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recall, I've really enjoyed watching it and

1:01

you're not going to get worse with

1:03

more playing time, so we'll see if

1:05

that plays itself out Tonight said, if

1:07

not whatever, we get another look at

1:09

the big Guys before the playoffs. And

1:11

obviously through forty minutes last night, that

1:13

nine One lead. They. Didn't

1:15

really try much third period. Let's be

1:17

honest and the texture alluded to before

1:20

probably could have been about twelve or

1:22

thirteen to two by the time that

1:24

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1:27

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1:29

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night is certainly caught up this morning

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by law. I'll take you inside the

1:56

building. It was as loud as I've

1:59

heard Rogers play. if not louder

2:01

than some of the playoff games in

2:03

the standing ovation for Connor McDavid's 100th

2:05

assist which took eight attempts Last

2:08

night on the scoreboard, but they got it done

2:10

and it was really special in there from your

2:12

standpoint Just talk to me about that accomplishment It's

2:16

an amazing accomplishment. It's great to see the

2:18

fans so fired up. I did watch the

2:21

game last night My

2:23

enthusiasm may not have been as high

2:25

as it was from your fans because I

2:28

just enjoy a really competitive

2:30

game That's not necessarily what

2:32

it was But what is competitive and

2:34

really amazing is Connor's

2:36

ability to get to that hundred shift Mark

2:41

we just I just don't think

2:44

as much as we talk about Connor David

2:48

We give him enough accolades that

2:51

may sound crazy, but

2:53

he really is doing historic things It's

2:56

somewhat, you know A

2:59

great thing as well for Nikita Kudrow to

3:01

be fair to him because somebody pointed out

3:03

to me I'm not talking about him very

3:06

much. He does have 99 assists this year.

3:08

He's having a great year He's leading the

3:10

league not only in points but in points

3:12

per game, but To

3:15

me Connor McDavid is the best player in the league

3:17

and it's not even close There's

3:19

a lot of other great players when he turns it

3:22

on I mean we got to see what the team

3:24

is like in his absence For

3:26

a couple of games there and it's just it's not the

3:28

same thing and it takes him 53 seconds

3:31

to conjure up and We

3:33

get what San Jose is at this point in

3:35

the year, especially that's not a good team That's

3:37

an American league team, but for him to return

3:39

and take all the 53 seconds to just Inject

3:42

that sort of energy back into

3:45

the building to the lineup I

3:47

think that was a pretty telling sign of

3:49

exactly how impactful he is and And

3:51

I said it in the first half hour. Too

3:54

Brian. I Think that we do need to pause

3:56

in this moment, remind ourselves. We're watching Greatness Live

3:58

Let's not let anybody from the. On

4:00

or any other market taken away from us

4:02

lies. Cell And

4:04

that's exactly right. And there's amazing

4:07

things going on around the league.

4:09

Outsourcer jokes Austin Matthews, We gotta

4:11

give him credit. Go for somebody

4:13

a nice touch. I still think

4:15

Connors on another level. I think

4:18

for him to really be submitted

4:20

in greatness. Just needs to

4:22

take that next step. And that

4:24

next step is a dirty ready

4:26

to put your brothers on the

4:28

team because it takes a Village

4:30

Women's League and Connor hasn't achieved

4:33

the ultimate he has been dubbed.

4:35

I just can't imagine now his

4:37

career ever ending without him having

4:39

multiple Stanley cups and said to

4:41

be it's literally at still long

4:43

side Those Hall of Famers Now

4:45

me for the first time I

4:47

think that we can look and

4:49

say okay there's three. Or if

4:51

not the three greatest of all time

4:54

and Connor Mcdavid has become the first

4:56

two cops and could draw soon will

4:58

do so stuff overseas and not as

5:00

you say were announced our somewhere else

5:02

but right now this is say it's

5:04

Wanderer Allison and I guess we're gonna

5:06

have to wait and see after to

5:08

my mother believe in see him the

5:10

rest of the way side side take

5:12

me and six he ensue. The

5:15

mindset of a Coats? I guess. I

5:17

Were you ever in a position where

5:20

you've got a team. Like San Jose

5:22

and it's just the competitive imbalance.

5:24

Last night was quite stark and

5:27

may be starker than anything I've

5:29

ever seen. Said it didn't push

5:31

back, didn't miss, and. That's

5:35

right, yes, we had it out loud

5:37

the year before I arrived and top

5:39

of the Team had passed last week

5:42

and the first thought that was Steven

5:44

Stamkos the second nearly finished. Merson

5:47

and those are painful times. a

5:49

move so slow. But

5:51

for me it was the Gm.

5:53

You're not the coach. veered odds down

5:55

there every day. Your field general is

5:58

your coach. Mother a couple times is

6:00

where. He just want

6:02

to remind people that you understand

6:05

the circumstances, but there's never any

6:07

excuse for not giving a four

6:09

hundred and ten percent. It's

6:11

really about the process. A Nice to

6:14

say this to the group. Not a

6:16

lot of. a couple times where you

6:18

felt like maybe the work ethic dropped.

6:20

Maybe the care level wanted merge should

6:22

be. As a professional athlete, all these

6:24

guys you professionals. All I ever wanted

6:27

was to make sure that happened every

6:29

night that you're going through those trials

6:31

and tribulations. Reorganization goes to A To

6:33

That was a big thing for me

6:35

and the other a couple times where.

6:39

To be honest with you, I was in

6:41

super comfortable. Doing it. By was

6:43

just something that we're trying to

6:45

build in terms of and accountability

6:47

level. And to be a great

6:49

an Nhl doesn't necessarily stark when

6:51

you're on the cost. Of

6:53

living history of my carpet starts years before

6:56

that I felt like that was part of

6:58

my job and are there was some conversations.

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7:02

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they've gone Chicago in Anaheim and an

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opportunity to climb up into third place

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which would make them the first round

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match up in all likelihood for the

7:36

Edmonton Oilers are stone is skating, not

7:38

series. Defeat is for us in Edmonton.

7:40

Mind do you think it might not

7:42

be a bad thing to draw Vegas

7:44

right out of the gate and say

7:46

let's skip the gloves off since and

7:48

let's do this starting a game eighty

7:51

three of Europe and somebody think about

7:53

that mentality in that sense. I

7:55

do say that would be better for Adams and of they're

7:57

gonna play Vegas to buy of in the first round. personally

8:01

at the same time as we've seen this

8:03

year, you know, people would always ask,

8:05

are you trying to, you know, when you're when

8:08

you're a playoff team, are you trying to guide

8:10

your way to play a certain opponent? I don't

8:12

know who could do that this year. It's

8:15

crazy. Everything could still finish first. So

8:18

I don't know where you'd be guiding yourself to.

8:20

We'll see what happens with Vancouver. As you alluded

8:22

to, um, Vegas,

8:24

you know, in a strange twist, I

8:26

didn't think they'd be able

8:29

to catch L. A. And then L. A. Plays

8:31

a little bit of an egg against Minnesota in

8:33

the game that I thought that they would win.

8:36

And you know, they lose the ability to

8:38

control their fate. So there's

8:40

a lot of things that go into, uh,

8:42

you know, the end of the season planning,

8:44

wanting to be ready for the playoffs. One

8:46

could maybe play a certain team, but

8:49

there's no consideration for it this year. It's

8:51

just been too tight in both conferences. We

8:53

don't even know who's in the

8:55

East yet. At least we know in the West who's

8:58

in the playoffs. Yeah, the East is a schmazzle.

9:01

I think is a good word to use there. And

9:03

I want to get back to that in a moment.

9:05

But before we depart from the Oilers, Dylan Holloway is,

9:08

um, he's showing improvement and that's all

9:10

you can ask for for a player at this

9:12

stage of the game was not getting that regular

9:15

NHL ice time. But he has his first career

9:17

three point game last night with about 14 minutes

9:20

worth of time on ice. Okay. I

9:22

know the caveat is that it was

9:24

against the sharks, but the confidence level

9:26

appears different. And the way that he

9:28

engages physically and gets around the ice

9:30

to me, Brian, it also looks different.

9:32

I wonder what you see as you're

9:34

watching Holloway develop into a potential contributor

9:36

even for this playoff run. Well,

9:40

Dylan is definitely capable of contributing. He

9:42

played well down in Bakersfield

9:44

to give him credit. And part

9:47

of the process to becoming a really

9:49

good NHL or is just playing really

9:51

good, whether it's in the exhibition season

9:54

or against the team like San Jose last

9:56

night. It doesn't matter. It's all about confidence

9:58

and I feel like he's in

10:00

a better position than he's ever been in his career.

10:03

Keep in mind, as we played 90

10:05

games yet in the NHL, I looked earlier

10:08

today after last night's performance and

10:10

you know, for a

10:12

forward, it doesn't necessarily take

10:14

200 games like I always felt. That's

10:17

what it took before you really knew what you had with

10:19

the D, but it's still 130 to 150 games and

10:21

there's a lot of time for Dylan. If

10:25

he keeps earning or getting

10:28

the type of minutes that he got

10:30

last night, just under 14 minutes, as

10:32

you mentioned, and I think

10:34

you'll see his productivity and his confidence

10:36

shoot to the roof. I think he's

10:38

totally capable of giving

10:41

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conference wildcard race was every bit

11:00

of the definition of wild last

11:02

night, especially if you're a fan

11:05

of the Detroit red wings, Lucas

11:07

Raymond completes the, they were down

11:09

four, one. They win that game

11:11

five, four and overtime. The problem

11:13

is that the teams that

11:15

they're racing with also won games in

11:18

Washington and Pittsburgh. How close an eye are you

11:20

keeping on this sprint? And,

11:22

and I mean, Crosby still got

11:24

a chance Philadelphia, I guess could

11:26

salvage it. It's been insane, Brian.

11:29

It really has. It's one nothing for all

11:32

the listeners out there right now for the

11:34

Capitals who are the one team

11:36

that control their own faith through this. Detroit.

11:39

Meanwhile, they were down one nothing, but it's one

11:41

to one last night with the guy. I thought

11:43

it was over for Detroit last night. I

11:45

really get that as a huge win for them. It

11:48

is our hearts broken tonight. Even

11:50

by winning. Yes, it's possible. If

11:53

you had asked me three weeks to

11:55

a month ago, one

11:58

thing I would have said for certainty is I believe

12:00

the. red wings and the Flyers will

12:02

end up in the playoffs. It's

12:04

very possible that definitely both of

12:06

them won't but it's possible that

12:09

one of them still may. The

12:12

recesses are pretty slim obviously. Ovechkin

12:15

scored the one goal in that game and

12:17

you had to figure he'd show up in

12:19

a big way tonight so that's not surprising

12:21

but the red wings

12:23

are right there they're knocking on the door. I

12:26

can't say anything I was in Detroit earlier actually

12:28

for an Edmonton game. I've been in a few

12:30

games in Detroit recently but I

12:32

was there the night the Oilers were there

12:34

and I just think I sat with Stevie

12:37

Eichmann for a while and I just think

12:39

Stevie's done an incredible job with that team.

12:41

It's just very very competitive in

12:43

the National Hockey League now. Yeah

12:46

it certainly is and I think

12:48

that as I look at some of the guys

12:50

and I want to transition to some of these

12:52

college call-ups I mean there's

12:54

lots of guys that are getting looks

12:57

but all those teams that are bringing them

12:59

up are kind of fallen out of that

13:01

so a team like Montreal for example who

13:03

I thought earlier in the season would have

13:06

been pushing for a playoff spot well now

13:08

they can bring up Elaine Hudson and get

13:10

him a little bit NHL experience. So when

13:12

I look at Elaine Hudson has come up

13:14

a second-rounder for Montreal.

13:17

Carter Gautier obviously signing his entry-level

13:19

deal getting in with Anaheim and

13:21

then Frankie Nasser he scored

13:24

in his first shot in the NHL

13:26

for the Chicago Blackhawks. Those

13:28

three guys come up Brian but those

13:30

three teams are a lot different than

13:32

Winnipeg who Rutger McGroarty has decided to

13:34

return to Michigan. Is it just simple

13:36

enough to say it because I imagine

13:39

McGroarty could contribute on those other teams

13:41

too but he won't have the opportunity

13:43

to in Winnipeg is it that simple?

13:45

I think

13:47

it's a little bit of that I know

13:49

Rutger a little bit I'm not surprised he's

13:51

going back for another year Michigan's had a

13:54

pretty good track record you know

13:56

you have to remember that Quinn Hughes who seems to be

13:58

doing quite a lot of work. well these days,

14:01

played two years in college. His

14:04

brother played a year, not

14:07

Jack, of course, but Luke. And, you

14:09

know, that's kind of a thing. I did see

14:11

Gavin Brindley assigned. He's moved

14:13

on from Michigan, but it's

14:16

different for everyone. In Rutgers' case, I actually

14:18

think it's a really good decision. I

14:21

think that he's still developing his

14:23

offensive game. And another year at that

14:25

level, I think is really going to help him. So,

14:28

you know, sometimes people take that

14:30

the wrong way. I was happy to hear it

14:32

was kind of a group

14:35

decision between Winnipeg and him and

14:37

his representatives. And you just

14:39

play on. There's not really much

14:41

more to it than that. But it's great

14:43

to see kids. Kutter Gochae is the guy

14:45

I'm really interested in. Lane Hudson, I watched

14:48

him last night. Quite a bit of

14:50

his shifts. He played quite

14:52

well. He's very small. They

14:54

always have that question, especially coming out of

14:56

college, will they be able to do it

14:58

at the top level? And, you

15:00

know, what is usually the case for guys

15:02

that are smaller is that they have to

15:05

be dynamic skaters. And he is

15:07

all of that. That's evident. That was evident

15:09

last night in his first game. So, he's

15:11

pretty bullish on how he does. Kutter Gochae,

15:13

I'd say the same. And there's

15:16

a lot of other guys that are going to be coming out

15:18

of college that will have real significant

15:20

impacts next year in the league. Well,

15:22

you can tell that San Jose is

15:24

really trying to make sure that Macklin

15:27

Cellabrini has an impact for them next

15:29

year. He finishes number one in the

15:31

North American Skater Rankings, as we expected.

15:33

He's a 17-year-old kid. He becomes the

15:35

fourth freshman to win the Hobie Baker

15:37

award with 64 points

15:39

and 38 games. If

15:42

not for what we've just seen with

15:44

Conor Bedard, I think this other Vancouver

15:46

prospect guy that they've got in Macklin

15:48

Cellabrini is on the fringe. I mean,

15:50

I won't say generational, but he's pretty

15:53

darn good. In seldom, you

15:55

would see a freshman put up

15:57

those kinds of numbers. Boston,

16:00

I think it was Boston College,

16:02

right? And Boston University. Just

16:05

that's not easy to do even for,

16:07

you know, the NCAA level to have 64

16:09

points and 38 games. He is the real deal, isn't

16:12

he? He

16:14

is. I mean, other guys that come to

16:17

mind that had similar impacts in college, they're

16:19

great players. Jack Leipold would be one. And

16:21

of course, Paul Correa way back when, another

16:25

kid from the Vancouver area that just

16:27

absolutely lit college on fire.

16:29

People don't remember how many points Paul

16:31

had as a freshman. It's pretty easy

16:33

to remember for me because he had

16:35

a hundred in his

16:38

freshman season. But Matt Ackland told

16:40

me he's been incredible, did way

16:42

more than I thought he would

16:44

quite frankly in

16:47

college as a freshman for BU. So that's

16:50

great to see. Whoever gets him is going

16:52

to be very, very fortunate. Obviously, the Sharks

16:54

would like to. I'm sure the

16:56

Blackhawks can imagine what a future

16:59

would look like with Mac and

17:01

Connor in the fold, but hard, of

17:03

course. But yeah, 64 points, 32 goals.

17:08

Wasn't all helpers. He's a real deal. He's going

17:10

to have a huge impact. And you

17:13

never know what the college kids, it was always

17:15

a chance they could stay, but I'd be surprised

17:17

if he's not playing in the NHL next

17:20

year, personally. Yeah. Last one for you here,

17:22

Brian, and this is Don Granados, 39, 37

17:25

and six record as the

17:28

coach of Buffalo. Not good enough to keep

17:30

his job this year. He is let go

17:32

by the Sabres organization. So I'll ask you

17:34

this for a team that has so much

17:36

talent and they are obviously up and coming.

17:39

What kind of coach would you be looking to

17:41

inject behind the bench of that group? I

17:47

was thinking about that today. I reached out

17:49

to actually that's a Donny, but to Tony,

17:51

who I'm a good friend of and played

17:53

with Granados and just to

17:55

get Donny's number, to be honest with

17:57

you. And I was a little

17:59

surprised. It was just a little odd. Like

18:01

why, why, why did let him go last

18:03

night? I know the season's over, but, you

18:05

know, for them, but, you know, like, we

18:07

couldn't have waited till the end. Keep

18:10

a little odd to me. I

18:12

think Donnie did a good job. I

18:14

think that, um, you know,

18:17

Buffalo for the next guy they're going to look

18:19

to. I think it's going to be not

18:22

necessarily, uh, not

18:25

that Joel's available, but not necessarily Joel Quenville,

18:27

but somebody who had some experience in the

18:29

league that can handle that group that can

18:31

motivate them and push them to the next

18:33

level. But let's be honest.

18:35

It's been a rough goal in Buffalo, no

18:38

matter who's been there for far too

18:40

long. And I'm sure it's

18:42

disappointing for them as an organization. I know

18:44

it's disappointing for Donnie. Um, you

18:46

know, there's been a lot, a lot of

18:48

issues there over the years and, uh, hopefully

18:51

next year will be the year. But

18:54

we can keep it under 15 at least that

18:56

the Buffalo savers finally get back in the playoffs.

18:59

Yeah, Brian, I really appreciate the insight tonight. Thank

19:01

you very much for your time. We'll do it

19:03

again next week. Okay. My

19:06

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I guess you could say I'm an A-Soma. They're

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see coming. If you're coming for me.

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