Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What happened during the Frozen Frenzy night in the NHL?
I kind of can't stop laughing at you, David. It's really funny.
Fair enough. It's dangling all right. I love the Thomas Harley signing just because Dallas is just a sneaky, good depth team. And his analytics numbers particularly have been pretty good the last couple seasons. So I'm excited, man. I'm excited to get to the playoffs, but it's still frigging October.
I was listening to What Chaos on the way into today, and they were kind of talking about how the Stars have done since the Rantanen deal. Now this kind of ends the Rantanen saga, right? They locked up Marty Natchez to a deal that I think it's, what, 11.6, so just less than they would have paid Rantanen. I think they did about as well as they could have to make up for that loss.
They have basically decided this guy has replaced Rantanen on Nathan McKinnon's line. We love the pairing that they are. the chemistry that they have. He's only 26 years old. He can still get better. He's a very good player, and he's been super productive for them so far. That line has been on fire.
So I think it's a really good signing for them in terms of, okay, we might have messed up getting rid of Rantanen. We probably should have kept him around at that $12 million number, but we did about as well as we could to make up for the loss.
The NHL.com has posted its roster projections for the Winter Olympics. We're going to focus on Canada and the United States. Let's start with Canada. At Ford, they have Sam Bennett, Anthony Sorelli, Sidney Crosby, Brandon Hagel, Nathan McKinnon, Brant Marchand. Mitch Marner, Connor McDavid, Braden Point, Sam Reinhart, Mark Shifley, Mark Stone, and Nick Suzuki, as well as Tom Wilson.
Mark Stone is injured right now. On defense, Drew Dowdy, Thomas Hawley, who just got his contract, Kel McCarr, Josh Morrissey, Colton Pareko, Travis Sanheim, Shane Theodore, and Devin Tays. And in net, Jordan Bennington, Aiden Hill, and Logan Thompson. How do we feel about these projections?
I feel there's one name missing that's going to become more and more obvious as the season goes on, and that's Macklin Celebrini. He is playing otherworldly right now, considering how young he is and how amazing he's playing all 200 feet of the ice. So I would be really surprised if he continues that he doesn't find his way onto that roster. But otherwise... Scary.
Canada's going to be good. Always. We know where the advantage will lie when we take a look at the Americans and that's in net. What about Conor Bedard, guys? You think he could be a candidate to kind of sneak in the way he's been playing as well? Like, that's the future of your team.
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Chapter 3: What were the major contract extensions signed this week in the NHL?
Take a look at this. You have this kid himself with a haircut that's styled like Matthew Kachuk. That's spectacular. He's wearing a Panthers uniform with Kachuk's number and name. He's inside of a box with a front and back. Looks like the front and back of a trading card. It's a fantastic costume. Shout out to him and his parents for getting that done. I hope he has a lot of candy tonight.
That's awesome. That's one of the best costumes I've seen. Yeah. Ethan, what's your win?
Yeah, so we mentioned this guy earlier, and I said I would get to him eventually. Conor Bedard, we mentioned the hat trick. You've got to see it to believe it. This was really an impressive set of goals. First, he's going to get this pass from Tivu Taravainen. An epic snipe right there. Up top, over the shoulder of Linus Olmark. And then watch this goal here. Through five guys.
Nasty release for the shot and a goal there. And then this one off the faceoff is just beautiful. Pinpoint accuracy. We knew that Bedard has a nasty release. We're finally really starting to see it. Everything looks better in Chicago this year. Everything looks better around him. Shout out to my boy, Alex Smith.
He's been telling me all offseason about the fact that the Blackhawks are coming this year and Bedard, this is the year. His first career hat trick. He's got 14 points already on the season. It looks like this is the Conor Bedard year. And it's going to be really exciting because this is a player I've been waiting to break out for since he came into the league.
Yeah, that second goal, that was definitely a goal scored by a guy named Connor.
The third goal, it just blows me away the way that he can change his shot angles. No matter where he is on the ice, no matter who's in front of him, he has this way to change his shot angle from where he's releasing his stick from and still makes it incredibly accurate and ridiculous. So, yeah, I'm with you, Ethan. I'm very excited to see what the future has to hold for old CB up in Chicago.
All right, it's time for a fail. Let's go ahead, David. This is about as fail as a hockey fail can get. It happened in the AHL. Walker Dewar of the Manitoba Moose was bearing down, ready to seal the game with an empty net staring at him. Would have put the moose up by two against the Tucson Roadrunners. Here he comes on a breakaway, and how did he miss that? Oh, no. How did he miss that?
Fortunately for our boy Walker, it didn't become a Patrick Steffen situation who missed the empty net against the Oilers back when he was with the Stars, and then Edmondson tied the game, and it's been a very memeable situation. But still, that is about as fail as a hockey fail can get.
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Chapter 4: What are the potential Olympic roster projections for the United States and Canada?
Is it like a Hall of Fame?
No, what I'm saying is, shouldn't your number be retired before you go into the Hall of Fame? Like, as a team, like, you should honor the guy before he even goes into the Hall of Fame, right? Like, that should be... The team honors you, and then the league honors you. And sometimes they line it up, like, Chara is getting his number retired this year, right?
And he's going into the Hall of Fame this year. So, like...
Are Dotsuk and Zetterberg in? Chara's getting his number. What about Patrice Bergeron?
Yeah. Well, when does he go in? He goes in next year probably, right?
It's three years in the NHL? I don't want them to be correlated. I don't think they should be, to your point. I feel like it should just be like if the guy retires, like in Anaheim. I can't, but like Ryan Gatzlaff, maybe the most, you know, other than like Korea and Solani, but of this generation, Ryan Gatzlaff was so important in Anaheim. Yep. Why isn't his number in the rafters?
And don't get me started on John Sebastian Judair.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He definitely should have his number in there.
So this is just the kind of thing that it surprises me, and it's a team-to-team thing. And even down here in South Florida, like, they only have one player's number retired.
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