Due Diligence | May 4, 2026
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
Hey, listen, if you did really bad in the first round, maybe you picked a team to make the playoffs at the beginning of the season and then promptly jumped off the bandwagon the second they got into the playoffs, me. Well, then your name wouldn't be Mad Duck. That's right. Mad Duck. Quack, quack, mofos. The great thing is we got the spark bracket and there's prizes. And if you messed up your first round, we're going to let you back in for the second round. You can make a whole bunch of other picks and Jesse get some prizes, too. Yeah, it'll be a second chance bracket. So you can't win the original bracket, but you can win the second chance bracket. And I know who I'm leaning on, but you'll have to go to the Spark app and see all of the STPN picks where you can catch them there and see who actually picked to win the Stanley Cup the second time around.
Your best bet is just pick whatever Maddie picks, I think. Yeah. Now, other thing, live stream schedule. Yes, we are live tomorrow. We're live tomorrow, which is a rare thing for the SDB because we don't do live shows. But it is a big day in Leafs history because they are either going to get dunked on in a historical fashion by the Boston Bruins or they get like a first overall pick. So we're going to have a live taping of a portion of the SDP, our second episode of the week that we're going to do seven to seven thirty ish whenever all of the draft lottery festivities are over. So live tomorrow, 7 p.m. Eastern on the SDP and YouTube channel. Tune in. Steve's doing Montreal Buffalo. I'm doing Colorado, Minnesota and Vegas, Anaheim.
Jesse, the people need to know, is Jesse making a reappearance? I got to ask Gritty.
wow gritty will let me uh watch philly uh philly flyers games we'll see okay let's start the show the steve dangle podcast with your host steve dangle adam wilde and jesse blake
One of the biggest days in Leaf land that I can imagine and I can remember. And, you know, we can remember quite a bit. And if you are living under a rock, the big news today is that Corbinian Holzer has retired. Thank you, Stephen Ellis, for that. Yes, he finished it off with the I-C-E-H-L. Corbinian Holzer, former Duck, former Nashville Predator, former Toronto Maple Leaf.
Ever tell the story of how I saw him outside Grace O'Malley's and he was wearing full Lederhosen? No, really? Yeah. Oh, that's cool. He's retired. I can tell the story now. I was outside and we recognized each other. Hey, we were both very drunk and hugged each other.
Oh, that's nice. He's a nice guy. He's a nice guy. I've always loved Corby. Now, we're doing the show a little bit later today because Jesse was down at the press conference. For the actual news, which is John Shaka, Matt Sundin being introduced to Leafs Nation officially, although we've known about this seemingly. It feels like it's been a week that we've like known these guys are going to be the guys. It does feel like Armstrong, you know, where's my Gillis? Yeah, fair. No, February, we all locked in who was going to be the president of hockey operations. Now that job doesn't exist. And Doug Armstrong still in St. Louis. That's right. That's right. They didn't even they didn't call. No, Doug didn't even get a call.
Well, there are some teams who are going to lose executives who also didn't get a call. And I guess we'll get to we can talk about that. We can talk about that. So anyway, long story short, big press conference today. There are so now like I'm going to defer to Jesse on a lot of these things because he was there. But we're going to run through some of the answers that were given, some of the things that were said. And, you know, the the if you're not on Twitter today because you probably have other things to do and that's totally cool. There is a lot of it's this or it's that. Right. There's a lot of fuck these guys. And then there's a lot of you know what? I'm open to it. And fuck you for not being open to it.
And I would just like to say this. I think you should be open to it. I'm open to it. I think everybody should be open to it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:01–7:55
2
What are the implications of Chayka and Sundin's introduction?
7:55–12:08
3
How does the Leafs organization address past relationships?
12:08–26:08
4
What concerns arise regarding John Chayka's hiring?
26:08–55:27
5
What concerns do executives have about Steve Simmons?
55:27–57:32
6
How do the Leafs' management roles impact the team's future?
57:32–59:55
7
What are the implications of Ridley Gregg's suspension?
59:55–1:02:45
8
How does Pierre Dorian's hiring affect the Canucks?
1:02:45–1:50:25