What is going on with the Maple Leafs

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1:03that can be removed by surgery, consider talking to an oncologist about your treatment options. Why? Because knowing your options before you have surgery can help your care team develop a treatment plan that's right for you. Learn about a potential treatment plan before and after surgery at askbeforesurgery.com that's at askbeforesurgery.com and talk to an oncologist before your surgery. Get more out of every mile when you share the ride to work. With carpooling, you'll have time to relax, save money and pick up new friends. Commuter connections can help you find carpool partners who live and work near you. Even if you're commuting just a few days a week, it's a free service. Carpooling. Every dollar saved, every friend made. Enter for free carpool partner ride matching at commuterconnections.org or call 800-745-RIDE. That's commuterconnections.org. If we're really talking about the bills though, the thing they have lacked defensively and they have lacked an enforcer, Milano, good linebacker, Bernard, good linebacker, they're not

2:07enforcers. Taylor Rat, good safety, not enforcer, Jordan Poirier, really, really, really good safety over the years. He's not enforcer. Mike Ahai, my dog had neck issues. He's not enforcer. He's not your dayvious wife. That's the homie. He's not enforcer. They haven't had enforcers. The bills have never had a dude put fear in your heart. That's Chonsey Garden and John. Zach, I'm sorry, can you tell the people who that was and what he, a man, a manual atcho? I don't know what he was talking about because I was talking to Zach the entire time the man was talking. He was talking about CJ Gardner Johnson. Well, that's funny because me and Zach were talking about another safety the bills to his side. Didn't your face, acho? Sorry, that really didn't make any sense. I'm done carrying around bulky drinks and I'm definitely done cleaning melted candy out of my pockets. So yeah, I traded them both in for fruity rainbow five hour energy shots.

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4:12a treatment plan that's right for you. Learn about a potential treatment plan before and after surgery at askbeforesurgery.com. That's askbeforesurgery.com and talk to an oncologist before your surgery. Get more out of every mile when you share the ride to work. With carpooling, you'll have time to relax, save money and pick up new friends. Your connections can help you find carpool partners who live and work near you. Even if you're commuting just a few days a week, it's a free service. Carpooling. Every dollar saved. Every friend made. Register for free carpool partner ride matching at commuterconnections.org or call 800-745-RIDE. That's commuterconnections.org. It's late. The bills have signed according to Jordan Schultz. Another safety. Another starting caliber safety. This is a player who started 17 games. I believe the last two years for the Bengals, Geno Stone.

5:16Yeah. So one year deal, probably modest at that, but another piece for the secondary there after Gardner Johnson was signed yesterday. That's a one year deal. We know the money. I feel like Gardner Johnson is the more, he's a bigger name certainly in the league. I feel like that's the guy that probably starts, but Stone has 14 career interceptions. In his career has been around since 2021, originally a late round pick with Baltimore and has played for Baltimore and Cincinnati in his five years in the league. And again, I think unless I'm seeing something wrong here, I've got 17 games each of the last two seasons with the Bengals. So is Wikipedia page had the years wrong at 2020, 24 years, which I know can't be right. So I'm assuming that second one is 2025 and it says 17 games started the last two years. He only started 18 games over his previous four seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, but

6:20another piece for the secondary Geno Stone. So update your scorecards if you need to. Good. I mean, accomplished players, players who are experienced starters in the league feel like this is good news. It was just 24 hours ago. We're talking a sale. I'm like, how are there only two additions on this defense here already a week into free agency, whatever, Wednesday, but Monday is when it really begins and team start making deals with players, unless they decide to lie about their medical histories and then walk away from the trades. But anyways, and it was pretty stark to me that at this time yesterday, it was Bradley Chubb and D L Alfred added on the defense that seemingly had a lot of holes, a lot of free agents leaving and a whole new scheme to implement. But just in the last 24 hours or less, CJ Gardner Johnson at safety and now Geno Stone at

7:21safety. The bills are filling in here as the first wave and maybe even the second wave of free agency has gone by, they're getting busy and adding at least players who have starting experience at their positions in the league. And that's at least the very least that I think you can say or should say about Geno Stone. So okay, there is that. What do we think about tomorrow? What do we, what do we think with the Leafs coming in? I've got two conflicting ideas here from men who cover both of the teams. Luke Fox from SportsNet on the Leafs earlier today said like, of course the Leafs are getting, you know, they're catching it from all directions here with that show last night with Austin Matthews being cheap shoted by Radco Goudus. If you didn't see it, I mean, it says as grizzly and gross a neon knee hit as you can really get. And it's a player with an awful reputation to begin with like Paul and I were talking

8:24about Goudus and the Leafs did absolutely nothing in the moment about it. And there was opportunity to, it's like he was squired away immediately to the penalty box. He was available. Nobody seemed to have the gumption to go doing anything about it, which is the worst. We know this one from history, most recently last year with Taj Thompson, like I've talked about a couple of different times and just how sour that left everyone and how much different we feel about the Sabers, now that they have shown quite definitively, I would say, I think most people would agree that that is the thing of the past, the way that they've handled themselves, not just in the Tampa game on Sunday last weekend, but really all through this year, right? We had a situation, the Tampa game before that where Dalline I think was cheap shot at or was it Thompson? I don't remember who, but somebody got slashed across the skates and put down on the ice and Noah Osslin was right there to jump in.

9:24The Sabers have completely gotten over and done away with that reputation. They're going to face the team tomorrow in the Toronto Maple Leafs, whose season obviously is circling the drain and are now being challenged in that way. I am sure that every time I go through my Twitter feed, I've got another show with another former player on some podcast with Elliott Friedman just talking about how embarrassing it is to the crest and all this stuff, the way they handled themselves yesterday, the Leafs did with Matthews on the ice with what appears to be at least some level of an knee injury will find out once they get an MRI done, like Luke Fox was saying, we won't know anything really probably unless word leaks out tonight. It's certainly feasible, they'll have the results before tomorrow morning, but the next time anyone within the Leafs is available to the media will be following their morning skate here in downtown Buffalo tomorrow. So that's when at the latest, we can expect to find out how severely Austin Matthews

10:27has hurt, but our concern is how the Leafs react to that. As that game went on, young player, young prospect player, maybe the, maybe the brightest young prospect they've got, Eastern Cowan got in a fight. There was another play later in the game where someone, a hit was leveled or something, and Cowan went right in and answered, and I mean, he got, this is not a kid that should be fighting, but I think he wanted to, you know, recognize, you know, what had happened and how it was handled earlier in the game with Matthews was not okay. So he went in and just like Saber's guys who didn't handle themselves great in the fights, we don't really care, just show up and defend your teammates and you're going to score points certainly with your teammates and with your fans. So Cowan did that last night. I'm curious what tomorrow is going to bring in that respect. Whether the Leafs are going to be like full on looking for that kind of thing to sort of prove themselves, you know, we'll see. The Sabers in the same scenario last year did dress Dennis Gilbert in the next game, and

11:31he immediately fought with, I think, Joe said it was Columbus that they were playing. The game after Thompson got leveled against New Jersey, and first time Gilbert was on the ice. He's in a fight with some Columbus guy and, you know, that's like just a huge eye roll. I would think that at a minimum, we get something like that from Toronto, like some, you know, some second, third or fourth line player there, I don't even know is like, is Dakota Joshua playing regularly still for them? I know he's been in the lineup at times. Like, maybe that's a guy that is going to, you know, go find Beck Mellonstein or Logan Stanley or whomever, and maybe that's the end of it or maybe Toronto will want to make a bigger point and just sort of make it a thing all night long, I guess we'll see how that all goes tomorrow. We don't know before then. There really, I don't think we'll be any clues from any call-ups that they'll make because

12:33they're not an organization that's got like a goon they're sitting on or anything, but I'm kind of curious. If the Sabers really want to be really, really want to be jerky, and I'll tell you what, the move tomorrow night is, is go bump into the goalie in the first minute of the game. Find a way to take a run at Willie Neilander or Morgan Riley and just kind of see what happens. That's what Tampa did to them last week. Like, let's see what happens when we start poking you and we start cheap-shotting you. And the Sabers answered with, you know, a flurry of fists and scrums and a pack mentality. I wonder if the Sabers have it in them to sort of tweak Toronto in this moment. Like just push them to see if they can get them to snap. Just curious, really, I don't know what to expect.

13:34I think again, at a minimum, you get some staged signature fight so that some guy on Toronto can say, see, we're tough and we'll all be rolling our eyes including leaf fans and maybe even some leaf players. Or we'll get some full-on Donnie Brook out of Toronto. I don't know. Anything could happen. They are getting, they're, I mean, the shots are coming pretty much nonstop. You can imagine. I mean, it was, it was hot and heavy here in Buffalo last year. Imagine Toronto and the media in a year where they're spiraling, circling the drain and the captain's line on the ice. I mean, they're just getting clobbered for it. So be interesting to see how they react to that 8030550 is the number. Mike is away today. I'm the bulldog. You're listening to WGR. I'm done carrying around bulky drinks. And I'm definitely done cleaning melted candy out of my pockets. So yeah, I traded them both in for fruity rainbow five hour energy shots. These little guys are as pocket sized as any candy.

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