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Speaker 1: Free agency. Lots of moves being made, nothing bigger than
Speaker 1: what about Bob Baby steps the bus, Baby steps over here,
Speaker 1: Sergey Lebowski going three years, the tournament beliefs as John
Speaker 1: Chika shaking things up, There's no doubt about it. Before
Speaker 1: we see anything further, though, tell I want to know
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Speaker 1: It's going to be slow for the summer.
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Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: So I mentioned Lebrowski three years, twenty one millions to
Speaker 1: the Leaves, Mason Marchman following in his late five years
Speaker 1: a deal, JD gets all the fields. Jacob Truba four
Speaker 1: years to San Jose, speaking of those Sharks, Jenner for yours, Andrews,
Speaker 1: Lady hutup, give me another Sharks ones thankfully to face only.
Speaker 1: Jaden Schwartz three years of Colorado and Matchicrella one year
Speaker 1: to la Let's start with the leaves, jad Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: soft on zook. A million bucks went up the leafs.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, Schaika came in there. At the very least.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be aggressive. He's gonna make moves. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna be passive. So if you looked up as a
Speaker 1: Maine Leaves, I don't know how he would be throwing
Speaker 1: away to say, we got Gavin McKenna, who relishes the
Speaker 1: role of perhaps being the next Patrick Kane. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: forty goals, who knows, at some point in his career
Speaker 1: is expected to be an impact player. Austin Masthews seems thrilled. Hey,
Speaker 1: best defensemen available, Let's go get Darren Radish, seven year deal. Okay,
Speaker 1: as long as he's good for three to five. Who
Speaker 1: cares with the seven? This guy's sixty points, great shot,
Speaker 1: great pass, and then goaltenderise okay. Joseph Wall was hurt
Speaker 1: too much, Fine Arison brutal, get rid of him. He
Speaker 1: goes out with senators. Here's what we're gonna do. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get Bbroe Stellars are still there. But Stillars gets
Speaker 1: hurt a lot, maybe he gets flipped. He gets he's
Speaker 1: making three point five million, but you still got I
Speaker 1: can always pronounce this guy's name. Akim Off, the Russian goaltender,
Speaker 1: who can now tutor with Bebrovski, or you can have
Speaker 1: hilde be there as well, so you can keep hildeby
Speaker 1: who's cheap and trade starts bad for defense.
Speaker 4: They traded Hill to be Hill to be got traded.
Speaker 4: They traded Hill to be this ship's bananas. This is
Speaker 4: so that they traded him for the next ball.
Speaker 1: So still Art's is still there. But my point is this,
Speaker 1: but proxy, if I said to you JD three years,
Speaker 1: twenty one million dollars, how do you not jump at that? Again?
Speaker 1: I know he's tryed thirty eight this summer. I know
Speaker 1: this past season was a down year. It was it
Speaker 1: down here for many of the Panthers. I think it's
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's a steal, like he's got a
Speaker 1: semi millionaire and he's guys three thirty eight. But if
Speaker 1: you're me a police fan, you go, hey, we need
Speaker 1: a goaltender. You got Sergey Mabrovsky. Fantastic day for John Chika.
Speaker 4: Dude, John Chika, Like, I'm gonna try to go through
Speaker 4: this as we're walking. And they got Jack Roslovic, after
Speaker 4: they got Gavin McKenna. They went and got Nick Paul
Speaker 4: for hildeb They signed Brandon new Ham, They signed Teddy Blueger,
Speaker 4: Teddy Blueger, they signed Colton Sissons. That is a lot
Speaker 4: of very good signings and they already have you know,
Speaker 4: they got the McKenna, so they got their high end
Speaker 4: talent bringing in Bob Now with Stolars and Wool two
Speaker 4: goalies that get hurt. Now there's like this three headed
Speaker 4: monster that maybe you can now move on from Wool
Speaker 4: or Stolars. There's a potential there to maybe get something back.
Speaker 4: But anybody saying that he has he has not done
Speaker 4: a good job or hasn't at least made it a
Speaker 4: parent that he's trying to make this team competitive is
Speaker 4: high on crack cocaine. And I tell you what, I've
Speaker 4: loved everything he's done so far because they've addressed a
Speaker 4: lot of needs in the bottom six, which I think
Speaker 4: was important. They you know, they trade Nick robertson a
Speaker 4: way which even though he had sixteen goals, I think
Speaker 4: it was just time for him to move on. Chiker
Speaker 4: realized that I don't think any GM had realized that
Speaker 4: Nick Robinson needed to go move on. They get a
Speaker 4: fourth round pick for him, so everything they've done, I've
Speaker 4: really enjoyed.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 4: Listen, Brandon new Haim very underrated signing, so was Colton says.
Speaker 4: And so I'm liking what the Maple Leafs are doing
Speaker 4: right now. I'm liking it. I'm liking it towards it.
Speaker 1: I don't upset good. I know there's work to do.
Speaker 1: I know the defense still needs improvement. You bounce back seasons,
Speaker 1: but you still have youngish players Matthew Nie so they believe,
Speaker 1: and you still have your Matthews and your Kneelander, and
Speaker 1: now you're pouring that cast now with veteran players again.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you can't be happy for a
Speaker 1: Leafs fan.
Speaker 5: I mean it looked bleak after the season, and the
Speaker 5: way you described it, Jad he was perfect because it's
Speaker 5: just they added everything they needed and they've added then some.
Speaker 5: You know, when you've add a guy like Darren Radish too,
Speaker 5: like you have a number one d everything he can do.
Speaker 5: I mean you look at all the statistics, he was
Speaker 5: off the charts with that, and then you know, you
Speaker 5: look at their lines and you have basically you have
Speaker 5: every first, second, third line center. I mean Matthews plays
Speaker 5: in McKennon and Nyes and you have Nlander, Tavares and
Speaker 5: whoevery wan is slot on the second line. I mean,
Speaker 5: you have so many other players now Sissons, who's we've
Speaker 5: seen has been really really good in the playoffs for
Speaker 5: so many years in Nashville, now in Vegas. So that's
Speaker 5: a great ad for the Leafs. So I mean, this team,
Speaker 5: they went from looking like, all right, they're not going
Speaker 5: to make the playoffs next year to they're going to
Speaker 5: make the playoffs next year, you know, And that's.
Speaker 4: Oh I still like that.
Speaker 2: That's what they look like to me.
Speaker 4: Wow, Yeah, I think, I mean, and I think Bob.
Speaker 4: Bob had his worst year though. That's the one thing
Speaker 4: is like how much does he have left from the tank.
Speaker 4: But I think Bob's better when he's in. Like, uh,
Speaker 4: I think Tarasof wasn't good enough to carry the load
Speaker 4: all sexual puns aside. I just don't think he was
Speaker 4: good enough to carry the team and give Bob enough rest.
Speaker 4: But I think this team in Toronto will. And then
Speaker 4: just as we were talking, Mary Ferraro went to the Jets.
Speaker 4: I was hoping three by dude, he got he got
Speaker 4: fucking hooked. He got three by four, three years, four
Speaker 4: million year. It's a good deal, but not great. Vinnie
Speaker 4: d Hardenin had more of than them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's still god.
Speaker 4: I I like to see you should have if that's
Speaker 4: if that's the him out, Like, how was that more?
Speaker 2: Guys?
Speaker 4: Why would you m four point two five sad day franti? Anyway,
Speaker 4: this is fucking crazy.
Speaker 1: Here's this is our first app so since the draft
Speaker 1: and since the beginning of free agency. And again, if
Speaker 1: you're a least fit, you're happy. If you're a Sharks fan,
Speaker 1: I mean you're doing a moonwalk right now, saying sexual.
Speaker 1: You got Steenberg who eighteen years old, bug and player,
Speaker 1: like this guy is ready to go. He looked great
Speaker 1: in the Swedish league. He's ready. He might be playing
Speaker 1: with Celebraty Stemberg's in. You got these great young players players.
Speaker 1: You also get the number nine pick, fantastic. You also
Speaker 1: get Mason marshmen beforely mentioned and Jacob Truba. So like
Speaker 1: you're identifying the fact you need to improve your defense,
Speaker 1: you're doing so. You have a great young core. I'm
Speaker 1: just waiting for them to lock up Celebraty. Hey we
Speaker 1: got we get Mac done. Eight years, twelve min and
Speaker 1: Darnell Nurse as you and I said, nine point two
Speaker 1: five million. I know he's not worth that kind of money,
Speaker 1: but is he a serviceable defenseman? Absolutely, and he'd improve
Speaker 1: your defense. Well done.
Speaker 4: Now, before I, you know, reached my climax, no listen
Speaker 4: signed no no, but the Darnell and there signing, and
Speaker 4: I think people, you know, people are up in arms
Speaker 4: right now a little bit, being like, why are we
Speaker 4: paying Truba and Nurse? Again? You have to pay somebody.
Speaker 4: And at the end of the day, they're like, after
Speaker 4: this year, they're gonna have like fifty four million in
Speaker 4: cap space available. They have so much ore LOFs off
Speaker 4: the books, catures contracts off the books, they have a
Speaker 4: couple a few more guys. They have so much money
Speaker 4: coming off the books starting next year. So like this
Speaker 4: is fine for them to sign that. And the thing
Speaker 4: that people don't realize is that they have so much
Speaker 4: young talent that are on like entry level deals and
Speaker 4: bridge deals that they need to pay somebody. So this
Speaker 4: is like I wish I was still playing because this
Speaker 4: is like they're in the perfect position to pay these
Speaker 4: veterans because their young guys are still under. You know,
Speaker 4: they're gonna sign call On Graft to probably a three
Speaker 4: to five year deal, probably like five million a year,
Speaker 4: and then they're gonna you know, Max and I wonder
Speaker 4: to me, we talked about it a lot this year.
Speaker 4: I think if I'm Mac, I take it two three million,
Speaker 4: two three year deal. Don't over you know, don't take
Speaker 4: a seven year deal at sixteen million because the CAP's
Speaker 4: gonna go up. Take a three year deal at twelve
Speaker 4: and a half at Connor, give yourself some money. Keep
Speaker 4: the team competitive. But they have so much to like
Speaker 4: and if they can develop the right way, I mean.
Speaker 5: Ooh, doggy, look at their top four to now, like
Speaker 5: I look at their like Dickinson, Truba, Nurse or Loft
Speaker 5: and then Kesserlink too, you know, like their d look
Speaker 5: nice JD.
Speaker 4: It's good that your big good.
Speaker 5: And then you add Stenburgh. But I mean I would
Speaker 5: imagine Stenburg's playing on the top two lines next year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, like you for sure he has to
Speaker 4: be right.
Speaker 2: And then you have me.
Speaker 5: You add Mason Marchman to that with Mesa and oh
Speaker 5: march Man I mean like coming home, yeah, and march
Speaker 5: Man like bad ad And I saw your tweet today
Speaker 5: and it was a great uh.
Speaker 2: I love how you said it, how he's coming home.
Speaker 5: That's I think it's amazing that he's coming back to
Speaker 5: San Jose and he's gonna be not only is it
Speaker 5: gonna be coming home, but I think it's gonna be
Speaker 5: an amazing fit there. Like he's a uh, he's a
Speaker 5: guy that they kind of need and a guy that
Speaker 5: don't really have. Like he's a he's a little bit
Speaker 5: of a unicorn, that guy, the way he plays.
Speaker 4: They got him in Sherwood, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, multiple.
Speaker 1: Under the radar, Matt sic Corella. When you're to l
Speaker 1: A Nate, I mean, for a million bucks you get
Speaker 1: Matt C. Corrello. I mean that's a nice little move
Speaker 1: for them. Schwartz has ties, you know, three years to Colorado.
Speaker 1: The Anders like that.
Speaker 3: You want to talk Schwartz, go ahead.
Speaker 1: What do you like about Schwartz?
Speaker 4: No, I just like I like Jayon Schwartz on Colorado.
Speaker 4: I like what Colorado has done this offseason. They brought
Speaker 4: back there there. You know, they lost some pieces. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 4: you know, the team I think we should probably talk
Speaker 4: about the most after San Jose is Utah. I think
Speaker 4: Utah Man Utah resigned Stenlin, they got tro Check and
Speaker 4: then they picked up anders Lee. I mean, that's a
Speaker 4: nice fricking that's a nice tidy piece of work by
Speaker 4: Bill Armstrong, who I can't stand. But listen, he's called
Speaker 4: give him, give him his flowers. Dude, I can't stand
Speaker 4: you guys.
Speaker 5: You add those two guys in their lineup and they play.
Speaker 5: You put him in that series against Vegas and they
Speaker 5: probably win. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you look at those two guys now, like
Speaker 2: that's that's yeah. I like that one too. Jady Utah
Speaker 2: is a really good one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're and I think that's why they're gonna let
Speaker 4: Barrett Hayte and walk for that second round pick. And
Speaker 4: they're gonna get a second round pick. They don't have
Speaker 4: to do anything.
Speaker 1: Barrett Hayten getting an offer sheet from New Jersey. Do
Speaker 1: they match.
Speaker 4: No, they're no, there's no way they match. They'll let
Speaker 4: They'll let Barrett walk. I think it's a good Barrett
Speaker 4: kind of struggled with some injuries the last couple of years,
Speaker 4: but they loved him there and they love what he brought.
Speaker 4: He needs to kind of I think he needs a change.
Speaker 4: The scener I think it's a good fit for him
Speaker 4: in Jersey. They need a centerman like Kim. You know,
Speaker 4: Hates can do a little bit of everything offense, defense,
Speaker 4: play some p K. He's really kind of developed into
Speaker 4: a two way center, and uh, I think it's gonna
Speaker 4: be good for him to go. And I think, like
Speaker 4: there's just no room with anders Lee and Trocheck coming.
Speaker 4: And now they got there, you know, they got what
Speaker 4: is it, Trocheck, Schmaltz, Stenland and then who's their third
Speaker 4: line center? Trying to think is anders Lee the centiment
Speaker 4: or a winger curvefoot, Yeah, curvefoot or somebody. I can't
Speaker 4: but they got a good They just don't need Hates.
Speaker 4: He just doesn't fit anymore.
Speaker 2: The other thing is is if Utah does sign him,
Speaker 2: they can't trade him for a year and he becomes
Speaker 2: a UFA after next season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I you know, ad Nan, I just I
Speaker 4: don't know what your guys thoughts are, but I tweeted
Speaker 4: about it, and I just you know, I usually test
Speaker 4: it before I bring it here, but I just offer
Speaker 4: sheets are punk rock, man, It's just punk rock. I
Speaker 4: want it more mainstream. It's grunge. It's fucking I love it.
Speaker 4: Like every team should have to offer sheet at least
Speaker 4: once at every single season a GMS to off for
Speaker 4: sheet one player punk Rock, I'd be sick.
Speaker 3: I just say the fact that it's one of a
Speaker 3: brand new GM who's never been a GM in the
Speaker 3: league before and just goes right up to the biggest
Speaker 3: kid on the playground and sucks him.
Speaker 2: In the face.
Speaker 4: I love, oh Sonny Meta swinging that der around.
Speaker 1: Speaking of just swinging it around, this is after I
Speaker 1: love Sonny, He's my guy. We have to talk with
Speaker 1: the Zacharnsky trade drama. I mean, the fact D's so
Speaker 1: much to this became public. So Rensky informs Donaldel he's
Speaker 1: not likely it's not another contract of the Blue Jackets.
Speaker 1: When his current dealer is up after the twenty seven
Speaker 1: to twenty eight seasons two more years. Well, Dall attempts
Speaker 1: to trade him this offseason, including a dealing and plays
Speaker 1: with the Stars. Lorensky uses his no movement clause to
Speaker 1: veto and then it's like, well, at this point is
Speaker 1: at the point of no return. How do you feel
Speaker 1: if you're a teammate of Zach, Like, dude, you're quitting
Speaker 1: on us. You want to like that's it, Whereas maybe
Speaker 1: he's feeling like, no, what you're putting the pressure on
Speaker 1: me sing have to sign a long term deal and
Speaker 1: being honest about it. Here's what Rensky has to say.
Speaker 1: Don I had very open and honest dialogue and the
Speaker 1: sea and ended ideally this wouldn't becomes such a public
Speaker 1: thing that this is the world we live in. Everything
Speaker 1: got blown out of proportion. In my opinion, I want
Speaker 1: to win. I want to do that. In Columbus. He
Speaker 1: all goes on to say he loves his teammates, he's
Speaker 1: twenty eight entries eleventh season. I mean, he's obviously a
Speaker 1: fabulous player, coming up one of the Norse Trophy. How
Speaker 1: does this end? Can he just go back to Columbus
Speaker 1: And it's like, e man, he texts a few teammates
Speaker 1: out of all locked in boys.
Speaker 2: We're good.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't know if this is like you know, he's
Speaker 4: got Jud muldover right, and Jud's kind of a little
Speaker 4: Hollywood and he's got some big names, and like I
Speaker 4: had heard randomly, it's like he never really wanted to leave.
Speaker 4: He just was like maybe trying to cattle prod Columbus
Speaker 4: to make some moves, But I'm like, is that the
Speaker 4: way to do it? Like so much distraction and probably,
Speaker 4: you know what, this probably distracted the GM so much
Speaker 4: in this organization trying to put out the Wrenski fires
Speaker 4: that they couldn't really like dive into free agency. Because
Speaker 4: if you're in that building and all of a sudden, you're,
Speaker 4: you know, yesterday, you're getting ready to like sign some players,
Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden, it's like Warrensky wants
Speaker 4: to leave. All these gems are calling you being like
Speaker 4: what are you gonna take? What are you gonna take?
Speaker 4: They're probably like fuck off, like we're not trading them.
Speaker 4: And then they're trying to talk to Zach, probably talking
Speaker 4: to the the agent. They're not even talking directly to Zach,
Speaker 4: they're talking to the agent who's talking to Zach broken telephone.
Speaker 4: I just think this was an absolute mess, disorganization at
Speaker 4: its finest. And this is gonna hurt Columbus more than
Speaker 4: it's gonna hurt Warnsky, because you know, there is some
Speaker 4: good deals out there for him too in a short
Speaker 4: amount of time, like that Dallas deal. Like I bet
Speaker 4: you Columbus is pissed that he vetoed that as good
Speaker 4: as Wrensky is Like that was like Harley and two firsts.
Speaker 4: I'm like that says about as good as you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: So frustration there for Zach When and Blue Jackets fans,
Speaker 1: and say this for Columbus, say lost Marchman and jenneral
Speaker 1: free agency. Meantime, Nate, what's you gonna take for someone
Speaker 1: to sign with? Jason Robertson turned out one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty million.
Speaker 4: They've got Curtis Douglas one hundred and twenty million.
Speaker 1: This thing is are Toimy Peneren four years over fourteen
Speaker 1: million per year from the Crack And it's okay, I'll
Speaker 1: take less in La. I don't want to go to Seattle.
Speaker 1: I'll just take less money.
Speaker 2: It's okay.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get what the Cracker are doing. They
Speaker 1: need to find an identity. You know, they're a youngest team.
Speaker 1: They're a boring team. There's only a lot of excitement
Speaker 1: exception for John Fors and my guy, what are the
Speaker 1: Crackers was doing?
Speaker 6: Nate?
Speaker 1: We're giving you the money. Nobody wants to take it.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's and that's no state tax too, Washington.
Speaker 2: That's another state.
Speaker 5: No state tax so but you know, he turns down
Speaker 5: what fifteen million from Seattle, no state tax, So it's
Speaker 5: not a destination. It just tells you that players want
Speaker 5: to win, and they want to go to it, and
Speaker 5: they want to go to a place that they know
Speaker 5: they're gonna have a chance to win and they're gonna
Speaker 5: have all the other entities that go with it. And
Speaker 5: Seattle is not a destination right now. So I don't
Speaker 5: know for Seattle as far as getting free agents, I mean,
Speaker 5: that has to that has to happen within the organization
Speaker 5: like it like all the other ones. You're seeing San
Speaker 5: Jose do it, You're seeing Anaheim, Montreal, all these teams,
Speaker 5: they go about it the right way. So I think
Speaker 5: Seattle it's it's been tough for them because they've just
Speaker 5: had basically what four lines of fall second line guys,
Speaker 5: of the third line guys basically every every season and
Speaker 5: they're kind of in the mushy middle always. So I
Speaker 5: mean they're they're a team that's gonna have to you know,
Speaker 5: they might have to bring it down to the studs
Speaker 5: and and and start it over like other teams have,
Speaker 5: you know, so and and then I don't know, to
Speaker 5: add to the Jason Robertson thing. I mean, that's, uh,
Speaker 5: that's probably another topic we can get into more.
Speaker 1: Yea, absolutely, but listen, Pittsburgh got Nick Robertson. They go, fine,
Speaker 1: we'll go get Jason. We'll get your brother here and
Speaker 1: Tyson whatever way you can. And I mean before we
Speaker 1: talked about Dallas being up against with the cap, but
Speaker 1: don't forget Sagan comes off after next season, so that's
Speaker 1: nine plus million. The CAP's going up by ten million.
Speaker 1: Is there a way that they can keep Robertson in Dallas.
Speaker 4: I think they're gonna end up having to. And to
Speaker 4: Nate's point of Seattle, it's just a it's a fucking
Speaker 4: dump around the rink. Fix that, fix it around the ranks.
Speaker 4: Can't You gotta just worried about getting stabbed coming out
Speaker 4: of the rink after losing to to one to the
Speaker 4: La Kings, and you you can't even think about taking
Speaker 4: a shootout in overtime because all you're thinking is your
Speaker 4: car on cinder blocks, so you're gonna get.
Speaker 5: Car.
Speaker 4: We're not wrong, he's I mean, like, I'm just calling
Speaker 4: a spade a spade, Like it's not say the same
Speaker 4: thing about skid Row in l a fix that ship
Speaker 4: anyway to the to the other news. Where were we
Speaker 4: I'm like just talking on yeah Robos, Yeah, I think
Speaker 4: I think he will. I think, you know, Jim Neill
Speaker 4: will figure something out. I think there. I think they
Speaker 4: end up keeping robertson, or maybe he goes to Detroit
Speaker 4: for Larkin or they find a way to bring Larkin in.
Speaker 4: But yeah, man, there's there's so much crazy shit going
Speaker 4: on right now in these signings. I saw Nick Jensen
Speaker 4: to the Ducks. That's a good one. I guess we
Speaker 4: haven't even touched on the Florida Panthers, the rat Cats
Speaker 4: with Jacob Barstrow.
Speaker 1: How about rad Co Gudus getting six years one and
Speaker 1: a half million AAV six years.
Speaker 2: For I want to ask too early.
Speaker 4: I want to ask Nate this because I was sitting
Speaker 4: in I went to a PA meeting near the end
Speaker 4: of my end of my career in Toronto's with Brad
Speaker 4: Richardson and he had a great idea. He was like,
Speaker 4: he's like I think, and he pitched it before we
Speaker 4: went to those last CBA talks and it was probably
Speaker 4: like twenty twenty one. He's like, anybody have to He's
Speaker 4: like we have to start finding a way to keeping
Speaker 4: these veterans on the team that are over thirty five,
Speaker 4: having them be able to sign small deals and not
Speaker 4: count towards the cap, and just so that gives the
Speaker 4: ability to keep these veterans around to continue the culture,
Speaker 4: which I thought was a great idea. But what I
Speaker 4: love that Florida did is like instead of paying him
Speaker 4: a three year deal at three a year, they give
Speaker 4: him six years at one and a half, knowing, you know,
Speaker 4: Radco is probably gonna retire after two or three years,
Speaker 4: right then, they're just paying a good veteran. They're paying
Speaker 4: them homage. He's coming to the team, he'll be going
Speaker 4: LTI R. And I just think it's like a great
Speaker 4: way to take care of a veteran and also pay
Speaker 4: him because like that one point five extra, you know,
Speaker 4: is just kind of like a tip of the cap, like, hey,
Speaker 4: thanks for your service. We'll ride you till the wheels
Speaker 4: come off. But like, I think that's a great deal.
Speaker 4: And I think again, I think Florida's hit it out
Speaker 4: of the park this summer.
Speaker 1: Mar You think Marsiman was a legit upgrade for Bob.
Speaker 4: Bob was his worst year statistically, last year was Bob's
Speaker 4: Bob was on the marsh, not a proven commodity. But
Speaker 4: Marksham was incredible at the Olympics, So maybe it's he
Speaker 4: needs to be in front of a better team. And
Speaker 4: I think that Decourt is going to block some frickin' shots,
Speaker 4: that's for sure. Look at that Decourt. I mean they're
Speaker 4: gonna be. I think it's gonna be. I think they're
Speaker 4: gonna be just fine with that team. And I think
Speaker 4: they're gonna insulate Marquis pretty well. And I think somebody
Speaker 4: made a joke they're like, he plays like a ves
Speaker 4: goalie and then plays like an HL goalie. It's like
Speaker 4: kind of opposite years. And last year he was like
Speaker 4: an HL goalie. So this year he's gonna win the
Speaker 4: Vesna and they're gonna they're gonna win the Cup again.
Speaker 1: Florida Panthers can only hope. By the way, our special
Speaker 1: guest days Keaton Barhaff just drafted by the San Jose
Speaker 1: Sharks number nine overall, so we'll get him in just
Speaker 1: a second. Again, Dylan Larkin's not getting moved anytime soon.
Speaker 1: I don't think Steve Eisman's rushing to do it. I
Speaker 1: think if there's a great trade out there. He'll trade
Speaker 1: Dylan Lark and he's not gonna be pushed around by
Speaker 1: this kid. He'll make sure that the deal works out
Speaker 1: for the Red Wings. There. Playing makes sense. Let's get wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, before you go to break, you can't. You can't
Speaker 2: push around with Cvy.
Speaker 4: You can't push around Stevie. Why but before we went
Speaker 4: to break, Edmonton Oilers signed Frederick Anderson for Kevinhi. Really, wow,
Speaker 4: I feel that Oilers might be cooking, folks.
Speaker 1: I swear to you to call to day. I said
Speaker 1: to Mike, what are the others gonna do? Because I
Speaker 1: think they love to get my bosk and if not,
Speaker 1: maybe Freddie Anderson? And I was like, maybe I just
Speaker 1: hadn't heard that yet.
Speaker 4: Wow, Freddy and Devin LEVI Wow, anyway, take us to
Speaker 4: break baby.
Speaker 7: Oh dude, that's great. We're gonna tak Freddie Anderson. That's
Speaker 7: great if you know who feeling's massive, ad man, take
Speaker 7: us to break. No, we just want one thought here,
Speaker 7: gd I just want any thoughts in the draft again.
Speaker 7: You can talk Sharks if you want. But McKenna, as
Speaker 7: we all expected, went first.
Speaker 1: Overall your boy stammer to the Sharks, Calebell Hot, you
Speaker 1: to Vancouver, and now this Dad Jackson Rudolph, the Buffalo,
Speaker 1: Albert Smith's the Rangers. Some guys dropped a little bit.
Speaker 1: Vigo Byork at number eight, and again we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to Katon Verahoff, he's at number nine. What stuck out
Speaker 1: you at the draft besides Justin bieber.
Speaker 4: Well, I did it just to be I did. I
Speaker 4: did kind of a breakdown on h on Chase Reid
Speaker 4: and I I think he was the most complete D
Speaker 4: man in that first round. I like that the Sharks
Speaker 4: got air off, but he fell to Seattle. Like you know,
Speaker 4: for everybody not wanting to go to Seattle. They have
Speaker 4: one of the better decours in the league. I think,
Speaker 4: you know, they lost the Lexiak unfortunately, but you know
Speaker 4: they got what Larssen, Montour Donn, Chase Reid, Riker Evans.
Speaker 4: I mean, they got a good decoor and they're pretty
Speaker 4: solid back there in good goaltending. So to me, I
Speaker 4: think Chase Reid dropping. I thought Buffalo it's exactly what
Speaker 4: they needed. They went for a little bit more offensive
Speaker 4: minded in Jackson Rudolph. But I thought that was a
Speaker 4: miss by Buffalo because I think Chase Reid is going
Speaker 4: to be a stud Yeah.
Speaker 1: Originally I think I was looking at some of the
Speaker 1: Angel Network rankings. They thought it might be the first
Speaker 1: defensemen taken. Definitely get the top five guys. So interesting
Speaker 1: how that all unfolds. Meantime, speaking of Buffalo, sometimes they're
Speaker 1: really you know, Connor Hallibuck, remember, Nate, you were talking
Speaker 1: about that. Potentially that could still happen. Bob Byron has gone.
Speaker 1: He goes to Chicago, highest paid defenseman in the league.
Speaker 1: As you said before, he wants to be number one guy.
Speaker 1: Talked to Washington, Door, Fiev to the Rangers, Trocheck to Utah.
Speaker 1: Gendi just talked about Marsham to the Panthers. Nurse. We've
Speaker 1: mentioned Brendan Gallagher going to Vancouver, which non Brady could
Speaker 1: chuck trade to you, Nate, are we not talking enough
Speaker 1: about which of those movies you go? You know what,
Speaker 1: eh Vala Chus going in Columbus. That's good, I.
Speaker 5: Think, honestly. I mean, there's there's so many of them
Speaker 5: trying to keep up. I mean the one, the other
Speaker 5: trade I really liked was JJ Peterca to Boston from Utah.
Speaker 2: I like that trade.
Speaker 5: I thought that was a good move for Boston. I
Speaker 5: know he's German. You know Marco Sturm, German coach, He's
Speaker 5: coached him before. There's some familiarity there.
Speaker 2: So I like that play.
Speaker 5: That was the trade I really really like. And I
Speaker 5: think what Utah is doing right now. I mean, I
Speaker 5: think getting Vinnie Trochek is massive for them. I think
Speaker 5: that's a that's a huge pickup. And you know, to
Speaker 5: have what they already have at the center ice position
Speaker 5: to add those guys. Those those two really jump up,
Speaker 5: jump off the page for me.
Speaker 4: Jesus woman. My wife just listening to a concert right now.
Speaker 1: It's a big cheering section there. She really liked it.
Speaker 4: It is she's cheering Nate great. She said, that's a great,
Speaker 4: great con. We got all sorts of shit. We are
Speaker 4: absolute chaos right now, but I love it. No, I
Speaker 4: think poopy Pants Perterca going to Boston, I think it's
Speaker 4: gonna be a good move. I think him going back
Speaker 4: with his is uh you know, a little German brethren
Speaker 4: and Marco stermol Unlockham. So No, I think, you know,
Speaker 4: trade wise, I think you got to look at the
Speaker 4: trocheck trades a big one.
Speaker 1: Door A few of the Rangers talk to Washington. Which
Speaker 1: one do you like more?
Speaker 4: I mean, the tough one was nice. I like the
Speaker 4: Bob one. Honestly. I think Pebrowski to Toronto. I liked it.
Speaker 4: They were firing from the hip in Toronto. I think,
Speaker 4: you know, Toronto's taking a lot of shit. But listen,
Speaker 4: Drake is fire. And you know that's not just speaking
Speaker 4: from the fact that you know. I don't have anything
Speaker 4: really bad to say about them, but I think there's
Speaker 4: a lot of question marks of what the hell is
Speaker 4: Toronto gonna do? And they're answering those questions alongside getting
Speaker 4: Gavin McKenna. So I think it's gonna be it's gonna
Speaker 4: be interesting to see that team come, you know, October seventh, eighth,
Speaker 4: when the puck's dropped.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I wondered about Buffalo a little bit. I
Speaker 1: think they've been weakened a little bit, obviously, losing boat Arm,
Speaker 1: losing Tocic. They're looking to make some moves and again
Speaker 1: maybe they go out and get Connor Hallibuck, they solve
Speaker 1: potential golding situation. We shall see. I'm still blown away.
Speaker 1: Freddie Anderson, Edmonton. All right, that's the news as it happens.
Speaker 1: By the time you listen this, a lot more will
Speaker 1: have happened. But it's okay. We're doing our best to
Speaker 1: keep up and we're on a bi we bie weekly schedule,
Speaker 1: so it's all good. Keaton Verhoff. Now remember the sales
Speaker 1: a Sharks, Sharks making moves. You're Keaton on his thoughts
Speaker 1: on being a top ten pick number nine overawl to Sanes.
Speaker 1: That's coming up right after this on NHL and Scripted.
Speaker 4: Our next guest is the Pride of Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta,
Speaker 4: and recently completed a busy season in which he suited
Speaker 4: up for the University of North Dakota, captain the Canadian
Speaker 4: squad of the Under eighteen World Championships, and was one
Speaker 4: of the youngest players on Team Cannon at World Juniors.
Speaker 4: You wrapped up all that last weekend by being drafted
Speaker 4: ninth overall by my Shan Jose Sharks at the NHL
Speaker 4: Draft Live from Sharks development Camp. It's Keaton Verhoff. What
Speaker 4: is up, my man?
Speaker 6: How's it going? Saus Thanks for having.
Speaker 4: Me Keaton quickly? Just you know, what is the whirlwind
Speaker 4: been like since the moment you heard your name called.
Speaker 4: Take us through that and just take us through the
Speaker 4: lead up to the draft and what has been your
Speaker 4: highlights so far.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been crazy.
Speaker 8: Obviously, kind of go through the entire year and folks
Speaker 8: on the important part of the year and trying to
Speaker 8: do what you can to help a team win, and
Speaker 8: then you kind of get to the draft time and
Speaker 8: combine time and all that stuff, and a lot was
Speaker 8: going through kind of me and my family's head. But
Speaker 8: it was an exciting time. I couldn't be more lucky
Speaker 8: in honored to be drafted by the Sharks as well.
Speaker 8: Obviously unbelieve organization with the players they have coming up,
Speaker 8: it's it's special. So it's been a whirlwind, but it's
Speaker 8: been so exciting looking forward to.
Speaker 6: It for what's to come.
Speaker 5: Keaton, You're from Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. Guys like Ray Whitney,
Speaker 5: Mike Commodore, Jeoffrey Loopel are from there. You know, what
Speaker 5: is it like and what was it like growing up
Speaker 5: in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta And are you you know, are
Speaker 5: you spend your summers there? Are you working out with
Speaker 5: other guys there around around your hometown?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was so special.
Speaker 8: That's a big part of my identity a big part
Speaker 8: of the person I am today. I gotta give a
Speaker 8: lot of credit to my roots in Fort Skatchwan. Obviously
Speaker 8: a smaller town, but the hockey is so big there
Speaker 8: and the town supports it so well. I remember growing
Speaker 8: up and going to the U eighteen games and watching
Speaker 8: those guys play and thinking they were in the NHL
Speaker 8: and thinking they were the best players in the world,
Speaker 8: and so it was. That was a big thing for me,
Speaker 8: growing up and watching those guys in a small town.
Speaker 8: And as I've gotten older, the support from my hometown
Speaker 8: has been so huge and so and so much of
Speaker 8: it too.
Speaker 6: Like I've been I've had so many.
Speaker 8: Kids come up to me and Fort Scatchwan, and that's
Speaker 8: exciting every time that happens to kind of be something
Speaker 8: that those kids can come up and talk to and
Speaker 8: kind of have a have a conversation with because I
Speaker 8: remember being in their shoes and yeah, so it's being
Speaker 8: for Fort Scatchroan was huge. And as for now, yah
Speaker 8: to stay my summers back and forth Scatchman and hang
Speaker 8: out with my family there, I'll see an important time
Speaker 8: and just being with my family and working out there
Speaker 8: and skating there with my cousins as well, so it's
Speaker 8: it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 4: Do you have any NHL ors that you know, we're
Speaker 4: from that area that you kind of talked about young
Speaker 4: kids talking to you and you kind of giving back,
Speaker 4: you know, did you have any moments growing up where
Speaker 4: you got to watch skate with maybe some NHL guys
Speaker 4: and how are those moments?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I was pretty lucky related to the docs.
Speaker 8: So I've been skating with those guys since I was
Speaker 8: thirteen fourteen years old and been a little be out
Speaker 8: on the ice with them, Zelwiger and kind of guys
Speaker 8: like that. But I also kind of remember growing up
Speaker 8: looking at Sebastian Coosa was a goalie in Ford, Scotch
Speaker 8: when I was growing up, and I remember the year
Speaker 8: he got drafted and looking at him, and so yeah,
Speaker 8: I've been pretty lucky. B l scaped from some pretty
Speaker 8: cool names. But yeah, it's been fun being with from
Speaker 8: fort schedule.
Speaker 4: Just to kind of continue into the draft quickly and
Speaker 4: talk about you know, you know, you go ninth this year.
Speaker 4: You were kind of one of the names that was
Speaker 4: more talked about than other players, you know, in terms
Speaker 4: of your ranking, and you started high and then you
Speaker 4: went low and then you built yourself back up. Did
Speaker 4: you ever pay attention to any of that or or
Speaker 4: you know, friends, and how was that dealing with that?
Speaker 4: Because I thought for you, it showed an immense amount
Speaker 4: of maturity and and and emotional bandwidth to handle that,
Speaker 4: because you know, again you're you haven't even been able
Speaker 4: to prove yourself at the NHL level, at the NHL level,
Speaker 4: and you're already being talked about, like you know, up
Speaker 4: and down the ranking. So how was that for you
Speaker 4: this season? And it did any moments that were hard?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I tried to focus on I tried
Speaker 8: not to focus on the Obviously they're there every single
Speaker 8: kid at social media and everybody's kind of looking at
Speaker 8: those rankings and seeing those rankings pop up on your feed.
Speaker 8: But it was obviously some moments where you try not
Speaker 8: to get too high and you try not to get
Speaker 8: too low. But I think for me, the biggest thing
Speaker 8: I was really focused on was just being with the guys.
Speaker 8: A big thing that really helped me was just immersing
Speaker 8: myself with the guys. And I was super lucky to
Speaker 8: have an unbelievable team with unbelievable guys around me that
Speaker 8: really supported me. They were they were always cheering for
Speaker 8: me and always kind of being my biggest supporter. So
Speaker 8: I was super nice both on the ice and off
Speaker 8: the ice.
Speaker 6: I mean a lot of my.
Speaker 8: Year and year kind of have to give a lot
Speaker 8: of credit to my teammates, both kind of with how
Speaker 8: they were able to teach me some things on the ice,
Speaker 8: but as well off the ice. I think kind of
Speaker 8: being in that North Dakota locker room was something that
Speaker 8: really grounded me, just being around those guys and knowing
Speaker 8: it's not really the bigger picture for us this year
Speaker 8: was was winning, and that was really what I was trying.
Speaker 6: To focus on throughout the year.
Speaker 8: Obviously there's lots of things in the background and lots
Speaker 8: of things you see in here, but the biggest thing
Speaker 8: I was really focus on with that group of guys
Speaker 8: was just to win. We had so many guys that
Speaker 8: were so bought in, and it was pretty inspirational to
Speaker 8: go to the rink every single day there and just
Speaker 8: compete with them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm so impressed by that because I go
Speaker 5: back to my draft here, and like I did not
Speaker 5: handle the pressure as well in in my draft year,
Speaker 5: and I listened to you, and I hear you and JD.
Speaker 5: I don't know about you, but it was it was
Speaker 5: a stressful year for me. So to hear you talk
Speaker 5: about it and you, you know, be so articulate, it's impressive.
Speaker 5: So I guess I want you to take us through,
Speaker 5: take us into the draft.
Speaker 4: I was passed over three years in a row in
Speaker 4: the draft from the seventh round, so I had no stress.
Speaker 5: There you go, there, you go, there, you go anyways,
Speaker 5: but you know, you know you're sitting in the draft.
Speaker 5: You know there's four defensemen that are going ahead of you. Like,
Speaker 5: what's what's going through your head at that moment as
Speaker 5: you're sitting there before you're selected.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think for a lot of it, you kind
Speaker 8: of sit there and you have possibilities of teams you've
Speaker 8: talked with, and kind of you get to know them
Speaker 8: a bit at the combine and see what's going on.
Speaker 8: So I think I was trying not speculate too much.
Speaker 8: I'm really trying to sit there and enjoy the moment.
Speaker 8: It was obviously a little stressful time, but looking back
Speaker 8: at it now, it was pretty incredible and I wouldn't
Speaker 8: have wanted to go any other way. I mean sitting
Speaker 8: through that, I think my family and my mom is
Speaker 8: maybe a little more stressed than uh.
Speaker 6: And.
Speaker 4: It's always that, but it was fun talk about just
Speaker 4: the combine and and I think I talked to a
Speaker 4: couple of you guys during the finals and I asked,
Speaker 4: you know, there's always some funky, quirky meetings with teams.
Speaker 4: What was the team that kind of it was a
Speaker 4: little bit interesting, you know, your meeting with them or
Speaker 4: they did something different.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think there's there's a couple of different ones.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think there's the usual ones. Some your questions.
Speaker 8: None of them were too too crazy, but they all
Speaker 8: had their unique quirks. Every single team is kind of
Speaker 8: different and there it was fun talking with all them.
Speaker 4: Was it Montreal? Did Montreal do like you had to
Speaker 4: like put put a garbage can at a distance or something?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Montreal did a garbage can and you had to
Speaker 8: throw the puck in the bucket and it was kind
Speaker 8: of test of confidence.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: I didn't when I interview with Montreal, they didn't ask
Speaker 6: me that.
Speaker 8: They asked me this year if I went to a
Speaker 8: restaurant and asked for B L T and I asked
Speaker 8: for a cheese on it, but the the whatever serving
Speaker 8: me said the cheese would cost extra. And then I
Speaker 8: went outside, got to my car, opened my bot and
Speaker 8: saw there's no cheese.
Speaker 6: And they asked what I do. So that was kind
Speaker 6: of a weird question I got. But other than that,
Speaker 6: there was wasn't too.
Speaker 4: Many say drive the car through the restaurant or what.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, something something along those lines.
Speaker 2: I have to ask.
Speaker 5: You know, you're finally you're finally in San Jose. You
Speaker 5: know you're there, you're at development camp. How has it been?
Speaker 5: What has it been like being around the guys? You know,
Speaker 5: I mean, what's what's the feeling overall now now that
Speaker 5: you're drafting and now you're San Jose shark.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's uh, it's pretty cool, like I said, to
Speaker 8: be a draft to such an amazing organization, with the
Speaker 8: opportunity that this team has and the kind of people
Speaker 8: they have around the team and sports staff and the
Speaker 8: management and the coaching staff as well, it's pretty incredible.
Speaker 6: So just with the as for the guys.
Speaker 8: Too, like getting to all of them and being around
Speaker 8: the rink with them and kind of meeting the people
Speaker 8: behind the scenes.
Speaker 6: Too, has been pretty cool.
Speaker 8: Obviously kind of a couple of guys I know for
Speaker 8: in the past, but building those relationships with these guys
Speaker 8: that we're gonna have futures with together and be around
Speaker 8: the same organizations.
Speaker 6: So it's super fun and it's it's just a cool
Speaker 6: experience as a whole.
Speaker 4: Before we get into all things Sharks and I'm just
Speaker 4: chomping at the bit to talk to you about that,
Speaker 4: I want to talk a little bit about your you know,
Speaker 4: your story. You're you're in junior Victoria Royals and you
Speaker 4: decide kind of to go from the dub to to
Speaker 4: No Dak and you know what prompted that decision and
Speaker 4: was it a tough one at the time, and and
Speaker 4: how did you you know, how did you feel about that,
Speaker 4: you know, your family and making that big change.
Speaker 8: Yeah, one hundred percent of a tough one. Victoria played
Speaker 8: such a huge role in my life and my young
Speaker 8: career as well. I had an amazing built family there,
Speaker 8: amazing coaching staff, amazing teammates.
Speaker 2: And management as well.
Speaker 8: It was the spot that kind of gave me my
Speaker 8: first opportunity in junior and people that first kind of
Speaker 8: believed in me and took that step on me.
Speaker 6: I know, coming into Victoria is pretty raw.
Speaker 8: And had a lot of development to do, I think,
Speaker 8: and they really shaped me up and turned me around,
Speaker 8: and I got to give I was still thanking for
Speaker 8: my time in Victoria, but yeah, it was a super
Speaker 8: tough decision to make that jump in North Dakota.
Speaker 6: Going on.
Speaker 8: We had played out my six year old the year
Speaker 8: and went on some visits to some schools, and going
Speaker 8: to North Dakota just kind of felt like the place
Speaker 8: for me, the people there, at the support we had.
Speaker 8: You can go on and on about what's amazing about
Speaker 8: North Dakota and I still could now and after one
Speaker 8: year there, I I I have so much pride and
Speaker 8: love for the program and and for the people there.
Speaker 8: So it's it's been pretty amazing for the year I
Speaker 8: have and for the team we're gonna be having next year.
Speaker 5: Before we do get into Sharks, because I want to
Speaker 5: let JD ask some more about that and get into it.
Speaker 2: You know, I have to ask, what.
Speaker 5: Was there a defenseman or a player that you really
Speaker 5: kind of model your game after or you know that
Speaker 5: you answered, I'm sure in the interviews when you rask
Speaker 5: by teams ask you know, who do you monitor who
Speaker 5: do you monitor game after? Who do you want to
Speaker 5: be like the NHL? Is there is there a player
Speaker 5: that jumps out at you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. No, there's a couple of guys. I think
Speaker 6: I really liked Washington Thomas Harley after the Four.
Speaker 8: Nations and seeing his game, and he's young, young Canadian
Speaker 8: defenseman and is a bigger.
Speaker 6: Guy and someone that I've kind of tried to model
Speaker 6: my game after. Is just a two way ability.
Speaker 8: His ability to defend and shut down guys but also
Speaker 8: create some offense and move the bucks up the ice
Speaker 8: of the forward tense. H.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 4: Actually, it's a good that's a good comp for you
Speaker 4: as well, A great one. He's a good skater, he's
Speaker 4: very I think he's he's underrated, I still think in
Speaker 4: the league. So that's a good one.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 4: Talk a little bit. You're with the Sharks. First impressions
Speaker 4: at dev camp. What's been your favorite drill and your
Speaker 4: worst drill that you've just absolutely just buysed at depth
Speaker 4: camp because it's a little bit of a grind.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, it's all been fun.
Speaker 8: Uh yeah, it's it's uh, it's a cool experience here
Speaker 8: and the drills have been fun kind of doing some
Speaker 8: of that technique stuff and focusing on the small details.
Speaker 6: That's super important.
Speaker 8: So it's been cool to come here and learn from
Speaker 8: these guys and and just listen to these guys as
Speaker 8: well and soak it all in. I think the things
Speaker 8: they preach are important, and kind of listening to them
Speaker 8: and trying to implement the style playing in my game
Speaker 8: and implement their little there's little skills and tactics.
Speaker 6: It's been fun. And it's for the worst drill. There's
Speaker 6: been nothing so far.
Speaker 4: So uh oh, you're such a hey car radio love
Speaker 4: that answer. There is some that one legged. I watched
Speaker 4: that big seven, that big seven karmanop doing the doing
Speaker 4: that edgework around the stick, and I you know, I
Speaker 4: feel for him because I hated that when I did.
Speaker 2: It was fun.
Speaker 6: I saw that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Are there any proper?
Speaker 4: How big? How big is that fucker?
Speaker 6: Seven to eighty pounds? I think is a beast?
Speaker 8: Like not even skinny either, Like you look at like
Speaker 8: seven to one guys, you think they'll be like tall
Speaker 8: and lanky, But he's.
Speaker 6: Tall, like built and like just strong. It's it's insane.
Speaker 5: And he was moving pretty well around the like on
Speaker 5: one leg, like moving around that stick like no problem,
Speaker 5: Like he pretty well looks like too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, people shipping on him in the on Twitter, I
Speaker 4: was like, that's such a hard drill on your outside edge.
Speaker 6: Oh no, speed, should have flip.
Speaker 8: Should have shown him then showing me probably looked like
Speaker 8: a deer on ice watching me out there.
Speaker 5: Have you gotten to meet I me know, I know
Speaker 5: you mentioned Joe and some of the other development staff
Speaker 5: before we got on this, before we were recording. Are
Speaker 5: there any other players besides Jason de Murz or current
Speaker 5: players you've gotten to talk to since being drafted?
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's been a couple, I think.
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, it's a pretty cool moment right after
Speaker 8: the draft and Maclin called me and talk to me
Speaker 8: and welcome the organization. Welcomed me to the organization. So
Speaker 8: that was a pretty cool moment for sure. Obviously talking
Speaker 8: to a guy like that. Obviously he's at such a
Speaker 8: young age. He's done so much for the league and
Speaker 8: done so much as in his young career. It's it's
Speaker 8: been an inspiration for a lot of kids, and it's
Speaker 8: pretty cool to watch him play. So a lot of
Speaker 8: those those guys and just guys that are seeing around
Speaker 8: the rink and hanging out.
Speaker 6: So it's it's been cool and it's been fun.
Speaker 4: What you know, obviously we got to ask about I mean,
Speaker 4: there's two guys that I think is great. I mean
Speaker 4: you probably saw him a little bit, but how was
Speaker 4: he meeting Jumbo and just feeling his energy. I'm sure
Speaker 4: you've heard stories about him, but Joe Thornton, you know,
Speaker 4: first impressions of meeting that guy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was cool. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 8: Actually, he's obviously kind of hear so many things, and
Speaker 8: I grew up kind of watching him as being an
Speaker 8: Edmonton seeing Edmonton and sounds that you play quite a bit,
Speaker 8: and grew up seeing him play and just kind of
Speaker 8: meet him and seeing him on the ice.
Speaker 6: Was pretty cool.
Speaker 8: He's obviously got so much energy and so positive out
Speaker 8: there and really just wants to help the guys out.
Speaker 8: So be out there with him and be on the
Speaker 8: ice of the guy of that stature and a career
Speaker 8: he had was was pretty amazing.
Speaker 5: Have you had conversations with management or any coaches about
Speaker 5: you know, where you stand or what they want to
Speaker 5: see or you know, what they want to see out
Speaker 5: of you as far as developing or has it just
Speaker 5: kind of been Hey Keaton, just have you know, have
Speaker 5: fun and enjoy this and we're just going to take
Speaker 5: this day by day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 8: I think just kind of enjoy the experience right now,
Speaker 8: folks on on the present, and like I said earlier,
Speaker 8: folks is just focusing on soaking everything in becoming a
Speaker 8: better player right here, right here, right now, and kind
Speaker 8: of taking everything I can from the coaching staff and
Speaker 8: the development staff and as well the players around me too.
Speaker 8: I mean, these guys have been doing this for longer
Speaker 8: than me and have some tricks that I can still
Speaker 8: learn from them. So just be in a sponge out
Speaker 8: there and learn learn from all the guys and the
Speaker 8: cuating staff.
Speaker 4: Talk about no Dak right now. You're going back next year,
Speaker 4: right and you're gonna unless you just blow the doors
Speaker 4: off in training camp, which it might happen. Who knows,
Speaker 4: you might get you might get tempted out. But if
Speaker 4: you go back to Noak, you know, talk about somebody
Speaker 4: that maybe you know, I think your team is was
Speaker 4: was just so deep top to bottom, but but talk
Speaker 4: about somebody that maybe nobody really knows about that that
Speaker 4: you loved playing with over there at Noak.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I could go on and on about guys in
Speaker 6: North Dakota.
Speaker 8: There's guys there that I've obviously became so close with
Speaker 8: and really built good relationships with and bonds with. I mean,
Speaker 8: when you're that close so that as a team and
Speaker 8: go pretty far, it's it's relationships you never forget. But
Speaker 8: I mean there's there's so many guys there you look
Speaker 8: at it a lot of guys that you look at
Speaker 8: the guys that left this year, Like I mean rick
Speaker 8: Wood was a bit a guy for me.
Speaker 6: Elis Rickwood who.
Speaker 8: Makes that jump into the A at the end of
Speaker 8: the year and end up becoming a goal scorer there
Speaker 8: and was scoring three points.
Speaker 4: Eh, yeah, ye had two goals right away and then
Speaker 4: in the playoffs, yeah exactly.
Speaker 6: So he's a guy that was so good for us
Speaker 6: all year.
Speaker 8: But I mean I could go on on, like especially
Speaker 8: for like guys like Zamolik, our captain Livnavige and we
Speaker 8: those guys are players that really define a North Dakota
Speaker 8: culture and really built it.
Speaker 6: I mean they're there for the couple tough years and.
Speaker 8: Built that program back up and not saying back up,
Speaker 8: but like we're so proud of our legacy and our
Speaker 8: history and tradition, and those are guys that really really
Speaker 8: displayed it day in and day out.
Speaker 6: So lots of guys like that that really taught me and.
Speaker 8: The guys and the freshman and the transfers this year
Speaker 8: what it's like to be a North Koloka player.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna switch things up a little bit
Speaker 5: because I want to see we were talking about before
Speaker 5: the show and and you know, now JD, you know,
Speaker 5: being retired, being a former Shark, you know, Keaton, Like,
Speaker 5: I want to ask you if you have any questions
Speaker 5: for JD as far as you know, being what it
Speaker 5: means to be a San Jose Shark also playing in
Speaker 5: the league, getting there and staying there and you know,
Speaker 5: I mean, if there's anything you have to ask him.
Speaker 5: I know, you're you're there at San Jose. Tell them
Speaker 5: about the bars, yeah yeah, yeah, no, no, no, none
Speaker 5: of that about what bars to go to now hockey stuff.
Speaker 5: You know, I wonder we're all just shooting the ship here,
Speaker 5: you know, we're just curious if you have any questions
Speaker 5: for him.
Speaker 2: You know, we just see.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I don't know too much. I mean it's.
Speaker 8: Couple of days, but I mean, like just kind of
Speaker 8: I mean asking about his time and what it's like
Speaker 8: to play in front of the fans and things like that,
Speaker 8: and what it's like to be what it means honestly
Speaker 8: to be.
Speaker 6: A Shark too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, it was, you know, I started at twenty
Speaker 4: one there, and I mean it was still to this day.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm gonna be I'll be there doing pre
Speaker 4: and post stuff and some studio work too. I do
Speaker 4: a lot of TV with them now. I just love it.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: It's probably the one place that I played in that
Speaker 4: the fan base still, you know, was kind of embraced
Speaker 4: me and embraced the way I played. You know, it's
Speaker 4: it's a more knowledgeable fan base than people think, and
Speaker 4: they just they love exciting hockey. So really, like as
Speaker 4: a defenseman and a guy, I know your style. Watch
Speaker 4: a lot of your game too, Like you know, you
Speaker 4: do make the simple pass, but you do have some
Speaker 4: I think there is another level to you as a
Speaker 4: player in terms of risk reward that you can you
Speaker 4: can add into your game, and I think you will
Speaker 4: as you get older, and you understand because defenseman, it
Speaker 4: takes a little bit of time, and there's no better
Speaker 4: development squad than in San Jose, I think right now
Speaker 4: in the league. So you're going to be in for
Speaker 4: a treat, you know, once you decide. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's it's a loud ass building too, man like. It's
Speaker 4: people don't realize how loud it is until you see
Speaker 4: game one, or even if you see that, you know
Speaker 4: if you're you're able to get a preseason game at
Speaker 4: home this year. It's just so much fun. It's really
Speaker 4: there's no city you know that that's kind of like
Speaker 4: it's very underassuming, like you don't know that it's actually
Speaker 4: this big hockey town. But everybody's a fan. Everybody loves
Speaker 4: the Sharks, and I'm sure every single there's so many
Speaker 4: people in San Jose that know who you are and
Speaker 4: know your whole life story, so and they root for you.
Speaker 4: There's really no hate towards players, which is nice. As
Speaker 4: a player. You know, you go to other places and
Speaker 4: you're gonna be judged a little bit more, and of
Speaker 4: course you're gonna you know, Sharks fans will judge on
Speaker 4: a bad game and stuff like that, but they root
Speaker 4: for you at the end of the day because they
Speaker 4: love good people. So it's a cool thing. It's a great,
Speaker 4: great place to be a part of a great organization
Speaker 4: too that you're gonna you know, you're gonna see Jumbo
Speaker 4: more in the shower than any other player, which is
Speaker 4: kind of funny once you start seeing a hall of
Speaker 4: fame or just showering every day at the rink, said Creep, I.
Speaker 2: Have the best culture there. But but but he's right though.
Speaker 5: I remember playing, I mean, I remember going on the
Speaker 5: road and playing in San Josean and being it was
Speaker 5: on another level as far as how loud and felt
Speaker 5: like it was. It felt like it was fifty guys
Speaker 5: on the ice because the crowd be right on top
Speaker 5: of you, and you know, the way that they played
Speaker 5: it was so exciting. So you're you're you're gonna fit
Speaker 5: in just fine in that organization.
Speaker 2: I know. JD agrees as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're we have one from uh one more from
Speaker 4: tal for you here, just a couple here.
Speaker 2: King.
Speaker 3: I just well, actually it's more for the guys because
Speaker 3: I want to see what more advice they have for Keaton.
Speaker 3: I mean, the guy got drafted less than a week ago.
Speaker 3: But I'm wondering, JD, is there someone that in player
Speaker 3: development or with the organization that you got to recommend
Speaker 3: Keaton kind of make sure he I wouldn't say, kiss
Speaker 3: his ass, but at least, you know, makes nice with
Speaker 3: as he as he you know, becomes more a part
Speaker 3: of the organization.
Speaker 4: Have you met Burkie yet? Has Burkee been around there?
Speaker 6: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: He's one of the scouts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, not much.
Speaker 4: I think you'll probably see him, but he's he's just
Speaker 4: an older head. No, I think listen. I think it's
Speaker 4: Jumbo for sure, is a great guy to pick his brain.
Speaker 4: I think Mike Riachie's a great guy to pick his brain.
Speaker 4: He's been around for a long time. And and uh,
Speaker 4: you know, I always loved I played with Tommy Wingles, so.
Speaker 2: I played with Spece too. Spiece is a great dude too.
Speaker 4: It's just you can't miss I think, just you know,
Speaker 4: the one thing I was always told Keats is uh
Speaker 4: is just be be a sponge man. Just ask questions,
Speaker 4: learn figure out different ways to play, and see what
Speaker 4: works for you, and then just take what works for you.
Speaker 4: And but you know, not changing who you are as
Speaker 4: a player, like stick to your strengths.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and only other thing for me is just I'm
Speaker 3: curious Keaton like you are now joining what a lot
Speaker 3: of people are calling probably the best young group you
Speaker 3: know of prospects in the NHL. I mean you mentioned maclan,
Speaker 3: he got Stenberg second overall, Michael Misa. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: a pretty pretty great group. What's what's it like for you?
Speaker 3: I mean, first of all, how many of these guys
Speaker 3: are you familiar with as far as their game and
Speaker 3: what they've already done, and and what's it like for
Speaker 3: you being part of this core that that looks like
Speaker 3: it could do some special things in the next few years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's super cool.
Speaker 8: I mean seeing the guys and especially these past couple
Speaker 8: of years watching their hockey and watching San Jose games,
Speaker 8: it's been so exciting.
Speaker 6: I mean the hockey has been fun, the hockey has
Speaker 6: been high paced.
Speaker 8: And seeing what they've done the past couple of years
Speaker 8: and seeing the steps they've taken, and like with the
Speaker 8: guys that are here and are playing on the team
Speaker 8: right now, it's just as exciting hockey to watch.
Speaker 6: And then you talk about I mean you had Ivory.
Speaker 8: Had stant like Stenberg in there, and it's pretty incredible.
Speaker 8: I mean the type player he is it's it's fun
Speaker 8: to watch, I mean played against seeing him at World
Speaker 8: Juniors and seeing a couple other events and watching the
Speaker 8: way he takes over games and the way he's able
Speaker 8: to move the puck and do everything is pretty special.
Speaker 4: Is he the guy that's impressed you the most? Last
Speaker 4: one for me?
Speaker 8: There, Yeah, I haven't like seen skated like over the
Speaker 8: course of the past couple years. I think over the
Speaker 8: past year, definitely him, especially at World Juniors and seeing
Speaker 8: him there, but at like at camp so far we've
Speaker 8: been on separate team, so I haven't skated too much together.
Speaker 8: But just as a person, he's an unbelievable guy and
Speaker 8: it's been fun to get to know him.
Speaker 4: Well, it's been fun to get to know you, buddy,
Speaker 4: and I wish you all the luck at development Camp.
Speaker 4: Get through it, go, enjoy Santana Rogo, get a little
Speaker 4: pizza Antiica, and enjoy some time with the boys. But
Speaker 4: good luck and thanks for coming on with us. But man, yeah,
Speaker 4: thank you, lucky, Thanks man.
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Speaker 1: Heartbreak again. What he gives away with the toys are
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Speaker 2: What's the toy.
Speaker 1: Toy Straight four? Unnecessarily Toy Straight five. I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god. Now the toys are battling with iPads. Could
Speaker 1: have just had a nightpad rather than spend one hundred
Speaker 1: bucks in the tickets and eighty dollars on the pop
Speaker 1: corny candy. But congratulations, his picksar another hit at the
Speaker 1: box office. Tim Allen, just carrying, just carrying the mail
Speaker 1: is buzz Lightyear to Infinity and beyond. That's where the
Speaker 1: box office is going. Meantime, let's go back to more
Speaker 1: of the moves being made. We talked about Florida. You know,
Speaker 1: Nashville picked up Ross Colton, Jack Drewy Love the Hog
Speaker 1: Maverick Bork, pretty good, pickup Lubushkin, they got him from
Speaker 1: the stars, Saint Louis, Mason McTavish, Connor McMichael, Brandon Carlow.
Speaker 1: They treated Jordan Cairou. We've talked about Toronto quite a bit.
Speaker 1: We talked about the Sharks and Washington. I should mention
Speaker 1: they get Jordan Kyru and Alex tu through Chase for
Speaker 1: a signing boon.
Speaker 4: They need to harn it too.
Speaker 1: Yep. So those the the you know, the team is
Speaker 1: making moves that look good as far as teams right now.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say winners and losers JD. Because
Speaker 1: there's you know, still some to be determined. But the Sabers,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, they're a weaker team now, losing Byronman Tuck.
Speaker 1: They do at Zelweger, Auto loses Brady, but ads Willy Acklin,
Speaker 1: Andre Borakowski Colorado. U said, you like because they get
Speaker 1: Schwartz Anaheim, though you get a j. Greer, but you're
Speaker 1: losing John Carlson, Gudas, Zelweger and Truba on defense. Your
Speaker 1: thoughts and team that's been underwhelming so far.
Speaker 4: I mean it's got It's probably a toss up between
Speaker 4: Ottawa and Anaheim. I think Seattle, you can't really get
Speaker 4: mad at him because they're trying. Ottawa just they need
Speaker 4: to put that rink down town so goddamn bad. They
Speaker 4: just can't attract anybody. You know, Brady leaves. You know
Speaker 4: the return is some picks and stuff like that. But
Speaker 4: you know they need players. They got some good talent,
Speaker 4: Tim Stutzlo, they got some good you know, Jake Sanderson,
Speaker 4: you gotta you gotta hurry up because Jake Sanderson's gonna
Speaker 4: leave because if anything's if anything is certain in life,
Speaker 4: it's death taxes in that Team USA group chat, and
Speaker 4: that group chat's humming, and Jake Sanders is probably like,
Speaker 4: get me out of here. Misa, Misa, Michael him, Michael, Mista.
Speaker 4: You know Melata, I think I killed her with my carate.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts in Anaheim. They could use a defenseman.
Speaker 2: They could use a couple of defensemen.
Speaker 4: I think Jensen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they get Jensen, which is a good
Speaker 5: pick up. But I mean you have Jackson leccomb obviously,
Speaker 5: but I'm looking at their d it's Drew Hellison, mitt Nikoff,
Speaker 5: you know, Tyson Hens. I mean, but it's after that
Speaker 5: you don't really have much. So I think they they
Speaker 5: have to. I think they're gonna go out and get
Speaker 5: one or two more guys, because you know, you lose
Speaker 5: a guy like Truba and Carlson, those are tough holes
Speaker 5: to fill. So and then I think, you know, you
Speaker 5: look at what like I love what Washington did for
Speaker 5: a team that didn't make the playoffs. Like I think
Speaker 5: Washington really kind of hit it out of the part
Speaker 5: with all the guys oh yeah and talking.
Speaker 1: You still don't know if a Vection's coming back. And
Speaker 1: I'll see this for e. G. Rockman a great point
Speaker 1: on a vection today through four hours of covers in nhelwork,
Speaker 1: he goes, he's kind of a DH now, but the
Speaker 1: other day he scored three two goals last year, I
Speaker 1: know it five on five. Oh, we can't keep up necessarily,
Speaker 1: and he has to be a power place spost some ways.
Speaker 1: But three two goals is thirty two goals. So we
Speaker 1: don't still know if a Vets's coming back. But to
Speaker 1: Nate's point, you're getting tucked back and you know he's
Speaker 1: gonna score and Kyra's gonna score. So like those are
Speaker 1: top end guys. I would think if they're clicking, Uh, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, I wouldn't mind. And I could see OV. Jesus's
Speaker 4: my wife's moving furniture right now over there. Sorry, you know,
Speaker 4: I think I could see OV coming back halfway through
Speaker 4: the year, come back right before just missed the first
Speaker 4: twenty thirty games, Like just if.
Speaker 1: You're gonna play, you're gona play.
Speaker 4: If not, it's okay, No, fuck dad, he could do
Speaker 4: whatever he wants.
Speaker 1: Mess right, he's at least two fifty right now. You
Speaker 1: think he's just right? Hang on.
Speaker 4: They probably just said work workout, skate with the team,
Speaker 4: come hang out, we'll sign you when we're ready a
Speaker 4: million dollar deal. Will go win a cup if you
Speaker 4: want to play. If not, just enjoy the KHL.
Speaker 1: Now down, No, because if you have a ven you
Speaker 1: want to the merchandise and the tickets and everything, like,
Speaker 1: we need you for the whole season. Show up for
Speaker 1: forty games.
Speaker 4: They're going to be an exciting team Without Ov, They're
Speaker 4: gonna that Metropolitan Division goes Carolina. Was Washington, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: was Devil's Devil's kind of you can maybe see him there,
Speaker 4: but it's really it's really wash. Like I think Philly
Speaker 4: is gonna stink this year.
Speaker 1: No, that's not true. There's still not Listen, they're on
Speaker 1: car I think Carlson goes Lightning. I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: Philly potentially.
Speaker 4: Gets watch this. Okay, you heard it here first. Philly
Speaker 4: is gonna be way out of the playoffs next year.
Speaker 2: I can't wait, we have to make sure we remember this.
Speaker 9: Yeah, locked up Tyson Forrester. If the doors are ready
Speaker 9: to go? Oh yeah, you have the same exact team.
Speaker 9: You have the same team that different playoffs.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get off this. They're gonna get John Carlson.
Speaker 1: Probably Dal give us your draft All Name Team. You're
Speaker 1: excited about.
Speaker 3: This, very excited. It's the first annual All Name team
Speaker 3: brought to you by kidding. We don't have a sponsor, but.
Speaker 4: Nice first and only one because first and maybe only.
Speaker 3: We got a couple of divisions here. I'm big on
Speaker 3: the names. We start with the Cruise Lucius Division, just
Speaker 3: straight up fantastic name. Starts with Brooks Rogowski six seventh,
Speaker 3: what goes to Vancouver. Here's another one. I like Timofay
Speaker 3: runtso from Montreal. Actually read backstory on this kid, you'll
Speaker 3: love it. Add now. He's actually a product of the
Speaker 3: Junior Kings program. His dad Andre plays from Belarus and
Speaker 3: played professionally, came to Southern California, became a stuntman and
Speaker 3: has worked on films like Salt Jack, Reacher and Amazing
Speaker 3: Spider Man.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: I love this guy.
Speaker 3: Evan Jardine like kind of a smooth jazz.
Speaker 4: Sound of this love that smooth jazz.
Speaker 3: Beckham Edwards to Detroit, Ben Roberto Henriquez goalie to Boston,
Speaker 3: born and raised in Slovakia, Dominican Dad. You figure it out.
Speaker 3: It's like another junior King goes to Winnipeg, the first
Speaker 3: player of Samoan descent drafted in the and then Joe
Speaker 3: again La Jerome's kid drafted by Calgary.
Speaker 4: That's fantastic.
Speaker 3: And then we have what I like to call the
Speaker 3: the bond Villain division, guys who sound like they could
Speaker 3: be a bond Villain. There's it starts starts, of course
Speaker 3: with Eva Stenberg, Eva Eva Vigo Byork by the who
Speaker 3: by the way, apparently already looks awesome at Jet's dev camp.
Speaker 4: But he's gonna be. He's somebody that we had our
Speaker 4: researcher in Ahl network said like, he's going to be.
Speaker 4: He's like a Braandon pointlg.
Speaker 1: You said that.
Speaker 4: Stank in the oven. Keep going.
Speaker 3: We got Anaheim pick Nikita Kliphov, you know you have
Speaker 3: to have a in there. And then Pittsburgh draft pick
Speaker 3: Parker von Richter.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he can play, but it's a
Speaker 3: great name.
Speaker 4: Von Richter is nice.
Speaker 3: And then we have finally, we have the boy band division.
Speaker 3: These guys all sound like they could be in a
Speaker 3: boy band. Starts, of course with Buffalo defenseman Daxon with
Speaker 3: an ex Rudolph. He's the leader, and Chase reed to
Speaker 3: Seattle he's the shy one, of course.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 3: This is the first time I've heard this.
Speaker 4: Is I call this lazy. I call this hippie parents.
Speaker 3: Lawrence are they combined two names into one, Tynan Lawrence
Speaker 3: Saint Louis Maddix with an ex Maddox Dash and he's
Speaker 3: the bad boy, and then.
Speaker 4: Called the hippie parents Maddox by Jad I'm calling my
Speaker 4: kid Mason.
Speaker 2: Has a hippie name for sure. While there's hip music.
Speaker 4: Well they're yeah, but like that's like Jackson's like naming
Speaker 4: your kid Nason Nate and Jason that's actually a nice name.
Speaker 4: That's not bad.
Speaker 3: Actually about Jay?
Speaker 4: What about Jade? Not Jake?
Speaker 1: J j Jade is brutal.
Speaker 3: And then the last member of the boy band division
Speaker 3: is Jackson with an ex Jackson cover to Ottawa. He's
Speaker 3: the sensitive one. There it is, folks, you're your first
Speaker 3: and only.
Speaker 4: All name team I like it.
Speaker 1: The boy tel that was great, well done, well done.
Speaker 4: Tell I love that. Actually that was that was nerdy
Speaker 4: but fun.
Speaker 1: Last time we handed out flowers to Alex Steen. An
Speaker 1: eventful summer so far from the Blues State officially named
Speaker 1: the team's general manager. You played thirteen seasons in Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: won a couple of Blues in twenty nineteen, immediately joins
Speaker 1: the front office after retirement. Was a special assistant to
Speaker 1: Doug Armstrongholdermine as president hockey Operations. You're thoughts she had
Speaker 1: a former player now running a team. It's clearly is
Speaker 1: a trend we've been seeing for a while.
Speaker 4: Dah Steiner, I mean he's been around the organization now
Speaker 4: for a while. I think he's been learning from Doug
Speaker 4: Armstrong for quite a bit. And this was just this
Speaker 4: was the plan for the last couple of years. And
Speaker 4: he's a brilliant hockey mind. And he was a great player,
Speaker 4: really a good teammate. You hear everything about his leadership
Speaker 4: as well. So I think he's gonna fit fit in
Speaker 4: just nice. And I mean they've done a great job,
Speaker 4: him and Doug hand in hand. I can't imagine this
Speaker 4: like the draft and everything was Doug Armstrong. I think
Speaker 4: he was him at the helm to maybe protect Stein
Speaker 4: or if anybody came after him. But I think all
Speaker 4: of these moves has been Alex DestinE, Alex Stine's kind
Speaker 4: of vision, and I think it's been a good vision
Speaker 4: and they've they look good right now. I like what
Speaker 4: Saint Louis has done.
Speaker 1: Nate your thoughts on it.
Speaker 2: I think it's great.
Speaker 5: I actually played with him a long time ago on
Speaker 5: a play with Everybody, Boston Iman. Alex Stein great, great guy.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean I think it's a it's a
Speaker 5: great uh, it's a great fit. I mean, I like
Speaker 5: seeing this former players, especially because Alex Stein was he
Speaker 5: was like a top line guy and then he was
Speaker 5: a fourth.
Speaker 2: Line guy at the end of his career.
Speaker 5: So he's kind of, you know, he's been at every
Speaker 5: every role and I think, you know, him being a
Speaker 5: part of the team at won a Cup and now
Speaker 5: he gets to put his uh, his footprints on the team.
Speaker 2: I think this is gonna be great. I think he's
Speaker 2: gonna do a great job there.
Speaker 3: He's Jack too, I might whatever that's worth absolutely jacked.
Speaker 3: I remember covering him in Saint Louis and he come
Speaker 3: out with his shirt off and just damn, I gotta
Speaker 3: get them too the gym.
Speaker 4: Like yesterday, Flowers.
Speaker 1: We're also hitting out Flowers, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.
Speaker 1: You talk about Friday Night, Well, if that's something that
Speaker 1: we do here, but what wait?
Speaker 4: Are we talking about Swift?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Swift and Kelso getting married a.
Speaker 4: Insane like just who the woho do you think you are.
Speaker 1: That you can just get married at Madison Square Ground,
Speaker 1: the world's most famous arena.
Speaker 2: I know we missed.
Speaker 4: I'm shocked they picked that for all the locations, like
Speaker 4: as rich as you are, right, Yeah, it's like to
Speaker 4: go to Tokyo Drift, But what.
Speaker 2: Is msg going to look like on the inside? Though?
Speaker 2: That's what I'm curious about.
Speaker 4: Pretty sick, I think it was. I think they seem
Speaker 4: to love each other.
Speaker 2: You you think you think it's going to be done
Speaker 2: under five?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I hope I listen. I don't. I
Speaker 4: don't advocate for divorce, so I hope they picked the
Speaker 4: right people.
Speaker 1: I think once he retires Challenge, he doesn't have much
Speaker 1: time left as an NFL players.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's pretty busy though he's already gotta he's
Speaker 4: already been retired for two years. He sucks for two years.
Speaker 3: He'll be doing media the second he's done playing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like he's going to be busy. He's got a
Speaker 4: great career. He's had an amazing career, and I think
Speaker 4: he's going to have a He's going to be good
Speaker 4: in retirement. I think he's pretty business savvy.
Speaker 5: Just not the first MSG wedding by they're probably gonna
Speaker 5: have kids right away too, that's likely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's true, probably right.
Speaker 1: What was that MG weddings?
Speaker 3: Not the first MSG wedding. Slah Stone sly Stone, sla
Speaker 3: Stone got married in Madison Square. I don't think it
Speaker 3: lasted very long.
Speaker 4: Just you and all the rats in that building in
Speaker 4: the food.
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