Chapter 1: What health issues are the hosts facing at the beginning of the episode?
We're in the dog days of the playoffs, and that's why you need a truck to get you through the dog days of life. The Toyota Tacoma, Steve Dangle.
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Chapter 2: What are the predictions for the Hurricanes in their series?
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And, of course, you've got the 10-speaker JBL premium audio system, where I hope you're listening to the Steve Dangle podcast, where Steve makes many noises that might wreck a stereo. But not the JBL one.
Yes.
Not the JBL one. There's also the 14-inch touchscreen, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and you've got Toyota Safety Sense as well.
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Chapter 3: How did the Sabres perform against the Habs in Game 1?
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The Steve Dangle Podcast. With your hosts, Steve Dangle, Adam Wylde, and Jesse Blake.
Let's go! All right, let's get going, baby. Let's get going. We've got a show on a Friday and no Jesse Blake. And we're just going to talk about it right off the top. Jesse, our good friend, is not feeling very well, which is very rare, right?
Extremely.
That doesn't happen very often, so well wishes to Mr. Jesse Blake. But he'll be back, don't you worry. It was just one of those things where it's like he got so sick and so ill that he couldn't make it.
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Chapter 4: What impact does Mason McTavish have on the Ducks' lineup?
So we're doing this early in the morning. Steve, you've got a medical procedure later today. You know, life's good. Life's good. We're healthy. You know, it's the playoffs. Everybody's fighting something.
We're all feeling very youthful. Yeah. You know what? It is the playoffs. You just got to frigging do it. I'm literally doing a podcast, then going under. They're putting me out. And then I'm going to stream tonight.
What are they going to put you under for? Do you want to talk about it?
Yeah, they're putting a camera down my throat to be like, why is this fat piece of crap? I have a tummy ache all the time. So, yeah, that's what they're going to do.
Man, just more boiled chicken and carrots for you, sir.
I can't wait. I'm frigging miserable. I want... Man, last show, because it was the first game of the Sabre series, we were talking about best wings flavors, which is to say it was mostly Drew and Justin were talking about best wings flavors in the chat. In my head the whole time, I was just like, F you. I'm not allowed to eat those. I haven't eaten them in months. And I'm very upset. But.
But. But.
First overall pick.
That's right. That's right. And really, I mean, uh, it's our first show since the first overall pick, but I was, you know, Steve, I wasn't sure what, what to do here. Cause I feel like we got to, we got to talk like playoffs first, don't we? Um, or yeah, like, I feel like that's that there is some Leafs talk.
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Chapter 5: How did the Wild get back in this series?
How did the Wild get back in this series? It's going back home. It's a very friendly environment. You know the fans are going to be behind them. I know the Wild can do this. I just haven't seen them do it yet. You know what I mean?
It's funny, and this is going to be more angering to Hayden than talking about the scores. The series is going exactly the way Drew predicted, which is if the Wild try to run and gun with the Avalanche, they're going to lose. That is what happened in game one. Yeah. And Wild led, I want to say, as late in that game as 5-4. Like, that's kind of nuts. But there were six goals after that. Yeah.
Yeah. Like, that's completely insane. Or maybe more. It doesn't matter. There were a lot of goals after that. And then game two. you're still not really able to contain Colorado at all. Colorado is dictating the pace here. They're dictating the physical play, which is not what I would have predicted.
Especially with Trennan and Hartman and those guys on the other side, right?
Yeah. Remember at the Olympics when McDavid just started hitting guys? Yeah. And we were like, I didn't know he could do that.
Yeah.
But, like, he chooses to hit for the first time in his career and he's just murdering everyone? Nathan McKinnon. Yeah. Like, he doesn't usually hit because he usually has the puck. Right? But he's running guys over. And it's funny. You know, yeah, of course you try to hit Quinn Hughes. Who's going to catch him?
Hard to do. I mean, Quinn caught, yeah, Nate's the only one that could. Quinn caught Nate a couple of times on some opportunities that Nate had. Like, people give Quinn Hughes shit for his defense sometimes. I thought he was actually very strong defensively in game two. He was the only guy who could catch Nate on that. You know what I mean? But you're right, Steve.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of goaltending decisions in the playoffs?
If you're talking about mobile defense, which is really, I mean, between Wierenski and Quinn Hughes, that's how the USA team won the gold medal. Their mobility on the back end was so unbelievable that the Canadian forwards who had some speed but not like that, at least not throughout the lineup, weren't able to kind of take advantage. Do you know what I mean?
Yeah. And this isn't the Olympics. The Olympics are two weeks, adrenaline, wee, fun. This is the Olympics times four. It's a war of attrition. There's a lot more meat, I think, in the Stanley Cup playoffs. But I would have thought the team dictating that would be Minnesota. Maybe that's exactly what they do in Minnesota. Matt Boldy activates...
he's had a rough first two games, like at least in terms of getting rocked. Um, like they're not out of it. I mean, they got to lose three in order to win in seven. Like I predicted, uh, they would, because I'm a super genius as you know. Um, but I, I think they got to slow this series the hell down.
Can I talk about, or can I ask you about the goaltending thing? Cause in, in game one, um, You know, it was Wedgwood-Wallstead. Wallstead had a great first round. Wedgwood had a great first round. I mean, Wedgwood didn't lose a game. That's pretty good. But, you know, we didn't expect him to either. Like, if Colorado hadn't have swept the Kings, we'd have been like, what's wrong with Colorado?
Wallstead was unbelievable in the first round. And they had an unbelievably tough first round opponent. I know there were some injuries. No Rupe. And it's come out that Mikko tore an ACL. during the Olympics and, and, you know, he's not going to need surgery, but he wasn't himself, which is why we didn't see the production that we normally are used to.
I'm looking at the, I'm looking at the, the, the goaltending stats from game one. You could see why both coaches could have changed their goalies. To me, it felt like John Heinz blink because Phil Gustafson has not played in these playoffs. And frankly, there was a couple of goals where I'm like, you need to save there. And I don't know, to me,
Making a goaltending switch for either team after game one just feels like, I don't know if it's a panic. I wouldn't call it a panic move, but it seems like an unforced error. Wallstead's got to play game three. He's better. And I didn't even think he or Wedgwood were that bad in game one. It was just a shootout.
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Chapter 7: What are the challenges facing the Leafs' management?
Sometimes you're looking at goaltenders and you're like, oh, well, that goaltender stunk. Sometimes it's just a weird game and the team defense isn't there and the goals go in. It doesn't mean that the goalies are necessarily that bad. I thought Wallstead was good, and when you flip a goalie, put a cold goalie in, especially against the Avs, are you not asking for trouble?
And that's what they got.
Here's the problem, though. You have a rookie goalie who allows nine goals in the first game, and you have a goalie the quality of Philip Gustafson sitting there as his backup. You know, let's say it's 5-2 again. Yep. wow, what's he thinking? You know, leaving the rookie in there to rot. And now it's game three and you're down to nothing. Like I, I agree with you.
um wolstat should be the guy i didn't have a problem with gustafson getting in there uh for game two but i think wolstat's got to be your guy going forward unless he well if he proves to not be the guy there's not a whole lot of going forward left is there um so i i think he's your your ride or die for the
Yeah, and of note, Joe Smith tweeted out yesterday that both Erickson Eck and Brodine have not skated since their injuries. So they didn't accompany the team to Denver. It doesn't look like they're going to play. And I know they've got Jeff Petrie, they've got Zach Bogosian, but that one, nobody goes to the playoffs healthy, Steve. Nobody.
But you do sort of wonder how Game 1 and Game 2 would have been. And I think... The one thing we came away from the trade deadline thinking with the Minnesota Wild was, yeah, but you didn't get that center. Yeah, I know you got Hartman. I know you got Erickson Eck. But one of those guys goes down. You know, you have Michael McCarron, who's actually looked really, really good, man.
But he's not that. He's not top six guy. So that, I think, has hurt them. And I think that's something they're, you know, no matter what happens now, they're going to have to address that in the offseason.
Now compare that to Colorado. You have Nathan McKinnon, who... Have they announced the Hart nominees yet? I don't think they have.
I don't think they have, no.
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Chapter 8: How does the upcoming draft impact the Leafs' future?
And scored, by the way, again. Because he's great, and I told Drew he'd be great. Shut up.
You're forgetting one name, by the way.
Who am I forgetting?
Jack Drury. So you got, Steve, you got Nelson, Kadri, Waugh, and Drury all in the last 18 months via trade. All of them.
And an entirely new goalie tandem. Yeah.
And Marty Nietzsche. By the way, Marty Nietzsche, who is a 100-point player now. And I like he was he Marty Nietzsche's skating is so good that there was a point where he was driving into the Minnesota, Minnesota ice like their their offense. So he was going into the offensive zone and he was skating backwards with the puck looking for someone to pass to.
So like he's the first one in and he's skating ass first. Right. This is it. Seven points. Yeah. Like there's a little bit of Harlem Globetrotter esque going on here. And, you know, we talk about Carolina not having lost the game. Colorado hasn't either.
Well, Adam, I mentioned Marty Nietzsche's having seven points. Who else has seven points?
In this series?
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