The wild, wild we Mackenzie Weger signs an extension in Calgary eight years
6.25 A av great contract for a really good player who has some good
good years of his prime left in him. Calgary officially just put their certified stamp that they won the trade as of right now
I, I think they are the preseason winners of the trade. Uh Absolutely
Yeah, it's a good contract. What they did is they kind of honed in on the Hampus Lyn home deal considering Weigher and Hampus are
pretty comparable players and they got him for a little less with more term
That was, that was, I guess really the story behind that. They looked at Hampus as a measuring stick for that and this contract is
gonna look real good in two years. Yeah. Yep, it is. It's
it was a good job and just showed Bradt Tree living is the master class of G MS in the NHL
And one more note to add on to this wonderful Calgary wagon is Darryl Sutter got a little extension this week too
sticking around in Calgary. They, I, you know, in his old age
I think he's got a little nicer to the guys. I think we love him in press conferences are great
Yeah, he's, he's a national treasure at this point. Pretty much for all those Canadians
Kevin. How do you feel about the uighur deal buddy? I like it
Um, yeah, it's definitely good for Calgary and everything. Keep him around
Like you said, you guys take all the points so they won the deal with that
So, ok, fine. I'll make sure we don't on our next, on our next thing we're gonna do
No, no, it's ok. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
no. We're gonna get right now right now into our central division preview
Sorry that we didn't do this one last week. We didn't really think about the fact that the central division
I go to the Yeah, so to the Pacific or whatever, we probably could have hit him in one week
but we have fun here. We have fun here. Kevin is rocking his Minnesota wild shirt
We'll start with the wild then. Kevin. What's your team? Look for the wild
You're, you have the floor. No one's going to take any of your points, buddy. Run, run
run. I think the wild they be back in the same position
Um probably finish second or third in the division. Colorado's easily gonna be finished first once again
Uh But yeah, Minnesota, they did hope. And Alex Newhook, you have what
Just keep going. Oh, maybe this is my train of thought but yeah
I think a full year of uh flurry in Minnesota. He's the number one guy there
So I think the comfort level there, uh Caprio is gonna continue to be a beast
Could see a 50 goal season from him. 50 goals. Yeah. How many goals for Matt Boldy
I'm going 26. 0, I'm at 24. So big man. The guy
how do you feel about the Minnesota Vikings did that on purpose
Um A Packers fan? So the Vikings are his ra who, who
who, who I'm a Tom Brady fan until he retires. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ok. Um
so for me in Minnesota, I think they're going to take a small step back from last year
I kind of disagree with you a little bit. Kevin Talbot obviously wanted out and they traded him to the Senators for Gustafson
I don't really think that's as fair as the deal as people would make it out to be
Now. Setting instead of having a one, a one b now. Fleury is definitely your one a
in my opinion. And then they basically gave Kevin Fiala away for nothing that was gonna help the team right now
They've got a ton of dead cap space still and it's not going to get any better
So I feel like this is kind of a, a doggy paddle and keep your head above water type year for Minnesota
stay in the hunt. Try to be competitive. See, so where I think that Fiala definitely hurts on that
I agree with. I think Marco Rossi and Matt old step up big
I think they'll be right around the same. I just don't see a huge drop off, but we'll see
They did. I mean, Kevin Fiala is really good and losing him does hurt
but I think this team is still pretty good. Next on our list
the division leading undefeated smash Predators Kevin. You want to lead the way on this
too. You lead the way. I, I'm kind of high on the press too
I can see them taking that third spot. Uh, bye bye, ST Louis
Welcome Nashville. You're not the only person who thinks that either. Like there's a lot of big people now and like
I think one move that wasn't really underrated was the nino need writer signing and already he just
yeah, he already has three goals and he may not be the guy, somebody scoring 30 goals
but he gives that, he gives that depth there. And when you have Duer and you have Forsburg
you have all these guys. It's having a need a rider in your middle six there
It's gonna, it's gonna help out, you have the goaltending, you have the defense with Robin Yoi and at home and all of them and
mcdonough now, I think it's, it's gonna be good. I'm high on Nashville uh goaltending
Yeah, I think that's one game. We should definitely try to go down in Nashville. I love to go to Bridgestone
So I would love to do that. Conor Predators. They are going to win the central division this year
They are going to topple the avalanche. They're going to surpass Minnesota and Saint Louis and they will be the winner of the central division
I don't agree with all that, but I think, I think that Ryan mcdonough is going to bring the skill and experience
that they need on the Nashville back end because not a lot of winning has really gone on there
If we're being honest, they made it, you know, the Stanley Cup final that one time
And I think saying that Nino need a rider is gonna have 30 goals may be a
I didn't say 30 goals. I say he's not a 30 goal scorer, but he's that guy
You're gonna need your secondary score. Oh, I think that he'll score more than 30 on this team on this national Predators team
I think he can score more than 30. I'm going like 24. I think he's like a 2025 goal scorer
I think you don't need to as a good player, I think in the right role. Um Yeah
I mean, I also think that Matthew Shane has looked as good as he looked in five years and I think that there's a division
of really pedestrian goaltending right now. This central division has some pretty mediocre goaltending
I don't know about that, but there's Colorado, there's some studs though
We can't say the whole division. I, no, I'm talking about like shit. Goaltenders. Nashville is one of the best goalies in the league in
UC. Sorrows Winnipeg is hella b who's very good. Minnesota is trash
I think your is gonna be pretty good. I think your K is gonna be real good. I really do
I'm not going to call him trash but Arizona Chicago and Dallas don't scare me one bit
Has the auto, bro. Come on. Yeah, I mean, again. No, you're right
He could step peak really good if he stays. No, you're right
He could too. Yeah, I don't think this, this isn't the worst goalie division. I don't
I mean, I think a lot of goals are going to be scored. Who's the worst goalie division then
Um, let's see this one. The Pacific Las Week, Seattle's week, Vancouver's Week Vegas
this week in San Jose's week. Edmonton's week. Oh, Jack Campbell. I don't trust Jack Campbell
He's got to prove it. You can't, you can't trust Jack Campbell really more than you trust like your game or
or Jonathan Jonathan quick on, on the back end brother. So is Gibson John Gibson
I think John Gibson, he's elite level goaltender, the team in front of him
He's way too young and next team on. Oh, I guess I didn't talk about him
Nashville. I think Nashville is good. I think Nashville is gonna be really good. Obviously
at the end, we're gonna give our playoff picks for this division. So I don't wanna like, give anything away like you two have
but I, I do think that, I think Nashville is good. Um
I think they have really strong offense. They have really good defense
they have really good goaltending. Um, and that helps pretty much everybody
The Arizona Coyotes are the Dumpster fire of the NHL. They are playing in a college hockey rink
Their team absolutely sucks. Logan Cooley is going to college. They have nothing to be excited about to watch this year and apparently it's even
worse than everyone thought all the players are pissed sucks. Like I heard it sucks on top of all that
There's not a chicken dick's chance in hell, the NHL. Let's Connor Bedard go there
So saying Bernard watch it just ain't happening. The NHL might not want it
but Gary Bettman will play. I know you are right. That is actually a good point, especially if Beard goes there
That Austin Matthews goes home. I know. Oh, this team has some 10 years down the line
Hope if they get a rink because that hasn't been accepted yet
That vote hasn't passed the TPI arena. The tee arena that's coming
hasn't came. Remember that girl that wrote for us? She's like the TPI arenas coming
A su is great for the community. All 3000 of our fans can watch wrong business
It's a business. You people don't understand business. I could look at you and know you don't understand business
It's business. You look anyone who's, like, looking at the Coyotes, like it's so great for the A SU community
for the A SU students. It's not, it's not the A SU kids would probably rather go watch college hockey
They don't care about the Coyotes. Do you think they're in there? They're carrying
the Coyotes are basically a college team. But that barn is going to be filled when all the big boy teams come through town
No. Yeah. No, it will. Because you have a lot of rich, you have a lot of rich white kids that go to a SU
grew up playing hockey rooting for the original six teams. So they're gonna be in there
That's just a fact. Like I don't, but the, the Coyotes are just in a tough spot
Like I don't and I want hockey to work out there. I do, but they just had
they fumbled the bag so bad. Like, I think that hockey could thrive in these communities
Like I think hockey should thrive in Atlanta like it has in San Jose
like it has in L A in communities that have a lot more minority sports fans
They, it's thrived in these areas. So when people are like, oh, it's because it's in a predominantly like
minority area. It's not true because hockey has thrived in those areas and other cities
Arizona just fumbled the back. They just didn't do this. Right. It's that simple
Like they did, like it just, that's what happened. It's, it's about, it's about the way they built this organization
You can't even say, and, like, put the blame on the current ownership either because the NHL owned the team and it was no better
No, it's not. It's not just these guys. It's the ones before them and the ones before them and the ones before them just Arizona
is a joke. They're the laughing stock of the NHL. Like, I, I think that you're gonna see like NHL stars after this year and
I want to go there. I'm like, I'm not going to play in this rink. That's why escrow so high
What a joke. Chicago Black Hawks, a historical organization that has turned into another laughing stock
for multiple reasons. I don't even want to get into the other stuff
We did enough last year, right? Like we did it enough. Obviously
Rocky works in the gang. They just didn't, they didn't handle anything right now
The star players are leaving. We're gonna see this is the year we see can and tapes leave
we saw the break, it leave. This team needs to be rebuilt from the ground up and there needs to be a firestorm that goes
through there. I mean, the firestorms really already started. They've got rid of Kirby Doc
Tor it, drum management through everything. But it really has, it really has gone through all that too
Everything. But upper management and ownership change that because they own it
Yeah. I mean, the league could technically force them to sell the team
but when you're an original six owner who still personally owns the team like that
you know, it's not owned by a company, it's not gonna go anywhere. Chicago
Chicago is gonna suck this year. They're gonna really suck. They suck real bad. I think
I think they're gonna surprise at how not terrible. They have a lot of mediocre talent
Yeah. And Peter Mora is not as bad as like everybody puts him out to be and I think having no expectations on him and
expecting to lose that this team will sometimes surprise some people and get some wins
And I have, I have a bet with Clifton over on, uh, cue the dagger that
uh, they will not get a top 10 pick with their own pick this year
No, they're gonna, I don't agree with that but real tight, Colorado avalanche
Kevin. I don't let you talk about Chicago. I'm sorry, Kevin. Do you want to talk about Chicago or you want to talk about Colorado
Your choice, dealer's choice, Colorado baby. Get into it. You have the floor
take your topics. That's right. Well, we start with that. We can start just talking about Colorado
the state? What is wrong with the Denver Broncos? What happened? Like what
what Russ they turned into the most Walmart ass team in the NFL
They're so terrible to watch. Put the, put the water on. Chef Chef Russ
No more cooking no more heat. There's no more heat in the flame
He carol ruined him. Colorado avalanche, Kevin. That's right. Let's ride, baby
Um, the Colorado, they're gonna do it. Ah, so, I mean, defending the Stanley Cup is never easy
I don't think they're gonna repeat back to my chicken dick's chance
but still gonna be a good team. I think they're still gonna, they'll probably make the Western conference final
Yeah. Yeah, I, I, but it's gonna be tough, I think with Edmonton upgrading the goaltending
possibly getting Jacob Chicken that they could push it. And, like we've talked about me
David and Dry settle are sick of losing Edmonton. They could really push Colorado in the Western conference final and kick them right out
But, yeah, I, I don't, I, I don't, I agree completely. I don't think a Stanley Cup team comes out of the Central
No, I think the West is owned by Alberta. I really do
But I, I just, you know, I think Colorado is very good but I really do wholeheartedly think we're underestimating the losses they took and
the short summer and the drinking and, like, just the off season
Like, I really do. Like, I think that losing. Nazim Kadri is huge
It's, and Andrei Beaks, they didn't replace huge. So a lot of this season hinges on one player
a guy who they said they're going to give all the way to the trade deadline most likely to prove he fits there
And that's Alex New, if he can prove he's a legit. Number two center
this team will roll this division again if he can be a stud
It's a lot on his shoulders though. I don't know if he can do it, but they're going to win a lot of games because
they have mccarran and, and Landis co and Myers and who do they Ben Myers
Yeah, Ben Myers and Bo Byron and Dev on tapes and they have players
you know what I mean? Like they have, they have questions, they have questions
they're not as good at goaltending, I don't think, but we'll have to wait and see depth scoring
And Evan Rodriguez. Yeah. You know, they did and, but he's not Benkowski
So, but so it's like this team, I mean, I'm still high
like, I still think they're a Western conference final team. I really do. But like when the going gets tough
they're experience should take over. But we'll see, we really will see with that
I don't, I, this team is very wait and see. I think you're kind of there too. Right. Connor
Yeah, I'm not as high on them as I was in the past I'm not betting them plus 400 to win the cup
I'll tell you that much. No, absolutely not. But I'll, I'll reserve giving you my estimation on the team until we do the who is
gonna come in? Dallas Stars. Who wants it? Kevin Bacon? I don't think anybody wants the Dallas Stars at this point
Not even Dallas, no doubt. Fine. I'll talk about Dallas Stars. They have aging stars
They have some young guys who are turning into stars. It doesn't mesh
right? It doesn't click quite right. And when you have a dickhead owner
I just don't know. I think this could be the year we, we see them say bye bye to Sagan in bed
I think by the trade deadline those guys could be on the move, but it's a hell of a lot of money
They came back to Boston. No, too much money ain't worth Sagan ain't worth 12 million
Sorry 800. Sagan. Sagan's worth 76.57 price seven. I would say 7.15 as high
as I would go on Tyler Sagan. They want to retain some money. Sure, we take him back but he ain't coming back to Boston
I, I just don't see it happening. I just don't think Dallas is a weird team. Like they had a good defenseman in Klingberg
He's gone. They like they have and I think is a good goal. Where do you think Sagan would fit in the best move
Where do I think Tyler Sagan would fit in the best? The L A Kings. No
he would have to play third line or fourth line. Who's Sally King
Second one center? Uh Let's see right now. They got Kar who's the young kid
Um Shoot, they drafted him in the first round like three or four years ago
Ifield. Oh Quin Byfield, he's your third line center be filled to know Philip De
Nos are second line center for that. He played there. I would take over him somewhere else
All right. Maybe he doesn't fit there the best. I absolutely spitball that it was off the top of my head
Yeah, they're kind of, they're kind of loaded in their great in Boston
I mean, because I only have one year but I don't think it's happening because I don't see that happening
I think Sagan would love to come back to Boston, but I don't think that's happening
I don't know. I mean, he would fit, he would fit pretty good in Colorado with their need for a second line center
Yeah, he would, he would. But that's a lot of money. They don't cut that spaces you to Nashville now
They have two guys who are equivalent to old Sagan Johansson. Other guys
Yeah, I mean, they're really good hockey players like these guys are really good NHL hockey players
They're stars, but they're not elite anymore. And can Sagan get back to that
I think, but he's just been hurt a lot and he just, I don't, I don't know
I think Sagan is more focused on hockey now than ever. The Panthers
I think he would thrive down there. I do. That's a team. It could be
Yeah, I just, I don't know. It's the money, it's the money
It's the money. This team, well, we'll talk about a minute. Saint Louis Blues
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We can't just skip over the Dallas stars and money and not talk about Jason Robertson
That's so true. Jason Robertson. Yeah, that was dumb. Jason Robertson contract
Good deal. Was it four years? 7.5, 4 years, 7.75. 0, good deal
But the kicker, the contract in year four is 9.2. So he can't get Q A for anything
less smart contract. And what's really screwed about it is he will still be in R fa when this four years pops up
So he is Garone to get that money unless he's not qualified and then he's automatically an unrestricted free agent
So it's a win win. Yeah. And it's a bet on yourself
but have a pretty good safety net in their type contract. I like it for him
I like it for the player. I do think the Dallas stars by year three or four are in a good place
You know what I mean? Like, they should be in a good place. We'll see if they're gonna have to make moves to get more
They're gonna have to pull a like 2015, 2016 NHL tool. Oh
thanks for sharing. Thanks for sharing. What? Thanks for sharing that. I'm muted
No, that came through. Wait a second. When I mute, you can still hear me
Yep. No, I haven't been. That means I've been using my mic this whole time
It's just using my computer speaker. That's a nightmare. Yeah, you just shared all that with us
I feel so lovely now. Sorry about that. Blow my nose. I muted
So that's bad. Yeah, I've seen Kevin can mute himself. I haven't been using my mic or my
Oh, let's see. Yeah, that's changed. Do I sound a lot different
Yes, you sound much better. No. Really? Yeah. You just figured this out
Wow. Stupid. You two didn't think to say that from the start
I didn't notice because you were just popped on that way. I couldn't forget about this
We forget about this. Just this one week, whatever. All right. Um Who's next
I know we got two teams. The Saint Louis Blues. Saint Louis Blues are an older team
Saint Louis Boos. They got worse. They got worse. Why did they get worse
Kev, I lost Billy Whoo David Perron. You know Tyler Bozak left
Yeah, they paid, um, Robert Thomas, he threw the bag at Robert Thomas Jordan and very good players
and they will be fine once it, they got more money than Jason Robertson though
And they signed, uh, noel a chai the ball after the famous trip in the 2019
I, um, Saint Louis, they just don't move. They're the New York Islanders
West, in my opinion. Yeah. II, I have him as a wild card team organ up there
They say, well, I mean, yeah, Saint Louis just isn't, they're not it anymore
I don't think. But who knows? You know, they're the type of team that you wouldn't really want to play in the playoffs
You should have a, a healthy Tao is a tank and they have Ryan o'reilly
They're good. There's Taroko still wants to be traded. He's never rescinded that trade request
He, he's still mad. He's not the captain, he's got one more year. So
photos of Ryan o'reilly, who they've got to figure out if they want to resign or not
That's a big question mark is that team has some decisions to make and what direction they're going in
But I, they do have like, I mean, Kairo and Robinson are hugely important pieces to the future
So they got locked up. I'm hoping Jordan Cairo has a phenomenal year this year on my fantasy team
Exactly. Exactly. The Winnipeg Jets Barf, that's all I'm not talking because I don't really
have much for you. They strip the cap and see away from Blake. We talked about that before
Weird. Move, um, to like, and like, it's a weird move when he's like
the players on the team came out talking about how much they respect them and like
they're not like, it's just a weird, it's, the whole thing is weird. It's like you like your captain and it's gonna be awkward
You're gonna get rid of Wheeler. You're not, he plans on still playing there. You still plan on keeping him
You hire a coach who's in his nineties. I don't know. They made Wheeler available and nobody wanted that because I don't know
I don't know. I don't get because there's issues and there's been issues
there's been issues. It seems like Blake Wheeler might be a little bit of a bully, but I don't know like he might be a
dick. II, I don't know. We, we're not in the locker room and we don't know, but there's been a lot of guys who are
kind of like, fuck them, fuck those guys. And it's like, and schele is not safe in that conversation either from the sounds of it
No, it seems like him and Scheifele might not treat guys that great and both of them have been talked about in
you know, trade rumors and the last year said he doesn't know if he wants to go back and then he changed his mind over
the summer. I let's get into who our playoff teams are. Something positive because this division we did it last because it's just boring
In many cases. It is a very boring division this year. I'm gonna let
um, Connor, you're going last because I feel like you have a firework for us. Kev give us your top four
top four in order. Or do you want, you know, in order
I'm going start at the bottom, start at the top, start wherever you want
I'm gonna start on top of the mountains in Colorado and then
uh, go down to Minnesota to Nashville and let's finish it up them
Tejas Dallas. Yeah. OK. Chaos. Chaos. Perfect
All right. I'm going with the avalanche one, Nashville two, Minnesota, three
Saint Louis four. I'm going Nashville one, Colorado
two, Dallas, three, Minnesota four. Who did you not have making it that we had Saint
Louis? Ok. That's fine. So we have Connor and I have the same teams just do an order
Yeah, I, I think all, I think all of those are possible. I really do
Ok. I think any one of those is possible because like, I, I guess I forget like Ruby Hens is a very good player who
plays for the Dallas stars who people forgets real good. They sign Mason Marchment too
Yeah, they're not bad. I mean, I don't March, they're not bad. Boring division
Thank God that's over wild, wild West was not too wild today because I think like you could have five teams in the central making
the playoffs. What, what Yeah, I guess. Yeah, I mean, because when you
when you really look at the Pacific, it's Calgary Edmonton and then Vegas Kings of Vancouver though
Dude, they have some teams. They're gonna be pushing that L A team as younger
It was the same thing as last year though. Yeah, it, it is the same thing as last year
But they were all right. Seattle is a little better and so is Anaheim
So I think we are more likely to see five teams from the Pacific than in the central
That's for sure. I know it's crazy with this L A Kings team that has the such a deep
deep, like everyone made it like they have the deepest of prospect pools
He still hasn't, who's, who's their defenseman right now who made the team
So Brant Clark didn't make the team. It was like I heard like it was, they thought he might
he didn't make it. It was um it's dowdy Anderson, Walker Edler jersey
but they like, that's what I was thinking of. I'm trying to look through it has they have Kali who's strong
he's either a third or fourth line forward, he's probably gonna be a third line forward with Byfield
but freaking whatever his name still has not made this team. Turko. Turko still hast made this team
That's a bad sign like that's a bad sign for the development of your prospects
Yes and no, I mean, it's also a matter of where that person's gonna play in your lineup
Like you don't want to play top six prospects in the bottom four. I feel like I feel this has popped off yet either
No, no, that, that, I mean, a lot of those guys from those two draft years
like Lafreniere, they just haven't exploded like everyone thought they were going to
But I do think these guys, they look, they look right against the Bruins
They, both of them look good. I think they, I think they're pretty good this year
Fuck Berkowitz. Just kidding. No, I just, I just think, I don't like
I genuinely don't like the Rangers team. I don't really like lucky
What do we have left the lucky duckies? Do you have any bets for us? Kev. Before I click the button? Do you have any
bets for us? I'll hit it. I'll hit the, you have a second