Big money CJ it's really good to see your face again for season three of the
Chris Johnson show I am excited on a scale of one to ten can you tell the
lovely people watching or listening how excited you've been to start season
three of this great show roughly 185 thousand on that scale that you've
provided I am so pumped that we're back man we are so freaking back man I will
take those numbers way above ten doesn't really matter you know what I'm actually
happy about when we when we started the show there was the kind of feeling out
period where we're trying to you know get to know each other doing these shows
on zoom season two I moved from Montreal to Calgary so there was that feeling
out process of getting a new city and adjusting to the schedules and all that
we're in season three now there's no adjustment period we're more familiar with
each other all of this like the STPN and all that like we should be in full
go mode and that is that is what has made me so energized about doing this
season talking about all the topics we know we can talk about breaking down all
these insights you breaking down some news let's see if we get it over under on
the amount of stories CJ breaks on the CJ show the season yeah let's stir it up
what are we gonna call this like it's like our comfort era our synergy era I
don't know what it is you're right it'll be a little comfort era because it's a
little you're right it is more comfortable it feels obviously just like
talking to a buddy we spent two days a week for most of the last two years minus
a little time off in the summers talking for an hour every day or twice a week
and so yeah it's gonna be it's gonna be a fun year and I'm actually excited for
the hockey I had a great summer I hope you did as well a lot of sort of
downtime maybe even more than sometimes summers past I mean the last few
years are still been shorter summers because we've been recovering from the
disruption that COVID had on the NHL schedule but this felt like a real
summer where I tuned out and now I'm I'm ready for a little structure man I'm I
got a sober September going on a little little reset from the summer and I'm
actually ready to get back into the rhythm and get work in here I like the
sober September idea I wonder if I should take that up for myself September
seventh but so you've missed a week yeah that's true I love you there's there's
sober October sober October rhymes it does right it does and there's no bad time
obviously to do a little reset just you know you know feel it I got I got a
half marathon coming up in October oh nice and just feel like got to get my
focus where it needs to be so live in live in the live in the monk like life
these days speaking of focus for today's show at some point we were going to
trade NHL storylines that we're both into for this year since this is the
only episode we're dropping this week I do have some questions for ask CJ the
segment you know and love some other news and notes will get to those as well
throughout the show in terms of what's gone on the hockey world but I figured you
know since we are in our comfort era comfort CJ new nickname alert I figured
to start off just to kind of ease us in before we get into some other topics
around the hockey world and of course we'll have you can bet that as well are you
down for a leafs corner CJ just to kind of you know just let's start out the
easy level with this you down for that yeah we're sent to like a two out of ten
on the stress meter by starting there so why not of course one story we did
not get to in between the last episode we did in the summer to now
Sheldon Keith getting a multi-year contract extension with the Toronto
Maple Leafs after admit man I thought when the when the season ended the way
that it did for the Toronto Maple Leafs Sheldon Keith would be gone he is still
not only still here with the Toronto Maple Leafs he has more years added on to
that courtesy of an extension granted to him by new GM Brad Tree Living which
it's still really funny that he is General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs
after everything that has happened this summer but siege let's talk about this
extension what insight can you give us what are your thoughts on Sheldon
Keith getting more years added to his tenure as Toronto Maple Leafs head coach
well I think anyone who is sort of viewing the end of last year's playoffs or
the Leafs going out in five games to Florida and round two with Keith being on
the hot seat it's probably just because that's what happens right if you're
looking to shock the system coaches tend to be the first piece to go but I think
if you if you do step back and look at the record you know Sheldon Keith is
one of the best winning percentages of any current NHL head coach he has
clicked historical boxes in terms of you know some of the fastest to 100 wins
in NHL history you know he's had a lot of success and I think you know what
what's interesting in this story is he's basically almost been rehired I mean
he remained under contract the whole time but there was a period of time
there went when Brad tree living replace Kyle Dubas at the end of May started
June where it was up in the air whether he would be back at all and over I think
it was 17 or 18 hours of meetings they had over a few days tree living in
Keith you know I I think the new GM got comfortable enough to keep the coach
around and then if you're keeping them around you know why bring them into what
would have been a lame duck season this year in Toronto would have been the
last year on Keith's old deal and so they've given them a two-year extension
which I think is sort of the right number you know we should say any coach can
be fired at any time I mean all these extensions basically guarantee is the
window of time they're going to be paid but this does not mean that you'll see
Sheldon keep on the leaves bench three years from now I think a lot of that will
be contingent on future success but you know Keith has had a lot of success with
the roster I'm very curious to see how we might see changes in him now
because you know him and Kyle Dubas had worked together so often obviously
their pass is well documented through Susanne Marie their time in the Toronto
Marley's and ultimately with the Maple Leafs but this is you know it's a lot of
the same around the Leafs but there's a pretty big change at the top of the
organization or near the top of it and you know maybe we'll see Keith do some
different things and I'm not saying Kyle Dubas specifically restricted him but
but obviously they had a certain working relationship a certain comfort with
how things were done well maybe that's gonna change now with the new GM and
maybe a fresh look for Keith so you know I think it made a lot of sense
actually when you really look at who else might be out there I don't see an
obvious upgrade or replacement and as I say by giving him this I think it just
removes questions about his future for the immediate term the players know that
he's here and he's the guy at least until he isn't right because you know the
reality of that coaching position is I think Keith might be up to seventh or
eighth most tenured coach and a league right now you know just being
hired back in 2019 and and so there's so much turnover that that could still
happen even after this extension well naturally through the changes in the
roster this offseason there has to be some kind of change right Ryan Reeves is
on this team now Tyler Patuzzi is on this team now Max Domey is there on the
surface they look more pesky and annoying it remains to be seen if it'll work
but Sheldon Keith has some new players of a certain DNA he gets to work with so
naturally there has to be some kind of change right right and look it's it's the
DNA of a GM that we've seen do that in Calgary right I think it's no surprise or
shocked to know the Brad Trillivan likes maybe values some some players that
can bring the physical home in the game or the grit whatever you want to call
it and you know I think that that you know the Leafs kind of went there a little
bit in the last couple seasons of the Kyle Dubus Air and Toronto but I think
you're gonna see more of that you know there's still some question marks with
the roster I mean I think that this is a team you know spoiler alert I think
that they're gonna be a playoff team again I think that they're going to be a
team that that have some high ambition but you know there's still for me I look
at the blue line and just not sure how all those pieces fit with Emory and John
Klingberg you know I don't know how those pairs will come together I think
that's gonna be a challenge for Keith and in the coaching staff you know they've
added Ghibu Shea to the coaching staff this summer kind of a different sort of
higher than you might expect as an assistant coach given that Ghibu Shea
actually has more NHL head coaching experience than his boss right now in
Sheldon Keith you know Brad Trillivan actually pointed to that as something
that you know for Keith it shows his confidence that he's willing to that it
was him that wanted Ghibu Shea on the staff you know he's not afraid of the
optics of how that might look as though someone might say oh it's the coach
and waiting behind him you know I do think it's going to be as much as it's a
lot of the same players I'm what you do and I think it's going to be maybe a
little different season in Toronto I mean naturally it's it's going to be
given that the person in charge of the roster has changed you know and you know
the roster that comes they camp on September 20th is going to look pretty
different I would suspect by the time we get to the trade deadline or at least
somewhat different I think the Leafs will be still out there looking to make
upgrades and change things up if something isn't working and you know we'll
see how those news pieces fit I mean I think you could see Tyler Bertuzzi for
example right on the Leafs top line to me it makes sense to at least start him
alongside Austin Matthews and Mitch Marner on the left side there you know you
got Matthew and I is coming back for what will be his first full NHL season
after getting some action to play off last year you know obviously Domi is
going to fit in somewhere that that's you know some new pieces for Keith to
juggle around but you know this this will be a different year I think with
you know Caldubus had such an impact on this organization he was the assistant
GM for a number of seasons before he became the GM for the last five years
and I'm with it we had a gun back to that night in May the night the Leafs were
eliminated in over time kind of a quick exit after the the excitement of
advancing past the first round yeah it said there's gonna be one major change
to the organization I probably would have guessed a couple players and maybe even
Sheldon Keith before saying that Caldubus would be the one significant major
change that would that would result from that loss all throughout your answer I
had Steve Dangle in my ear telling me to ask you about William Neelander I'm
kidding he doesn't do that on the show but what do we have anything on William
Neelander do we have anything on that now just tell us what you know at this
point we just need a status update I'll say it's eerily quiet for me and I
do believe that September is a big month like I I have to believe there's
going to be another attempt here to sign William Neelander to remove that
question that that storyline just the uncertainty that comes with a
situation like that even before the season gets going you know that was a big
factor in Austin Matthews signing the deal he did when he did right at the end
of August you know I think that he understood you know first of all he
understands how big this year is every year now in trial we'll be we'll be
calling a big season as long as this team still has the hopes it does and
and the sort of core it does and he didn't want that to sort of flood into
training camp and potentially just impact the the vibes I guess she'll say as
the team gets back together and so you know I'm not saying that as any way to
put pressure on William Neelander but I think that there will be an
opportunity here maybe to see if they can get something done it doesn't
guarantee it's gonna happen I mean they're in a really
spot because you know there's a number of these contractual situations around
a league but but you know what separates Neelander even say from Eli Spederson is
that he isn't a true unrestricted fridge at next to life first and so they have
to compel him to to sign a deal now by giving him an offer that that he
deems fit I mean I think he's quite comfortable to play things out and to let
time go we saw some of the interviews he gave for example at the the media
tour in Stockholm recently to the reporters I mean I think he does want to be
in Toronto but you know he's he's got his maximum leverage right he's coming
off a 40 goal 80 point season he's consistently put up numbers and in the
playoffs when some of his teammates haven't maybe done that he feels he should
be closer you know the gap between with the top guys on the team are paid
when he's paid should be narrowed and you know I don't know if leaves can get
there I don't know I mean that contract wouldn't kick in for a year so I don't
think it would be an immediate change to the roster but I think in signing if
they sign them to the kind of number he wants they might have to consider you
know what the trickle down effect is with with other players what they're
going to do with Mitch Marner for example who can sign a deal next summer so I
mean there's a lot of moving pieces here but you know I do believe that there's
going to be an attempt to see if they can get something done prior to the
start of camp just because if if that happened it would probably best serve
everyone if it doesn't happen doesn't mean he's gone I mean we've seen lots of
situations in the past where that a player came in in his final year and
you know David Pasternak had that in Boston a year ago and he signed a new deal
in March so you know it's it's it's possible that it can get done there during
the year but I think they're gonna give it at least one more call it's try and I
don't have too much specific I tried to sort of feel around this one in recent
days and and don't have a true sense of where it's at and I think that's
because you know might be somewhat of a delicate time because there is a window
here still before camp before everything that's going officially where they
can try to get something done what's the temperature with fans now when you
see other players around the league sign extensions we'll get to Jaxe Anderson and
Ottawa there's rumors about Ross was Dalin in his extension and I get their
defensemen but they are also just regular NHL players and it seems as if those
contracts are getting done whereas in Toronto and we'll talk about Calgary as
well there are a bunch of players whose fates are still more or less up in the
year but for leaves fans in this context can you give us the temperature of how
they're feeling with regards to a potentially knee-lander extension well I
mean I can only gauge it what I see right I was walking down the street the
other day and a TTC bus which is like the local transit if you're not from this
area the guy pulls over and he rolls those right there's like see what's going
on the knee-lander so I mean it's obviously on the line to some people you
know bus driver a guy driving a bus down the street was asking about it you know
and we're here just you know not even back in train camp yet and you know if
you're looking at it from a player's perspective I you know every player is
different but I think by and large this is the kind of business if you can get
done when you're not focusing on playing it's probably best I mean of course
lots of extensions get done during the season but this is this is a great
time I mean you see a lot of players sign contracts in September before
training camp I just think it removes you know questions and and looking let's
let's play this out a bit just in a world where knee-lander does not sign part
of the start of this season and you know I sat here and I said he has the
leverage he does he can be the free agent he can test the open market at the end
of the year but if he gets off to a slow start you know if the first month
doesn't go as he wants and his point totals are down and people like me or
or Jonas Siegel or you know the other reporters that around the Leaf Center are
pretty regular bases are going up to him saying like it's a contract on your
mind like like all those things do play into it now I actually think William
knee-lander is the kind of player I mean he's playing Toronto for all these
seasons now he's almost like blissfully unaffected by all the stuff that goes
on in the city and so I think that he's probably the kind of player that that
can play through a contract here not have it bug him but you know let's face it
it's it's only human and natural to wonder about your employment to wonder
about how things are going to view your success or short-term failure is what's
that going to mean for the next deal and so I do think ideally you get this
business done in September not just with knee-lander but a number of these
players and you leave it so that you don't have to have those discussions
during the season but you know not to see how this goes I think the
temperatures you know it's always dialed up in Toronto I mean that this is this
is a place where people do care deeply about the team and there's just a lot of
fans I mean it's just like volume humbles I'm not saying that every single
person walking around here on the first week back at school for their kids or
whatever is fretting over what's gonna happen in knee-lander but it's it's
definitely a talking point and I'll tell you I can't do I can't do a hit on TSN
radio here in Toronto without them asking about it I mean it's almost just like
the pre-functuary question like you know the way you framed it that Steve
Daniel's wondering everyone's wondering and it's almost like the no update
update I think it's it's kind of just sitting there but both sides understand
that there's probably two weeks or so where they can try to get something done
and then you know if it doesn't happen before in the early days of training
camp and you know there might be a cooling off period as we get into the season
would you rather people ask you about the Toronto Blue Jays instead no I
have to admit this has been one of my less enjoyable J seasons I don't know
what it is I just I don't I don't have a lot of faith in the team like I want
to I'm you know I'm tuning in every day when I'm home when they're playing and I'm
still cheering for them but I just I just feel like it's gonna probably the way
the playoffs ended last year where they blew that huge lead in the wildcard game
against Seattle and I don't know I just they have felt less than the
summer their parts for throughout the season to me and I'm just an emotional
fan when it comes to the J's right I'm not I'm not looking at this rationally I
don't know I don't have any insight into why that is all I know is they they a lot
of anxiety these days so I'd probably rather talk about Neil Anders
contract and then the J's because kind of kind of hurts me inside a little bit
okay well I don't want to hurt you any more than I already have CJ but you do
that was a good that was a good extended Leafs quarter it was a good it was a
good start to season three of the CJ show we we will have you can bet that
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you buddy how you doing good to see you guys hope you had a great summer wordy
roll let's get the NHL blow in here I'm excited I'm looking forward to this
remember to hit up sports interaction dot com slash SDPN for all of your
gaming needs if you go on that website you will find Stanley Cup odds I've been
tracking in the last little while and I noticed something very interesting
about the two teams that are tied with the best odds to win the Stanley Cup for a
while it was just one team but that second team has crept up closer and
closer and you can tell me if I'm wrong but I saw this not too long ago they are
tied with the best odds tell us the two teams TV 100 percent yeah sports
interaction odds makers right now guys predicting and and it's not really a
prediction but I guess the money is predicting a Colorado avalanche Toronto
may believe Stanley Cup final I have a hard time believing that but that's
where the money is going right now and a lot of it too guys you know we are a
Canadian book a lot of Canadian teams their money gets boosted a little bit
because you know the flames fans are hopeful the other fans are hopeful the
leaf fans well everybody knows leaf fans have been hopeful forever but so
money kind of tends in that direction and trends in that direction as well so
and that's why we're seeing the Toronto Maple Leafs in this situation and let
me ask you guys this are you are you buying that or are you just looking at it
from a Canadian perspective going ah because I do have a couple horses in
this and they're not those two teams I'm just wondering where the love is for
Vegas like I don't see thank you I don't see any reason that the gold Knights
will drop off other than whatever hang over his curses whatever you talk about
it's hard to win two cups in a row but for me I like Vegas in the West I don't
know what to make at least it's it's there's obviously a few teams that I
have Toronto among them that I can see having that kind of season but you know
man I would have the gold Knights first if I was picking right now interesting
gold Knights about eight and a half to one somewhere in that range to win the
Stanley Cup pretty good and and as you guys know the division should be should
be attainable compared to some of the other other powerhouses we talk about
right yeah I'm with CJ here like the Vegas golden I mean literally once the
celebrations were flowing in Vegas as they won the Stanley Cup the odds were
out for next year and they were not the favorite to repeat I understand it's
very difficult to repeat as a Stanley Cup champion the National Hockey League
but I it feels as if the the odds are slipping and sleeping on the Vegas
Golden Knights here there's still the team to beat in the Pacific Division yeah and
in the Western Conference while I do think the Colorado Avalanche will make
another go of it here how many teams in the Western Conference are better than
those two teams Colorado and Vegas I'm not I'm not ready to answer that right
now I know we'll get to some predictions later on this month but I don't know
man maybe you should be slamming some money on the Golden Knights here six best
odds according to you guys yeah you know what not bad odds but yeah they're the
number six team right now so about eight and a half to one roughly 8.86 if you're
looking at the decimals I'll give you two teams and their Eastern Conference
teams Carolina Hurricanes at seven seven four two and then New Jersey Devils at
a seven seven four I'm questioning some goal-tending on both sides of those teams
but either than that guys stacked stack young teams and if they're not gonna do
it this year especially the Devils I'm looking at you New Jersey you're not
gonna do it this year you're not gonna buy up for a Connor Halibut something of
that nature you may fall just short because of the goal-tending but those are
two teams I'm looking at there's also a lot of love on the Dallas stars guys I
don't know if I'm buying the Dallas stars love but it's around 12 12 to one
somewhere in that range and of course there's always New York Ranger love
because it's New York it's Broadway it's it's you know arguably a top three
gold tender in the world that kind of underachieve last year during the
playoffs hello first round and and and that's what we're kind of looking at
there with that I'll tell you if I could buy a stock if I could buy stock and one
team to win in the next three years the Devils would be my top pick yeah totally
agree CJ 100% Adam Wilde's favorite team he may finally get to see a
Stanley Cup after all don't let me don't let me catch you guys wear in the same
sort of stuff he does okay with the New Jersey Devils okay just let him do it
that's his thing he looks good he says he looks good doing you I think he looks
great I just don't want to see more than one of them walking around your
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care so we had our leaves corner I think we're gonna have to do an Ottawa
senators corner for a couple moments we we don't really have an Ottawa
senators corner or anything catchy there however some news coming out of the
nation's capital with defenseman Jake Sanderson signing an eight-year contract
extension the AAV is 8.05 had a really good rookie season a lot of debate
about whether or not he's deserving of that contract I know where I stand on
this I would love to hear your thoughts on this extension siege well first
of all anyone who signs a contract is deserving of a contract if you find
someone who believes you're worth that you're worth that yeah I think where the
debate is right Julian is people are wondering you have to have a take I guess
on something like this and in this case we're talking about a 20-year-old who's
played 77 NHL games and you know still had a year left on his entry-level deal
entering this season so it's not a player the senators had the sign right now
and I think that's to me what makes it so interesting is is you know it's hard to
really find comparables when when you're making a call on a player that
early in his career reminds me a little bit way back when that the Dallas
stars signed John Kligberg to a seven-year deal you know when he'd only played
50 or 60 games in a league you know this was a little different triangulation I
think for Ottawa you know this was a top four player as a rookie on their
blue wine last year and they're buying the upside right and I I actually am
intrigued by the bat and I love I actually love the bat for the senators I have
to say because you know no one has a crystal ball we can't say for certain is
Jake Sanderson just going to take off from here is he going to be like some
other players and maybe the second year is a little tougher than the first or
you know I think that it's reasonable to think there might be some ups and
downs in the meantime but you know we're sitting here at a point where we know
the salary cap with with as much certainty as we can have is likely going to take
a big jump next summer and perhaps a summer after that perhaps a summer after
and so it feels to me quite logical if you're on the team end of these things if
you have a player that you really believe in their upside why not take this kind
of swing because certainly nine years from now when the cap should be well
above a hundred million I'm going to guess that having a defense
been making eight million dollars isn't going to be that unusual and if this
becomes you know a top-parent guy maybe the top
defenseman on the team at some point during that window then the senators will
probably look back on this and say hey that was a good deal now the other side of
this if you're Jake Sanderson this is a tough sport you might get injured you
might have underperformance you might have all kind of things happen you're like
it's pretty tough to say no to 64 plus million dollars uh
guaranteed on on your deal and so I think it's it's kind of been what pure
Dorian is done with the senators right we've seen him give out a lot of long-term
deals to Stutsla and to Norris and you know Brady Kachak didn't go the
full length but he got a longer-term contract obviously Thomas Shabbat
was the first one going back so I think this kind of follows a certain
pattern for Ottawa and man they're locking in a core right now and and we're
still waiting to see what that core can be because they haven't quite
taken a step that organization is looking for just yet
right but they're on the verge of taking that step and
fine I was I was on that train that said the team was going to make the playoffs
last year they still have to prove that they can do that this year
teams like Buffalo and Detroit are also doing the same thing
but I think if you are a guy like Pierre Dorian even if you're Pierre Dorian all
the stuff about him that's a whole other story in itself but if you're a general
manager and you have a whole bunch of young talent on your team and you know
they're playing at a high level it makes sense to lock them up for as many
years as they can to explain to you what 21 years old this deal will take him
into what 29 like I think considered what he's shown in that first year at
least off statistics if you talk to where Sanders fans though rave even more
about him this just makes sense to me and I was a bit surprised to see a lot of
people kind of take the argument that you know they haven't played any
playoff games so why should they be deserving of that you don't sign
these these kids to extensions because you feel they're eight million
dollar players right now you do it so that in years four five of the deal
you look at that contract and you say huh this guy's only making eight million
dollars when this player at his position is making
fourteen fifteen sixteen million as an example the point is to
lock the talent up for as many years as you can
sign them to contracts that later on down the line are going to look like
steals if that's clearly what the senators are trying to do whether or not it'll
work we have to wait and see but this makes perfect sense to me as far as I'm
concerned but it's not like they did this for a guy with like six
points is rookie season like I think Jake Sanderson is off to a pretty good
start not a one yeah it's a calculated gamble right and and really every
contracts is a calculated gamble you're betting on human beings no one knows
how the things are going to go when you give that much term there's always a bit
of a gamble I mean all kinds of things can happen I mean nine years which is
what Sanderson's under contract now that's an eternity in
pro sports I mean it passes quickly in your life sometimes but
you know the league nine years from now we can't even begin to imagine what
it's going to look like who the top teams will be you know what the top players
we paid like it's it's really hard to project that I do know from Sanderson's
end of that when they were doing going through these contract discussions
they were trying to project based on the contracts like Mira Hayeskin and
Dallas you know Shabbat's deal was was relevant I think to those
discussions I mean it's just a guess you only have 77 games it's easier I think
sometimes to reach a contractor the player that has
three or four hundred games under their belt because there's just lots of
comparables right you go into the market and and you know obviously all the
agents and then the teams have played people to do this for them too and
they examine what the similar contracts are well there's not really a
similar deal to this one you know he ends up a little bit below Hayeskin
in actual AAB but he's signing it later and so I have to say I think that
this is what still remains we've seen how things shake out and the
senators front office you know with Michael Ann Lauer you know taking over
ownership of the team here but you know I do think that sends
there's a lot of reason for optimism around that organization in part because
that do owner but you know the players that they've drafted like Sanderson who
they got fifth overall a couple years back you know look like good picks
and these players are now all by and large locked in for a window of time here
where you know I think the senators feel they can be competitive with them at
this numbers I mean they have a lot of guys now making around eight
million dollars just the way it's sort of turned out
but you know we've seen some other teams not naming names that have players
ten and eleven million and that creates some some difficulties with the
cap so yeah I think that these these are risks or gambles I can understand
I'm reasonably sure just because there's a number of those contracts some of
them are going to look great for sure and perhaps it's a Sanderson one that'll
probably be tied to his health and then obviously
just the way he develops here but this this kind of came out of nowhere I'd
say publicly but the more I've had a chance to think about it and talk to
some people I do think it makes some sense
for Ottawa I mean if they were in a position Julian if they let them play this
season and let's say it takes even a step forward this year
it puts up better numbers plays more minutes and more integral part of
their team you know I'm reasonably sure the contract they'd be looking at
next summer would be a number higher than the one they just saw it
so with the final year of his ELC on nine more years of Jake Sanderson
I still think it's a pretty good deal we can go to another
defenseman in the Atlantic division in Ross Wastolene some reports
surfacing that he is due for new contract and it could be paying him
above ten million dollars I would love to know your thoughts
on Ross Wastolene is he a ten million dollar plus player
for the Buffalo Sabers well he very well might end up being and and
I would say that what's different here right is you have more sample size right
the Sabers have seen they're not not paying him for
projected value they're paying him for what he is
and you know he had a tremendous season last year in particular but you've seen
steady growth over the years since the lean was drafted first overall
obviously the Sabers are a team kind of similar to the sense it's funny to
Atlantic division teams that have been kind of down and out for a little
while they've drafted high up in the draft and now it's time to pay those
players and I think that they have reason for optimism with the course they
have but they have to unseat you know one or more of the the Bruins the
Lightning the Leafs you know some of the teams that have been perennial
playoff teams in the division not proven to be an easy task
you know with the lean my sense is that this deal maybe not as close
as exactly reported but certainly it sounds like there's been some progress
in the talks here of late and you know I could see if it ends up being an eight-year
deal you know something around the numbers reported sounds like that's
that's kind of where it's it's going to go and and you know this is this is sort
of the trade-off too remember Dulling got a bridge deal
after his entry-level contract that they actually had some trouble arriving at
that one and you know went on for a while in negotiations there
and now you're paying you're paying them for what he is essentially and I think
that that's kind of where teams have to make a big decision do you
you know do you give a smaller second contract knowing that it's very likely
the player is going to have a case for a much bigger number the next time
around you know that might help you in the short term in terms of keeping the
number down but in the long term does it hurt I mean that there's not one
perfect answer I don't think there's one science and look the Sabers are
going to have a similar question when it comes you know time to sign Owen
Power another defense that that's made a pretty strong impression on
their blue line you know he's still on his entry-level deal but when it
when it comes time to sign in next are you are you adding him to sort of the
taged Thompson's and Dylan Cousins and others that have signed long-term deals
straight away or do you maybe try to bridge him in the short term and pay him
later I mean that that'll be you know that's that's part of the fun part right
I mean Kevin Adams is overseeing I guess what we would call a rebuild a
retool since he's been the GM there he's you know made some big trades like
the ikel trade and and sign some some players and but now it gets tricky as
you're scaling up in terms of who you commit what dollars to
because that money gets spent quickly I mean even in the center's case we didn't
we didn't quite touch on it there but Shane Pinto doesn't have a deal right
now he's he's going to be in a different
tax bracket than some of the players were discussing but but the senators don't have the money
as we're sitting here today to sign them to probably what he's worth he's probably
going to get a contract you know a shade above two million I would think we've seen a few players
sign in that range that have similar sort of statistical profiles to him um but you know right
now they're in a position where they're going to have to create that space in order to sign him
you know that's an example of you know the cap space goes quick once you start signing
so many of these core players but you know back to Dolly you know certainly
believe that there'll be a push here to get that done um and then in the near term but you
know I don't think anything is imminent as of the time we're recording this now okay let's go
from defenseman to a forward Patrick Kane uh still looking for a team I do believe uh I've
seen reports about Detroit possibly being a front runner for him where are we at with Patrick Kane
and I wouldn't label anyone a front runner just yet you know my my sense is that I mean this is
a really unique free agent you know not a lot of players get to the point where Patrick Kane is
where he's got three Stanley cups and a hundred plus million in career earnings and you know he's
coming off obviously a significant hip procedure which he had done in June the good news from his
health standpoint is all the reports have suggested you know he's on a really good track to return
and return in a better position than worry what's last season where he played through a lot of
discomfort in that hip and you know really just wasn't performing at a level that we've seen even
in the year prior to that or the couple years prior to that even though he is getting to be a veteran
I think you could conclude its age but you know in his case I think there's a pretty compelling argument
here that he was you know limited by you know what he could do physically uh you know he he can
choose a couple different roads right he could sign a one year deal with a team he thinks can win the
cup next year and go that route he could sign for a couple years and you know try to basically map
out what could be the last contract potentially his career and be a place where he and his family
are comfortable and and maybe you know they doesn't have to be a team that's ready to win the cup
next year but in that window of time where he's signing is there you know I I think that he's
approaching this with an open mind that I know he spoke recently with John Warro reporter from the AP
you know and talked about some of his recovery and basically we're saying I'm ready to sign today
but it's got to be you know someone really coming out and enticing him to do so because the reality
is Patrick Kane probably isn't going to play till December I suppose maybe there's a
world he come back in November if everything trends in that direction but he's he's missing
training camp wherever he might sign uh no matter what he's missing the start of the season and so
he doesn't have the same pressures as some other players might under similar circumstances so you
know I'd say keep you know be careful saying one team is a front runner I don't think that's
actually the case here and you know obviously he's going to want to be somewhere where he gets
compensated fairly where he thinks he has a chance to win and and somewhere that he wants to live
I think that there's a number of different teams that could tick that box you know he really
was curious about the Rangers right he ended up there at the trade deadline I don't think that
worked as well as everyone at hope for a variety of reasons you know one of them just being I think
the Rangers have had a lot of the same type of thing as Patrick Kane maybe just was a mixed
issue versus a specific issue with him or the team um but you know there's lots of ways it I you
just keep wondering about Buffalo right what came I mean it just would seem to make too much sense
we were talking about how their team on the rise it's where he grew up um you know there's a
there's a good time generally for players to go home and play it's when that team has a chance to win
and when things are headed in the right direction I think it's harder to go home when when a team
is is in the the doldrums and I don't think that you know I think the Sabers have a lot of reasons
to think highly of the chances this year we'll see about their goal tending you know kind of a
common refrain with some of the teams out there we're looking to take a step forward um but you know
I just wonder about that one you can even wonder about Chicago right I mean uh the place he left the
place he meant so much I mean that it looks different in Chicago that it did even when they traded
it at the deadline because they've had a corner of a darn sense and um you know so I I don't
I wouldn't say that this is uh this decision is made by any sense or the one team's a frontrunner
I think that there's still a lot of different ways this could break okay so we've gone through some
NHL team notes I would love to know your thoughts on the professional women's hockey league getting
started some teams in Ottawa Toronto Montreal Boston uh Minneapolis St Paul New York City we've
heard some news about some signings as well Sarah nursing Toronto Matthew Filippouleh and
Montreal and Rince Mashmire in Ottawa not too long before we started recording on Thursday morning
Hillary night joining Boston's team uh what do you think about the PWB getting their start also the
noxine catch show is back and they've been talking about the league as well you should check out
their latest episode I got to plug that too but Siege what do you think about the PWB so far?
Well this for me has been the biggest story in hockey the last couple weeks it's been really cool
to see the buzz around all the announcements from you know when they first revealed the cities
to revealing that the general managers now we're getting into the first small wave of free agency with
each team being able to sign three players and then September 18th you know there's going to be a
draft where the teams fill out their rosters uh with the the players that didn't sign during this
free agent window and so I think this has been everything that uh the the people that have fought
long and hard in in the women's hockey circles to you know this is what they were looking for right
this is a league backed by significant money um it's it's pretty clear the commitment is there
that they've got a CBA you know the players well you know I think that we still hope there'll be an
age where salaries continue to grow they're they're getting a chance to earn a professional salary
and they're getting a chance to be true for agents right I mean they have some of those top
players that you're mentioning there are getting three and four teams bidding for their services you
know some are offering more money than even the place they sign um you know I think that this is a
really interesting time and I think the buzz has been great I just hope to leak and continue to
capitalize on this you know that the games aren't going to start getting played till January but
you know between filling out the roster is eventually announcing the team names like I think that
there's still a lot of touch points here and and you know we've seen in recent years I think
between the women's World Cup of Soccer and the summer a number of other events that the man
for women's sports has probably never been higher certainly not in the time I've been around
and you know this is such an important window for people that you know basically have to give
up multiple years you know some of the older players like Noxy you know I've had to sort of fight
for this but knowing that by the time it came around they still wouldn't be in a position
and they did it for the betterment of the long-term future of the women's game
rather than their own personal self-interest I think that there's a long list of women that can
be on that list is kind of pioneers and I push this forward and just to see it arrive with the
bang it has I mean that that's uh that's been pretty cool to to watch and you know I don't
profess to have any particular inside knowledge on the women's game you know I know some of the
key people involved just because hockey's a small world but um you know I'm excited to to see it
continue to sort of blossom and see what they have in the first year and also you know it's great
that we have the Noxy and Cax show on the SDPN I would encourage anyone to to dial into that if
you haven't because they had a great episode drop here in the in recent days just about the
Cummings and goings here of what's been just a I mean crazy to launch a league right like they
it's only like less than a week ago or 10 days ago they were announcing the cities they're playing
and then the general managers now you're getting players I mean it's a lot it's a huge thing to
pull together but um you know I think that there's no reason for anything but upside for for that
league and I'm going to be following it along closely here in its first season same I'm very intrigued
about where we're going to be able to watch it uh I'm always intrigued about the broadcast side of
things with these types of leagues and I'm very intrigued about the exposure that this league will
get knowing that there will be teams in both Canada and the United States in addition to what they'll
actually look like in terms of jerseys I know uh uh Cax was breaking up uh whether or not the
Montreal team should uh bring back the Kenneth Zien I would love the Kenneth Zien to return the fabs
as they were called uh the logo the look the blibla who's all of that uh bring yeah I like
sort of that C. Dub the C. W. H. L. nostalgia you're able to bring back I would love to see
them with the Canadians is there any trademark issues with that that's the only thing I was wondering
how that works it just makes too much sense right even I love sort of the symbolism of launching
with an original six and anyone that that knows about the NHL history it wasn't truly an original
six but just you know bear with us you know it's kind of viewed that that first period of the NHL
that took off I would would hope the professional women's hockey league is going to continue to grow
and add teams as time goes along but just the original six I think tied to some kind of history
and some some markets are making a new history but um you know hockey has deep roots in all the
places where the league has launched at the first six teams and I think that there's a lot of
different strings they can pull on and coming up with those those sort of branding the names
and obviously the look of what those first sweaters look like absolutely okay so we've gone through
some stories that have happened and we provide as much insight and knowledge as we can on those
stories what about story lines that we're looking forward to between now and the start of the
year throughout the season as we go on you figured this could be a fun exercise for us to think of
some stuff that we're actively looking forward to and there's there's going to be some more serious
stuff but there's some fun stuff as well uh I can imagine that we're both kind of looking forward to
do you think that sounds like a good exercise what do you think of that yeah I don't want to do
me just me though you've got to throw some out there too we'll go back and forth okay we can do
that why don't you take the floor you start first man you're the main voice on here that's very
I mean I mean it's the Chris Johnson show you're technically the main voice of the show
yeah but we both talk a lot that's very fair um so I'm it so you obviously I'm going to have to
do this because uh he wants me to start but I'll start with a story that has been on my mind
throughout all summer and I'm still very surprised that with days to start before training camps
we're still we still don't have anything about this and it is the hockey can we have to start there
um I think once we discover if we discover the names of those involved in that sexual assault case
that is going to be all we're going to talk about throughout training camp throughout preseason
would be figure out the names we figure out what's going to be done with those players uh we know
it's the police are involved in London it's going to take some time but I think I was in that camp
of people that felt that this was going to be a story that would be brought up on some random
Friday afternoon when everyone was away at their cottages and chalets and there would be some kind
of effort to kind of bury it and maybe that's very cynical of me to think that but it has not
happened we are getting closer and closer to hockey restarting and we still don't have anything
on this and again once once this eventually comes to light whatever results we end up getting
from this we will talk about this and people will talk about this especially if the punishments
are severe so I don't know how you can talk about HL storylines or hockey storylines and I get
there will be some other storylines we'll get to and they might be of a happier note but I don't know
how you can talk about hockey and not bring up this story well what I can tell you is going back to
or maybe even three weeks now I've been hearing that the that some sort of resolution here is imminent
and you know obviously if you look up imminent addiction area and I heard that three weeks ago
I'm kind of with you I'm wondering how imminent is imminent you know the biggest thing to me
is that this isn't just a PR exercise that's why I don't think it's going to be buried on
you know some new cycle time that's not ideal you know really the NHL can't do anything before
the London police conclude their investigation and disclose those results I mean if you're
if you're their national hockey league you can't prejudge what's going to happen let's say they
suspend the players and then that London police find you know that they're innocent in this let's say
they don't suspend those players and then they come out as guilty I just I don't think the league
can really be in a position as much as you know they've done their own due diligence and investigation
to come to any resolution until the police conclude what's happening there and so you know
a police investigation doesn't go according to any time frame other than getting all the information
needed and coming to a conclusion so you know I think that's that's really what we're waiting for
in essence obviously as soon as the London police disclose their findings then it's up to the NHL
to make decisions on how they react to those findings but you know certainly I would say there's
a high level of expectation that that will come very very very soon and it's kind of been in the
air for you know the last few weeks here and so you know I'm with you I it will be a major story
it's been a major story already but you know the one thing while there's tons of speculation
up there and we're not going to participate in that no about who was involved I mean we know who
is on the team we know who said what publicly about their you know that you know those sorts of
things but until until that police investigation is wrapped up I don't think we're going to really
know too much firm about that story okay what about a storyline from you let's let's keep the
back in fourth go I'm going obvious man I want to see Connor Bedard in the NHL like I think as much
as maybe you want to see Connor Bedard in the NHL at least gets going to happen right but I want
to see what he does I want to see what he's capable of you know we're talking about a player that's
that's arguably the best player since Crosby Ovechkin and McDavid entry to league depending on
your order I mean remember Connor McDavid's rookie season was interrupted he had that collision
with the boards I think it was a collarbone injury that you know he played half a season in his
first season so we're you know he put on the Connor Bedard I've been a David show before that
but we didn't get the kind of numbers that we might have if he played the full year I just
wonder if we get Connor Bedard for full year as much as we don't expect too much from from Chicago
in terms of a team that's that's you know going to be in a position to be making much noise yet I
think he's going to be appointment viewing I love that he's going to play in Montreal on the first
Saturday the season I love that they're playing in Pittsburgh it gets Crosby like I just love the
symbolism of this and you know this is got to be the most type player since McDavid and with good
reason right you look at the numbers he put up in the WHO what he did at the World Junior Tournament
you know last year at the holidays and he's just put up points ever he's been so I'm honestly
everyone keeps asking for like point predictions for me when I'm doing radio hits and stuff like
can you rule out that this guy could have like a hundred points like I don't think I'm not saying
it's a high here's the thing I'm not saying I'm not saying that's my target and that if you fall
short of that he's but like it can't be ruled out I mean both of that's getting Crosby had
a hundred points as rookies and you know he's going to be on a team where I'm reasonably sure
that he's going to get tons of power play time he's going to play big minutes I think he could
take the lead by storm and so normally I wouldn't be that wouldn't be the first item I'm throwing
out the number one overall pick I mean it's low hanging fruit but I think this is a different kind
of number one overall pick and I'm just fascinated to see what he does at the next level you know
because he's he's put up points and goals everywhere he's played so I see no reason to think
it's not going to happen for him in the NHL. Dude that look Connor Bedard from what we've seen
at the junior level incredible player incredible talent so when I hear him do the whole humble thing
where he's like oh if I make the team or if I get taken by Chicago it is so frustrating to hear
we know you're good we know you're a talented player we know when you step out on the ice you have
to prove it and that I could understand but everything up until that I was just like dude like what
are we doing here we get it we know who you are as a talent that that was also partially joking
when you were saying you know oh when we see him in the NHL as a tie you do that but also like
Connor Bedard Connor Bedard as a talent has shown that he could be that player if he is a 100-point
player off the bat damn I mean that would be insane to see but you're right I'm also looking
forward to that as well I think he could be the biggest story in October in the league myself
like I think how he starts with some if you look at Chicago schedule like the place is he's playing
just the opportunities for moments right like imagine an hockey night he gets a hat trick or
something and Montreal just like I just think there's a chance that he really dominates the early
season discussion I think it's gonna be hard to sustain that through the year because his team
more than likely is not gonna be in a playoff kind of chase or anything like that but um I think
we're gonna see something pretty special out of this kid it's just nothing that suggests otherwise
right I don't want to add to the pressure like that's that's why I almost hesitate to say this
but when I'm looking forward to the year when I'm thinking about what might happen you know I just
I could see this this player being far and above the best rookie we've seen a long time
all right let me give you another storyline and of course it's in the market that I'm covering but
I think it has to be brought up here what is Calgary going to do with all these pending UFA's they
have on their roster Alice Leno uh still figuring out what's up with him Noah Hanif in his store
on the roster Michael Backlin is still there and I haven't even mentioned Chris Tanif all for
Sillington is going to be a UFA at the end of the season as well uh Nikita's a door off is on that
list too there's a few other guys this is a team that I don't think wanted this distraction entering
training camp and I get there's still days to go until we get to that point but there is a lot
on Craig Conroy's plate he has a first time GM and I'm really curious about how he's going to
maneuver through that well if this team ends up being like what they were supposed to be last year
how do you justify selling off assets at the deadline what if players under perform what could
a potential return look like at the deadline if you're going down that route what about injury risks
there were so many windows in the offseason for this team to hit in terms of offloading some of
those players and they've sort of bypassed all of that also is this team even good enough to compete
for a playoffs while we mentioned Vegas in you can bet that like that's still a really good team
Edmonton is there Los Angeles got better in their forward court the Seattle Kraken which is
another team I kind of wanted to bring up in the segment as well and kind of loop them in here
are what's the next step of their revolution many baneers is he a player who could eventually
get to a point where he's like a top 10 top 15 player there's a lot of good teams in that
specific division where will the Calgary Flames rank in all of this I don't know that's something for
me to think about a little bit more for people reading at the athletic but I am really intrigued
at how they're going to maneuver through these next few weeks knowing that some of these players whose
fates are very much up in the air they're basically going to play these out until some resolution
comes to a head well look Elias Lindom for me is the big domino there absolutely and he's due to
arriving Calgary in the next few days I think early next week and I would expect after that happens
that there's going to be a real push to finalize an extension for him and and to me the window if
the flames were going to trade him entering the final year of his deal remember this is a player that
doesn't have any no trade protection and he has a very manageable cap it you know owing to his
previous contract but I still think that the window to trade him would have probably passed
it's not to say they couldn't trade him in the future during the season what have you
of things go really off the rails but I don't think that's going to happen in it I believe he's
willing as he's been willing really the entire time to stay in Calgary and so I think that this next
like week or two is going to be very big in those discussions and look I think if they're
signing him you're looking at a max term eight year deal and you're getting somewhere close to
nine million dollars is is probably the number and and you know there's obviously still some
negotiation to be done maybe there's some wiggle room to bring that a little below the nine
but you know I have to say just the way the winds are trending it's this is not the report that
handings done but I really think you'll see him sign there and that doesn't remove all the other
questions you had but it does remove to me the biggest question and when it comes to the flames
I see them as very much a playoff team you know last year you had a front row seat for it a lot of
things went about as bad as they could and you know certainly the way they lost games a lot of close
games you know no secret that the the the coach and the the dressing room weren't exactly
copacetic for a lot of the year and yet they still came pretty darn close to making a playoffs right
they they were they were playing games in the last week or two of the season that you know had
they want a couple more of those games maybe there's a world they got in and so I would just not
plan on everything going terribly doesn't mean everything's going to go right either I mean it's
this is the nature of the sport but I think that the core of that team is too good to start thinking
that they can't be a playoff team and to me you lock up Lindholm you got man there's a whole
series of decisions I don't know how Craig Conor is going to navigate all that when it comes to
some of the maybe less high profile pending UFA's but I think you got to keep as much of the team
as you can together and I would not surprise me at all to see them have a much better season
with a new head coach with just a fresh year you know a second year for cadre at Huberto
and and we go in the city a little more comfort and and you know I I would be surprised
if they're not in the playoffs you know come six seven months from now do you have one more storyline
before we get to ask CJ yeah I want to see what happens in Pittsburgh too you know I think that
they're one of the more intriguing teams you know not just because Kyle Dubas being you know
pretty high profile general manager having worked in Toronto but you know making the Eric Carlson
trade you know he did a ton of stuff to the roster you know some of its lower down players
be trades for Riley Smith you know he's signing Nola Chari and Ryan Graves and you know really
shaking up that roster and trying to see if it can compete for Stanley Cup one more time and
you know I don't know if we're gonna do it I don't know if it's made if it was almost just the
the kind of mission impossible that there's nothing any GM could do just with the the way that
that team was was set up cap wise but they had probably the most intriguing offseason as an
individual organization for me and I'm just curious to see how it works I want to see Eric Carlson
and Chris LeTang on the same blue line like it's it's a little bit like an all-star team right
somewhat or all all-star team from 2015 or something you know what I mean you know and that's not
to throw shade of those guys but the the were time of players that are getting older Carlson's
coming off well you know one of the best individual offensive seasons we've seen by defenseman
in a generation you know how does that fit together and can it work and can they get back to being
I mean at minimum a playoff team but probably more importantly for them a team that can challenge
the Stanley Cup so I think I think the penguins are a real kind of buzzy team as we get to the start
of the season man Kyle Dubas versus Toronto that first game of the year that has circled on every
Toronto journalist's calendar I am convinced of that you know that Mike Babcock plays his first game
with Columbus and Kyle Dubas almost I think it's one after another maybe there's one in the middle
but gee there's gonna be there's gonna be one week there where it's just gonna be all old stories
and news stories and all that stuff I mean how it goes oh my god James Myrtle's gonna love
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let's get to some questions for ask CJ the first ask CJ of the brand new season of our show
let's take in a question from mwbauer thank you to everyone on discord who sent in questions
during the summer and leading up to this episode as well just got to shout you guys out
from mwbauer on discord and I promise you I didn't plan this what movies has CJ seen this summer
I think now you're requiring me to remember names of movies so you've seen movies I have seen a
couple movies not in a theater I haven't seen the big two I haven't seen Oppenheimer or Barbie
um I just finished watching the painkiller series on Netflix okay that was that was hard to get
through um just because of the nature of the subject matter it was you know really well done
show uh I'm trying to remember what the summer was so I took a few flights this is so bad
you had uh you had too much fun this summer no it's more it's more like I as you know I first
might don't watch a lot of movies and secondly I'd like watch them immediately forget them
I watched the menu which stuck in my mind but I can't remember if that was this summer or maybe
in the in the spring so I might have talked with that you see the menu I have not seen the menu but
it's everyone says it's really good that's the Ralph Fines Nicholas Holt movie yes and I won't give
anything away no spoilers but it yeah it was it had me gripped it was a very sort of interesting
movie but yeah you know I didn't watch a lot I got to see Oppenheimer or Barbie I know I'm so far
behind are they even still in theaters and how does that work that's a good question if both of
them are in theaters just just really quickly before we go on the next question uh Oppenheimer I
mean pretty straight forward in terms of the plot line you've just looking at Barbie on the surface
what do you think the plot line of that movie is I don't know no come on just give us something just
give us something just try a plastic doll comes to life I know that he's actually I'll say this I've
been able to see enough in the headline there's sort of social commentary built and do it and it's
more than just like a kids movie or something like that I do I do know that but I really don't know
the plot of the movie okay that's fair that's that's passable I was expecting it's a comment on
like patriarchy isn't it yes there is there are comments on patriarchy in the in the movie yes yes
that is that is true but I honestly don't know what it's about I don't know what the plot is and
I don't know how that manifests itself and I do want to watch it I actually do want to see it
I I I did watch it I watched it with my my mom and my my two sisters while I was home and it
was a good time it was it was it was it was it was it was way funnier than I expected it to be
I'll give it that it was really good a lot of Canadian representation in that movie as well
we will get to a question from a newian hopefully hopefully I'm saying it right it could be a
newian it could be a yen on discord one for the random questions whenever you guys do another
summer episode over 30 million accounts attempted to try to get Taylor Swift tickets for her shows
in Toronto where you guys one of them I'll say no I don't live in Toronto and I I did not try to get
some CJ were you among the 30 million people who tried to get Taylor Swift tickets I tried and I
was waitlisted so I swung and missed on that one tell you I will not be exploring tickets on
the secondary market because I without even looking I just know it's going to be at a price
range that I just wouldn't be comfortable paying damn big money CJ he's holding back on Taylor Swift
tickets yeah I mean it's unbelievable six shows at Roger Center a lot of tickets and
it's still going to be reselling for thousands of dollars I'm sure okay uh we'll go to Matt
on discord julian and CJ do y'all play puk doku every day every day I try play as much as I can
I got a uh 17 uniqueness yesterday whoa yes I think I was like I got one of my best yesterday too
but I think it was like 33 or something like that yeah like for for me it's all about trying to
just get that uniqueness score super super low and I've been getting better and better and better
as I keep playing so there was one I'm just looking up my screenshots because I know I sent
it to some friends there was one recently I had my best ever uniqueness too oh no you got it
frankly though it couldn't have been set up better for me across the top was oilers
penguins and OHL and you know being based in Ontario I just have used to go to OHL games as a kid
like I have like I do a big knowledge there and then down the left side is leaf flames and 40 plus
career and so what a plus career points okay I literally looking at my box I had the boxes
under one percent which don't count for uniqueness and my middle box it was it was Calgary and
Pittsburgh and I went with redeemed Zahornat and he was 2% that's exactly what I would have said
that's exactly what I would have said wow I can just explode I mean I'm not gonna beat that one
I'm just not gonna beat it oh my god yes oh no that's good and I'll admit this I am not the best
of this game like I often I see what some like James Myrtle actually is a good one we usually
like we'll text each other with our like he is consistently beating me he remembers way more
old players than I do like when I see them on his board I'm like oh yeah that guy but if they're not
like they don't come to mind as much for me but there's an advantage doing to being an old with
this game because if you can think it because if you can think of a player from the 80s or 90s like
you're you're generally getting pretty low scores so I mean I get that those those of you that
your age starts with a two or maybe even a one you're just you're not gonna have that
frame of knowledge but I love pedoku it's it's paktoku sorry it's it's been I've done it all
summer long in fact we're recording on Thursday morning it was down this morning so I haven't
actually done it today and I'm aching oh oh I didn't know I don't know what's going down but it's
we should do it live on a show one day it might be boring but it's a fun game
we could figure out something like that I know the SDP they started doing that on their shows
where they're doing paktoku they're yeah that's something we could think about in a range
yeah one last one for you Dallas stars fan which Jeff Carter's middle name
I don't know
you mean you don't know I think I know but I I don't know I this is it sounds weird I feel like
the let down of saying it the juice won't be worth the squeeze like I think it's funny that this is
somehow this has just been a thing and let's just keep having it be a thing and maybe one day
we'll have them on the show to reveal it or something but I don't feel like I don't feel like
need just blurting it out on this episode is going to be a very good ending to that saga
okay well it was worth a shot anyway nice try Dallas stars fan and thank you to everyone who
sent us questions on discord for ask cj and thank you to everyone who tuned in on youtube
or wherever you listen to podcasts as we venture on another year of cj show siege I think we went
through that first episode as swimmingly as we possibly could yeah I'm grateful for the couple
summer episodes we did because it didn't feel it didn't feel as rusty you know what I mean no
and and I'll say this because I've had it in past summers like sometimes when you don't write for
a few like a month or six weeks when you go to write again it's almost like a muscle you haven't
used that's that's the best analogy I can draw like if you stop working out then you go and do
you know lift some weights it feels weird like that's how writing can feel I think that's how this
can feel but we're we're back and ready to go man see the three yes sir ski we'll be back next week
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