First ImPREssions | September 21, 2026
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What is the Citrus Fantasy Sports promotion at the start of the episode?
If you're listening to this show, you're probably an unreasonable hockey fan, which means you've probably got some fantasy drafts to go on this week. Now, how many do you guys have?
Like three.
You got three? Just the one this week. Okay. I've got two this weekend, which I'm pretty excited about. Friday and Sunday, which is crazy. And I'm trying Citrus Fantasy Sports. It's a hockey-first, finally, fantasy app. Finally, finally, finally.
It's not football and then, oh yeah, hockey.
I guess we have to. Which is how all of the other apps take it. It's literally, we are football focused and then just throw a hockey thing in there for the hockey people. No more afterthought.
Yeah. Now, if you want to start a new league, draft a team, compete all season, you can do that. But if you already have a league... you can actually import it to Citrus and put its hockey tools to work on the league you're already building. So that means keeper leagues or just, you know, new draft every year league because picking a player is easy. Figuring out what you're getting is the interesting part. And Citrus brings together player projections, deeper analysis, and storming your assistant GM there to help you work through roster questions, all customized to your scoring settings. I mean, Jesse in previous years has used the pizza box as his assistant
general manager. I love my pizza box.
I would say Stormy is a level above, a cut above that. We'll see. And if you don't need a fantasy team to get into Citrus, you can dig into player analysis. You can follow the news. You can jump into armchair GM mode. So all the fun stuff that we like to do when we're at work pretending to work, right? So make Citrus your home for your league to start this season. If you want to try it, citrusfantasysports.com slash go slash stpn. or just click the link in the description. Again, it's citrusfantasysports.com slash go slash SDPN. Let's start the leagues and let's start the
show. with your host, Steve Dangle, Adam Wylde, and Jesse Blake.
Let's go! Slight change happening in Detroit. Whoa. Let's have a look at the Detroit. So some stadiums do this. We saw this at Key Bank Arena, too, where you get to sit on the bench next to your favorite player. And in Little Caesars Arena, they have Steve Dangle, a captain, They have Steve Dangle?
No, they do not have Steve Dangle.
No, no. What? No, he's not quite there. Not quite there
yet. They would
hate that.
They
have captains, legendary captains you could sit on the bench with, but
there's been
one minor change.
Throw it
up. Oh, no. So this was 2025, and you could see the captains, and they are Iserman, and they are Lidstrom, and they are Zetterberg, and they are Dylan Larkin. And this year, no Dylan Larkin. Yep.
Valid. Valid. Valid. Yeah. Shout out whoever took the photo.
Yeah, it was on social media. I can shout them out and it is Champletics. Okay. Shout out Champletics.
Champletics. That's funny. That's very funny. They didn't
even
replace him.
They just
removed him. You could have put like Gordie Howell.
Yeah. No. You could have put plenty of guys in there.
Sure. Ted Lindsey, Sid Abel. Let's go through that line again.
From the Second World War. Who was the captain? Oh, yeah, I guess there haven't been a ton of captains since Eisenman took over because he was the captain for several centuries.
I feel like, yeah, they haven't had a lot of captains in their history. And then it would have been
Lidstrom.
And then it would have been Zetterberg. And then it would have been Larkin. Zetterberg was a captain for like a flash in the pan, like in Detroit Red Wings terms.
It's sort of like Drew Dowdy being named captain in L.A. We're like, okay, for this year. It's odd. Like, he's never been a captain before. It's strange, right? But
he
deserves it. But, you know, you've got Anze Kopertar,
so you didn't need him.
Sid
Abel was a captain. Ted Lindsey was a captain. Gordie Howe was a captain. They could all be there. They could all be
there, all on the same line. What an embarrassment of riches.
Was Ted Lindsey not stripped because he tried to start the players' union?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the Citrus Fantasy Sports promotion at the start of the episode?
0:00–4:40
2
What change is being discussed about the Little Caesars Arena seating and captains?
4:40–26:42
3
How do the hosts evaluate the Leafs vs. Habs preseason game and player performances?
26:42–54:10
4
Why do the hosts think the Leafs’ third line could be a defensive shutdown unit?
54:10–1:06:27
5
What are the Columbus Blue Jackets’ biggest roster dilemmas heading into training camp?
1:06:27–1:33:50
6
Does Connor McDavid really have the authority to intervene if Mike Babcock crosses a line?
1:33:50–1:52:13