HAT GUY: *Stress noises*
STEVE: Bro… bro! HAT GUY: I mean you knew it
wasn't going to be that easy STEVE: I did know but that's what made it worse!
HAT GUY: Got to admit it was on brand though STEVE: Oh I don't think anyone's ever
accused the leaf of not having a brand Let’s go! - good we all feel - stop! - never gets rusty! - What am I doing? - INNA MY
KITCHEN - Producer Drew can you fix all this? - *screaming* - And when it comes
to the Toronto Maple Leafs you can crumple crumple YEET - Sa
w that going differently
- with you wherever you are welcome to LFR Before we get to Victory puppies, I would like to
submit the newest exhibit in Iggy knows English. Producer Drew - show the photo. This is not a
stage photo. I didn't say “hey can you pose for this?” or whatever - the Leafs won the game he
got up from what he was doing and he stood next to where the treats are kept. He knows English, he
understands hockey, he knew the Leafs almost blew it and they did, that being said -Vict
ory puppies!
Oh oh dude he caught that like okay that's good. Dude you can't get like a dog treat injury. I
promise I'm not still mad about the broken nose! LEAFS WIN! 5 nothing would have been nice to say
but we'll settle for - LEAFS WIN! 6 to 3 over the Edmonton Oilers! It was the best of times, it was
the blurst of times. Let's talk about it. First and foremost we did a stream on the sdpn YouTube
channel, that was a wonderful magical time, thousands of people watching and a lot of a
lot
of VIPs! Listen I'm a Leaf fan through and through I love cheering for this team and I
hope they win all 82 games and I know what you're thinking - that's so many games but I want them
to win all 82 of them during the regular season and win 16 straight in the playoffs and then I
get to go to a parade! But we know that's not how it happens. Hockey is a full contact sport
and when you think about it 82 games is kind of nuts. 82 games is nuts enough for basketball.
And while there is an under
rated amount of contact they are not going out there each and
every possession trying to kill each other. In this game featured a team with Evander Kane and
Cory Perry on the same line! But heading into this weekend I'm looking at the schedule and I'm like
“Hm. Not looking good!” Dude Saturday you have the Edmonton Oilers coming to town Zac hHyman
is two goals away from 50, you know he's going for 50 and the next night - Raleigh to play
the Hurricanes who are also extremely good, but it's n
ot that just they're extremely good.
Second half of a back to back on the road with travel and it's at 6! It's early! Who the hell
in the schedule makers office or whatever did the Leafs hurt to earn that? I mean when you
think about it if the schedule maker is a Leaf fan that would actually explain a lot. I mean
who of the Leafs hurt more than them? So you're just looking at this weekend going “Yeah no this
is going to be pretty difficult!” Like if they come out of this with one out of fou
r points
that would exceed my expectations! “Steve, you have got to have a little bit more faith!”
I'm playing the numbers! The Oilers essentially haven't lost this year! And then there's the
hurricanes at the end of a gauntlet that's not fun! The Hurricanes who by the way better not be
playing Kotchekov tomorrow on account of last game he played in he kicked a guy blade first, and
so far we've heard nothing. Anyway, add to the fact that the Edmonton Oilers have essentially
not lost in 202
4 the Leafs don't have Marner, the Leafs don't have Jarnkrok, the Leafs don't
have Bertuzzi, the Leafs don't have Lyubushkin. Penalty killer, penalty killer, the human
embodiment of full send, penalty killer. All guys you'd probably like to have in a game
against the Edmonton Oilers! On the first shift oh it looks bad! The Oilers are running the
Leafs around and you know it's a matter of time, it's a matter of time until there's a whistle
because there's a penalty or a goal. Sure enough it'
s Matthew Knies. He takes it! Leafs kill
it by about this much and the game changes like that in the blink of an eye! Cuz I'm
talking to producer Drew before the game, and you're talking about someone who has the
uh mental baggage of being a Leaf fan. And then there's Producer Drew who say whatever you
want about him - that guy gets to live like a lot less anxiously than the rest of us! His team won
the cup two years ago. That's bliss! If he was a Leaf fan he'd call that a one-year slump. B
ut he's
looking at the Oilers and going “yeah okay McDavid they can score a ton of goals, they can't defend!”
And man did we see that front and center in this game - brutal in their own end. John Tavares has
the puck behind the net, hey take a look at this. Hey take a look at this! Who's that in front
of the net?! It's like word still has forgotten about BOBBY MCMANN! His 12th of the Season all
alone, they just straight up forgot about the guy and it's a one- nothing lead. Assist also
to T
imothy Liljegren, 19th assist, the dude is really starting to put together some good games
here. Some blemishes here and there for sure. But man his good games are good and he was
instrumental on this goal. Now before the end of the second period the Lea would have to kill
another penalty, Tavares on Bouchard. They managed to kill that. This is an already bad penalty kill,
they are, they're one of the worst penalty kills in the league and they're short-handed. No not
like short-handed cuz t
hey're on the penalty kill like people on the penalty kill are hurt! Huge and
by the end of the second period the Leafs get two power plays of their own. There's the Evander Kane
trip on Conor Timmins which was actually kind of funny. That was the one at the end, carried over
into the second, Leafs didn't score on that one. But the Darnell Nurse interference on William
Nylander? Even funnier! Because dude let's call it what it is - that game the officiating was
interesting. I would call tha
t officiating playoff style. The Leafs played a playoff style game like
they played the percentages against Conor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl which you have to do. “What
do you mean by play the percentages?” I mean they can't call everything. If you called the game
by the rule book the Oilers would have 12 power plays a game. We got a front row seat to the Joel
Edmundson experience in this one. And just prior to nurse taking this penalty Leafs got away with a
couple. On the power play Timoth
y Liljegren again, leading the top unit by the way fires it on,
it hits Willy’s stick and his skate and in! Two nothing Leafs after one and they hold the
Oilers to just six shots after a torrid start, unreal. Second period starts good because the
Leafs are on the power play and they don't end up scoring on it. But we got the Pontus Holmberg
experience! Because Matthew Knies was out there with Auston Matthews and Max Domi, Sheldon Keefe
would sort of flip-flop back and forth depending on the
situation. Because on occasion Holmberg
would creep up onto that Top Line. And in this particular case he was there instead of Matthew
Knies. This play was sick. It feels like whenever Holmberg scores it's fabulous! Because Matthews
hits Max Domi with a great pass in the slot like that's a scoring chance! Domi has a scoring
chance. And he did the most Max Domi thing possible, the most maximum Domi thing possible -
he passed it! Pontus Holmberg with about half an hour to put it in the back
of the net does! His
fifth of the season I could have swore he had more and the leaf go up three nothing somehow!
Now while that play was sick, this is the NHL. It's really difficult to pull off plays like
that unless someone's not doing their job. Evan Bouchard, WOOOOF! Like all right, I know Erik
Karlsson is the reigning Norris Trophy winner so like the best defenseman award doesn't always go
to the person best at defense. Those should be the two Awards - like people say like “oh defensiv
e
defenseman-” no no no no no it should be best defenseman, that's player who is a defenseman and
best at defense. Bouchard is probably going to get a number of votes, might even win the thing and
I got to tell you, he ain't the best at defense! Dude, good player, might even win the Stanley Cup
this year. I'm serious, brutal in his own end. Every highlight I see of him is a nightmare.
Just allergic to body contact. “Well it just goes to show you that Auston Matthews can make
anyone score h
e started that play!” But you're not going to believe this three minutes later
Holmberg scores again it's a different group of guys! Morgan Rielly to Bobby McMann who's out
there now to Pontus Holmberg who Taps it in! His sixth of the season now one-third of Holmberg’s
goals all year have been scored tonight and the Leafs are up 4 nothing on Edmonton! Dude I
don't know what you predicted for this game, you didn't predict this. You weren't like “Oh
yeah the least without Marner and Jarnkrok
and Bertuzzi and Lyubushkin I I you know what we
can take Lyubushkin out of that just because of the offense part. But the leaf without like
three really key forwards are going to blow the Oilers out of the water!” That's like $18 million
worth of forwards alone - what what do the Coyotes pay for their entire d core? YO. I'm sorry I just
checked - the Coyote's whole D core right now has a cap hit of 6.5 million?! Sean Durzi is the
highest paid Arizona Coyotes defenseman right now at 1.7 mil
lion, Josh Brown is second at 1.27
five, Juso Valimakii and an even million and then Michael Kesselring JJ Moser and Travis Dermott
all make under a million! None of them are signed beyond this season?! WOOOOF. Dude the Leafs have
four guys with a higher cap no wait wait no they have five! Leafs have five guys with a cap hit
higher than the Coyotes dcore and I realised they had five because Nylander’s cap hit now, before
his extension kicks in, is more! Dude that's nuts. How are the coyotes
catching strays in this video?
I'm sorry. Anyway by the end of the second period the Oilers were hopeless! Like Stuart Skinner was
not good by any means but the grade A chances for the Leafs! Like nobody near anybody! And they
forgot McMann existed again! McMann out there with a different group of guys from last time!
Tavares to Nylander to a wide open Bobby McMann, goal! His 13th of the season so ridiculous! The
Leafs are up 5 nothing after two! Pontus Holmberg and Bobby McMann who were b
oth on the Marlies to
start the season, both on hattrick watch tonight. Also I don't want to get ahead of myself but
Bobby McMann just signed an extension for 1.35, for each of the next two seasons after this one?
And he scoring at like what? A 20 goal Pace? That deal has the potential to be pretty good! Now
what happens at the end of the second period? Well Darnell Nurse loses his temper and he goes
at it with Joel Edmundson and I saw some people confused like where did that come from? Dud
e
what it came from was Edmundson was being a jerk to McDavid and in particular Draisaitl all
night! Oh dude this? This is what the Leafs have been lacking in the playoffs. Yeah I know
his numbers whatever whatever here's what they need right? So you get punishing defensemen
there are punishing defenseman like Jake McCabe. Jake McCabe is a guy who will run you right over!
There a defenseman who will also run you over but it's more that they're willing to do anything.
That's Simone Benoit,
a little bit of Lyubushkin as well. Then there are like Warrior defensemen,
guys who are just strong. Stalwarts. Luke Schenn from last year like that's how I sort of look
at him. Then there's a guy, the sort of player the Leafs have not had on their dcore for any
of their playoff runs over the Matthews era. A dude who just makes it awful to show up to
work! “Well I'm sure players like dekin’ around him and getting the puck and scoring chances and
the-” no no no no you're missing the point.
Dude, even if you get a scoring chance, even if you
score, your ribs, your hips, just your skin, your muscle, your everything is going to hurt
tomorrow! Players go to bed cursing the name of Joel Edmundson the night after they've played
him. Go ask anyone the Blues played in 2019 when they won the cup, and go ask any Leaf
from their experience from the 2021 series and because of him the Leafs start the third
period of a game that already winning 5 nothing, on the power play. And nothing hap
pens with
the power play the Leafs don't score but you know it's 2 minutes off the clock. And that is
when the game stopped being fun so abruptly! It starts with Conor Timmins puck over the glass.
Here's the thing - players need to learn to like fake it. “Like ah that didn't that that hit
the glass!” Nope you get Conor Timmins's like no immediately! Don't throw your head back like
Charlie Brown - lie! And the Oilers who are the Oilers score. Who was it? Connor McDavid scoring
by basically
throwing the puck in off Zach Hyman's stick. There's one he's got one! The Oilers have
one but he's got one! And we got to stop both of them from getting two. McDavid's 87th assist by
the way truly stupid. Then an alarmingly short amount of time later Connor Dewar takes a trip
on Mattias Janmark. Evander Kane and Cory Perry on the ice at the same time as each other, again
that feels like it shouldn't be allowed. Corey Perry scores which sucks because now the Leaf's
lead is three and also it
sucks with Corey Perry scores. Secondary assist by the way goes to
Connor McDavid his 88th assist truly stupid! Now Knies makes his way back up onto the top
line as the period goes, he's out there with Matthews and they're out there for an eternity.
Then they also on top of that eternity ice the puck. Back down to their Zone brings the Oilers
Cavalry over the boards. Brings Calvin Pickard who began the third period to the bench for
the extra attacker. And a general bad time! Leon Draisaitl
who was banging on the door all
night, scores. Connor McDavid gets an assist, his 89th assist of the Season truly stupid! Oh and uh
Ilya Samsonov is hurt hurt hurt like really hurt. Which by the way they updated after the game
- he's fine! They said that! They said those words! Could have fooled me! Now Martin Jones
comes into the game and so when ice cold Martin Jones has to prevent the Oilers from getting two
goals probably with their goalie pulled the entire time in the next three and a
half minutes. They
immediately hit a goal post on a wide open net. Jones actually has to make a really sharp save
in there! And it is not until 13 seconds left that Auston Matthews gets somehow, some way, his
first empty net goal of the season for his 58th. His 57 goals on a goalie. And the Leafs win!
A lot more stressful than it needed to be. And yet exactly as stressful as it needed to be oh I
forgot to mention in the middle of all that Max Domi beat the breakes off of Mattias Janmark. I
like that. Also a fun fight from Domi. I mean I think it happened naturally because him and
Janmark were sort of jousting at each other, that's just a weird fight for Janmark to take
first of all. Second of all the Leafs had to lock the game down defensively at that point
and Domi's like “Well I know I'm not involved in this!” And I love the guy but he's right.
Ah might as well take the fight just. So you know I'm not lying here it is from Mark Masters
“Sheldon Keefe says it looks like Il
ya samsonov will be fine. Not as bad as it looked.” WHAT?!
Like I'm 95% happy I'm 5% upset. There's two tweets I like to hear in this screenshot number
one from Elliot Friedman. “Toronto actually sent Joseph Woll to Carolina today, the Maple Leafs
the Hurricanes on Sunday.” That makes a lot of sense. He gets to sleep in a hotel bed and doesn't
have to travel and he's probably going to get the start tomorrow. That's actually really smart.
Robert Molloy who does the captions for these videos a
nd is just overall wonderful. “Tells me
it was probably a charlie horse when he whacked his leg off the post.” Obviously that's just
a theory from Robert, but I wondered the exact same thing in the moment. He hit his leg pretty
hard. And like there's something to be said for playing through an injury and you know being
a hero in that situation, but I'm willing to bet that a healthy Martin Jones is better than an
injured almost any goalie in the NHL. Like I'm not talking about like a goalie
who's at like 90% that
didn't look like a goalie at 90% did it? We've all had injuries where we're like “oh my God I'm dying
my leg is going to fall off” and 5 minutes later you're like “oh actually I'm fine.” But it doesn't
feel like that at the time! And unfortunately you can't be like “actually I need 5 minutes please.”
This isn't like MMA where you get some time when someone kicks you in the - well anyway. I want
to do a Marlie minute right now before we get to questions. Nick Barden wh
o is an excellent
reporter, is here to talk to us about one of the unsung heroes of the Toronto Marlies Joseph
Blandisi, who used to be such a pest in the NHL. He's had stints with the Devils and the Penguins,
just off the top of my head. He's on an an - uh sorry - an AHL contract with the Toronto Marlies
right now. I I just wonder because he's done so well with the Marlies if there's an NHL contract
potentially in his future, Nick take it away. NICK: f there's one player that I haven't spo
ken
about much and he's kind of flown under the radar with the Toronto Marlies this season it's got
to be 29-year-old forward Joseph Blandisi. Now Blandisi joined the Marlies organisation back in
December of 2021 on a PTO after recovering from a surgery he had that summer, and he really hasn't
looked back since being with the team now for his third season. Over the course of the last three
years with Toronto Blandisi's grown in a lot of ways his game has grown a lot, and he's now
playing w
ithin the Marlies top six and he's playing in almost all situations with the team.
He's also an assistant Captain alongside Kyle Clifford and Captain Logan Shaw. He's a guy who's
a leader on this team now, and he's one that over the years has built up that repertoire of being
a guy in that locker room who can be trusted and who can have a voice that carries a lot of weight.
What's stood out most about Blandisi this season is not only the fact that he's almost averaging
a point per game in t
he AHL, but more so the fact that he scores big goals for this team a lot.
Whether it's in the dying minutes of games, the dying minutes of periods, or even in overtime
Blandisi is a guy who John Gruden relies upon and calls an instinctual player who can find the back
of the net when the team needs it most. Blandisi has a cool story, he's drafted in the sixth
round of the 2012 NHL draft, he played for a few teams in the New Jersey Devils, Anaheim Ducks,
Pittsburgh Penguins, and when he sign
ed his PTO he was coming home to play for the Marlies and he's a
guy who's really proud of his roots, really proud where he came from, and he's a guy who's finding
his way throughout another season in the AHL and he's really really producing which could lead to
a possible NHL contract in the future for him. STEVE: Marlies are a fascinating team, there's
a bunch of guys on there who I think could do it at the NHL level but a lot of them don't
have NHL deals. Who's ready to become the next Bo
bby McMann? That's my question.
“Do you ever forget that Corey Perry is an Oiler until his face suddenly appears on
screen like the ghost of the Town librarian, or is that just me.” I'm sorry the ghost
of who? That's extraordinarily specific! I won't lie I did forget Corey Perry was in
this game for the vast majority of this game and I am not used to that with Corey Perry.
It's really weird it's like Corey Perry has a completely different job on the Oilers than
he did on the Blackhawks. Wh
en Corey Perry got his contract ripped up with the Blackhawks
he was like third on in scoring with them? And he was in charge of just constantly being
a jerk and throwing the other team off their game. Part of the reason for that is almost
every team the Blackhawks played was better than them. With the Oilers it's a little
bit like “all right yeah be a pest and get in front of the net and bang in some goals,
like he did in this one but also like don't take a penalty.” It's weird you would t
hink that
would give him more freedom to be a jerk and not less it's really weird. “Hyman was the free
space tonight right? Amazed he didn't hit 50 against us.” Yeah like the Leafs technically
won this game by two goals because the Leafs were down one- nothing like at puck drop because
we knew Hyman was scoring. The victory was in the two points but it was also in preventing Hyman
from getting the second one. “What do you need to eat with mustard on top to magically heal
Sammy's groin or w
hatever he injured?” Amanda, can we just take this moment in our lives as
as fellow human beings, to - did you read this out loud before - ‘What do you need to eat with
mustard on top to magically heal Sammy’s groin?” You know? This is is my job! Like no one else
gets asked that at their job. I would do another chocolate cupcake to answer your question but only
one that was gross. So that is it for this one, thank you very much for watching, click like
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