David Pivnick
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231 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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And I think your point is well taken. in the professional setting too. I mean, I joke about myself all the time, frankly, that I'm not necessarily independently important to the firm or to others, but I'm very important to many of the people who are very important. And I think you hit the nail on the head there.
I think I carry my own weight just fine, but for the three to five top people in healthcare and private equity, by putting myself in a position to be their go-to litigator, I've made myself very valuable to the firm and our clients as well.
And I think that is good general advice of figuring out who's going to help, who you can be valuable to, and in turn will return that favor and be valuable back in supporting you, I think has a lot of value. And it's a lot easier to do that when you're talking about three to five people versus 10 to 12.
Yeah, sadly, we're skipping the This year, they didn't make our rounds. We are, however, interviewing at University of Illinois, which is very much the Harvard of Champaign. So it's not quite Harvard itself, but all the same, quite impressive. And, you know, I'll still take my law school credentials over yours. So I've got that going for me.
Yeah, I mean, look, the U.S.-Canadian relationship is at an interesting point in time, I think, You know, as a general statement, I would say I think the majority of Canadians have been displeased with the sort of 51st state rhetoric. I suspect, like many things, President Trump is saying that a little bit tongue in cheek to get a rise, including, you know, with the references to Governor Trudeau.
But I think it's an interesting dynamic because, frankly, the tariff discussions and the sort of what I view as probably relatively lighthearted,
jibes by President Trump ended up actually making a difference in the Canadian election, where I think the Liberal Party had been widely disdained for a long time, and everybody in Canada, and I use everybody loosely, but a substantial proportion of Canadians were ready to move on from Justin Trudeau, and the Liberals were in rough shape, and I think the country kind of galvanized and rallied together with Canadian pride
to push back on the notion that it was just a territory of the United States. And I think it actually really helped Mark Cardy coming in and taking over the liberal leadership and then, frankly, winning the election and becoming prime minister. And I think, you know, the repercussions of that remain to be seen. I didn't find the meeting at the White House to be all that noteworthy.
I know people have been getting their snippets on the comments about you know, how important a trade partner is, but I certainly don't think President Trump is undercutting the importance of Canada as a trade partner so much as trying to make sure that no trade partners are taking advantage.
I think there's room to disagree on how that's being handled, but I don't think it's intended to be creating friction with Canada. I think that, like other things, has been an indirect consequence, and I think the main thing is it did have an impact on the Canadian election.
Well, I mean, the first thing is you and everybody else should be watching more than just snippets.
playoff hockey is just the best I'm very excited to talk about that but it's really great and you're absolutely right this year there's been a ton of great comebacks a ton of overtimes just really really fun playoffs to watch and it's been great watching it with my kids particularly my sons who keep lamenting how much they want to go see a Blackhawks playoff game and how fun it will be and hopefully that will not be too far away into the future but the playoffs have been great I think
I believe we'll see how this plays out, but I believe the Leafs' annual collapse starts in about, give or take, let me just look at the clock, but in about five hours, 48 minutes, I believe they will start walking their way out of the playoffs and the Panthers are going to crush them tonight and carry on. I think Florida has a good chance to win it.
I am personally hoping that Connor McDavid gets his first Stanley Cup out in Edmonton. I think he's a phenomenal player and a lot of fun to watch. And while the Oilers' defense is mediocre and their goaltending is not even that good, I'm not sure that their offense and power play isn't good enough to potentially get it done this year.
And I think the Dallas Stars, if they get healthy with Heiskanen and Robertson coming back, they could be a real contender as well. But I think it's been a very high-paced, lots of scoring in the playoffs this year, a little bit more open than is typical and a lot of fun to watch. I thought the draft lottery, you know, first of all, I thought the actual process was kind of confusing.
It was the first time they'd gone to the live drawing, and I think a lot of people were confused. I really wanted the Hawks to have a top two pick, mainly because I think Michael Misa is a center that really would have fit well. I am skeptical that he will fall to pick three, but I'm hopeful that he does.
And if not, I think the Hawks are going to end up going with either Porter Martone, who's a big power forward from Ontario, or or Anton Frondell, a Swedish center. I think both of them fit different needs on the roster and would be very good additions. And I'll be happy if Misa falls or if we get one of those two.
There are some rumblings of a couple other names that the Hawks are rumored to like and would be sort of off-the-board picks, and I'm hoping they avoid those. We've got lots of assets that they want to trade back up into the first round and pick someone else who would be a reach at three. But ultimately, a pick three – we should be getting a good player.
And I think the bigger thing to watch is I expect the Blackhawks to be relatively meaningful players in free agency this summer and trying to snag a couple of strong wingers to really give Conor Bedard and Frank Nazer more talent to play with and start pushing towards the playoffs. Maybe not next year, but the year after. So I think they could be in on guys like Mitch Marder if he hits the market.
Nikolai Ilu is out of Winnipeg. and Sam Bennett. And frankly, we've got 30 million in cap space. So it's time to start spending it. We've got lots of picks the next few years. Let's start putting some talent on the ice and moving this thing forward.
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