John Shannon
speaker
8,851 appearances
94 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 4d ago
John Shannon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, that's a difficult situation Jim Neal's been put in.
I mean, they've done a magnificent job, and you've talked about it tons over the years, Bob, of Dallas, of procuring players.
Joe McDonnell has done a great job for Jim Neal there.
And so when you...
When you get to a point where you can't do a deal with one of your elite players and you have a deal in place for three first-round picks with Seattle and he rejects the deal, that puts you in a really tough spot.
The only solace that Seattle has in this is that Dallas now feels the same pain when Wierenski turned down the deal yesterday.
They've signed as many as they could.
But if any deal with Columbus had occurred, it would have included Matthew Nye's.
And so the money would have been it would have it would have come close to being a wash.
I think at some point when you when you consider what NICE is making and what kind of package the Maple Leafs would have had to put together.
The problem, you know, the problem that Columbus had is what any any deal that with any team.
you you know you weren't getting the value for roenske anyway right so but but the maple leafs you know what john john shakers you got to give him some credit he's swung for the fences and um he's got bodies uh there are and he's spent lots of money but and there are question marks about the bodies i mean darren radish has had one good year and he gave him over 60 million dollars
He's given $21 million to Sergei Bobrovsky for three years.
Can Bobrovsky continue to play at an elite level for three more seasons as this Maple Leaf team kind of evolves?
That's one of the key things.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, the one that I shook my head at is another former oiler, and that's Victor Arvidsson in Detroit.
Well, I mean, you knew as well as anybody, Bob, that San Jose had been kicking tires and were trying to improve their blue line.
And once that list was changed, then there was an obvious opportunity for Stan to do the deal.
And let's face it, in this day and age...
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