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Chapter 1: What insights does Craig Button provide about the NHL Entry Draft?
Hour 2 Overdrive continues, powered by FanDuel, bringing you more ways to play your game your way. Leafs with the first pick tonight, the NHL Draft, 10 years after they took Austin Matthews. It's been 41 years since they took Wendell, Wendell Clark, and man, Wendell looked... Perfect draft night. He had the stash and the little moulet going. Ace suit.
Wendell's gone a long, like, you can't remember many years seeing Wendell without a stash.
I've never seen him with anything but a stash.
Check to see if he had one on the island. I played with him on the island.
I'd be shocked if he didn't, Noodles.
Shocked. I can't remember. I just remember Mike Milbury. And he had full handlebar. Mike Milbury annoyed him to the point where I think Wendell just was like, you say another word and I'm going to rip your face right off. Honest to God, I loved Wendell.
How do you annoy Wendell Clark, though? Don't you just say, that guy comes to play every night, he hits, he works. That's one guy I'm not bothering.
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Chapter 2: How does Connor McDavid's future look in the NHL?
Well, Milbury was going around the room bothering everybody. I can't remember how it went down, but he annoyed Wendell. And I don't think Milbury expected Wendell's response.
Let me guess what happened. Milbury stopped bothering Wendell.
Yes, exactly.
Those are always the best interactions. Some guy thinks he's got the upper hand, and then Wendell says, actually, you don't. He's like, okay, good point.
Great stuff. That's not going to happen on my watch.
All of a sudden it comes to an end very quickly. Probably a smart play.
So, Dougie, just put a picture in our group chat there that Wendell did have a glorious stash. Yeah.
absolutely also had that uh he was on the captain highliner team with me that's right it was well he'd grow the beard out in the playoffs like wendell in 93 94 was so phenomenal it was he was so good like he scored every night and he hit everyone he fought all the time and his shot was like it was in its prime like he had mastered that little
He had this little kind of half snapper. It wasn't even like a wrist shot. It was just ā It was like a half clapper. And every kid in school was like, that guy has the hardest wrist shot that's ever played hockey in the world.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Gavin McKenna's career trajectory?
It was legendary, man.
Well, it was 93 when he knocked Cujo's helmet off, right? That St.
Louis series. Yeah, that slap shot, yeah.
That was wild because Cujo was shook, man. He was like, get me out of here. He went for the skate, and I think he had a teammate come over and try to console him or see if he was okay, and he's like, get away from me. And the game was out of hand at that point, too. I think they were up like 4-5-0 when Wendell hit him in the head.
You know what? Just for fun, maybe at the end of the show, let's play the Bruce Bell hit. You know, like just a couple of Wendell. I was St. Louis, too, Noodles.
Manny loved playing St. Louis. Wendell loved playing St.
Louis.
Just tormented them.
But, yeah, that hit is still like, I don't know.
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Chapter 4: How are Canadian teams preparing for the NHL Draft?
But he was like shook, man. That would rattle your cage if you get basically your head taken off. And it was 5-0. Yeah.
He rips one off the goalie's head.
I'm not thinking he hits him in the head. Anyway, yeah, so Wendell, Austin Matthews, and then we assume it'll be Gavin McKenna tonight. And, you know, if it's not... Where's your curious percentages on that?
Like, are you 99%? I'm 99% sure it's Gavin McKenna. I am.
I'm going to say 99, too. I can't say 100. I can't say 100. Like, John Chayka... You know, when he hired Jim Hiller, I didn't see that one coming. I didn't see that coming. I didn't see them acquiring Radish the way they did. This would be much more extreme because it's the draft and there's generally consensus on who the first pick is.
Now, this is not the equivalent of a McDavid or Crosby draft where, you know, even Matthews, there was some... You know, possibility that line A would maybe be the guy. But by draft night, I think we all knew they were taking Austin. I kind of feel like this similar thing plays out here that, you know, maybe it's Stenberg, maybe it's Malhotra, maybe it's Reed.
But in the end, they just take McKenna and they say there was never any debating it. He's been our guy the whole time. We believe in him. But we're going to find out in a few hours. And a draft is always fun because once you get through the first couple of picks, it can go anywhere.
Do you think we're going to hear Gary Bettman say we've got a trade to announce? I think we're getting it once.
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Chapter 5: What challenges do the Blue Jays face in their search for consistency?
You think we're getting that once where we're going to get... You're going to want to hear this? Yeah, for sure.
Someone's moving up or down or something. Now, will it be more extreme than that? I'm not sure. I wouldn't be surprised if Bettman stepped up and said that tonight. I wouldn't be surprised at all. But I think picks, even if it's like pick 22 is moving back and our team's moving back into the first round.
I'm talking like right off the hop.
Like more extreme, like the fourth pick overall has been traded or something like that.
Exactly, the Leafs pick McKenna and whatever happens, and then all of a sudden the third or fourth pick, Buffalo, trade to announce.
Well, listen, big night for Canadian teams. Toronto at one, Vancouver at three, Calgary at six. You've got Winnipeg in the top ten.
like those are four there's a lot of conversation like our what's going to happen with the american players what's going to happen with the players who are still here do they want to be here anymore they're going to want to move on but it seems like big stuff only happens in the top five picks like after that it's pretty much business as usual i mean you can't get a team that likes a guy and trades up or down later in the first round but
It seems like only big stuff possibly happens in the top ten.
I hear you. What I'm saying is, it goes without saying, you've got to hit on these picks. If you've got a top ten pick, you've got to find a player here that is going to be an impact guy for you in the future. And I think it's more important than ever, with expansion coming,
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Chapter 6: What are the latest updates on the Travelers Championship?
The draft is here, and there's our main man, Craig, in studio. How are you doing, Craig?
I'm doing good. See the headphones I put on? I like those. They're like yours. I don't want to mess up my coif.
That's it, right? You've got to be thinking about that. Vanity's okay every once in a while when we're on TV.
Vanity is part of who I am.
That's right. Exactly. It's a very quality piece of the characteristics that you bring to the table here. We saw you on Jay last night, and a lot of people have been asking, a lot of people, what is Craig? Insinuating. What is he insinuating? There's the word I'm looking for.
He's going for the headlines. That's what he's going for. What has he got? What have we got?
McKenna to the Leafs? Not McKenna? Where do you stand on this?
Oh, it's straight clickbait. Okay. Well, it works. The analytics, as Jeff knows, are really good with clickbait.
Yes, they are.
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Chapter 7: What are Bryan's FanDuel Best Bets for this episode?
And you can expand on that. This isn't McDavid. This isn't Crosby.
Not Macklin Celebrini, Matthew Schaefer, where the jersey's already done, the nameplate's on the back, you know, Macklin Celebrini, 71.
And that's based on what you project their careers to be, obviously, not just who they are today and right now.
Exactly. I mean, that's where you're at. And to Jeff's point and Jamie's point earlier, when we look back, we're going to say, okay, who hit? I get this question, Jamie and Jeff, often. They go, what kind of draft is this? Is this a good draft? Is this a bad draft? So let me give you a little data because this is a data-centric show.
Always has been.
Approximately 45 players from any draft will play 350 games or more in the NHL with varying degrees of success. 350 games, that's just over four seasons. That's the numbers. Seven or eight of the players drafted in the first round will not have a career. Those are the numbers. You know how a draft is? If you hit on your players, you had a good draft.
If you didn't hit on your players, you didn't have a good draft.
Right.
And whether you're picking in the top five, the top 15, we know there's going to be players come out of the third, fourth, fifth round that are going to end up being really good. And we're going to say, how did they last that long? Right? Lane Hudson went 62. How did he last? I can tell you why he last 62. He was five foot nine, 142 pounds. That's why he lasted that long.
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts reflect on the impact of past NHL drafts?
I said it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Tim Stutzla ended up being the best player in the draft. At the time, I thought that Lafreniere and Byfield were 1-2 and Stutzler was 3. Well, who's the best player in the draft? It's either him or Jake Sanderson. Jake Sanderson, yeah. Well, 3-5.
And so I've allowed that Chase Reed, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Chase Reed turns out to be the best player in this draft.
Interesting. Craig, I wanted to ask you, was Slavkoski a little bit of a surprise? What was the Shane Wright draft? That was Slavkoski.
That was 22.
Was that one surprising? Like everybody kind of thought Wright was going to be the guy, and then maybe I'm wrong. That was maybe just the consensus outside, like in the media and all that. Is that the same type of scenario here that could happen tonight?
Yeah, it could very well, and that's why I say it. I'm not saying don't be surprised. I'm saying I wouldn't be surprised.
No.
It's not about any information I have. I lay it out just on some different players, just how Toronto's operated. If it was me, I'm taking McKenna.
Oh, you would take McKenna.
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