1 00:00:01,430 --> 00:00:06,873 Oh, Canada, our home native land, true patriotism and WXYZ. 2 00:00:06,873 --> 00:00:07,453 All right. 3 00:00:07,453 --> 00:00:08,873 Moving on. 4 00:00:10,314 --> 00:00:14,877 I have never heard OK, I've heard a lot of rushed Canadian anthems through the years 5 00:00:14,877 --> 00:00:19,740 every time they play in the States, but that one takes the cake for botched lyrics 6 00:00:19,740 --> 00:00:26,783 and rushed and just like instead of going up on notes, going down just to not hurt 7 00:00:26,783 --> 00:00:29,685 her voice to save it for the American anthem. 8 00:00:29,685 --> 00:00:30,810 That's something I've never seen. 9 00:00:30,810 --> 00:00:35,118 of point shaving online games and stuff, but there was some dirty shit going on for 10 00:00:35,118 --> 00:00:35,719 that anthem. 11 00:00:35,719 --> 00:00:38,463 Like someone bent so heavy on the under. 12 00:00:39,426 --> 00:00:41,129 That's the only explanation for it, right? 13 00:00:41,129 --> 00:00:43,432 Like someone made a fortune off that tonight. 14 00:00:44,669 --> 00:00:46,354 I didn't even think of that angle. 15 00:00:46,354 --> 00:00:48,680 Damn, that could be too. 16 00:00:49,043 --> 00:00:50,935 Ilya Sorokin fan club, shout out on. 17 00:00:50,935 --> 00:00:51,839 anthems. 18 00:00:54,062 --> 00:00:58,523 So, Ilya Sorokin fan club on Twitter, who's obviously an Islanders fan, 19 00:00:58,603 --> 00:01:02,664 commented that they even screwed up the American national anthem last week, the 20 00:01:02,664 --> 00:01:03,684 same singer. 21 00:01:03,885 --> 00:01:11,027 So it's not even like, it's not even like a strictly Canadian bias. 22 00:01:11,027 --> 00:01:13,467 You just can't get the anthems right, apparently. 23 00:01:13,467 --> 00:01:18,469 But man, that was Twitter was like, you really you're still on that. 24 00:01:18,469 --> 00:01:20,349 You think there was money behind this? 25 00:01:23,399 --> 00:01:25,102 Hey, you never know. 26 00:01:25,102 --> 00:01:26,888 a happy bookie out there somewhere. 27 00:01:29,367 --> 00:01:35,552 Oh man, so the story of the night otherwise was JT sitting at $9.98 looking 28 00:01:35,552 --> 00:01:40,355 for that thousand in the island which would just be fantastic and of course he 29 00:01:40,355 --> 00:01:41,756 managed to pull that off. 30 00:01:41,756 --> 00:01:48,201 The amount of signs and booing and I saw one person with a jersey I retweeted it 31 00:01:48,201 --> 00:01:49,622 that says trader. 32 00:01:49,622 --> 00:01:53,825 It's like a Tavares but they put trader over it. 33 00:01:53,825 --> 00:01:55,185 Get over it guys. 34 00:01:55,609 --> 00:01:58,872 I don't get the vitriol, like this was how many years ago? 35 00:01:58,872 --> 00:02:03,378 He was a quarter store leader franchise, he didn't demand a trade or anything, he 36 00:02:03,378 --> 00:02:07,362 just left on free agency to the place where he actually grew up. 37 00:02:07,783 --> 00:02:12,749 I get it for a year or two, maybe three, but for this long and when the guy hits a 38 00:02:12,749 --> 00:02:16,152 thousand points in your building, maybe just clap a little bit. 39 00:02:16,590 --> 00:02:19,931 Yeah, shout out to the actual islanders on the bench who are giving him stick taps. 40 00:02:19,931 --> 00:02:24,912 But oh my god, it's he's on year six now of his seven year contract. 41 00:02:25,052 --> 00:02:27,733 That's insane guys, get over it. 42 00:02:27,753 --> 00:02:34,635 Like players leave all the time and the captains leave and like, like you said, it 43 00:02:34,635 --> 00:02:35,375 wasn't a trade. 44 00:02:35,375 --> 00:02:37,776 It wasn't like he ran out of town. 45 00:02:37,776 --> 00:02:42,117 You know, like we've seen Alfredson and Sundine finish their careers on other 46 00:02:42,117 --> 00:02:44,510 teams and like that's a little different. 47 00:02:44,510 --> 00:02:48,836 you know, when you play 18 seasons with a team, but like, it's not like JT was there 48 00:02:48,836 --> 00:02:51,721 for three quarters of his career. 49 00:02:51,721 --> 00:02:53,464 Like, I don't know. 50 00:02:53,464 --> 00:02:54,669 It's it's frustrating. 51 00:02:54,669 --> 00:02:57,555 Like, it's the islanders just have nothing else to cheer for. 52 00:02:57,555 --> 00:03:00,081 And if they don't have something to cheer for, then they might as well find a 53 00:03:00,081 --> 00:03:03,988 villain, because that's where they're pushing all of their energy into. 54 00:03:05,787 --> 00:03:06,922 And it's gross. 55 00:03:07,487 --> 00:03:12,490 he hit the 1k in the best building in the entire league to do it I was surprised to 56 00:03:12,490 --> 00:03:17,673 see he's the sixth player at least on the list they showed people that have scored 57 00:03:17,673 --> 00:03:23,596 their thousandth point in Their old teams arena or against the world team. 58 00:03:23,796 --> 00:03:25,981 Yeah, Marion Gaboric apparently did it 59 00:03:25,981 --> 00:03:27,683 sounds high or low. 60 00:03:28,866 --> 00:03:30,547 For the amount of people who have actually hit 1000. 61 00:03:31,930 --> 00:03:34,112 To hit it in the building you were drafted in? 62 00:03:34,838 --> 00:03:36,638 How many players have hit a thousand? 63 00:03:36,679 --> 00:03:44,443 How many players have 1000 points in NHL? 64 00:03:46,684 --> 00:03:48,825 97 before tonight. 65 00:03:48,825 --> 00:03:52,407 So that's kind of crazy. 66 00:03:52,928 --> 00:03:57,410 Like 6% of them were scored against their former team. 67 00:03:57,410 --> 00:03:59,211 And that's like that one point. 68 00:03:59,211 --> 00:04:00,852 That's crazy actually. 69 00:04:00,852 --> 00:04:03,714 And I think one was... 70 00:04:03,714 --> 00:04:06,037 2014, I can't remember the names off the top of my head. 71 00:04:06,037 --> 00:04:11,407 I know Gabrick was one, but 2014, 2008, 2004 were the last few, so it's like all 72 00:04:11,407 --> 00:04:12,608 recently too. 73 00:04:13,150 --> 00:04:15,456 Anyway, stats, stats are fun. 74 00:04:15,456 --> 00:04:16,118 happy about it. 75 00:04:16,118 --> 00:04:18,864 It was cool that it was a dad's trip and he got to see that. 76 00:04:19,574 --> 00:04:20,854 That too, totally forgot. 77 00:04:20,854 --> 00:04:24,736 Yeah, having his dad in the crowd, that's gotta be awesome. 78 00:04:25,176 --> 00:04:31,199 And I'm trying to think for Tavares, does it feel better to do it in Toronto or to 79 00:04:31,199 --> 00:04:32,280 do it on the island? 80 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:35,701 Like, I don't think he's the kind of guy that relishes in it. 81 00:04:36,117 --> 00:04:37,199 if they won tonight. 82 00:04:37,199 --> 00:04:40,503 I think it would have been better than if he did it in Toronto. 83 00:04:41,445 --> 00:04:42,807 That would have been like the king daddy. 84 00:04:42,807 --> 00:04:46,932 But other than that, I think probably in Toronto would have been more ideal. 85 00:04:47,850 --> 00:04:50,793 Yeah, he doesn't seem like the guy who would like to rub it in, you know, like 86 00:04:50,793 --> 00:04:53,496 how Castle brings the cup to Toronto. 87 00:04:53,496 --> 00:04:58,622 Like, he's somebody that would, you know, want to do it in front of friends and 88 00:04:58,622 --> 00:05:02,366 family, more so than in front of a bunch of people booing him. 89 00:05:03,408 --> 00:05:04,667 Yeah, God. 90 00:05:04,667 --> 00:05:08,077 the bench afterwards where he had just like a huge smile. 91 00:05:08,319 --> 00:05:10,364 Which he never really does, right? 92 00:05:11,659 --> 00:05:13,240 That was what thank you for reminding me. 93 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,361 That was one of my favorite things, because it was like they caught him 94 00:05:15,361 --> 00:05:15,941 smiling. 95 00:05:15,941 --> 00:05:19,283 And then as soon as he realized that the camera was on him again, did you see him 96 00:05:19,283 --> 00:05:22,865 just go? 97 00:05:22,865 --> 00:05:24,586 Just mean face. 98 00:05:26,047 --> 00:05:30,789 It was like somebody whispered to him like, John, you're on camera anyway, what 99 00:05:30,789 --> 00:05:31,630 you're on camera. 100 00:05:31,630 --> 00:05:34,792 Oh, oh, hmm. 101 00:05:34,792 --> 00:05:36,372 Can't show emotion. 102 00:05:36,653 --> 00:05:38,313 It's like it almost. 103 00:05:38,782 --> 00:05:42,926 humanized him a bit that he's like not playing a character but there is an on and 104 00:05:42,926 --> 00:05:48,251 off ice john taveras and we don't usually see that office him unless you really 105 00:05:48,251 --> 00:05:53,215 follow like the videos and stuff behind the scenes, but you know Once the game 106 00:05:53,215 --> 00:05:55,477 starts he's usually in game mode 107 00:05:55,477 --> 00:05:56,880 a professional's professional. 108 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,364 He does not let anything get to him. 109 00:05:59,364 --> 00:06:01,166 But you're right, he's like deadpan. 110 00:06:01,266 --> 00:06:05,532 So the fact that he actually did that and then caught himself doing it is so funny. 111 00:06:05,886 --> 00:06:06,934 Yeah, that was great. 112 00:06:06,934 --> 00:06:08,985 All right, let's start it. 113 00:06:34,718 --> 00:06:38,180 Alrighty, so we missed the Nashville game. 114 00:06:38,180 --> 00:06:39,381 A lot of us had stuff going on. 115 00:06:39,381 --> 00:06:40,921 It's Christmas party season. 116 00:06:41,562 --> 00:06:47,886 So the Leafs came out with a four nothing win over Luke Shen and Ryan O'Reilly, 117 00:06:47,886 --> 00:06:49,167 which is awesome. 118 00:06:49,347 --> 00:06:53,790 And Yarncrook, I believe, scored against his old team, which is cool. 119 00:06:53,790 --> 00:06:55,251 I think he got one in that one. 120 00:06:56,132 --> 00:06:59,834 Marner with a camp scored Marner with a nice breakaway goal. 121 00:06:59,834 --> 00:07:04,717 And Samsonov posting a shutout, which is kind of the biggest story of that one. 122 00:07:05,178 --> 00:07:13,380 And really, coming over to tonight, it's like we saw all of Ilya Samsonov in two 123 00:07:13,380 --> 00:07:15,180 back to back games, the highs and the lows. 124 00:07:15,180 --> 00:07:19,602 Because, I mean, really, not that he let in six or seven goals tonight, but a 125 00:07:19,602 --> 00:07:23,203 couple of those you definitely want back if you're trying to stay in it, especially 126 00:07:23,203 --> 00:07:24,743 when you're so crippled on D. 127 00:07:24,743 --> 00:07:28,944 I mean, they've got three guys that really shouldn't be in the lineup in there right 128 00:07:28,944 --> 00:07:29,664 now. 129 00:07:30,385 --> 00:07:32,165 And you're down to a. 130 00:07:34,118 --> 00:07:36,999 underconfident backup goalie, we'll call it. 131 00:07:37,020 --> 00:07:43,345 So for him, I was hoping that the shutout against Nashville would boost him up a 132 00:07:43,345 --> 00:07:46,527 bit, especially after dealing with an illness and missing so much time. 133 00:07:46,527 --> 00:07:50,089 But yeah, like I said, there were a couple of those you want back tonight. 134 00:07:50,437 --> 00:07:52,599 It was like just the confidence level that I found with him. 135 00:07:52,599 --> 00:07:55,922 He, especially early in the game, he was sliding post to post so much. 136 00:07:55,922 --> 00:07:57,563 He had a really hard time tracking pucks. 137 00:07:57,563 --> 00:07:59,905 He was late to reacting on pucks. 138 00:08:00,406 --> 00:08:03,368 So it wasn't even more like a story of one game to the other, even in this game. 139 00:08:03,368 --> 00:08:08,934 Like he had great spurts, but he also had really, really shaky moments too. 140 00:08:08,934 --> 00:08:12,516 And you can tell like the team was just not confident playing in front of him. 141 00:08:13,182 --> 00:08:16,745 Yeah, and again, even with the team, it's strange coming off the Nashville game 142 00:08:16,745 --> 00:08:18,446 where they kept them to 18 shots. 143 00:08:18,446 --> 00:08:21,890 I know Nashville's kind of a different team, but in terms of their play style, 144 00:08:21,890 --> 00:08:24,292 it's fairly similar to how the Islanders play. 145 00:08:24,292 --> 00:08:25,233 They throw a ton of hits. 146 00:08:25,233 --> 00:08:28,236 There's a few guys that can score and otherwise it's a shutdown team with a 147 00:08:28,236 --> 00:08:29,476 really good goalie. 148 00:08:29,517 --> 00:08:36,082 So, I mean, to put it pretty simply, but it's strange that they were playing such a 149 00:08:36,623 --> 00:08:39,134 shot limiting shutdown game against. 150 00:08:39,134 --> 00:08:42,757 Nashville and then they couldn't carry that over like they didn't try to run that 151 00:08:42,757 --> 00:08:46,721 same strategy back tonight against the Islanders or the Islanders read through it 152 00:08:46,721 --> 00:08:50,585 the game notes and were able to break it but like they've let so many shots get 153 00:08:50,585 --> 00:08:53,548 through to Sammy and Yeah, again, it's weird. 154 00:08:53,548 --> 00:08:56,471 The confidence wasn't there after a shutout and it's weird that the team kind 155 00:08:56,471 --> 00:08:59,093 of broke from that pattern that they started 156 00:08:59,213 --> 00:09:01,154 It's a weird thing because they started the game pretty good. 157 00:09:01,154 --> 00:09:02,895 The first eight minutes I found they were strong. 158 00:09:02,895 --> 00:09:06,818 They kept all the islanders at chances from outside along the boards, going 159 00:09:06,818 --> 00:09:08,219 around the half circle. 160 00:09:08,519 --> 00:09:13,463 But after that, like especially I found the wingers from the center ice line to 161 00:09:13,463 --> 00:09:16,965 the top of the circle inside, they just let everybody get by. 162 00:09:16,966 --> 00:09:18,887 They lost every puck battle there. 163 00:09:18,887 --> 00:09:23,070 They had the cycle game going and just like they just hem them in and they kept 164 00:09:23,070 --> 00:09:25,932 getting shots and shots and I couldn't understand what the wingers were doing 165 00:09:25,932 --> 00:09:26,752 because. 166 00:09:26,981 --> 00:09:30,747 And especially Bertuzzi, god this guy is driving me fucking crazy right now. 167 00:09:31,168 --> 00:09:34,854 It seems like he's got Samantha in his skates, he's always losing his guy. 168 00:09:34,855 --> 00:09:38,140 And whether it's like resulting in a goal or not, it's just another chance. 169 00:09:39,230 --> 00:09:43,331 Yeah, and really the consensus online tonight was that the Leafs were getting 170 00:09:43,331 --> 00:09:44,531 bullied pretty early. 171 00:09:44,531 --> 00:09:48,172 Like once they were able to like you said, there was a few spurts where everyone 172 00:09:48,172 --> 00:09:49,092 seemed like they were on. 173 00:09:49,092 --> 00:09:51,793 But otherwise, like they couldn't get anything going. 174 00:09:51,793 --> 00:09:53,153 They were getting pushed around. 175 00:09:53,934 --> 00:09:57,835 And it's strange, like with Bertuzzi, this is somebody who's supposed to be a bully 176 00:09:57,835 --> 00:09:59,976 and try to protect guys from this happening. 177 00:09:59,976 --> 00:10:04,137 And, you know, again, we're seeing him kind of fall into, I guess, the Leafs 178 00:10:04,137 --> 00:10:06,017 system instead of the Leafs adjusting to him. 179 00:10:06,017 --> 00:10:07,126 And that was what. 180 00:10:07,126 --> 00:10:11,189 some of the worry was is how many people does it take to change the culture? 181 00:10:11,441 --> 00:10:14,442 It is, but like he's a speedy guy and he's just always losing his wingers. 182 00:10:14,442 --> 00:10:18,404 As soon as they start circling around the ice, he's, he's feet aren't moving and 183 00:10:18,404 --> 00:10:19,105 they lose them. 184 00:10:19,105 --> 00:10:22,346 So the center ties to pick him up and then he goes for the center spot and they're 185 00:10:22,346 --> 00:10:23,647 all in a position. 186 00:10:24,027 --> 00:10:25,328 It's a huge, huge problem. 187 00:10:25,328 --> 00:10:29,250 I find that I've been noticing that like more than any other player is him because 188 00:10:29,250 --> 00:10:31,051 you expect more from this guy, right? 189 00:10:31,231 --> 00:10:33,032 In the offensive zone, he hasn't been quite doing it. 190 00:10:33,032 --> 00:10:36,014 And the defensive zone, like you said, he's supposed to be a past, he's not a 191 00:10:36,014 --> 00:10:37,775 very big guy, but like he's. 192 00:10:38,155 --> 00:10:41,336 He's got some strength to him and he's just not playing with that whatsoever. 193 00:10:42,058 --> 00:10:44,880 Yeah, and those are the two elements we brought him in for is being a pain in the 194 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:46,601 ass who can score and he's doing neither of them. 195 00:10:46,601 --> 00:10:49,564 So it's kind of still the waiting game. 196 00:10:49,564 --> 00:10:51,185 Like we hope by now he'd figure it out. 197 00:10:51,185 --> 00:10:56,850 But we're like 23, 24 games in and we're still like Bertuzzi, what you doing, bud? 198 00:10:56,850 --> 00:10:58,111 And we've switched the lines now. 199 00:10:58,111 --> 00:10:59,432 Like, who's he playing with now? 200 00:10:59,432 --> 00:11:04,876 He's got it's him and Robertson and Tavares, I think, was the second line. 201 00:11:05,697 --> 00:11:06,114 Like that. 202 00:11:06,114 --> 00:11:07,176 Which is a weird line. 203 00:11:07,176 --> 00:11:07,916 Yeah. 204 00:11:08,639 --> 00:11:10,102 You just expect so much more from them. 205 00:11:10,102 --> 00:11:11,945 Like, even in one end or the other. 206 00:11:11,945 --> 00:11:14,148 You're just not getting it in either right now though. 207 00:11:14,750 --> 00:11:16,753 Yeah. 208 00:11:16,753 --> 00:11:19,336 Otherwise tonight, Matthew's hitting a couple posts. 209 00:11:19,336 --> 00:11:23,903 They did a count up to up to 21 posts and crossbars. 210 00:11:23,903 --> 00:11:24,964 I think he's hit. 211 00:11:24,964 --> 00:11:25,810 And I think that. 212 00:11:25,810 --> 00:11:26,270 whatsoever. 213 00:11:26,270 --> 00:11:27,591 Apparently he was eight. 214 00:11:27,591 --> 00:11:32,176 They were just way, way overestimating how many posts he actually hit. 215 00:11:32,617 --> 00:11:36,201 So I think what's not it might be like 10 or so, but he actually came to play like 216 00:11:36,201 --> 00:11:37,302 he was driving play. 217 00:11:37,302 --> 00:11:39,704 He was stopping pucks in the D zone. 218 00:11:39,825 --> 00:11:41,406 He was in proper position. 219 00:11:41,406 --> 00:11:43,868 He was by far the best player. 220 00:11:44,350 --> 00:11:47,691 Yeah, and one thing I've been giving them shit for a lot this season is not 221 00:11:47,691 --> 00:11:49,372 connecting passes, not communicating well. 222 00:11:49,372 --> 00:11:54,615 And it seemed like between him and Tavares and Marner and Willy, they were all making 223 00:11:54,615 --> 00:11:57,256 most of their passes. 224 00:11:57,256 --> 00:11:59,504 Yeah. 225 00:11:59,504 --> 00:11:59,945 on goal. 226 00:11:59,945 --> 00:12:02,528 He was- I barely noticed him at all. 227 00:12:03,278 --> 00:12:07,821 I did a few, I mean, to be fair, I was cooking and cleaning at some points of 228 00:12:07,821 --> 00:12:10,963 this game, but I did see that there was a couple little plays in front of the net 229 00:12:10,963 --> 00:12:11,764 that he was involved in. 230 00:12:11,764 --> 00:12:14,185 I don't know. 231 00:12:14,185 --> 00:12:15,266 Sure, we'll leave him out of it. 232 00:12:15,266 --> 00:12:19,929 But it seemed like there was a little more communication going on with passes and 233 00:12:20,150 --> 00:12:22,151 Matthew's taking more shots, which was nice. 234 00:12:22,151 --> 00:12:23,232 I could, you know what? 235 00:12:23,232 --> 00:12:27,395 Now that I think of it, there was one time where Mitch had that breakaway and he held 236 00:12:27,395 --> 00:12:29,977 up and passed it back to Bertuzzi instead of taking a shot. 237 00:12:29,977 --> 00:12:30,993 And I was so fucking mad. 238 00:12:30,993 --> 00:12:32,296 right comedian to give to you. 239 00:12:32,296 --> 00:12:36,627 Bertuzzi actually drew a penalty on that, which is a great play by Bertuzzo, I think 240 00:12:36,627 --> 00:12:37,288 it was. 241 00:12:37,288 --> 00:12:41,276 He probably saved a goal there, but he, you gotta shoot on that, right? 242 00:12:42,246 --> 00:12:45,090 Yeah, and I mean, look, the Leafs ended up scoring on that power play. 243 00:12:45,191 --> 00:12:48,176 But really, when their power plays, what, two for 21? 244 00:12:48,176 --> 00:12:51,081 You don't really want to bank on drawing a penalty there instead of taking their 245 00:12:51,081 --> 00:12:51,502 shot. 246 00:12:51,502 --> 00:12:53,713 So it's just, yeah. 247 00:12:53,713 --> 00:12:58,795 I find like it's indicative of, which I've noticed lately, is the Leafs will take, 248 00:12:59,095 --> 00:13:01,677 they'll go along the half-ice, like along the boards. 249 00:13:01,677 --> 00:13:04,538 There's two of them coming, there's two defensemen here, and they'll just throw it 250 00:13:04,538 --> 00:13:05,838 in the middle of the net. 251 00:13:05,878 --> 00:13:07,279 And it never really works out. 252 00:13:07,279 --> 00:13:10,900 That's a play you make in Pee-wee, bantam, novice type shit. 253 00:13:11,020 --> 00:13:13,321 You're doing a smart play because defense don't really know where to play. 254 00:13:13,321 --> 00:13:16,783 But in the NHL, this is never working, and it usually comes back on their end in a 255 00:13:16,783 --> 00:13:17,963 fast rush. 256 00:13:18,464 --> 00:13:21,018 And I just noticed them doing this so often. 257 00:13:21,018 --> 00:13:21,898 games. 258 00:13:22,279 --> 00:13:23,628 It's a play I would do in old cell. 259 00:13:23,628 --> 00:13:26,312 middle of the net way, way more than they should. 260 00:13:27,186 --> 00:13:30,830 Yeah, and when you've got guys that are good at tipping it in, like great, but 261 00:13:30,830 --> 00:13:32,713 they haven't been that graded at this season. 262 00:13:32,713 --> 00:13:34,936 I mean, JT's been fantastic as always. 263 00:13:34,936 --> 00:13:39,141 But besides that, like who's getting in front of the net and muscling there right 264 00:13:39,141 --> 00:13:39,801 there? 265 00:13:40,305 --> 00:13:44,210 But if you guys have in front of you and then you put the puck there, that's a 266 00:13:44,210 --> 00:13:44,831 different story. 267 00:13:44,831 --> 00:13:49,137 When you go kind of almost like to the icing line and then dish it back in front, 268 00:13:49,758 --> 00:13:51,080 you're not gonna get that tip. 269 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:52,242 Like it's just not gonna happen. 270 00:13:52,242 --> 00:13:53,703 That's a higher percentage. 271 00:13:54,425 --> 00:13:57,348 That's where it bounces back in the Ottoman rush to start. 272 00:13:58,450 --> 00:14:01,352 Yeah, and they've been giving up a lot of those, you're right, when they try to 273 00:14:01,352 --> 00:14:04,095 center that and then cough it up and everyone's at a position and all of a 274 00:14:04,095 --> 00:14:05,497 sudden it's a two on one or something. 275 00:14:05,497 --> 00:14:08,820 There's been a lot of those lately. 276 00:14:08,820 --> 00:14:13,744 And I mean, really, that's how they ended up losing an OT, but different story. 277 00:14:16,507 --> 00:14:22,413 So, like I said, JT's been good at tipping goals in, picked one up tonight, which was 278 00:14:22,413 --> 00:14:22,769 nice. 279 00:14:22,769 --> 00:14:23,392 He did. 280 00:14:23,392 --> 00:14:25,338 He was huge in the faceoff to hot too. 281 00:14:26,084 --> 00:14:26,907 As was Matthews. 282 00:14:26,907 --> 00:14:29,250 amongst the reign of booze. 283 00:14:29,250 --> 00:14:34,096 Actually, I think JT's among the top in the league right now for face-offs, 284 00:14:34,317 --> 00:14:38,443 because I know he started off a little shaky, but he's gotten back up there. 285 00:14:38,443 --> 00:14:41,209 late in the end of this game he was winning almost every draw. 286 00:14:41,692 --> 00:14:45,260 Which eventually led to the 6 second left goal. 287 00:14:47,234 --> 00:14:48,254 Let me check. 288 00:14:48,254 --> 00:14:50,535 I want to see here skaters. 289 00:14:51,396 --> 00:14:56,200 I'm pretty sure he's like in the top few percentage face-off wins of people that 290 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:58,814 have not taken multiple but. 291 00:14:58,814 --> 00:14:59,517 is. 292 00:15:04,125 --> 00:15:04,866 Let me check here. 293 00:15:04,866 --> 00:15:08,911 Taveras is 39th in the entire league with a 62%. 294 00:15:10,014 --> 00:15:15,746 So, I mean, really, that's gotta be as far as guys that take face-offs. 295 00:15:15,746 --> 00:15:17,028 taken though, right? 296 00:15:17,510 --> 00:15:20,252 Yeah, that's the thing is the NHL site is so awesome. 297 00:15:20,252 --> 00:15:23,815 It doesn't tell you how many faceoffs they've taken. 298 00:15:23,815 --> 00:15:28,679 I'd have to go to a different site, even though I always get shit on for choosing 299 00:15:28,679 --> 00:15:29,881 shitty sites. 300 00:15:29,881 --> 00:15:30,850 And I see it on this one. 301 00:15:30,850 --> 00:15:34,702 if you're going to the top percentage of, you know, one to three centermen on each 302 00:15:34,702 --> 00:15:37,188 team, he's way, way up there probably. 303 00:15:37,654 --> 00:15:39,936 Yeah, okay here, if we're going... 304 00:15:41,994 --> 00:15:42,437 I know this. 305 00:15:42,437 --> 00:15:43,824 Oh, here he's number three. 306 00:15:44,741 --> 00:15:46,459 Yeah, that makes way more sense. 307 00:15:47,094 --> 00:15:50,977 Vincent Troschek and Michael McCloud are the only ones ahead of him. 308 00:15:50,977 --> 00:15:56,681 McCloud's only ahead by like a half a percentage and Troschek by like one. 309 00:15:56,682 --> 00:16:00,365 So yeah, 63.6, 62.9 and 62.1. 310 00:16:02,665 --> 00:16:03,903 That's a huge number. 311 00:16:06,363 --> 00:16:10,565 And he's 213 faceoffs, 131 lost. 312 00:16:10,565 --> 00:16:12,285 Anyway, tangent. 313 00:16:12,285 --> 00:16:17,828 But JT is absolutely a fucking demon in the face off dot this year. 314 00:16:17,828 --> 00:16:22,350 And that's helpful when, you know, the game's on the line and you have to take an 315 00:16:22,350 --> 00:16:24,390 offensive zone face off and the goal is pulled. 316 00:16:24,390 --> 00:16:27,692 And your team basically depends on playing clutch. 317 00:16:28,392 --> 00:16:29,712 It's kind of important. 318 00:16:30,173 --> 00:16:32,393 But let's throw David Camp out and over time. 319 00:16:32,934 --> 00:16:35,380 I thought he played a pretty good game tonight, too 320 00:16:36,106 --> 00:16:41,489 Yeah, and like I said, it's not like somebody he's somebody who's affected by 321 00:16:42,270 --> 00:16:48,854 fans booing him, but just the mental aspect of that aside, it's just 322 00:16:48,854 --> 00:16:53,377 distracting audio wise to have people booing every time you touch the puck. 323 00:16:53,377 --> 00:16:57,840 Like, like even if it had no emotional effect on you, it's like, this is just 324 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:58,741 irritating. 325 00:16:58,741 --> 00:17:02,503 Like, I have to actively tune this out every time to pay attention to the game. 326 00:17:02,503 --> 00:17:04,325 Like, that's going to get frustrating. 327 00:17:04,325 --> 00:17:05,845 So kudos to him for. 328 00:17:06,250 --> 00:17:10,122 still playing the stellar game in his old barn. 329 00:17:10,122 --> 00:17:11,065 Well, not his old barn. 330 00:17:11,065 --> 00:17:12,829 He never played there, but you know. 331 00:17:12,965 --> 00:17:14,566 Yeah, we get what you're saying. 332 00:17:15,647 --> 00:17:19,570 I'm trying to think of the last guy who got that type of treatment for so long. 333 00:17:20,211 --> 00:17:23,092 I feel like Charra got it pretty bad in Ottawa for a while. 334 00:17:23,878 --> 00:17:28,807 I would say Alfredson in Toronto got it pretty bad for a long time, like after it 335 00:17:28,807 --> 00:17:32,993 was necessary, but different scenario, I guess, like not playing for your old team. 336 00:17:34,674 --> 00:17:36,176 that's true. 337 00:17:36,678 --> 00:17:41,412 because after that Sundeen stick breaking thing and he mocked it they were ripping 338 00:17:41,412 --> 00:17:43,537 on Alfredson for years. 339 00:17:43,749 --> 00:17:45,764 Yeah, he was hated for a long time. 340 00:17:46,066 --> 00:17:50,592 Yeah, I remember the raps were putting his picture up on the jumbotron to get people 341 00:17:50,592 --> 00:17:52,835 to boo when other teams were up for free throws. 342 00:17:52,835 --> 00:17:55,798 Yeah, classic. 343 00:17:55,798 --> 00:17:59,844 Now you couldn't put a hockey rep or something a basketball game and expect NBA 344 00:17:59,844 --> 00:18:01,525 fans to know what you're talking about. 345 00:18:02,072 --> 00:18:03,563 No, those days are gone. 346 00:18:04,230 --> 00:18:05,510 Yeah, long gone. 347 00:18:06,051 --> 00:18:10,414 Well, so the Leafs managed to tie it up Morgan Reilly with a beautiful little tip 348 00:18:10,414 --> 00:18:11,814 in there at the end. 349 00:18:12,895 --> 00:18:17,318 All for not unfortunately, with a very quick OT loss. 350 00:18:19,499 --> 00:18:23,110 Yeah, but anyway, Matthews 351 00:18:23,110 --> 00:18:27,372 you kind of want to see Morgan take away the pass and just let Sammy take that 352 00:18:27,372 --> 00:18:27,912 shot, right? 353 00:18:27,912 --> 00:18:31,974 Because he's not going to stop that cross-eye sauce, as it was. 354 00:18:32,095 --> 00:18:34,996 But at least give him a chance, like, just save the shot. 355 00:18:34,996 --> 00:18:38,218 And I don't feel like Morgan played it super well. 356 00:18:38,958 --> 00:18:40,019 But whatever, we got a point. 357 00:18:40,019 --> 00:18:43,420 We got 11 straight games with points, I think, now. 358 00:18:44,138 --> 00:18:49,702 11 of 12, they said, but yeah, I mean, behind first round playoff exits, not 359 00:18:49,702 --> 00:18:51,262 starting on time. 360 00:18:51,803 --> 00:18:55,326 I don't know what else we're known for, but I would say, oh, too many men on the 361 00:18:55,326 --> 00:18:55,926 ice penalties. 362 00:18:55,926 --> 00:19:01,570 I would say one that doesn't get enough doesn't get enough credit is, is that wow, 363 00:19:01,570 --> 00:19:05,293 I actually just lost my train of thought completely as I was making up my intro to 364 00:19:05,293 --> 00:19:05,493 it. 365 00:19:05,493 --> 00:19:06,453 But when they 366 00:19:08,766 --> 00:19:11,038 Holy shit, what were you saying about the OT? 367 00:19:12,068 --> 00:19:12,479 I comp- 368 00:19:12,479 --> 00:19:17,094 Morgan should have played the pass instead of he didn't play the pass it should have 369 00:19:17,094 --> 00:19:18,356 let the shot happen 370 00:19:19,092 --> 00:19:22,193 The Leafs are fucking horrible at screening their own goalies. 371 00:19:22,193 --> 00:19:24,655 Like it's something that they don't get enough credit for. 372 00:19:24,655 --> 00:19:29,237 Like Jake Muzzin was one of the best at standing in between the shot and the 373 00:19:29,237 --> 00:19:33,440 goalie and letting it go in like underrated for like a great defenseman. 374 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:37,142 But oh, my God, if he's not actually on the person, he's in between them and the 375 00:19:37,142 --> 00:19:38,502 goalie every time. 376 00:19:39,083 --> 00:19:41,004 Yeah, the Leafs are always bad at that. 377 00:19:41,004 --> 00:19:43,805 So I'm not surprised that happened because they either. 378 00:19:43,926 --> 00:19:47,391 have a goalie that they don't have confidence in, in that, or... 379 00:19:48,114 --> 00:19:50,163 Yeah, they're always trying to block it. 380 00:19:50,163 --> 00:19:54,126 there, I think he takes that pass away a hundred times out of a hundred. 381 00:19:54,166 --> 00:19:55,487 He doesn't even care about the shot. 382 00:19:55,487 --> 00:19:57,368 He lets Wall handle it. 383 00:19:57,526 --> 00:20:01,827 Well, look, in the Nashville game, you think they took 18 shots on goal to have 384 00:20:01,827 --> 00:20:06,748 18 shots like no, they were blocking a shit done from getting to Sammy to get 385 00:20:06,748 --> 00:20:07,768 help and shut out. 386 00:20:07,768 --> 00:20:10,789 And that's, you know, that's the game they were trying to play again, but it doesn't 387 00:20:10,789 --> 00:20:11,769 always work. 388 00:20:11,910 --> 00:20:14,490 So here we are. 389 00:20:14,490 --> 00:20:20,452 But yeah, Matthews, Matthews has been back on, you know, 19 goals and counting. 390 00:20:20,632 --> 00:20:21,832 Love to see it. 391 00:20:24,453 --> 00:20:25,713 Yeah, with coach. 392 00:20:26,055 --> 00:20:26,807 Mm-hmm. 393 00:20:29,394 --> 00:20:33,676 It's good to see, you know, once Willy starts to fall off a little bit. 394 00:20:33,676 --> 00:20:38,037 I think that break with the weekend on either end of the Sweden game kind of 395 00:20:38,037 --> 00:20:39,197 cooled him off. 396 00:20:39,358 --> 00:20:40,358 But it's nice. 397 00:20:40,358 --> 00:20:44,720 It's nice that during that time, Matthews gets to rest and come back hot. 398 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,580 And he's been good ever since they've been back. 399 00:20:46,580 --> 00:20:50,741 So you know, it's just pass it off to whoever whoever's feeling it at the time. 400 00:20:51,149 --> 00:20:51,709 Exactly. 401 00:20:51,709 --> 00:20:56,733 He's been dangerous and he hasn't been scored in huge bunches either, which is an 402 00:20:56,733 --> 00:20:59,735 encouraging sign for Leafs fans because once he actually starts putting games 403 00:20:59,735 --> 00:21:04,918 together, it's going to be ridiculous and like heaven forbid all the like Leafs core 404 00:21:04,918 --> 00:21:07,400 four actually play good at the same time. 405 00:21:08,021 --> 00:21:09,282 That'll be another big thing. 406 00:21:09,282 --> 00:21:13,664 Like the point that we're collecting points right now is huge. 407 00:21:14,930 --> 00:21:20,053 Yeah, the only thing with the points in 11 of 12 games is like, if you lose games and 408 00:21:20,053 --> 00:21:28,178 over time, you can get points in 12 of 12 games, but it can be six points, which is 409 00:21:28,178 --> 00:21:32,860 like winning six of, or whatever, you know, like, you know what I mean? 410 00:21:32,860 --> 00:21:34,847 Like, or you can get 12 points. 411 00:21:34,847 --> 00:21:35,912 games, right? 412 00:21:38,374 --> 00:21:42,919 Yeah, I'm just it's just a misleading thing sometimes to say they have points in 413 00:21:42,919 --> 00:21:44,181 11 of 12 games. 414 00:21:44,181 --> 00:21:45,022 It's like, yeah, OK. 415 00:21:45,022 --> 00:21:48,286 But, you know, if they're losing a bunch of overtime, they have half the points 416 00:21:48,286 --> 00:21:49,948 they could have had in that amount of games. 417 00:21:49,948 --> 00:21:51,070 So I. 418 00:21:51,070 --> 00:21:51,431 percent. 419 00:21:51,431 --> 00:21:54,160 If you're losing every overtime game, it's a big difference compared to if you're 420 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:55,764 winning every overtime game. 421 00:21:55,890 --> 00:21:59,582 Yeah, so what are they actually in their last 10? 422 00:22:00,486 --> 00:22:01,962 Be curious to find out. 423 00:22:04,583 --> 00:22:06,524 Standings. 424 00:22:06,844 --> 00:22:07,405 Oh my gosh. 425 00:22:07,405 --> 00:22:13,569 Why is it getting harder and harder to like get NHL stats? 426 00:22:16,073 --> 00:22:17,933 I feel like we should just blame Batman. 427 00:22:19,455 --> 00:22:22,857 Yeah, it's funny, the Google thing that pops up is the best one at this point. 428 00:22:22,857 --> 00:22:25,018 There's six, one and three. 429 00:22:25,719 --> 00:22:31,182 In their last 10, so they I mean, three overtime losses isn't bad, but there is no 430 00:22:31,182 --> 00:22:32,262 other team. 431 00:22:32,743 --> 00:22:40,487 Oh, only the penguins who are on a fucking shit streak have lost three and overtime. 432 00:22:40,487 --> 00:22:42,868 Oh, the Golden Knights have lost three and OT in their last time. 433 00:22:42,868 --> 00:22:44,189 But you get my point. 434 00:22:44,729 --> 00:22:45,409 Yeah. 435 00:22:46,947 --> 00:22:49,776 Yeah, the point's a little red. 436 00:22:52,872 --> 00:22:56,416 Panthers and Bruins still ahead of the Leafs in the Atlantic division. 437 00:22:56,416 --> 00:23:02,903 They managed to pass the Detroit Red Wings here by a single point with their OT loss 438 00:23:02,903 --> 00:23:04,144 tonight, which is nice. 439 00:23:04,493 --> 00:23:07,707 Yeah, looks like the Red Wings are about to lose too, so... 440 00:23:08,522 --> 00:23:10,202 Oh, that'll be a three game losing streak for them. 441 00:23:10,202 --> 00:23:11,842 So that's good for the Leafs. 442 00:23:14,143 --> 00:23:18,684 Lightning Canadians, Sabres and Senators being under the Canadians and Red Wings 443 00:23:18,684 --> 00:23:22,685 and the Standings is mind boggling to me. 444 00:23:22,685 --> 00:23:25,706 I thought those two were gonna put it together this year and challenge for a 445 00:23:25,706 --> 00:23:27,307 wild card spot finally. 446 00:23:27,307 --> 00:23:30,268 And Detroit and Montreal went, nah, we're gonna get that. 447 00:23:30,268 --> 00:23:31,508 We're gonna go for it instead. 448 00:23:32,568 --> 00:23:33,768 Yeah, pretty wild. 449 00:23:34,609 --> 00:23:37,590 Okay, so some quick things came out. 450 00:23:37,590 --> 00:23:42,211 during the game here, we had David Perron getting a six game suspension for his 451 00:23:42,211 --> 00:23:46,712 two-handed cross check to the face of I forget who it was. 452 00:23:47,392 --> 00:23:52,254 After we saw Dylan Larkin go down in a very scary way, if you haven't seen it, 453 00:23:52,254 --> 00:23:55,054 but you can go and check that out. 454 00:23:55,394 --> 00:23:58,495 Larkin gets hit and he's unconscious on the ice. 455 00:23:58,495 --> 00:24:00,176 It's one of those terrifying moments. 456 00:24:00,176 --> 00:24:04,837 And the way that I see it is in that moment, it doesn't matter what team you're 457 00:24:04,837 --> 00:24:07,082 on, like everybody around him is like, Oh, fuck. 458 00:24:07,082 --> 00:24:11,585 Like for, I mean, for the, at the start, people are jumping on each other. 459 00:24:11,585 --> 00:24:13,467 Oh no, I'm remembering this wrong. 460 00:24:13,467 --> 00:24:17,690 So it starts off that everybody's looking and then this two-handed cross check 461 00:24:17,690 --> 00:24:19,392 happens, then the fights break out. 462 00:24:19,392 --> 00:24:21,994 So if you're standing over and being like, oh fuck, is this guy okay? 463 00:24:21,994 --> 00:24:26,297 And somebody comes out of nowhere and smashes your face with a stick. 464 00:24:26,338 --> 00:24:28,239 Yeah, that's kind of a dirty play. 465 00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:33,964 I get it's his client, but Alan Walsh, who's been like a, we need to protect 466 00:24:33,964 --> 00:24:36,214 players from CTE and yada yada. 467 00:24:36,214 --> 00:24:41,355 coming out on Twitter and being like, like vehemently being like, we're gonna appeal 468 00:24:41,355 --> 00:24:43,655 this basically, like this is bullshit. 469 00:24:46,176 --> 00:24:48,317 It's not a good, I don't know. 470 00:24:48,317 --> 00:24:51,518 I usually like while she's takes on things, but that was a bad luck for him. 471 00:24:51,518 --> 00:24:53,358 I think this was a pretty dirty one. 472 00:24:53,358 --> 00:24:58,300 Like six games might be a lot, but what we've seen this year is there's handing 473 00:24:58,300 --> 00:25:02,181 out a couple more games than they have in the last few seasons to try to make a 474 00:25:02,181 --> 00:25:02,521 point. 475 00:25:02,521 --> 00:25:04,962 And like they've said, you know, they really want to. 476 00:25:04,962 --> 00:25:06,883 take these headshots out of the game. 477 00:25:07,084 --> 00:25:11,287 And look, Perron might be the poster boy for it now. 478 00:25:11,548 --> 00:25:13,089 Like if this is what they're gonna do. 479 00:25:13,598 --> 00:25:16,320 you know, like if that's what it takes and that's what it takes because I feel the 480 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:20,664 roughing has been, to put it mildly, like inconsistent, especially like the whole 481 00:25:20,664 --> 00:25:23,646 Gebranson and Cousin thing that happened last game too. 482 00:25:24,266 --> 00:25:28,470 If they're policing this Marge during the game, maybe we don't have this as much, 483 00:25:28,470 --> 00:25:33,474 but, six games, it seems about right. 484 00:25:33,534 --> 00:25:37,838 But like the whole Alan Walsh thing, like he said, he came out pretty hard for his 485 00:25:37,838 --> 00:25:41,740 client there, a little bit too hard to the point where you're like, 486 00:25:41,853 --> 00:25:42,992 Put on the jets. 487 00:25:43,374 --> 00:25:47,817 He's that weird balance between he's an agent, so he's always going to protect his 488 00:25:47,817 --> 00:25:48,397 own guys. 489 00:25:48,397 --> 00:25:51,239 Like remember the flurry with the sword in his back thing? 490 00:25:51,239 --> 00:25:54,282 That was Alan Walsh. 491 00:25:54,282 --> 00:26:00,727 Then on the other side, he's a great advocate for the players as a whole and 492 00:26:00,727 --> 00:26:06,411 for having progressive ideas for rule changes in the league. 493 00:26:06,411 --> 00:26:10,190 So it's like this strange position he's in where he would be a great 494 00:26:10,190 --> 00:26:12,293 commissioner, but he's also a fantastic agent. 495 00:26:12,293 --> 00:26:15,406 So he's like, so sometimes he's 496 00:26:15,406 --> 00:26:18,436 a lot more than they're not, but when they're not, you're just like, come on 497 00:26:18,436 --> 00:26:19,339 buddy, you're better than this. 498 00:26:19,339 --> 00:26:21,084 Like your track record shows. 499 00:26:22,118 --> 00:26:22,559 Yeah. 500 00:26:22,559 --> 00:26:25,866 Remember what you've argued before, before you stick up for your clients. 501 00:26:25,866 --> 00:26:30,656 Like, you know, the minute the suspension gets handed out, like it was within 10 502 00:26:30,656 --> 00:26:31,799 minutes that was posted. 503 00:26:31,799 --> 00:26:33,039 It's like, guy, take a breath. 504 00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:35,186 still coming through, don't worry about it, like you're good. 505 00:26:35,186 --> 00:26:35,906 Yeah. 506 00:26:36,128 --> 00:26:37,990 Speaking of, I did the math. 507 00:26:38,252 --> 00:26:43,642 If it's their salary divided by 82 games and then multiplied by six for six game 508 00:26:43,642 --> 00:26:47,829 suspension, that's like 350 grand for David Braun. 509 00:26:48,553 --> 00:26:50,403 That's a ton in NHL money. 510 00:26:50,678 --> 00:26:53,545 That's not a small amount for anybody. 511 00:26:53,545 --> 00:26:58,176 Like whether you're a professional athlete or not, like 350 Gs, you're like, ooh, 512 00:26:58,176 --> 00:26:59,399 that hurts the pocket. 513 00:26:59,399 --> 00:27:00,450 Like if you're making. 514 00:27:00,450 --> 00:27:05,699 pre-segue, like you're no fucking Shohei Atani at this point, but those 350 sheets, 515 00:27:05,699 --> 00:27:06,820 you feel that. 516 00:27:07,346 --> 00:27:10,867 Yeah, but you did mention the good Branson one that I was surprised about. 517 00:27:10,867 --> 00:27:16,629 So this one, yeah, if you didn't see it, good Branson basically grabs cousins from 518 00:27:16,629 --> 00:27:17,510 behind. 519 00:27:17,510 --> 00:27:22,672 Well, beside kind of in like a choke slam from the side, wraps his arm around his 520 00:27:22,672 --> 00:27:26,774 neck, throws him to the ice and just starts like, it's funny, I just watched 521 00:27:26,774 --> 00:27:27,934 the Batman the other night. 522 00:27:27,934 --> 00:27:31,576 But you know, in that opening scene with all the thugs coming at him, when he 523 00:27:31,576 --> 00:27:35,557 punches that guy down to the ground and he just keeps punching him, good Branson 524 00:27:35,557 --> 00:27:36,657 basically does that. 525 00:27:36,901 --> 00:27:39,056 He was the caped crusader there for sure. 526 00:27:39,726 --> 00:27:45,009 He gets one game, literally minutes after they announced the David Perron 527 00:27:45,009 --> 00:27:45,510 suspension. 528 00:27:45,510 --> 00:27:48,932 They're like, and good Branson gets one game and everyone went, wait, what? 529 00:27:49,132 --> 00:27:52,915 Didn't you just set this precedent that you're going to suspend people for these 530 00:27:52,915 --> 00:27:54,196 headshots and dirty plays? 531 00:27:54,196 --> 00:27:56,133 And it's like this was equally. 532 00:27:56,133 --> 00:27:59,654 to beat the shit out of him because he got nailed from behind. 533 00:27:59,654 --> 00:28:02,235 And if the refs, like I was talking about earlier, like this had been so 534 00:28:02,235 --> 00:28:05,816 inconsistent, if they called that hitting from behind or boarding whatever, this 535 00:28:05,816 --> 00:28:06,976 doesn't happen. 536 00:28:06,996 --> 00:28:13,278 So he took it in his own hands and he grabbed them and cousin-turtled. 537 00:28:13,278 --> 00:28:15,559 He turtle twice that game on him. 538 00:28:16,559 --> 00:28:18,780 This guy's the biggest piece of shit maybe in the whole league. 539 00:28:18,780 --> 00:28:21,680 He's fucking top five for sure. 540 00:28:21,885 --> 00:28:23,289 And he turtles all the time. 541 00:28:23,289 --> 00:28:25,054 It's disgusting to see him and Kuchuk. 542 00:28:25,054 --> 00:28:26,317 I hate them both. 543 00:28:26,418 --> 00:28:27,620 God, I hate them. 544 00:28:29,042 --> 00:28:32,367 I guess it's the difference between assault on assault with a deadly weapon as 545 00:28:32,367 --> 00:28:35,291 far as the league goes like you hit someone in the face with your stick six 546 00:28:35,291 --> 00:28:36,473 games you punch them. 547 00:28:36,473 --> 00:28:38,136 Yeah, one. 548 00:28:38,136 --> 00:28:39,425 But no you're right like. 549 00:28:39,425 --> 00:28:43,208 he was going a bit first before he went down and then cousins did the whole this 550 00:28:43,208 --> 00:28:47,070 and you're right the Branson should not be punching his back of his head his neck, 551 00:28:47,070 --> 00:28:52,173 whatever but If you're playing the way that cousins is playing the way that 552 00:28:52,173 --> 00:28:56,536 Florida is playing the way that Paul Maurice is playing You have to answer the 553 00:28:56,536 --> 00:29:00,619 belt sometimes and they just don't the biggest chicken shit team I've ever 554 00:29:00,619 --> 00:29:03,860 fucking seen Pardon my language 555 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,264 that we, it's fine. 556 00:29:06,264 --> 00:29:10,951 It's funny that they actually seem to kind of judge these scenarios sometimes based 557 00:29:10,951 --> 00:29:13,253 on like, whether the person had it coming or not. 558 00:29:16,622 --> 00:29:22,966 Because like really they could have like I didn't have time to see the lead up to it. 559 00:29:22,966 --> 00:29:25,648 I was actually going to ask, but you ended up explaining anyway, like what caused 560 00:29:25,648 --> 00:29:26,569 this in the first place? 561 00:29:26,569 --> 00:29:29,771 But it I don't know. 562 00:29:29,771 --> 00:29:35,395 It seems like they took into account that, you know, this there was a build up to 563 00:29:35,395 --> 00:29:35,935 this. 564 00:29:35,935 --> 00:29:38,557 It was not with the stick. 565 00:29:38,557 --> 00:29:40,038 It was somebody getting punched. 566 00:29:40,038 --> 00:29:42,300 And yeah, the guy basically, like you said, he turtled. 567 00:29:42,300 --> 00:29:44,986 So, yeah, one game just seems like. 568 00:29:44,986 --> 00:29:45,767 his feet doing it. 569 00:29:45,767 --> 00:29:51,791 What one is one game seems right for everything that transpired in that game. 570 00:29:51,791 --> 00:29:52,831 He wasn't very hurt. 571 00:29:52,831 --> 00:29:53,472 He came up. 572 00:29:53,472 --> 00:29:57,134 He was chirping like crazy after turdling like a coward. 573 00:29:57,134 --> 00:30:00,496 But yeah, one game seems good. 574 00:30:00,742 --> 00:30:03,063 Okay, fair. 575 00:30:03,063 --> 00:30:07,106 So you mentioned also, we'll segue to the Otani thing. 576 00:30:07,207 --> 00:30:10,889 Everybody was mad about this when the info came out. 577 00:30:11,270 --> 00:30:18,876 It seems like what happened, as far as we can tell, is that the Otani camp leaked 578 00:30:18,876 --> 00:30:25,782 that he was on his way to Toronto and that it was imminent to finally get that last 579 00:30:25,782 --> 00:30:30,485 offer from the Dodgers, the 700 mil for 10 years they were holding out on it. 580 00:30:30,746 --> 00:30:34,989 and the Jays had an offer on the table that was north of $600 million apparently, 581 00:30:35,090 --> 00:30:40,715 but they wanted the seven and they basically bluffed all the way to the end 582 00:30:40,715 --> 00:30:43,597 that he was on his way so we all got used. 583 00:30:43,597 --> 00:30:49,442 Not only the Toronto fans but the entire Canadian baseball fandom was used as a 584 00:30:49,442 --> 00:30:53,666 bargaining chip for somebody who's now going to circumvent the cap for the next 585 00:30:53,666 --> 00:30:54,587 decade. 586 00:30:54,587 --> 00:30:56,989 I just, this is so annoying. 587 00:30:57,049 --> 00:30:57,481 Like. 588 00:30:57,481 --> 00:31:01,582 Okay, I'm not usually one to put on the tinfoil hat. 589 00:31:01,582 --> 00:31:06,305 I like try to stay away from these conspiracies, but as you said, this was a 590 00:31:06,305 --> 00:31:09,466 devious plot and it worked. 591 00:31:10,086 --> 00:31:13,848 The person they had on that plane was another CAA client. 592 00:31:14,208 --> 00:31:15,529 This had to have been all planned out. 593 00:31:15,529 --> 00:31:21,892 Like, the way this went down was so frustrating and not a great look for 594 00:31:22,212 --> 00:31:23,532 Toronto sports. 595 00:31:24,906 --> 00:31:30,821 Wait, are you saying Robert Hercewak is under the same agency as Joe Hewitt? 596 00:31:30,821 --> 00:31:32,346 Oh my god. 597 00:31:32,346 --> 00:31:33,227 Hey, how about this, Robert? 598 00:31:33,227 --> 00:31:36,431 We're gonna give you a couple bills here. 599 00:31:36,451 --> 00:31:38,634 Go fly down to Toronto on this plane. 600 00:31:38,634 --> 00:31:39,875 Don't say shit. 601 00:31:40,497 --> 00:31:43,340 We're gonna jack up Ohtani's money like crazy. 602 00:31:45,122 --> 00:31:47,122 That's actually pretty wild. 603 00:31:47,122 --> 00:31:47,543 that. 604 00:31:47,543 --> 00:31:52,995 Like I said, I don't usually like to delve in these type of hearsay or conspiracy 605 00:31:52,995 --> 00:31:56,000 shit, but it seems a little legit. 606 00:31:56,322 --> 00:31:59,173 The timing of everything was a little too perfect. 607 00:31:59,745 --> 00:32:00,410 Yeah. 608 00:32:01,418 --> 00:32:04,965 Like, oh my God, oh, it's definitely gonna happen tonight. 609 00:32:05,403 --> 00:32:08,345 The way his contract is structured is... 610 00:32:09,607 --> 00:32:11,928 insane to any sports league. 611 00:32:12,466 --> 00:32:19,049 Yeah, like, imagine Matthews just said, yeah, I'll sign 13 point whatever it is, 612 00:32:19,049 --> 00:32:22,931 but you only will just pay me all of it when my contract's up. 613 00:32:23,311 --> 00:32:24,772 I'll just take two million a year. 614 00:32:24,772 --> 00:32:26,593 That is literally what Otani did. 615 00:32:26,593 --> 00:32:36,659 So if anyone didn't see this, he's taking 70 million a year, 46 against the cap and 616 00:32:36,659 --> 00:32:39,260 68 million a year deferred. 617 00:32:40,001 --> 00:32:41,938 So he's making 2 million a year. 618 00:32:41,938 --> 00:32:45,981 And then once his contract's up, they're going to pay him $680 million without 619 00:32:45,981 --> 00:32:47,383 interest, I might add. 620 00:32:47,383 --> 00:32:50,726 So it's not even like he's benefiting in some way from doing this. 621 00:32:50,726 --> 00:32:54,649 All he's benefiting from is saying, I don't want to fucking lose again. 622 00:32:54,649 --> 00:32:58,893 So I'm making it so you guys have enough money per year to spend on other players 623 00:32:58,893 --> 00:33:03,637 to build a proper team, which is not fair. 624 00:33:04,013 --> 00:33:09,859 It's the most blatant circumvention of any luxury tax, salary cap, whatever money 625 00:33:09,859 --> 00:33:13,523 thing you have going on in your league, like parameters that are set, they're 626 00:33:13,523 --> 00:33:15,364 breaking every goddamn rule of it. 627 00:33:16,022 --> 00:33:19,564 Well, apparently this isn't against the MLB's rules, which is insane. 628 00:33:19,564 --> 00:33:24,227 That's the stupid part is like if you have a luxury tax that's supposed to be that's 629 00:33:24,227 --> 00:33:32,052 supposed to be for parody and, you know, leveling the playing diamond. 630 00:33:32,053 --> 00:33:35,415 But like, look, if you can do this, then what's the point? 631 00:33:35,415 --> 00:33:41,139 Like, and I also saw the list of teams paying into this, this luxury tax, like 632 00:33:41,139 --> 00:33:45,261 there's teams paying upwards of a hundred to three hundred million dollars since. 633 00:33:45,306 --> 00:33:48,931 the last couple of years, just in luxury tax, because they don't give a fuck. 634 00:33:48,931 --> 00:33:50,073 So what's the point? 635 00:33:50,073 --> 00:33:54,539 Like, you're not there's teams that win, like, 8% of their games every year. 636 00:33:54,539 --> 00:33:57,041 Like, what do you I don't know, this is so fucking annoying. 637 00:33:58,925 --> 00:34:02,607 I wonder if the Blue Jays contract was actually structured like that too, because 638 00:34:02,607 --> 00:34:06,189 behind the Mets they are the richest team in the MLB. 639 00:34:06,369 --> 00:34:09,891 They've got more money to throw around than the Yankees, everybody else. 640 00:34:09,891 --> 00:34:11,732 I think it's upwards of $17 or $18 billion. 641 00:34:11,732 --> 00:34:17,115 So you have to wonder if maybe there is a structure like that too, but even still I 642 00:34:17,115 --> 00:34:18,876 would have been like, what are we doing here? 643 00:34:18,876 --> 00:34:21,938 This is not good for whatever league you're in, right? 644 00:34:21,938 --> 00:34:23,719 There's no way that the bottom eight... 645 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,640 no, not eight, rather like... 646 00:34:26,877 --> 00:34:29,175 2018 is to fucking compete with this 647 00:34:29,590 --> 00:34:30,210 Yeah, exactly. 648 00:34:30,210 --> 00:34:32,271 Like the Leafs are in a position where they could do this. 649 00:34:32,271 --> 00:34:34,992 There's a lot of hockey teams and basketball teams that if this was 650 00:34:34,992 --> 00:34:38,554 available, they would be like, yeah, I'll just pay it all at the end of the 651 00:34:38,554 --> 00:34:39,174 contract. 652 00:34:39,174 --> 00:34:40,034 Fine. 653 00:34:40,795 --> 00:34:45,157 Like, sure, we'll pay Matthews like 75 mil at the end of the contract. 654 00:34:45,157 --> 00:34:45,937 I don't give a shit. 655 00:34:45,937 --> 00:34:46,317 Like. 656 00:34:46,317 --> 00:34:48,158 Like that's not a thing. 657 00:34:48,158 --> 00:34:53,542 You set up a luxury taxi, set up a salary cap, whatever, for these certain rules. 658 00:34:53,542 --> 00:34:56,624 So if you start doing this, what's the point of having it? 659 00:34:57,054 --> 00:35:03,084 And the fact that they get 46 mil against the luxury tax is such a, seems like such 660 00:35:03,084 --> 00:35:04,525 an arbitrary number. 661 00:35:04,553 --> 00:35:05,606 Who decided that? 662 00:35:05,606 --> 00:35:06,835 Yeah, like what? 663 00:35:07,282 --> 00:35:13,303 Yeah, so it's like they don't get the full 68 million off their imaginary cap, which 664 00:35:13,303 --> 00:35:18,245 I don't even understand the point of it's just, it just saves them money basically 665 00:35:18,245 --> 00:35:19,525 at the end of the day. 666 00:35:19,605 --> 00:35:24,747 So that's the stupid thing is like it doesn't change the team you can put on 667 00:35:25,087 --> 00:35:29,528 onto the field like it does in hockey where like you can't go over the cap. 668 00:35:29,528 --> 00:35:33,089 All that means is the owners are paying more money and as they're putting a better 669 00:35:33,089 --> 00:35:34,166 team on the field. 670 00:35:34,166 --> 00:35:36,754 and more people are coming to watch, who gives a fuck if it costs you a couple 671 00:35:36,754 --> 00:35:37,736 extra mil? 672 00:35:38,139 --> 00:35:40,445 Like, ugh. 673 00:35:40,887 --> 00:35:45,151 Like, you'll find that in the NBA, they have luxury tax, the exact same thing, but 674 00:35:45,412 --> 00:35:49,917 to circumvent it like that, where the whole money is not counted against it, 675 00:35:49,917 --> 00:35:51,318 year by year, is... 676 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:53,120 It's crazy to me. 677 00:35:53,726 --> 00:35:55,847 Yeah, I think there's a middle ground here. 678 00:35:56,007 --> 00:36:00,031 I'm not saying by any means that a hard cap system is the right way to go, but I 679 00:36:00,031 --> 00:36:07,456 think that this is just allowing rich teams to put together whatever they want 680 00:36:07,837 --> 00:36:08,958 using their money. 681 00:36:09,018 --> 00:36:12,040 It's literally taking off the barriers of... 682 00:36:13,762 --> 00:36:17,665 If you're allowing billionaires and these big conglomerate corporation owners to buy 683 00:36:17,665 --> 00:36:22,409 teams, then you have to take into account that they're gonna throw around as much 684 00:36:22,409 --> 00:36:23,549 money as they want. 685 00:36:23,953 --> 00:36:24,654 and I agree with you. 686 00:36:24,654 --> 00:36:29,098 Like, I'm not advocating for one system or the other, but I will say this. 687 00:36:29,098 --> 00:36:34,161 If your aim is parody, a hard cap is by far the fairest. 688 00:36:34,582 --> 00:36:37,924 And what is happening elsewhere is, yeah. 689 00:36:38,578 --> 00:36:40,678 Yeah, it is definitely the fairest way to go. 690 00:36:40,678 --> 00:36:41,979 I mean, fuck. 691 00:36:41,979 --> 00:36:42,779 Look at the NHL. 692 00:36:42,779 --> 00:36:47,982 I mean, even the shitty San Jose Sharks that are still a minus 54 are five, three 693 00:36:47,982 --> 00:36:49,742 and two in their last 10. 694 00:36:49,823 --> 00:36:50,863 Look at that. 695 00:36:51,423 --> 00:36:56,636 Like, you know, it's never the end of the world in the NHL for any team. 696 00:36:56,636 --> 00:36:59,968 better or worse for your game, but at least it's fair. 697 00:37:00,778 --> 00:37:03,678 Yeah, I'd say there is a frustrating element to it. 698 00:37:03,678 --> 00:37:08,120 Like as Leaf fans, you know, your team is playing really well and then you go up 699 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:13,101 against Arizona and they'll beat you six to two or something. 700 00:37:13,101 --> 00:37:14,021 It's like, what just happened? 701 00:37:14,021 --> 00:37:15,722 How did the worst team in the league just beat us? 702 00:37:15,722 --> 00:37:18,843 Well, the worst team in the league isn't that much worse than your team. 703 00:37:18,843 --> 00:37:21,404 They're only a few players away from being there. 704 00:37:21,404 --> 00:37:25,385 Like it seems like every team is a few players away from being as good as the 705 00:37:25,385 --> 00:37:25,705 other. 706 00:37:25,705 --> 00:37:28,033 So anything can happen. 707 00:37:28,033 --> 00:37:28,916 amount of you. 708 00:37:30,302 --> 00:37:31,823 Yeah. 709 00:37:31,823 --> 00:37:33,604 Anyway, I feel like I'm stating the obvious at this point. 710 00:37:33,604 --> 00:37:34,685 Let's get out of here. 711 00:37:34,705 --> 00:37:36,487 We're back tomorrow night. 712 00:37:36,487 --> 00:37:37,107 Who do they play? 713 00:37:37,107 --> 00:37:38,688 Is it the Rangers then? 714 00:37:38,808 --> 00:37:40,310 Are we just staying in New York? 715 00:37:40,310 --> 00:37:42,471 Oh, fun. 716 00:37:42,471 --> 00:37:48,696 Two of the best goalies in the fucking league back to back. 717 00:37:48,696 --> 00:37:49,037 It's OK. 718 00:37:49,037 --> 00:37:50,411 They're both my fantasy teams. 719 00:37:50,411 --> 00:37:51,816 or do you think it's Jones? 720 00:37:53,814 --> 00:37:56,004 Martin Jones against the Rangers? 721 00:37:56,004 --> 00:37:56,685 Eww. 722 00:37:58,354 --> 00:37:58,915 I... 723 00:37:59,501 --> 00:38:01,753 probably, to be honest. 724 00:38:03,177 --> 00:38:04,099 I think it's Sammy. 725 00:38:04,099 --> 00:38:06,826 I think they're gonna try and build his confidence up a little bit and give him 726 00:38:06,826 --> 00:38:07,908 another shot. 727 00:38:09,074 --> 00:38:13,645 Man, it was so sad seeing him lying on the ice at the end of the OT there. 728 00:38:15,552 --> 00:38:16,896 He just had no chance. 729 00:38:17,123 --> 00:38:23,054 it's like shades of Jack just, oh no, please don't be sad. 730 00:38:23,054 --> 00:38:23,535 Don't be sad. 731 00:38:23,535 --> 00:38:24,216 Get up. 732 00:38:24,216 --> 00:38:25,018 It's okay. 733 00:38:25,018 --> 00:38:25,418 It's okay. 734 00:38:25,418 --> 00:38:26,952 I'm not mad about the loss anymore. 735 00:38:26,952 --> 00:38:29,441 playing in a beer league somewhere right now and- 736 00:38:29,466 --> 00:38:30,870 Oh, poor guy. 737 00:38:31,113 --> 00:38:34,004 I honestly hope that he makes his way back up to the NH. 738 00:38:35,721 --> 00:38:38,175 I hope so too, but that's a tough road. 739 00:38:38,442 --> 00:38:39,344 Yeah. 740 00:38:39,344 --> 00:38:40,085 All right. 741 00:38:40,106 --> 00:38:42,532 Thanks for listening in. 742 00:38:42,532 --> 00:38:45,821 It's been Leafs late night, where it's never too late for the Leafs. 743 00:38:45,821 --> 00:38:47,925 We will catch you next time. 744 00:38:49,338 --> 00:38:50,264 A demai. 745 00:39:19,051 --> 00:39:19,657 Oh my god. 746 00:39:19,657 --> 00:39:20,752 That was a good little show.