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Dreger on Carolina’s goaltending conundrum, Darnell Nurse’s future and Dallas Eakin being a finalist for Leafs
11 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Here he is, our TSN Hockey Insider joining us from the Maple Toyota Hotline. Down in Carolina for Game 5. How are we feeling down there, Dregs?
Well, we're feeling pretty good. I'd like to give you the inside information as to how I got here, but I'm not going to do that because it's a long explanation. I will tell you this much, Lou. I will tell you this much. Upon leaving the hotel, which isn't that far away from the arena, I was stopped in the hallway along with Mark Masters in the lobby of the hotel. Huge Jeff O'Neill fans.
Huge Jeff O'Neill fans. Their prediction is there will be a large number of O'Neill Carolina Hurricanes jerseys in the building for game five. There has been throughout the playoffs. And I don't recall the gentleman's name. Oh, but he said that he sent you a bobblehead, a Jeff O'Neill bobblehead a while back, long time ago. So fake news or did this actually happen?
Well, Darren, these two gentlemen beside me have seen where some of the mail ends up that gets sent to me. Unfortunately, it may be never made it through the process. I'm really concerned about where that bobblehead is. That bobblehead could be at a waste site. As we speak. Or someone from TSN took it. Yes, exactly. Why did I bring this up? I know. You knew it was coming.
Why did I bring this up? That bobblehead's been recycled into a teacup somewhere on a children's place. Yeah, it's made its way around town. So it's got to be bussy tonight, right? Take us through the, I guess, thinking down there in terms of the goaltending, Freddie Anderson, where things stand for Carolina.
Yeah. It's an ongoing story, obviously, and what we know is what we saw. We saw Brandon Bussey in the starters net for the Hurricanes as part of the morning skate. Rod Brennamore, in fact, you guys probably heard and saw the sound bite as part of his availability. He at least updated us on Freddie Anderson's status. The fact that Freddie was on the ice prior to the Hurricanes morning skate.
And he says, look, everybody is available. Now, this doesn't mean anything. But when in the visitor's room, the Vegas Golden Knights, of course, and every team has that lineup whiteboard in their dressing room. And they have Brandon Bussey starting and Freddie Anderson backing up. Whether or not that's real doesn't matter.
But Brendan Moore did say that Anderson was available, but we believe that Bussey gets the nod.
Darren, is there any talk out of the Canes locker room or just their organization where... Through three rounds of the playoffs, the first period would be over and they would have one shot against. They were giving their opponents nothing. And clearly you have to credit Vegas for creating their opportunities.
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Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on Carolina's goaltending situation?
But this has been days in the works. I mean, the speculation, fellas, has been out there targeting Darnell Nurse for longer than that. But as I reported earlier, it was Darnell Nurse who initiated this about a week ago. They basically submitted their request with a list of teams. What we don't know is how many teams are on that list.
Maybe they get to a place where if Darnell really wants that change, he's going to have to expand that list to develop further interest.
Well, I guess we'll stick with Edmondson because I want to get to the Leafs coaching pursuit at some point and get to what you're hearing here. But the Mike Babcock story, Drex, you broke it open a couple days ago, and the ebbs and flows. I mean, Mike Babcock was out of our life for a long time. Years.
Years he's been out, and now he has completely taken over, I'd say, the sports world in Canada for sure over the last few days. Yeah. Where do things stand with Babcock, the Players Association, and the Edmonton job?
Yeah, well right now it's in the hands of the National Hockey League, unless Mike Babcock takes it out of the league's hands, or the Edmonton Oilers say, okay, well we can't wait around forever here, so we're going to cut bait, we're going to move away. If either of those things happen, then the National Hockey League doesn't have to conduct its investigation.
It was the NHLPA that said, look, we need to find out exactly what went down in 2023 amid the allegations that Babcock, then the head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets, invaded players' privacy. We know some of it. Some of it has been reported on. But is that everything? And I can tell you it's not everything. I don't know how serious it is. There's been some speculation around it.
I don't think that anyone truly knows, including the head office of the NHL. So that has to transpire. So that's where it is right now. But, fellas, I think we can all appreciate this. This has been an annoyance, a high-level annoyance for NHL head office because this is supposed to be the grandest –
part of the year right the celebration that is the stanley cup final and yet it was going into game four when that news broke now we're talking about it going into game five and it's a distraction so as much as the edmonton oilers maybe mike babcock and everybody involved mcdavid dry sidles zach time and the supporters of mike babcock would really like this thing to grind into full speed
I don't think the NHL is in any rush. Not at this point. I think they want the focus to stay here on the Stanley Cup final.
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