Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What recent NHL playoff developments are discussed?
Because we played with two of the greats. If there was a raffle and you could play with the great Stumpy Thomas and the Matador Greggie, how much would you pay for it? As much as I possibly could. Two of the best guys of all time.
You ask Leaf fans. Stumpy is right near the top, if not the top.
Stumpy had so many incredible goals in the playoffs in 99, 2000. And one of the greatest guys. We had the privilege of being up with Stumpy today at his course. The legend. Yeah, and he looks like he could still throw a couple of hits and a couple of punches too, man.
Man, he was tough. Tough as nails.
Yeah, Stumpy was tough. Remember, Ray's told us that story where he thought, oh, I'll take on this guy. When they got into a strong fit, Stumpy just pumped Ray back in the day. But yeah, him and Greggie are the best. Dude, Greggie. Two awesome guys. There's just not a better guy to play golf with than Greggie. He helps you look for your seed. Yes, he does. And we needed a lot of help.
Complimentary, the best. Tell Noodles what he brought to you on the first tee. What did he offer you up as an icebreaker on the first tee? Greggy the Matador brought me a bag of Sour Keys. So Snickers for me, Sour Keys for him. You may have been away when he announced that he used to take down 23 Sour Keys in one sitting.
I was away, but that filled my... timeline yeah where i watched that where i was horrified when you admitted to 23 to 24 sour keys full size one night laying down and we did didn't you guys do you did the calorie and sugar intake of that which was like 3 000 calories or something or way higher than that it was like 5 000 calories and enough sugar to take like a large dog down yeah An elephant.
An elephant down, possibly.
That was your nightly routine? Or not nightly, every second. Dude, it was every other night.
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Chapter 3: What happened with Kris Knoblauch and the Oilers?
We had Pat Flatley. We had Glenn Healy was there. You know, guys like that were legends and really good guys. But Stumpy had this, like, cool factor. Like, he was just, he had the long salad. Like, I don't know what he's doing with his salad nowadays.
Oh, he's still, it's flowing, man. He had, like, the salad going, and he had the look. Well, he was an undrafted player. Really? I was not aware of that until I was looking up his hockey DB out of curiosity, because I knew he started, he was with the Marlies, and then he started his career with the Leafs. Yeah. And undrafted, but played over 1,200 games in the league.
He told me a story, I think I've shared it before, where this is old school warm-up. when you go out before practice, he said, I believe it was like Dave Farish and like Gary LaRiviere or something like that, would skate around in their gear with a coffee before the coach came out on the ice. He's like, he got called up from warming up.
Like, you're out on the ice, gloves on the board, helmet on the board, and guys have a coffee skating around like it's leisure.
Here's the best part. Probably no helmet. No, no bucket. Like, there's no way. Even if you had to play in a helmet, they weren't practicing in helmets back then. Dude, when I was a kid, I was at North York Arena, and the Oilers with Gretzky skated out for practice. Nobody had a bucket on. Yeah. Honestly, nobody had a bucket on back in that day. I love it. You think about it.
It was just like three-on-twos, two-on-ones, off they went. Just working out. Like probably Grant Feuer didn't have a helmet on. Like, no bucket today. Pads and lower.
Outrage. I mean, the game has changed a lot.
I love that no helmet. No helmet in practice, and no one would bat an eye at that.
Well, this Nathan McKinnon.
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Chapter 4: How do Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl impact the Oilers?
Well, they... He's had 10 shots on goal after. Exactly. Like, the second and third period, Minnesota just never got any attack. And it was almost as if you could hear them, Colorado, say, we're not going back to Minnesota.
Not getting on the bird.
It's not. Because I was thinking about our confirm or deny the other day, where we had a confirm or deny. Will anyone push Colorado to a game six? Yeah. And after the first period, I'm thinking, yeah, I guess Minnesota, to their credit, said we're not going down without a fight. Yeah. And then of all guys, Brett Kulak wins it in overtime, which is just a wild OT winner.
This Neches, man, he's a player. Neches is a player. He's a driver. As much as McKinnon can skate and McCarr from the back end, Neches is all over the ice.
What a crazy... set of events when you think Rantanen is the... I still think the best of them all, but maybe Natchez is as good. Maybe that's what you're suggesting.
That's what I'm suggesting. It's just a different player. I think Natchez might fit that mold... the way that they like to play better than Rantanen right now, because nature's is a burner where Rantanen is a big, strong, the moose is nicknames, the moose or whatever it is.
Yeah. But such a playoff performer.
But I, you know, it's, it, it was a lateral move, but nature's just, I've watched them live several times this year and watch them a lot. Obviously that nature's is a burner.
Well, he could skate. Yet all of them are happy because Stan Colvin's been great in Carolina. Agreed. So like ranting in Carolina to Dallas, of course, Dallas is like, hey, we got him for seven more years at $12 million and he's a great player. And he was phenomenal in the playoffs for them last year. He was injured down the stretch this year. But yeah, I think all parties are pretty happy.
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Chapter 5: What changes are happening with the Canucks' coaching staff?
Now, we've seen Buffalo change the goaltenders and, you know, Lion give up whatever it is. 10, 11 goals in two games. Dobish has been unbelievable. He might be due for a one. I don't know if that's tonight or if it's game six or even if it gets to a seven. That's what worries me. Because a goaltender playing that well, you're just going to have an off night.
Do you think it's just his net now? Can anything happen where Marty St. Louis looks at Fowler and thinks, you're going in?
I think the leash, if you believe the leash was short going into the playoffs... it's continued to extend. Because the guy's a player, and he's found something there. He's become a cult hero there. Absolutely. And rightfully so. He's been unbelievable. But as good a bounce as he's gotten, he had the bad bounce last game, and they ended up losing. But eventually, you're going to have an off night.
And maybe the team can bail you out. Maybe it's just a 6-5 game where it's like, team goes and gets a bunch of goals. That's where you need Caulfield, Slavkoski... Suzuki, Demidoff, Hudson to go, you've bailed us out, we're going to bail you out. But at the start of the playoffs, I don't know how you guys felt.
I'm sure we had conversations going, probably going to see this Fowler kid at some point.
I'm almost surprised we're this deep into the, I know it's only the second round, but I thought we'd see him in the first round. But the other guy's been so good. Oh, I understand that. The Fowler goes in for mop-up duty. And that's not what I'm suggesting. I'm not saying... You thought they would have turned to him.
Before the playoffs started, I kind of just had that feeling that there was this aura about Fowler and, you know, maybe I got caught up in the history of the Habs with Waugh and Trident and Price. Yeah, you know, like young goalies showing up with all this hype and they throw the team on their back. They haven't had to do that. And Dobish has been great.
Unbelievable.
So I'm with you. The leash is getting longer with Dobish. I think even if he got shelled tonight and let's say he got pulled, he'll go back in for game six.
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Chapter 6: What is Richie Laryea's experience with the Canadian Men's National Team?
No, but I mean, he has a future. Yes, he'll be in the league.
Yes, for sure, for sure. So I guess the inevitable became official this morning. Chris Knobloch is out in Edmonton. And I saw the stat, and this gets into what we were talking about the other day, with the Leafs and just the nature of turnover in the game. But when they hire their next coach, Ryan Nugent Hopkins will have 10 coaches in 15 seasons. This will be his 10th coach in 15 years.
First overall pick after first overall.
No, I know that. I'm telling you. There's guys he probably doesn't even remember were his coach. Ricky Henderson style. We could talk about getting different players on a team, which some teams need. But there are GMs in the National Hockey League that are getting away with murder. Yes, the GMs are doing a horrible job in blaming the coach. Is that what you're saying?
You don't think that there's circumstances? You're telling me Stan Bowman can go out there? The guy that scored the game winner, Kulak, last night, they just had to get rid of him and bring in some different pieces. They had some money with Big David kind of taking a discount. You know who they signed? Jake Wallman. And Trent Frederick. Trent Frederick they had to give an eight-year deal to.
So, really? There's mistakes. There's mistakes there, and you just got to gas the coach. And I get it. There's no structure, no accountability. Same players doing the same thing. But I just find that... But what does the owner look down and say... Oh, yeah, I'm going to look the other way when I look at that roster. Who put that roster together and people just look away?
No, everyone has to own it. I know, but it seems like the GMs never do.
It's like, just fire the coach, get rid of him. Well, I think what you point out is it puts everybody on the clock there. Because the owner is probably not happy that... Chris Knobloch is going to be sitting at home potentially for the next three years getting paid because his extension kicks in this summer. Imagine not even making it to the start of your extension. But you know what?
This is a team that they needed a coaching change. They need something. They need different players. I agree. They'd hit a wall. Structurally, they'd hit a wall. And I think they need something different. Different players, again, I'll come back to it. Goaltending, another D, another forward. But at the end of the day, they're in a window to win. And we say it all the time. Cup or bust.
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Chapter 7: How does Richie Laryea feel about the upcoming FIFA World Cup?
That's just embarrassing. That's a bad look. That's a bad look. He was in big trouble. Now, a lot of it, what you're saying, is based on the X's and O's and watching them play and all that kind of stuff. Right. When McDavid started, McDavid's had some pretty heavy comments publicly that caught the ire of a lot of people, and I'm sure they caught the ire of the owner management.
Like the John Cooper love fest. I know the next day he said, yeah, just whatever. It was just, you know, that was like almost so blatant. Hunter McDavid's like Tiger Woods.
He never compliments anybody else, but he went out of his way to say, they're so well coached, everybody's in the right position, everybody knew what they were doing, and it was like... But before that, Leon Dreisaitl, after the game in Calgary, I believe it was before the Olympics thing, from the coaches on, we need to look at ourselves.
But everybody on blast. Everybody.
Everybody on blast. But when those guys...
say it it's going to carry more weight like you're you're effectively a dead man walking the second that happens because you're right dry saddle had said that like well it starts with the coaches you don't hear coach you don't hear players say that a lot and mcdavid followed up his cooper stuff with when asked well how do you guys get there he goes well that's a question for not block go ask him yeah like in other words go talk to the coach why we're not doing that
They need a hardened coach there that is, I keep telling you.
I know you keep saying that, but again, and maybe those two players, that's what they want. Maybe that's what McDavid and Dreisaitl want.
It's not what you want. It's what they need. I know, but I'm saying. At some point, you've got to say. You know what you want to complain in the media? Get in your position. Sure. Play better defensively and don't skate by things. Don't circle by things. If you want to get away with it, fine. You too, but not third line left winger gets to do that, all of that. Because we've seen it for years.
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Chapter 8: What challenges does Canada face in the World Cup group stage?
Drysaddle was okay. McDavid didn't play well. He was hurt, I get it. But he didn't play well. It didn't go so well. I think it's more likely those two guys, their voices had a bigger role in this than Matthews maybe did in Toronto.
I don't disagree with that.
I think those two are pretty vocal.
100% agree. But they are on notice there. McDavid didn't sign a six-year extension. He signed a two-year extension. Now they just shoot up a year. They got two years. You're on blast. Dreisaitl said it. That was probably, if you get a chance... To watch Drysaddle's 15-minute presser. Yes. Go back and watch it. Guy's just candid. Like, very candid. This is what I see.
We're on notice because that guy's got two years left on his deal here. And he's pointing at everyone. I need to be better. Everybody needs to be better. Thing is, you can't have the lip service. He won that press conference. Doesn't matter. They're still sitting at home watching.
Yeah. Now, those two, if they're healthy, they're going to put up numbers and be a dominant player.
For sure.
But it's going to be a crazy offseason.
I said it yesterday, but I feel bad because I said, ah, trade deadline's going to be crazy. It wasn't. It was a ghost town. We sat there like idiots.
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