 01:17:48,880
be a very good young defenseman.

1447
01:17:48,880 --> 01:17:50,640
Scott Mayfield's still there.

1448
01:17:50,681 --> 01:17:52,181
Sebastian Aho.

1449
01:17:52,422 --> 01:17:55,743
Like...

1450
01:17:55,804 --> 01:17:57,026
The defense core is good.

1451
01:17:57,026 --> 01:18:00,511
It's just, it's always this team who is
gonna score.

1452
01:18:01,422 --> 01:18:02,082
Well, that's what I'm saying.

1453
01:18:02,082 --> 01:18:07,728
Like they got they brought Horvat in like
it's got to be Bo Horvat and Matt Barzol

1454
01:18:07,728 --> 01:18:11,791
finally, you know, being able to score
together like this.

1455
01:18:12,693 --> 01:18:14,154
This is what he was brought here for.

1456
01:18:14,154 --> 01:18:15,295
This is what they spent all this on.

1457
01:18:15,295 --> 01:18:17,337
Like, I don't know why it just doesn't
work.

1458
01:18:17,337 --> 01:18:18,739
I mean, they need somebody else there.

1459
01:18:18,739 --> 01:18:21,021
But maybe we see them go out and get it.

1460
01:18:22,474 --> 01:18:24,966
I'm not optimistic that Lou will do that
either.

1461
01:18:26,110 --> 01:18:29,123
Yeah, he doesn't seem to be the person
that tries to fix things mid-season

1462
01:18:29,123 --> 01:18:29,504
usually.

1463
01:18:29,504 --> 01:18:31,973
So I think this is kind of what we're
gonna see.

1464
01:18:32,026 --> 01:18:34,545
or he already did it and just hasn't told
anyone yet.

1465
01:18:36,847 --> 01:18:38,868
Yeah, they're just gonna ice a team on
opening night.

1466
01:18:38,868 --> 01:18:41,309
Like, who the fuck is this?

1467
01:18:41,309 --> 01:18:42,330
So many guys.

1468
01:18:43,431 --> 01:18:45,472
There's so many guys that are still
sitting without contracts.

1469
01:18:45,472 --> 01:18:47,613
I mean, fuck, Josh Bailey just got cut by
the sends.

1470
01:18:47,613 --> 01:18:48,653
He could be back.

1471
01:18:49,956 --> 01:18:51,119
Has anybody checked on him?

1472
01:18:51,119 --> 01:18:54,046
Like if you get caught by the senators,
like that's not good.

1473
01:18:54,167 --> 01:18:54,919
Nope.

1474
01:18:55,262 --> 01:18:56,965
from an emotional state.

1475
01:18:58,624 --> 01:18:59,343
Thanks for watching!

1476
01:18:59,343 --> 01:19:00,348
Oh god.

1477
01:19:02,153 --> 01:19:03,106
Pittsburgh.

1478
01:19:03,106 --> 01:19:04,096
Pittsburgh.

1479
01:19:07,382 --> 01:19:08,368
So, I mean, obviously.

1480
01:19:08,368 --> 01:19:11,477
them to the promised land and we're all
going to be wrong.

1481
01:19:13,190 --> 01:19:15,290
Yeah, that's the biggest thing to watch.

1482
01:19:15,290 --> 01:19:21,513
We've got the average age of 32 year old
forward group here under Dubus.

1483
01:19:21,633 --> 01:19:25,135
His new core four that are like almost 40
years old.

1484
01:19:25,135 --> 01:19:27,255
They're all basically his age.

1485
01:19:27,616 --> 01:19:31,638
And it'll be interesting to see.

1486
01:19:31,638 --> 01:19:32,258
I don't know.

1487
01:19:32,258 --> 01:19:34,199
I don't like this team he's put together
so far.

1488
01:19:34,199 --> 01:19:36,940
I don't think a lot of these signings make
sense.

1489
01:19:36,940 --> 01:19:40,942
Eric Carlson obviously is the biggest
crazy.

1490
01:19:40,942 --> 01:19:44,308
question mark here because who knows if he
can continue what he has.

1491
01:19:46,154 --> 01:19:49,843
I don't know man Tristan Jarre and Alex
Nadelkovich like there's just so many

1492
01:19:49,843 --> 01:19:50,834
question marks.

1493
01:19:50,834 --> 01:19:53,855
Yeah, there's definitely a question mark
in net.

1494
01:19:54,676 --> 01:20:01,381
If Jari can stay healthy and Nadelkovich
has had problems with two teams now, can

1495
01:20:01,381 --> 01:20:04,163
he get back to where he was ahead of time?

1496
01:20:04,163 --> 01:20:06,484
But it's also funny, too.

1497
01:20:08,386 --> 01:20:11,068
The bottom six for Pittsburgh was
horrendous last year.

1498
01:20:11,068 --> 01:20:14,010
And realistically, all that they lost was
that horrendous back end.

1499
01:20:14,010 --> 01:20:16,991
And then added in Riley Smith into that.

1500
01:20:18,473 --> 01:20:19,953
Nola Chari as well.

1501
01:20:20,390 --> 01:20:22,992
and added Eric Carlson to the back end.

1502
01:20:22,992 --> 01:20:27,975
And I don't know, it'll be interesting to
see how it works for him.

1503
01:20:27,975 --> 01:20:31,557
Oh, and Ryan Graves, they added to the
back end as well, which I didn't hate.

1504
01:20:33,342 --> 01:20:39,106
I'm just waiting for the year that I'm not
saying, ooh, Crosby and Malkin getting

1505
01:20:39,106 --> 01:20:44,530
old, but are they still like, it's the
fact that they're doubled down on them

1506
01:20:44,530 --> 01:20:50,976
being the first line, like they haven't
really looked at maybe moving on in the

1507
01:20:50,976 --> 01:20:52,417
next couple of years to replace them.

1508
01:20:52,417 --> 01:20:54,418
Like there's no next wave here.

1509
01:20:54,418 --> 01:20:56,560
Like I'm just always concerned about
Pittsburgh.

1510
01:20:56,560 --> 01:20:58,721
Like if that's what you're going with,
like.

1511
01:20:58,730 --> 01:21:01,616
You really got to trust that these guys
are going to keep it together all season

1512
01:21:01,616 --> 01:21:04,382
and stay healthy because you don't have
much behind them.

1513
01:21:04,382 --> 01:21:06,425
They're very dependent on that top three.

1514
01:21:06,980 --> 01:21:12,242
The only thing with players like those is,
like, think back to the early thousands,

1515
01:21:12,242 --> 01:21:15,142
or right after the lockout, right?

1516
01:21:15,602 --> 01:21:21,184
You had Sakkik, you had Aizerman, you had
all these legendary players, Lemieux, that

1517
01:21:21,704 --> 01:21:24,585
were rolling it down to the end of their
career.

1518
01:21:25,625 --> 01:21:27,726
They were still relied upon heavily.

1519
01:21:27,726 --> 01:21:32,167
Like they were still producing, not to
their All-Stars years, but they were still

1520
01:21:32,167 --> 01:21:32,667
producing.

1521
01:21:32,667 --> 01:21:33,287
But...

1522
01:21:34,268 --> 01:21:38,429
You have that presence and you have to
kind of still treat it the way you've

1523
01:21:38,429 --> 01:21:39,610
always treated it.

1524
01:21:40,210 --> 01:21:43,071
Like I don't think if you went and told
Crosby, no look you're going to be second

1525
01:21:43,071 --> 01:21:43,691
line center now.

1526
01:21:43,691 --> 01:21:46,132
I don't think he would put up a fuss
because I don't think he's that type of

1527
01:21:46,132 --> 01:21:46,953
player.

1528
01:21:47,893 --> 01:21:51,695
But as long as you have them on the team
you have to keep treating them the way

1529
01:21:51,695 --> 01:21:53,275
they are because it's not.

1530
01:21:53,704 --> 01:21:57,612
Like it's not like we're looking at a
player that's a fan favorite, but

1531
01:21:57,612 --> 01:21:59,135
everybody in the league is kind of mad.

1532
01:21:59,135 --> 01:22:03,103
Like these are players who are going down,
are going to be some of the best players

1533
01:22:03,103 --> 01:22:04,986
we've ever seen play this game.

1534
01:22:05,326 --> 01:22:06,366
I agree completely.

1535
01:22:06,366 --> 01:22:08,907
They also both have injury histories.

1536
01:22:09,088 --> 01:22:11,829
And I'm just saying that after them, it
drops off.

1537
01:22:11,829 --> 01:22:18,733
So I'm just, if my point is you're putting
a lot of your eggs in a somewhat risky,

1538
01:22:18,733 --> 01:22:23,436
fragile basket, it could very well work
because this basket has been made of gold

1539
01:22:23,436 --> 01:22:24,376
for a long time.

1540
01:22:24,376 --> 01:22:30,440
But, you know, I just feel like it's a
risky play to keep running this back.

1541
01:22:30,440 --> 01:22:34,401
But we'll probably find ourselves in a
similar position in 10 years too, so.

1542
01:22:34,936 --> 01:22:38,817
I feel like some of the players on this
team is Dubas getting players that he's

1543
01:22:38,817 --> 01:22:42,299
wanted when he was with the Leafs but
never got a chance to get, like

1544
01:22:42,299 --> 01:22:46,021
Nadalkovich, because there was all the
rumors when he was leaving Carolina that

1545
01:22:46,021 --> 01:22:47,901
we were going to go after him and we never
did.

1546
01:22:47,901 --> 01:22:49,842
But he's got that comfort factor, right?

1547
01:22:49,842 --> 01:22:51,343
He's got a knee-lander on the team.

1548
01:22:51,343 --> 01:22:52,003
So...

1549
01:22:52,062 --> 01:22:56,285
Yeah.

1550
01:22:56,285 --> 01:22:57,245
Good one.

1551
01:22:58,827 --> 01:23:02,089
And he brought Noel Achari back, his
favorite.

1552
01:23:03,060 --> 01:23:08,742
So I would say for me the biggest
storyline here is don't let Crosby do to

1553
01:23:08,742 --> 01:23:10,642
us what he's been doing to us since 2005.

1554
01:23:11,603 --> 01:23:17,365
And I was just going to say let's try and
make Dubas look stupid.

1555
01:23:17,866 --> 01:23:21,287
Like, and it's not anything personal
against the guy.

1556
01:23:21,287 --> 01:23:23,328
I did like him as a Leafs GM.

1557
01:23:24,929 --> 01:23:26,629
I've come on here and said that a lot of
times.

1558
01:23:26,629 --> 01:23:28,470
I do like some of his ideas.

1559
01:23:28,730 --> 01:23:31,494
But he's not our GM anymore, so let's make
him look stupid.

1560
01:23:31,494 --> 01:23:34,406
Yeah, nothing would be more fun than
putting a new team together and just

1561
01:23:34,406 --> 01:23:35,294
kicking their ass.

1562
01:23:35,294 --> 01:23:36,451
I couldn't agree more.

1563
01:23:37,646 --> 01:23:41,990
Okay, Washington, kind of the same story,
but minus Kyle Dubas.

1564
01:23:42,151 --> 01:23:47,918
We've got pretty much the same team with
Rasmus Sandeen.

1565
01:23:48,479 --> 01:23:49,220
So that'll be fun.

1566
01:23:49,220 --> 01:23:52,985
I don't think we ever, did we play any
games against Washington after he went

1567
01:23:52,985 --> 01:23:53,645
there?

1568
01:23:53,670 --> 01:23:54,361
I don't think so.

1569
01:23:54,361 --> 01:23:55,634
he might have been hurt.

1570
01:23:57,214 --> 01:23:58,455
He was hurt when we did.

1571
01:23:58,455 --> 01:23:59,736
Yeah, I don't think we ever played against
him.

1572
01:23:59,736 --> 01:24:02,178
So it'll be, that'll be a fun matchup.

1573
01:24:02,399 --> 01:24:06,423
I was always sad to see him go, but
especially with the state of the defense

1574
01:24:06,423 --> 01:24:07,324
now, it would have been nice.

1575
01:24:07,324 --> 01:24:08,645
I don't know.

1576
01:24:08,645 --> 01:24:11,148
What did we end up getting with that first
pick though?

1577
01:24:11,148 --> 01:24:12,889
Was that Cowan?

1578
01:24:14,707 --> 01:24:15,128
Uh...

1579
01:24:15,128 --> 01:24:18,693
I think we got Cowan with the Bruins pick,
did we not?

1580
01:24:21,378 --> 01:24:24,700
Who did the Rasmus Sandin trade become?

1581
01:24:24,941 --> 01:24:30,145
Ba ba ba, traded from the Maple Leafs,
Eric Gustafson and aha, Easton Cowan, all

1582
01:24:30,145 --> 01:24:30,805
right.

1583
01:24:31,956 --> 01:24:33,765
So do we trade the Boston one then?

1584
01:24:34,012 --> 01:24:36,905
No, it was Boston's pick, but Washington
had it.

1585
01:24:37,007 --> 01:24:37,961
they got it for Orlov.

1586
01:24:37,961 --> 01:24:39,670
Ah, that's why I keep thinking of them.

1587
01:24:39,670 --> 01:24:40,351
Yep.

1588
01:24:40,718 --> 01:24:41,441
There you go.

1589
01:24:41,441 --> 01:24:43,188
So we were all right.

1590
01:24:44,445 --> 01:24:45,475
I'll take that.

1591
01:24:46,426 --> 01:24:51,320
Um, so I think that, I don't know, that
seems like it could pay off a lot sooner

1592
01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:54,268
than we thought it would.

1593
01:24:54,268 --> 01:24:55,016
That's a plus.

1594
01:24:55,016 --> 01:24:58,238
Yeah.

1595
01:24:58,238 --> 01:25:01,901
Same thing, aging team, they're still
dangerous.

1596
01:25:01,901 --> 01:25:07,025
You got a couple local Ontario boys, like
Connor McMichael might try and put on a

1597
01:25:07,025 --> 01:25:10,228
show when he comes back, because everybody
seems to when they come to Toronto if

1598
01:25:10,228 --> 01:25:11,589
they're a local kid.

1599
01:25:13,210 --> 01:25:18,874
Aside, yep, Tom Wilson's back and
hopefully healthy.

1600
01:25:19,055 --> 01:25:24,919
Like I myself, if I'm the Leafs, I would
just like, yeah.

1601
01:25:25,704 --> 01:25:32,635
Basically playing the Washington, don't
let Ovi set a record against you.

1602
01:25:33,197 --> 01:25:33,884
At this point.

1603
01:25:33,884 --> 01:25:34,927
I'm opening bet 365.

1604
01:25:35,410 --> 01:25:36,573
Let me lock that in.

1605
01:25:37,256 --> 01:25:38,783
Hahahaha

1606
01:25:41,046 --> 01:25:44,944
Um, do you guys know which players on LTI
are for the Washington Capitals right now?

1607
01:25:44,944 --> 01:25:46,489
Because I didn't know this.

1608
01:25:47,998 --> 01:25:48,540
Uh...

1609
01:25:51,819 --> 01:25:53,154
Max Patcher ready.

1610
01:25:57,034 --> 01:25:58,961
He is a Washington Capitol.

1611
01:26:00,608 --> 01:26:02,937
Did he get hurt right away after they
signed him?

1612
01:26:03,967 --> 01:26:04,927
didn't...

1613
01:26:06,270 --> 01:26:08,493
Signed July 1st, 2023.

1614
01:26:08,974 --> 01:26:11,617
And what, did he just like never make it
to training camp?

1615
01:26:11,717 --> 01:26:12,621
Ha ha

1616
01:26:13,546 --> 01:26:15,067
What the fuck happened?

1617
01:26:15,067 --> 01:26:17,669
I totally missed that he signed with them.

1618
01:26:18,110 --> 01:26:23,936
So it was like in the flurry of the
opening of free agency, they got Max Patch

1619
01:26:23,936 --> 01:26:25,257
Ready for $2 million.

1620
01:26:28,361 --> 01:26:30,783
Seven hours ago, Capitals placed Patch
Ready on LTIR.

1621
01:26:30,783 --> 01:26:33,385
Like this guy.

1622
01:26:35,418 --> 01:26:38,122
I feel so, this is awful.

1623
01:26:38,122 --> 01:26:42,849
He's gonna come back and play six games
and get 12 points and then get hurt again.

1624
01:26:43,799 --> 01:26:45,268
save them for the playoffs.

1625
01:26:49,541 --> 01:26:51,437
I don't think they're making the playoffs.

1626
01:26:52,367 --> 01:26:56,069
maybe, probably not.

1627
01:26:56,069 --> 01:26:59,831
The only upside that they will have, so
they obviously had 80 points last year, is

1628
01:26:59,991 --> 01:27:04,593
John Carlson, if he can stay healthy all
year, obviously they lost Dmitry Orlov and

1629
01:27:04,593 --> 01:27:10,937
that force on the back end, but Sandin
with his size and stature doesn't like to

1630
01:27:10,937 --> 01:27:15,099
throw the body quite a bit, is going to
play up with Carlson from what we've

1631
01:27:15,099 --> 01:27:15,919
heard.

1632
01:27:16,480 --> 01:27:20,134
Outside of those two, it really drops.

1633
01:27:20,134 --> 01:27:23,136
off between Nick Jensen, Trevor Van
Roosdijk.

1634
01:27:23,597 --> 01:27:25,939
Not a lot of, I think, upside there.

1635
01:27:26,099 --> 01:27:30,183
You know, Tom Wilson being a force back
all year might be interesting and then

1636
01:27:30,183 --> 01:27:35,208
maybe they can get something out of
Backstrom and Kuznetsov to kind of get OV

1637
01:27:35,208 --> 01:27:36,849
across that finish line.

1638
01:27:36,990 --> 01:27:40,233
But other than that, they're just the
worst version of the Penguins at this

1639
01:27:40,233 --> 01:27:40,953
point.

1640
01:27:42,990 --> 01:27:47,242
Patch already has two torn Achilles and
doesn't have an exact timetable for his

1641
01:27:47,242 --> 01:27:50,873
return and he has not shown up to training
camp.

1642
01:27:50,873 --> 01:27:51,259
Like.

1643
01:27:51,259 --> 01:27:52,241
retire.

1644
01:27:53,778 --> 01:27:55,980
What did we give him $2 million for?

1645
01:27:55,980 --> 01:27:58,042
Oh, that is brutal.

1646
01:27:58,303 --> 01:27:59,224
This poor guy.

1647
01:27:59,224 --> 01:28:02,027
And like I said, if he does come back,
they said it could be like a month or two

1648
01:28:02,027 --> 01:28:02,948
into the season.

1649
01:28:02,948 --> 01:28:04,449
He'll be great for a couple of weeks.

1650
01:28:04,449 --> 01:28:05,391
Like I had him in fantasy.

1651
01:28:05,391 --> 01:28:08,534
I think he played 28 games and had 38
points or something.

1652
01:28:08,534 --> 01:28:09,775
Like it was insane.

1653
01:28:09,775 --> 01:28:12,177
When he was there, he was fantastic for
Carolina.

1654
01:28:14,850 --> 01:28:20,013
Okay, the flyers I really don't want to
spend much time on this shitty team

1655
01:28:20,614 --> 01:28:25,817
They're like the San Jose of the East Or
like the Anaheim of the East

1656
01:28:26,784 --> 01:28:30,306
Keturye and Atkinson are both supposed to
be healthy, so that'll make a little bit

1657
01:28:30,306 --> 01:28:31,626
of a difference with them.

1658
01:28:32,627 --> 01:28:34,287
They had a full season.

1659
01:28:35,048 --> 01:28:39,270
Yeah, I don't think you'll ever see him
play again, unless something's changed,

1660
01:28:39,270 --> 01:28:42,671
but I haven't heard anything regarding him
at all.

1661
01:28:43,243 --> 01:28:45,396
Ristalainen is also on LTIR.

1662
01:28:45,396 --> 01:28:48,512
CapFriendly has it both on just IR, not
LTIR.

1663
01:28:49,457 --> 01:28:50,304
Oh yeah.

1664
01:28:51,772 --> 01:28:54,822
Well, the team probably doesn't need to
put them on LTIR for the relief, because I

1665
01:28:54,822 --> 01:28:55,568
don't think they have.

1666
01:28:55,568 --> 01:28:58,001
also, it looks like they needed to hit the
floor.

1667
01:28:59,146 --> 01:28:59,772
Yep.

1668
01:29:01,340 --> 01:29:05,942
Um, Cam York could be a good bright spot
young defenseman for them.

1669
01:29:06,222 --> 01:29:12,105
Um, but aside from that, it's just
Tortorella trying to get something out of

1670
01:29:12,105 --> 01:29:12,625
these kids.

1671
01:29:12,625 --> 01:29:17,367
Like Owen Tippett looks like he should
finally get a good, decent chance.

1672
01:29:17,367 --> 01:29:22,150
He wasn't getting it in Florida, but you
got Tippett, Frost, Noah Cates.

1673
01:29:22,150 --> 01:29:25,411
Like there is some good kids there, but
it's, they're, they're going to struggle.

1674
01:29:25,954 --> 01:29:31,109
So, just financial-wise, they are paying
Cal Peterson, Kevin Hayes, Tony D'Angelo,

1675
01:29:31,109 --> 01:29:34,357
Oscar Lindblom, and Ilya Brizgalov to not
play for them.

1676
01:29:36,010 --> 01:29:37,932
That's fucking wild.

1677
01:29:38,248 --> 01:29:40,521
They're still painting Praskolov.

1678
01:29:40,646 --> 01:29:42,155
Until the end of 2027.

1679
01:29:45,327 --> 01:29:46,175
Wow.

1680
01:29:46,250 --> 01:29:47,272
What does this buy out?

1681
01:29:47,272 --> 01:29:50,737
It's not on the cap, but like they still
owe him money.

1682
01:29:51,380 --> 01:29:56,319
Oh, because that would have been one of
them compliance buyouts after the second

1683
01:29:56,319 --> 01:29:57,843
lockout they brought it out

1684
01:29:59,306 --> 01:30:00,839
So where is this?

1685
01:30:02,558 --> 01:30:05,417
GMs can just not help themselves
sometimes.

1686
01:30:06,526 --> 01:30:08,087
It's so weird.

1687
01:30:08,428 --> 01:30:09,869
Buyout history here.

1688
01:30:09,869 --> 01:30:13,833
Yeah, till 26, 27, they own $1.6 million a
year.

1689
01:30:15,335 --> 01:30:19,499
The buyout was from 20, is a 14 year
buyout.

1690
01:30:20,541 --> 01:30:23,003
Bought out June 25th, 2013.

1691
01:30:23,764 --> 01:30:25,465
Oh my God.

1692
01:30:28,354 --> 01:30:29,656
That's insane.

1693
01:30:29,698 --> 01:30:34,072
Anyway, yeah, nothing exciting there with
the flyers, just some funny little stats

1694
01:30:34,072 --> 01:30:35,033
to watch.

1695
01:30:36,994 --> 01:30:44,617
Columbus man they got to turn something
around bringing in Goudreau but I don't

1696
01:30:44,617 --> 01:30:48,940
know Adam Fantilly will be fun to watch
Kent Johnson was fun to watch so another

1697
01:30:48,940 --> 01:30:53,321
year that'll be cool oh Damon Stevenson's
there?

1698
01:30:54,055 --> 01:30:56,797
Yep, they got Severson and Prorov over the
summer.

1699
01:30:56,797 --> 01:31:01,241
So, you know, I've always loved Liam
Foody.

1700
01:31:01,241 --> 01:31:03,484
The kid is just ridiculously fast.

1701
01:31:03,484 --> 01:31:05,925
Like they've got some good young players.

1702
01:31:07,668 --> 01:31:11,631
But I don't know how well they're gonna
do.

1703
01:31:12,514 --> 01:31:14,495
Pascal Vincent as their head coach.

1704
01:31:14,495 --> 01:31:20,160
Yeah, it's just they're gonna be a mid
team really, unless like, I don't know,

1705
01:31:20,160 --> 01:31:25,164
Goudreau and Leinay have a breakout year,
but I don't see it happening with Jack

1706
01:31:25,164 --> 01:31:26,870
Roslavik and Boone Jenner.

1707
01:31:26,870 --> 01:31:31,661
I heard that they had the line-A taking
reps at center as well during the

1708
01:31:31,661 --> 01:31:37,033
preseason in between Goudreau and I want
to say it was Jenner.

1709
01:31:39,338 --> 01:31:42,341
Well, that's the tough thing is like
you've got Gajro and Lainé, but neither of

1710
01:31:42,341 --> 01:31:43,122
them are a center.

1711
01:31:43,122 --> 01:31:48,007
So like really your choice is if you don't
move one of them to the middle, are

1712
01:31:48,007 --> 01:31:53,413
Roslavik, Jenner or Sean Karali like you
until Fantilly is ready, I guess that's

1713
01:31:53,413 --> 01:31:54,713
probably the plan.

1714
01:31:55,560 --> 01:32:04,204
Well, I thought I heard it was Fantilly
with Tech CA and, was it Benstrom or

1715
01:32:04,365 --> 01:32:05,385
Chinakov?

1716
01:32:05,385 --> 01:32:06,326
That was gonna be a line?

1717
01:32:06,326 --> 01:32:08,267
Like that'd be a good young line.

1718
01:32:09,978 --> 01:32:12,721
Yeah, I'm just talking like for the
future, obviously they probably want to

1719
01:32:12,721 --> 01:32:19,068
have Fantilly move into 1C, but it's like
for now, you're really, your choices are

1720
01:32:19,068 --> 01:32:21,431
either move, like you said, who is it,
which one?

1721
01:32:21,431 --> 01:32:22,712
Line A to center?

1722
01:32:22,973 --> 01:32:23,619
Like...

1723
01:32:23,619 --> 01:32:27,109
Goudreau to left wing, and they had
Marchenko on right.

1724
01:32:28,968 --> 01:32:29,572
Oh.

1725
01:32:31,506 --> 01:32:36,212
Okay, I mean, it probably wouldn't be
Marchenko come regular season, but still,

1726
01:32:36,474 --> 01:32:37,755
it's interesting that.

1727
01:32:38,437 --> 01:32:40,660
Yeah, that would push Roslavec off the
center probably.

1728
01:32:40,660 --> 01:32:42,662
I don't know.

1729
01:32:42,743 --> 01:32:43,884
Strange team.

1730
01:32:44,987 --> 01:32:45,696
Leafs wise.

1731
01:32:45,696 --> 01:32:47,224
for...

1732
01:32:47,224 --> 01:32:48,658
Lion Avers Matthews.

1733
01:32:48,658 --> 01:32:50,585
Yeah, they don't like each other.

1734
01:32:50,622 --> 01:32:51,556
written in the stars.

1735
01:32:51,556 --> 01:32:57,181
Yeah, like, Dubois is not there anymore,
so it's not like you can do that from the

1736
01:32:57,181 --> 01:32:57,982
bubble.

1737
01:32:59,734 --> 01:33:00,495
Yeah.

1738
01:33:00,495 --> 01:33:00,775
All right.

1739
01:33:00,775 --> 01:33:01,897
So that is the end of the Metro.

1740
01:33:01,897 --> 01:33:02,738
What do we think here?

1741
01:33:02,738 --> 01:33:07,326
Any changes from last year's standings
where we had Carolina and New Jersey

1742
01:33:07,326 --> 01:33:11,713
Rangers, Islanders, followed by Pittsburgh
Caps, Flyers, and Blue Jackets missing the

1743
01:33:11,713 --> 01:33:12,633
playoffs.

1744
01:33:14,206 --> 01:33:15,579
I don't really think so.

1745
01:33:15,579 --> 01:33:20,549
only change I really had was I think
Pittsburgh over the islanders.

1746
01:33:23,110 --> 01:33:27,711
Yeah, I mean, having Carlson in there, if
that works out, and if the Islanders can't

1747
01:33:27,711 --> 01:33:31,053
get it together with putting some goals in
the back of the net, like they were so

1748
01:33:31,053 --> 01:33:34,074
tight last year, that could be one that
changes.

1749
01:33:34,714 --> 01:33:38,136
I think even if the Rangers take a step
back, I think they're still in that third

1750
01:33:38,136 --> 01:33:39,036
spot.

1751
01:33:41,477 --> 01:33:43,978
Maybe Columbus overtakes Philly.

1752
01:33:43,978 --> 01:33:46,579
Philly comes in last there.

1753
01:33:46,579 --> 01:33:49,320
And then Columbus might overtake
Washington too, we'll see.

1754
01:33:49,320 --> 01:33:52,301
But I think that all depends on how...

1755
01:33:53,026 --> 01:33:54,553
how good of a year OV has.

1756
01:33:56,886 --> 01:33:59,708
But yeah, the top, it's Carolina, New
Jersey all the way.

1757
01:33:59,708 --> 01:34:03,731
I think, which I guess really, which one
do we think is coming in first, Carolina?

1758
01:34:04,372 --> 01:34:06,273
It was one point difference last year.

1759
01:34:07,574 --> 01:34:09,501
Yeah, I would still go with Caroline.

1760
01:34:09,501 --> 01:34:14,217
I realistically, the Devils don't go on a
14 game winning streak like they did last

1761
01:34:14,217 --> 01:34:14,870
year.

1762
01:34:14,870 --> 01:34:15,810
That's fair.

1763
01:34:16,211 --> 01:34:17,372
That's fair.

1764
01:34:18,433 --> 01:34:26,602
OK, so from one crazy season to another,
the Boston Bruins, who very sad end to the

1765
01:34:26,602 --> 01:34:29,525
year and we got to love it as Leaf fans.

1766
01:34:29,525 --> 01:34:33,829
They have no first, no second and no third
round pick this year.

1767
01:34:33,829 --> 01:34:37,032
And they have no centers either.

1768
01:34:38,628 --> 01:34:40,913
I was like, who's going to grab that low
hanging fruit?

1769
01:34:43,070 --> 01:34:49,047
We got Charlie Coyle, Morgan Geeky, John
Beecher, and Matthew Poitras are listed as

1770
01:34:49,047 --> 01:34:49,778
their centers.

1771
01:34:49,778 --> 01:34:51,668
is going to play as their center as well.

1772
01:34:51,986 --> 01:34:56,897
Oh, Pavel Zaka was listed as a centre
right wing and left wing cat friendly.

1773
01:34:58,745 --> 01:34:59,757
Oh god.

1774
01:34:59,757 --> 01:35:01,881
they signed JVR, so it's all good.

1775
01:35:04,738 --> 01:35:06,319
This team, man, what do we think?

1776
01:35:06,319 --> 01:35:14,166
They went from having an insane season to
really losing some core members.

1777
01:35:14,166 --> 01:35:18,370
I mean, it's not often that retirements
take this much of a hit on a team, but

1778
01:35:18,370 --> 01:35:22,694
man, that's a big hit to the Bruins.

1779
01:35:22,694 --> 01:35:24,956
65, 12 and five last year.

1780
01:35:24,956 --> 01:35:26,937
That's frigging crazy.

1781
01:35:27,098 --> 01:35:29,500
Yeah, they're definitely going to be
taking a step back.

1782
01:35:29,500 --> 01:35:32,061
I think that's written all over the wall.

1783
01:35:32,382 --> 01:35:35,284
I do still see them as a playoff team.

1784
01:35:36,385 --> 01:35:42,650
I think I wouldn't be surprised if you
actually see some interesting things from

1785
01:35:42,650 --> 01:35:43,591
Zaka.

1786
01:35:43,851 --> 01:35:49,076
I think a lot of people are selling low on
him, but I think you could actually see

1787
01:35:49,076 --> 01:35:51,177
some good upside to his game.

1788
01:35:53,119 --> 01:35:56,701
He had a career high in 57 points last
year with Boston.

1789
01:35:57,154 --> 01:36:01,317
And then still, you know, the lift you're
going to get from playing with along those

1790
01:36:01,317 --> 01:36:07,521
guys of Pasternak and Marshan, it's, you
know, you could be looking at it easily,

1791
01:36:07,521 --> 01:36:13,805
breaking 70 points and maybe stop gapping
some of that of what Patrice Bergeron

1792
01:36:13,805 --> 01:36:15,005
brought to the team.

1793
01:36:17,858 --> 01:36:21,580
So do we think Allmark and Swamen can keep
it together on the backend?

1794
01:36:21,580 --> 01:36:26,062
Cause really if everything else holds the
same, and like you said, if they can just

1795
01:36:26,062 --> 01:36:29,444
kind of, if Pasternak and Marshawn can
lift somebody else into that center

1796
01:36:29,444 --> 01:36:37,409
position, really it just comes down to do
they repeat this duo from the stars with

1797
01:36:37,409 --> 01:36:38,629
their fun hugs.

1798
01:36:39,532 --> 01:36:45,914
I think the tandem is still one of the
better tandems in the league, but I don't

1799
01:36:45,914 --> 01:36:50,135
know if you're going to see Almark getting
Vezna numbers.

1800
01:36:51,056 --> 01:36:55,777
Like he's always been a good goalie, even
when he was on crappy teams, he had really

1801
01:36:55,777 --> 01:36:57,278
good underlying numbers.

1802
01:36:57,418 --> 01:37:01,919
But like everything aligned perfectly for
this team last year.

1803
01:37:01,919 --> 01:37:02,919
Everything.

1804
01:37:03,600 --> 01:37:06,581
And if you look at the turnover they've
had from the roster that they had in the

1805
01:37:06,581 --> 01:37:10,442
playoffs last year, like Orlov's gone.

1806
01:37:11,023 --> 01:37:12,123
Obviously Bergeron's gone.

1807
01:37:12,123 --> 01:37:13,004
Kraytche's gone.

1808
01:37:13,004 --> 01:37:14,104
Taylor Hall's gone.

1809
01:37:14,104 --> 01:37:15,445
Foligno's gone.

1810
01:37:15,445 --> 01:37:17,646
Um, Tyler Bertuzzi's gone.

1811
01:37:17,646 --> 01:37:21,707
Like it's been quite a big turn turnover.

1812
01:37:21,707 --> 01:37:23,828
They went all out last year.

1813
01:37:23,828 --> 01:37:28,190
Um, they did bring back fan favorite Mila
and Lučić.

1814
01:37:29,291 --> 01:37:31,111
So I.

1815
01:37:31,152 --> 01:37:35,476
Yeah, they're still gonna have some
danger, like some dangerous players.

1816
01:37:35,476 --> 01:37:38,479
Obviously with Marshawn getting the C, I
think that might even give him a little

1817
01:37:38,479 --> 01:37:41,441
bit more of a boost, to be honest, as much
as I hate the guy.

1818
01:37:43,764 --> 01:37:50,670
But no, because he keeps getting better,
which is just asinine.

1819
01:37:51,111 --> 01:37:55,915
Like, yeah, they're a shell of what they
were.

1820
01:37:55,936 --> 01:37:59,183
they're still gonna be dangerous, like you
can't take them lightly, but they're

1821
01:37:59,183 --> 01:38:04,134
definitely a shell, and I think they're
potentially gonna be in tough to make the

1822
01:38:04,134 --> 01:38:05,095
playoffs.

1823
01:38:06,926 --> 01:38:11,868
So I think the thing to watch for with the
Leafs against them this year is if Boston

1824
01:38:11,868 --> 01:38:16,449
trying to figure things out with having
new people at centre and Tampa starting

1825
01:38:16,449 --> 01:38:20,971
off the season without Vasilevsky, I think
really what the Leafs have to do is take

1826
01:38:20,971 --> 01:38:26,053
the wins in the Atlantic division early
and try to make it so that everybody's

1827
01:38:26,053 --> 01:38:26,534
chasing them.

1828
01:38:26,534 --> 01:38:31,756
Because really it's once you have that
first spot come Christmas, it's tough to

1829
01:38:31,756 --> 01:38:32,236
lose it.

1830
01:38:32,236 --> 01:38:36,437
So if they can get out ahead, you know,
not have to worry about.

1831
01:38:36,994 --> 01:38:41,557
playing either Boston or Tampa in the
first round, those things matter.

1832
01:38:43,854 --> 01:38:49,037
Yeah, the one thing with them though, that
I will just say is like a lot of their the

1833
01:38:49,037 --> 01:38:53,460
players that they did loss were a few of
them were deadline additions.

1834
01:38:53,460 --> 01:38:57,143
So they didn't start the year with them
like guys like Bertuzzi and Orlov.

1835
01:38:58,304 --> 01:39:02,026
So there is obviously they don't have a
first, second and third this year, I'm not

1836
01:39:02,026 --> 01:39:04,848
sure the value of this draft class.

1837
01:39:06,750 --> 01:39:09,652
But you know, is there potential to move?

1838
01:39:09,652 --> 01:39:12,518
Obviously, they don't have a great
prospect pool but

1839
01:39:12,518 --> 01:39:14,639
You know, they still have their first for
2025.

1840
01:39:14,939 --> 01:39:19,322
They have, and then the first for 2026 in
terms of if they need to go out and get

1841
01:39:19,322 --> 01:39:21,704
those pieces to continue to be
competitive.

1842
01:39:21,704 --> 01:39:26,627
Cause as you said, Fred Marshand is 35 and
you know, two years left on his contract

1843
01:39:26,627 --> 01:39:28,829
could be the tail end of his career as
well.

1844
01:39:28,829 --> 01:39:34,433
So you could just see the final, you know,
we saw the go for Bergeron and Cricci can

1845
01:39:34,433 --> 01:39:36,914
you do that for Marshand as well?

1846
01:39:37,395 --> 01:39:42,077
Just by emptying the tank of kind of picks
and adding what you need now.

1847
01:39:43,618 --> 01:39:46,702
Yeah, it's a good point because Boston's
never been shy to add mid season or at the

1848
01:39:46,702 --> 01:39:47,123
deadline.

1849
01:39:47,123 --> 01:39:50,849
Like I mean, like they did last year,
they're always open to spending, to bring

1850
01:39:50,849 --> 01:39:53,753
in huge pieces and big players are always
open to going there.

1851
01:39:53,753 --> 01:39:56,617
So they have the advantage of that
negotiations.

1852
01:39:57,728 --> 01:40:03,776
Like, without knowing if there's any
hardcore injuries going on, wouldn't you

1853
01:40:03,776 --> 01:40:06,480
think that Bergeron and Kurechi would want
to give it one more shot?

1854
01:40:06,480 --> 01:40:08,482
This is the Bruin Centennial year.

1855
01:40:09,534 --> 01:40:11,257
Yeah, I find it odd that they just went.

1856
01:40:11,257 --> 01:40:13,262
Yeah, nope, that was enough of a
heartbreak.

1857
01:40:13,262 --> 01:40:14,563
We're not doing that again.

1858
01:40:14,765 --> 01:40:18,714
But come on guys, you can, you don't have
one more in you.

1859
01:40:18,714 --> 01:40:24,078
Sounds like a Justin Williams sign prior
to the playoffs kind of deal.

1860
01:40:24,078 --> 01:40:24,966
Thanks for watching!

1861
01:40:27,594 --> 01:40:30,133
Yeah, I mean, didn't Crayche only just
come back last year?

1862
01:40:30,482 --> 01:40:31,143
Yep.

1863
01:40:32,694 --> 01:40:36,975
You know, Tampa, let's talk about Tampa.

1864
01:40:38,355 --> 01:40:43,817
Obviously same storyline as like I just
said, we got to get wins early against

1865
01:40:43,817 --> 01:40:45,937
these teams that are starting a little
handicapped.

1866
01:40:45,937 --> 01:40:49,858
Vasilevsky is going to start the season
probably two months on IR, just had back

1867
01:40:49,858 --> 01:40:50,338
surgery.

1868
01:40:50,338 --> 01:40:55,720
I mean, you know, obviously hoping that
for, on a personal level that he gets back

1869
01:40:55,720 --> 01:41:00,981
to form, but on a, I'm a Leaf fan level,
let's take advantage of this while we can

1870
01:41:00,981 --> 01:41:02,221
and get out ahead.

1871
01:41:03,730 --> 01:41:04,790
Yeah, I think you're totally right there.

1872
01:41:04,790 --> 01:41:06,951
We need to take advantage of these guys.

1873
01:41:06,951 --> 01:41:13,435
Kind of down and out with injuries or
missing pieces to start and, you know, try

1874
01:41:13,435 --> 01:41:18,357
to win October, November and kind of coast
the rest of the way.

1875
01:41:20,546 --> 01:41:24,467
The other big things here, I mean, like
they spent big on Tanner Janow and Brandon

1876
01:41:24,467 --> 01:41:27,969
Hagel, who have been kind of lackluster
since they picked them up, but they did

1877
01:41:27,969 --> 01:41:33,211
resign Brandon Hagel to what's this 2032
at 6.5 million.

1878
01:41:33,491 --> 01:41:36,412
They've still got Nick Paul there till 29.

1879
01:41:36,412 --> 01:41:39,133
Like they've got some of these guys locked
up.

1880
01:41:39,133 --> 01:41:40,254
Anthony Cirelli is there.

1881
01:41:40,254 --> 01:41:41,354
Brayden Point.

1882
01:41:41,354 --> 01:41:45,075
But the one that isn't is Steven Stamkos
and he's pissed about it.

1883
01:41:45,236 --> 01:41:49,897
So, you know, I think a rough start to the
season is not good for.

1884
01:41:49,994 --> 01:41:51,174
him wanting to stick around.

1885
01:41:51,174 --> 01:41:55,096
I'm interested to see what they do about
that because they don't seem keen on

1886
01:41:55,096 --> 01:41:58,198
keeping him at the value that he's
thinking he's still at.

1887
01:41:58,198 --> 01:42:01,339
So that's the thing that I'm looking
forward to seeing with the lightning.

1888
01:42:01,339 --> 01:42:05,761
It's just kind of them cracking at the
seams and the dynasty falling apart.

1889
01:42:08,044 --> 01:42:10,685
And you're starting to see signs of that,
right?

1890
01:42:10,685 --> 01:42:16,788
They've had to chisel away at those cup
teams, the teams that were indestructible.

1891
01:42:17,248 --> 01:42:21,570
And they're not the same.

1892
01:42:21,570 --> 01:42:26,012
Like as much of as Boston is a shell of
what they were last year, Tampa's kind of

1893
01:42:26,012 --> 01:42:28,312
starting to look that way as well.

1894
01:42:28,353 --> 01:42:33,635
With Vasileski down and out, you have Matt
Tompkins and Jonas Johansen as your two

1895
01:42:33,635 --> 01:42:34,535
goalies.

1896
01:42:34,751 --> 01:42:35,164
Yeah.

1897
01:42:35,164 --> 01:42:40,707
Like I know Vassi was only out for what,
two months I think it said.

1898
01:42:40,707 --> 01:42:44,290
But still like the defense core is not
what it was.

1899
01:42:44,290 --> 01:42:45,531
You don't have McDonough anymore.

1900
01:42:45,531 --> 01:42:48,352
I believe they just placed Bogosian on
waivers.

1901
01:42:48,433 --> 01:42:52,115
Um, they picked up Connor Schiery.

1902
01:42:52,115 --> 01:42:56,538
So you have him now as well, but it's,
it's going to be interesting.

1903
01:42:56,538 --> 01:42:57,719
They're still going to have the offense.

1904
01:42:57,719 --> 01:43:00,801
They're still going to play with the
structure because, you know, Cooper's one

1905
01:43:00,801 --> 01:43:04,303
of the best coaches in the league that
we've seen in a long, long time.

1906
01:43:04,744 --> 01:43:08,447
So if they could get, as you said,
something out of Genoa or Hagel that they

1907
01:43:08,447 --> 01:43:12,751
were expecting when they got them and the
price they paid for them, then that would

1908
01:43:12,751 --> 01:43:13,672
go a long way.

1909
01:43:13,672 --> 01:43:16,862
But they're on the decline.

1910
01:43:16,862 --> 01:43:18,122
I wonder if they look at...

1911
01:43:18,842 --> 01:43:22,143
Oh, I was just going to add, I wonder if
they look at with the Steven Stamkos

1912
01:43:22,143 --> 01:43:27,144
situation, obviously see the way Vegas
kind of, you know, we negatively look at

1913
01:43:27,144 --> 01:43:31,466
it as how they treat players, but at the
end of the day they're trying to win and

1914
01:43:31,466 --> 01:43:36,167
is Steven Stamkos, instead of doing right
by him from the organization, is it just

1915
01:43:36,167 --> 01:43:40,928
time for, hey look, as an organization we
can't, you know, I'm looking at their cap

1916
01:43:40,928 --> 01:43:44,969
here, and even without signing him,
they're only saving $5 million from what

1917
01:43:44,969 --> 01:43:46,469
they're already paying this year.

1918
01:43:47,314 --> 01:43:52,977
So in their forward group, so it's what
money is there really for you?

1919
01:43:52,977 --> 01:43:57,080
You know, obviously we were hearing the
caps going to go up, but you know, how

1920
01:43:57,080 --> 01:44:01,302
much and the decor is pretty much going to
stay flat in terms of, of dollars.

1921
01:44:01,302 --> 01:44:03,503
So it's kind of one of those things.

1922
01:44:03,503 --> 01:44:08,166
Do you, do you kind of just, do you cut
ties and try to be competitive?

1923
01:44:08,166 --> 01:44:12,288
Like you see Vegas do, or do you keep your
captain happy?

1924
01:44:13,209 --> 01:44:14,106
So that's the.

1925
01:44:14,106 --> 01:44:17,406
business versus personal side, I think,
with them there that they're dealing with

1926
01:44:17,406 --> 01:44:18,249
right now.

1927
01:44:19,638 --> 01:44:24,061
Well, I mean, leadership wise, you've got
point Kucherov, Sergechev, Hedman, like

1928
01:44:24,061 --> 01:44:26,283
guys that have been there for a long time
with the same team.

1929
01:44:26,283 --> 01:44:31,568
Like I don't think they're going to miss
him that much.

1930
01:44:31,568 --> 01:44:33,890
Like it seems they're leaning that way.

1931
01:44:33,890 --> 01:44:34,550
I think you're right.

1932
01:44:34,550 --> 01:44:39,054
Where it's just going to be, you know,
again, looking at the money, unless they

1933
01:44:39,054 --> 01:44:41,836
move on from who was it?

1934
01:44:41,836 --> 01:44:43,037
Like Nick Paul?

1935
01:44:43,037 --> 01:44:43,318
Nope.

1936
01:44:43,318 --> 01:44:44,078
Just signed him.

1937
01:44:44,078 --> 01:44:44,759
Tanner Janow?

1938
01:44:44,759 --> 01:44:44,979
Nope.

1939
01:44:44,979 --> 01:44:46,100
Just spent a bunch on him.

1940
01:44:46,100 --> 01:44:46,861
Connor Shirey.

1941
01:44:46,861 --> 01:44:47,958
It's only 2 million.

1942
01:44:47,958 --> 01:44:49,638
Hagel, nope, just signed him.

1943
01:44:49,638 --> 01:44:51,619
Like, where's the money gonna come from?

1944
01:44:51,879 --> 01:44:55,320
Not Headman, not, like everybody else just
re-signed.

1945
01:44:55,320 --> 01:44:56,681
And they got to him and they went, yeah,
there's nothing left.

1946
01:44:56,681 --> 01:44:58,962
And at 33, unless you're taking like 4 1 2
5 million, it doesn't make sense for us.

1947
01:44:58,962 --> 01:45:00,762
They gave the Capcos up 4 1 2, that's
what, 9 1 2 1

1948
01:45:09,582 --> 01:45:09,842
Right.

1949
01:45:09,842 --> 01:45:12,723
And then, and then you're, are you digging
yourself for the hole where, you know, we

1950
01:45:12,723 --> 01:45:18,766
just talked about the Metro two teams,
Pittsburgh and Washington, aging cores.

1951
01:45:18,766 --> 01:45:21,787
And it's like, you're kind of keeping
these guys around when everybody in the

1952
01:45:21,787 --> 01:45:24,668
writing on the wall is you should have
moved on from them two, three years ago,

1953
01:45:24,668 --> 01:45:28,610
when you could have maximized their value
and keep the ball going and turn it over

1954
01:45:28,610 --> 01:45:32,712
to new players, new prospects and stay
young.

1955
01:45:32,712 --> 01:45:36,933
And there, it's kind of, they're stuck in
that limbo, right.

1956
01:45:38,366 --> 01:45:42,227
Yeah, look at eight and a half million
dollars at 33 year old Stephen Stamkos at

1957
01:45:42,227 --> 01:45:43,127
the deadline.

1958
01:45:43,127 --> 01:45:47,268
If you get that retained once to four
point two five retained twice, you get a

1959
01:45:47,268 --> 01:45:50,749
Stephen Stamkos for two million dollars at
the deadline.

1960
01:45:50,749 --> 01:45:53,489
Like that's something that teams are going
to pay for.

1961
01:45:53,890 --> 01:45:55,110
And I think he knows that.

1962
01:45:55,110 --> 01:46:00,071
And, you know, if things are like they got
to wait to see how the season plays out.

1963
01:46:00,071 --> 01:46:02,172
They've got no goaltending to start.

1964
01:46:02,372 --> 01:46:05,853
But if everybody else can hold it
together, then, you know, maybe you move

1965
01:46:05,853 --> 01:46:08,073
on from Stamkos and you can.

1966
01:46:08,146 --> 01:46:11,289
Again, for two million bucks, go through
two teams.

1967
01:46:11,330 --> 01:46:14,553
That's an insane addition for anybody in
the playoffs.

1968
01:46:16,096 --> 01:46:17,277
Leaves, please.

1969
01:46:21,299 --> 01:46:21,856
Panthers.

1970
01:46:21,856 --> 01:46:22,719
to Marty.

1971
01:46:25,086 --> 01:46:27,927
Hey, the guy already had a Leafs jersey in
his hand at one point.

1972
01:46:27,927 --> 01:46:30,107
We can just give it back to him.

1973
01:46:31,428 --> 01:46:32,529
Holy shit.

1974
01:46:32,529 --> 01:46:38,631
Alexander Barkov getting paid 10 million a
year.

1975
01:46:38,631 --> 01:46:39,912
The Florida Panthers.

1976
01:46:39,912 --> 01:46:43,073
Eamonn Kachak, Reinhardt Bennett, Verhage.

1977
01:46:43,073 --> 01:46:44,974
Yeah, it's kind of the same core.

1978
01:46:44,974 --> 01:46:47,855
It's just the defense is holy shit.

1979
01:46:48,216 --> 01:46:52,197
Gustav Forsling makes 2.6 million, and
that is the highest paid defense that they

1980
01:46:52,197 --> 01:46:52,822
got right now.

1981
01:46:52,822 --> 01:46:55,957
with Aaron Echelott on IR and Brennan
Montour on IR.

1982
01:46:56,694 --> 01:46:58,594
They'll be interesting yet again.

1983
01:46:59,155 --> 01:47:01,795
A team with injuries to start the year.

1984
01:47:03,216 --> 01:47:09,279
It looks like Spencer Knight is going to
start in the minors.

1985
01:47:09,279 --> 01:47:12,180
Just yeah that's news to me.

1986
01:47:12,180 --> 01:47:17,282
So they're going to go with Bobrovsky
installers and it's fun to see who they

1987
01:47:17,742 --> 01:47:19,723
let go who's now in Detroit.

1988
01:47:20,443 --> 01:47:24,865
Bobrovsky while he was hot in the playoffs
he's been streaky in terms of is he a 10

1989
01:47:24,865 --> 01:47:25,682
million dollar

1990
01:47:25,682 --> 01:47:27,503
goalie or is he a $3 million goalie?

1991
01:47:27,503 --> 01:47:31,326
So that'll be very interesting to see how
that kind of gets going.

1992
01:47:31,326 --> 01:47:33,308
And then they got Anthony Stollers'
backup.

1993
01:47:33,308 --> 01:47:36,770
So back to kind of how we were talking
about the other teams, Toronto really

1994
01:47:36,770 --> 01:47:41,835
needs to take advantage of winning these
games against these teams and getting out

1995
01:47:41,835 --> 01:47:45,277
to a hot start and coasting the rest of
the lake.

1996
01:47:45,277 --> 01:47:50,801
Because outside of, yeah, they're not
looking great.

1997
01:47:54,410 --> 01:47:59,033
Yeah, I don't think enough attention is
being put on how many question marks there

1998
01:47:59,033 --> 01:48:00,854
are in the Atlantic division to start this
season.

1999
01:48:00,854 --> 01:48:05,257
Like last year it was, holy shit, this is
going to be just juggernaut teams.

2000
01:48:05,257 --> 01:48:10,941
And this year it's like goalies hurt,
goalies getting sent down, Bobrovsky

2001
01:48:10,941 --> 01:48:12,182
starting again.

2002
01:48:12,182 --> 01:48:14,283
Like there's a lot of change going on.

2003
01:48:14,283 --> 01:48:17,265
The Bruins are falling apart, the
Lightning are making changes.

2004
01:48:17,265 --> 01:48:19,907
Like people aren't talking about this
enough.

2005
01:48:19,907 --> 01:48:23,429
Like there's so much pressure put on, oh,
Sammy and Wall are going to be good

2006
01:48:23,429 --> 01:48:24,169
enough?

2007
01:48:24,554 --> 01:48:27,821
Holy shit, the rest of the Atlantic
outside of like, I mean Ottawa and Buffalo

2008
01:48:27,821 --> 01:48:30,485
are on the up, but everybody else seems to
be on the down.

2009
01:48:32,096 --> 01:48:36,404
Yeah, and like when you have the injuries
that Florida does to start the season,

2010
01:48:36,404 --> 01:48:40,972
Montour and Echblad, those are two huge
anchors on the back end for them.

2011
01:48:41,273 --> 01:48:41,795
So those...

2012
01:48:41,795 --> 01:48:44,601
what do you got, Forsling, Mikala, Ekman
Larsen?

2013
01:48:44,601 --> 01:48:47,285
Like, it just falls right off.

2014
01:48:47,604 --> 01:48:52,547
So three of your top six defense from
their Stanley Cup final push are gone with

2015
01:48:52,547 --> 01:48:55,289
Ekblad, Montour and Goudis.

2016
01:48:55,730 --> 01:49:00,193
So that's going to be a big blow to them
to start the season.

2017
01:49:00,974 --> 01:49:07,579
As you guys said, can Bobrowski actually
be the Bobrowski that they paid him to be?

2018
01:49:08,160 --> 01:49:12,584
Or is he going to be, you know, the guy
who's been kind of chilling out in

2019
01:49:12,584 --> 01:49:15,166
Florida, hanging out on the beach the last
couple of years?

2020
01:49:15,187 --> 01:49:19,390
The forward core is pretty similar.

2021
01:49:19,451 --> 01:49:23,635
So scoring wise and, and the whole
structure of the team up front, I don't

2022
01:49:23,635 --> 01:49:28,179
think we're going to see a big change, but
the D core is hurting right now.

2023
01:49:28,430 --> 01:49:33,175
I mean, with Bobrovsky at $10 million, you
basically have to try it every year.

2024
01:49:33,175 --> 01:49:35,737
Like, you can't afford not to.

2025
01:49:35,878 --> 01:49:36,518
Does it work?

2026
01:49:36,518 --> 01:49:37,700
Nope, fuck it.

2027
01:49:37,700 --> 01:49:38,821
Okay, we'll try something else.

2028
01:49:38,821 --> 01:49:39,521
Does it work?

2029
01:49:39,521 --> 01:49:40,963
Great, let's try it.

2030
01:49:41,223 --> 01:49:45,608
Like, they have to, it has to be the first
choice every time until it doesn't work.

2031
01:49:45,788 --> 01:49:46,898
Or else they just look like idiots.

2032
01:49:46,898 --> 01:49:53,080
got, looking at the top four, so obviously
they added in Mike Riley and OEL to the

2033
01:49:53,080 --> 01:49:56,501
mix, but it's lefty, lefty.

2034
01:49:56,501 --> 01:49:59,822
They have nobody, both their top right D
obviously are out.

2035
01:49:59,822 --> 01:50:05,424
It's just, they have nobody to fill in
where you have Dmitry Kulikov and Josh

2036
01:50:05,424 --> 01:50:09,385
Mahura in terms of the only guys who can
play the right side on their opening

2037
01:50:09,385 --> 01:50:09,905
lineup.

2038
01:50:09,905 --> 01:50:12,525
It does not look great for them.

2039
01:50:17,718 --> 01:50:23,568
So let's move on to a team that I have
been hoping to see turn around for a while

2040
01:50:23,568 --> 01:50:28,758
But it seems like this could be the year
they do it the Buffalo Sabres The the

2041
01:50:28,758 --> 01:50:31,201
Ottawa Senators south of the border

2042
01:50:33,064 --> 01:50:34,915
So I myself...

2043
01:50:34,915 --> 01:50:37,265
they just miss that much.

2044
01:50:38,904 --> 01:50:42,847
I myself am actually pretty high on the
Sabres as much as I hate to say it.

2045
01:50:45,130 --> 01:50:49,935
What Kevin Adams has done down there and
then like building the team and then

2046
01:50:49,935 --> 01:50:56,762
Granado coaching these young guys, like
they've got a pretty good team.

2047
01:50:57,063 --> 01:51:00,486
And I think this is the year they break
that streak and they come back into the

2048
01:51:00,486 --> 01:51:01,507
playoffs.

2049
01:51:02,185 --> 01:51:04,329
Thompson's proved he's legit.

2050
01:51:04,511 --> 01:51:05,934
I love Dylan Cousins.

2051
01:51:05,934 --> 01:51:08,682
Like that kid just does not stop.

2052
01:51:08,682 --> 01:51:12,646
And what about the fact that they have
Eric Comrie, Devin Levi, and Ukopeka

2053
01:51:12,646 --> 01:51:16,549
Lukaidan for a combined three and a half
million dollars.

2054
01:51:17,588 --> 01:51:26,214
So as much as I love Levi and Luka-nin,
like UPL is one of the best names that has

2055
01:51:26,214 --> 01:51:32,179
been bouncing around in the AHL for the
longest time, that's really their biggest

2056
01:51:32,179 --> 01:51:33,280
question mark.

2057
01:51:33,380 --> 01:51:37,984
Like, Levi showed flashes last year when
he came up, like the kid's good, he's got

2058
01:51:37,984 --> 01:51:42,427
nerves of steel, Luka-nin's supposed to
have been the next goalie for them for,

2059
01:51:43,228 --> 01:51:45,430
what, three, four years now?

2060
01:51:45,470 --> 01:51:47,251
And he just hasn't been able to do it.

2061
01:51:47,916 --> 01:51:56,145
Um back end they Yeah back end they stole
yoki haru from the black hawks Um owen

2062
01:51:56,145 --> 01:52:00,530
power is going to be a stud dolly's
proving that he's a stud

2063
01:52:00,862 --> 01:52:03,526
Just signing an 8 times 11.

2064
01:52:06,890 --> 01:52:08,143
My god.

2065
01:52:08,244 --> 01:52:14,687
Owen Power is thanking him beyond belief
right now because his contract's up next

2066
01:52:14,687 --> 01:52:15,427
year.

2067
01:52:17,368 --> 01:52:21,810
But they did bring in Eric Johnson as that
veteran defense on the back end, Connor

2068
01:52:21,810 --> 01:52:22,751
Clifton.

2069
01:52:24,516 --> 01:52:26,678
So the decor is actually not too bad.

2070
01:52:26,678 --> 01:52:31,304
And then forward wise, like they've got
all these young kids and then Oppozo seems

2071
01:52:31,304 --> 01:52:33,967
to have a little bit resurrected his
career.

2072
01:52:34,388 --> 01:52:36,711
Um, Skinner actually seemed half decent.

2073
01:52:36,711 --> 01:52:40,335
He's not worth the 9 million he's getting,
but he's at least serviceable now.

2074
01:52:40,395 --> 01:52:41,184
Oh yeah.

2075
01:52:43,698 --> 01:52:45,420
I picked Jeff Skinner in fantasy again, I
think.

2076
01:52:45,420 --> 01:52:48,002
I mean, last year he finally turned it
around.

2077
01:52:48,163 --> 01:52:49,744
I double down.

2078
01:52:49,945 --> 01:52:51,687
Alex Tuck, I think that was a great
pickup.

2079
01:52:51,687 --> 01:52:53,068
He was good last year.

2080
01:52:54,210 --> 01:52:56,753
Kyle Ocposo, still rocking the C.

2081
01:52:57,174 --> 01:52:59,657
Good for him.

2082
01:52:59,657 --> 01:53:00,069
Yeah.

2083
01:53:00,069 --> 01:53:02,031
on the Devin Levi hype train.

2084
01:53:02,031 --> 01:53:07,754
We're talking about a 21 year old goalie,
a 6 foot let alone goalie.

2085
01:53:08,755 --> 01:53:14,339
It's just hard for me to think that
everyone thinks he's the saving grace.

2086
01:53:14,339 --> 01:53:16,440
I don't really think it's going to be
there.

2087
01:53:16,440 --> 01:53:19,302
I think it's the NHL, it's going to be
tough.

2088
01:53:20,783 --> 01:53:24,385
I think they're going to have to lean a
little bit more heavily on

2089
01:53:25,658 --> 01:53:31,263
Um, UPL, but, uh, you know, with him at
being only 24, even himself, like the

2090
01:53:31,263 --> 01:53:34,265
future is very bright there for the
Sabres.

2091
01:53:34,706 --> 01:53:38,569
Um, you know, I just, I don't see it on
the back end.

2092
01:53:38,569 --> 01:53:43,173
I think to your point where, you know, Ken
Wall and Sam Sonoff do it.

2093
01:53:43,213 --> 01:53:48,457
Meanwhile, people are locking the Sabres
in for a playoff spot with, you know, this

2094
01:53:48,558 --> 01:53:52,141
very young and, you know, not so great
currently.

2095
01:53:53,126 --> 01:53:55,196
Goaltending situation in Buffalo.

2096
01:53:55,196 --> 01:53:57,565
I just don't I don't see it at the moment

2097
01:54:03,026 --> 01:54:06,288
See, this is somewhere I saw hell about
going if Winnipeg were to move on from

2098
01:54:06,288 --> 01:54:06,668
him.

2099
01:54:06,668 --> 01:54:10,130
I think Buffalo would have been high on
that, especially because they've got eight

2100
01:54:10,130 --> 01:54:12,592
point eight million dollars of cap space.

2101
01:54:12,592 --> 01:54:17,215
So like if a goalie becomes available,
they do have the money to take them on.

2102
01:54:17,215 --> 01:54:18,115
It's just.

2103
01:54:19,136 --> 01:54:21,137
You know, goalies don't grow on trees.

2104
01:54:24,758 --> 01:54:26,411
They grow on flowers though.

2105
01:54:28,168 --> 01:54:28,729
No!

2106
01:54:33,670 --> 01:54:37,672
All right, so now the Sabres north of the
border, the Ottawa Senators.

2107
01:54:38,312 --> 01:54:42,454
Basically a similar position, a bunch of
young guys that have proven that they can

2108
01:54:42,454 --> 01:54:44,775
hang, they can score a bunch of points.

2109
01:54:45,375 --> 01:54:49,937
Some defensemen that have gotten paid for
the same.

2110
01:54:50,337 --> 01:54:52,178
And a couple question marks in that.

2111
01:54:52,178 --> 01:54:58,040
Like, it's pretty much, it's kind of
freaky how similar these two teams are.

2112
01:54:58,200 --> 01:55:01,014
They've been riding the same spot in the
standings here.

2113
01:55:01,014 --> 01:55:02,495
fifth and sixth place.

2114
01:55:03,977 --> 01:55:08,823
Man, I think Ottawa takes a step this year
if goalies stay healthy, like they lost

2115
01:55:08,823 --> 01:55:12,967
Cam Talbot and were forced into, man, they
went down a couple goalies last year,

2116
01:55:12,967 --> 01:55:13,248
didn't they?

2117
01:55:13,248 --> 01:55:15,189
They went through like four or five of
them.

2118
01:55:18,334 --> 01:55:20,417
But I mean, they've got Forsberg and
Corpusalo.

2119
01:55:20,417 --> 01:55:23,921
It's not awful.

2120
01:55:24,903 --> 01:55:27,667
Chikren, Zube, Brandstrom, Sanderson,
Shabbat.

2121
01:55:27,667 --> 01:55:30,070
Like their defense is really good.

2122
01:55:30,070 --> 01:55:31,732
I like that.

2123
01:55:31,732 --> 01:55:33,042
Bringing in Tarasenko.

2124
01:55:33,042 --> 01:55:37,783
Yeah, they're definitely going to be, I
think, deep down, at least in their top

2125
01:55:37,783 --> 01:55:38,623
nine.

2126
01:55:38,843 --> 01:55:45,825
We'll see if Norris can stay healthy and
see if he's poised for a good season.

2127
01:55:45,825 --> 01:55:48,106
I think that's a big question mark for
them.

2128
01:55:48,106 --> 01:55:53,587
Because right after, you know, if Stutel
is going to play their 1C, the hope is

2129
01:55:53,587 --> 01:55:57,828
Norris can play obviously that 2C, if not,
Giroud can slide over.

2130
01:55:58,229 --> 01:56:01,789
And then Ridley Grieg, in terms of what he
can bring in terms of a...

2131
01:56:02,090 --> 01:56:07,615
depth center option or winger depending on
if they can get shame pinto sign but they

2132
01:56:07,615 --> 01:56:15,023
are struggling with cap issues they kind
of give me you know late 2000 or yeah late

2133
01:56:15,043 --> 01:56:19,648
2000 like 2009 leafs where it's like we're
up against the cap every year but we're

2134
01:56:19,648 --> 01:56:25,093
not even a playoff team yet so they kind
of give me that energy at this moment

2135
01:56:31,136 --> 01:56:34,105
I didn't realize Josh Norris is out
indefinitely.

2136
01:56:37,376 --> 01:56:38,275
Thank you.

2137
01:56:38,275 --> 01:56:44,288
Apparently on the golf course this summer,
a shoulder injury was noticed and the

2138
01:56:44,288 --> 01:56:47,433
medical staff have not cleared him to play
and he has not been to training camp.

2139
01:56:47,501 --> 01:56:48,202
for a bit.

2140
01:56:48,202 --> 01:56:53,712
And then I think he took it off for some
practices and then it went back on again.

2141
01:56:53,712 --> 01:56:57,017
I don't know if he ended up ever playing
in a pre-season game.

2142
01:57:02,123 --> 01:57:03,434
Well, apparently there is-

2143
01:57:03,434 --> 01:57:07,078
your info from MSN again?

2144
01:57:07,078 --> 01:57:07,979
No, I'm not actually.

2145
01:57:07,979 --> 01:57:10,542
It's from like I'm looking Josh Norris.

2146
01:57:10,542 --> 01:57:14,646
This is from Ottawa Sun Daily Faceoff ESPN
City News Ottawa.

2147
01:57:15,487 --> 01:57:17,989
Yeah, it's all from the last day or two.

2148
01:57:22,230 --> 01:57:24,591
There you go.

2149
01:57:24,591 --> 01:57:27,092
Senators confident despite questions
around team.

2150
01:57:27,092 --> 01:57:30,994
Yeah, I mean, the biggest drawback with
them has always been staying healthy.

2151
01:57:30,994 --> 01:57:33,034
For some reason, nobody stays healthy.

2152
01:57:33,315 --> 01:57:35,876
But again, the defense is awesome.

2153
01:57:35,876 --> 01:57:37,277
They've got a lot of fast kids.

2154
01:57:37,277 --> 01:57:39,817
They got to figure out what's going on
with Shane Pinto though.

2155
01:57:43,300 --> 01:57:48,381
Yeah, like, I don't know why I'm not as
high on the senators as I am on the

2156
01:57:48,381 --> 01:57:49,321
sabers.

2157
01:57:50,702 --> 01:57:53,183
Because their goaltending is actually a
little better.

2158
01:57:53,183 --> 01:57:57,864
Their defense is arguably the same,
slightly better.

2159
01:57:58,024 --> 01:57:58,905
Yeah.

2160
01:58:00,325 --> 01:58:04,046
Forward-wise, I would take, I think, the
sabers over the sends.

2161
01:58:06,067 --> 01:58:07,055
Not put anything against

2162
01:58:07,055 --> 01:58:09,301
first line, I think, is a weird thing,
but...

2163
01:58:10,192 --> 01:58:15,118
Yeah, not to put anything against Stootsl
or Kachak, but, you know, Thompson's

2164
01:58:15,118 --> 01:58:21,105
cousins, like those two right there can
kind of equal them out, not to mention

2165
01:58:21,105 --> 01:58:22,086
Peyton Krebs and all that.

2166
01:58:22,086 --> 01:58:26,111
So with the sends, I think they're just,
they're still a step behind.

2167
01:58:32,242 --> 01:58:36,543
Yeah, I mean, we'll see what happens with
like, Batherson's obviously a weird

2168
01:58:36,543 --> 01:58:37,084
question mark.

2169
01:58:37,084 --> 01:58:38,124
We don't know what's going on there.

2170
01:58:38,124 --> 01:58:41,666
Teresanko will see how he turns things
around in Ottawa.

2171
01:58:41,666 --> 01:58:43,447
I don't know.

2172
01:58:43,447 --> 01:58:46,668
It's I like I've been trying to get into
this.

2173
01:58:46,668 --> 01:58:50,530
Like I live here in Ottawa, so I want this
team to do well.

2174
01:58:50,530 --> 01:58:53,391
And, you know, all the people that keep
chirping me, they're like, oh, you know,

2175
01:58:53,391 --> 01:58:55,952
looking forward to a real battle of
Ontario now.

2176
01:58:55,952 --> 01:58:58,533
Like it's shaping up to be a good match
up, you know.

2177
01:58:59,522 --> 01:59:04,764
So I try, I'm trying, but I think it's
mostly the defensive end that's got me

2178
01:59:05,685 --> 01:59:07,786
more confident in how they'll do this
year.

2179
01:59:08,267 --> 01:59:12,549
Just a bit more support for these kids up
front.

2180
01:59:12,549 --> 01:59:22,255
Moving on, Detroit Red Wings, who have $5
million of cap space and not much else.

2181
01:59:23,476 --> 01:59:26,537
I mean, Dylan Larkin and Alex Debrinca and
Andrew Cobb.

2182
01:59:28,094 --> 01:59:32,379
Oh my God, I forgot Justin Hall is there
with Sherat, Gostis, Barrow, Hall, Jake

2183
01:59:32,379 --> 01:59:35,763
Wallman, Olly Matta, Jeff Petrie, and
Moritz Seider.

2184
01:59:35,763 --> 01:59:38,025
What a strange defense court.

2185
01:59:39,428 --> 01:59:41,108
Mort Sider's a stud.

2186
01:59:41,469 --> 01:59:47,732
Like, he is like the second coming up
Nicholas Gronwald with how nasty he is.

2187
01:59:48,313 --> 01:59:54,257
But he's only 22 and he is still
offensively talented as well.

2188
01:59:54,257 --> 01:59:56,962
Like, I think they've got a stud with
Sider.

2189
01:59:56,962 --> 02:00:01,011
for sure, but you're surrounding him with
Jeff Petrie, Ben Chirott, Shane Gostis,

2190
02:00:01,011 --> 02:00:02,333
Baron Justin Hall.

2191
02:00:03,217 --> 02:00:04,021
Yeah.

2192
02:00:04,426 --> 02:00:12,939
You're probably looking at a like a Chirot
with more at Sider to be on your top line

2193
02:00:12,939 --> 02:00:18,728
and then probably Goss's Spare Hall and
then probably other Holy Mata with Petri

2194
02:00:18,728 --> 02:00:20,269
or Walman with Petri.

2195
02:00:25,370 --> 02:00:31,455
Yeah, that's a very expensive third pair
of defense.

2196
02:00:33,037 --> 02:00:37,881
Like they're paying all of these guys over
three million dollars except Jeff Petrie

2197
02:00:37,881 --> 02:00:39,262
and Mort Cider.

2198
02:00:39,963 --> 02:00:43,966
So I don't like how this team's
constructed.

2199
02:00:44,487 --> 02:00:50,472
Like they're lucky that Larkin has taken
8.7 million because my god they need the

2200
02:00:50,472 --> 02:00:52,213
money to fill out the rest of this team.

2201
02:00:53,040 --> 02:00:57,422
Well, and you know, this is the last year
with Lucas Raymond under a million as

2202
02:00:57,422 --> 02:00:59,343
well.

2203
02:00:59,343 --> 02:01:04,386
So it's, it's really interesting to see
the build of this team compared to what

2204
02:01:04,386 --> 02:01:06,847
Aijerman did with the lightning when he
was there.

2205
02:01:07,570 --> 02:01:14,297
Yeah, like everyone's expiring except
Larkin to Brinket, Cop, Comfor, and that's

2206
02:01:14,297 --> 02:01:14,958
kind of it.

2207
02:01:14,958 --> 02:01:18,433
I mean, Sherat's got a couple more years,
but yeah.

2208
02:01:18,433 --> 02:01:21,278
and Fabri have next year as well, but.

2209
02:01:21,342 --> 02:01:22,042
Yeah.

2210
02:01:22,042 --> 02:01:25,626
But I mean, really, you've got like David
Perron this year, Daniel Sprong, Michael

2211
02:01:25,626 --> 02:01:29,090
Rasmussen, Christian Fischer, Lucas
Raymond, Joseph Villano, like all these

2212
02:01:29,090 --> 02:01:33,115
guys, cider, like everyone's expiring at
the end of the James Reimer you only have

2213
02:01:33,115 --> 02:01:34,135
for this year.

2214
02:01:34,136 --> 02:01:39,521
Like they have to make a lot of decisions
and it seems like they have no direction.

2215
02:01:41,566 --> 02:01:44,880
which again is surprising for a team under
Steve Iserman.

2216
02:01:47,570 --> 02:01:50,877
Okay, second last, Montreal Canadiens.

2217
02:01:53,696 --> 02:01:56,063
They're about as good as their logo, a
toilet seat.

2218
02:01:56,063 --> 02:01:57,185
That's about it.

2219
02:01:58,226 --> 02:01:59,109
the things

2220
02:02:02,298 --> 02:02:06,141
Yeah, like the things that I want to watch
this year are did they make a horrible

2221
02:02:06,141 --> 02:02:07,902
pick with your ice love Kovsky?

2222
02:02:09,124 --> 02:02:15,550
is Arbor Jack I get to be the biggest pain
in the ass defenseman for us and We didn't

2223
02:02:15,550 --> 02:02:22,617
even make the He's not even on their team
here seeing the miners Yeah, he went to

2224
02:02:22,617 --> 02:02:28,021
the miners damn Yeah, I don't know what
this team's doing yeah

2225
02:02:33,194 --> 02:02:33,835
Yep.

2226
02:02:35,065 --> 02:02:36,669
Because he's waiver exempt, I don't know.

2227
02:02:36,669 --> 02:02:39,180
Harrison, Justin Barron, and Caden Gouli.

2228
02:02:40,054 --> 02:02:41,080
That's wild.

2229
02:02:45,556 --> 02:02:46,794
in Norlander.

2230
02:02:48,798 --> 02:02:50,729
And Rheinbacher, what are they doing?

2231
02:02:52,418 --> 02:02:54,038
Weird.

2232
02:02:54,038 --> 02:02:56,779
Yeah, I don't know what this fucking
team's doing.

2233
02:02:56,939 --> 02:03:00,120
Josh Anderson and company.

2234
02:03:00,141 --> 02:03:03,122
Yeah, I'm not expecting much out of this
team.

2235
02:03:03,122 --> 02:03:05,363
Alex Newhook is an interesting addition.

2236
02:03:06,003 --> 02:03:08,124
Sean Monahan's there for another year.

2237
02:03:08,504 --> 02:03:15,727
Like there's potential, but it just seems
like everybody's either too young or from

2238
02:03:15,727 --> 02:03:18,208
the last iteration of this team, like
Brennan Gallagher.

2239
02:03:18,208 --> 02:03:21,582
Like Gallagher seems like a holdover from
the last.

2240
02:03:21,582 --> 02:03:24,745
team that just like, like not there's
nothing against him.

2241
02:03:24,745 --> 02:03:28,448
It's just, it seems like they're keeping
him to be nice, but he doesn't fit into

2242
02:03:28,448 --> 02:03:29,909
what they're trying to do at all.

2243
02:03:30,746 --> 02:03:32,408
Yeah, neither does Josh Anderson.

2244
02:03:32,408 --> 02:03:37,014
You know, both those guys late in the
year, like, they're not really serving a

2245
02:03:37,014 --> 02:03:37,394
purpose.

2246
02:03:37,394 --> 02:03:40,357
They're not competitive at this point in
time.

2247
02:03:40,879 --> 02:03:45,885
Um, you know, same with, like, I guess
Jake Evans is kind of on the outside of

2248
02:03:45,885 --> 02:03:47,326
that as well.

2249
02:03:47,567 --> 02:03:49,849
Just doesn't really seem to be right.

2250
02:03:54,818 --> 02:03:57,841
Like if you want to rebuild, you got to
give these kids the ice time.

2251
02:03:57,841 --> 02:04:02,605
And it seems like they're just having it
eaten up by, by guys that, you know, Joel

2252
02:04:02,605 --> 02:04:06,629
Armia and Josh Anderson and Brennan
Gallagher and Tanner Pearson.

2253
02:04:06,629 --> 02:04:11,134
Like, like, I don't understand David
Savard.

2254
02:04:11,134 --> 02:04:15,298
Like, why are you keeping David Savard at
three and a half million dollars and

2255
02:04:15,298 --> 02:04:17,039
sending Arbor Jack guy down?

2256
02:04:17,380 --> 02:04:19,021
Like that doesn't make sense to me.

2257
02:04:19,792 --> 02:04:20,433
No.

2258
02:04:21,729 --> 02:04:22,279
Was that?

2259
02:04:22,279 --> 02:04:27,346
be shit and just give these guys like the
time that it's not even like you're

2260
02:04:27,346 --> 02:04:28,448
ruining Jack guys development.

2261
02:04:28,448 --> 02:04:30,331
He played with you last year when you were
garbage.

2262
02:04:30,331 --> 02:04:32,813
You've already established like he's going
to be here.

2263
02:04:33,165 --> 02:04:39,729
Gouli in the lineup in terms of being only
19 or 21?

2264
02:04:39,729 --> 02:04:43,652
So you have a couple other younger guys
who could still probably get some reps in

2265
02:04:43,652 --> 02:04:45,653
the minors before coming up.

2266
02:04:45,653 --> 02:04:49,596
It just seems odd right now by St.

2267
02:04:49,596 --> 02:04:51,977
Louis with these lineups.

2268
02:04:58,110 --> 02:05:01,472
Yeah, they've got some overage guys on
their HL to just like.

2269
02:05:01,472 --> 02:05:05,856
You know, 27, 30 year old guys like it's
just I don't know that the whole

2270
02:05:05,856 --> 02:05:07,837
construction of this team seems odd.

2271
02:05:08,718 --> 02:05:12,421
Like I said, I like some of the picks,
obviously, Caulfield and Suzuki are great.

2272
02:05:12,902 --> 02:05:14,843
Slavkovsky could be something.

2273
02:05:15,464 --> 02:05:20,788
Gouli and Jack are fun, like even Michael
Matheson is fun to watch.

2274
02:05:20,788 --> 02:05:21,168
But like.

2275
02:05:21,168 --> 02:05:23,089
I don't know.

2276
02:05:24,350 --> 02:05:28,536
It's rough because I like, again, when
Montreal and Ottawa are competitive with

2277
02:05:28,536 --> 02:05:31,198
the Leafs, it just keeps things
interesting geographically.

2278
02:05:31,299 --> 02:05:35,744
Being a fan here, and there's so many
Canadians fans, it's more exciting to have

2279
02:05:35,744 --> 02:05:42,112
something to cheer against, but it's such
a down era for the Canadians, and it's

2280
02:05:42,112 --> 02:05:43,054
kind of depressing to watch.

2281
02:05:43,054 --> 02:05:48,617
year is, you know, if Caulfield can stay
healthy for the year, can he hit 40 this

2282
02:05:48,617 --> 02:05:49,337
year?

2283
02:05:49,717 --> 02:05:54,099
Like, I think he could probably easily,
but for him staying healthy, he's just

2284
02:05:54,099 --> 02:05:59,501
entering his new contract as well at 785,
so.

2285
02:06:06,626 --> 02:06:07,869
And who do they got in net?

2286
02:06:07,869 --> 02:06:10,275
Jake Allen, Sam Montenbo, and Caden Primo.

2287
02:06:10,275 --> 02:06:13,601
Yeah, man.

2288
02:06:14,786 --> 02:06:16,709
It's just the Ferris wheel of who's
healthy.

2289
02:06:17,406 --> 02:06:22,412
Yeah, Montembeau played great for Canada
at the World Championships this past year.

2290
02:06:23,795 --> 02:06:29,121
She do have that, but it's gonna be a
rough year, I think, for Habs fans.

2291
02:06:29,694 --> 02:06:35,321
Another rough year, I mean, fuck, they
were 31, 45 and six last year with a minus

2292
02:06:35,321 --> 02:06:36,843
75 gold differential.

2293
02:06:36,843 --> 02:06:38,765
And like, I don't see them getting much
better.

2294
02:06:39,313 --> 02:06:40,623
Tell that to the Patriots.

2295
02:06:40,623 --> 02:06:42,692
they can handle a couple of rough years.

2296
02:06:44,124 --> 02:06:45,852
Speaking of a couple rough years...

2297
02:06:48,002 --> 02:06:51,803
We have finally made it all the way around
the league and landed on the Toronto Maple

2298
02:06:51,803 --> 02:07:00,985
Leafs who have used 11.4 million LTIR to
be $94 million of players as we speak.

2299
02:07:00,985 --> 02:07:03,466
So what do we think?

2300
02:07:05,446 --> 02:07:09,768
I mean, what's there to talk about with
the Leafs that we haven't already

2301
02:07:09,768 --> 02:07:11,708
throughout the course of this storyline
wise?

2302
02:07:11,708 --> 02:07:16,489
I mean, there've been some interesting
changes as far as like...

2303
02:07:16,610 --> 02:07:21,419
Lafferty going out and Jarncrook not
getting a ton of preseason time with

2304
02:07:21,419 --> 02:07:28,452
injury and now we've got Cowan, Knies,
Mint and McCann all on the roster like

2305
02:07:28,452 --> 02:07:29,533
Where do we start?

2306
02:07:29,599 --> 02:07:35,024
at a point seeing right now is something
we probably want to see over time is in

2307
02:07:35,024 --> 02:07:41,269
terms of the team has really held Pat in
terms of the basis and you know, we call

2308
02:07:41,269 --> 02:07:45,473
it the core four, but you know, we held on
to kerf with for four years we had hall

2309
02:07:45,473 --> 02:07:50,277
for four years we've had a lot of these
guys and you know, as the regime changed

2310
02:07:50,277 --> 02:07:55,581
over those contracts expired and it left
the door open to bring in some new faces

2311
02:07:55,581 --> 02:07:56,190
so.

2312
02:07:56,190 --> 02:08:00,451
Obviously adding Brutusi, Domi, Klingberg,
and Reeves.

2313
02:08:01,632 --> 02:08:06,414
It's definitely changed up a lot of the
makeup of the team in terms of what we had

2314
02:08:06,414 --> 02:08:08,334
in the reserves for talent.

2315
02:08:08,955 --> 02:08:10,955
We're bringing in a lot of younger guys.

2316
02:08:10,975 --> 02:08:16,478
Bobby McMahon's also one of those guys
who's currently on the 13-man roster for

2317
02:08:16,478 --> 02:08:17,438
forwards.

2318
02:08:17,558 --> 02:08:22,700
So we're gonna see some young energy in
the bottom six.

2319
02:08:22,700 --> 02:08:25,641
We're gonna see hopefully a bottom six
that's gonna produce and not just play

2320
02:08:25,641 --> 02:08:26,341
that.

2321
02:08:29,544 --> 02:08:32,906
stand pad and whatever Dubis was able to
get out of the bargain bin.

2322
02:08:32,906 --> 02:08:36,529
And honestly, it's going to be exciting
because it does feel like we've had a

2323
02:08:36,529 --> 02:08:40,312
facelift while still keeping the Core 4.

2324
02:08:40,312 --> 02:08:42,973
So I think it's going to be great this
year.

2325
02:08:44,835 --> 02:08:45,692
That's all.

2326
02:08:48,002 --> 02:08:51,025
That's a really good point that we're not
watching, you know, the Nick Aubie, who

2327
02:08:51,025 --> 02:08:55,030
bells and the Zach Ashton Reese's and the
Jimmy VCs or whoever the hell he's found

2328
02:08:55,030 --> 02:08:59,075
in the bargain bin that off season to fill
out the bottom six and we actually get to

2329
02:08:59,075 --> 02:09:04,001
see, I mean, to do with his credit, people
that he picked in Eastern Gowan, Matt Nyes

2330
02:09:04,001 --> 02:09:04,641
and Fraser Minton.

2331
02:09:04,641 --> 02:09:08,525
So, you know, see, um,

2332
02:09:11,390 --> 02:09:12,419
Um, really.

2333
02:09:14,606 --> 02:09:19,137
Sorry, he loosened the jar and somebody
else opened it.

2334
02:09:19,137 --> 02:09:22,045
Like it was all his work that got there.

2335
02:09:22,045 --> 02:09:24,289
And he, but you know what I mean.

2336
02:09:25,113 --> 02:09:30,657
I'm wondering if, is this a sign of maybe
how much of a whole dubious hat on the

2337
02:09:30,657 --> 02:09:31,477
team?

2338
02:09:32,478 --> 02:09:38,522
Cause the fact that from what I, outside
of perspective, I'm not an NHL player, but

2339
02:09:38,522 --> 02:09:44,046
I look at this and I say, Hey, Keith saw
enough out of these kids to force Trey

2340
02:09:44,046 --> 02:09:46,287
Living to move Lafferty.

2341
02:09:47,176 --> 02:09:50,298
basically said, look, we've got enough
here.

2342
02:09:50,379 --> 02:09:55,644
We don't need him, no offense to Lafferty,
but move him, whereas in the past, is that

2343
02:09:55,644 --> 02:09:59,348
the kind of thing that Dubas would have
been like, no, he's staying, I brought him

2344
02:09:59,348 --> 02:10:02,471
here, he's staying, the kids can go down
for another year.

2345
02:10:02,730 --> 02:10:06,711
Yeah, I feel like there was always a
hesitation under Dubas to give ice time to

2346
02:10:06,711 --> 02:10:07,632
any of these prospects.

2347
02:10:07,632 --> 02:10:09,292
Like we hear these names over and over.

2348
02:10:09,292 --> 02:10:14,514
Like I feel like I've been hearing about
some of these guys for like four or five

2349
02:10:14,514 --> 02:10:14,895
years now.

2350
02:10:14,895 --> 02:10:18,396
Like Nick Robertson, we've been hearing
about Forever, Nyes, like Niemela, like

2351
02:10:18,396 --> 02:10:20,897
all these guys, these names have been
floating around and then we never get to

2352
02:10:20,897 --> 02:10:21,557
see them play.

2353
02:10:21,557 --> 02:10:24,879
And it feels like all of a sudden they're
23 years old and that's it.

2354
02:10:24,879 --> 02:10:26,059
They never made it.

2355
02:10:26,079 --> 02:10:30,221
So I hope that now, you know, right away
we're seeing 18, 19 year olds make the

2356
02:10:30,221 --> 02:10:30,761
Leafs lineup.

2357
02:10:30,761 --> 02:10:32,155
And we haven't seen that since.

2358
02:10:32,155 --> 02:10:39,239
to that is we traded first round picks to
alleviate some bad contracts that we had

2359
02:10:39,239 --> 02:10:40,859
from former GMs.

2360
02:10:42,400 --> 02:10:44,942
If you look back, so Robertson was the
one, couldn't stay healthy.

2361
02:10:44,942 --> 02:10:52,426
The guy has 82 pro games split over three
years in both the minors and pro, so it's

2362
02:10:52,426 --> 02:10:53,707
hard to see him.

2363
02:10:53,707 --> 02:10:59,249
You've got, unfortunately, with our one
first overall pick who passed away.

2364
02:11:00,498 --> 02:11:02,539
So there wasn't really the chance to get
those.

2365
02:11:02,539 --> 02:11:08,561
The first guy who kind of cracked it, or
even had the opportunity, was Matthew

2366
02:11:08,561 --> 02:11:09,461
Nyes.

2367
02:11:09,941 --> 02:11:14,283
Because a lot of the other guys were also
European players, so they have to stay

2368
02:11:14,283 --> 02:11:15,604
over, I think in Europe.

2369
02:11:15,604 --> 02:11:16,684
I think that's the rule, right?

2370
02:11:16,684 --> 02:11:21,305
They can't even come over and play AHL
hockey until a certain point.

2371
02:11:25,788 --> 02:11:31,452
Well, actually, the Europeans have the
most flexibility.

2372
02:11:33,774 --> 02:11:39,099
But sorry, but with the kids, a lot of
times it's better to keep them over there

2373
02:11:39,099 --> 02:11:42,982
with the closer to their families and the
system they're used to until you're ready

2374
02:11:42,982 --> 02:11:44,383
for them over here.

2375
02:11:45,167 --> 02:11:50,229
you know, Neyemullah and Hervenin and a
lot of those guys have kind of stayed over

2376
02:11:50,229 --> 02:11:55,131
and then, you know, so we haven't really
had a chance to see it's like our first

2377
02:11:55,131 --> 02:11:57,972
kind of crack at it was actually Nides.

2378
02:11:57,972 --> 02:12:04,055
And then Minton last year, you know,
showing what he can in both, both the

2379
02:12:04,055 --> 02:12:08,377
rookie tournament and then Pre-Z and
actually gain a gain a roster spot for

2380
02:12:08,377 --> 02:12:10,437
opening night, which would, which is

2381
02:12:10,638 --> 02:12:13,485
insane because it kind of came out of left
field.

2382
02:12:13,567 --> 02:12:18,060
And then Easton Cowan actually still being
able to stick with the team at this

2383
02:12:18,060 --> 02:12:19,021
standpoint.

2384
02:12:24,654 --> 02:12:28,036
And I guess really like Pontus Holmberg
was somebody that we drafted that started

2385
02:12:28,036 --> 02:12:30,617
to crack into the lineup that they tried
out.

2386
02:12:30,697 --> 02:12:34,820
But I mean, I'm looking here at some of
these guys like Alex Steeves is 23

2387
02:12:34,820 --> 02:12:35,760
already.

2388
02:12:37,181 --> 02:12:39,222
Keith Petruzzelli is 24.

2389
02:12:39,322 --> 02:12:42,084
I know goalies are a little different, but
I don't know.

2390
02:12:42,084 --> 02:12:46,066
It just seems like as soon as Dewis was
gone, we started taking a look at

2391
02:12:46,066 --> 02:12:50,429
everything in the system a lot more
seriously as potential Leafs lineup

2392
02:12:50,429 --> 02:12:51,638
instead of just like.

2393
02:12:51,638 --> 02:12:54,240
you know, how's our prospect pool because
we're probably going to have to trade

2394
02:12:54,240 --> 02:12:56,822
people for something to make a playoff
push.

2395
02:12:56,822 --> 02:13:01,039
Like they seem more like assets to the
team instead of trade commodities now.

2396
02:13:01,039 --> 02:13:04,841
I think every year it's like, okay, who
are our young prospects that are going to

2397
02:13:04,841 --> 02:13:06,181
maybe have a chance at it?

2398
02:13:06,181 --> 02:13:11,104
And then it's like, yeah, we do bring in
the Nick Albacobel, the Zac Asin Reese.

2399
02:13:11,104 --> 02:13:14,065
And, you know, unfortunately, with
injuries, you see Bobby McMahon and be

2400
02:13:14,065 --> 02:13:18,567
like, this guy's been playing in our minor
system and this guy's a firecracker every

2401
02:13:18,567 --> 02:13:19,447
shift.

2402
02:13:20,368 --> 02:13:22,929
And there's nothing you root more for than
him to score a goal.

2403
02:13:22,929 --> 02:13:24,666
And it's kind of you.

2404
02:13:24,666 --> 02:13:28,974
have a sense of, I guess, connection with
some of the minor guys and kind of follow

2405
02:13:28,974 --> 02:13:29,555
them through there.

2406
02:13:29,555 --> 02:13:34,644
And it's nice to see it versus somebody
who just comes out of the field from

2407
02:13:34,644 --> 02:13:35,665
another team.

2408
02:13:41,290 --> 02:13:44,292
Well, yeah, I mean, like people could
argue that bringing in Jake McKay about $2

2409
02:13:44,292 --> 02:13:47,515
million, it's like, why couldn't we give
the $2 million to Sandeen?

2410
02:13:47,756 --> 02:13:51,840
You know, it's like in the past, we've
just been looking at people like that.

2411
02:13:51,840 --> 02:13:52,981
You know, we give them a chance.

2412
02:13:52,981 --> 02:13:53,902
We get them playing great.

2413
02:13:53,902 --> 02:13:54,282
They're good.

2414
02:13:54,282 --> 02:13:55,143
OK, try deadline.

2415
02:13:55,143 --> 02:13:57,365
Let's move them out for something to make
this push.

2416
02:13:57,365 --> 02:13:57,812
So.

2417
02:13:57,812 --> 02:14:00,080
Completely different style of defensemen
though

2418
02:14:00,410 --> 02:14:06,337
Yeah, McCabe makes you hate Go I was just
gonna say McCabe makes you hate playing in

2419
02:14:06,337 --> 02:14:07,018
our zone

2420
02:14:07,018 --> 02:14:07,899
likes to.

2421
02:14:08,241 --> 02:14:08,961
Sorry.

2422
02:14:13,212 --> 02:14:17,787
Yeah, Sandeen likes to try the body, but
he doesn't have the physical size to play

2423
02:14:17,787 --> 02:14:19,110
that style of game.

2424
02:14:20,821 --> 02:14:24,873
I'm just saying, there's some decisions
that now that

2425
02:14:24,873 --> 02:14:25,836
I loved Sandman.

2426
02:14:25,836 --> 02:14:28,554
It's not like I'm sitting here talking
about Justin Hall.

2427
02:14:28,554 --> 02:14:32,196
Well, I know, but now that I'm looking at
this, and we've got Brody, Klingberg,

2428
02:14:32,196 --> 02:14:38,800
McCabe for $11 million total, it's like
there was a way to make Sandeen work in

2429
02:14:38,800 --> 02:14:42,222
there instead of this combo of Klingberg
and McCabe.

2430
02:14:42,222 --> 02:14:43,322
Like, I don't know.

2431
02:14:44,343 --> 02:14:49,045
It seems like, but again, we've got Cowan
now out of it, so it's not a bad thing.

2432
02:14:49,648 --> 02:14:52,993
If you're complaining about Jake McCabe at
$2 million, you've been reading too much

2433
02:14:52,993 --> 02:14:54,535
of Steve Simmons' work.

2434
02:14:55,518 --> 02:15:01,204
Hey, look, I'm interested to see a season
of Jake McCabe because he was very back

2435
02:15:01,204 --> 02:15:03,546
and forth in my opinion, but we'll see.

2436
02:15:04,667 --> 02:15:07,971
McCabe on defense, Leafs, we got a Domey
and a McCabe.

2437
02:15:07,971 --> 02:15:10,493
It's just, you know, my mind's going
places.

2438
02:15:11,292 --> 02:15:15,274
We've been talking all day about fathers
and sons, so like names, right?

2439
02:15:15,274 --> 02:15:16,874
Yeah.

2440
02:15:16,874 --> 02:15:20,857
Anyway, I think just to close out the
Leafs, there's a ton of new faces, like

2441
02:15:20,857 --> 02:15:21,797
we've said.

2442
02:15:21,797 --> 02:15:24,038
We've got a new system under a new GM.

2443
02:15:24,278 --> 02:15:26,500
Same coach, but things look different.

2444
02:15:26,500 --> 02:15:28,041
So I think it's gonna be exciting.

2445
02:15:28,041 --> 02:15:33,163
We've kind of outlined how every matchup
kind of has at least something

2446
02:15:33,163 --> 02:15:33,824
interesting.

2447
02:15:33,824 --> 02:15:40,267
A lot of the Atlantic is gonna be a lot
more highly contested, I think, for the

2448
02:15:40,267 --> 02:15:44,129
Leafs, just kind of taking advantage of a
lot of slow starts.

2449
02:15:44,129 --> 02:15:44,849
And then...

2450
02:15:45,834 --> 02:15:49,548
It'll just be the Leafs ahead of the pack,
everybody fighting for two, three, four, I

2451
02:15:49,548 --> 02:15:50,249
think.

2452
02:15:50,833 --> 02:15:51,755
I'm hoping.

2453
02:15:56,040 --> 02:15:57,063
would be nice.

2454
02:15:57,802 --> 02:15:59,262
What are your picks for the Atlantic here?

2455
02:15:59,262 --> 02:16:02,924
Like I've got just because of, like I
said, these slow starts for the other

2456
02:16:02,924 --> 02:16:09,027
teams, I've got the Leafs first and then,
I don't know, between Tampa, Florida and

2457
02:16:09,027 --> 02:16:13,209
Boston, I don't know who's gonna come out
second, third, fourth.

2458
02:16:13,522 --> 02:16:19,050
then I've got Boston, Tampa, and then I
actually have the Senators, then the

2459
02:16:19,050 --> 02:16:22,273
Panthers, Sabres, Red Wings, Canadians.

2460
02:16:27,314 --> 02:16:28,274
Okay.

2461
02:16:30,258 --> 02:16:35,205
That would mean the sends go up another,
they could get an extra like 10, 15 points

2462
02:16:35,205 --> 02:16:37,027
maybe, 10, 12 points.

2463
02:16:37,368 --> 02:16:38,549
That's believable.

2464
02:16:38,549 --> 02:16:41,311
probably very solid in their top nine.

2465
02:16:42,472 --> 02:16:43,613
I think they can push for it.

2466
02:16:43,613 --> 02:16:45,794
I think the Panthers are going to
struggle.

2467
02:16:45,794 --> 02:16:47,456
Barofsky is going to be a question mark.

2468
02:16:47,456 --> 02:16:50,377
They're not going to ride the back of Alex
Lyon.

2469
02:16:51,358 --> 02:16:53,640
They get the bin there in the first place.

2470
02:16:53,640 --> 02:16:58,523
And I just think it's the Senators and
Panthers are going to be battling for that

2471
02:16:58,523 --> 02:16:59,184
final spot.

2472
02:16:59,184 --> 02:17:02,245
I think the Senators kind of...

2473
02:17:02,829 --> 02:17:04,365
and make that little jump.

2474
02:17:09,970 --> 02:17:14,122
I think somehow Tampa will still manage to
come out second under the Leafs.

2475
02:17:15,267 --> 02:17:17,272
And then Boston and then...

2476
02:17:19,634 --> 02:17:20,831
Oh, you know what?

2477
02:17:24,270 --> 02:17:26,892
Toronto, Tampa, Boston.

2478
02:17:28,415 --> 02:17:31,659
I'm going, I think it's still Florida.

2479
02:17:31,659 --> 02:17:36,345
I don't think Buffalo in the sense can, I
honestly think it's gonna be pretty much

2480
02:17:36,345 --> 02:17:38,088
the same after that as last year.

2481
02:17:38,088 --> 02:17:41,973
Like I don't think Buffalo and Ottawa make
enough of a push to overtake Florida.

2482
02:17:41,973 --> 02:17:43,113
What do you think, Justin?

2483
02:17:44,402 --> 02:17:47,758
I think Buffalo comes up and knocks
Florida out of it.

2484
02:17:48,558 --> 02:17:51,987
We've got one on Ottawa, one on Buffalo,
and one on Florida.

2485
02:17:51,987 --> 02:17:53,468
Okay, I like it.

2486
02:17:53,468 --> 02:17:54,769
Yeah.

2487
02:17:54,769 --> 02:17:59,615
But yeah, aside from that Toronto, Tampa,
Boston, like as much as I see a drop off

2488
02:17:59,615 --> 02:18:03,620
from both Tampa and Boston, I don't see it
being that drastic that they're not going

2489
02:18:03,620 --> 02:18:05,742
to be up there.

2490
02:18:05,921 --> 02:18:11,213
The rest of the division is so meh and
still rebuilding, so I don't see them

2491
02:18:11,215 --> 02:18:14,381
being enough of a disaster to fall beyond
second or third.

2492
02:18:15,911 --> 02:18:16,522
Ha ha.

2493
02:18:16,522 --> 02:18:17,706
Well, that does it.

2494
02:18:17,706 --> 02:18:21,721
That's a two hour and 20 minute show.

2495
02:18:21,721 --> 02:18:23,405
Holy shit, thanks guys.

2496
02:18:25,194 --> 02:18:29,577
Anything we want to close off here with
Chris, where can people find you?

2497
02:18:29,577 --> 02:18:30,441
call it Twitter anymore?

2498
02:18:30,441 --> 02:18:31,844
Do we call it just X?

2499
02:18:37,610 --> 02:18:40,118
It's funny, I was reading an article and
they refer to it as Twitter because I

2500
02:18:40,118 --> 02:18:42,807
think most people that aren't on it still
know it as Twitter.

2501
02:18:42,807 --> 02:18:44,732
And if you call it X, they get confused.

2502
02:18:45,402 --> 02:18:49,057
But you can find me on Twitter at Chris
underscore Hurley10.

2503
02:18:49,557 --> 02:18:50,346
Is it?

2504
02:18:55,298 --> 02:18:56,802
Hell yeah.

2505
02:18:56,802 --> 02:19:00,173
Justin, will you be reporting from a
different place on Wednesday after the

2506
02:19:00,173 --> 02:19:00,853
game?

2507
02:19:02,004 --> 02:19:04,126
Um, no, I will be home.

2508
02:19:04,126 --> 02:19:07,008
I am home all this week.

2509
02:19:07,208 --> 02:19:13,234
Next week I am away on overnights and then
at this point in time that those are

2510
02:19:13,234 --> 02:19:16,596
planned to be my last overnights for the
rest of this calendar year.

2511
02:19:16,596 --> 02:19:23,663
I'm kind of kind of trying to take a break
from the crazy travel this year has been

2512
02:19:23,663 --> 02:19:24,563
insane.

2513
02:19:25,426 --> 02:19:26,727
Oh, I don't blame you.

2514
02:19:27,348 --> 02:19:29,672
Well, I am working Wednesday.

2515
02:19:29,672 --> 02:19:33,177
I should be home during the game, though,
so we'll still hop on for posty.

2516
02:19:33,177 --> 02:19:35,720
And it'll be our first regular season post
game.

2517
02:19:35,881 --> 02:19:39,987
And it's leaps and haves for some garbage
time.

2518
02:19:39,987 --> 02:19:40,868
First game.

2519
02:19:40,868 --> 02:19:41,889
Love it.

2520
02:19:42,044 --> 02:19:44,649
Just because that's the way it works.

2521
02:19:47,126 --> 02:19:49,337
You know, probably.

2522
02:19:49,777 --> 02:19:50,360
Yeah.

2523
02:19:50,360 --> 02:19:53,943
and hammer the Anderson anytime goal
because he always scores against the

2524
02:19:53,943 --> 02:19:54,724
Leafs.

2525
02:19:56,346 --> 02:19:58,187
Who's getting the first goal of the Leafs
season?

2526
02:19:58,850 --> 02:19:59,800
Oooooooh

2527
02:20:02,910 --> 02:20:04,213
Ooh, I like this.

2528
02:20:04,213 --> 02:20:06,284
Who's getting the first goal of the Leaf
season?

2529
02:20:06,284 --> 02:20:07,607
going to go weird.

2530
02:20:07,607 --> 02:20:08,829
I'm pretty sure.

2531
02:20:10,073 --> 02:20:12,617
Was last year's first goal marked
Giridano?

2532
02:20:19,070 --> 02:20:23,537
I'm going to put down Timothy Lillagren
first to score.

2533
02:20:23,537 --> 02:20:24,197
Yeah.

2534
02:20:27,419 --> 02:20:28,268
Lily.

2535
02:20:30,800 --> 02:20:35,649
As much as I really, really want to say
Domi, like every ounce of me wants to say

2536
02:20:35,649 --> 02:20:38,595
Domi, I kind of have a feeling that's
going to be nice.

2537
02:20:38,595 --> 02:20:41,620
He was pissed that he got knocked out of
the playoffs, and he's just going to come

2538
02:20:41,620 --> 02:20:42,722
out blazing.

2539
02:20:48,724 --> 02:20:49,802
Frozen there, Roscoe.

2540
02:20:49,802 --> 02:20:50,903
I'm no, I'm just looking.

2541
02:20:50,903 --> 02:20:55,811
I was trying to find the stat on who
scored the first, but I can only find how

2542
02:20:55,811 --> 02:20:57,293
many first goals people got.

2543
02:20:57,293 --> 02:21:02,301
Ba-ba-bum.

2544
02:21:02,301 --> 02:21:04,083
Who did they play their first game
against?

2545
02:21:04,124 --> 02:21:05,345
I want to find this now.

2546
02:21:09,291 --> 02:21:10,362
Montreal.

2547
02:21:17,720 --> 02:21:19,085
Um, here.

2548
02:21:22,518 --> 02:21:25,224
Here, Leafs, oh my god, Leafs lost 4-3.

2549
02:21:25,767 --> 02:21:26,746
You fucker.

2550
02:21:26,746 --> 02:21:28,380
bunting head first this season.

2551
02:21:29,502 --> 02:21:30,689
Michael Bunting.

2552
02:21:33,377 --> 02:21:34,045
Yeah.

2553
02:21:36,770 --> 02:21:40,056
Dennis Mulligan had the second and then
Neelander with the third.

2554
02:21:40,237 --> 02:21:44,645
So I'm gonna go with Kelly Yarncroak.

2555
02:21:48,206 --> 02:21:51,028
Callie Yarncrook scores the first goal of
the season.

2556
02:21:52,190 --> 02:21:56,174
Because I feel like he's going to find
himself in a easier situation to get one

2557
02:21:56,174 --> 02:22:00,397
in than Matthew's going up against
Gallagher and Anderson.

2558
02:22:01,491 --> 02:22:04,257
assisted by Nye's and Minton.

2559
02:22:04,744 --> 02:22:05,967
Yeah, I could see that.

2560
02:22:05,990 --> 02:22:07,696
I'd love to see a really.

2561
02:22:09,378 --> 02:22:10,318
Hell yeah.

2562
02:22:10,318 --> 02:22:14,081
Oh yeah, what do we think now that we've
got some switching up of who's making the

2563
02:22:14,081 --> 02:22:18,985
opening night roster, what do we think the
lines look like?

2564
02:22:20,427 --> 02:22:28,693
Look in here, they got Nye's, Mitten,
Yarncroak, Camp Reeves, Cowan, I guess?

2565
02:22:32,408 --> 02:22:33,529
I could see that.

2566
02:22:35,033 --> 02:22:40,274
Then Matthew's Marner in Dirt Bag, and
Tavara's Nylander in Domey.

2567
02:22:40,274 --> 02:22:41,534
I think it's gonna be McMahon.

2568
02:22:41,534 --> 02:22:44,333
I don't know if I like Camp Reeves and
Cowan.

2569
02:22:48,094 --> 02:22:53,184
Which is also the fact that, I was going
to say, because they haven't signed Noah

2570
02:22:53,184 --> 02:22:58,233
Greger, and it seemed like all signs were
pointing to that on his PTO.

2571
02:22:58,695 --> 02:23:00,357
He's probably playing fourth line.

2572
02:23:05,478 --> 02:23:06,198
Yeah.

2573
02:23:06,260 --> 02:23:07,883
And then what Ryan Reeves is the extra.

2574
02:23:07,883 --> 02:23:10,640
It just seems like we have five people for
the fourth line now.

2575
02:23:10,640 --> 02:23:12,201
you start bringing in guys.

2576
02:23:12,201 --> 02:23:20,610
You try out these Cowan and Frazer for
their nine games, then send them back to

2577
02:23:20,610 --> 02:23:26,255
the CHL so they can just absolutely
dominate, make Team Canada, and then sign

2578
02:23:26,255 --> 02:23:32,861
Noah Greger and probably bring up Nicky
Bobby to come play.

2579
02:23:37,954 --> 02:23:38,894
Fair enough.

2580
02:23:39,094 --> 02:23:39,914
All right.

2581
02:23:40,034 --> 02:23:43,955
I hate to rush out of here, but I got to
work in the morning.

2582
02:23:43,955 --> 02:23:45,476
So thanks guys for doing this show.

2583
02:23:45,476 --> 02:23:46,496
This is fantastic.

2584
02:23:46,496 --> 02:23:49,577
Well, if you're listening, you can watch
it.

2585
02:23:49,577 --> 02:23:51,577
And if you're watching, you can listen to
it.

2586
02:23:52,758 --> 02:23:56,618
I'm going to cut this up so it's easier to
digest and some other parts.

2587
02:23:56,739 --> 02:23:59,439
And if you want, you can watch the whole
video in two and a half hours.

2588
02:23:59,439 --> 02:24:03,940
So thank you so much guys for all the
support and let's get ready for the 2023,

2589
02:24:04,941 --> 02:24:06,921
2024 leaf season.

2590
02:24:06,921 --> 02:24:07,541
Yay.

2591
02:24:38,090 --> 02:24:39,051
Nothing?

2592
02:24:39,294 --> 02:24:40,537
Nothing at all?

2593
02:24:42,707 --> 02:24:43,629
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