Roger Griffiths

Welcome to the Friday Focus podcast for the 1st of May, 2026.

I'm Roger Griffiths, bringing spring flowers in Janice Gross-Stein, my co-host, who is laboring under a spring cold.

These are the worst, Janice.

You know, you go through winter dodging viruses right and left, and then you're in the homestretch, baseball's underway, you're a big baseball fan, and you got a cold.

So all of our sympathies go out to you.

And how are you feeling about your beloved Jays this year?

Okay, well, unlikely fans who are watching the first round of games in the Stanley Cup.

One Canadian team left, the Habs.

We lost the Oilers last night.

I don't know, Janice, if we go through to round two of the Stanley Cup with no Canadian teams, dark days, dark days ahead.

Maybe.

Supposedly the problem, Janice, is sunshine and high taxes.

None of the good players like playing in Canada because you got higher taxes and less sunshine.

So all these...

Weird teams like Tampa and Colorado and the Coyotes in Arizona, they seem to attract some really good players.

I think the golf courses are all year round, and NHL stars like their golf.

Let's talk about gasping, maybe gasping for air in terms of oxygen to keep this ceasefire alive.

Do you like that transition?

I really used a lot of alliteration there to get us from hockey to... Really smooth.

Yeah, it was an effort.