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Chapter 1: What are the latest NHL headlines discussed?
Hour 2 Overdrive continues. Powered by FanDuel. Bringing you everything from the opening line to the final score. Brian Hazio, Doug Jeff O'Neill, Frankie Corrado. Giving away those Leaf tickets later this hour. Leafs Golden Knights tomorrow night. Vegas in Boston tonight. Sid and the Pens in Edmonton. That'll be a fun game to watch. And lots going on in the NHL. Lots going on in the NBA.
We're getting closer to the NFL. And a big, big Sunday. As the O-Dog will be on the clock making the pick tomorrow. It's a big, big moment for you.
I'm not making the pick. I'm going to do my usual thing. It is a team. You have declared yourself the captain of the team. You are going to get the information, receive the information, and ultimately make a selection.
Chapter 2: Who are the Maple Leafs' potential trade targets?
Let me ask you something. If Hayes is going to make the pick, that's his responsibility, that's fine. But if he goes against you and what you said to do, do you let him know about it immediately? Turnover, interception, feel like you're down in the game. How quickly do you get in his kitchen about it? Immediately.
You know the answer to that. It's a rhetorical question. He'll be so angry. It's right away. He'll be so annoying. Here's what he just set himself up for. It's actually a brilliant play. It's one of the great political plays ever. If he's right and I go with it, he made the pick, right? Where if he's wrong and I go with what he said, he'll say, well, you're the guy.
You should have gone a different direction.
My favorite line to him, Frankie, is, Don't say you weren't warned. I love quoting that one out there.
Chapter 3: What players could potentially get traded in the NHL?
Don't say you weren't warned.
Because him and the other guy will toss back these crazy ideas, and then when they get smoked and I said, I don't know about this, boys, I always say, don't say you weren't warned.
Do you realize we were on fire all season long?
Dude, I get it. I'm Forsling, though. I'm Gustav Forsling. I jumped on the Florida Panthers moving ship.
And I appreciate that. And we're 3-2 in our picks. The Bears have jammed us twice. We have a winning record in the playoffs. It's that Luke hasn't missed. And Noodles, I guess. Credit to Noodles as well. He's playing a big role in that, I'm sure. But anyway, we'll get to that tomorrow. Luke will join us, and Al's brother will be involved.
And we'll make our picks, and we'll tee up the game tomorrow as well, you know, with Marner in town. And I'm quite curious to see what ā I know Bruce joined us last year. Bruce is an optimistic guy. Bruce played for the team. Yeah. It's not going to be a positive reception.
No, it's not at all.
No, it's not going to be. I think during the ā The video montage, it could be. But it's not going to be like Jonathan Taves, nor should it be. Taves won three cups in Chicago and left based on medical terms.
It depends how pissed off they are.
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Chapter 4: How did the Maple Leafs lose key players over the years?
If they really want to dig deep, they'll just boo right through the whole welcome back video. I don't know. I think the guy's jersey could possibly go up. That's how good of a player he was for this organization. He's a top ten player in the organization all time. Not even a question.
Well, it's a question. And from Toronto. It's a question, for sure. And from Toronto. Think about that as well. Fans have every right to boo. They have every right to be pissed off. But I just want to know why. The intent why. Because all we talked about for maybe five years, four or five years, was you've got to break this thing up. Someone's got to go. Mitch Parker went.
He was never going to be a Leaf forever. All they say is we could have had Rantanen, but you said no. That is the one thing that everybody says to me. We could have had Rantanen, but you said no, and now we don't have Rantanen. I don't know.
Well, be pissed off because of this. Be pissed off because in 2019, he wanted $11 million when Rantanen took nine and Braden Point took a bridge deal at six and a half, and then that's fine. You got all your money, but then you had to deliver, and you had to win, and then year after year, Marner, Matthews, Nylander, Tavares, the guys who were making all the money, they didn't win.
Flat cap world, I get it. But you can't really lean on that as an excuse. So all the optimism, all the hope, that went down the drain.
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Chapter 5: What are Bryan Hayes' FanDuel Best Bets for the night?
And then we got to the point where it was like something had to change. Someone had to go. Okay, he's gone right now. So boo him because you're pissed about the way they performed in the playoffs. Boo him because he's gone. Someone had to leave. And it turns out it was his time to go.
Yeah, it's a bizarre psyche because there's a lot of ā the Leaf fans that are booing him, that will boo him, wanted him gone, and now he's gone. But they wanted him gone, but with him begging to stay. It's a really weird backwards mentality. But that's at the core of it. Wanted Marner to beg to stay and the Leafs to say, no, we don't want you anymore. Get out. That's what they wanted.
Where it stings for the Leaf fans that wanted him to go was he was happy to go. And by all accounts, he was planning on going. And he picked his spot and he went to it. And that's the depth of it. And obviously it's more it's the losing. The contract was a big part of it.
Chapter 6: How do injuries impact the Maple Leafs' lineup decisions?
That set himself back in the marketplace for sure. And he's not alone. Other guys did that as well. And other guys had different chances to rectify it. But the fact that he's a local guy makes it ā possibly more scathing tomorrow night because he's going to have family and friends here. If it was Matthews, he'd just show up, do his thing, and get the hell out.
If it was Willie, he'd show up, do his thing, and get out. It's different with Mitch. Marner's going to live here in the summers, I presume. He's probably up in Muskoka, probably at home a lot. Maybe he's still going to run a camp or whatever. I don't know. He's going to have a future in Toronto where the other guys wouldn't if they left. But I don't know.
It's kind of a shot at the whole core four, and he's the one that's going to have to eat it. That's what's interesting about it. Matthews should probably hear it for the losing, and Nylander should hear it, and Tavares should hear it, and Riley should hear it, but they're still here. So Mitch will take it kind of on behalf of those guys as well, even though they're still Leafs.
All right, some Leaf news, a lot of Leaf news today to chat about. Let's bring in the insiders here, Darren Dreger. and Pierre Lebrun good to see you boys as always um drags I guess we'll start with you in terms of Ekman Larson and and Brandon Carlo what what are you hearing on those two and the likelihood that they're even available tomorrow night or this weekend at all
Yeah. Well, I think the news is better than it sounded like it was headed earlier today. I mean, we know that Oliver Ackman-Larsen wasn't able to finish the game. And, you know, he's a tough dude, right? Arguably he's been Toronto's best defenseman. So when he went down in the first period, I think everybody's like, oh, no, here we go.
And then postgame we find out that maybe Brandon Carlo tweaked something as well. So I think it's actually better news now, Brian, to be fair.
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of the upcoming Leafs vs. Golden Knights game?
It was trending towards... a negative and a higher sense of urgency for the general manager to bring in some form of stopgap. But my understanding is as the day has progressed, both men are feeling better, and I wouldn't be surprised to see them in the lineup against the Vegas Golden Knights tomorrow.
Ooh, that's a big win if that's the case. That's a big, big win because... I don't know if Dreg's worth things stand on with Tanev. Listen, Trey Living deserves credit for claiming stature. Stature's been a big get for him and a big get for them.
But if there are injuries or if these guys are in a position where it's not feeling great tomorrow and it carries over, what kind of pressure does it put on Trey Living to try to add to the defense at some point?
Yeah, well, I'll bring Pierre into this, too. He's been looking pretty much all season long and drifting back into the offseason. And you're right, Brian. I mean, when you look at how they've been able to keep this group basically together with duct tape, again, I repeat, Oliver Ekman-Larsen has been one of their mainstays, shifting sides, playing in the cave, you know, all of that.
My understanding on TANF, just to bring you fully up to speed there as well, man, he's working at it. You know, this guy is trying to get to a place where he can return. Now, there's no guarantee that he's going to be able to do that. Far from a guarantee. He's already been out long term, but it's something that we're going to have to continue to monitor.
In the meantime, Tree Living Pierre continues to kick tires, as we know, like most general managers looking across the market, in fact, scouring the market for some help on that blue line. No, thanks for the tea up there, buddy.
Yeah, I mean, he's been scouring the market for a while. And, you know, we've talked about Luke Shen on Insider Trading. I think that'd be a wonderful fit to bring him back again, pending UFA. Dougie Hamilton's a much more complicated situation. We know that the Leafs are among the teams that are on Hamilton's approved trade list. Where it goes from there, I'm not quite sure.
There's no way the Leafs can afford $9 million a year, which is what he makes for two and a half years. But I know the Leafs have batted that around internally and a host of other D options. You know, what's hard right now, not just for the Leafs, but for other teams that I've talked to all week, is they're waiting for more teams to declare themselves as sellers. Look at the East, man.
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Chapter 8: Who are the five players that Toronto sports fans regret losing?
I mean, I was looking at this because I had a note on the Florida Panthers today. They're five out. They're in an eight-team battle for the last two wild cards box in the East. Like, who's announcing that they're out? So I think everyone's trying to get, in some ways, to the Olympic break and understand where they are. You know, I get that OEL is not long-term, if at all, not even a game.
And same for Carlo, as Dregs just told us. But it doesn't change the fact that with the TANF situation, the Leafs, I think, have to add a piece on the back end before the deadline. Otherwise, I don't know, A, how they make the playoffs, perhaps, or even if they make the playoffs, how they can think that they have a chance of going past a round.
Pierre, I'll start with you. Is there anything that this team could do leading up to the Olympic break, right up until the Olympic break, that could push them into a position to do what Boston did last year where they just say, you know what, probably not our year and we might just have to move away from some things and go get them next year. Is there a scenario where that could happen?
I mean, I guess there is. Oh, and I know why you're asking. It's funny. Remember that day on December 23rd when it looked like the sky was falling in Toronto and Brad Treliving had a mini news conference in lieu of Mark Savard's firing and basically coming out and saying, you know, I'm not firing Craig Berube. It feels like a long time ago now.
But at the end of that news conference, I was able to get in the last question to Brad Treliving. And the question was, are you looking at the market for selling or buying at this point? And I thought it was a fair question given where the Leafs were.
And if you remember his answer, there was very little hesitation that he did not think the season was over and he was still looking to add if he could, within reason, of course. The reason I point that out is that, you know, listen, I think Brad Trelowing's always going to do the right thing for the Leafs. But his own situation at the end of the year is going to be interesting.
Let's face it, he's got another year left on his deal after this year. He's got a new boss in Keith Pelley. And so you're asking me, you know, would the Leafs get into a position where they start a mini teardown like Boston did last year? I don't see it today, man. I don't see it right now. Drex, you want to jump in there?
No, I also wonder, too. Yeah. You know, it gets a little bit more complicated, too, for the Maple Leafs. Like, you know, we just saw Kiefer Sherwood from the Vancouver Canucks go to the San Jose Sharks for a couple of second-round draft picks and an American League defenseman, 25-year-old, right? And I think that, you know, there were some mutterings by Leaf fans, well...
Kiefer Sherwood's a nice player. Like, you know, as a rental, like, why wouldn't you give that some thought? Well, the problem with that is, you know, again, some of the trades that were made prior to Tree Living arriving in Toronto are still haunting this team from a draft pick perspective. So second-round picks are actually valued.
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