CJ, What Happened? | The Steve Dangle Podcast
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- On this episode of The Steve Dangle Podcast, CJ joins the show and talks about the last 72 hours (00:00), do you keep the Big Four together? (08:00), Is Zach Hyman coming back? (13:00), can Mitch Marner perform in the playoffs? (29:00), what do you do in the expansion draft? (47:00), re-doing the trade deadline (51:30), and who is coming back next season? (59:00).
Originally aired: June 4, 2021
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43:01 Can we get _"They did everything except win"- Toronto Maple Leafs_ on a shirt? That sounds like the team's motto
LMAO! That's amazing
We've had the saying for a while, in Calgary. We wear that when our "a good 40 minutes" shirt is in the laundry.
The two t shirts I'd like to see for the Leafs:
1) "Good Looks" featuring a dreamy looking Marner.
2) An "Expected Goals For" maternity shirt, with optional Matthews face on a sonagram.
Need that as a banner in the locker room. "We did anything except win."
How about. Division Winners in a Shitty Division.
It's going to be a long offseason. I'll just be chilling and then suddenly remember and get all worked up again.
Yup, but it’s not our fault. All we can do is watch, we’re not doing anything on the ice lol
Not that long really... Hockey will be well into June when it's over, close to July with PreSeason starting late September roughly. Will be much faster then most think/feel.
It's the shortest
@@thereaversden6847 it may be short but it will feel like an eternity
Wow precisely the feeling I get.
If Steve is gonna stop making LFRs then he should let JT use the blue room so we can make more IKEA furniture
Am I the only one dreading this podcast before I've even listened to it?
no. pain.
Avoiding the Leafs related parts (more than 90%) for the next few weeks until either the draft or they talk about the Bachelor again
why?
Regarding CJ's @1:14:14 prediction/teaser -
- I came up with:
Dvorak of @Coyotes
Mantha of @Capitals
Arvidsson of @Predators
All:
1. make less$ than what Hyman will likely cost.
2. Have multiple years left on contract.
3. Are either in transition periods or near cap and endured unsuccessful seasons.
4. On US teams and not currently playing.
@@wubsworld8946 Chris said it was someone that has not played any playoff games this season so I highly doubt it's from the preds or capitals
"The habs were like in the matrix" CJ says at the exact same second Steve brings up his blue gallon and Jessie drinks from his red cup (43:40)
On an episode discussing the deja vu of a Leafs first round exit.
Tampa had at least been to the finals and multiple conference finals when they decided to keep their band together. Leafs have won as many series as Buffalo has in the last 10 years.
Thank you they also bought in Maroon who literally just won a cup Toronto brought in perennial chokers Thornton and Spezza and called them winners
@@DARTZZZZZ the leafs brought in bogosian... who literally just won a cup the year prior and played a similar role/impact as Maroon
Thats what these guys dont seem to understand, every cup winner had at least a couple runs before winning the whole thing. Its not like once you get past the first round youre automatically going to win the cup. You need to lose once or twice in the 2nd round/conference finals before you go on a big run.
@@nolan2235 yes but almost that whole tampa team had a run in 2015 and also Campbell isn't vasilevsky
This dude... this x10000. Don’t know why this isn’t mentioned more. They’re not Tampa. They’re not the Caps. At least those teams actually won a series, or two, or three, or four, or.... I get that this is a Leafs podcast, but boy, push back on these Tampa comparisons.
Anyone else has watched the Steve Dangle Joker trailer from over a year ago and realized just how relevant it is today?
Dude. Go search "do something leafs" and listen to that song (back when Phaneuf and Carlyle were with the team). It doesn't take too much changing of the lyrics to update it to today.
"Montreal now has it's first 4 win streak in 2 years" Maaan that had me dying i was laughing so hard.
same
6 by tonight
@@toddhsu2871 they got to 7 :D
Hard work beats skill when skill doesn’t work hard
That's why Hyman is more important than Marner who has to be traded to set the tone and course correct.
Cody Ceci works hard, how did that work out?
@@raygaub9861 hey troll
Facts.
skill can work hard and still lose. Luck plays are large element in life. That game 6 ur telling me the leafs didn't outwork the canadians. Shots were 13-2. Not to mention the comeback.
"You need to be true to who you are" -CJ
What if you're a loser in the playoffs?
Kappa
It's like the advice my grandfather gave me decades ago : "Always be yourself. Unless you're an asshole."
I do think Toronto should have played on their front foot, and been aggressive in game 7, but they also don’t really get in front of the goal and take risk to get pucks in the net. Even with attacking, they had to play in a far more reckless manner.
Tampa bay lighting did not have 4 forwards players making $40 million. Let’s stop comparing the leafs to the Lightning, Capitals or Red Wings
The Red Wings aren’t like Tampa. They’re more like what’s going on in Pittsburgh. They won multiple cups. So they keep going all in and mortgaging their futures to try and win more. Tampa and Washington are definitely similar, they always look like world beaters, but Stamkos and Ovechkin each only have one Cup ring. The Leafs are something else entirely. It’s like rolling a dumpster on fire off a cliff.
Let’s also not forget that all of those teams won several series’ before finally winning the cup, it’s not like the Bolts, Caps, and Wings lost in the first round for 6 years in a row then suddenly won the cup, no all of them had multiple trips to at least the 2nd round before they won.
If they didn't compare there'd be no decenting opinion lol
7x6 for Hyman? That's a Loui Eriksson contract
The gm that signs that good luck
@Carleton Rutherford Good call forgot about Lucic's contract. Both horrendous.
@@dslkingHe got $5.5m x 7 and it’s a great contract
Dubas says the leafs made progress I guess based on regular season results. But I would trade Montreal s place for Toronto anytime. I would rather be 16th in the regular season and go 2 or 3 rounds of playoffs vs 1st in the regular season and 7and out of the playoffs. Build a playoff team. Regular season means nothing.
I laughed out loud to Steve’s reaction to the Canadiens 4 game win streak comment.
The difference between Tampa and Toronto is Tampa had a run in 2015 they knew how to win they just didn't Toronto literally doesn't know how to win and the "Winners" they brought in Thornton known playoff choker with 1 run to the final Spezza one run to the final lotsnof disappointment Tampa brought in Maroon who just won a cup thats the difference
Leafs brought in Bogosian who just won a cup.
If the Leafs don't know how to win in the playoffs, how do they keep getting to game 7?
Matthews and marner literally just needed to score 2-3 goals between them. Their supporting cast was great.
Mathews beat Marner 3-2 in the points dept.
Last time I was this early the leafs had a 3-1 series lead in the canadiens:(
It's sad how quickly it went from 3-1 to out of the playoffs.
CJ is insane when he was saying he didn't bring the heat. He's always incredibly entertaining and dropped great news on us on this one.
It’s been almost a week and I’m still in shock lmao
I' m a 41yr old man with real tears in his eyes (or 2 bugs that flew in my eyes that I'm suffocating by drowning them with tears) either way seems likley.
@@calimarshall2236 I feel worse for you, I’m 15, I cried both years they lost to Boston, I was mad when they lost to Columbus and this year I’m just in awe, this team is unbelievable when it comes to disappointing fans
I'm not shocked as I'm one of the ones who said Habs in 7 from the start
@@User-12133 So you didn't watch the loss to Boston in 2013? You're lucky
@@Waders27 nope, just stuck with the misery trail it left behind
"They didn't have anything left" is a truly damning statement. How can they be mentally exhausted by game 7 of the 1st round and still expect to win the cup? They've got to win 4 rounds of 4 games each and they struggle with the first 4. Like, when do this group shake off the losing choker mind set that currently follows them around like a bad smell?
"Their top line did all the scoring plus Victor Hedman" and Gourde, Killorn, Cirelli, Goodrow, Coleman, Shattenkirk, Sergachev
So half the team 😂😂
Anyone that’s been watching COL and VEGAS lately knows this team isn’t fucken close well never win a thing
"Where does this story (the collapse) begin, for you?" When one team showed up wearing Leafs jerseys.
I'd like the Leafs to do a Lightning and Tavares has "lingering effects" from his concussion until next post season and then use his cap number to sign Hyman and a couple of other players.
The Leafs have to learn from the Lightning in another way: you have to be able to win by possession and playing dump it in and go get it. They've good at possession. Not so good an dump and chase.
😂😂😂
For me it's when Kyle Dumbass took over from Lou
The one silver lining, the previous series you could throw some caveat or excuse to justify it, even though you would hope the team would not think about it like that.
Washington they were favoured to get swept but instead put up a spirited performance. Boston got real tiring after a while but you could say “that’s Boston”. Columbus you could throw out the bubble and no training camp for Keefe, and maybe even put all of those years under a Babcock caveat.
This was humiliating and they are fresh out of even the wildest of excuses. It’s probably the angriest and most apathetic the fanbase has ever been in the modern era and that includes the years they were trapped in horrible management.
The Tampa comparisons are pretty awful, a better imo yet still flawed is those Caps who eliminated the Leafs in 2017, to get taken out in a Game 7 by the Penguins the next round. That was 0-3 for Caps vs. Pens in the Ovi Crosby era at that point, 2 of them Game 7s. Narrative was the Caps would never make the 3rd round or ever beat Crosby, Ovechkin may never win the cup, Holtby is washed, and they did it the next year.
The Leafs bar is just so much lower that the equivalent will be winning a round, but hitting that rock bottom and nearly the whole fanbase having no hope may just be what the Leafs need to clear their heads.
hey chris tampa won a cup without stamkos , tell us all against about the jt injury holding the leafs back
Tampa has more depth. You don't need C.J. to answer that.
So you think the Leafs are as good or better without Tavares?
If they can’t bring back Zach, I will get that much angrier about Mitch’s contract.
You shouldn’t, as paying Hyman over 5M AAV with term will be a disaster for whatever team is desperate enough.
@@nicelgie462 Paul Bryon makes, I think, 3.5mil a year and he has similar numbers career wise, so this 5/6mill talk is crazy. There are players that cost less and of similar quality...granted Bryon is 3 years older.
@@stephenphillips6245 yup that summarizes it perfectly. Marner may be overpaid but his skill set is irreplaceable. You can replace what Hyman brings and add another good piece for $6M, depth shouldn’t make that much and as much as the fan base loves him and CJ even said on the podcast; Hyman is not a part of the core.
@@stephenphillips6245 Hyman is worth 5 mill all day. 6? Hell no, his numbers are inflated by who he plays with. I think you can sign him to 4.7 though and that’s a good deal.
@@dillon6320 He is a good player...I just don't know how they sign him and form a complete team over the next couple of years (esp sign some of their next crop of young players).
The Leafs powerplay is ALWAYS looking to score the "perfect", "pretty" goal. I was horse yelling at my TV for them to just shoot. They need to shoot. Shoot. AND then Shoot some more. Puck possession and sweet passes do not score goals. Shoot-The-Puck. At-The-Net.
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Montreal had the toughest last month or so schedule of the league. For over a month, they never had more than 1 day break. Often 3 games in 4 night. Thats because 2 of their players got covid and it delayed their games for a week and a half, compressing the rest of the schedule. None of the north teams had to deal with this (beside the canucks, but they were already out of the race before it hit them). In fact, no NHL team played more hockey than Montreal in the last month and half of the season.
Another team had to deal with covid and it was the Dallas Stars who MISSED the playoffs clearly because of that crazy schedule. You don't go from Stanley cup final to missing the playoffs like that.
Back with habs, without that crazy schedule, Montreal don't get as many injuries during the regular season and definitely wins more games. They would have looked much more "legit". After the season was over, they were able to rest quite a bit, Price came back, Gally, Weber, Danault and so many injuries and game fatigue got healed up.
Brian Burke thought, back in January, the habs would be the team to have the most success in the post season out of all north teams. They are built for this.
This kind of talk is blowing air up leafs' ass. It's a lot of could, should, would....You can say this for everything in life. The fact remains that the team is a failure and you can't make pigs fly as much as you want to.
This episode I really appreciated the UA-cam version with the silent anger/laughter/reactions from Steve that are missed from the audio version of the pod.
During the regular season a buddy and I thought that we were seeing one of the best teams we have watched, and we have been watching for a lot longer than the SDPN guys. No playoff success, it really sucks. And yet, they were really good! You don't throw all of that away in anger and frustration. The coach didn't adjust, that was a big thing. The power play should have been fixed before the playoffs started. That was a problem, and that rests with both the coaching staff and the players. I don't know what the summer will bring, but I would not be surprised if they stand pat and build around them again and see what happens.
Do you think Claude Julien or Gerard Gallant would make adjustments? I couldn’t see them roll Marner out on the same line time after time.
Is it just me, or does it feel like when this team finally gets past the first round, that we will celebrate like they have won the Stanley Cup?
Look at the game 6 broodie goal they celebrated like they won the cup
I've followed the leafs since 2006 and we've never advanced a round. So yes, I'll celebrate it like a cup victory.
My Blues had this problem for what seemed like forever. We did celebrate winning round 1 like it was the Cup when it finally happened. It took the Blues 8 years to finally get to the promised land (well, much longer but I count 2011 as a turning point with the franchise) and it took a LOT of retooling.
At many different points between 2011-2019 I believed the window was closing and the sky was falling. But it eventually happened, and it made all of the suffering worth it.
welp safe to say toronto definitely did lol…and then round 2 came.
Soooo the Montreal Canadiens had nothing to do the Leafs lost ???? They were the better team in the first game and the last 3 games.
Steve just is slowly dying throughout the whole episode
if a team is willing to pay Zach Hyman 6 million dollars and term he should without question take that deal.. he plays a hard style and his body deserves whatever someone is willing to pay.. however; the Leafs should not be the ones to offer that contract. I just watched Tofolli score a goal that Hyman is just not capable of.. Toffoli is 4.2mil and the max i'd offer Hyman is 3.7x8, MAYBE 4.. if we know anything watching guys that play that style, it's that their bodies break down. He doesn't have skill to rely on, thats why he works so hard because if he eases off the gas even a little bit, hes not nearly as effective. Id give him term because it's the right thing to do, but I wouldnt give a higher AAV
what a shitty punishment for the fans: hey, the 10M+ guys choked so we lose the 1 guy who actually works every game to put them in good positions.
What I get out of this is a complete lack of answers, and very few promises that anything will be different next year.
Mitch should try and add atleast 10 pounds of muscle this summer. Needs a bit more strength on the puck and the balls to drive the net.
10 pounds? try like 20 lmao dude is like 170 soaking wet
@@colinlata6224 *at least 10 pounds* that doesn't mean stop at 10, but realistically 10 is a good start for a smaller guy. I'm about his size and took 3 months to put on the weight needed for my college program (15lbs added from 160)
Trade rielly. No shot, no creativity, bad defensively, no size, mr excuse, just overall bad luck....the last player from alot of losing teams that started this losing culture and mess in our team!
I love how in Canada everyone is so nice that mean comments on social media is considered "nasty". Imagine choking a series in a European team, coming out of the rink and there's cars on fire. If Mitch can't get over this then you really need mentally tougher guys...
And I really don't wanna move on from Marner...
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Assistant Captain Toronto Maple Leafs
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CJ broke it here first!
Nobody should begrudge Zach Hyman a big payday. He probably will get a bigger offer in free agency, and he deserves it. The thing that makes it so tough is that he embodies everything the Leafs should want in a player: 100% effort every night, never complains, loves playing in Toronto, will as well as skill. But the roster construction might not allow it. As Steve says, "Hyman could well mean the end of the 'bank of Kyle'" Which puts them even deeper in the hole. I'm even more bearish about this team's playoff prospects going forward if they retain the status quo.
Sheldon Keefe is not the coach that will get us over the hump ...nor is Marner a player that will get us over the hump....should make the decision now before its blown up again
If they lost a series with a full healthy team then I would’ve said trade and fire people, but I don’t think we are there yet. Remember that they signed an injured player knowingly signed him still.
I honestly believe that many of the Leaf players were playing hurt, and the only other people who knew that was Montreal.
Every year since the Auston Era, this team is getting better. The top players are getting better especially. Mitch was shooting more this year than the previous years, Auston using his big size more, Nylander even stepping up, JT getting better defensively. They have to break through this wall one of these years...
That dangle laugh at 43:20 was mad funny but one could see the salt litterally bursting through him. I genuinely felt bad for him man...
I have always been against trading nylander for you guys as a non leafs fan but wow if you have a chance to sign dougie hamilton for around 7 mil and keep hyman you move nylander and reilly all day, you can find 20 -25 goals a year for about 4.5 mil and you might even have it for significantly less in robertson.
Regarding CJ's @1:14:14 prediction/teaser -
- So far I came up with:
Dvorak of @Coyotes
1. Have multiple years left on contract.
2. On US team.
3. Didn't play in the playoffs at all this year.
The Leafs ARE a Juggernaut.
They are a Jugger, but at the same time they are Naut.
They need Juggernog at this point to withstand all the physical play that they can't compete with
Nope, most leafs fans and anyone who's been watching for 17 years knew they'd lose.
The Leafs changed the power play to load up for a period here or 1 PP there or maybe 1 game in mid-season and then went back immediately to Joe Thornton in the bumper OR Simmonds as the net front.
I will bet anything that per 60 mins the PP2 with Willy, Tavares, Spezza out scored PP1 or at least out chanced and out-entered the zone succefully than PP1.
They never changed the drop-back pass to Mitch and Auston when Willy and Spezza and Sandin and Rielly are WAY BETTER at transitions, transporting the puck up and entering the zone the Big two.
Did these guys really compare themselves to the same situation as Tampa ??? LOL you guys are hilarious. Tampa has been battling and winning rounds. Hahahaha the “leaves” can’t even get outta to first round…. Hahahahahahh lol omg this is comical.
Also, Johnny gaudreau is exactly what marner is come playoff time. To small to weak for playoff hockey. Good players in regular season but come playoff time, we all know the refs put their whistles away.
CJ is talking out of his butt. Tampa had won the conference during the regular season, made it to the conference finals, won several series, and never lost 4 first rounds and a play-in round.
Tampa won the presidents trophy and lost 1st round to the blue jackets, it doesn’t matter what other teams did
And why the hell did habs have fans yet toronto had none I don't care what the hell they say,having fans defiantly helps your team
I love Hyman, but at 5.5 million, I’d rather spend some assets and go get Conor Garland (who they looked at getting during the trade deadline).
@@HunterMagunter question. How much did the grit and leadership help the Leafs this year?
Look at Boston with Taylor Hall. He’s transformed their offensive abilities but didn’t offer that grit and leadership of Foligno.
How about the cup favourites, Colorado Avalanche? Last. Over 12 hits less per game compared to Toronto (who was 29th, averaging 29.1 per game).
The lightning? The reigning champs? They’re 28th averaging 36.4 per game.
Teams that are deep with skill win. Not teams that go out their and hit you. The reason some of those teams are more successful? They normally don’t have the top end talent but are more balanced, allowing 3rd and 4th lines to win their matchups (and ultimately the series) since the top lines cancel each other out.
@@HunterMagunter nice to see you had fair counterpoints to everything I said.
And no it clearly wasn’t. They minimized the Leafs top threats and their depth of young guys out beat the Leafs bottom 6 filled with ALL THE GRIT AND LEADERSHIP. You simply cannot tell me KK and Caufield out-grit and showed more leadership than Thornton or Foligno. They were simply better.
Also, I’m not lost but you’re confused between the differences of quality depth and grit/leadership.
Colorado wins games because they’re better than your team. Lines 1-4. They’re all better than your lines 1-4. If you have home ice, you can try getting mismatches by getting your 2nd line vs their 3rd line (and so on). But even then, it’s a fine line needed to beat them since you can’t always get those matchups.
The Islanders, on the opposite end of the spectrum, don’t win games because they “out-grit” their opponents. Sure they outhit almost anyone, but their goal is low-event hockey in which any of their top 3 lines end up even on the night and that one of them bury the one chance they get.
Either strategy can work. But the Leafs are in the middle (which is the worst place to be). Half their lineup is Colorado and the other half is the Islanders. But when you’re paying 4 guys half the cap, you don’t go and try to emulate the Islanders, you go and try to be the Avalanche. Be the most puck possessive team in which each line is more skilled than their opposite.
Get rid of them all. Get guys who want to be toronto maple leafs
Starting to realize how dumb it is for Steve to be tying his career to a single hockey team, especially one as dogshit as this one. The fact he's so depressed over an NHL team getting eliminated from the playoffs seems childish and honestly kind of odd, but you legitimately can't blame him because his whole identity is being a Leafs superfan. I don't think he'll ever be taken seriously in the hockey media industry until he moves on from the Leafs and the fact that Jesse and Adam don't have faith he can transition toward greener pastures is kinda sad to see not gonna lie.
A move to the States wouldn’t hurt him, then he could get away from the toxicity of the Leafs fan base and get a profile out on his own as a hockey analyst. He should apply for Turner or ESPN.
Possibly a short term deal with Hyman? 2 -3 yr?
Montreal: a team with very little high contracts, filled with heart and desperation vs Toronto: a team of overpaid players who think they are superstars. Very frustrating as a Leafs fan
Montreal has a couple of ugly contracts and a few thugs.
@@JeffKing310 Price contract is fine.
@@JeffKing310 well playoff hockey is a war , so I’d rather have thugs than ballerinas
Watching Steve 15 min in and I just wish he’d ignore Adam’s advice, leave the leafs!! Talk about every other team & instead of doing lfr just do a “hockey night recap” Jesus Christ Man U deserve to have fun. The leafs aren’t fun, that’s why I left them. #ReleaseTheKraken
Any idea who CJ was talking about there at the end?
Seth Jones would be my bet....
@@castleview3321 he said multiple years on his contract though, Seth Jones is becoming an expiring UFA
Also curious. Wonder who they have their eyes on?!
Travis Konecny from the Flyers possibly.
Chychrun 👀
Don't matter who you put in the team.THE CURSE IS REAL
Steve looks like he's in pain while Chris talks. Hilarious. Chris' perspective is exactly what's wrong with the Leafs.
I’m watching this as a neutral (Blackhawks fan) and thinking “Steve, tell this dude he’s full of 💩already.”
how? I think everything Chris said was pretty on the money.
I can’t believe all the love for CJ in the comments. He is a complete moron and if that’s how leafs fans think, then no wonder they’re a bunch of losers!
UA-cam recommended this to me, thought it was for this year
They should shut down the whole team and take up golf permanently.
I bet Dangle will be doing LFRs next season but just passive aggressively call all the games preseason games.
I would listen to offers and have conversations about everybody on the roster. But I would be willing to keep the core and give it another kick at the can. Go Leafs Go!!
Leafs: keep having to give up their Depth to afford the top end
Also Leafs: We have no scoring Depth
Selfish players squeezing every last penny they can for themselves leaving next to nothing to ice a competitive team. Management coddling players before they've proven a damn thing.
Also, also Leafs: We only have depth and no top end
I feel so bad for Steve. Just in constant agony because to CJ’s insights.
Tampa and Toronto are comparable because ... they both wear blue jerseys. Other than that it's like comparing apples and polar bears.
how about montreal is a better complete team when they are clicking
No doubt they are betting on this core group one day figuring it out. So decent odds they keep flailing away until finally the whole management group gets fired and the core gets broken up a bit.
Could be wrong. Hope I am wrong. But I can’t care about next season. Just minor tinkering, will try to grab a playoff spot, and hope to beat Boston, Tampa, or Florida in the first round.
Not going to even touch the Tampa thing. They failed against Columbus but they went on actual runs before that. Of course they could trust the core.
Should Matthews and Marner agree to a salary cut to help with the cap next year? You don't get paid max to get knocked out round 1.
I wish they would but they wont
They can't...contracts don't work that way
@@AceMatthew25414 Ah crap. I don't know all the rules for relating salary to cap space. In Canadian law they could certainly amend their contracts to be lower for a duration of time but I don't know if that translates to cap space.
@@tkirchmann they can’t and why would they? Sports contracts aren’t the same as normal contracts
@@crimsonravager If they could it would be to help retain talent for the next season since the cap isn't going up and they kinda f***ed up this post-season in a big way. They were paid $20+ million combined this season and got 1 post season goal between them. That's embarrassingly bad.
The legality of it is they can but the NHL may have rules how that does or does not affect the cap.
"with the offence they have", "with the power they have", with the skill they have". What the hell is he saying????, they are losers, bottom line, and give the habs some credit, leafs coach does not know how to react to other teams changes in play, quit making excuses ,54 years of it is enough
as a habs fan I've just started watching all the toronto sports / podcasts...it's possibly more entertaining than the game itlself.
Same, im loving all the meltdowns and second guessing
I mean, I don't see Freddie staying and that money can be used to juice some kind of Hyman money to keep him around a few years and bring up guys from the AHL. It's about time to bring them up and draft for the AHL and future again
believe it or not, i feel better after watching this one. CJ is incredible and gave me some good stuff to think about and honestly some hope. leafs will still be good and make some moves to improve. but man i hope the leafs keep my man Hyman.
Also I agree, Hyman would be a huge loss...
They're power play was they're downfall.
The podcast is good until adam speaks and it sounds like we’re all in a cave lol
And hes pretty dumb, im sorry
@@7200ounceman dude. His job is to ask stupid questions etc so that Steve/cj sound smart. The job of anyone in Adam's position is to play the role of the average fan and to control the narrative/flow of the conversation. He's a radio guy. Everyone in his position is a clone of the next guy.
Adam hate will not be tolerated
Marner hit the Jackpot on a slot machine that Zack Hymen is just about to play on...
CJ actively trying to kill Steve here
Downloads immediately and turns on chel21. It’s been a long week waiting for this 1. Let’s goooooo
Happy friday
CJ: They did everything but win
Steve: *dies*
Do you think the Leafs could bring in a lightning rod behind the bench, like Torts, even if it’s just as an assistant coach? One of the biggest problems this year was their inability to adapt and step up to the plate when it counted.
I think in terms of the roster: they had great numbers from their depth forwards and Campbell. They just got unlucky with injuries and shot themselves in the foot too many times. Matthews and Marner couldn’t get anything going, but there’s no reason to move on from them. Matthews is a prolific goal scorer and Marner was putting up tons of points in the regular season and in past playoff series. Look at Yzerman, Ovechkin, Modano, etc. it sucks but Toronto has a great core and they just need to keep shuffling the rubix cube around the edges and someday it will work. Not everybody can be like the 2000s Penguins with Crosby and Malkin where they made it to the finals twice in the first few years.
I was actually thinking of signing on torts as an assistant.
@@PeterCPRail8748 not sure if torts does it though
Missed on an opportunity to name this episode Jugger-NOT 🙃
Still in shock we got knocked out. Would love to know who cursed us
It's very clearly Harold Ballard
@@mvk4343 so brutal 🤦♂️ didn’t he screw us enough as owner
@@JusTreatsgaming It's never enough I guess...
CJ leaving us on that tease... A+ sir
can't be jack eichel...could it?
Regarding CJ's @1:14:14 prediction/teaser -
- I came up with:
Dvorak of @Coyotes
Mantha of @Capitals
Arvidsson of @Predators
All:
1. make less$ than what Hyman will likely cost.
2. Have multiple years left on contract.
3. Are either in transition periods or near cap and endured unsuccessful seasons.
4. On US teams and not currently playing.
@@wubsworld8946 Mantha and Arvidsson played in the playoffs, so they're ruled out of that
@@mvk4343 yep. I miss interpreted a portion: my ammendment as follows includes only Dvorak as an idea.
Regarding CJ's @1:14:14 prediction/teaser -
- So far I came up with:
Dvorak of @Coyotes
1. Have multiple years left on contract.
2. On US team.
3. Didn't play in the playoffs at all this year.
Dougie Hamilton is not worth 8mil... I love the canes but Jesus Christ, no
Leafs need their big guys to play that playoff style hockey and break through. Nylander seems to have figured it out, I'm sure Tavares can do it. Just need Matthews and Marner to get on board. Can't manufacture that playoff desperation or style by getting over the hill vets to play on the third and fourth line.
Mackinnon, Landeskog, and Rantanen do it for Colorado. Bergeron and Marchand have done it for years in Boston, Pastrnak now follows suit. Kucherov and Point do it for Tampa, the whole Islanders lineup plays that way. Sure, find guys that can play that way to play throughout the lineup, but until our best players do it, this team isn't going anywhere.
Not gonna lie, chris really put things into perspective for me, and showed me things arent as bad as they seem. It still stings like hell but I'm glad you guys brought him in. We needed the unbiased point of view.
Zach Hyman is my favourite leaf and if he leaves I’ll be so sad
I get where Steve comes from with the whole why do the LFR's because they don't matter. Based on how they played this regular season they should have done great but that form didn't translate into the Playoffs so how they played didn't matter. If they used a cheat code next season, played all 82 games and went 82-0-0, winning literally every game and still went out in the first round....I don't know, but if it was the Rangers my reaction would be "Well big deal they won all 82 games, they still went out in the first round so it doesn't matter." If I was a Leafs fan I'd think that was just an even bigger kick in the balls.
Stay strong Leafs fans at least for now you can at least say your not Buffalo although on the other hand most Buffalo fans are so numb to their team it doesn't hurt as much so maybe it's worse for you guys.
My counterpoint to Toronto needing to look at Tampa when they lost to CBJ. TB had already had great playoff success. Cup final appearance, two conference finals..
Chris drinking that blue cool aid, tell us Chris how many times have the leafs won the cup in your miserable hockey life ?
In a sick twisted kinda way I wanna see the leafs lose in the first round next season just to see the implosion. I'm a very tired disgruntled fan and that honestly would be the most exciting thing to happen for the team since drafting Matthews
If Hyman can get $6m/7yrs for $42M on free agency. Would the Leafs offer something like 5M/8yrs for $40M. $14M signing bonus, 7M on July 1st for the first 3 years (NMTC), 1M/yr for the last 5 years (tradable), AAV $5M/yr. What do you think?
Give some credit to Montreal for Gods sake
We should rename the team. Maple leafs are best in the summer. The Toronto Maple Leafs are best from Thanksgiving to Easter. They should be called the Toronto HONEY BAKED HAMS!
Trade Kerfoot to SEA for a 2nd rd pick and they agree to take Engvall.
they can take mikheyev as well
You know what Tampa did that the Leafs didn’t...?. They didn’t spend 41 million dollars on 4 players....Zing!
If we use the Lightning 2020 analogy, Brisebois DIDN'T lean more into skill. The people he acquired in 2021 were all pretty gritty players. So I hope that Dubas doesn't lean more into skill. He had the right approach, but picked the wrong players. Again, probably because the salary cap was too top heavy.
Leafs mamagement getting fans all amped up after another pathetic playoff run. Always a shiny bauble, like Stamkos, then, Tavares. It's their typical M.O. Now fans won't have Marincin to kick around anymore. Off to Europe