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Chapter 1: What happened in the previous day's sports events?
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It's loose in front, he scores! Jordan Stahl down and out. He does it again. Who's the Conn Smythe favorite?
I think Jordan Stahl has now put himself firmly in that conversation.
And it's lined to left field.
A base hit. And Valenzuela has worked it off for the Blue Jays.
Good morning, Vancouver. Six o'clock on a Wednesday. Happy Wednesday, everybody. It is Halford. It is Braff. It is Sportsnet 650. We are coming to you live from the Kintec Studios in beautiful Mount Pleasant in Vancouver. Jason, good morning. Good morning. Adog, good morning to you. Good morning. Laddie, good morning to you as well. Hello, hello.
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Chapter 2: What insights does David Amber provide about Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final?
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Okay, the Duik Morning Drive. It's our morning guest list brought to you by the Duik Auto Group. It begins at 6.30 this morning. David Amber, Hockey Night Canada Sportsnet NHL host is going to join the program. Stanley Cup final, now a best of three.
Chapter 3: How did Jordan Stahl impact the Stanley Cup Final?
Carolina beat Vegas last night to even the series at 2-2. David joins us at 6.30 to break it all down. 7 o'clock, Frank Cervalli. NHL insider from Victory Plus, the Mike Babcock to Edmonton story took another twist yesterday. We'll talk to Frank about that and more at 7. 7.30, Chris Persianen is going to join us. Nick's coverage for Clutch Points and Fan Sighted.
Game four of the NBA Finals goes tonight from MSG. Chris is on the scene live in New York. We'll talk to him at 7.30. 8 o'clock, Randy Janda, Canucks analyst for Sportsnet 650. Lots of stuff to get into on the Canucks front, the draft, free agency shopping, Brendan Gallagher, and a whole lot more. We'll dive into all that with Randy at 8. So we got four guests. We got a loaded show.
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Let us begin with the Stanley Cup final. It was Jordan Stahl scoring twice, including the game winner with 1328 remaining. Canes even up the Stanley Cup final at two games apiece. It's now a best of three. What a performance from the grizzled vet Jordan Stahl. Let's hear what that game-winning goal sounded like, courtesy ESPN. Oh, a terrible turnover. Jarvis is stopped by hard. Oh, my goodness.
Now out in front, Stahl. He scores while falling down. 4-3 Carolina! So Stahl now has five goals through the first four games of this series. First player to score in each of the first four games of a cup final since Mike Bossy did it, all the way back with the Islanders in 1982. We can get to Jordan Stahl's consummate candidacy in a moment, but what a wild game last night, Jason.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the goalie change for the Hurricanes?
Yeah, so if Carolina wins the Stanley Cup... Who's the consummate trophy favorite? Is it Stahl?
So, okay, we were discussing this prior to coming on here.
I mean, that seems wild.
Are you aware, according to an article written by Sportsnet.ca's very own Ryan Dixon, that there is sort of an unspoken rule, an unofficial algorithm... That when doing the voting for the con smite, 50% of the voting goes towards what you did in the first three rounds of the playoffs. Okay. And then 50% goes to what you did in the Stanley Cup final.
Now, Laddie, you seem to think that that percentage was swayed even heavier in favor of the Stanley Cup final.
That's what I thought it was for years and years. I thought if you had a great first three rounds but a terrible cup final, you weren't winning the con smite. I had never heard of the 50-50 rule before.
That's like in high school. I remember it was 50% was for your grades in class. And like this is grade 12. And then 50% was on your provincials.
And 50% was effort.
Yeah, 50% was class participation. No.
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Chapter 5: What are the latest updates on Freddie Anderson's condition?
He is a, Greg, I'm not a goalie expert, but he's a very busy goalie.
in there if he's like there's a lot of I like watching him play because he's kind of like the chaos giraffe of goalies like he's all over the place he forces the hand of the shooter a lot which like you said it's an exciting style to watch and not one that you see too often because a lot of goalies like to play the conservative style and yeah he's uh it was a bold choice to go to him and I'm excited to see where it goes next I'm sad for Anderson but I'm excited for Bussey
I'm looking forward to Carter Hart saying, well, it's an easy save for me because I stay within my crease. He's going to pump his tires a little bit, doesn't he? Yeah. Yeah.
So last night was probably, we can never get 2011 out of the car.
No. We never will. No. We never will.
No. Last night was probably the least exciting of the four games in this series so far.
It was a great game.
And it was still an amazing game. You got to remember, going into it, the theater and drama of the lead-in and then the first period was fantastic because you had the subplot of Bussie getting the starter net and then everyone guessing what was going on with Anderson.
This series is like an NBA game where you're like, oh, they got a big lead early. That doesn't matter. We'll see what the score is in the third period.
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Chapter 6: How have the Stanley Cup Finals surprised viewers so far?
Or there's some stuff in the investigation that hadn't even come out. Or there's a report and people just get reminded of what a weirdo Babcock can be sometimes and his methods. And... You know, is this worth it for the Oilers? Like, is Vegas ever going to give them permission to talk to Bruce Cassidy this offseason? Because remember there was that whole notion out there.
It's like, well, you know, maybe if we win the Stanley Cup, we'll be in such a good mood.
like i well that never made sense to me but i don't know maybe it's gonna happen maybe there's two things we're gonna get if vegas wins the cup we're gonna get some marner stories uh and we're gonna get uh the vegas golden knights saying fine we are the champions and champions must act respectfully and uh you can have them okay so there's a lot of questions there and a lot to unpack i think we should start with
And what will be the crux of this entire investigation is if the Oilers actually want to hire Mike Babcock, because if they eventually decided they don't, then it doesn't really matter. The story just kind of goes away, right? It's if he's going to be the head coach of the Oilers that will kickstart the investigation and then everything will go from there.
It is abundantly clear, based on the insiders out of Edmonton, that Babcock is the guy. It does not sound one bit like they are putting up a smoke screen or they've got a backup plan that might include Bruce Cassidy shaking loose. There's a quote here from a piece that Mark Spector, Sportsnet.ca's very own, wrote yesterday, and I will read it.
Babcock, 63, his age, was grilled by the Oilers leaders in a meeting last week. Asked about former transgressions and how exactly he came to own a reputation as the hardest of hard-ass coaches who crossed the line often enough to be blackballed since 2023. Those leaders came away with one implicit instruction for general manager Stan Bowman. This is our guy. We want to be pushed.
That's a Seinfeld moment. He came in there. He's like, I'm pretty abusive. Yeah. Hire this man.
I am going to hate my teammates. I am going to mentally torment you. And they said, bring it on. Bring on the torment. So he's met with the owner, Daryl Cates. That's been verified, I believe, by Spectre and Bob Stauffer. And we've got some Bob Stauffer audio. We'll play in a second. He's met with Stan Bowman. He's met with whatever. And the leadership group has not been named specifically.
But one has to assume that it would include McDavid and Dreisaitl. Is that fair to suggest? That if you're talking about the leaders of the Oilers, then the two best players on the team would probably be front and center.
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Chapter 7: What are the potential consequences of Mike Babcock's hiring for the Oilers?
And for, you know, he's a member of the triple, you know, gold club, the only coach to ever do that. But the greatest coaching job he ever did is winning it at that school. They don't even have a hockey program anymore. I mean, that's like winning an NCAA football title at Savannah state, right? Like it's knocking off a Georgia and Alabama.
So, uh, I, I just, you know, the players are, have never been a bigger part of the, uh, partnership in the league than now. And, um, You know, I'm going to guess here, if I'm sitting there telling you that from ownership to management to the players, everybody's 100% on board with Mike Babcock, you probably know the level of engagement with the other top players.
So all of a sudden, this investigation from the NHL and NHLPA into Babcock and what happened in Columbus becomes 10 times more interesting. Because as Jason mentioned... The last time that they were set to do this, Babcock just resigned. Yeah. So it became a moot point to investigate because he wasn't on the job anymore and he wasn't an active NHL coach. He wasn't employed by anyone.
So what was the point of digging into this if there was nothing really to dig into?
Yeah.
I don't know what an investigation from something that happened three years ago is going to unfurl. But if this interrupts what the Edmonton Oilers want to do, which is hire Mike Babcock, I think there's going to be serious ramifications. I'm not sure that Stan Bowman can survive botching two coaching searches.
One, because you couldn't get Bruce Cassidy to interview because he was contractually obligated to Vegas. And the other one, because you didn't realize that Mike Babcock still needed to be cleared by the NHLPA.
Well, does he need to be cleared though? That's what it sounds like. I know, but Could the Oilers almost push back? Why does the NHLPA have to clear this? When was it made a rule that the NHLPA has to clear this? I'm honestly just curious. I think the issue would be... When did they get the power to say whether or not a team could hire a coach or not?
See, I don't think it's the power to say yes or no, but I think it's the power to say we do not endorse this. We have a grievance with this hire. In which case you're saying, hey, Daryl Cates, are you actively going to hire a coach who has a grievance filed against him by the players union? Right. And then you put the Edmonton Oilers in a real jam. You know what I mean?
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Chapter 8: What discussions are happening around the Conn Smythe Trophy candidates?
And, Bob, I think there was a little bit more to the follow-up clip where he essentially said, like, and the only reason he's signing for seven is because the CBA is amended now that you can't do eight.
I have a follow-up question, Bob. Why did he only sign for two very recently?
To set up the seven-year, obviously.
Well, I mean, look, could there be something to that where you bridge to this cap that's going to go crazy?
Maybe. Like, it's not the wildest thing I've ever heard.
Yeah.
That you kind of kick the can down the road.
Over the next few years, there's going to be some guys making like, you're only making that money. Like Jackson Blake. Well, there's one. You know, there's a guy that's signed for, what was it, a $4 million cap hit for a while?
Eight years. They got him in under the wire. So he made $40 million on a contract as a kid who was, at the time, still relatively young in his NHL career. It was a fourth-round pick, but he had had a pretty good start to his NHL career. And I always, I mean, we're going to be up against it for time, but that's fine.
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