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Pierre, welcome.

I have to tell you.

I watched the game.

And the entire time I was saying.

The Leafs are only down a goal.

Pierre, how did they stick around for so long.

Considering that half of their players didn't show up.

Joe Wall was pretty good in goal.

Canadians missed the net a lot.

Canadians over past the clock.

Way too much passing.

Get fucks on goal.

Lane Hudson.

In the third period.

He's about 15 feet from the net.

He defers over to.

Slav Kosky standing in the corner.

But you talk about the Leafs not showing up.

I would agree with you.

Especially in the first period we saw this movie last week when they were in South Florida.

Actually more like 10 days ago.

And they were terrible in the first period.

I think they were out shot 20 to three and they were down three.

No Bobby McMahon.

He's in Seattle.

No Scott Loughlin.

He's in.

He's in.

He's in no way.

And no Nikki Watt.

He's in Colorado.

This team is a show of itself.

There was no second or third effort from their better players.

I know that Neil Anderson scored a goal.

But outside of that.

This was a really Toronto is in big trouble.

Tony.

Pierre.

The trouble.

I have to tell you, Pierre.

I know that Jake Evans played quite a game tonight.

I thought he was awesome versus Austin Matthews.

In particular.

But Austin Matthews didn't have a pulse tonight.

Pierre.

I mean.

In this or what?

They're in big trouble.

That teams in big trouble.

I watch their.

Look at.

I get.

If you're a fan of the NHL, you're a fan of the NHL.

You're not watching the American League.

I watch a lot of American League because it's part of my business.

And I need to know who the players are coming up.

Toronto's farm team on papers.

Adequate.

But they don't have a lot of star prospects.

In fact, I'd say they have no star prospects there.

Eastern Cowan.

Who you saw the night number 53.

He's probably right now.

They're best pure prospect.

Wow.

William Neelander, by the way, minus two tonight.

John Tavares, minus three.

It was a difficult night for Tavares who was good in the face off circle,

winning eight of 13 at 62%.

But.

And it was a good night for Austin.

Matthews in the face off circle, winning 13 of 20.

But Matthews.

No goals.

No assists.

No points.

In almost 23 minutes of play.

Two shots on goal.

I don't know.

You know, one of the guys that impressed me tonight for Toronto

was Benoit Olivier Groot.

If Benoit Olivier Groot is going to go out and six hits in his 14 minutes

and we be one of their better players, they're in serious trouble.

You're right.

They're in serious trouble.

He's always tried his butt off.

He's always been a trier.

He's showed really good instincts, offensive instincts with a nice move

in the game in the third period as well.

Couldn't finish the play off, but he's a hard worker.

He's an industrious kid.

Come from a good hockey family.

That all being said, you just nailed it.

They're going to, they can say, retool all they want.

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Brian Wilde of Global TV Montreal was at the game.

He was at the Bell Center.

He had a chance to go in the locker room at the end of the game.

And he had a chance to go to Marty St. Louis press conference.

He caught up.

Brian did with Jake Evans on Marty St. Louis hitting a milestone in wins.

Let's hear what Jake Evans had to say.

Yeah, I mean, he's, I think he's a great coach because he's hard on us when he needs to be.

And he reasons with us when sometimes we deserve better than they do our way.

I think the California trip we for the most part deserve that those results.

And he pushed us the better and understood that we're chasing standards and not just certain results.

This was his 150th win tonight to coach just how much are his fingerprints on it?

I mean, they're all over it.

He works with all this individually, works with us as a group.

And I feel like we've all become better people and better players throughout the years

because of him and his passion and honestly all the coaching staff that's been with him

throughout this time.

They've been so helpful and they're also passionate about the game.

Better people is a thing.

Yeah, that's a big thing.

Usually they don't hear that.

It's all about the game.

Yeah, but he makes you feel...

I mean, you hear hockey's a business, but I think around here we obviously know it's a business still,

but there's that family aspect to it as well where we're all very close to each other

and the coaching staff treats us as equals and chats all the time with us,

which I think goes a long way.

Thank you, Jay.

Pierre, he works with us as a team and he works with us as a group and he works with us individuals

and he makes us better players and he makes us better people.

You hear that about Marty Sanleway.

What can you tell me, Pierre?

That's really important, especially with this generation of athlete.

They want to meet you with respect to you.

One other key phrase, he treats us as equals.

They want to hear that.

They want to be treated that way and they are treated that way.

The Montreal Canes RF family, you can see it.

It started last summer.

We heard all the stories.

Guys were living in town.

Guys were practicing.

Guys were doing extra work.

You saw Lane Hudson and Demi Doff go to the outdoor rink and NDG not far from where I grew up skating.

And I'm just like thinking, wow, that's cool.

That's so great.

So these guys are proud of the city they represent.

They're obviously proud of the logo they're part of.

And I think the biggest thing is the coach creates a standard for the model in Dubai.

Before we get to sit six, Sarah, of course, I want to get to all the locker room reaction.

Alex Carrier.

I'm finally holding a lead with the Goldie pulled on the other team.

I mean, this is something that's come back to bite the Montreal Canations.

We saw come back to bite them to bite them on that West Coast trip.

It didn't tonight, Pierre.

They were able to hold on.

Let's hear from Alex Carrier.

Got a push in the second.

I think we lost a bit of momentum there.

But then I'm happy with how we showed up in the third.

Got to close it.

And obviously, Dolby was solid when he needed him to.

It's been something you've been working on recently.

The six on five to win the Goldie's pulled.

It's been a bit of a nemesis.

This is nice to...

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, something we worked on.

It was a big, big thing we talked about before the game during the game.

Even after the break and stuff like that.

That in our neutral zone.

So it was good to get that one.

All right, Pierre.

That one there.

What a play by Mike Matheson at the end.

Who's on the ice?

Fildenow, Jake Evans, Josh Anderson, Mike Matheson,

and Kate and Gooley are on the ice.

Antivirus takes a shot.

Matheson blocks it.

There's a loose puck.

Oliver, Ekman Larson goes for it.

Matheson dies for it.

Swings with his stick.

The puck gets out of the zone.

It's a race for a Jake Evans wins a physical battle and breaks away

and taps it into an empty net.

Pierre, it was a question in the end of who wanted it more

and the Canadian's Matheson Evans company, they wanted it more.

So first, it's a shot block with the right leg,

the inside extended leg.

Second, it's Matheson who's probably in pain, winning a race

because he had been hurt earlier blocking a shot.

If you remember in the Thirac, he wins that race.

He dies flat out and knocks it in the neutral zone.

And then obviously it's the skating race between Eastern Cowan

and one of the better scares in the Canadians.

Jake Evans, Jake Evans wins it.

Not only is he winning the race, he also wins a physical battle.

This is exactly why Tony, I talk a lot

and I know the analytics community gets mad.

There's no analytic formula for the play you just described.

Zero, not a none.

Hockey is a game of character.

Hockey is a game of courage.

Hockey is a game of second effort.

Hockey is a game of guys willing to do whatever it takes to win.

Give me that formula and I'll start to implement it.

But there is no formula for it.

And Alex Nook talked about what the Montreal Canadians wanted to do better.

Let's hear from Alex Nook.

How much of that like the success tonight is based on

getting the puck deeper and working the offensive zone

versus trying to create the rush game?

Yeah, for sure.

And I think, you know, against L.A.

when he pucks, you know, got turned over in neutral zone.

And that was a big focus of us to not be stubborn in neutral zone.

And if you've got time to take it, but if not, make sure it gets behind him.

And I think we came up with a lot of pucks when we put him behind him tonight.

So again, a good, a good recipe for what's, what's a good win?

Hardies.

And there you have it.

Wanted to be better in the neutral zone.

Will further ado from the sit-six, Cheryl show live out of Toronto.

Sit-six, Cheryl.

What's going on?

That was the most lopsided 3-1 game I've ever seen.

The Leafs lost shocking.

Yeah, shocking.

No, like, but like this, I have to tell you, the last 10 minutes of the second

period was, was like a foreign concept to me.

Like I didn't, I don't know what got into the Leafs.

They decided to play a little bit.

And, and thank God Eastern Cowan saw some top line time.

Like what are we doing here?

Like let the kid play, let him develop, let him make the mistakes.

I don't, I don't care.

Just let him get his minutes.

Get his minutes.

We now know that, that Bull Group will be part of that French team

and the French Alps four years from now on the Olympics.

Get that kid on the French team for those Olympics.

Let me tell you right now.

Can we, like, can we talk about Bull Group for a second?

I'm being serious.

Like show me you want to be a Leaf.

Show me you want to play.

He almost, he turned, was it, forgive me.

Was it Matheson?

Who was the defender?

He almost turned him into a bread.

So, it was good for him.

Good for him.

Good for him.

Now hopefully he didn't put Matheson out for an extended period.

I know he took a shot off the fire or something like that.

But, I saw weird things from the Leafs.

It's, which has been the theme here.

But, big picture from, from the Toronto side.

Because you guys got the Habs thing covered up.

Although I do have questions for the both of you.

But, like, this is now eight straight losses out of the break.

Eight straight losses out of the break.

Eight straight losses out of the break.

Eight straight losses out of the break.

Craig Baroube, who arguably didn't have a handle on this

before the break.

I don't know what I'm watching here.

I'm seeing, I'm, I'm asked to both you.

And Pierre, I'll start with you.

I am seeing a team blatantly aside from two guys.

Gru and Cowan.

Start to quit on their head coach.

In a very overt public uncomfortable way.

Are you seeing the same thing?

Yeah, absolutely.

And, you know what it is?

It's, those guys are not a captive audience.

So, you're absolutely right about that.

You can see it.

I'll also include Oliver Beckman-Larson.

I think he's actually given an effort.

I really do.

And, you know, I like the fact that there was a response

when Brendan Gallagher stepped up and hit Eastern Count.

I like the fact that Jake McCabe stepped in there.

Yeah.

I think that's because Jake McCabe's a leader.

It's not because he's doing it for Craig Barubi.

But I think you're on to something.

I really do.

And it pains me to say that it really does.

Pierre, I said via Twitter.

I tweeted that there was actually two winners following that situation.

Jake McCabe for going to the fence of a younger player

and standing up for him and Brendan Gallagher in the fight

who delivered a couple of heavy ones on McCabe.

My God, Brendan Gallagher has got the heart

the size of the bell center and what a firecracker he is.

He did really, really well in that situation.

But he did catch Cowan late and he caught him up high

and he got the interference penalty for that.

I agree with Sid.

I think the images don't lie.

The images that we saw the other night of a bunch of players

on the ice and on the bench totally tuned Craig Barubi out.

I don't think that lies.

And I think we saw it tonight once.

And I agree with Sid when he says that's one of the most

top-sided 3-1 wins.

I started the show saying, Pierre, how did this come down

to like the leaves only being down a goal

and the claims scoring a goal and an empty net?

I couldn't believe it.

At one point, it looked like the claims were the Harlem Goat Trotters

and the Leafs were the Washington generals.

To the Leafs defense, they did wake up for about good six,

seven minutes in second period.

And I said before the game tonight on our brand new pre-game show,

The Habs Tonight, which debuted tonight.

I said the first period is the key of the game.

If the Canadians grab a lead by a couple of goals,

the Toronto Maple Leafs are going to just lay over and die.

And it wasn't a big-time performance by them,

but it still came down to an empty net goal

to seal the deal for the Montreal Crane.

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There we go, my wife.

Where we go? That was me.

I actually, I think I needed that myself.

I got confused.

It happens when you get a little older.

Yeah.

Hey, you said how you doing?

Nice to have you along.

Great, great to talk to you, Brian.

I have to say I'm envious of the background,

that cathedral of hockey that you're standing in right now.

Yeah, I got the best.

I'm doing my best here. I got a Jordan picture.

I got Proberton Domey in the other side of the room.

I'm trying my best to keep up here.

But you're making this look bad, sir.

And something happened to your hockey team.

Like this was not supposed to happen this year, sir.

Let us get this very clear.

Bobby Wall Street.

Your city's hockey team, sir.

Yes, the city, but the city's in a weird spot.

Like it's starting to turn in terms of,

like, I don't think fans are overly upset at this tonight.

Why not?

Because they want to get that top five protected pick

and that Brandon Carlow trade.

That's why it's a sad state of affairs.

It's not the way it's supposed to be in a city.

And a city is rich in Stanley Cup history as Toronto.

That's a good question for you to say if I may.

Yes, go ahead, please.

Is Austin Matthews aging or just in a slump for now?

Well, listen, the one thing.

I'll say this about Austin throughout this entire disastrous stretch.

At least he's gotten his five to six shots in the game.

Now, you were in the building.

The score sheet says to the eye test said,

yeah, two could have been one.

If I would have believed if you told me one,

what did you see from a 13.25 million dollars

in the cap player tonight?

What did you notice?

Well, actually, I thought he had an okay game.

Like I wouldn't like the ones that I've watched on TV recently.

I saw a player really not that engaged,

but I thought he was pretty engaged tonight.

And the more they boot him, I think the more pissed off he got.

And I think it up his effort a little bit as the night went on.

Like I mean, nobody put in any effort at all in the first period.

That was pretty ridiculous.

I have not seen the Leafs look that bad for a decade.

But in the second period and third,

I thought he got a little bit pissed at the proceedings

and didn't have a bad game at all.

So I wasn't at that moment ready to say,

man, this guy says he's aging out.

In terms of, you know, the numbers he put up in the goal category

that was super high back in the day or never happening again.

But he got his shots.

He got his looks.

He passed it off a couple of times when that was the right play too.

So I didn't see a player pressing to be honest.

Hey, Brian, you didn't see the Leafs play against the Florida Panthers

right after the Olympics.

I did not see that game.

They were so bad.

That's about it.

They were, they were the worst I've ever seen them.

You know what? Screw the Leafs.

Let's talk about the team that was with the night.

Let's talk about that.

All right.

Okay.

And I know somebody wants to talk about that.

It sits a winner.

He's got a Michael Jordan frame in his house.

You think he wants to talk about the Leafs?

By the way, why don't you have one of Kauai?

All right.

Okay.

Who cares?

Let's talk about his lineup, guys.

Hold on a second.

Hold on a second.

I have to do this.

Okay.

This is odd.

Okay.

This is odd.

Since it's a Toronto.

And he's got a Michael Jordan frame.

Okay.

I'm a Montreal.

And I have this.

Tony has left his chair.

He's taken off the headsets.

Walking to pick up a mystery.

And the three of us have no idea the item that Tony is about to pick up.

We are waiting with baited breath.

And we'll not be a Canadian's item, though.

It's Kauai.

You have a Raptor's poster photo.

Whatever that is.

Look at you.

Look.

There you go.

I knew there was Toronto and you Tony.

I knew it.

I knew it.

Well played, sir.

Well played.

All right.

There you have it.

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Pierre, do you have Bobby or.

It's beautiful.

Collide.

You have Bobby.

But not here.

See, I remember somehow you had a Bobby or somewhere.

Pierre and your life by the way.

So I got.

I got the Bobby or goal.

Scored wrist.

The same Louis Blues would have flying in the air.

And I have an autographed.

And I have it framed as well.

All right.

Okay.

If I could tilt up.

I got like.

I got to the point of every legend in the book.

And talk about the game guys.

Let's talk about the starting line at the Canadian starting lineup.

Let's get to it.

Alright, Suzuki.

What's left?

Kosky on the right.

Cafield on the left, Capitan with Demi.

Dobby.

A new hook.

Evidence with doc and Bulldog.

Deniel with Callagher and Anderson.

Matheson with dops and Gully.

With Hudson.

Jack guy with Carrier.

And Yak of Dolby.

Shin goel.

Brian.

You went into the locker.

Room and you went to the press conference.

What do you say in the way address who's going to be a starting goalie tomorrow night?

No, he didn't.

Actually, that was not asked of him, believe it or not, through all of the questions

that he faced.

He was asked about cold coffee, and why he didn't play much.

The answer was his health.

He was feeling a little bit sick and coffee will go to Ottawa for the game tomorrow, but

he was not asked about his goalie.

I assume it's Montenboe back to back.

All right.

So, coffee was feeling sick, so he didn't pull anything good, so it's just under the weather.

Yeah.

Maybe that's a little bit of something.

Brian, Brian, why do you, why do you just assume that it's going to be Montenboe?

They've got kid faced 18 shots tonight.

Yeah, yeah.

That's a really good point.

But just historically, Montenboe has never gotten, I don't think, maybe one time he's

gone back to back with the same goalie, so I just assume he's following his same path.

And you know what, we obviously as a media, because there were like 35 guys in there that

never thought to ask who's your goalie tomorrow.

And I remember when Kerry Price played every single goddamn game, and we still asked, so

I don't know why we didn't ask tonight.

But yeah, that's my assumption just based on his history, he made very, very rarely.

I can only remember one time, he went the same guy back to back, and it backfired that

night.

And you know why it happened, right?

It only did happen one time back to back this season, because Samuel Montenboe was sick

as a matter of fact.

That's right.

That's right.

Both games, but guys, I got to say this, I was asked earlier today, or I talked about

it earlier today, who I would play in these two games.

And I said, I usually always say, split the goalies on back to back, but I said, I'm going

to hold off.

And I want to see how Dolby's plays versus Toronto, what is body of work is like, how many

shots he faces or doesn't, before I actually tell you who I think should play tomorrow.

So I'm going to tell you right now, I'm going back with the act of Dolby's tomorrow.

This is the biggest game of the year for the Ottawa Senators.

For what three points behind the Boston Bruins, but for tonight's game, there were five

points behind the Montreal Canadiens.

This is a four point game.

It's big for the Canadians.

It's even bigger for Ottawa mind you.

You can make the argument.

It's equally big for the Canadians, because if they actually win the four point game, they'll

pull away from Ottawa, and that could be the difference between now and the end of

the year.

I'm playing Dolby's.

I spoke with Marty Biron, of course, TSM, hockey analyst, and with the NHL network,

it does work for the Buffalo Sabres, and their network as well, talking Sabres hockey.

And Marty Biron said, you know what, Tony, I think you're right.

If it's an easy night for Jacob Dolby's, he wins, he plays well.

Go back with Dolby's in Ottawa.

And then, if you recall, the West Coast trip last week, Dolby's lost to San Jose and

Montaimble lost to Anaheim.

So give Montaimble San Jose and give Dolby's Anaheim on Sunday.

So don't give them the teams that they lost to.

Sit.

What are your thoughts on two games and two nights?

Would you go back to Dolby's?

The only reason I wouldn't is because I guarantee you, like let's go back to the weekend.

Tampa's game against the Leafs was very different from their game against Buffalo,

correct?

Yeah.

Two different games.

My concern with throwing, the 18 saves is a great point.

My concern is, that sends team, you're going to throw them out there tomorrow.

You're going to get cut chuck and really Greg, and you're going to get guys in that crease

is my only concern.

So for that reason alone, because I think Dolby should start in your first game in the

playoffs, I think he has to.

So I'd start to look at it from that frame of mind, and I would keep him out.

And if Montenbole can hang in there tomorrow, then awesome, aces, it's even better.

I'm worried, in this day and age, maybe I've been programmed to hate this idea, but part

of me really doesn't like it considering that team tomorrow will not have close to the

aggression that they saw tonight.

Tonight was practice in terms of hits, in terms of physicality.

Jake McCabe aside, like honestly, it was light work.

It was light work for the Habs.

Tomorrow, I just, I just would rather the muscle memory for Dolby's won't be great tomorrow

for his for a game like that.

Yeah, Dolby's is 11, 1 and 2 in his last 14 games.

And thus far this season, 21, 6 and 4, Pierre McGuire, your response to what Sid just had

to say, the Sands are going to come at the Canadian's goalie.

They're going to crash the crease, could be a difficult night for Dolby's in that regard.

If the playoff start, Dolby's is going to be your guy.

Rest Dolby's sit says your response.

All really good points except the last one.

I'm playing Dolby's tomorrow because of the 18 shots he faced tonight.

And I think the Canadians know what Brady brings.

I think they know what Greg brings.

I think they know what Pinto brings.

I think they understand what Dylan Cousins, they understand.

They know that team, Drake Bathurst, there's another part of it.

I would say if I'm Ottawa, I'm a little bit worried because if I watch the Montreal

Canadian's cycle game tonight and they employ that against my team without Jake Sanderson,

my team's in trouble.

If I'm Montreal, I'm going right after that Ottawa defense.

I'm spaying way more time in their zone than they are in mind.

So I'm not worried about the crease crash.

And I'll tell you right now, I was shocked that they handled Vancouver.

They held Vancouver to 16 shots.

I go, I know Vancouver's not very good, but they are going to stack it up.

And if they play a kiddie bar of the door game, they're not going to put a lot of duress.

I don't think on the goalie.

Whoever it might be from Montreal.

I think talking is that the Canadians are 17 games over NHL 500 and Dobas has 15 of them.

Yeah.

That's just shocking.

Yeah.

Look, it's two over NHL 500.

Guys, I remember getting into a pretty animated conversation with Eric, who's obviously

a collaborator.

It's been with me for a long time and definitely respect his opinions.

I know he's very, very plugged, but I remember a show early on in the season and I told

Eric, I said, you know, Maltembo wasn't very good in October, it wasn't very good in

November, December, January.

But I said to him, I said Eric Maltembo wasn't very good in preseason either.

He disagreed on that, but it's been a bad preseason to start of the season, to midway

point of the season, to down the stretch season here for Maltembo.

We're talking about an athlete who has clearly lost his confidence and his swagger.

Things go well until he actually gives up the first goal on five or six or seven occasions,

actually happened on the first shot.

And once he gives up that first goal, nervousness tends to kick in.

You see him a little bit rattled.

We saw in the West Coast trip, he had real difficulty, which shots from far.

And once again, look, his confidence is not going to get better by not going back with

him tomorrow.

I get that.

Maybe his confidence would get worse if he would play it and he would get sheld.

So I'm going back with Dolby's tomorrow, which is very rare that I do that for two games

and two nights.

Guys, let's get to the Toronto lineup before we actually get to the court.

Just before you go to the Toronto lineup, I just want to say one thing about Maltembo.

I don't know if the men agree with me or not.

Yeah.

I'll tell you what, I think Maltembo's season went awry when he saw the Olympic team slipping

away from him.

And I think it broke him.

I truly believe that.

You talk about a lot of the confidence.

Every single goal that was going and he was saying, how can I not be on this team?

How can I not be on this team?

You heard all the chatter.

And then he sees a start that Logan Thompson's having in Washington and he's saying, oh my

gosh.

And then he sees what's going on in LA when they're on the road.

They're losing it home.

They're winning on the road.

And he's going, oh my gosh, I'm going to get beat by that guy too.

I think he lost his confidence and a big reason why is because of the Olympic stuff.

I'm telling you right now.

Can I add a stat?

Yeah.

He is bottom five in the entire NHL and low danger shot saves.

Not good.

Like the like the 50 footer that's not screened somehow, he's I think it's a pretty

good point by pair.

I think Morgan Riley lost his confidence when he was told that if Canada was going to

ice four teams, he wasn't going to be on them.

He was not good tonight.

Morgan.

I don't think he had to be told that.

I didn't think of that out on his own.

But sorry, Tony, Pierre is a Pierre's point though.

And I don't know if you guys were getting the same commercials in around the Montreal

area.

I saw Montenbo in some of those Olympic hype commercials leading up.

Like don't tell me his mind wasn't exactly where Pierre was was was suggesting there.

He that kid clearly thought something was coming and it went completely off the rails

and and you're seeing the after effects for I think it's important.

We just talked about Morgan Riley, guys, I mean, I saw some Canadians go around them

like he wasn't even there tonight.

It was scary.

Bad.

All right.

OK.

We're going to discuss.

Let's take a look at the Toronto Maple Leafs lineup.

And then we'll take a look at the score sheet.

Matthews had told me on his line.

Maybe that's a problem.

And Matthew Nice, Tavares with Nielander and Michele, grew with Robertson and Cowan,

Quillen with Joshua and Lawrence.

Riley on defense with Carlo McCabe with Ekman Larson, Benoit with Stetcher and Ingol.

It was Joseph Wall.

Let's get to the scoring guys.

And we get to it.

It's Oliver Cappanin, great work by Demi Doff, Pierre McGuire on the boards to protect

the puck versus two players.

Oliver Ekman Larson and John Tavares passes the puck in the slot to Newhook who finds

Cappanin who gets in behind Carlo, Nielander can't get to him in time and Cappanin quick

move in close and Pierre, you see the big smile by Cappanin for two reasons.

He puts the Canadians up by a score of one to nothing.

Number two, he just cashed in on a $250,000 bonus for scoring 20 goals.

I saw that and I'll never forget, listening to Badger Bob Johnson, we're playing the last

game of the year in New York City and he goes, anybody have a bonus on their contract?

And Randy Gillen goes, I do and Bob goes, get on the first power play.

He never did.

That's a first thing I thought of.

Did he get it?

Yeah, you got it.

Awesome.

It was for 10 points.

Brian, you remember Slavkoski got the bonus as well.

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, yeah, you hear me?

Yeah, I do.

Yeah, Slavkoski was strong tonight.

The first, you know, tonight, the three lines started to show a little bit of chemistry.

I really like Doc's line with Evans and Bull Duke.

I thought that that was the first time that they started to really see each other without

looking.

And New York seems to be a pretty nice fit on that second line with Demi Dove and

Kapanen.

Just a lot of chemistry.

That's what my family said.

I just want to say one thing in defense at all, because I talked to sit about it earlier

before Tony joined us on the pre-game show.

And I thought Montreal had to play a four line game to dominate this thing.

And the big reason why is because you got Scott Lott and he's playing out in L.A.

And you got Nick Edois playing in Colorado and you got Bob and Nick Mann who's playing

out in Seattle.

Right.

And I just want to give you a brief grip that down in the studs with their depth players.

And if you see Jake Evans, great game, right?

We all would agree.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, and so Brendan Gallagher, Solid Game, Josh Anderson, Solid Game.

So all those depth players were not playing against the, I'll just use Jacob Quillen as

an example.

Jacob Quillen played my kid in Penticting Beastie and Junior Hockey.

Jacob Quillen is a winger.

He's not a centerman.

He played a Quinnipiac.

He's a winger.

As a free agent, he gets signed by Toronto.

He plays in the American League.

He's a winger.

He's got to play him there because they don't have any bodies.

So that's why the Canadians dominated that matchup.

But that's crazy to think that they don't have anyone with the Marlies, who's actually

a centerman that they can play instead of Quillen.

And I think Sid will back me up right.

And I don't.

You like, I don't, the most telling thing we saw here in Toronto is they were going

in.

They were just going in the tank.

And this, believe it or not, this is not the worst period.

The worst period was the Mitch Marner homestay.

When they, when they just laid down, I think when Anaheim rolled through, call the rod on

the Colorado best team.

But the Marner game was just an embarrassment.

And that's, that was the worst part.

They would never call anyone up.

They were dying for defenseman.

They're dying for a depth forward.

Any scoring from that third line, Tony, they called nobody because the aisle four was

barren.

There was nowhere to shop.

There was nowhere to go to get a deal, nowhere to fill your car.

And this has been, but this is like the issue, whether it's picks, whether it's prospects,

whether it's kids in college in the States, CHL kids up here, the Leafs do not have someone

you can point to.

Aside from Eastern Cowan, God bless them, where you go in three years, it could be this

or it could be that.

And tonight it's, I'm glad Quillen's getting a shot and grew, listen, they're hardworking

kids are riding buses.

I support it.

I think it's great.

Well, that's what happens when you're been at the top of the standings for 10 years,

though.

Yeah.

Well, rustic's going to come when you draft 25th.

They're, they're a lower level.

It's as simple as that.

The game is the, the covers are full, right?

And there's a reason for it.

Just going to say that Brian, the covers are full with the Canadians.

And by the way, Ivan Demi-Dov was in the mood to play hockey tonight.

He came to play.

Pierre, I thought that the last month, month and a half or so, guys like Oliver Capon

and guys like Ivan Demi-Dov, two young players, two rookies in the national hockey league.

Condent schedule because of the Olympics fatigue starting to set in.

You know, they had played a lot of games.

They had played some pretty important minutes and they brought their minutes down a little

bit.

And their performances had dipped in the last month or month and a half or so, but early

on from the very first shift of the hockey game, Pierre, especially Demi-Dov, he was

feeling at the night here.

Well, he was absolutely, he was trying to walk, guys.

He was slick with the puck.

He was good.

I like his game tonight a lot.

Let's go back to the story, guys.

Jacob Dolbisch, this is a moment.

I think we have to remember in the hockey game, guys.

Pierre, you talked about Quillen with speed down the right side, a backhand to the net.

Dolbisch takes out his right pad, makes the save.

The rebound goes straight to the court of Joshua within two feet.

And he looks like he's going to jam it into an empty cage, right pad save again by Dolbisch.

With the score one, nothing Montreal, and it probably wouldn't have made a difference.

Maybe it would have made it it wouldn't have, but I think it was a big, big save in that

game because, of course, instead of being 1-1, the Canadians end up going up to nothing

later on a goal by Phil DeNo.

Pierre, talk to me about that saved by Dolbisch.

Well, it's athleticism, it's urgency, it's being focusing on the puck, focusing away

from the puck.

I was really impressed by Jacob tonight.

And you know what I liked the biggest part, when he was catching pox, he wouldn't just

catching him.

He was snaring him.

He was hard on the puck.

He was trying to show the coach, hey, dude, trust me, I know what I'm doing, I'm ready

to play.

He was making a statement.

I thought he made a statement without save.

It's a great point.

It's a really good point.

Brian, do you see the swagger not only in the game, but even after the game, all of a sudden

the confidence with the crowd, he comes out, he's one of the stars of the hockey game.

He's going like this.

He's going like this.

The basically applaud even more.

Yeah.

I need to think how far this young man has come after breaking down in an overtime loss

in Jersey, where Pierre McGuire said, this is concerning and he's not the only one who

said that everyone said that was.

He's come a long way.

Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, one of the times after the game that I was talking to, he used the word flow.

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to a psychiatrist, don't ever use the word.

And flow for an athlete is when you're just so in the zone, you just forget where you

are and you're just enjoying the moment and loving the sports that you play and there's

nothing negative on your mind.

So he definitely does go to a psychiatrist and so you'll see that he has a very good sense

of where he is and what he wants to be and where his growth can take him as a person in

the way he develops not only, you know, technically as a goalie, but the swagger that he believes

that he needs to bring to be at his best.

And yeah, that swagger isn't an accident.

He's working on it.

Well, he's talked about having a mental performance coach and he talks about visualization

as well during the breaks.

He does not go to the bench to talk to his teammates or drink water, drink, save.

That's exactly what he does said.

We talked about the leaves and we talked about Morgan Riley, the goal that made it to

nothing.

There's a hard dump by Gooley off the board.

It takes a favorable, a fairable bell center bounce for the Canadians and basically

special.

But it was, I thought it was a question of who wanted it more at that time.

Did you see how more alert the no was than Morgan Riley said before I let you go and

the no goes in all alone, backhand to forehand goal to make a two nothing Montreal said what's

wrong with Morgan Riley is he is the another one who's like, just, okay, this season's over.

He's lost his speed, his confidence and doesn't trust his instincts.

Aside from that, things are going great.

Wow.

No, that's true.

This is where it's painful to watch an older athlete go through the side of his career.

I've known this kid since he played in the crush can in Moosejaw.

Trust me, this is not more, but crush can was an admirable name for the old rake in

Moosejaw.

And there was a great EMW right across the street from a trust me when it was a cold night.

You go get the big hamburger and you drive through Regina anyways, Morgan, when I saw

Morgan, when I saw Morgan playing there, I was like, oh my gosh, this guy is going to

be a good player.

And he was.

He was a good player from what now you see he's at the backhand and it's very painful to

watch this.

Well, the one thing, sorry, don't go ahead, no, go ahead, no, go ahead, I just, I did,

the one thing I didn't notice, I mean, it was a weird goal, like the of all the guys,

I've seen a lot of the one thing I've seen more than any other this season watching Leafs

broadcast here in Toronto.

Leafs get scored on the truck cuts us, cuts an ISO shot to 44 because it was normal

and he was normally kind of at fault, like I've seen that more times than I can count

this year.

Yeah.

I believe he's been on the ice for more times.

Do you find them on goggles and anyone else in the league?

Sorry.

We can't come out there.

That's what they do.

Yeah.

So I'm going to trust my instincts and let's say goal because it must be painful for him

to talk about how painful it is to watch the Toronto Maple Leafs.

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Tell them take care.

You know what I mean?

The real sad aspect of this is this is the last leaf have game of the year.

It is.

Let's do it next year then.

Look at the bright side.

The Leafs didn't add to their team at the trade deadline.

But people close to the situation say that they are the front runners to actually sign

two very coveted Russian free agents.

So at least help is on the way.

Did you hear about them?

No, I didn't.

No.

I was off and T off.

Shows.

You guys come in.

I could I could have met my life one was coming.

I knew there were three agents.

Listen to go there.

I'm going to try to do the match.

Which time you talk about it.

And then he's going off like that.

Yeah.

They bring him back who's nuts off what.

I don't know.

By the way, you talked about Morgan Riley.

Based on information that I was told back in the day, that's the guy that Mark Berger may

want it to draft.

Yes.

With the third pick overall in the 2020 draft.

But because he had just been hired as General Manager of the Montreal Acadans, I believe

on May 2nd 2012.

And the draft was in the last weekend of June.

He wanted to put confidence in his people.

So Trevor Timmins and his staff actually made that pick.

And they went with Alex Galciniac.

But I believe the guy that Berger Vane liked most was Morgan Riley based on what someone

whispered in my ear.

But I could be wrong.

All right.

I'll tell you because I was a runner up for that job.

Okay.

And I was asked who I would have drafted and I said Morgan Riley.

Wow.

I don't know why I didn't get the job.

I was going to draft Forsberg.

That's fine.

Well, I got some truth for you.

I really like Galciniac.

Yeah.

Part.

Yeah.

No.

The skill level was good.

Yeah.

He wasn't one of.

I didn't think you could go another mile with him.

But I thought you could with Morgan.

You know what?

Morgan had some really good years.

He did just.

The.

The culture.

There's something flawed in Toronto.

Bryant is just way too honest.

I was hoping you was going to say he would have drafted Vassalowski.

That would have been great.

All right.

I know I was a big Galciniac fan.

Even though he was injured that year.

I saw the highlights and heard a little bit about him.

And I thought he was going to be that center they were looking for.

But you know what?

Yeah.

Not to, you know, go into a great diet tribe about Galciniac.

But boy, he just never learned how to play the center position.

Like I watch cabinet tonight, for example.

Yeah.

And I don't think when it all said and done if the Stanley Cup champion is the Montreal

Canadians and everybody's dancing in the streets on St. Catherine.

I don't think happening is your two C.

But I do, I do love the player.

I think that his shooting percentage is showing us that this total of 20 will be hard

for him to replicate through the years.

But boy, that guy plays smart hockey, man.

He's a.

He's a goddamn smart hockey player.

And he goes to the right spot all the time.

And that's why I went trade deadline came around.

And a lot of people were throwing out his name.

I'm like, you know what?

I'm not going to tell you he's an untouchable because he's not.

But I just rather not trade that player because he's so smart.

You know, someone very close to the Canadian's organization and I had a chat.

And he said to me, he said, I think Oliver Kappett in one day is going to score 25 goals playing on a third line.

Yeah.

Not 25 playing on a second.

Like he might score this year, 25 playing on a third.

And I said, you know what?

I think he can do it as well.

He has a sneaky quick release.

Like that's why he's shooting percentages, what it is.

But the intelligence he brings, he reminds me of Leckin and Arturie Leckin.

And just because I don't know, just because they're both finished and they both have the same kind of body size and everything like that.

But he's always angling guys off.

He seems to know exactly where the puck's going.

Before I finish for the.

Yes, I want to mention one thing that I really did like that.

Martin said in the we said if I could.

Tommy.

I love that it wasn't a good mood by the way.

I didn't have a good mood.

My favorite thing that he said, because I love all these Marty was.

Witnesses and moments of brilliance.

Just the way he speaks just captivates me.

He said, I loved our first period the most because the puck did all the work.

Yeah.

So he didn't even feel like his guys worked that hard.

Because the puck was doing all the work for him.

They were moving it.

They were moving it.

And they were and they were feeling it.

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Since you're going to go now.

I'll leave.

Final words from you.

Matt has said we love the first period and then he loved the way they control the rest of the game

even though they did lose a little of their energy for it.

They worked hard on five versus six at the in practice.

They wanted to become better at it.

They know it's been in the Achilles heel getting scored on 10 times empty net.

And and they did work on it and that play.

I don't know if you've mentioned it, but that play by Mike Matheson with like 35 seconds left.

That to me was his outstanding and effort as you make in a hockey game.

Knowing how magical that blue line is and if the puck gets over it, you win that game.

And I love that moment for him.

That was an incredible 15 seconds or so.

I really wasn't Brian.

Thank you very much.

I'll talk to you.

Yeah, see you tomorrow.

Okay.

By the way, we'll keep an eye on on the storm, right?

They're talking about a storm coming and we'll talk about it.

Mind you, we will be here.

Be here tomorrow.

Of course, with the Habs post game show right here on the sick podcast pier.

When the Canadians played on last week in San Jose and in Anaheim and in Los Angeles.

Of course, they came away with three out of a possible six points.

I was on radio last night with Medio Longboa 98.5 FM.

And I said, do you feel like that 68th was a magical media Montreal?

Of course, they's a natural spot.

And I said to Mario.

I said Mario the hockey.

The Canadians played in California.

Unfortunately that kind of hockey just won't work in the playoffs.

You cannot give up that many shots that many primetime scoring chances that many goals and expect to win games or a series.

It won't happen.

It just won't pier the win tonight.

That's the type of game you need to play in the playoffs, and that's the way you need to play to win in the playoffs

Everyone would have liked to maybe have

Breathe a little bit easier with a 5-1 win or a 6-1 win. I bet you're deep down inside

Marty Sanleway is really happy that they were tested

With an empty net in a one goal game with a couple of minutes left in the game

And they won the game the way they won the game in the final couple of minutes

I bet you that this he's probably really happy at end of this way

This could be a blessing in the skies for this team the fact that they have to win a game that was close on the scoreboard

Yeah, it was a life fire exercise to they had to kill off a couple penalties in the second period as well

And they did a good job of that Brian talked about the math as an effort to shot block the stretch out the bat the puck out of the zone

All that stuff is what you're talking about winning races to make plays moving the puck smartly

Where there's some turnovers. Yeah, dobson had a bad turnover that leads to the knee-lander goal where there's some bad read

Yeah, Arbor Jack. I had a couple bad reads those can get fixed

They're not mistakes where guys are trying to do them on purpose their mistakes of guys trying to be over aggressive and make

Good things happen they made mistakes

But they're trying to make good things happen so you correct those at the moment on the moment that it happens

You correct them when they get to the bench, but you're all excited because your team got pushed and now they're ready

They're ready to go battle in Ottawa. That's going to be a really hard game

Ottawa was going to bring their A game and Ottawa was playing really good defensive

I could right now fearful memory says this was not a playoff game because Toronto was a soft match

I'm talking about the fact that it was a close game on the scoreboard and talking about the fact that

Toronto pulled their goalie of talking about the fact that the Canadians have conceded in the final minute or two minutes of a game

When the other team pulls their goalie the fact that

They had defensive responsibilities to take care of the fact that they used their body to block shots that they had

Second efforts and third efforts that Mike Matheson doped for pucks that Jake Evans and Phil DeNoe and Josh Anderson

Took it so personally to want to defend that one goal lead their commitment to defense their commitment to killing penalties down the stretch

So you talked about their commitment to blocking shots Mike Matheson a block of shot earlier on in the hockey game

That's what I meant by that and

You know it's good for your goalie as well when you're in a one goal game down the stretch. It's

You know chances are they're going to be in one goal games in the playoffs

They're not going to be in a lot of games where it's going to be a difference of three four or five goals

This was good. This was good for Jacob Dolvish as well here

Y'all 100% he had to make some good glove saves

I mean, you know you get only face 18 shots, but you had to make a couple really good glove saves

You talked about timely goal-tending the save that he made at the beginning of the game

I'm not the beginning, but in the first period against Jacota Joshua that that's a big time save

Yes, that's a big time save and that's a momentum crushing save for Toronto if that puck goes in

It's one one and it's a way different game probably no

I agree with the one thing that the caller said or the writer said

Did Toronto bring an A game? No, but that's not Montreal's fault

Montreal's got to play the game the way they're supposed to play the game

They did they played smart in a one-go game. They did a good job

Pierre, there are a couple of people in the YouTube chat right now who have messaged why not

Bring up Jacob Fowler for tomorrow's game in Ottawa. I'm gonna get your opinion on that in just a second

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We're going to get back to the

Back to the scoring of the game Pierre

And back to the score sheet if we can

William Nieland are pure the Canadians are up to nothing after one period of play

Noah dobson

Actually, let me let me rewind

defensive zone face off

Nick Suzuki wins it clean versus Austin Matthews

He turns passes the puck to Noah dobson

Noah dobson clears the puck

tries to clear it to Kirby doc

For whatever reason Pierre and I know that everyone's going to look at dobson and by all means he made a bad pass

He had to have a better place election on that one but Pierre

Why is Kirby doc leaving the defensive zone before the puck does?

I'll tell you what one of the things with some of these newfangled face off plays is they fly the strong side

And they try to

Force the defense on the strong side boards who usually pinches down to back off

And so they just got caught there in a situation where the deed in back off

And keeps the play alive and and obviously

The rest of history. It's a damaging plan. It leads to the Nielander goal

But a lot if you you watch it

You'll see a lot of those face off plays where they're just going to fly the strong side

And the d's going to try to flip the puck over to create a stretch play

So Nielander intercepts it inside the blue line. He then feeds Eastern Cowan

who

Slides the puck right back to Nielander and Jacob Dolby's just fooled because he thinks once the puck's going to Eastern Cowan

He's probably shooting and that's a great place election from Nielander

In an even better place election from Eastern Cowan to give it back to him Pierre

Yeah, no, it wasn't Eastern Cowan obviously got exposed on the empty net goal by Jake Evans

But I was happy to see him move up in the lineup. They played him with some good players

They played him with Nielander. They played him with Matthews. They gave him some time with Tavares

They're trying to get him going, which is a good thing

He showed a little bit of his offensive flare there. I thought it was really a creative plan in smart play

Pierre

We talked about Demi Dove and I said he was going tonight. Yeah, Pierre Sloughkowski was dominant tonight

Hey, you look at that whole Western trip. He was dominant in LA

He was really good going back in the line with Seth Kowski or with sorry with Suzuki and goffield in Anaheim

Yeah, we'll get how good he was on that line in that game

He's he's just wait till he gets really strong

There this is going to be scary. This team's going to be so good Tony

Tony this team's going to be really good. Yeah

There was a play where Dopson to Hudson to Slough. It was it was a dominant

Shift by the Canadians number one line

Dopson to Hudson to Slough. I don't think coffee was on at that point because coffee old sat

I think at 14 23

About 11 minutes. I think in another second period probably missed a good five six shifts or show and then

Or so and then came back in the third period when the Canadians were on a power play

I thought he was it was odd that he was actually playing

Back at the point

Pair knowing now that he was under the weather and not feeling good would

Obviously he wanted to get out there and it's courageous of the Canadians and of him to put him out there and for him to be want to be there but

Was a little bit risky. Don't you think? Yeah, it was especially in a one-go game

Absolutely. In fact, if you saw Toronto one time had an opportunity to rush up and I'm remiss on who the puck carry was

But they identified that cool coffee was on the left defense and they tried to attack him

And and I think it was Lane Hudson slid over to try to insulate Cole in that situation. It was a smart play by Lane

But yeah, no very risky. I would agree with that

That'd be about the only thing that I thought the Canadians did that was not

What you would say hockey smart at that time of the game in that situation

85.4% chance of making the playoffs for the Montreal Canadians courtesy of money puck Pair

Still 17 games to go for them in their regular season. It's obviously a very encouraging step here

Oh, yeah, for sure. This is a good team

It's

Everything's gonna go through peaks and valleys. They had their valley out in LA. They had their valley out in Anaheim

They didn't play very well in those games and they got through it in LA

They didn't play well in San Jose. I they can say whatever they want. They didn't play well there

So they they took three of six points. I mean if that's gonna be as managed you're gonna get that's pretty good for hockey team

By the way, the Buffalo Sabres chances of making the playoffs Pair are at 99.1%

The Sabres doubled up on San Jose again. They got physical again the gloves dropped again

Pair

their

Tony we talked about it on Friday night you and I was really disappointed. I thought Montreal would do a little more

They obviously didn't do much

Buffalo did a lot Tony and I know they're not sexy name

But that Sam Carrick is a nasty piece of business

You know Logan Stanley got in a fight tonight. He fought Zach a stop chuck. He's a pretty tough kid

I was in all of them when they drafted him and

You know Luke Shen is a pro. He's a Stanley Cup winning pro and he's a lefty. He's a real lefty and he can fight and he can it

And he's got some game left too

So Buffalo made themselves a lot better Buffalo's a good team Buffalo is a very good team the Canadians

Florida did the Canadians a favor tonight Pair by beating Detroit by a score of four to three

Carolina beats Pittsburgh five four in a shootout

So both teams pick up points Pittsburgh picks up one Carolina picks up two

Never a good scenario the Islanders win in overtime by a score four to three versus the St. Louis Blues

So they pick up a big win the New York Islanders do and

the Columbus Blue Jackets Pierre who are buying for a playoff for a wildcard spot

They go in Tampa and they beat the lightning by a score of five to two

Rick bonus has this team rocking and rolling Pierre

And there's no love the loss between Rick bonus and the Tampa Bay Lightning remember

He got let go by them when he was an assistant coach

So he must be the happiest guy in the state of Florida right now

21 piece of breaking news. I was watching part of that game between Florida and Detroit

They already lost Dylan Larkin which they're saying is a lower body injury and it sure looks like one

And I think Andrew cop got hurt tonight tamas nosic fell on him and if cops out that's their two top centerman

God in Detroit

That's a pretty significant loss for the red wings if in fact that's true and I believe it is true

Wow, let's see what we got here

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Let's see if we have

The latest on red wing centers

Tom McClellan confirm the Dylan Larkin is doubtful for the rest of the red wings road trip

And that Andrew cop is already deemed doubtful for Thursday's game

So I'm just telling it so that's I don't know again

I'm not trying to be a newsbreaker here, but I do watch the games

That's a significant loss if they're down both those guys. That's a big problem for Detroit

Okay, let's take a look at the Detroit Red Wings

schedule

Because the Red Wings peer

Host the Montreal Canadians

Next week that's correct. Yeah, they host the Canadians next week. So the Red Wings

will be in

Tampa

on Thursday

Then they're going to be in Dallas on Saturday

And then they're back home on Monday when they host the flames and they host the Canadians on Thursday March 19th

So you got one softy they got Calgary in there and that's the only softy they have yeah

So uh shengomo and master control if we can bring up basically the standings with the wild card

So that we can show where we're where they are

Where all the teams are and if not now we'll do it between now and

The end of the show

But we'll wait for a shame to actually bring it up and the meantime

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The empty net once again. There's so many things that Marty Saint Louis is going to love there

We have still a lot to talk about here. I want to bring up

The event summary the ice time

Let's bring it up

To bring up the shots on goal as well. Okay, Pierre. We have it here in front of us

And I've highlighted some things that stand out

what

What catches your attention the most

The ice time from math is in almost 24 minutes. That's going to be you know, obviously is it such a fit guy

But tomorrow that's going to be a more difficult game. Yeah, that's something to pay attention to tomorrow

I'm surprised laugh was minus one. I thought slap at a heck of a game

Yeah, it's on goal. Yeah, past one, but he played he was for minutes tonight. I thought new hook was very good

Yeah, Arbor 1059 almost 11 minutes

Yeah, I don't think they trust him Tony man. Just no, but I mean that's higher than some of the some of the games that he's played in last month

I mean there were games where he was seven eight nine

He's the second shy of 11 minutes

So that's not bad. I thought he was pretty good tonight. He had a shot. He had three attempts blocked

He had three hits. He pulled off a smile. He and Lane Hudson when they saw Brandon Gallagher get into that fight

So I think that was I think that was okay

Lane Hudson had an assist. He was plus two speaking of Lane Hudson Pierre

I know how high you are on him and have been for the longest time you used to watch him practice and have those one-on-one battles with

Maclin, Celebrini in practice and they used to show up before everyone else and get on the ice and they stay longer than

Everyone else in three years after their time at Boston University. They're both superstars in the National Hockey League

Which is pretty cool. I want to bring up a stat on Lane Hudson

Do we have it Shin? Go more master control and then we'll get back to the event summary after that. Take a look at this Pierre

And their first 150 games in the National Hockey League

most assist by a defenseman

Pierre

115 assists

by Sergei Zubov and his first 150 NHL games

Was the NHL record up until a couple of days ago

Lane Hudson had tied it

And now Lane Hudson beats it Pierre

116 assists and his first 147 games in the National Hockey League

Topping Zubov who had topped McCarr by three

Mark Howe 106, Stefan Person 109, Kiel McCarr 112

Sergei Zubov 115, Lane Hudson 116

That's pretty good company Pierre McGuire

Sergei Zubov's in the hockey hall of fame, Mark Howe's in the hockey hall of fame, Stefan Pearson

114 Stanley Cuts with the Islanders

Kiel McCarr is probably destined for the hall of fame, Lane Hudson wouldn't surprise me if it keeps us up

Will be in the very same discussion to do that in 147 games

That's fantastic that's spectacular

Pierre Lane Hudson's number 48 is going to be retired one day by the much-shock of names

If if they

You know, it's pretty cool my daughter look works over in Europe

And she's over here visiting with her mother and I

And we were watching the game she goes dead

You know what I'm really excited about I just know what is it she goes

I'm actually going to see the Montreal Cananes win the Stanley Cup

Wow

How long are you in for?

She's here for another seven days

All right, we've got to get her to the games on the weekend

She got to stay right here

I got to go back to work. I'll be back in Montreal on Monday

I hear you classes, yeah

All right, okay, that's pretty cool. I hear you, Pierre

All right, okay, um, let's get back to that event summary if we can

Um, Jake Evans 110 of 13 draws for 77% filled to know one eight of 12

Denon was good to appear. Oh, you're good. You had a good game tonight with a goal. He was a plus two

Played the of course 15 minutes and 12 seconds 67% in the circle. So good game for filled to know

Just remember what I told you without having Scott lot in there without having Nikki

The depth players for the Toronto Maple Leafs not nearly as good. So I was really good guys did

I'm really happy for them because they're important players

But this is what the hockey management side of me. Let's manage the expectation

That's not a murderous role players that Toronto dress in their bottom six last night especially through the middle of the ice

Difficult night in the circle for Nick Suzuki 1 6 of 19 for 32% Alex new look of course. I think we agree

That he's probably a better winger than he is a centerman

And he was playing winged

But he ended up taking a draws and one only two of the eight for 25%

Suzuki was a minus one tonight

But I still have no problem with the effort whatsoever. I think I think he did some good things tonight out there

Alex do hook at an assist in the hockey game for 14 minutes and 20 seconds pair

Two games and two nights. It wasn't the most difficult game for the Montreal Canadians but

They still had to exert some energy of course to seal the deal

There are a couple of players who haven't played in a while

One who hasn't played in a long while and I'm talking about Jovaleno

And Alex Texia hasn't played either

Two games and two nights do you make any changes to your lineup tomorrow Pierre?

I think a lot depends on what the trainer tells you if the trainer says you know cold coffee was sick

Yeah, I don't know if he was sick or something else

But if cool coffee will can't go you're going to have to adjust your lineup right there

And then you got to see what the bump if there are any bumps and bruises

I mean Matheson with those shot blocks 20

He wasn't feeling real good. So I think you're going to find out tomorrow

It's hard to predict just because of the the wear and tear in the players

But I would probably say there'll be at least one new player in the lineup tomorrow

Who do you think got the highest stats score on the hockey stack card

For the Montreal Canadians all of their players tonight. Who do you think got the highest one?

Jake Evans

It's a good answer

But I'll tell you that he was fifth

The highest that score is courtesy of a player who's probably had the highest that score for more than half of the Canadians games this year

Lane Hudson

Lane Hudson running away with the highest that score as a matter of fact more than double Ivan Demi Dove

We said that Demi Dove was feeling it tonight here. Yeah, the stats back it up

But Lane Hudson with the highest score his defense partner Kate and Gouli with the second highest score

Pierre talked to me about that duo because Matheson and Gouli had a difficult West Coast trip

Gouli goes back to lefty he was playing right D with Matheson and Lane Hudson who was playing lefty with Dopson playing right

Switches over and plays right D

I'm not surprised the success that Lane Hudson had here because Lane Hudson last year

Had a better plus-minus playing right defense than he had playing left defense which goes to show you the incredible talent that he is

But talk to me about the pairing of Gouli and Hudson tonight with Hudson playing right defense

Well, it was really important for a kid and to get back to the left side number one

He just knows when he plays with Lane. He doesn't have to do much with the park

He just has to defend and support and clear the crease

So that makes the game a lot easier for him and Lane is just a maestro

You know for a lot of defensemen they're very good crossing over right over left

They're not as good crossing over left over right

But when Lane plays on the right side. He's got to cross over left over right to get around the neck

And he's very good at doing that

You know, they're not a lot of guys that are good at doing that and accelerating

He's one of the guys. It's really good at another guy that's really good at it Eric Carlston

When he plays for the Pittsburgh pain was it but in the league

I'm telling you they're not a lot of guys are playing the right side that can wheel around the net

Crossing over left over right and accelerating and Lane Hudson's one of the guys it can

Bobby says if the game would have gone to five over times lane Hudson would be on the ice tomorrow first thing

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Okay, so once again

I just want to get to a couple of more stat lines the Canadians outshot Toronto 18 five in period number one

Toronto outshot Montreal 11 six in period number two

Montreal bounces back 92 in the third

33 18 for the Montreal Canadians who 149% of the draw to 51% for the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight

By the way, there are only

What four power play opportunities in this game Toronto went over to Montreal went over to as well

Other than that other important stat lines that we can bring you will do bay tweets out Jake Evans pier and his last five games

Three goals three assists six points

plus five

64% in the circle playing seven second shy of 16 minutes per game

You understand why that is right. He's chosen to accept the same role that he had last year before he signed his contract

And after he signed his contract, he lost his way

He started trying to be a point producer rather than a shutdown guy

Well, he's got that back now and that's why those numbers are as good as they are. I'm really proud of him

He's done a really nice job really nice job. I have a couple of more numbers

Yakov Dobish has won eight games in a row at the bell center pier

James Myrtle tweets out for the only the 12th time in franchise history the least of lost eight games in a row

The last time was their 11 games skid in 2014 2015 the least are now

On pace for 82 points and sits six last in the NHL and points percentage. They have two regulation wins

And their last 21 games pier they have two regulation wins in their last 21 games most goals by a rookie this season

Three rookies have 20

Beckett Seneca 20

Matthew Schaefer 20

Oliver

Capon and 20 and willing to bet that if this question would have been asked in the preseason

Which Montreal Cadena's player would be the first rookie to hit 20 goals by March

I think a lot of people would have said Ivan Demi Dov. It's Oliver Capon and which is pretty cool

If you like the podcast tonight once again like it hit the high button

We're gonna take some questions pier. Let's take five quick questions

Before we say goodnight. Thank everyone for watching

Could the injury from the playoffs be a reason why

Montenbo has struggled. I don't think so. I really don't he had the entire summer to rehabilitate

I think the Olympic pressure was pretty significant on him

I really do and the fact you saw that dwindling away. I think played head games with him. I really believe that

There was something the wrong though right from training camp here

He had a bad training camp so I don't want to pressure could be I don't want to speculate on what his offseason was and by the way

I think some of his struggles this year. I think a lot of it has to do

With the pressure the Cadena's last year

Maybe a couple of people said that they were gonna make the playoffs and the only reason why they said they were gonna make the playoffs

Is that they knew that the majority people were saying they're not gonna make the playoffs

So if they would have made the playoffs they said you see I told you they were gonna make it

I have mind you

I said it was gonna come down to the final game of the season

And the cadenas were gonna miss the playoffs by two points

They ended up making the game the playoffs on the final game of the regular season

I'd argue

That if Caroline addresses their entire team instead of sitting out a regulars

I don't know if the Canadians win that game. I remember that game Tony kids can't met our

Uh, what's it got some having a brain cramp here the cad that brought bring to more sun playing the game

Correct. Well brought bring to more sun playing the game. It's one of his first NHL games

Yeah, you're you're absolutely right about that pier

Why don't we get to um

Another question

Where are we going here? We're going to

Soul charms who comes into moral if Cole Coffield is sick it has to be texia. I would say texia as well

And it has to be texia

Excuse me

Uh, no problem at all. It's Skylar his son, right Skylar. Skylar. Yep. All right. Okay. You play with Jacob Quillen at Quinnipiac. Oh cool next one

Uh Ricardo says after watching nice

Do you still want Hughes to pick him up here?

Nick Caprio says based on the information he has

He believes the deal that Kent Hughes was working on which was unable to materialize

Was a deal for Toronto Maple East Matthew nice

I I like that player a lot here. I've always said

That if the Canadians can add a poor man sloughkoski

That would be just with the doctor order for the line that sloughkoski wouldn't be on in the top six

I think math unizes that guy

um

But he wasn't very good tonight here

It'd be good all year Tony

He had an opportunity to make the US Olympic team by being on a line with Austin Matthews at the start of the season in Toronto

And there was a bitter disappointment and he wasn't even an afterthought after the month of November

For that team. So now Matthew nice that a really disappointing year. He knows it the team knows it

Um, he might have been floated out there

I'd be very surprised if they would have traded him with Montreal

I'll be totally frank with you Tony. I don't believe they would have traded him the Montreal

No, I

Why would they want to trade him to begin with though? He's a young player

No, I don't think but they might have but they might have put his name out there

See what he was worth the one thing you got to do when you're running a team and you want to do a rebuild

Excuse me is

You got to make sure you understand the value of your player around the league

So if you don't put the name out there

You don't know you just don't know

Couple more and then that's it. Let's go uh this one here coming in from

Sun fun travelers. Well, we see Michael Hage in the final games. I don't think so. No, you don't know

Honestly, excuse me because because university Michigan will still be playing. Yeah

Um, and if they won't uh, then we have a chance to see him. Let's next

Last one

Mario Biscotti realistically what should fans expect for a playoff run? It's uh, is it round one round two rounds could they go all the way?

I think they can go to the Eastern Conference final

Excuse me. You think they can eh? I do

Who do they have the best chance against them around the one Tampa

Really not Carolina? No, I think they're gonna finish in the top three you can

Okay, I think Buffalo's gonna finish first you can

Well, that wouldn't mean I'd have to do a road trip to Tampa Bay

I may have to go with you. You know what? You're on

Thanks for doing this Pierre

Very much appreciated and you'll be back tomorrow. We're gonna do this again

And if you thought we were pumped up tonight

We're gonna get some pretty good sleep tonight and so we're gonna be back at a tomorrow

Even better tomorrow. Ciao for now, Pierre. We'll talk to you later. All right, cheers. Three happy

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