I know it's one game, but it's a big loss

... you said it, though.

Someone who didn't watch that tonight is gonna pick up a box score, go onto an app, and say, "Oh." I've already had people tonight texting me, "Yeah, pretty good game." I'm like, "That had a 5-1 feel to it." That, that did not have a 3-2 feel to it for me for the Toronto Maple Leafs at all.

At all.

There was that one power play the Habs had where it didn't leave the zone, I believe, for, like, one minute and 50 seconds of it.

This is, I, I'm seeing similar things.

Bobrovsky wasn't great for me tonight.

No defensemen.

I think the fan base is mostly OK with it.

I think you guys could have matched that no problem.

Really? Oh, yeah.

With all due respect to Nyes, there's nothing.

The Leafs are funny.

Nyes was their one guy on a great contract compared to Montreal's 13 on a great contract.

That's a good point.

Go ahead, Sid.

[laughs]

I absolutely adore the speculation game.

I caught the last question, and I, uh, you know what? I just, uh...

Look, e- everyone has a lot of respect for Bill Guerin.

He's done a hell of a job.

He's an Olympic gold medalist not that long ago.

I, I wanna see this play out.

[laughs]

I hear you.

I think in the East, never mind how much fun it would be

beMontreal, in my mind, becomes the best team in the Eastern Conference.

Like that.

Is there a risk? Better believe there's a risk.

There's a risk in anything we do.

I think this is worth the risk.

Et le Canadien pourrait peut-être les battre.

I'm not sure what the crossover numbers of traditional, what would be North American, your Blue Jay Leaf kind of Raptor crowd is, but it certainly is, for Canadian history, a big night.

Massive night.

Look, there's a couple things at play here, Jim.

Whether you're a soccer fan or not, Canada, on the biggest stage of whatever sport, based on my history over the last several decades, the one thing I've noticed is Canadians care about that.

So I think TSN's in for a massive, massive rating number here in about 50 minutes' time.

That's the first thing.

But secondly, with all due respect to the Olympics and the Super Bowl and the NBA Finals, put all of them together.

earth.

Now, the, the Knights are a game away from being eliminated, but, like, how are you handling the whole Mitch Marner thing?

Uh, better if he loses.

I'll be honest with you.

Like, that's gonna be a tough one for Toronto.

That's gonna be a tough one.

Now, this series has been so messed up.

I'm not willing to throw away the Knights' chances, uh, going into Sunday night.

Do you-

What would you say to somebody who's like, yeah, I don't get what this is all about, or I don't get soccer in the first place? Well, I

mean, the first thing is, Like we've reached a point, I think in 2026, where like, if you don't care about soccer, that's fine.

I don't care that you don't care about soccer.

I think the feeling with soccer, especially with a generation that's come up playing EA Sports FIFA and has watched soccer in a way different way.

I mean, I just think it's a very old school mentality, isn't it? Now, if you live in Liberty Village and your world's about to stop for three weeks, that's a different story.

Honestly, I know people in Liberty Village who are packing up as if an evacuation order has been given.

I don't blame them at all.

How can you not be excited? How is that not infectious to people when you understand all of your friends in the diversity of our city just coming alive?

How does Pelley know that if he doesn't even know his own?

I mean, look, I think he was in a room where names were said.

I think we can confirm-It was in a room where names were said, and Pelley should not have come close to going down that road.

And on top of that, this is the reason why I think this leak specifically over the last 24 hours came out of Montreal.

Kent Hughes, at the season-end availability, brings up Mitch Marner and the Leafs.

He's clearly still pissed at the Toronto Maple Leafs.

And then this report comes out, completely obliterating the leadership of the franchise at that point.

Let's play it

Mm-hmm

...

the one thing I'm noticing about people who do a lot of media and leak a lot of things is they're not getting the jobs.

And, um, things have gone kind of quiet in the Leaf search over the last week.

Like it got to the point where every time, um, every time S- Seravalli or Pagnotta or Freed or CJ, like you woke up on a Monday or Tuesday morning, there was something.

[fingers snapping] It's like we had, we had a nugget to chew on.

That, like Friday, not really.

If Bednar is cooked, it's probably David Crow to take that job.

It's just pure frustration from my point of view.

Oh, I hear you.

Look, I mean, from, from that end, I completely understand it.

But I mean, I think there is an element of, um, like if, let's say he doesn't play well in game four, Mitch Marner is gonna-- like Tortz might be pissed, Tortz might turn over a table.

Uh, Marner deals with the, the media scrum at his locker, and based on what I heard last night from the local Vegas media, it's, it's cupcake stuff.

There's n- there's nothing hard in it.

And, and you put on the suit, and you don't take it with you.

Mm-hmm

Brandon Carlo.

Yep.

Carlo, thankfully just two.

And I think, I think you might live in a world where Carlo could get you something in next year's deadline if he decides to throw a body check, but that's up to him.

Um, so I, I, I like, I do want to give a Peli some credit in making the move.

Now he's getting ahead of it because Elliot treatment and some insiders here in Canada, we're going to release the news that that's for living was fired, but.

Like I, I have been accused in my life of being slightly negative.

Yeah.

Shocking.

Yeah, shocking.

But like this, I have to tell you, The last 10 minutes of the second period was, was like a foreign concept to me.

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

They decided to play a little bit and, and thank God Easton Cowan saw some top line time.

Like, what are we doing here? Like let the kid play, let him develop, let him make the mistakes.

I don't, I don't care.

Sid?

There's been no shortage of it from everyone and their dog, but I'm curious for you, where do you think they're at? What do you think of this team and what do you think they're going to do at this deadline?

I mean, I'm sure the chat will appreciate this, but I think this organization is in way worse trouble than people are acknowledging.

Way worse.

Like, if we're having an honest discussion about re-signing Scott Lawton, like, what are we doing? I don't understand the plan.

I don't understand why they don't have a first-round pick in the next two years.

I don't understand where the prospects are.

Someone needs to answer me that question.

When I say that name, what do you think of?

But I'm curious for you, where do you think they're at? What do you think of this team and what do you think they're going to do at this deadline?

I mean, I'm sure the chat will appreciate this.

But I think this organization is in way worse trouble than people are acknowledging.

Way worse.

If we're having an honest discussion about re-signing Scott Lawton, what are we doing? I don't understand the plan.

I don't understand why they don't have a first-round pick in the next two years.

I don't understand where the prospects are.

And I didn't mean to

Sid, what are your thoughts in general of, uh, uh, the United States as a hockey nation?

Well, I think the enrollment numbers say a lot.

Like, it's basically on par now with us or close, and it's been happening for twenty years, and people in Canada have been fairly dismissive of it, and it's been, it's been to our detriment.

Prices for hockey in the youth level up here are pretty damn expensive.

Now, I'm, I'm assuming, considering it's still kind of starting out in the States, it isn't at that level.

You may get there one day.

But I think at the world junior level, world junior hockey championship level, it's a big deal up here in Canada around the holidays.

Obviously, we knew the Olympics were coming, but it's very different than rooting for your favorite hockey team annually.