Transcript of What Has Surprised You Most To Start This NHL Season? w/ Frank Corrado | SDP

I can't believe... Okay, if it's leaf-specific- It doesn't have to be. It doesn't have to be. Okay. I can't believe the Colorado Avalanche. I mean, look at all the guys that are hurt there. So I guess it does make sense, but I didn't expect them to be 0 and 4. I didn't expect Nashville to be 0 and 4, just with all the buzz around those guys. Toronto-centric. I expected Joseph Wall to be available. You had all summer to be ready and not ready, clearly. So just, yeah, I I think there's a few things that have caught us by surprise. And I guess Edmonton, just getting off to a slow start. Although think about the emotional high or how draining that would have been going all the way to the finals and losing in game seven. How do you find that energy in the early going of the season? But it's been interesting. And there's a lot of story lines. Tampa Bay is pretty good. Have you seen that? It was funny. I was talking to someone in Vancouver, and they were talking about the game because the Knucks just played them, and they were talking about Vasilevski, and I'm like, Yeah, welcome to the Atlantic division, where you have to play Vasilevski, and Brovski, and Swayman, and who am I missing?

And Allmark now who has his own team.

Welcome to the Atlantic, my friend. You do it twice a year. So, yeah, it's interesting.

The Joseph Wall thing is very interesting because things are going so well in Toronto. We're winning and there's no real problems. At Imagine if Treliving didn't go out and get Stollars. I prefer not to. It was a dire situation where you have Matt, Murray, and Hildeby who have to hold the net down while we wait for Joseph Wall to become healthy.

How about this? Okay, he picked the right goalie, too. What if he signed... It's early, but what if it was the Lankinen or Cacunin, or it's like they picked the right guy with... Yeah, exactly. They picked the right guy with Stollars. So I think that's a credit to them. And his numbers have been really good. The only thing that would have maybe spoked you off is that prior to, let's call it the last couple of years, he had been hurt. 27 games is the most that he played. And you're theoretically putting him in a situation where you know he's got to play 30 to 35 plus, even if Joseph Wall is healthy. That's the only thing that maybe would have spoked you, but they picked the right guy. Credit to them for identifying him.

Yeah, Bresuah got injured at the end of August, was it?

A match Cakenan's hurt, too. Colorado claimed him on wai from Winnipeg because Georgiev has the worst goal save above expected in the history of the game. They wanted the Cakenan, and he's hurt. He's on the IR like everyone else. You're right, Jesse. There's guys already getting hurt that were supposed to be goal-tending answers for other teams.

They're one signing away from this being a disaster starting Toronto.

Yeah, that went all the way.

What do you mean? But it's not. But it's not.

That's a very me thing to say.

Not though.

I know we want to stay current here, but when you were talking about Vasilevski, it's like people forgot how good he is. And welcome to the Atlantic. Was there ever just a miracle goalie performance that either happened for a team that you were playing for or against the team you were playing for, where just for those 60 minutes, that goalie decided, I am God.

Oh, my God. Yeah, there is one. There's a couple in the minors that stick out. I got to get this guy's name. He played for the Providence Bruins, and he played in the NHL a little bit. And this would have been 2017, 2018. We played them in the first round of the playoffs. I was out after game one. I had a high ankle sprain. The guy's name was Zane McEntire. That was the goalie's name. The first round in the AHL is like a game. It's best of five, right? And so it's game five. We were Wilkes-Barre-Scranton, wire to wire, best team on that side where you get Providence. And this guy in the last game put together a performance that just... I don't know if he'll ever have that performance again or if he ever had that performance again. It was an absurd amount of shots in game five, and it was probably just an out-of-body experience for him.

Do you have Zane Mcentire's numbers there? Can you pull them up?

I don't even know.

Zane Mcentire, DB.

I'm looking right now in the playoff. You got to find the playoff game log.

Nhl or A?

No, this would be AHL, AHL playoff. So 2018 Calder Cup playoff. Pulling them up.

I just want to know if he did anything in his career.

Okay, regular season plus postseason.

2017. 2017 Calder Cup playoff. I know I'm chopping it up right now, but it was wild.

Providence Bruins. Okay, well, he had a 914 in the regular season.

Fifty saves on 51 shots in game five. There is a nine.

Oh, you found it. Damn.

Yeah, it It was April 30th, 2017. It was 50 saves on 51 shots on the road and a 980 save percentage in a decisive game five. What do you do?

What do you do? Game of his life.

He played eight total games, and they came after that. They came the season after that. He's currently in the wild system, but an 8:58 save percentage at the NHL level, 397, zero, four, and one. So he's never got to win. Yeah. Has he not yet got to win. I don't get it. Isn't that nuts?

I don't get it, man.

On that night, that guy was in a different stratosphere. Yeah, exactly. Wow.

That's cool. I like that.

Colorado bound?

Maybe. Could be. Now, It should be. Franky, I brought up the bad side of the Pittsburgh Penguins, which is the goal-tending Tristan Jari and all that. We've talked about that on the show. I want to talk about the good side, which is Gino passing. You got the 500 goals, you got the 1,300 points, and Crosby, 1,600? Crosby got 1,600. But I want to talk about Gino because Gino is leading the league in points along with their Timmy Panarin right now. You played with Gino. What's the guy like to play with?

It's a great question because I was not exactly established there in Pittsburgh. I would get called up, I would hang around for a couple of weeks, maybe play a game, maybe not go back to Wilkes-Barre, come back. I don't even think he really knew my name or anything like that. We were just like teammates in law at that point.

I like that.

Good to see you again, Franklin.

I don't even think it was that. But so He was so good with his stick. This is what always freak me out in practice. You think you have him, and it almost looks casual, and it's like, bang, bang, and he got through you, or he made this slick little pass. He was so good at making it seem like maybe he had let his guard down a little a little bit or it looked casual, and then in a second, it was like, whoa, I did not see that coming. Very elusive, very slippery that way. He's an interesting guy because he's interesting in the room. He's upbeat. He's always wanting to be in whatever joke is being said or whatever. There's obviously at the card table, he would hang around with some of those guys, and he would always be one of the loudest guys there. But yeah, I think it's funny now watching him do what he's doing. Remember when they did the top 100 players? Correct me if I'm wrong. He was not in that. He was not in the top 100 players. And I think he made the joke. He's like, Yeah, it was actually 101.

And here he is at age What is he? 37 now when he's turning back the clock? He looks good. He looks like he's got a half step more than he had last year, which is great news for the penguins because they need him.

He played a full 82 last year, had 67 points. He's played five this year. He has 11. That's a big jump.

I was trying to look it up. He has 500 goals. Did you assist on any of them?

No, I don't think I got an assist with the penguins. Maybe in practice, but even then, I don't know. It's funny, though. It's funny. I think he's so good, right? But I think he could drive that coach crazy at times. Sully is so regimen and detail-oriented, and Malkin's free-flowing, right? Like I said, can look casual at times and then really turns it on. I would imagine there have been a few gray hairs on Sully's head over the years, but you have to take the good with the bad. The guy, you guys won two Stanley Cups together. Let me ask you this, and this would be like you'd have to go down memory lane here. Number one, center, number two, center, two-headed monster. Where would Crosby and Malkin rank on that all time in the NHL as far as the best one, two punch, two-headed monster?

Well, you have Gretsky-Messier. Gretsky-messier. Because it was Ted Was Ted Lindsay a center or was he a winger? Because I think how Lindsay- You're going back that far.

This is the thing. Then you got to go back to the '70s Canadians. Yes.

There's the Islanders. Early '80s Islanders. Yeah.

Exactly. But I think if you're a hockey historian, that's a very interesting... It's going to be subjective, different eras and all that stuff. But as far as the modern era goes, have we ever seen a better two-headed monster than that? Like a one, two punch?

Mcdavid drysaddle.

Mcdavid drysaddle. That hasn't played out. They got to win.

They haven't had much time. They got to win. They haven't won. You got three cups with Crosby and Malkin. It's not really comparable.

Crosby and Malkin have been one and two more often or for a bigger percentage of their career than McDavid dry cycle because they played together a lot. Yeah. Right? Oh, boy. They're definitely top 10, likely top five, possibly top three.

Likely top five. It would have to be top five. I would think so. Yeah, they're stupid. And three cups together, all those individual awards, and Sid's still doing it. Gino's still doing it. I know they're not like... Team's not a contender, but so far, the early returns on Gino this year looks really good.

Not a contender. Don't tell them that.

The NHL did release a list of every player who assisted on Evgeny Malkin's 500 career goals. It's 113 players, and I can confirm you are not. Yeah. So are not..