Transcript of The Hockey Show: HOCKEY IS BACK!

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Canada's long national nightmare is over. Connor McDavid has signed and will stay in Edmonton for two more years. And his contract, a bunch of big contracts that have been signed already, are team friendly. We'll talk about that because the regular season has started. This is Hockey Show. David Droga, The Hockey News. It's to my left. Ethan Podolsky is in the other side of the studio, and Rose is not here. This is The Hockey Show. You can watch us on YouTube. We got our own YouTube page. You can follow us there at The Hockey Show DLS. We have TikTok at The Hockey Show 7 and X, Instagram and threads at Hockey Show DLS. Now, the NHL regular season has started, You know how we know that the NHL regular season started?

Because we were at the first game?

No. It wasn't because the Panthers raised a banner either. It was because it was a category on Jeopardy.

Followed by Hockey.

Hockey for six, please.

In 2025, longtime Bruin, Brad Marshawn, left Boston, headed for the sunny south, and helped this team win a second straight Stanley Cup.

I know this one. Kate.

Who are the Florida Panthers? That's it.

I love you. Hockey, 200.

Brian Trottier was a legendary master of this play that determines which team will start play with possession of the Puck.

I know this one.

What is a face off? That's right.

Oh, I love you.

One theory on the origin of this Canadian insult word is with the losing team's task of spraying water to refresh your-I know this one.

Hoser?

What is a bit of-No, it is what is hoser.

You're a hoser, eh? Kate, back to you.

Ken Jennings.

You're not cheeky, bro. For and back preceded this verb to mean apply pressure at either end of the ice. To be You're a 200-foot player, eh? You got to do both.

Yeah, we got one of those. Too many A's. We got two of those.

What is checking?

What is checking? What is checking? What is checking? For and back checking.

Come on, guys. You could do better than that. Back to you, a thousand, please. Come on, Kate.

I expect better. The NHL has counted blocked shots since 1998. That's great. And Mark Aduar-Vlasik, at this position is the all-time leader.

Kate. What is defender?

No.

Oh, man.

Wait a minute. He is a defender.

Also incorrect. No. Brian, not going to try it. Brian, not going to try it? Defendsman in his actual name of that position.

See, now you got to be back in that situation. Katie was rocked. It's not defender. It's defenseman.

Katie was rocked. They better have gone back and given her that whatever it was, $1,000. Come on, Defender, Defenseman.

That's the name of the position, though.

She deserves the $1,000. She got it right.

Yeah, I think we… Did anybody watching the full show? Did they go back and give her the points? I need this information.

Don't forget, Roy, I'm an ally. This is an all-inclusive term. Defenseman is not an inclusive term. Defender is an inclusive term because we got the WHL now, right? You are not an ally. I am an ally.

What the fuck are you talking about? I'm not an ally. But we're stirring the two days. My God. Hockey was the category, not NHL. So yes, that would be the case in that situation. Even though all the questions were NHL questions. Defense person. Defense person. Defense person. Let's begin with the major news that happened this week. Conor McDavid has extended his contract for two more years, twelve and a half million dollars. That is a far cry from Criil Caprizov's eight-year, 17 million dollars perA little bit. Jesus. I mean, that is a team-friendly deal of all team-friendly deals. And McDavid is given all his room to build around him. And quite frankly, it should probably look at Goldsender in my humble opinion. But they got the next two years to win a cup, and if that doesn't happen, he going.

Keeping his AAV at 12. 5, giving the oiler some runway. Look, if anybody has an idea of how to make this situation work other than the team that's made it work, the Florida Panthers, it's the oilers, because they've lost to the Panthers back to back years, and they've watched Florida not only crush them, but then build a better team year after year. So good on McDavid. I don't know if Stan Bowman is a Bill Zito. We'll see how that goes, but there's a chance in Edmondson. As you said, that a long nightmare. It's not over. It's just chilling for now.

I just think it's interesting that the oilers have decided with the greatest bargain in NHL history, in sports history, arguably, getting this player at that number, sticking his number. He didn't increase it at all from his current contract. We'll see what they do going forward, but right now, their plan seems to be just run it back with the same team that hasn't been good enough two years in a row to win the Stanley Cup because they're sticking with Stuart Skinner. They extended Matias Hacom. They extended Jake Wallman. Their big additions have been Andrew Majapani, who I like as a solid player. Jack Rostovik. How was he still around at the end of free agency? Like into the first game of the season? That was crazy to me. He scored 22 goals last year. And then two young forwards in Matthew Savoy and Isaac Howard. We'll see what they do. They have to address the goaltending issue because as we'll see later, Stuart Skinner is already coming back to fight that.

I hate to say this, but despite all what you just said, he may have just won the GM of the Year Award just based on one signing.

We'll see how things go. But I think what we're really going to be judging Bowman on is what he does after the season, the next couple of years. Just looking at, they're going to have a lot of money to spend. Henrique, Ross Levy, Casperry Kappinen, both goal tenders, all off the books after this season. But they're going to have McDavid, Dreisaitl, Hyman, RNH. All those guys are going to be locked up. They got their defensemen. They love their D. Love them or hate them, they do like them in Edmondson. So what Bowman does over the in the next few years, whether Edmondson has the success that they're looking for. And really, it's Stanley Cup or Bust, it's going to happen now.

We're judging off the first game and we'll get into that in a little bit. Just a ha ha ha ha ha ha in that situation.

There's a couple of things I want to say here. First of all, they'll have 17. They're projected to have 17. 7 million dollars. There's already reports that the cap could be going even higher than the 104 that people have projected for it this year. Some are saying a number like 107. So they'll have money to spend. Look, if If the oilers didn't put themselves in a position where they're paying two defensemen $19. 75 million dollars, they probably wouldn't have forced Connor McDavid into a situation where he had to take this bargain. But credit to McDavid for doing it. The second thing I want to say is segueing off of that is, leave everybody else alone. His contract has nothing to do with Eichel, with Connor, with Kaprizov. This guy is built different, clearly. He had one goal in mind. He wants to win a Stanley Cup. He clearly He really doesn't care how much money he's making. He says, I'm making this much money, and it's working for me right now. I don't need any more than that. Leave everybody else out of it. That doesn't mean that any player should get paid less than Connor McDavid just because McDavid took this number because of his situation.

Like, Kaprizov made 17 because the Wild had to pay him 17, and the Wild have said, We have no problem paying him 17 because we had to keep this player. Leave him alone. It doesn't mean he's a bad guy. It doesn't mean he's a bad teammate. It just means that he got his value from his team, Drew every last cent he could. And that's fine. We should reward players for doing that. The NHL for so long has tried to stop players from getting what they're worth and not rewarded players for drawing every last cent they can out of their teams. They should. They should draw every last cent out of their value that they can. Kaprizov did that, and I think he deserves credit, and other people in the NHL should take after him rather than trying to be a team friendly guy.

I'm going to go ahead and have to disagree with you on that one. I'm not saying that we shouldn't give... If you want to go after your money, by all means, you do you, Boohoo. Some people want to win over increasing their wallet. I think McDavid... This isn't an indictment on anybody, but I'm not saying you can't just say, Well, this guy wanted to go after as much money as possible and not leave anything left for his team, okay, then the playoffs are going to roll around and they're going to get knocked out in the first or second round.

But it's not like the Wild don't have a really... They still have a good cap situation. They have the rest of their team locked up at good numbers. They could sign two or three players. They could sign two or three players. They had a good number, Matt Bouldies had a good That money. And they still have a lot of cap that they can use to go out and get better players. And their owner said they're going to be aggressive. Bill Garen has said they're going to be aggressive in trying to improve their team around Kaprizov. I don't see a problem with it. Hockey, to me, seems like the only sport where we criticize guys for getting every last dollar. It's this weird hockey thing. I don't really understand it. People are very critical of Kaprizov because he's not a team player. No, he just got what the Wild offered him, and he should have. He's worth that money to franchise, and he should have gotten his value off of that.

They're critical in this time, in this sense, because right now, the Panthers have created this situation, this aura, where it's not only acceptable, but it's a proven winning tactic that you can build a hell of a team that's going to be competitive, that's scaring the rest of the lead for years to come. On one hand, you have the Panthers doing that, and on the other hand, you have Caprizov taking 17 million. You could argue that both are right, both are wrong. I'm just saying I'm not ready to just not give these guys any, just give them a pass when they could absolutely take a couple of million less, your team could be a lot deeper, and you can win. They don't have to. But I think giving them a pass is... I'm not doing that.

The Wild have 15 and a half, or projected to have $14. 489 million dollars in cap space next year. That's plenty of money to go out and make your team better. They've got a lot of these guys locked up already on team friendly deals. They had the room. They felt like they could do this. I don't think we should criticize Caprizov for getting what he's worth. He's worth that money to the wild, and he got it. I understand. Look, I understand that there are some guys that are built differently, and McDavid is clearly built differently. But I just think it's just a tired way of thinking, in my opinion.

All right, this leads us into the other team-friendly contract that was signed. This one out of Vegas, Jack Eichel. Eight-year contract extension, 13. 5 million per year. That is definitely… I mean, again, we look at the CapriSoft contract. Far cry between these two contracts that was just signed. We thought this was going to be the comparable and it was going to be market-changing, and it's not. In this situation, they just took what? The third, fourth best two-way player in the league and locked them up. That's just ridiculous.

Can I ask you guys a question? Is Austin Matthews better than Jack Eichel?

Defensively?

No, just all-around player. That's a player.

That would be different.

They're very different players.

But Matthews has been a Selky finalist. Has he not? I think he was two years ago.

He may have been. It wouldn't surprise me.

But just in general, when you're ranking the NHL players, who comes first? Austin Matthews or Jack Eichel?

I mean, if you look at pure goal scores, you go with Austin Matthews in this situation.

I think if I'm looking, it depends on the team.

So is his offensive value, the difference in offensive value, enough to make up for the fact that Eichel is a better two-way player, let's say? No.

Who would you rather have? Personally, I'd rather have Eichel.

Okay, you'd rather have. In the play-off, I would rather have Eichel.

So Eichel is only making $250,000 more than Austin Matthews. So why are we looking at Eichel as a team friendly deal, but not necessarily looking at Matthews as a team friendly deal?

I think Matthews deal was signed several years before Eichel's deal when the cap was a lot lower and it was a bigger piece of pie. That's fair.

Yeah, it's different economics right now as opposed to back then. You had a what if game on Patrick Kaine that you talked about last night.

It just popped in my head as I was watching Showtime score goals for Detroit. He's been a pretty good ad for them since he decided to let himself be traded there. But if you remember, it was between Detroit and Florida at that time. So I was just thinking, if Florida had gotten Patrick Kaine, which was the year that they won their first Stanley Cup, it wouldn't have gotten Vladimir Tarasenko. They probably would have continued on and won the Cup either way, I would think. But how would it have played out? Because Kaine stayed with Detroit. Would he have stayed with Florida? Florida definitely wouldn't have gotten Brad Marshawn, if that was the case. Maybe not have gotten Seth Jones. It's just so many different pieces that would have played out. Right? And thinking about how the Panthers have evolved since that time, just all the moves that they've made in the last 18 months, how much would that have changed? Would Kane have taken a team-friendly deal? It's just so many things to wonder about.

If Kane was on this team last year, do they beat the Maple leaves? They wouldn't have had Brad Marshawn.

They don't have Marshawn or Jones. Now, let's see, Kane, remember, Tarasynco came and then he got paid by the Red Wings and left. Doesn't the same thing happen to Caine? The Panthers had a lot less cap space that going into last offseason.

To be fair, Caine did only sign for three million over two years, I think. So I probably... The fit. Caine's a veteran guy. He's one-cups. I think he would have been fine with Florida's two-way styles, but it's just an interesting avenue to go down. It would have been so sick. It would have been fun to see him in a Panthers.

I would have loved that. I loved Patty Caine growing up. Are you kidding me?

New jerseys have been announced in the NHL, and they belong to the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Detroit the Red Wings and the Penguins. Now, my personal feelings aside about the team, they suck, Dave. They absolutely suck. Our friend Alex Baumgarner from Five Reasons Sports has an opinion. Ban yellow jerseys.

Yeah. Yellow ice is not a good combination. Yellow jerseys on the ice, not really that good. They made it work a little bit in Nashville, but Pittsburgh's jerseys, on the rack, they look suspect. On the ice, it's just a bunch of highlighter guys, a the wacky, waving, inflatable, arm flailing, tube men just like, rubbing around the ice. I didn't like it at all.

Let's describe these jerseys that they unveil. They're yellow. Normally, the Penguin's logo, they have the triangle behind the Penguin, and that triangle is yellow. That's not there because the Jersey is yellow.

I like it.

Of course you do.

You know what look I like is I like the yellow helmet on the black Jersey.

I was going to say they need a black helmet. That looks cool. The yellow helmet on the black Jersey is a good one. It's awesome. The yellow yellow, no me gusta.

The Red Wings have also envoyed their Centennial uniforms. They did this about a month ago. Dave, you finally got to see them in action, and you loved them.

These are nice. Look at John Gibson with the leather-looking pads. And all the players had the leather old-time-looking gloves. This is a great look. I love the spoked wheel. It's got some more intricacies and details inside the logo. This is the opposite of the penguins. I love these Red Wings.

Really bring out the feathers in the wing portion.

And they've got the mini stripes on them.

It might be the best logo in sports. Are they wearing these for all of their home games? Like, this is their permanent home uniform?

I don't believe so, no. No, they're not going to wear that the entire time.

That logo might be the best logo in sports, I'm telling you.

Yeah, so they are celebrating the 100th season, as are the New York Rangers and the Chicago Blackhawks. So, yeah, they got good jerseys. They look very nice.

These are their centennial season uniforms, according to the story I'm reading right now. So I think they're going to wear these a lot this year.

We appreciate everybody who watches and listens to the show. And you guys can ask us questions. You can leave us comments, and we will answer them. You can leave them on all the social media outlets that I have described earlier in the show. We have a question, again, this week from at Demon Hunter, MOG. What overreaction to the first games of the season do you feel are valid?

Overreactions to the first games of the season.

Now, keep in mind, the all is blew that lead, and we will I'll talk about that in a second to the Kings, and that was not good.

The Boston Brewans are 2-0 to start the season.

So are the Penguins. So are the penguins, yeah. Those two are very surprising to me. So, yeah, that's an overreaction from probably the cities of Boston and Pittsburgh.

My overreaction is the Ottawa senators are going to be better than we give them credit for.

Really?

Yeah. The way that they came back on Tampa Bay last night in Tampa.

So they're going to go beyond 94.

This is a team that's just... They went to the playoffs last year. They've been building toward it for a few years. They've got one of the best leaders in the world in braided to Chuck. I was a little bullish on them before the season, but now, just game one out of the gate, They show that playoff guts right off the bat.

I like Ottawa. Are we talking about division here?

I think top three division is in play for Ottawa.

I think they're going to be really good. I really like their roster. I think they improved from last year, and they were already good. We forget, they really took control of the top wild card spot last year. They left no doubt. My overreaction so far has been, I think the Panthers are going to have to win a lot of 2-1 games this year until Matthew Kachuk comes back. 2-1, 3-2, these tight games. I know that's their game. I know they love to unfilthy, so they're more than capable of doing it, but I just think they're going to have to. It doesn't look like... I know it's the first two games, and they're just getting in and they're feeling it out. No, it's not just the first two games.

It's the fact that they played Chicago and Philadelphia. Tomorrow is going be the big test against Ottawa. For sure.

It'll be interesting to see them against Ottawa. I'm really excited about that game. I just think it looks a little bit like they're missing a little bit of dynamicism on offense, which is to be expected when you don't have Alexander Barcov and Matthew Kuchuk. But it's a slight overreaction. We'll see how it plays out. But look, I think they're going to still be really good. They have dominated both of these games so far.

Wins and fails of the Week is presented by Jagen Meister. Serve it cold or don't serve it at all. Jagen Meister, damn, that's cold. For more, long on to jagenmeister. Com. Please drink responsibly. What's your win of the Week, Dave?

My win of the week, we go out to... I wasn't going to say go out to LA, but it's an LA player. We go out to Vegas. Clinton Byfield scored a gorgeous breakaway goal against the Goldenites on opening night in Vegas. They interviewed him. The TNT crew interviewed him after the game, and they were asking him about this goal. Who does he give the credit to? Well, the great one.

You get to sit there and you get to hear Wayne Gretsky talk about your game. We have some video of you smiling right there. It's got to be a pitch me type moment, huh? Yeah, it was pretty crazy. I'm just sitting here listening that. Obviously, before, I got the opportunity to shake his hand, and that's what gave me the touch on the breakaway there in the past. He passed it along a little bit, gave me something special in the night. So thank you for that. There we go.

Well, that's how young he is.

I was really bad at breakaway.

He doesn't know that. Don't tell anybody. No.

That's how it works. Wayne Gretzky shakes your hand and suddenly you've got hockey magic because if that's the case, I'm going to go and hump Roberto Luongo's leg the next time I see him and to see if I can take some of his hockey magic onto the ice. I'm going to go, What other goalies are in town? Is it shake Rob Talis' hand? See if Serge Barovsi gives me a pat on the back. If this is something that's a physical rubbing off of, the hockey still, I've I'm going to reevaluate all of my interactions with every goalie that I've ever met.

Well, we saw him last night. You could have done that.

I got to do it when I'm not going to get kicked out of the press box. I got to ask Rose for her tips on how to sneakily get upside the pro guys that she likes. She's done a good job between Barky and Eke. She had some sneaky good pictures last year.

This week's win of the Week for Me comes from the city of Boston. I'm sorry. It surprised me, too. Because-traderous. How is it? Traderous. The Bruin surprised Zdeno O'Chara, who has a new gig with them as, quote, unquote, mentor. And this is what they said to him.

Actually, Z, I'm full of crap.

The reason we're here, you see between 24 and 77, the retired number banners. Oh, that's where 33 is going to go this year.

Oh, my God.

That's so cool.

Oh, my God, Cam. Oh, my gosh. Oh. Thank you so much. Wow, what an honor.

So 24, I believe, is Cam Neely. And 77 is Ray Bork. Between those two numbers, Zetan Chara. He's getting his number retired at TD Garden. He is going up in the rafters and is well So deserved.

I'm surprised you didn't realize 24 is the Tasmanian devil. Oh, my bad. Terry O'Reilly. Terry O'Reilly. Oh, my goodness.

Terry, oh, boy. Man, I'm telling you right now, back in those days between the Bruins and the Flyers, it looked like the preseason game between the Lightning and Panthers. Every single game. That was normal.

Yeah, that was fun, though. Old-time hockey.

Yeah, Old-time hockey. Old-time hockey was people getting concussed, and they loved it. But that was the There's a good situation there. Good on Zaniel. That is cool, though. The captain is getting his number retired.

I was going to say, the rafters at TD Garden surprised me last year just for the lack of Stanley- Because it spilled.

Oh, the lack of Stanley cups?

Well, because The Celtics have won a million championships. The Bruins and the Celtics have so many retired numbers and so many things that they're celebrating. It didn't dawn on me that the Bruins had not won that many Stanley Cups. Original six, and Boston beats the crap out of Florida all the time.

Well, it's because Montreal. Montreal,.

Anyway, sorry, Ethan.

No, I was going to say, Dave, that when I went to Montreal, I was blown away at the rafters in Central Bell. It was unbelievable. It's the Bell Center. No, it's Central Bell. The The amount of banners up in that arena are unbelievable, dude. Unbelievable. I mean, two Canada's, by the way, Roy. Two Canada's? One, Central Bell and Bell Center? It was just crazy.

It was just crazy seeing the amount of Stanley Cup banners in retired numbers.

Okay, my win of the week. Of course, I was at the home opener on Thursday, and it was a great time. It was a family affair. My grandma even decided to come out to the game, and I was very surprised. But she got this awesome picture of Stanley the Panther. Stanley the Panther, grabbing onto Lolo's hand. Lolo, I know you're watching. She even turned to me and she said, Ethan, this could be your win of the week this week. I was like, You know what, Lolo? That is a perfect idea for the win of the week. Bring some joy to the show. So Lolo, I know you're watching. You're our biggest fan. Thank you for watching us always. And it was great. It was great bringing out the whole family to the Panthers. And Panthers got a big win we'll talk about later. Wow.

Your grandma's like, 45 years old.

No, my grandma is not 45 years old, but it was. We got her a first game pin, even though she had been to a game at Old Arena. She told me a story that she went on a date when she was younger to a Stanley Cup Finals game in Chicago for the Blackhawks. I don't know what year it was. It would have been 1950 something, I know.

Not to throw a little under the bus.

That's what she told me. She told me she was trying to figure out the year. She was like 58, 59. I don't know.

92? We'll have to figure out the year and get the story. Oh, my good God. All right, Dave, what's your fail?

I Ethan just... That would be my fail. No, all right. There you go. My fail of the week is... I think everybody had this on their Bingo card.

By the way, multiple. There were multiple this week.

No. It didn't take long for the Oilers and Stuart Skinner to have a face-palm moment opening night. Oilers had a 3-0 lead at home against their arch-rivals. And holy, canole, did they blow that lead in a hurry. That was the game-tying goal. Stuart Skinner had a punt dumped in on him. He He played it. He had it right on this, and then he just seemed to freeze. His video game controller lost the batteries or something. And then he tried to sweep it into the corner, but way too late, it was already between his legs into the net. I'm sure Conor McDavid is just sitting on the bench shaking his head, thinking about the money he left on the table, thinking about Stuart Skinner's contract going away in a few months. And oh, my God. I want to root for Stuart Skinner. He's an Edmonton guy. He's playing for his hometown team. I want that to work, but it's not working.

It's not working. Goalies playing the punt this week has not been good.

No, dude, every time I see it, Keep your asses in the crease. Just do what I do. Just because we can doesn't mean we should. Stop the punt behind the net. Leave it for your defenseman. Don't need to get pretty.

Just chill. My fail this week happened during the Last game, I mentioned this before. This happened during the last preseason game of the season for the Panthers and Lightning. They got together, and I'm not even going to talk about... Well, I am going to talk about the penalties because this was technically a penalty. Send those other penalties aside. There was a fail A lot of communication between the refs and the teams themselves. All right, this is the time span.

You did a lot of work on this, by the way. I just want to give the audience a little bit of reference. You got your calculator out. You had your green visor tilted thing out. You went to work to get these numbers.

Yeah, because the official score sheet was bad. There was just bad locking of all the penalty times. It was bad. So Nico Michela was issued a game misconduct at 4: 01 into the third period. So at 5: 25, Pontes Humberg slashed Nico Michela, giving the Panthers a powerplay. I repeat, Nico Michela, who drew a penalty, who was He was supposed to be in the locker room because he was issued a game misconduct, drew a penalty about a minute 20 later. That's what happened. He was supposed to be ejected in the locker room. At 8: 52 of the third period, during a major power play that was caused by Oliver Bulkstrand, that was the head shot to Macky Samu's coverage, Nico Michal got an assist on Jesper Bulkrish's power play goal. I repeat again, Nico Michal, who was issued a game misconduct. And a couple of minutes later, drew a penalty, earned an assist on Jesper Bolkrish's goal. That should not have happened. At 14: 55 of the third period, the referees finally noticed that the Panthers were playing an eligible player and ushered Nico Michela off the ice and gave the Panthers a penalty. So for 10 minutes and 54 seconds, the Panthers were playing with an eligible player.

Now, keep in mind, Jesper Boulkrest's goal was stripped. They had eight goals. It was seven to end the game. So, yeah, there's that. So the referees were in preseason as well.

Give the refs a break, okay? It's not like Michal is the biggest guy on the ice or anything. It's not like he's seven foot five on skates or anything like that. So obviously, he could get lost in the shuffle a little bit.

Ethan, you fail.

My fail of the week comes from last night. This might be the craziest thing, the dumbest way to lose a game we'll see all year. Roll the tape. So the Sharks are up 3-2 with 152 left in the third period. They barely miss an empty net with a sick defensive play from the Vegas Golden Nets. I don't know how they kept this out. The Golden Nets go the other way. Here comes Jack Eichel lugging it up the ice. He's going to shoot it in from the red line. It's going to bounce, bounce, bounce, take a weird bounce and go in. So the game is tied with a minute 34 left, and we're going to overtime. Alex Nedelkowitch, oh, boy. Now, here's what happens in overtime. There's a loose puck. Nedelkowitch comes out of his net to play it, just totally whiffs on it, goes right by him, Theodore up to Riley Smith, taps it in easy. Game over. Good night. Go home, San Jose. This is the most shark's way to lose a game. And I know, David, you're all excited about the Sharkies, and I'm all excited about the sharkies, too. But Los Ciburones, that is a rough start to the year, man.

And it's just a sign that, hey, I know they're young, they're exciting, they're going to be fun, they're going to be really bad.

The Sharks were going to win that game. They were going to beat the Golden Nights at home on their opening night, if not for Alex Nadelkowitch totally flubbing two different plays in that game. I'm still high on the Sharkies.

Where's off Skarow?

He's watching on the bench, I guess.

Our player of the week this week is Frank Nizarr, the Chicago Blackhawks. He was very noticeable during the Blackhawks loss to the Florida Panthers. He had a goal and an assist, and he also played well in the next game. He, by the way, had the highest bump of any player in the league. He went from $950,000 to $6. 6 million. Look out for Nizarr to have a good year in Chicago.

He's a good player. It's a hell of a rate.

Good player. I was going to end up being the second option. Or maybe even the first option.

Yeah, I was going to say-Yeah.

I was-Go ahead, Dave.

Sorry. No knock on Bedard, but Nizar looks good.

I was more impressed with him coming away from that game than I was with Bedard, and I was very impressed with Bedard, let's be clear. He got an invite to the US Olympic camp this summer. He's a stud, and people are really excited about him. There's a chance he could have a good enough year that they decide to bring this young kid along for the future of American hockey.

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John Butcherrass, he calls Hockey for the Entertainment and Sports programming Network. And he knows a lot about college hockey. And we are going to go into this issue, this topic that will make Ethan very, very happy because it seems like the next big thing in this sport, Gavin McKenna, has started in Penn State. He is good to go right now. He's already played two games against Arizona State. Penn State swept that series. 57 NHL scouts showed up to his first game where he had two assists. In the second game, he scored the game-winning goal. And in my opinion, the real winner here is Penn State graduate Emily Kaplan. Good for her. But right now, the hype has Kevin McKenna winning the Hoby Baker, possibly the national championship and potentially the number one overall pick in the NHL draft. Am I right, Bucci?

Kolder, too.

Well, he's a young fella. It's hard for young players like him, 17 years old, to score in college hockey. These are men he's playing against, 23, 24-year-olds, 22-year-olds, and it won't be easy. So I would probably say no on the Hobi. I think there's going to be more experienced players that could have bigger years. Now, that being said, after maybe 10, 15 games, and he starts figuring out where he needs to be and how it's going to work in college, as opposed to a junior where he came from, maybe he'll start to go on these heaters, like these six, seven point weekend heaters, where he's really going to start to ball up, win the scoring race, and have enough goals, 25 to 30. That's a lot of goals in college hockey for anybody, but especially a teenager. We saw McClindon celebrating to it, and That's why many of us thought he was the real deal. But that goal there in Arizona State, they were giving it to him. They were chanting overrated, overrated all game. That's why he slapped the glass and did the fork style. But you're watching me here. He reminds me of Kucharav.

As a winger on that offside, he can set people off. Just his brain's unbelievable. Then he has a finish like this that if he needs to... I mean, that's an incredible roof job. Didn't have a big backswing. Pass was in his feet. So, yeah, a massive talent, expected to be the first pick of the draft, but it's hard to score in college hockey. That's his only goal now through three games. They played last night, sneaky Thursday game, and they lost the Clarkson. I think he had just one assist. So a bit of a slow start. One goal in three games. He's not going to come out and light it up like he did in the Western League in Canada, playing against all teenagers. It's still tougher in college hockey, the Big Ten starting to creep up here soon. And like I said, a Clarkson is one of those teams, they're filled with guys who are 22, 23 years old. Those are the teams that will give him and Penn State's skilled teams an issue. They're almost like an American Hockey League team, like a decent AHL team when you play those kinds of schools who are those older players.

Bucci, what is the impact of this prospect coming to the college ranks going to be. Obviously, it's different now. Now, you can bounce between the CHL and college hockey. So he looks like he's having a ton of fun out there. He's throwing the fork down at Arizona State. He's fired up. He's excited play in front of Penn State's student section in Happy Valley. So what do you see the impact of this all being?

Yeah, you're right. Just for maybe the listeners who weren't aware, in the old days, which is last year and before, once you committed to Canadian junior, once you committed to that, you could no longer play college hockey. Once you played a Canadian junior game or whatever, then you couldn't play college hockey. You were done. And so if you wanted to play college hockey but weren't yet, then you go to USHL and play American junior hockey. Then you could play that junior hockey and then still play college hockey. So now, like you said, it's the Wild West, and there really has never been this much sizzle in the college hockey world, because what McKenna did, coming to Penn State, taking allegedly $700,000 to play this year. And now I assume he's going... And you're right, his Canadian buddy's back home, will be watching these games on TV, seeing him do that. Getting a taste of American college rivalries, the campus life. These programs have facilities that rival the NHL. Some are better, like the Ottawa... The Penn State facilities are better than the Ottawa senators in terms of weight room and cold plunge and everything. It's just unbelievable.

The arms were- They're working on it now in Carolina. I was there last night, and they're trying to get their arena up to So, yeah, I think we'll see, but I think it will result in more kids like him coming down here for at least a year. Give it a shot. It's a great way to come down here, make almost an AHL salary, a half a million to 700. And that's going to be rare. It's only a few guys going to get that much. And then from there, your draft year comes up, and then you get drafted. And if you want, you come back for one more year if you're not ready, or just go right to the NHL and maybe dictate those terms.

I was going to say before we move on, I had one more question on McKenna, John, and you might be the best equipped to answer this. We've seen recent years, Lane Hudson, Celabrini, Cole Caulfield. We've seen some really good players come out of NCAA and go to the NHL. But Gavin McKenna just feels like he's just on another level. Am I right here in thinking that even though the guys I just named, they're all spectacular, they're young superstars, but McKenna, I feel like it's almost like we're looking at a McDavid coming into the league.

Maybe. I think Celabrini is close. Like you said, those other guys are maybe a notch down, the Hudson, Caulfield. Celabrini, again, he was 17 his entire college year that he was awesome in. He was 18 last year, his entire first year in the league. Really good. He's going to be 19. He's a junior birthday. So he's going to be 19 all this year, wearing an A for some of the games. They picked six of them, three in the road, three at home. So he's yet to play against kids younger than him in his life. When that starts What's happening in a couple of years, it reminds me of Jack Eichel. Eichel always played up, always played up, always played up, showed up at BU at 17 years old. Always playing older. Now Jack Eichel is starting to play against people who are younger than him or the same age. And we see now he's really starting to pop. So we'll see about McKenna. I haven't seen him up close. I love covering college hockey. I get to meet these guys in their T-shirt and shorts. And okay, can they take the rigors of an NHL season?

How are they built? Celabrini was like 185 5, 190 when he came in the league. So he was ready to go. Some of these guys are slightlyer and skinnier. It may take a couple of years. So I really haven't met him. I'm curious to see how his game develops at Penn State. He's playing the wing. Celabrini showed up and played center right away for BU. And so for now, they're starting McKenna on the wing. And maybe in the end, that's what he's going to be, like I said, like a Kucharaf. Just an amazing, almost a center-like guy on the wing, Patrick Cain, Nikita Kucharaf, those kinds of guys, almost a Reinhardt with the Panthers as a result. And But we'll see. We'll see if he's at that level or not.

One more question about the college ranks before we move on to the league. What are you looking at as far as story lines are concerned, and who do you think will potentially win the national championship?

Yeah, I think the biggest storyline, again, is all these guys who got drafted and played junior in Canada and can now play college hockey. Clayton Lindstrom of Michigan State, he was Columbus's first-round pick, and then he got injured, played junior last year, end up on McKenna's team, and now he's at Michigan State. And of course, the Flyer's first-round pick, Martones on Michigan State as well. And of course, we talk about McKenna at Penn State. So that's the big storyline right now. The NIL, the money, and now they're opening up to allow Canadian juniors to come down and get the best of those best. And then the ongoing ramifications. What does that mean for the USHL? Is that going to be bad for that league? So how do they survive? How do these Canadian juniors, how does the Western League survive when kids are coming to play college hockey? So how do they figure that stuff out is the big one. And in terms of who are the favorites, you would think these guys, again, it might take some time for these high-level players who now are playing college hockey to get going. But as long as their teams get in the tournament, then Penn State is certainly...

They would have been good anyway. They made the frozen four last year for the first time. They add McKenna, being a lot of people back. I still think it's Penn State, Michigan State, I think, is really a strong team. Trey Augustine, a future Red Wing goalie, came back again. They have lots of talent up front. So I still like them as well. And then as far as the third team, you got Boston University, still has future NHLers as well. Cody Iders, Izerman, Cole Hudson, Lane Hudson's brother is having a college career similar to Lane. So we'll throw BU in there. And then one more, one Kind of Cindarella. Quinipiac looks like Quinipiac again. They know how to win the ECAC regular season. They know how to win the NCAA tournament games. So give me a Las Vegas frozen four of three big brand names of Michigan State and Penn State and Boston University. Then throw a Quinipiac in there. We got a party.

Nice. All right, on to the national. We saw the emotional return of Jonathan Tate. He signed with the Jets in the offseason. He returned to his hometown. He had 19 shifts, about 18 and a half minutes played, three shot attempts. One of them reached the net. He took a penalty, he drew a penalty, and he undressed the referee. He also won seven of eight face offs. How do you think he looked in the Yeah, that's good.

He was a little question coming in. He was a little nicked up after camp. He hasn't really played hockey for a while, even just doing basic battle drills. He probably was sore and could get maybe injured a little bit. It's been a while. So Winnipeg's in trouble. Nikolai Eelers, I saw him play last night. It was a great ad by Carolina. He's just a really good player. He's gone. We'll see how they are down the middle. You got to wonder if Tate can really go through the rigors of an NHL season after having all that time off. And they're relying on him. They They need him to produce and play well. So it's going to be interesting to watch in Winnipeg if they're going to be able. That's Central Division. The Western Conference is a gauntlet, and it's going to be very difficult. You look at that Central Division with Colorado and Dallas US. And of course, Winnipeg and then Minnesota is doing all they can to keep up, keeping Capri's off. So all it takes is one little slip up, one little part of your season that you're just not performing. Then suddenly you're like a 93-point team, and boom, you're out.

So it's going to be tough on Winnipeg. They're going to lean on him a lot. So there's some pressure on Taves as well, besides just celebrating his return to the game.

As well with the Jets, they also extended Cal on his eight-year extension at $12 million per season. Another team-friendly deal. Now, Kareel Kaprizov, we thought that that was going to change the market entirely. Correct. And then, Conor McDavid happened. So what do you think is going on with these deals now? Everybody seems to be taking team-friendly deals.

Yeah, that's the hockey player mentality, isn't it? Because you know, because of the hard cap, the more you get, it hurts your team. The players probably should not be put in this position. At some point, they should probably get a waiver for one guy a team, where you can go over the cap, whether you slot him at an average of 12. And if you give him 20, he still counts as 12. Try to figure out something.

I love that idea.

I love that idea.

It's the old Larry Bird rule, right, in the NBA, when they call it the Bird rule back in the day, where you could resign your own guy as much as you want, didn't really count against the cap, per se. Again, but in this situation, if you just take the highest average, you get one $12 million, one guy gets... It doesn't matter how much, but you count him at 12. You're not going to just make it nothing. But you count him a 12, then whatever more he gets, then he gets. And You only count 12 because you really put these superstars in a tough position. Jack Geichel probably should have got 15 if Caprizov got 17. He actually should make more than Caprizov. Jack Geichel is a better player, mainly because he's a center, and they're just so more valuable. Sasha Barcoff is an $18 million player when he's healthy. And so, yeah, it definitely has pushed up some prices, like Kempe and Natchis. Those kinds of guys are going to benefit because they don't They have the pressure to take less. They can go for as much as they want because these teams are quibbling over Natchis and Kempe, they both want 11, and the teams want probably nine.

That's probably what you're looking at there. And eventually, they'll get probably to about 10,2 or 9,8, whoever they feel like has the leverage. Kempe is going to turn 30, so he probably wants that eight-year. Natchis is 26. He could go four times 10 and hope the cap goes up, bet on himself like he has, and then maybe he could do a four times 14. So it's going to be interesting to see how these guys play it. So I think it'll help those guys more than the top end, because the top end guy is going to continue to feel pressure to take a little bit less, like Tom braided, or back for all those years in the Patriots that he did to have a better team around them until it reached the end, where it's like, I got to go cash in a little bit to Tampa. And that's what's happening. So, yeah, they're trying to figure this out. The GMs and the players, is a six million dollar player necessarily a nine million dollar player now? Or are the GMs like, Oh, no, you're still a six million. I'll go seven, but I still want the big fish because you need stars to win in this league, like the Panthers have shown.

You need multiple stars. And some of these teams, like the Kings, are just looking for one. I think Byfield will be that eventually, but he's still just a 60-point guy. Maybe he will turn out to be. Okay, then you got one. Where, again, the Panthers throw Reinhardt and Kachuk and Barkoff and even the underrated players like Forrest Lane, who's really a star, but people look as a guy. So I think it's going to be interesting to see how these GMs... Yeah, some people think he's just a guy, but he's not actually a star.

Just a guy. Not even a noise trophy candidate. Just a guy. A jag.

Just a jag.

Yeah, just a guy. Luke Hughes making almost twice as much That's just Gustave Forestling. Right.

Exactly. Right.

So, John, has Kyle Connor, talking about him a little bit here, has he replaced Sasha Barcow as the most underrated player in the NHL? People talk about him like he's good. We talked about Barcow like he was good. But I don't think people appreciate how transcendent Kyle Connor can be for a hockey game on any given moment?

Yeah, I mean, let's face it. He's a 40 goal guy. He's electric. He started to score in the postseason. So he's definitely a quiet guy. He's from Michigan. He likes to hunt and fish. Like the Winnipeg lot for him is just no one bothers him. There's not a lot of pressure. He easily could have gone back to Detroit and play for the home state team. He went to Michigan. He was a former Michigan Wolverine. Definitely. If you want that to happen, Wings would have loved him, and he could have made it happen. Whisper, whisper, the agent, whisper, whisper to Iserman, whisper, whisper, and then you get it done. Either they trade him or he just plays it out and sign with the Red Wings. He could have done that, and most people would have. And back in the day, a lot of people would have back in the day, especially, too, because it meant a whole bunch. It still means a lot to play Original 6, but every generation, it means a little less and less. And so, yeah, that's probably a good call in terms of... Because Barca is probably no longer underrated especially if the Panthers struggle and just get in the play as a 95-point team.

And with him out all year, it's, Oh, wow, that guy really is a top three player. I guess so.

So interestingly, you led me into my next thing because we're talking a lot about guys taking what we're calling now team friendly deals. We're calling McDavid, and we're calling Tyler Connor, team friendly deals at 12.

5.

They all make more than every buddy on the Florida Panthers, and it's not even close. No. The highest AAV in Florida is 10. And that's Barcov, and that's Bob, and Bob goes away after this year. Look at the deals that Zeto assigned guys to in the last few years. None of them are higher than 8. 6. And I'm talking about guys that you mentioned, Bennett, Reinhardt, Ekblad, Forzling, that guy. Yeah, that guy. So we're talking about all these team friendly deals, like team friendly to who? Because it's still... The whole point of this is to give some love to the Panthers. But what Zeto has done and what he's gotten all these players to do in this culture that they've built here, just as we're seeing these other, quote unquote, team friendly deals get signed, it just brings me all back to what's happened here in Florida, Bucci, and how amazing it is that Bill Zeto has gotten everybody to buy in.

No, for sure. And he was just ahead because this whole salary cap thing, they said last year it was coming, and I think they probably might have known even a year and a half ago that, Hey, these are the projections. Yet, whether it's Reinhardt, if someone puts that guaranteed contract in a very dangerous sport, as we know, where anything can happen, you got to get that first 60, 70 million if you're a player. Sometimes that first 60, 70 million is your second contract. We're Michael was the first, McDavid, the first. These guys, so that's one reason, obviously, McDavid could take a little bit less now, is because he's already made $80 million, so he's good. But yeah, he was just ahead of the curve, Kachuk coming down to nine, Markov was high for that era. Now, going back, they really, obviously respected him and wanted to get that done. And maybe his agents did look into the future a little bit. And that's the same with the hurricanes. They got Aho and these guys just locked in at seven million for seven more years. Guys are going to make double. So the hurricanes and Panthers have a lot of these guys, like you said.

The hurricanes don't have one guy making 10. They're all seven, seven, eight. And they just locked up Keandre Miller at seven. For eight years. And so, yeah, you're right. The Panthers and Hurricans are two teams that are going to be good for another seven, eight years because the cap is going to go up again, go up again. And now they can really be aggressive with free agents. They can make them... They He overwhelms some of these players if they even get to free agency. They don't tend to in the NHL to overwhelm them to get them to come in, like Mitch Marner. But again, for him, 12 was enough. So it is straight. The Caprizov 17 number was obviously probably a little high too quickly. And then the McDavid 12: 5 has really messed everything up. It's like total... They don't know what to think now because one guy took so much less than he should have. The other guy took 17 for a winger? So everyone's a little rattled, like we're rubbing the gloves in the corner, standing eight-count stuff, boxing. It's like, What do we do? So let's take a pause, and that's what Kempé has done, and Nate just hasn't really got.

So I think now they're going to try to figure this out now. And then eventually, the light bulb will start to go on both sides, and they'll go, Okay, this is what we're going to do.

That was a very Louis Black type sound effect.

Yeah, it was.

All right. So you called all this Flames and Devils Hurricanes this week for ESPN. You always allowed the Kings to come back and shoot out despite Leon Dreisle's 400th goal. And also we saw Seth Javers and, as you mentioned, K. Andre Miller, both score two goals, respectively, in the Huracan's win. What were your takeaways from those two games?

I actually had LA. I had LA Colorado.

Yeah, LA, Colorado. You had LA, Colorado? Yes. That was a Canada broadcast.

Yeah, I'm good, but I can't call two games in one day, Roy. Because both those games last time. But yeah, last I was really impressed with K. Andre When he got traded, I tweeted, Carolina wins a trade, just because I thought he would pop as a 10 goal, 40 point defenseman there. That system really helps defensemen under Rod Bridnamour. They're so good along the walls in Carolina, and then there's much space because the other team is trying to get the buck from them, and it's hard to get the buck from Carolina. And then these defensemen can just creep in and have all kinds of room. And that's what happened with him. So very impressed by Carolina. Nikolai Eelers is a really good player. When you see him play in person, it's like, wow, this guy's really good. An underrated player for sure. I'm surprised his career high is 64 points. I would think playing with Aho and Jarvis this year, he's got a chance to be almost a point per game guy, 70 points at least. Like I said, I was surprised. 64, man, he should have all those years. Looking at the play, this guy is a great playmaker.

He could skate. He only scores 25, so he's going to need a lot of assists to get to seven. He's going to need a 25, 50 year, but maybe he'll get 30 this year, 30, 42 or something like that. But I like that team a lot. The bottom six is really good. All six bottom six guys might score 10 goals this year, which is nice to have. Again, no one makes a lot of money there. But like Edmondon, who you talked about, Roy, Carolina, do they have a goalie? Are we kidding with Stuart Skinner? Are we kidding? That's your goalie? No. So the fact... One reason why McDavid took 12. 5 was because we need a goalie. Go get a goalie. Whatever it takes. We need a goalie. And Freddie Anderson, when healthy, is actually among very, very good. I don't want elite, it's a strong word, but he's a really good goalie. He's got great numbers, but he just does... He gets hurt. Now, it's the last year of his deal. So he's 36. Maybe he doesn't like hockey, he doesn't want to play anymore. He's just going to play it out and retire.

I don't know. You never know with these guys. But if he wants to play for one more contract or one more deal, maybe a two-year deal at age 36, then play 50 games this year, have a great year, and lead your team at least to the Stanley Cup finals, which obviously, no team has had better success longer in the NHL right now than the Hurricanes. I'm talking since Brenda Moore, this is his eighth year. They've been up here the whole eight years, but They just haven't got to the final. Some teams have been good, gone down a couple of back up or a late start. So it's time for them. But like Edmondson, do they have the goal-tending? And it's so hard to find one. And obviously, Edmondson has tried. They tried it for Jack Campbell. That didn't work after he had a good run there. He collapsed, and I was Skinner and Pickard. So I just don't know if they can be taken seriously until they get a goalie. And it's amazing they made back-to-back finals with them.

Yeah.

John Budgegross, ESPN. We appreciate you joining us today, John. Thank you for joining us.

Thanks for remembering, fellows.

Thank you to John Budgegross for joining us here today. Everybody is asking about this jersey that I'm wearing. I'm going to stand up here. So I am wearing a rose-designed The Hockey Show jersey. This is a nice little jersey.

Yeah, give us a spin.

The name on the back.

Everybody tell Roy how handsome he looks.

I knew I'd look good.

You do look handsome. You do look handsome, Roy. You always do.

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Where the chest is. On the collar, that's the middle lock logo. Right here, as you can see. It's a good collar. Very good design by Rosie. Wade and Williamson, they provided the actual putting together of said jersey. So thank you to them. And we'll probably have some more information about how to get it. Coming soon. Coming soon. So yes, Rosie, good job on the design. Really, really like My only input was the font on the back of the jersey. There has to be some realism here. It has to look like an actual jersey, and the font on the back of the jersey makes it look like an actual jersey. So for everybody in the back, Danny B and Jason. No, Jason is not here. Gino. Gino is here. Jason is off today. So thank you, Ethan. Thank you, Rosie. And thank you, David. This has been The Hockey Show. My name is Roy Belmy. We will see you next week. Goodbye.

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