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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.

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Now, the NHL regular season has started.

And you know how we know that the NHL regular season has started?

Because we were at the first game?

No.

It wasn't because the Panthers raised the banner either.

It was because it was a category on Jeopardy.

Followed by hockey.

Hockey for six, please.

In 2025, longtime Bruin Brad Marchand 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 themselves.

I know this one.

Hoser?

What is a boss?

No, it is.

What is a.

Kate, back to you.

Ken Jennings, you're not cheeky, bro.

Four and back precede this verb to mean apply pressure at either end of the ice.

To be a 200-foot player, eh, you got to do both.

Yeah, we got one of those.

Too many A's.

We'll get two of those.

What is checking?

Four and back checking.

Come on, guys.

Kate, back to you.

You could do better than you.

Come on, Kate.

I guess.

The NHL has counted blocked shots since 1998.

That's great.

And Mark Adwar Vlasic at this position is the all-time leader.

Kate.

What is Defender?

No.

Oh, man.

Wait a minute.

He is a Defender.

No.

Brian, not going to try it.

Brian, not going to try it.

That's the actual name of that position.

See, now you got to be

in that situation.

It's not Defender.

It's Defenseman.

Katie.

They better have gone back and and given her that, 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.

And 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 PWHL now, Roy.

So you are not an ally.

I am an ally.

What the f are you talking about?

I'm not an ally.

I mean, my God.

I mean, all right.

Hockey.

Hockey was the category, not NHL.

So, yes, that would be the case in that situation.

Also, even though all the questions are

NHL questions, but yeah.

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, $12.5 million.

That is a far cry from Karel Caprisov's eight-year, $17 million per

ah, Jesus.

I mean, that is a team-friendly deal of all team-friendly deals.

And

Big Davis giving the Oilers room to build around him.

And quite frankly, they should probably look at Golden, in my humble opinion.

But

they got the next two years to win a cup.

And if that doesn't happen, he gonna.

I mean, keeping his AAV at 12.5, giving the Oilers 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.

You know, we'll see how that goes, but there's a chance in Edmonton.

As you said, their long nightmare is, it's not over,

it's just kind of 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, right?

Getting this player at that number, sticking his number.

He didn't increase it at all from his current contract.

Like,

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 Matthias Hecomb.

They extended Jake Wallman.

Like, their big additions have been Andrew Manjapani, who I like is a solid player.

Jack Rosselvik, 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, like Stuart Skinner's 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 this season, the next couple of years.

Because just looking at, they're going to have a lot of money to spend.

Henrik, Ross Levik, Casper Kappinen, both goaltenders, all off the books after this season.

But they're going to have McDavid, Dreisidel, Hyman, R.N.H.

All those guys are going to be locked up.

They got their defensemen that they should.

They love their D.

Like, you know, for love them or hate them, they do like them in Edmonton.

So that.

What Bowman does over the next few years, whether Edmonton has the kind of success that they're looking for, and really, it's Stanley Cup or Bust, like, it's got to happen now.

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

Yeah.

Just a ha ha

and a meh on that situation.

There's a couple things I want to say here.

First of all, they'll have 17 points, they're projected to have $17.7 million.

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 the Oilers didn't put themselves in a position where they're paying two defensemen $19.75 million, They probably wouldn't have forced Connor McDavid into a situation where he had to take this kind of 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.

Like his contract has nothing to do with Eichel, with Connor, with Caprizov.

Like this guy is built different, clearly.

He had one goal in mind.

He wants to win a Stanley Cup.

He clearly 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, you know, cap.

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 like 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 like a team-friendly guy.

I'm going to go ahead and have to disagree with you on that one.

Like, I'm not saying that we shouldn't give, like, if you want to go after your money, by all means, you do, you, boo-boo.

Some people want to win over increasing their wallet.

And I think McDavid, and 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 not get knocked out in the front.

But it's not like the Wild don't have a really, like, they still have a good cap situation.

They have the rest of their team locked up at good numbers.

Like Brock Fabers at a good number.

Matt Boldies at a good number.

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 Guerin has said they're going to be aggressive in trying to improve their team around Kaprizov.

Like, 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 that 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 league for years to come.

So on one hand, you have the Panthers doing that.

And on the other hand, you have Kaprizov 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, you know, just give them a pass when they could absolutely take a couple million less.

Your team could be a lot deeper and you can win.

They don't have to.

And, but, you know, I think, I think giving them a pass is, I'm not doing that.

The Wild have 15 and a half, well, are projected to have $15.489 million in cap space next year.

That's plenty of money to go out and make your team better.

Like you can get.

And they've got a lot of these guys locked up already on team-friendly deals.

Like they had the room.

They felt like they could do this.

I don't think we should criticize Kaprisov for getting what he's worth.

He's worth that money to the Wild and he got it.

I don't really, 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, you know, 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.

And 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 Capri Soft contract.

Far cry between these two contracts that was just signed.

Like, we thought this was going to be the comparable and it was going to be market-changing, and it's not.

And in this situation, they just took, what, the third, fourth best two-way player in the league and locked him 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 very different players.

But Matthews has been a Selkie finalist.

Has he not?

I think he was two years ago.

He may have been.

I wouldn't surprise you.

But just in general, when you think, when you're ranking the NHL players, who comes first?

Austin Matthews or Jack Eichel?

I mean, if you look at pure goal scorers, 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?

Who would you rather have?

Personally, I'd rather have Eichel.

Okay, you're in the middle of the day.

In the playoffs, 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?

Like I think

the deal was

several years before Eichel's deal when the cap was a lot lower and it was a bigger piece of

that's fair.

That's fair.

Yeah, it's different economics right now as opposed to back then.

You had a what-if game on Patrick Kane that you talked about last night.

It just kind of popped in my head as I was watching Showtime score goals for Detroit.

And he's been, you know, 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 Kane, which was the year that they won their first Stanley Cup, they 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 Kane signed, he stayed with Detroit.

Would he have stayed with Florida?

Florida definitely wouldn't have gotten Brad Marchand if that was the case.

Maybe not have gotten Seth Jones.

It's just so many different pieces that kind of 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 Make-Beliefs?

They don't have, but they wouldn't have had Brad Marshawn.

They don't have Marshawn.

Or Jones.

Now, let's see.

Kane, remember, Terra Sinko came and then he got paid by the Red Wings and left.

Doesn't the same thing happen to Kane?

Like, the Panthers had a lot less cap space that, you know, going into the last offseason.

To be fair, like, Kane did only sign for $3 million over two years, I think.

So I probably,

the fit.

Like, Kane's a veteran guy.

He's won cups.

Like, I think he would have been fine with Florida's two-way styles, but it's just like an interesting avenue to go down.

It would have been fun to see him in the Panthers.

I would have loved that.

I loved Patty Kane growing up.

Are you kidding me?

New Jerseys have been announced in the NHL, and they belong to the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Detroit Red Wings and the Penguins.

Now, my personal feelings aside about the team, these suck, Dave.

These absolutely suck.

And our friend Alex Baumgartner 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.

Like, they've made it work a little bit in Nashville, but Pittsburgh's jerseys, like, on the rack, they look suspect.

On the ice, it just like looked at a bunch of like highlighter guys, like a bunch of like the wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube men just like rubbing around the ice.

I didn't like it at all.

So let's describe these jerseys that they unveiled they're yellow uh normally the uh the penguins logo they have you know the triangle behind the penguin and that triangle is yellow that's not there because the jersey's yellow i kind of like it uh of course you do i just i you know what look i like is i like the yellow helmet no i was gonna say they need a black helmet the yellow one yellow the yellow helmet on the black jersey is a good

the yellow one yellow no me gusta uh the red wings have also unveiled 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.

These are look at look at John Gibson with the leather-looking pads.

And like all the players had the leather old-time-looking gloves.

Like, this is a great look.

I love the spoked wheel.

Like, it's got some more intricacies and details inside the logo.

This is the opposite of the Penguins.

I love these logo.

You bring out the feathers and the 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 or is it?

I don't believe so.

No.

No, they're not going to wear that dante.

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 brand new.

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.

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We have a question again this week from at Demon Hunter M-O-G.

What overreaction to the first games of the season do you feel are valid?

Hmm.

Overreactions to the first games of the season.

Now, keep in mind, the all is blew that lead, and we will talk about that in a second to the Kings.

And that was

not good.

the boston bruins are 2-0 to start the season so are the penguins

so are the penguins yeah so those two like are very very surprising to me so yeah that's an overreaction from probably uh the cities cities of boston pittsburgh i don't know 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 Brady Kachuk.

I was a little bullish on them before the season, but now, like, just game one out of the gate, they show like that kind of playoff guts right out of, right off the bat.

No, I'm, 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.

Like, they really, we forget, they really took control of the top wildcard spot last year.

Like, 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, 2-1.

Both games.

I know that's their game.

I know they love 2-1 filthy.

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 a game.

No, it's not just the first two games.

It is the fact that they played Chicago and Philadelphia.

Tomorrow is going to be the big test against Ottawa.

For sure.

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 Barkov and Matthew Kachuk.

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.

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What's your win of the week, Dave?

My win of of the week, we go out to, I was gonna say go out to LA, but it's an LA player.

We go out to Vegas.

Quentin Byfield scored a gorgeous breakaway goal against the Golden Knights on opening night in Vegas.

They interviewed him.

The TNT crew interviewed him after the game, and they were asking him about this goal.

And who does he give the credit to?

Well, the great one.

And you get to sit there and you get to hear Wayne Gretzky talk about your game.

You know, we have some video of you smiling right there.

I mean, that's got to be, it's got to be a Pidgeby-type moment, huh?

Yeah, it was pretty crazy.

You know, I'm just sitting here, you know, listening to that.

And, you know, obviously before I was, you know, got the opportunity to shake his hand.

And

that's what kind of gave me the touch on the breakaway there

in the past.

So you

passed it along a little bit, gave me something special tonight.

So thank you for that.

There we go.

Well, that's how young he is.

I was really bad at breakaways.

He doesn't know that.

Don't tell anybody.

So that's how it works.

Like Wayne Retzi shakes your hand and suddenly you've got like hockey magic.

Because if that's the case, I'm going to go and hump Roberto Luango's leg the next time I see him and just see if I can take some of his hockey magic onto the ice.

Like I'm going to go, what other goalies are in town?

Shake Rob Talas's hand.

Yeah.

See if Sergey Barofsky gives me a pat on the back.

Like if this, if this is something that's like a physical rubbing off of, that hockey skill, I've got 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 don't 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, like between Barkey and Ecky.

She had some sneaky good pictures last year.

This week's win of the week for me comes from the city of Boston.

And yeah, I'm sorry.

Surprised me too.

Traitorous.

How is it?

Traitorous.

So the Bruins surprised Dano 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

retired number banners oh that's where 33 is gonna go this year oh my god

that's so beautiful oh my god

oh my gosh oh

Thank you so much.

Wow, what an honor.

So 24, I believe, is Cam Newly and 77 is Ray Bork.

Between those two numbers, Zidane Chara.

He's getting his number retired at TD Garden.

He is going up in the rafters and is well 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.

Oh, boy.

Man, I'm telling you right now, like, back in those days, between the Bruins and the Flyers,

it looked like the preseason game between the Luxembourg and the Panthers.

That was a normal 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.

I don't know.

But yeah, that was the situation there.

And good on Zidane.

That is cool, though.

The captain is getting his number retired.

I was going to say that the Rafters at TD Garden surprised me last year just for the lack of cups.

Because it's filled.

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.

I just, it didn't dawn on me that the Bruins had not won that many Stanley Cups.

It's, you know, original six, and, you know, Boston beats the crap out of Florida all the time.

Well, it's because Montreal.

Montreal kind of

recognizes Hoggal.

Anyway, sorry, Ethan.

I was going to say, no, I was going to say, Dave, that when I went to Montreal, I was...

blown away at the rafters in Centre Bell.

It was unbelievable.

It's the Bell Center.

No, it's Centre Bell.

The amount of banners up in that arena are unbelievable, dude.

Unbelievable.

I mean, two Canadas, by the way, Roy.

Canada's Canada.

One in Centra Bell and Bell Center.

Oh, yeah, 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 night.

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, you know, this could be your win of the week this week.

And 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 as 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.

So 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 the old arena.

Yeah.

And 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 like 1950-something, but

not to throw a low 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.

Again, that's the story.

Oh, my good God.

All right, Dave, what's your fail?

I think Ethan just that would be my fail.

No, all right.

Um, there you go.

My fail of the week is, I think everybody had this on their bingo card.

By the way, multiple.

Multiple this week.

Yeah.

Didn't take long for the Oilers and Stuart Stinner to have a face-palm moment opening night.

Oilers had a 3-0 lead at home against their arch rivals.

And holy, holy cannoli, did they blow that lead in a hurry?

That was the game tying goal.

Stuart Stinner had a puck dumped in on him.

He played it.

He had it right on this.

And then he just seemed to freeze like his video game controller lost the the batteries or something.

And then he tried to like 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, it's just, I want to root for Stuart Skinner.

He's an Edmonton guy.

He's playing for his hometown team.

Like I want that to work, but it's not working.

It's not working.

Goalie's playing the puck this week has not been good.

No, dude, every time I see it, keep your asses in in the crease.

Just do what I do.

Just because we can doesn't mean we should.

Stop the puck 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 of communication between the refs and the teams themselves.

All right.

This is the time 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, like

you, you went to work to get these numbers, so it just yeah, because there was it, like, I mean, the official score sheet was bad.

There was just bad locking of all the penalty times.

It was bad.

So, Nico Mikola was issued a game misconduct at 401

into the third period, right?

So, at 525, Pontus Holmberg slashed Nico Mikola, giving the Panthers a power play.

I repeat, Nico Mikola, who

drew a penalty,

he was supposed to be in the locker room because he was issued a game misconduct, drew a penalty about a minute 20 later, right?

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 Bolkstrand, that was the headshot to Mackie Samuskevich.

Nico Mikola got an assist on Jesper Bolkris's power play goal.

I repeat again, Nico Mikola, who was issued a game of misconduct and a couple minutes later drew a penalty, earned an assist on Jesper Bolkris's goal.

That should not have happened.

At 1455 of the third period, the referees finally noticed that the Panthers were playing an

ineligible player and ushered Nico Mikola 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, Yes, but Bolkras' goal was stripped.

They had eight goals.

It was seven to end the game.

Yeah.

So, yeah, there's that.

So the referees were in preseason as well.

Give the refs a break, okay?

It's not like Mikola is the biggest guy on the ice or anything.

It's not like he's like 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 Knights.

I don't know how they kept this out.

The Golden Knights 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, bounce, and go in.

So the game is tied with a minute 34 left and we're going to overtime.

Alex Nadelkovich, oh boy.

Now here's what happens in overtime.

There's a loose puck.

Nadelkovich 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 sharks 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 Tibirones, 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 knights at home on their opening night if not for alex nadelkovich totally flubbing two different plays late in that game so brutal i'm still high on the sharkies where's off scarov

uh he's watching on the bench i guess our player of the week this week is frank lazar the chicago blackhawks he was very noticeable during the Blackhawks loss to the Florida Panthers.

He had a goal and assist, and he also played well

in the next game.

So he, by the way, had the highest bump of any player in the league.

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So look out for Nazar

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in Chicago.

He's a hell of a race.

Good player.

Probably going to end up being the second option, or maybe even the first option.

Yeah, I was going to say, like...

Yeah, I was...

Go ahead, Dave.

Sorry.

No, it's no knock on Bedard, but Nazarwicks.

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 U.S.

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And 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.

All right, for those of you who are watching on DraftKings Network, you can watch this next interview on our YouTube page at the hockey show DLS.

We have John Butchercross from ESPN.

We are going to talk about the start of the season and these big contract signing that have happened this week.

He called a couple games this week as well.

We'll talk about those.

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John Gucci Graz, 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 Gevin McKinna winning the Hobie Baker, possibly the national championship, and potentially the number one overall pick in the NHL draft.

Am I right, Bucci?

Called her, too.

Well, you know, he's a young fella.

It's hard for young players like him, you know, 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 Hobie.

I think there's going to be older, 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 junior where he came from.

Maybe he'll start to go on these heaters, like this 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 Macklin Celebrini do 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 over, rated, over, rated all game.

That's why he slapped the glass and did the fork style.

But you're watching me here.

It reminds me of Kucheroff 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, expecting 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 to Clarkson.

I think he had just one assist.

So, you know, a bit of a slow start.

One goal in three games.

He's just not going to come out and light it up like he did in the Western League in Canada, playing against all teenagers.

You know, it's still tougher

in college hockey.

The Big Ten starting to creep up here soon.

And like I said, Clarkson is one of those teams.

They're filled with guys who are 22, 23 years old.

Those are the kind of teams that will give him and Penn State skill 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 have those older players.

Bucci, what is the impact of this kind of 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 forks down at Arizona State.

Like he's fired up.

He's excited to 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 if you committed once you commuted 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 uh so that if you wanted to play college hockey but weren't ready yet you 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 to, and you're right.

His Canadian buddies 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 races.

Exactly.

Yes.

Yeah, they're working on it now in Carolina.

I was there last night and they're trying to get their arena up to date.

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 down here, make almost an AHL salary, a half a million to 700.

That's going to be rare.

There'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.

Like we've seen recent years, Lane Hudson, Celebrini, Cole Caulfield, I'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.

Like, 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 like a McDavid coming into the league.

Maybe.

I think Celebrini is close.

Like you said, those other guys are maybe a notch down, the Hudson, Caulfield.

You know, Celebrini, 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 June 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 happening in a couple of years, it kind of reminds me of Jack Eichel.

Eichel always played up, always played up, always played up,

showed up at BU at 17 years old.

You know, always playing older.

Now, Jack Gackle's starting to play against people who are younger than him or the same age and we see now he's really starting to pop um so I think so we'll see about McKenna you know I haven't seen him up close that's what I love covering college hockey I get to meet these guys in their t-shirt and shorts and okay how can they take the rigors of an NHL season how are they built you know Celebrini was like 185 190 when he came in the league so he was ready to go some of these guys are slighter and skinnier it may take a couple years so i really haven't met him i'm curious see how his game develops at Penn State.

He's playing the wing.

Celebrity 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 Kucheroff, just an amazing, almost a center-like guy on the wing.

Patrick Kane, Nikita Kucharoff, those kinds of guys, almost a Reinhardt, you know, with the Panthers as a result.

And so, 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 storylines are concerned?

And who do you think will potentially win the national championship?

Yeah, I think it's all the biggest storyline again is all these guys who got drafted and now they played junior in Canada and can now play college hockey.

You know, Clayton Lindstrom of Michigan State, he was Columbus's first round pick and then he got injured, played junior last year on the end up on McKenna's team, and now he's at Michigan State.

And of course, the Flyers first round pick, Martone's on Michigan State as well.

And of course, we talked about McKenna at Penn State.

So that's the big storyline right now.

The NIL, the money, and now the 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 junior, 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 know, 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, bring a lot of people back.

I still think it's, you know, Penn State, Michigan State,

I think, is really a strong team.

Trey Augustine, the future Red Wing goalie, come 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

Eiserman,

the late 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 Cinderella.

Quinnipiak looks like Quinnipiak again.

They know how to win the ECAC regular season.

They know how to win 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, and throw a Quinnipiak in there.

We got a party.

Nice.

All right, on to the national.

We saw the emotional return of Jonathan Taze.

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 game?

Yeah, that's good.

There's no question coming in.

He was a little nicked up after camp.

You know, hasn't really played hockey for a while.

Even just doing basic battle drills, he probably was sore and could get get maybe, you know, injured a little bit.

It's been a while.

So, you know, Winnipeg's in trouble.

Nikolai Ehlers, I saw him play last night.

It was a great ad by Carolina.

He's just a really good player.

You know, he's gone.

We'll see how they are down the middle.

You got to wonder if Taze can really go through the rigors of an NHL season after having all that time off.

And they're relying on him.

Like they kind of 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 Central Division, the Western Conference is a gauntlet.

Um, and it's going to be very difficult.

You look at that central division with Colorado and Dallas, and of course, Winnipeg, and Minnesota is doing all they can to keep up, keeping Capri's off.

So, all it takes is one little, you know, slip up, one little, you know, 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, you know, just celebrating his return to the game uh as well with the jets they also extended calconus eight-year uh to eight-year extension at twelve million dollars per season another team friendly deal now career uh career presoff we thought that that was going to change the market entirely right and then kind of mcdavid happened so uh like what what do you think is going on with the uh with these deals now everybody seems to be taking team-friendly deals yeah that's just that's kind of the hockey player mentality, isn't it?

Because you know, because of the hard cap, you know, the more you get, it does, 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 like 12.

And if you give him 20, he still counts as 12, you know, try to figure out something.

Kind of like a franchise, franchise.

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 re-sign your own guy as much as you want.

Didn't really count against the cap per se.

Again, but like in this situation, if you just take the highest average and make it, you get one $12 million give one guy gets, it doesn't matter how much he, but you count him a 12.

You're not going to just make it nothing.

But you count it a 12.

And then whatever more he gets, then he gets.

And you only count 12 because you really put these superstars in a tough position.

You know, Jack Eichel probably should have got 15 if Kaprizov got 70.

He actually should make more than Kaprizov.

Jack Eichel is a better player, mainly because he's a center and they're just so more valuable.

And Sasha Barkov's an $18 million player when he's healthy.

And so, yeah, so it...

It definitely has pushed up some prices like Kempe and Nachis.

Those kinds of guys are going to benefit because they don't have the pressure to take less.

They can go for as much as they want because these teams are quibbling over, you know, Nachus 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.

And Kempe is going to turn 30, so he probably wants that eight-year.

Nachis is 26.

You know, he could go four times 10 and hope that the cap goes up, bet on himself like he has, and then maybe he can do a four times 14.

You know, 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 Brady or back for all those years in the Patriots that he did to have a better team around him until we 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 $6 million player necessarily a $9 million player now?

Or are the GMs like, well, no, you're still a $6 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.

Like, you know, 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, you know, Reinhardt and Kachuk and Barkoff and

even the underrated players like Forrest Lane, who's really a star, but people look as a guy.

And that's what, so I think it is, it's going to be interesting to see how these GMs,

yeah, some people think he's just a guy, but just a star.

Not even the North trophy candidate, just a guy.

A jag.

Just a jag.

Luke Hughes making almost twice as much as Gustav Worslingbo.

Right, right, exactly.

Right.

So, John, has Kyle Conner, talking about him a little bit here, has he replaced Sasha Barkov as the most underrated player in the NHL?

People talk about him like he's good.

Like, they talked about Barkov like he was good, but I don't think people appreciate how transcendent Kyle Conner 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, definitely kind of, he's a quiet guy.

He's, you know, he's from Michigan.

He likes to hunt and fish.

Like the Winnipeg for him, it's just, he could just, you know, no one bothers him.

There's not a lot of pressure.

He easily could have gone back to Detroit and played for the home state team.

He went to Michigan.

He was a former Michigan Wolverine.

Definitely, if he wanted that to happen, the Wings would have loved him and he could have made it happen.

You know, whisper, whisper, the agent, whisper, whisper to Eiserman, whisper, whisper, and then you get it done.

Either they trade him or he just plays it out and sign with with the red wings he could have done that and you know most people would have and back in the day they really a lot of people would have back in the day especially too because it that that meant a it meant a whole bunch it still means a lot to play original six but every generation it means a little less and less and uh so yeah it's a that's probably a good call in terms of because barkoff is probably no longer underrated um especially if the panthers kind of struggle you know and just get in the playoffs as like a 95 point team yeah and with him with him out all year that's oh wow that guy really is like a top three player.

I guess so.

So interestingly, like you kind of led me into my next thing because we're talking a lot about guys taking, you know, what we're calling now team-friendly deals.

Like we're calling,

we're calling McDavid and we're calling Connor, Kyle Conner, team-friendly deals at 12.5.

Right.

Yeah.

They all make more than everybody on the Florida Panthers.

And it's not even close.

No.

The highest AAV in Florida is 10.

And that's Barkov and that's Bob.

And Bob goes away after this year.

Look at the deals that Zito has signed 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, Forsling, that guy.

Yeah.

That guy.

So

as we're talking about all these team-friendly deals, like team-friendly to who, because it's still, I'm just, the whole point of this is to give some love to the Panthers.

But like what Zito has done and what he's gotten all these players to do and this culture that they've built here, like just as we're seeing these other quote-unquote team-friendly deals get signed, it just brings me all back to what's happened happened here in Florida, Bucci, and how amazing it is that Bill Zito's gotten everybody to buy in.

No, for sure.

And he just was just ahead because this whole salary cap thing, I mean, 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, you know, Reinhardt, if someone puts that guaranteed contract in a very dangerous sport, as we know, where anything can happen,

you gotta, you gotta get that that first 60, 70 million if you're a player.

And sometimes that first 60, 70 million is your second contract, where Eichel 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 kind of good.

But yeah, he was just ahead of the curve.

You know, Kachuck coming down to nine.

Barkoff was kind of 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.

So now, and that's the same with the Hurricanes.

You know, they got Aho and these guys just locked in at 7 million for seven more years.

You know, guys are going to make double.

So the Hurricanes and Panthers have a lot of these guys, like you said, the Hurricanes only have one guy making 10.

You know, they're all seven, seven, eight.

And they just locked up Keondre Miller at seven, you know, for eight years.

And so, yeah, you're right.

The Panthers and Hurricanes are two teams that are going to be good for another seven, eight years because the cap's going to go up again, go up again.

And now they can really be aggressive with free agents.

They can make them, you know, they may have, they may overwhelm 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 Marger, you know.

But again, for him, 12 was enough.

So it is kind of strange.

The Caprizoff 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, you know, because one guy took so much less than he should have.

The other guy took 17 for a winger.

It's so everyone's a little rattled.

Like we're rubbing the gloves in the corner, standing eight pound stuff, you know, boxing.

It's like, what do we do?

So let's take a pause.

And that's what Kemp A 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 bulbs will start to go on both sides.

And they'll, okay, this is, this is what we're going to do.

That was a very Lewis Black type sound effect.

Yeah, it was.

Yeah.

All right.

So you called all this Flames and Devils Hurricanes this week for ESPN.

The Ollers allowed the Kings to come back and shoot out

despite Leon Dreis Titles' 400th goal.

And also we saw Seth Jarvis and, as you mentioned, KeAndre Miller both scored two goals respectively in the Hurricanes win.

What were your takeaways from those two games?

I actually had LA.

I had LA, Colorado.

You had LA Colorado.

Yes, yes, yes.

Yeah.

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 night.

But yeah, last, I was really impressed with DeAndre Miller.

I mean,

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 Brittamore.

They're so good along the walls in Carolina.

And then there's so much space because the other team is trying to get the puck from them.

And it's hard to get the puck from Carolina.

And then these defensemen can just kind of creep in and have all kinds of room.

And that's what happened with him.

So very impressed by Carolina.

Nikolai Ehlers 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,

you know, 70 points at least.

Like I said, I was surprised.

64, man, he should have had all those years.

Looking to play, this guy's a great playmaker.

He can skate.

You know, he only scores 25, so he's going to need a lot of assists to get this out.

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, you know, which is nice to have.

Again, no one makes a lot of money there.

But like Edmonton, who you kind of talked about, Roy,

Carolina, like, do they have a goalie?

Like, are we kidding with Stuart Skinner?

Like, are we kidding?

That's your goalie.

No.

So, you know, the fact McDavid, one reason why why McDavid took 12 and a half was like, 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 know, elite is a strong word, but like he's a really good goalie.

He's got great numbers, but he just doesn't, 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 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 two more, a two-year deal at age 36, then, you know, 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.

Like I'm talking since Brenda Moore coach, and this is his eighth year.

Like they're, they've been up here the whole eight years, but they just haven't got to the finals.

Some teams have been good, gone down a couple and back up or a late start, you know.

So it's time for them.

But like Edmonton, do they have the goaltending?

And that's that's it's so hard to find one.

And obviously, Edmonton has tried, they tried it for Jack Campbell, that didn't work after he had a good run there.

He

collapsed, and now it's 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 Butchergras, ESPN.

We appreciate you joining us today, John.

Thank you for joining us.

Thanks for remembering, fellas.

Thank you to John Butchergras 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 hockey show jersey.

This is a nice little jersey here.

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The name on the bottom.

Everybody tell Roy how handsome he looks.

I knew I look good.

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You do look handsome, Roy.

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That's the Metal Arc logo right here, as you can see.

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by rosie uh wade and williamson they provided the actual putting together of said jersey so thank you to them and uh we'll probably have some more information about how to how to get it coming soon coming soon so yes rosie good job on the design really really like it my only input was you know the font on the back of the jersey it has to be there has to be some sort of realism here it has to look like an actual jersey and the font on the back of the jersey

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So for everybody in the back, Danny B and Jason.

No, Jason's not here.

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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 Bellamy.

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