0:00

Shane Doan has more than put

0:02

his time in with the Arizona Coyotes and

0:04

why the Arizona Coyotes haven't

0:08

found a more meaningful role for

0:10

him in hockey operations is

0:13

pure insanity for me. How many

0:15

times has he been identified

0:17

as a main player both on the

0:19

ice and off the ice in

0:21

management with Hockey Canada on key

0:23

teams including very recently helping

0:26

Canada win gold at the Men's World.

0:29

So when they

0:30

get the eyes dotted the teeth

0:32

crossed which will happen very soon I think that's

0:34

a pretty significant ad for the Leafs.

0:43

Alright welcome into Leafs Lunch everyone.

0:45

You heard Darren Drager right there our TSN Hockey Insider.

0:48

We'll have our other TSN Hockey Insider Chris Johnston

0:51

on in the next five or so minutes. This is Leafs

0:53

Lunch on TSN 1050. It's Julia Tasheri

0:55

and Mike DiStefano. A good game in the Stanley Cup

0:57

Final right now. We got a series which

0:59

is good news but we've also got some

1:02

information in Leafs land that's

1:05

swirling around the Twitterverse and the hockey

1:07

newsverse. Sounds

1:10

like Shane Doan will be joining

1:12

the Leafs front office as

1:14

assistant to Brad Treeliving, AB. Which

1:17

is so interesting. I got to talk to that guy. I'd

1:19

never met him before. Well we've had him on this show

1:21

haven't we? Yeah he's

1:22

a friend of the show. He

1:24

was named the general manager of the Olympic team

1:26

last year. When the NHL

1:28

decided that they weren't going to go.

1:31

So he ended up taking over as the GM of that squad. So

1:33

we had him on to talk about the team,

1:36

the selection process and the whole shebang. And

1:38

he was a great interview. Great guy. Such

1:40

a nice man. And anyone

1:42

you talk to talks about how of

1:44

a good person Shane Doan is. The

1:47

on ice. The guy 13 plus

1:49

hundred games. Almost 1400 games in his career.

1:52

And almost a thousand points. Obviously

1:54

he's pure class on the ice. But off the

1:56

ice an even better person apparently. So that's

1:59

really good. But when you look at it, Shane Doane

2:01

and it sounds as though it's it's all but complete

2:04

as also so It's not

2:06

officially official I suppose but

2:09

it sounds like he's going to be the

2:11

right-hand man Maybe to Brad trilliving and I

2:14

think that it's also just kind of a smart thing to do

2:16

because We talked about it before was

2:18

spets a departing with Kyle Dubis

2:21

that left a little bit of a void Like I know they have 82 AGM's

2:25

but they don't have any you know Former

2:27

players in the league like top players in the

2:29

league a player voice But you bring in a guy

2:31

like Shane Doane it and then he's just that

2:34

right so he could kind of be that Jason Spets

2:36

a replacement and Shane Doane has a lot more experience

2:38

than Jason Spets it does He doesn't have that

2:40

experience with the guys in the room That was a

2:43

added benefit and a bonus to what Spets

2:45

abroad But you talk about what Shane

2:47

Doane

2:48

has done throughout the course of his career He's

2:50

had a lot of really really solid, you

2:53

know managerial duties 1920 AGM

2:57

for Spangler Cup

2:59

AGM for team cat the world championships

3:01

in 2021

3:02

you said 1920 it's yeah, and

3:04

it sounded as though back in newspaper

3:07

hat

3:12

2020 the year that the year that

3:15

while COVID ended up coming in through that season

3:17

screwing things up But he got a Spangler championship

3:20

in before all that happened in the whole

3:22

world changed Team Canada

3:24

GM at the world hockey championships back in 21 22

3:28

Along with the Olympics and then

3:30

just was the AGM at the world championships

3:33

At this past world championships that just went down

3:35

where can end up winning gold So he was part of the selection

3:37

process and part of that whole shebang under

3:41

Doug Armstrong.

3:42

Yeah, so he's been around

3:44

a lot of good smart hockey people He's worked

3:46

with a lot of guys Obviously, there's the connection

3:48

with Brad she'll living from when he was with Arizona When

3:51

he was a GM for about seven years before going

3:53

to Calgary So there's that connection with Shane

3:56

don't and Brad to a living and now he's

3:58

gonna be a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs here pretty soon

4:01

as a member of their front office. Assistant 2,

4:03

General Manager Brad Trillivig.

4:05

Yeah, I don't even know how many teams have Assistant

4:07

to the GMs, but I think there's something.

4:09

It's totally just, it's

4:12

very Office-like. Oh yeah. Assistant 2,

4:14

Regional Manager. He's the Dwight Schrute of the

4:17

Toronto Maple East front office. Exactly. You

4:19

do see this often. I'm pretty sure that was

4:21

the title of Jason Spets as well,

4:23

right? That's what I'm saying is so hilarious. It's

4:25

like, oh, Kyle, you think you have a cool Assistant?

4:27

Check out my Assistant. Mine's Shane Doan. Shane

4:29

Doan. Let's go. That's the one-up thing. So

4:32

funny because I got to talk to Shane Doan in person

4:34

for the first time. That's right. Over the past week or

4:36

so because he came back from Latvia,

4:39

from the World Championships. He's one of the four owners

4:41

of the Kamloops Blazers. And to the

4:43

point you were making, what a nice guy. And

4:45

you could tell someone's a really nice guy when they come up to

4:47

you. I had never met him in person before. And he goes,

4:50

just to cover his bases, hey, nice to see you

4:52

again. And I'm like, I've never met you, Shane Doan.

4:54

You're just the nicest guy ever. Just assume

4:56

that he's crossed paths with you at some point

4:59

in one of the things you do. Yeah. What an awesome dude.

5:01

But he did a hot stove panel with Darren

5:03

Dreger. And I remember one of the questions that Dreger

5:06

asked was, what's next for you? What do you have

5:08

planned? Not even a grin

5:10

on his face. Nothing. Well, I don't know if you've

5:12

heard. Guys, a gamer.

5:13

I don't know if you heard on Overdrive yesterday, but

5:15

Mike Johnson literally had a

5:17

pregame nap. And

5:20

he was talking to Shane Doan before he went

5:22

down for a nap. And then he woke up.

5:24

Literally woke up and

5:26

he was signed with Toronto and he didn't even

5:28

know that that was happening. That's hilarious. Reportedly,

5:31

it was being announced or so. The news was breaking

5:33

that he was going to be in Toronto.

5:35

Amazing jibs, too. Some great

5:37

teeth on him. I think

5:39

Shane Doan's great. Let's bring in Chris Johnson on

5:41

that very erratic point that I just made, our TSN

5:43

hockey insider. How's it going, CJ?

5:46

I'm doing well. How are you? We're

5:48

great. We're having a little Friday. We're

5:50

on the rails and off the rails. It's a Friday type of

5:52

show.

5:52

Shane Doan's jibs on a scale of

5:54

one to 10, CJ. Apparently

5:56

Julian thinks they're 10. aren't

6:00

they nice? I think he

6:02

had the cover of the World Hockey Championship a lot earlier in

6:04

my career and I was dealing with Shane there

6:06

and you know his reputation

6:08

certainly jives with my experience with him.

6:11

What do you make of the news yesterday?

6:13

Brantry Living bringing him in reportedly,

6:15

it's not official yet, as

6:17

his assistant.

6:19

Yeah, I think that maybe some of the details

6:22

are still being worked out about what exactly

6:24

the role will be called and what it will involve

6:26

but I mean you know you can't have

6:28

enough good people in your organization

6:31

I think for Brad Trilliving obviously as

6:34

an EU GM you're going to want to have

6:37

people that you're familiar with and that you've worked with

6:39

in the past and they did spend a

6:41

lot of time together you know in

6:43

Arizona earlier in Brad's career and so

6:46

you know I think that we'll probably see

6:48

a number of changes over time between

6:51

the Least Front Office maybe people going to see

6:53

work elsewhere and obviously hiring like this one

6:56

for Toronto but you

6:58

know it's a big name and Shane Don't it's

7:00

someone who has a lot of experience in the game and I think he's

7:02

someone who wants to be more involved

7:04

in hockey operations roles than

7:06

he's had a chance to be in the past. Well in

7:08

a way does he kind of replace what

7:10

Jason Spezza you know with that

7:12

with him departing like does he replace

7:15

that role as that former player

7:17

decorated player in the front office?

7:19

Yeah I think that's fair you

7:21

know the difference with Spezza of course is that he played

7:24

with the Least you know right up until joining

7:26

the front office last summer so he had a lot of firsthand

7:28

knowledge of the dressing room

7:30

culture you know what some of the individuals would

7:32

be like I mean that that's a little

7:35

different in this case but you know I

7:37

don't think you really can have

7:39

enough sort of voices and opinions and

7:42

you know this this era for the Least now

7:45

moving you know beyond sort of the Kyle

7:47

Dubis era we'll call it is going to be

7:49

about introducing new people

7:52

to what is you know a bit of a Rubik's

7:55

Cube right trying to get this roster

7:57

in a spot where the Least can get over

7:59

the top to meet their objective of chasing

8:02

down a Stanley Cup. There's

8:05

going to be change. I think that's a

8:07

reality in pro sports. Basically,

8:09

no matter what, but especially when your team hasn't

8:11

had the success that the organization expects, you're

8:14

going to see new faces come in and Shane

8:16

will be one that accompanies

8:19

Brad Treliving. As I said, I don't expect over

8:21

time he'll be the last, although probably

8:23

won't see a lot of hirings here in the

8:25

short term because there's a lot of league business going

8:27

on.

8:28

Well, it's been well documented that Shane

8:30

Doan was also a idol

8:33

of Austin Matthews growing up. Obviously, he's

8:35

Mr. Arizona when it comes to the

8:38

hockey. The guy played

8:40

almost 1,400 games

8:42

for Arizona, almost 1,000 points. Do

8:44

you think that this could have any influence on

8:47

Austin Matthews and his decision to potentially

8:50

resign here in Toronto?

8:51

I honestly think it has 0%

8:54

influence on that decision, but

8:56

the one thing I've unchanged on is I don't think there's

8:58

any real reason to worry about Austin Matthews

9:00

resigning with the Leafs. I've been consistent

9:03

on this. Obviously, it's something I continue

9:06

to monitor. I don't think anything's changed there,

9:08

but I understand we're

9:10

in this weird window where he couldn't even sign a contract

9:13

today, even if the Leafs put something in

9:15

front of him that an offer he couldn't refuse

9:18

because of the league rules. We're at this time

9:20

where everyone's trying to see what

9:23

the weather patterns are in Scottsdale, is the wind

9:25

blowing in this direction. It's

9:27

Austin staying. I can

9:29

say unless something was horribly wrong or something

9:32

drastically changes from where it's at today that

9:34

Austin will be staying, I think that

9:36

the more relevant questions are what

9:38

does contract look like and what's the timing of

9:40

that going to, how's

9:43

that going to unfold? We don't have the

9:45

answers to that just yet, but

9:48

it's my understanding that Brad Trelivin will

9:50

be going to have a meeting with Austin

9:52

at some point here in the next week or so. At least

9:55

that's how it sounds. I don't know that they've

9:57

locked in an exact time for that, but basically

10:00

that process is going to move forward and

10:02

you know while it doesn't hurt to have Shane going around

10:04

you know the Leafs don't need to hire this person

10:06

or that person to get Matthews to stay. He wants

10:08

to be in Toronto. He wants to win a Stanley

10:11

Cup here. He loves the city.

10:13

He loves you know the experience he's had so

10:15

far in the NHL and it's just about you

10:18

know working through a process together of getting to know

10:20

each other to see what the direction of the organization

10:22

is and then ultimately coming to terms

10:24

on what his next deal is going to look like. For

10:26

some reason I started to morbidly chuckle when you said

10:28

barring something touristic because I feel like we

10:30

saw the most drastic of situations

10:33

to display out in Toronto with the GM

10:35

exit. So it feels like there's an air for dramatic

10:37

here somehow with our TSN hockey insider

10:39

Chris Johnston. So what does this tell us

10:41

CJ about

10:43

the state of the Arizona Coyotes or

10:45

does it not tell us anything and this has more to do

10:48

with Shane Doan not being elevated

10:50

in that organization and if that's the case

10:52

why do you think he wasn't?

10:54

A lot

10:56

to unpack there. I mean I think that the state

10:58

of the Coyotes is very much in flux or

11:00

in question you know ever since you

11:02

know this Tempe vote didn't go through

11:04

and there the arena plans that

11:06

they'd been pursuing were you know

11:09

kind of left on the vine. You know I know that they're

11:12

now trying to find a plan B or plan

11:14

C or plan B or whatever we're on now

11:16

for you know to secure the longer

11:18

term state of the franchise there. Obviously

11:21

the NHL is committed to trying to

11:23

make it work there but you know it does feel like you

11:26

know we're getting to a point at some point

11:28

where you know how much longer can you continue

11:31

you know we know they'll play in Molotirina next year but

11:34

I don't think you want a long long term solution

11:36

where you have a team playing in a 5000 seat

11:38

venue as nice as it is for

11:40

college games. So you

11:43

know I think what it tells us about Arizona

11:45

is that you know there's definitely some

11:47

uncertainty with that franchise and I think ultimately

11:49

in the case of Shane Donne

11:52

you know he's taking an opportunity

11:54

here and you know that's what I don't want

11:57

to go too far into because I don't know the exact nature

11:59

of his job. I would suspect he'll be

12:01

commuting here, but I don't know that as

12:03

a fact. And I think some of that was still being worked

12:06

out. And that's the reason the team hasn't announced his hiring

12:08

just yet. But this is a pretty

12:11

cool opportunity, even for someone

12:13

like Shane, to say he's worked for the Leafs, to

12:16

have an ability to work with someone like Brad True

12:18

Living, who he obviously shares a healthy

12:21

and positive relationship with. And

12:24

in Arizona, I think there's just a lot

12:26

of question marks. The players there are

12:29

all wondering, how long are we here? Is

12:32

this gonna be moved? And I just think there's still

12:34

a lot more questions than answered when it comes to the

12:37

immediate future of the Coyotes. Because they've

12:39

been planning to be breaking ground

12:41

about now on a new arena.

12:43

And as it stands, they don't have anywhere to play

12:46

that's sort of an NHL

12:48

size rank for the foreseeable

12:50

future. Well,

12:51

that sounds like a perfect transition into maybe what's

12:53

going on out in Ottawa. I'm not sure if you saw the

12:55

report from Bruce Garriock about 40

12:58

minutes or so ago. Looks like Steve

13:00

Apostolopoulos, who was maybe

13:03

one of the front runners to land the Ottawa

13:05

Senators. He was reportedly ready

13:08

to make an extremely large bid.

13:10

Says he's pulling out because the negotiations

13:13

taking too long. Why is this sale

13:15

process taking so long, CJ, with

13:17

the Ottawa Senators? I felt like the

13:20

first we heard of it, it was like, should be wrapped

13:22

up in May. And it was, sorry, it should be wrapped

13:25

or April, then May. Now we're into June

13:27

and we got people falling off here. Like

13:30

what's going on with this sale process?

13:32

Well, it's complicated, right? Because you're

13:35

having a team sold essentially by the estate

13:37

of Eugene Melnick. And the

13:40

way estates work generally is that they're

13:42

trying to get the most amount of money for the

13:44

people that are due to inherit that

13:46

money. And so that isn't

13:49

always the case when a team sells. I mean, sometimes

13:51

an owner for

13:53

White have his or her reasons to move on from a

13:55

team and they're not just trying to get the

13:57

highest price out of the bidders. Maybe there's

13:59

a. certain person they want to see take over the legacy

14:02

they've built. I mean, teams get sold under

14:04

different circumstances all the time. And I think in this

14:06

case, you essentially have, uh,

14:09

you know, three sets of parties here with

14:11

the, the Galliado sports group in

14:13

the middle, uh, you know, managing the sale, but

14:15

obviously the NHL and its board of governors on one

14:17

side and then the bidders and you know,

14:19

the timeline has been a little longer than I think

14:21

than some of those, those bidders have wanted.

14:24

And, and, and, and so I think that that best explains,

14:26

you know, the outside view

14:29

of, of what's gone on here. And,

14:31

and you can understand, I mean, look, the, the Remington

14:33

group that had Ryan Reynolds on board, you

14:35

know, wanted to get a window to start

14:37

negotiating on a new arena that didn't happen. And

14:40

they pulled out, um, you know, according

14:42

to Bruce Gary ox report, now you've had

14:44

the highest bidder in terms of absolute

14:46

money on the table, pull out, uh, with some frustration

14:49

about, uh, the way the process has gone.

14:51

And so, um, you know,

14:53

I think that that's, that's the easiest way to sum it up. As

14:55

Gary Bettman said last week, it is state

14:58

of the union. It's, you know, a billion dollar franchise

15:00

sale. Isn't the same as just going down the street and buying a

15:02

car. And, um, you

15:04

know, this, this is going to go down as there's the biggest

15:07

single sale in terms of value

15:10

for an NHL franchise. And it's, uh,

15:12

it's, it's taking its time. And I, you know,

15:14

still digesting today's news. Don't know if there's a

15:16

way to get that group back in

15:19

the bidding or if it's a hundred percent done or

15:21

where it goes from here. Um, you

15:23

know, but I, I do think that, that we are getting

15:26

towards the end of it. Um, but, but obviously

15:28

not the timeline, everybody at the table wants.

15:30

Yeah. Interesting to see how it's taken

15:32

so long to unfold, but hopefully we're nearing

15:34

an end. Do you think this would impact, you

15:37

know, what the Ottawa senators can do this

15:39

summer at all? If they don't have ownership in place

15:41

by, you know, July one.

15:43

Well, I think it impacts

15:45

just the overall view of the franchise,

15:48

right? I mean, they've been running just

15:50

fine for the last year that they have a process

15:52

in place. Obviously they've been paying their

15:54

players and, and, you know, have the sort

15:57

of mini board that Pierre Doria on their general

15:59

manager answers. to in the sort of middle

16:02

phase of the franchise. But I think

16:04

when you look at something like Alex De Brinkett and

16:07

the possibility of extending him, I think part

16:10

of his reasons for not wanting to

16:12

sign a long-term deal right now are the unknown

16:14

in terms of who's going to own the team,

16:16

what's going to be the mandate, is it going to be a cap

16:18

team or not, are they going to be building a new arena, are they

16:20

going to be staying where they are? When

16:23

you're a player like De Brinkett who's

16:26

in his mid-20s or entering his mid-20s, and

16:29

you're talking about potentially signing a seven or

16:31

eight-year deal, it's hard to do that when

16:34

you don't know exactly what you're signing up for. And

16:37

so I think it is having some

16:39

impact on sort of the business

16:42

of the team, and in that case, case

16:44

in point, because now the senators are

16:46

looking to potentially trade his rights

16:48

this summer. And I'm not sure that would have happened

16:50

in a world where this sale got done sooner.

16:53

So in some cases,

16:55

I think it's going to impair them. But

16:58

the good news is a lot of the best young talent

17:00

on that team have already signed long-term deals,

17:03

and they're committed to being there, and

17:06

everyone just kind of waits for clarity

17:08

in the owner's office.

17:10

OK, a couple more off-ice things to get to, CJ,

17:12

before we can get to the actual hockey game that

17:14

happened last night. Some rumblings about

17:17

Luke Chen, who quickly became a fan favorite

17:19

here in Toronto this morning.

17:20

We did kind of a free agent priority

17:23

board the other day. We were both saying how nice

17:25

it would be to get Luke Chen back in Toronto,

17:27

and it kind of sounds like he's into the idea

17:29

too. So what do you think a potential

17:31

deal for Luke Chen would look like if he were to remain

17:34

a Toronto Maple Leaf?

17:35

Well, he was definitely interested in being

17:37

here. I think it was a really positive experience for he and

17:40

his family, kind of getting repatriated to

17:42

the organization that drafted him.

17:44

Obviously, he got a

17:46

chance to play a meaningful role in the playoffs,

17:48

and to my eyes, was one of their top

17:50

five or six performers, just in terms of

17:52

how steady he was. And not

17:55

a lot of bad things happened when he was on the ice, which

17:57

we couldn't say for the entire decor during

17:59

the the two rounds of the playoffs this year.

18:01

And so I think it's still a matter of working

18:04

out the numbers and the like. I mean, he's been on

18:06

pretty bargain-based deals under a million

18:08

dollars the last few seasons. I

18:10

would think that he's probably looking at a little bit

18:12

of a raise there. I would think that

18:15

to get him to give up the chance to

18:17

hit the open market, you're probably going to have to give him

18:20

multiple years. And ultimately

18:22

for Luke Chen, I think that he's going

18:24

to want some some sort of assurance

18:27

that if he's signing in a place

18:29

like Toronto or if it ends up being somewhere else on July

18:31

1st, that he's not going to be looking

18:34

at another mid-season move because he's

18:36

got a growing family now with three

18:38

kids. And understandably,

18:40

he wants a chance to chase the Stanley Cup

18:42

and

18:43

play for the team where he signs. And so I

18:45

think there's lots of paths there to

18:47

a deal. I don't have any reason to believe that's

18:49

imminent or that there's a lot of

18:52

action

18:53

with the numbers being exchanged and stuff

18:55

like that. So it's hard to say exactly what the contract

18:57

will look like. But

18:59

I think there is mutual interest from the Leafs side

19:01

and from Luke Chen side to ultimately get

19:03

something done. In conversation

19:05

with Chris Johnson, our TSN hockey insider,

19:08

Columbus continues to just disrespect

19:10

the Stanley Cup flannel. They say, I do

19:13

not care. We're going to get some business accomplished

19:15

here. Made a trade for Ivan Proverov

19:17

early in the week, now making another deal today,

19:20

acquiring defenseman Damon Severson

19:22

from the New Jersey Devils via sign and

19:24

trade. He was the number one player on your North Star

19:27

big board as well for free agents. What

19:29

does this say about the directive of

19:31

Columbus making a couple of big splashy

19:34

trades like this? Are

19:36

they in win now mode with Babcock

19:38

in the fold?

19:39

Well, yeah, they're not heading into this year

19:42

worrying about the draft lottery, right? I mean, ultimately,

19:44

I guess it could still come to that. But as an organization,

19:46

they're not they're not signing up for

19:48

a 10 year rebuild here and just, you know,

19:51

trying to hang around the bottom of the standings and get lucky

19:54

at the end of the year in April and you know, draft

19:56

a generational talent. And so, you

19:58

know, I applaud the

19:59

and I think it's been an

20:02

interesting couple days

20:04

now for the Blue Jackets. It's not just that

20:06

they've lined up like Babcock as their next head

20:08

coach, but in bringing in Ivan

20:10

Proverov and Damon Feverson,

20:12

look what it does to

20:14

the free agent market. I mean you have Dmitry Orlov

20:16

now

20:17

depending UFA, but beyond that you

20:20

don't have a lot of what I would call impactful

20:22

defensemen that

20:23

are going to be on the free agent market.

20:25

There's not a lot of other places for teams to turn

20:27

and I think one of the places

20:29

they might actually turn is the Blue Jackets themselves.

20:32

You know they have Adam Boquist,

20:34

Jake Beane, Andrew

20:36

Pizzo,

20:38

they have those three players. I think

20:40

that

20:41

teams looking at the prospect of

20:43

overpaying potentially someone in free agency have

20:46

to at least consider now making a deal with the Blue Jackets

20:48

and I so I don't expect long as

20:50

to actually I don't think that

20:53

they're putting their feet up and saying job done. I think that they're

20:55

going to continue to be aggressive

20:56

and what's interesting about Yarmul

20:59

Kekkalainen, if you remember a few years ago to trade that

21:01

line, he kind of went all in. Remember

21:03

he traded for Ryan Zingle and

21:05

Matthew Shane at the time and made

21:08

a flurry of moves for a team that was going to make

21:10

the playoffs and ultimately they did get their first series

21:13

victory in franchise history that spring.

21:16

When Yarmul has is motivated

21:18

we've seen him be able to pull off a lot of moves in a short

21:20

amount of time and so I sort

21:23

of applaud him for getting ahead of the market here because

21:25

I do think all of a sudden if your team that was in

21:28

the market to maybe try to bring in

21:30

a top four defenseman you've seen Gavrikov

21:32

this week, you know, it's signed an extension in LA

21:34

and now Diverson comes off the board

21:37

and so I

21:38

think we're going to have a pretty busy trading period

21:40

between now and really the starter

21:42

for agency. Yeah it's interesting you say that because

21:44

I like I'm watching the cup final I'm seeing Vegas

21:47

have so much success and you know you look

21:49

and they've got such a big hulking blue

21:51

line but it's just such a good deep

21:54

blue line as well. Like I wonder how

21:56

influential by watching the cup final like

21:58

these theories of moves Where you

22:01

see a team like Columbus Inc. We got to get better

22:03

on the blue line We got to get bigger on the blue line Like

22:05

how much more do you think we're gonna see this

22:07

around the league with a bunch of these, you know Defensemen

22:10

being highly coveted around the NHL and and

22:12

that being kind of something

22:14

that a lot of teams look to do over the course of this

22:16

offseason Well,

22:17

I mean it's hard to argue look, you

22:20

know, I I love a smaller player It's

22:22

I was a smaller player myself once upon a time nowhere

22:24

near that Of course, but I'm not a tall

22:27

guy Coburg legend But

22:29

you look at the teams that have won a Stanley Cup whether

22:31

you go back to st. Louis in 2019 even

22:34

Colorado And

22:37

what Vegas is potentially gonna do I mean

22:39

there's just those teams haven't featured a

22:41

lot of players with with a five at the

22:43

start of their height I mean, she's like six letters and above

22:46

playing the most meaningful Minutes and you know,

22:48

I don't know that that's necessarily a new

22:50

thing. But I mean it's certainly it's hard to ignore

22:53

it If you are watching

22:55

the playoffs and especially if you're watching at the end

22:57

point where we're at now where You

22:59

know, it's such a grind and then the physical aspect

23:01

of the game Does does have an impact

23:04

when we've seen a bunch of hits through the three games

23:06

of this Golden Knights Panthers Cup final

23:08

You know these teams are really going at each

23:11

other and I think to withstand that sometimes

23:13

you're gonna need some obviously some physical players

23:15

and big men to in order

23:17

to do that and so If you're

23:20

if you can play the position and you're

23:22

confident that it and you also Are

23:25

a bigger guy? I think it's it probably bodes

23:27

well for you being in demand and

23:29

for earning you know nice contracts

23:31

because you know clearly teams understand

23:34

the value of that and and I

23:36

think that you know, Just looking at

23:39

what's happened in in recent

23:41

years I mean and not that it not

23:43

the hate on the Quinn uses or some of the players that are

23:45

a little smaller that are Amazing at

23:47

the position themselves But but they're they're probably

23:49

more outliers than than the

23:51

rule if you know what I'm saying when it comes to

23:54

how to have success You know on your blue line

23:56

Justin Hall is gonna make a boat. Let him money this

23:59

offseason, isn't he?

23:59

Just happens to be a big bodied

24:02

right hand defenseman.

24:02

It's just gonna happen. It's just gonna happen. Maybe

24:05

not as physical as some teams would want. He's

24:08

gonna have a job next year. I'm confident

24:10

about that. Oh yeah, for sure.

24:12

Alright, onto the Cup Final. There was a game last night. It was

24:14

an exciting one. The comeback cats,

24:16

CJ. They get their seventh OT win

24:19

of this postseason. Matthew Kachuk was

24:21

a beast last night. He takes that big

24:23

hit and

24:24

comes back to score the game-tying goal. What

24:26

were your, what was your initial

24:28

reaction to the game last night when the cats made it to

24:31

one series?

24:32

Well, they were dangerously close to giving

24:35

us not a lot of intrigue heading

24:37

into the weekend. Oh yeah. And good

24:39

on them. I mean, this is

24:41

who they are. And it's funny because

24:43

naturally when you see a team win the first two games of any

24:45

series, you're doing hits like this

24:47

one. The inclination is to write off the other team. But

24:51

I really felt that the series was still up

24:53

for grabs pending back

24:54

game three. And I

24:57

come away this morning feeling the same way that

24:59

Florida is right there. And

25:02

we just have to kind of see how it goes. I

25:05

mean, Matthew Kachuk is,

25:06

you know, win or lose for the Panthers, I think has totally

25:09

changed,

25:10

or at least partially changed the view

25:12

of him as sort of a place in the league, as

25:15

being a really compelling character off the ice. And

25:18

I just think he's been exposed to a wider

25:20

swath of fans, you know, by having this kind

25:22

of playoff run. And, you know,

25:25

it's hard to ignore the nature of the goals he scored. It's

25:27

not just the number in the

25:30

column beside his name, but it's, you know, scoring

25:32

those late time goals or obviously a couple overtime

25:35

goals he said earlier in the playoffs. And

25:37

so he's kind of adding to the legend here. And, you

25:40

know, I think we're going to have a real series, which is, which, you know,

25:42

for me is great. I mean, we're down to maximum

25:45

four games left in this whole NHL season. And obviously

25:47

it could be two, depending on how things

25:49

go. So I'm excited to see

25:52

that the teams are going

25:54

to keep playing and, you know, hope that hope

25:56

it goes six or seven games because

25:58

I think it could be pretty compelling.

25:59

compelling ending if we get to a game

26:02

six or game seven situation. Yeah. Could

26:04

you clearly a guy who has made

26:06

a name for himself throughout these playoffs,

26:09

Bobrovsky rebounding

26:11

into his best in the form. But

26:13

is

26:14

has anyone seen their stock

26:16

rise more than maybe Jonathan

26:18

Marshall? So has in these playoffs, 13

26:21

goals, less 13 games outstanding.

26:25

Yeah, it's wild, especially because he

26:27

got to the second round of the playoffs with zero goals

26:31

on his ledger. I mean, it's

26:33

funny when you think about how we talk about players

26:35

and obviously we do it a lot when it gets to the

26:37

Leafs. You know, this this or three games in the series

26:40

and player acts hasn't scored a goal yet. I mean, we've

26:42

had a lot of those chats, guys. And,

26:44

you know, there is sort of that proof of your team

26:46

can play long enough. It gives some

26:48

of your top players an ability to change

26:51

the way things are going for the Marshall. So, I mean, it's

26:54

unreal how he just feels like he's good for at least

26:56

the goal game at this point in time.

26:58

And he has been now going back, you know, two rounds plus

27:02

and put himself in the conversation, I

27:04

would think, for the Kon Smithedrophy. You

27:07

know, he's he's helped the stock.

27:09

You know, I think some like Ivan Barbashev has

27:11

really helped his stock too on the Golden Knights end of

27:13

things because of the way he's performing in

27:15

the playoffs and just that he's coming up as a potential

27:18

unrestricted free agent. I mean, even Aidan

27:20

Hill in the Vegas net, not

27:22

sure there would have been much hype about him. You

27:25

know, had Vegas just gone out in the first

27:27

round or even just if Loran Brossois was

27:29

carrying the mail through the playoffs and he hadn't come into

27:31

the series, but now, you know, he's someone who's

27:34

also a potential free agent who's

27:36

getting to show his stuff. So, I mean,

27:38

this is a special

27:39

time for some of those players that are maybe

27:41

going to tie him up their next contract really well with

27:43

a strong, strong spring. Where'd you

27:45

have Aidan Hill at on your big board? CJ,

27:48

did you get him? You end up pushing him up the board

27:50

a little bit?

27:51

Yeah, I think I had him around 20th,

27:53

give or take. But, you

27:55

know, that's that's going to, you know, I'm probably going

27:57

to put out a new one next week or at least the next.

27:59

and 10 days and he's got room

28:02

to climb especially if he ends up wishing that stuff

28:04

were in the short term. Absolutely and hey

28:06

it could happen as early as this weekend. It could happen.

28:09

I appreciate it as always

28:11

CJ enjoy the weekend we'll

28:13

chat with you again next Friday.

28:15

Thank you I'm heading out to the Canadian Open of Staffs.

28:19

Stop by and say hello to the Odawg and the boys

28:21

for me.

28:22

I think Odawg will be big time

28:24

if I show up at his booth there. What do you think?

28:26

I just saw somebody's wearing a 92 Jeff

28:28

O'Neill leaf jersey at the Canadian

28:30

Open right now. Is it a plant?

28:32

Well no so there's the the rink hole

28:34

the hockey hole and they're like allowed to wear jerseys.

28:37

So it was Mackenzie Hughes's caddy

28:40

who actually...

28:42

What's that? Wasn't his last name misspelled?

28:44

Yeah so O was telling the story yesterday

28:47

on Overdrive how he went to a cherry

28:49

game and he was given an O'Neill

28:51

jersey and it was misspelled. The I

28:53

and E were opposite so

28:55

he's like

28:57

I guess at Mack Hughes's

28:59

caddy asked him for a jersey and

29:01

he said here you can take this one and you can keep it because

29:03

I don't want this thing anymore in my basement. So

29:06

yeah he's rocking a Jeff O'Neill jersey

29:09

but it is misspelled but it is an authentic

29:11

O'Neill jersey that he wore in a charity game

29:13

so it's still a pretty cool story I'd say. I love

29:16

that. That's great. I think that

29:18

probably adds more value to it to be honest with you.

29:20

Just the story that goes along with it. Appreciate

29:23

it buddy. Enjoy the Canadian Open. You gonna catch the

29:25

peas tonight? You sticking around for that?

29:27

I am. Yep. That's the plan.

29:30

Unless the sky has other things in

29:32

mind but I'm planning to go there and stay there. Love

29:34

it. Love it. Well enjoy it.

29:37

Have a ball and we'll chat next week.

29:39

Okay sounds good. There he goes. Chris

29:41

Johnson our TSN hockey insider.

29:44

Seems like the rain is supposed to chill. I'm just taking

29:46

a gander right now. I think the rain is behind us.

29:48

Yeah hopefully. I'm going tomorrow. I

29:50

think it's gonna be a great weekend though. I think

29:52

we got a little rainy

29:55

on Sunday. Tomorrow's okay? Tomorrow looks good. 24

29:58

a little some cloud coverage. Perfect.

29:59

It really is especially if you're gonna be

30:02

out there like I don't know I've never been

30:04

to a golf event I'm not the I'm

30:06

not

30:06

a big golf guy to be quite honest with

30:09

you, but I don't know if I would

30:12

Like I probably would enjoy it just because

30:14

the atmosphere and I guess it'd be a different experience

30:16

But like you just sit there and you're walking around

30:19

all day And really doesn't appetize me

30:21

all that much to be quite

30:22

I know I let you know how I love a walk

30:24

though And I love a fun outfit. Yeah,

30:26

and I've been into the golf recently. I'm going on Saturday

30:29

Are you are you gonna be wearing

30:31

golf shoes on the course? No, so

30:34

I had a

30:35

my roommate was telling me that a guy at work

30:38

got tickets to the Canadian Open this weekend

30:40

Yeah, and went and bought a new pair

30:42

of golf shoes to wear at the open

30:44

good for him Like ah,

30:46

this is all I don't know. I don't know if he

30:49

golfs at all I don't know the guy but like how do you

30:51

the Canadian Opus got to go and get himself a brand

30:54

new? You know some brand new golf shoes

30:56

It's interesting the range of characters

30:59

at the Canadian Open I went last year It was a lot of

31:01

fun And I that was my first time going to a golf

31:03

event and it was it

31:04

was cool Savity wandering around

31:06

but it's also cool to see the range in outfits because you either

31:08

go for the business casual look

31:11

or the I might Hop in and play around

31:13

or a whole look There's two streams

31:15

of thought and I go for that I might hop in and play

31:18

a hole

31:18

the guys who walk around like glove

31:20

guy they bring their love. Oh

31:22

my god There's there's a lot of guys

31:24

in golf. That's that is the funny part I've

31:27

been really enjoying the guys being down there though all

31:29

week over drives been a hoot an Absolute

31:31

hoot the the screaming match that Hayes

31:34

and MJ got into about Contract

31:36

yesterday if you missed it go check out the overdrive podcast

31:39

boy Was that just like a 20 minute smack

31:42

down between hazy B and MJ

31:44

was hilarious.

31:44

I love the heat there I do Dallas

31:47

Aiken's gonna join us in the next

31:49

hour But there is some

31:51

news that is being made official will tell

31:53

you about that on the other side I'm like to

31:55

Stephanie with Julia to Sherry listen at least lunch here

31:57

on TSN 1050.

31:59

All right, welcome back

31:59

Let's back in a little bit of news for you guys.

32:03

It's official now, just in the midst

32:05

of that last commercial break, the Maple Leafs

32:07

have officially hired Shane

32:09

Doan to serve as special

32:10

advisor to GM

32:12

Brad Tree Living. And let me just say, A.B.,

32:15

that

32:15

I love the internet and I hate

32:17

the internet simultaneously because we know

32:19

Twitter can be a real cesspool sometimes, but

32:22

also whenever news breaks there is a series

32:25

of hilarious things that generally

32:27

come out. People are so creative, I love it.

32:29

I saw a tweet last night,

32:32

something to the effect of

32:34

we're going to abolish

32:37

the term core four here in the Toronto

32:39

Maple Leafs and my first order of business is to hire

32:41

Austin Matthews' favorite player, special

32:44

advisor. And then another heater that came out

32:47

this morning,

32:47

something to the effect of Shane Doan's

32:50

main task as special

32:52

assistant to the GM is just to walk around the Maple

32:54

Leafs facilities and loudly claim, wow,

32:57

we don't have anything like this in Arizona. Yeah,

33:00

we don't have

33:00

that. We don't get that in Arizona. So, shout out

33:03

to the internet, they're our first star

33:05

of the day and this hiring is official

33:07

now. Shane Doan, part of this Maple Leafs team. Interesting

33:09

to see how it'll shake out. Like

33:12

I was Arizona to Toronto, like

33:14

I don't know if there's enough dollars in the world

33:16

to... Well, how long

33:17

are they going to be in Arizona for? Like

33:19

that's the ques... I mean, this did kind

33:21

of perk my ears, be like, if Shane Doan, Mr. Arizona Hockey,

33:24

is leaving that organization, like

33:28

what does that tell you about Arizona Hockey

33:30

at this point? Well, what perk my

33:32

ears is when CJ said he could be a commuting

33:34

type of thing, like he might not be full time based in Toronto.

33:36

It could be, it could

33:37

be the case in the press release that

33:39

the Leafs put out, we've

33:41

retweeted it on Twitter as well. It says, in

33:43

his role Doan will assist on all day to day matters

33:45

on hockey operations as assigned by

33:49

the GM. So, it sounds like he'll

33:51

be pretty hands on if that is the case.

33:53

Oh, and he was apparently in the mix in

33:55

Arizona, like always,

33:58

always involved. I'm just seeing Craig Newell. Morgan

34:00

do some tweeting that'll be weird not to see him

34:02

every day, because he was even though

34:04

not in a really elevated role with the coyotes pretty

34:06

hands-on and just day-to-day being

34:08

around the rank stuff. And he definitely does

34:11

just from talking to him a bit. You know those guys

34:13

that seem like real ring rats, like just like to

34:15

be in the rank? The whole

34:17

side story, Olin Zellweger

34:20

on the Cam Lips Blazers, he was really good for Team Canada

34:22

at the World Juniors,

34:23

would get to the rank at like early

34:25

in the morning and not leave until like two hours after the

34:27

game, just stick handling, just likes to be in the rank. They

34:29

can't drag him out. And Shane Doan seems like a similar

34:32

cat. Just likes to be around the rank.

34:33

Yeah, he's been the last

34:35

couple of seasons for the last three years of Arizona. They're

34:39

chief hockey development officer, so

34:41

and took a step back this year from that role.

34:43

And obviously now he's transitioning into

34:46

Toronto. Brad True Living in the

34:48

press release said, I'm very excited to welcome

34:50

Shane to the Toronto Maple Leafs. There was more than 1500

34:52

NHL games played, his

34:55

management roles being an NHL

34:57

team captain and more than a decade of

34:59

just being a wonderful human being. Shane

35:01

has touched all the aspects of the game, which make

35:03

him a terrific fit with the Maple Leafs organization,

35:06

its staff, and its players.

35:08

And Shane Doan is being quoted saying,

35:10

I am very honored to join the Toronto Maple Leafs

35:12

in this role. The Maple Leafs have such a deep

35:14

history and passionate fan base. I'm excited

35:17

to contribute in any way I can to the organization's

35:19

pursuit of their ultimate goal. I'm also

35:21

thrilled to once again work alongside Brad True

35:23

Living and continue a working relationship

35:25

that began during Brad's time with the Coyotes.

35:28

So, yeah, so Shane Doan

35:31

now a special advisor

35:34

to general manager Brad True Living,

35:37

that is now official.

35:39

That's the first order of business for Brad True

35:42

Living.

35:42

That's like, I believe that that's officially the

35:44

first thing he hired his boy

35:47

to come in and be the special advisor behind

35:49

Brad True Living. What

35:51

do you make of that as a first move?

35:53

Well, I'm, well, I think it's a good

35:55

hire. Like, I think Shane Doan, you talk

35:57

about the decorated resume he has, not

35:59

only. professional as like

36:01

a professional hockey player, but also like off-ice

36:04

post playing career in a managerial

36:07

role. Like he's had many GM

36:09

and AGM roles with Team Canada. So

36:11

these are things that he has experience

36:14

with. And I think that with him also learning

36:16

under other guys for so many years with

36:19

Team Canada, like Steve Iserman, Doug

36:22

Armstrong, plenty of other people who've

36:24

been involved within the Team Canada

36:27

team building process, you gotta think that he's

36:29

plucked a couple of different really

36:31

good ideas off those guys.

36:34

And he should be able to bring, you

36:36

know, that type of experience here to Toronto now.

36:38

Yeah, and I will say, I don't

36:40

know if this is a bit of a reach, but it's a thought that's dawning

36:42

on me now as we talk about this.

36:44

Shane Doane, playing,

36:47

being a Toronto Maple Leaf is like big honour, everyone

36:49

that plays here, you hear say it, it's an honourable belief,

36:52

lots especially from guys who are

36:55

from here, but it's also, we know, not

36:58

super attractive, the weather, the taxes,

37:00

the media scrutiny, like there's lots of reasons

37:03

why guys wouldn't want to come to Toronto. And

37:05

Shane Doane does a lot of selling, weirdly

37:08

enough, with trying to get guys to go

37:10

to the World Championships in the summer. So

37:12

I don't know if it's a bit of a reach in the thought process

37:14

that I'm having, but I had a conversation

37:16

with him about the World Championships, and

37:18

it was almost like, I don't wanna call it a sales

37:20

pitch because it was really genuine, but he was

37:23

like, this is the great part about playing the World Championship

37:26

and why wouldn't you wanna do it? So he was selling it so well to me that by the end,

37:28

I was like, I hope I make the World Championship team next

37:31

year, because I'm totally gonna go. Maybe there's

37:33

ties to it too. He was a guy who

37:35

was always at the World Championships though,

37:37

like, because the coyotes, they weren't a

37:39

very good team, so he was always free and available.

37:41

Hey, yeah, sure, I'll go wear the Canadian

37:44

crest and go play for my country, and now

37:46

he's gonna pull, he'll have another Maple Leaf logo

37:48

across his chest with the Toronto

37:50

Maple Leafs.

37:51

The,

37:54

we jokingly asked CJ, it's a

37:56

half joke actually, if you felt that this would have any

37:58

impact on Austin- Matthews at

38:00

all. Like it's very well known

38:03

and Austin Matthews has said it multiple times that

38:05

he grew up Shane Domes favorite player. He idolized

38:08

Shane Domes. They actually have a relationship

38:11

those two from when he was kids

38:13

doing a lot of development camps within the Arizona

38:16

organization. Like Domes has always been

38:18

part of the grassroots level

38:20

hockey in Arizona and clearly the

38:22

poster child of grassroots hockey out of that state

38:25

is Austin Matthews.

38:27

Yeah. But not that I think

38:29

that it's

38:29

it's going to move the needle a whole

38:31

lot, but I don't think it hurts having

38:34

Shane Domes in the fold. And here's where it may

38:36

help.

38:37

If if you look

38:40

at the relationship with Austin

38:41

Matthews and Brad Trilliving, there isn't really

38:44

one, right? But that doesn't mean that they can't build

38:46

one. But the thought process when Kyle

38:48

Dubas was let go was he

38:50

had such a good relationship with Kyle Dubas. He

38:52

knew what the vision was. He knew what the team was doing moving

38:55

forward. Not there's a new guy in charge.

38:57

Does he know the vision? Is that going to hinder him

38:59

coming back

39:00

or will at least make him second guess things?

39:03

Perhaps that's the case. But if if Shane

39:05

Domes is endorsing Brad Trilliving

39:08

and Brad Trilliving's message and he has

39:10

a good relationship with Austin Matthews, maybe

39:12

that in a way will be the way that

39:14

it could help have some

39:17

sort of impact and influence on Matthews signing

39:19

here long

39:19

term. Yeah. And honestly, it's important

39:21

to know, like we heard Dregs on first up this morning.

39:24

Dregs said Austin Matthews, it sounds like right now

39:26

has every intention of signing with Toronto.

39:28

Right. Just heard CJ. It

39:31

would take something drastic. Right now he believes Austin Matthews has

39:33

every single intention of signing with Toronto. I

39:35

have a little favorite player dang. And again, these

39:37

are Dregs said this morning. These are grown men.

39:39

I don't think Austin Matthews like, oh my

39:40

gosh. No, she still doesn't have the poster Shane

39:43

Domes on his wall that he did when he was 13. He

39:45

might. Who knows? But

39:48

I think it's a nice, it's a nice little sweetener

39:50

AB.

39:51

It could be. It could be. This

39:53

is just good for the Maple Leafs. You know, Austin Matthews

39:55

aside, it's a good hire and it's a good ad

39:57

and Brad Schulvig. We knew he was going to eventually. Bring

40:00

in some of his own people a lot of the leftovers

40:02

are from Kyle Dubis and whatnot and

40:05

we still might see some of Those people end

40:07

up moving on but I do think

40:09

that Shane dome was

40:11

a good hire and I think will be a good addition to

40:13

the Leafs front office Whether he has any impact

40:15

on Austin Matthews at all So welcome

40:18

to Toronto Shane dome friend of

40:21

the show here on Leafs lunch He's now a

40:23

special advisor to general manager Brad

40:26

tree living

40:27

Alright on the other side. Let's

40:29

get into let's get into our burning question

40:32

today We're

40:33

at it's the 30 year anniversary of

40:35

the last time that the a Canadian

40:37

team won the Stanley Cup So we

40:39

might get into that on the other side Dallas

40:42

Eakins also gonna join us at 105 So

40:44

do some stay or go get back in the last night's game, too

40:47

I'm Mike just Stefano got Julie to share with me. We'll

40:49

see the Leafs lunch here on TSN 1050 Least

40:52

questions get you out of your car leaves today It's as easy as pie

40:54

a piece of cake avoid penalties and early

40:56

termination fees visit least busters comm

40:59

it's Mike to Stefano with Julia To Sherry

41:01

listening to Leafs lunch Dallas Eakins gonna join

41:04

us in about 15 or so minutes former

41:06

NHL head coach Here's see what his thoughts

41:08

were watching that game last night at the Stanley

41:10

Cup final We'll do our stings and goes and

41:13

a little bit as well. But you

41:15

know, we have a least burning question We're not gonna get

41:17

to it now We'll get to it about 130 but I want to put

41:19

it out there so that the people the listeners

41:22

can get involved And

41:24

our least burning question today is more of a

41:26

general question actually because today is the 30 year Anniversary

41:29

that the Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley

41:32

Cup But it's the last time that a Canadian

41:34

team has won the cup So the question today

41:36

is which team is most likely to

41:38

end Canada's 30 year Stanley

41:41

Cup drought We've got the question posted on

41:43

Twitter at least lunch 1050. We'll get into

41:45

it a little bit later Hopefully you guys can contribute

41:48

as well With your thoughts

41:50

and opinions as to you know, which team you

41:52

think is most likely to do so

41:55

That being said

41:57

I've had the we

41:59

just two weeks, okay, of being

42:02

an adult.

42:03

I have been in the situation

42:06

here where my fridge broke

42:08

and I needed new appliances and this

42:10

has been a two-week ordeal, Julia,

42:12

and it all culminated into last night,

42:14

which was the worst day of all.

42:15

No. Okay, wait to clarify. Your fridge is

42:17

broken and then they just wanted to replace everything,

42:20

your landlord?

42:20

So I got a message from my landlord about,

42:22

I don't know, maybe two weeks before my fridge broke.

42:24

So about like two to three and a half weeks ago, maybe

42:26

a month ago, saying, hey, we plan

42:29

on changing your stove and

42:31

dishwasher because they were both kind of older

42:33

appliances. There's a sensory issue on the stove,

42:35

but it still worked. They still worked. But

42:37

he just meant to do this apparently

42:39

and finally was like, yeah, I should probably do it. So I was like,

42:41

okay, cool. Get me measurements and

42:44

I'll order those for you. I said, no problem.

42:46

Did that.

42:47

And then about a week later, the freezer

42:49

broke. What are the, oh,

42:51

that's terrible. And what are the odds of that?

42:54

Well, yeah, exactly. And

42:56

then the next day we realized, oh, it's just the whole

42:58

dang fridge. Actually. So we

43:00

messaged him. So we told him, hey, the

43:02

fridge is actually shot too. So we need

43:05

a new fridge as well. So it's like, okay, I guess I'm

43:07

ordering a three piece appliance set, fridge,

43:10

dishwasher and an oven. Might

43:12

as well knock them all out. Might

43:13

as well. And I'm like, that sounds great.

43:15

In theory, this has been to get

43:18

all of these three items replaced

43:20

just a week from hell.

43:21

Oh my God, I bet. Because do you have to book the elevator

43:24

every time you walk up or down?

43:25

I do have to book an elevator that was done

43:27

Saturday. So this all started last

43:29

Monday. Last Monday is when the

43:32

freezer went and we started this process. So

43:34

he was pretty good. And he was like, okay, I

43:36

got everything sorted out and

43:39

they can't deliver it though until Saturday. So

43:41

like, okay, all right. So on Saturday,

43:43

we booked the elevator and they bring in

43:45

all the appliances and they're

43:47

able to take away the appliances as well. So that was

43:49

one fell swoop. Oh, nice. So the fridge, they

43:52

take it away. We put the new one back into

43:54

its hole. They've all got, you know, where everything's printed. I'd

43:56

imagine they fit pretty snugly. So that

43:58

fits in pretty good. We got a cooking,

44:01

we're laughing. Dishwasher, we needed

44:03

to hire... We didn't end up getting the old

44:06

dishwasher out because we needed actually a

44:08

plumber to come and unhook all the water and hook

44:10

it back up. So we actually just had our

44:12

brand new one in the box sitting in our living room for

44:14

three days until someone could come and deal

44:17

with that. So that ended up happening. But we

44:19

got that fixed and that fits snug in. The

44:22

oven didn't fit in

44:25

the pre-made cabinets and the countertop. And

44:27

it was a stone countertop with zero give.

44:29

So we actually... He

44:31

had to hire someone to come and shave

44:34

off this countertop. And he must

44:36

have hired just this hack off Kijiji

44:38

because

44:38

the mess... He didn't use the Jiffy app. He

44:41

didn't use the Jiffy app. He hired some hack.

44:43

The mess that was in my apartment,

44:46

all this dust from the stone,

44:48

all over the place. He

44:51

comes out and he tells me, okay, I'll finish.

44:53

She fits. We're good. Like, okay, thank you

44:55

very much. He walks out the door. I walk

44:57

into the kitchen and there's dust everywhere.

45:00

You're kidding.

45:00

He didn't bring a shop vac or anything?

45:02

No shop vac. He didn't tarp anything

45:04

off. He just went. He just sanded this whole

45:06

thing down, cut this whole piece

45:09

of stone off and then left. And

45:11

me and my roommate were sitting there so

45:14

angry because we spent three hours

45:16

last night having to wash every

45:18

single dish in our apartment. We had to vacuum

45:20

the entire apartment. We had to wash down everything

45:23

on the walls, on

45:24

the furniture, on everything. It

45:26

was awful, awful all while

45:28

I'm trying to watch the Stanley Cup final. That's

45:31

terrible, bro. I was so angry,

45:34

so angry about that last night. I had to bring

45:36

it to the show and let you all know. But

45:38

everything is finally finished after this two week

45:40

ordeal. Now that we... I mean, it's probably still

45:42

dust that set. That's the sad part. We

45:45

felt we had to open up our door

45:48

last night to get

45:49

clean air in because it's so dusty.

45:52

Yet everyone else is like, there's no clean

45:54

air out there, but it was still cleaner outside

45:57

than inside my apartment. God, that

45:59

is a tough...

45:59

tough one, A.B. There's nothing worse than, I've

46:02

had a couple little hissy fits by myself in the

46:04

apartment.

46:05

Like a dish, my washer dryer

46:07

one time was broken and I remember just having a little

46:10

bit of a snapshot. And it's very humbling

46:12

when you're, you just know that you're the only

46:14

person that can handle your issue. You know what I mean? That's

46:16

like, you're in a- No one else cares.

46:19

No one else cares. That seems like a you problem. My apartment's

46:21

a mess. Yeah, it is. Nobody else in the world

46:24

cares and I gotta handle it like a grown up. And we are small grown

46:26

ups. Yeah. So

46:28

it's very difficult. I understand. I'm glad that it's over. It appears

46:30

like everything is now good. The two weeks

46:32

of annoying, of annoyance is over.

46:35

Okay. And hopefully I can cook for

46:37

you and make you a nice dinner

46:39

in my new oven now that it works.

46:40

I know you were telling me about the sugo. You were telling

46:43

me that farm boy sugo actually is not bad.

46:45

It is. For their passata.

46:47

It's not bad. Yeah, I can, you know, make one potentially.

46:50

Make a lasagna or something like that. Okay.

46:53

We'll make it happen. I like it. We'll

46:55

make it happen. All right. Coming up on the other side, let's get back into

46:57

last night's game. We've barely actually talked about

46:59

it. The cup final. It's not taking up a whole lot

47:01

of oxygen here on Leafs lunch today with the Shane

47:04

Doan news, which became official. But

47:06

Dallas Eakins, former NHL head coach, he will

47:08

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47:11

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