Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Our two-over drive continues, powered by FanDuel, bringing you more ways to play your game your way. Brian Hayes, the O-Dog, Jeff O'Neill, Jamie Noodles, McLennan. Confirm or deny later in the hour. Best bets still to come. Mike Johnson will join us here in a few moments. We know all 16 teams going to the Stanley Cup playoffs. There's still some jockeying for position. Some series are set.
Montreal's playing Tampa. Minnesota is playing Dallas. Philly is playing Pitt. So we know those are going down. But we don't know the wild card rounds yet and, you know, who Buffalo is going to play, who Carolina is going to play, Colorado, et cetera. Vegas with a big win last night.
Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on Auston Matthews' future with the Maple Leafs?
They just keep rolling, man. Now they're scoring goals. They keep putting up numbers. They got stops.
Chapter 3: How are the playoff positions shaping up for the NHL teams?
Beware, I think.
Beware, man. Beware of that team. Like if the goaltending can hold up and they get cooking ā We talked about their depth all year long. They had a slide, which was remarkable to watch, and it cost them their coach their job or his job. But if they get rolling, man, they got depth and they can do damage.
Yes, they can. They have that history. Really good team. Carter Hart, I think, is going to be the man. Yeah, he is. He's going to play, right, Noodles?
He's their guy right now, and he's played well. That was the one key. Aiden Hale didn't have a great season. You've got Akira Schmidt who's up and down. And when you look at it, I think that they'd wanted Hart to be healthy, and now he's healthy and playing well. I think he's their guy to start the playoffs. He's a good goalie, you know.
How about Mark Scheifele hitting 100 points? And how crazy that season's been in Winnipeg, where they ran out of time. I think if they played 15 more games, they might make the playoffs the way they were playing. But 101 points for Scheifele.
Well, wouldn't you think it would be one of the checks? Like if you said to Scheifele at the beginning of the year, you get a hunch? we're probably going to the playoffs.
Definitely.
For sure. Definitely. Another 100-point guy that was kind of sneaky, I don't know, because we kept talking about Cole Caulfield.
Suzuki.
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Chapter 4: What insights does Mike Johnson provide about the Hart Trophy race?
Montreal, and I know the market we live in, all of that type of stuff, but they know how valuable Nick Suzuki is. He is an absolute rock star of a player. And, yes, I don't know if Caulfield gets 50, if Suzuki's not driving that line. I think he's such a great player. He got 100 points, but he's not a flashy guy. He's just really good. He's consistent.
Remember when we were hoping to compare him to Patrice Bergeron? That's what people were like. That's a Bergeron, might be a 60, 70-point guy. This guy got 100 points.
Yeah, Bergeron never hit 100 in his career.
Again, there's lots of sexy conversations, all of that, but Suzuki's a hell of a player that I don't think gets enough love because there's other people in other organizations, and including on that organization, that is maybe Caulfield.
Caulfield and Hudson are the other two that come up, clearly, as they deserve to come up. But I think we've known the heavy hitters for a while, McDavid, Kucherov, McKinnon. McDavid's going to win the Art Ross. McKinnon likely holds onto the Rocket. But you never know. Colorado and Montreal. Montreal's got one more game and maybe Caulfield pots a couple.
And Kucherov's going to be right in between the two of them in terms of points and five-on-five numbers and all that kind of stuff. Celebrini's not going to be in contention now because they missed the playoffs.
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Chapter 5: How is Nick Suzuki positioning himself for the Hart Trophy conversation?
So it does open the door to who would be the other two or three guys in the league. Drysaddle would have been. Drysaddle's got 97 points. He hasn't played in like six weeks. It's crazy. Well, let's, I guess, bring Johnny in, and maybe he can supply us some answers.
Can help us out with some numbers?
Sure. Here's Mike Johnson, our TSN hockey.
Johnny, hang on a sec, Hazy. Welcome to our first installment of what is our hashtag, Hazy? We are data-driven. Data-driven. Welcome, Johnny.
I mean, I appreciate you having me in there. We got to work on the delivery of your hashtag for next time. I appreciate the data centric nation. Although we were messaging before and I was, you know, trying to gauge we're always going to go with this. And he did not give me a ton of direction. Well, you're such an idiot.
I said, you better have some numbers, Johnny. And you said, why don't you take me in a direction? And I said, I don't have any numbers. Yeah.
Well, how about the numbers that Noodles was digging up on Suzuki?
Oh, I want your thought on Suzuki.
For the heart, like in-heart contention. Where do you stand on that?
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Chapter 6: How does data influence decision-making in NHL player evaluations?
I know there's been this big conversation about the Norris and whether Bouchard belongs in that conversation. He does. He absolutely does.
I agree. I agree.
Quality of teammates, though. Who do they play with most? What do they, you know... What did McDavid do for him? What did he do for McDavid? All that kind of stuff.
You look at all those things and try to find commonalities where you could say, okay, by looking at these numbers, this performance, I could say he's a bit better than Pasternak in a similar situation because you flesh out through the numbers a comparable that's a bit more precise than just sort of Boston versus Montreal.
With Mike Johnson. All right, so this is a lot of looking back. Let's look ahead here. Let's bring a couple of Leafs into focus here. Of these two players, who do you have more faith will have an A-plus season next year relative to what their expectations should be? Austin Matthews or William Nylander?
William Nylander. Expectations are lower, right? Like, I think if Willie does sort of what he did this year, that's, you know... If he gets 37 goals and 95 points and plays 82 games or... is for that, which he is on base this year to be over 100 points if he were to play every game. 12th in the league in points per game. 12th! I don't expect him to be higher than 12th.
That should be an A season for William Nylander. I think because he's younger, he's healthier, his legs are not in question, his movement is not in question. He's very likeable. to do what he is supposed to do. Austin, a lot more question marks. I think his health.
I also think the new coach will impact him and his usage and his game more than, sorry, if there is a new coach, the new direction will impact him more than it impacts Willie. Does he get freed up a little bit? Does he get different kind of wingers, different kind of assignments, different kind of usage? I put all that, more questions. So, yeah, confidence level for Willie, pretty high.
Confidence level for Austin, he'll be good. He'll be solid B material. But will he be A++, which for him is 50-plus gold and 100 points? Less certain.
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Chapter 7: What are the expectations for William Nylander and Auston Matthews next season?
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No, you just got to go, they're brutal. They're terrible.
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