Hour 3 - Habs Breakfast and Marc Denis

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1:00It's the morning show with Connor McKenna and Sean Starr, like coffee for your ears. If your coffee occasionally mocked you, TSN 690. Well, World Baseball Classic is in full swing. No pun intended there, but yeah, there it is. Vinnie Pasquantino. This guy's crushing it for the Italian team. That one, I'm not sure if he got it all. Let's see, it's Steve and it's gone. He's hit three. Three home runs. Here he is after the game. The Italians now kind of infamously have that espresso machine in the dugout. Three espresso shots in. How you feeling? I'm caffeinated. I'm beamed up right now. Yeah, we're in a good spot. Beamed up. I am also beamed up right now. I've got my coffee in my hand. I don't know why you peed.

2:01No, no, no coffee today. No coffee today? No. Why not? I was going to stop for one, but I wanted to get in earlier today, because it's been a while since we've worked together and wanted to get ready for the show. Yeah, breathing exercises and such. No, not that research wise. I mean, you've been, Peter, you've been working. You're on the air every day. I know. It's not as if you're going to be caught off-carly. What? Jacob Fowler started last night? No, I know. I've been, I've actually been working quite a bit. Yeah, it's been a while since. I was surprised you didn't work the game last night. No, I did not. Thank goodness. Yes. That would have been a lot. That would have been a lot, but it's not like I haven't done it before. So you're halfway there. How are you feeling? Are you feeling alright? I feel great. And the decision not to caffeinate is that do you not normally drink coffee? Oh, no, I do usually drink coffee, but too much coffee in my opinion. So I'm like, so you've got cold turkey. No coffee at all.

3:01This was like the first day. I just decided on a whim. So you're finally coming in and doing a morning show with me. And that's the day you decide that you're going to stop drinking coffee in the morning. I guess you could put it down. Okay. Hey, listen, if it got my lemon water, it's working. Lemon water. Look at you. Are you on some kind of a strange diet? No. Okay. I was actually thinking about going on a water fast. I heard about this. Yeah. Sean mentioned it. And I didn't try. I haven't tried yet. I don't know if you have any pointers. I don't know anything. I don't even know what that is. So what? You don't eat food and you just drink water, I guess. For 72 hours. So starve yourself for 72 hours, right? That's it. I mean, it doesn't sound appealing on the, look, on the surface. You forget about appealing. Obviously, yes. That doesn't sound fun to not eat food for three days. But it also doesn't sound healthy. You're supposed to eat food every day. You live in a place where you get to eat all the food you want, whenever you want. I personally, I wouldn't do that nor would I do the other thing.

4:01I would find a middle ground between eating all the food and eating whatever you want, whatever you want, and not eating at all. Somewhere in the middle there, I think, is your sweet spot, you know? I'll probably have a coffee after this show. Yeah, you're going to need one. I hope not. I listen. You're halfway through. You're doing great. Nice to have you here. Yeah. I'm in the morning show. Let's start with before the game tonight, Jacob... Excuse me, before the game last night, Jacob Fowler called up by the Canadians. What were the people saying about this? This was, Pierre Mcaear last, yes, a day around 5.30. I kind of felt last night after the game, after only eighteen shots and made the point on a doing that. You know, that's not a heavy workload. Now, outside of a couple big glove saves that he made and maybe the one chance for Dakota Joshua in the first period. That was not an overly taxing game for, you know, doobish. That being said, I think they want to use this as a dress rehearsal. He exactly where Jacob Fowler is at this time in his career.

5:08That's Pierre McGarris. Sounds maybe a little bit under the weather there. This was Pierre LeBron. You know, I think go with clearly their number one now. I thought he, you know, even though it wasn't the one tested last night, I mean, he makes a few saves when he had to. You know, I think that's where the confidence level is now. But, but yeah, there's only one way to interpret what the Fowler call of needs right now in terms of the confidence in Maltempo and... Yeah, not great for Maltempo. This is Martin St. Louis before the game. Yeah, I think it's... It's where we are today, you know. The results are important and I think it's the best decision for the game tonight. It's the best chance of the game tonight. At night? Yeah. Well, I think I'm going to be on a back-to-back where we are present. It's back by Chabot, 30 seconds from the period. Chabot from the back. I think it's the reverse. Chabot, again, 23 seconds. We're going to play where we are now.

6:12It's back to Adonis. And then Alain Busson, the disc at the centre. Attention, again, 12 seconds from the period. Chabot passes in the corner. Here's the Brady Chabot. And again, Alain Busson, the third is the fourth! The fourth is the second! The second is the third! Jacob Fowler, the Fumor. The sixth, the situation of sixth against five. And the fourth is the third. The third is the fourth, the fourth is the fourth. It's a great game, 4 points in the evening, compared to the Talk about answering with authority. When it comes to Jacob Fowler, I think the context is important here. Um, last time Sam Montaubeau played, in fact, the last two times Sam Montaubeau played, the Canadians gave up a goal in a six on five situation and ended up losing the game. He stands tall in a six on five situation and the Canadians are able to escape Ottawa with both

7:14points, massive win with Jacob Fowler's name all over it. So, I mean, ask the question now in the timing of this call up, it boy, it feels like the Canadians got this thing right. There was some talk yesterday on this show about the possibility that maybe the move was to go with Dobesh again to start him in the back to back. That is not been a formula for success for Dobesh, nor is it really a formula for success for the modern NHL goal tender. The stats are staggering. You don't start guys and back to back games. It just doesn't work. So, Fowler's called up and he looks great. Peter, where do we go from here? I, I think we'll see, right? I, for now, Dobesh has to be the number one in my opinion, but it's all in a game by game basis. When you heard Martin St. Louis being asked about it prior to the game, he said, this is what gives us the best chance to win the game tonight. Yeah. So, they're clearly not looking ahead to a back to back situation on Saturday and Sunday. They're in the here and now

8:16they're going a period at a time and they thought Fowler coming up in relief of Dobesh on the second night of a back to back gave them the best chance to win. So, I think it is going to be that way for the rest of the season. If we see Fowler play a couple of good games and Dobesh drops his level a little bit, I think Fowler becomes the number one. It's not like Dobesh has proven to be this consistent, surefire goalie at the NHL level. Neither is Fowler, but I think knowing that, knowing the cases of both of those players, it's sort of a wide open race right now. The Canadians play a lot of games and what I do wonder about is when he goes back down. Because when are you comfortable giving the net back to Montenbo? It does feel like those two games, those last two games that he played were the straw that maybe broke the camel's back when it comes to Montenbo. How do you give this guy the net back? You can't trust him. Unless the Canadians,

9:21I guess find themselves in a position where they've built a really comfortable cushion standings wise and there's a game, I don't know, let's say against the predators two weeks from now, roughly two weeks from over two weeks, two and a half weeks from now, and maybe they feel like they can go in there and Nashville and get a start. I don't know, but beyond that, they've got the sharks on Saturday, the ducks on Sunday. Dobesh gets one, Fowler gets the other in a back-to-back. Then it's Tuesday night, the Boston Bruins are at the Bell Center. I don't know who starts that game, but it ain't Sam Montenbo. Then it's the Red Wings, another team that these are the teams that they're fighting with, right? That's Thursday night in Detroit. Again, you give that game to either Dobesh or Fowler. Saturday night against the Islanders, not a team that's necessarily chasing them, but a playoff team, an important game that's at the Bell Center on Saturday night. Then they play Tuesday. They host the Carolina Hurricanes. Then it's the Columbus Blue Jackets. Another team that's chasing the Canadians. That's Thursday. What do these all have in common?

10:22The Canadians don't have more than a day between games. Then they play Saturday night in Nashville. They play the following day in Raleigh against the Hurricanes again. Then they get it's a Tuesday nighter in Tampa against the Lightning. Thursday night, they're in Madison Square Garden against the Rangers. Saturday night, they're at the Prudential in Newark taking on the Devils. Then they're back home to face the Devils literally the following day. Two days after that, they host the Florida Panthers. Two days after that, they host the Tampa Bay Lightning. Two days after that, it's the Blue Jackets again. That's the schedule as it's coming up. There's a reason that they did this now. It's because they need two goal tenders that they can trust. Fowler rewarded them in a huge way there yesterday. Having said that, do I agree with Craig Buttons' assessment? He was on Sports Center last night. He was asked if he thinks that Fowler could be the starting goal tender for the Canadians. Come play off time. Yeah, I would suggest it might be more than an

11:24indication. If we rewind a little bit, Glenn, I mean, I think that the Montreal Canadians were kind of stumbling along. And then they called up Jacob Fowler before Christmas. I think he got their season back on track. Now, obviously, Montenbo found his game. Jacob Fowler went back down to the minors and played in La Valle. But I think that was the first signal. Now you get to this point in the season. And you watch this game for Jacob Fowler. Back to back games for his team. You got to go in there and give your team a chance to win. And that's exactly what Jacob Fowler did. But for me, Glenn, the playoffs are about points. There's lots of things going on in the playoffs that opponent throws a lot of different things at you. They're trying to find what I call the soft underbelly. And so for a goal tender, you need to be really calm. You need to be really points. And that's exactly what Jacob Fowler is. He looks unflappable, laid in this game. He made three, four, five unbelievable saves. He just dials in. And you don't even know that it's late in the game,

12:27that it's a one goal game. He's trying to do everything he can to keep the pike out of the neck. And so when you start to think about the playoffs and you think about Jacob Fowler, I don't think there's any question. And then he will be the starter. I mean, I'm putting a stake in the ground here. We'll be the starter. Because I think he gives them the best chance. Ken Dryden played six regular season games back in 1971. We saw what he did. Patrick Waw. We know what he did. He played the full season. Came in on the cons of my trophy. I'm not suggesting that Jacob Fowler is going to win the cons of my trophy and the games are going to win this Stanley Cup. But I am putting a stake in the ground and saying Jacob Fowler, game one starter and then Stanley Okay. Now, maybe we got a long way to go until then. But nice for the kid that that's how they're talking about a national media. Get ready by the way, Habs fans for a lot of this. Because I don't think that it's looking more like the sense they're going to make the playoffs. The Leafs aren't going to make the playoffs. The jets are a long shot to make the playoffs. The flames and

13:31the connox are not making the playoffs and the Oilers. When life gets unpredictable, preparation matters. In medicine, it's all about staying alert. Ready for whatever comes through the door. On the road, it's no different. That's why Volvo designs vehicles to help anticipate risk, reduce harm and protect lives. The Volvo XC90's advanced safety systems inspire confident decisions wherever the road takes you. The Volvo XC90 for life. Proud sponsor of the Pit podcast. Learn more at VolvoCars.ca slash safety. I'm Luke Wilson. Join me each week for Film Never Lies. Since retiring from the NFL, I've had a lot of my mind now. Got my own show. If your tire to lazy takes, if you want honest conversations, join us each week. Film Never Lies available on all TSN platforms in the iHeart radio app. Well, we'll see. So if I had to bet now, I'd say the Oilers and the Habs, the only two Canadian teams in the playoffs, there's going to be a lot of talking about those two teams on a national level. And sometimes, it can be a little bit tough to listen to national commentators. Speak about your team,

14:35the team that you live and die with every single game. Fowler could go and wrestle the job away from Sam Montenbo. I don't think, excuse me, from Jakob Dobesch, I don't think that's a realistic expectation to put on his shoulders right now. To me, the healthy approach really is just like, yeah, you know, if that happens, great. That's fine. And that's wonderful. But Dobesch has played at a level that I think he deserves to be given the credit as the Canadian's number one goal tender. There's plenty of games coming up as I just outlined. We're going to get lots of opportunities, I think, probably to see Jacob Fowler. And if he plays better than Jakob Dobesch and the playoffs come around, absolutely. He can be the game one starter, but let him go out there and win that spot because today Dobesch is the guy. Is he not? Yes, he is. And there's a lot of commentary after just one performance from Jacob Fowler, but I will say to play devil's advocate here, we have a large enough sample size of him looking comfortable on a consistent basis in the AHL

15:41and not looking out of place in his first 10 games, now 11 games in the national hockey league. So you kind of know that he's going to be calm and not phased from all of that pressure and the moment. So I do feel confident in Jacob Fowler carrying over this kind of performance from now until the rest of the season. But based on merit and what Jakob Dobesch has done for the Canadians, keeping them afloat, I think you got to roll with him because that is ultimately what Marta Saint Louis preaches. It's a meritocracy. Yeah. And you're going to get rewarded based on what you've done. And he's tried to get Sam Montabau in there. They've tried to get Sam to be the number one, just hasn't worked out given him every chance in the world. And they've exhausted all options. Nobody can argue that Sam Montabau is getting a raw deal here. He has been given a lot of opportunities to get this thing on track and he just hasn't been able to. And it's okay. I think

16:44you'll be back next year. Maybe not with the Canadians. But I think I think he's a national hockey league level goalie. And he hasn't been this year. He hasn't been. He hasn't been, you know, can he get it on track? I don't know why. I asked Martin. We look, you know, we get to the point where I asked Martin on Tuesday if the Canadians have asked him to get his eyes tested. And if that's something that they've seriously looked at. And I wasn't I wasn't joking like it was a serious question. His inability to track unscreened shots from the blue line that beat him that consistently beat him. I mean, this is a guy who gave a goal in the first shot of the game twice in the same game. I've never seen that happen before and granted the second one. He did not and no goalie would have had a prayer of stopping it. But nonetheless, the amount of times he's given up a goal in the first shot of the game. The amount of times he's been beaten. Well, the Canadians were trying to protect the lead late in the game. It's demoralized. It is. And it's just it. Yeah, it reached a breaking point. But nice to see anyway, the decision, decision payoff for the Canadians.

17:45I did want to mention one other thing about the game for me yesterday. And it was the hit by Nick Cousins on Alexander and the effect that it had on the on the team. This was in the first period. Senators ahead to the neutral zone. Lars Jeller drops it for Zetterland. I'll filter it in right side around the boards. It goes for Kerry. And he's blown up at the corner by Nick Cousins. Big hit there. And the Canadians unraveled as a result of that hit. They, Strubel and Anderson try to challenge him. And then they start going out there looking for big hits. It cost them big, right? They blew the lead. They ended up actually trailing going into the first period of that game. And to me, it felt like it was the Cousins hit that knock them off their game. And that's exactly what he was trying to do. You know, they played right into the Senators hands. You saw one Cousins run over Fowler, Dylan early in the game. And the other Cousins run over Kerry, and it did it unraveled the Canadians. But to their credit, because I believe this about this team that it might have earlier this season and even last year unraveled

18:50to the point where they lose the game in regulation. It's a credit to, I think, the increased maturity of this team that they were ultimately able to get the thing back on track last night, something that is another part of the evolution of this team and is a huge positive that I think we're seeing happen in front of our eyes. And I saw a lot of uproar about Arbor Jack, I'm not being in the lineup yesterday because of the physical nature of the game that we were going to see. Now, I don't necessarily agree with that. And I don't even know if that detours Nick Cousins from playing the way that he wants to play. It hasn't. He's not accepting, if he's not accepting a fight with Jane Strubel, he's not accepting a fight from Arbor Jack, either. And he's not going to hold back because Arbor Jack is watching him from the bench, staring him down. That's, I don't know what you think about. No, I think you're probably right about that. And I do think that there's an element of playing into the Senators hands. If you do put Jack I out there, if you feel that Strubel is the guy who's going to give you

19:53your best chance to win and you don't do that because Arbor Jack is going to bring some untangible level of accountability from the Ottawa's, Ottawa's goons. I think you're, you're, you're putting yourself at a disadvantage right off the hop. You know, the Canadians are the team with the seven point lead in the standings. The Canadians are the team that should be setting the tone. And boy, was that a big win for them last night? We'll have Mark Dene joining us in just a few moments. You want to go see the Canadians play live and in person. We got tickets for the Habs in the Carolina Hurricanes to give away. Let's do that in just a few moments. 514 790 1690. That's 514 790 1690. Give us a call to win these Habs tickets next year on the morning show. She's got game a weekly show about women's sports with top athletes, coaches and leaders hosted by Michaela Schreider and Vanessa Sanchez. This week on She's Got Game, it's Women's History Month, which means the return of everyone's favorite segment for a dollar, name a woman. She's got game Saturday afternoon at one on TSN 690.

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21:56are you there? Yes, I'm ready. All right, guys. I'm good. We're giving away these tickets. It's the Habs and the Hurricanes on March 24th, and it's very simple. Canadians, Jersey numbers. I'm going to give you a number. You're going to have three seconds to give me the name of a player who wore that number for the Canadians. If you can't give me one, you don't get the point. If you do, you get the point. Whoever gets the most points wins. Do you understand? Yeah, all right. We'll start with an easy one. Steve, your first. Your number is number one. Number one. I would have to see George Betna. That is correct. Okay. Steve, get the point. Kevin, your number number five. Five, six. Sorry about that. That's okay. No, I don't know how to fight. Okay. Kevin doesn't get a point. I would have accepted Bernie Jeffriot, Gila Point. I would have even taken Stephen Cantal or Rob Ramage, but no point there for you. Steve, now we get to the

22:57tougher ones. Your number is 15. Oh my God. How it's in New York? Okay, I'll take that. You got it in there in the nick of time. All right, Kevin, it's your turn. Your number is 21. Yeah, okay. Let's keep it going here. Next one is Steve. Your number is 23. Bumping. Very good. Okay. Three for three. Kevin, your turn. Your number is 38. Let me get a shirt back. Nice. Good pull by Kevin. Very impressive. Wow. Okay. Steve is three for three. You're up next, brother. Your number 44. Seven. Okay. Stefan Ryshe did wear 44 for the Canadians for quite a long time. That is correct. Four for four. Kevin, you got to get this or you lose. I'll give you an easy one. Your number is 46. Good call. Yeah. That's the 46. I remember.

24:03Kevin's still alive. Steve, you can run the table. If you can get this one, your number 71. I'm going to have to say in front of this one. Very good. And Jacob is wearing the number now. But yes, Patrice Breeswa, Mike Rivera, Sebastian Bortalo, Louis LeBlanc, and Joel Hanley, the other Canadians players to wear that number. Steve, that was a very impressive performance. Stay on the line. You're going to the hockey game on the 24th. Coming up next, Mark DeNi joins the program. Let's talk goalies with Mark next on the morning show. GSN 690 gives all the prills of live sports. Perhaps host the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night and the Anaheim Ducks Sunday night. But drop is at seven, both nights. Back along the border in Dallas and here again. First side to 50 shots. See up. One trail is in Orlando at 730 Saturday night. That game is on CJ AD 800. Never miss a moment. GSN 690. Your top pairing.

25:06McKenna in star. No one plays more menace than them in the morning. The morning show on GSN 690. So we're going to be all up. We're going to be able to get a good chance at Mark DeNi. We're going to be able to get a good chance at all. We're going to be able to get a good chance at all. We're going to be able to get a good chance at all. On a general return, Lino on the mark. Iban DeMidoff, Porte Lama, 3-2. Oh boy. What a performance. What a win for the Canadians on the road in Ottawa and back-to-back against their arch rivals. If they aren't, then they're pretty close to it. Let's bring in a man who was right between the benches for that game last night. It's Mark DeNi from RDS and every Tuesday and Thursday here on the morning show. Good morning, Mark. Good morning, German. How are we doing?

26:07We're doing great. Boy, was that a huge win for the Canadians last night? It was. It was. It's a back-to-back. There's obviously a battle and it's going to be a tight race. I think we'd all agree. Yeah, you're trying to create a separation. All of a sudden, head of the Atlantic is not out of the question and you just keep on battling. And to me, first and foremost, and I do believe we touched on that on Tuesday, is now that the trade deadline is past history and you know, the group you're going to have, and you've assembled is, you know, you're not going to win 98 in the playoffs. So you played two tightly played games, lower scoring, not low event per se, but low scoring, tight affairs, protecting the lead, and coming through. That to me is the biggest of all aspects, which I do believe that this group will grow out of those, that, you know, that back-to-back. Obviously, no back-to-backs in the playoffs, but to be able to dig deep

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28:12String now on the free iHeartRadio app. Do you gain standing's point? Yeah. Absolutely. It was huge. It was a huge win in the fashion. It was, it was obtained. That's the voice of Mark Danie, I'm Connor McKenna, and yeah, this is the morning show. All right, let's talk about Jacob Fowler. The demeanor is something I heard you talking about a lot on the broadcast there yesterday. Yeah. The chaos at the end of that game. He's in the middle of it, making big save after big save. What did you think about what he brought to the net last night? As advertised, everything that you hoped for. Well, it's, to me, the recall between the Olympic break in the end of the season was not a shock, not a surprise at all. The timing of it, because, you know, and we had Bruno Jerve on the broadcast last night, which is amazing because he's the color commentator for the rocket, right? He sees everything that happens in LaValle. So it's not like Fowler came with rhythm and a lot of games played.

29:14He had a minor injury that prevented him from participating in everything that was all-star game. That was the all-star break, a little bit of a break, even the HL for the Olympics. Then that virus or that flu, whatever you want to call it, knocked him out for two weeks lost. You know, I've heard anything from anything from six to 12 pounds, whatever it was, but you know, that kind of weakened them a little bit. And then only one start since a really good one against Rochester. They're not a superpower, especially since the trade that line, but still, just that one game. So it's not like there's rhythm and flow to his season, but he comes up and calm, cool, collected. And everything that I've heard, and I don't know, and I'm sure you're probably like me, right? A player gets called up. I'm sending five, six texts to people that have seen him play and been around him and how has he been? Because I keep track, but I'm not there to watch it every day. And everybody that watches him every day, calm, cool, collected, contagious, works hard. He's just

30:15normal. He's not weird. He's definitely hot, not high maintenance. T mates and coaches love that about him. These are all pretty positive things. Oh, yeah, he can stop pucks too. But being a number one goalie is so much more. How many times have we said that on the program, Connor? You know, I've told you it's it's so much more. Of course, you need to make the season in there. There needs to be a minimum, right? Which was not always obtained by Multimbo and Dobesch since the start of the season. But once that threshold is obtained, how do you the demeanor, as you said, like, how do you react? How do you act in your crease? Does it seem like everything is, you know, the house is on fire and when there's panic or does it seem like everything's just under control? It's just the right, you know, it's just a routine save. And are you sending that message of, I got this. That's that's what I'm seeing. And from a 21-year-old, who's only played now 11 games in the NHL, pretty tremendous stuff. So yeah, Kudos and

31:22great marks on that on that start last night, especially at the end, obviously. The end goes without saying, right? Everybody can see that. But to me, the demeanor throughout the game was, it was really nice. Jensen, you know, Sorry, I screwed up. I played the wrong highlight. This is the highlight I'm trying to play. And then, a lot of people. The district of Dyske, in the center, attention, still 12 seconds in the period, Chabot passes on the corner. Voilà, Brady Ketchak. And, let me talk about the red line. The team, deviate, is a tough one out of 10.

32:24The Bound of Delen Casins. Jensen, for the fume-man, this situation of 6 against 5, and what is going to bring a whole victory after that yesterday against Toronto, it's a real match of 4 points in the evening to report to the coach of Ottawa. Now, Mark, you alluded to it certain at certain times throughout the broadcast yesterday. How it's very good for the Canadians to be playing in these close games and this is how they learn. Have you seen any progression in that area because it still is an issue at times closing out games, but have you seen them improve game 62 or whatever we're at right now? Yeah, I think we can say that. Peter, to be honest with you, we've seen them or we've seen the other team pull the goalie in three straight games now. I mean L.A. certainly wasn't a clinic on how to protect to lead. This was ups and downs and relying on late night or late game heroics, but

33:26the last two, I like that you're able to get the lead early. Last night, you knew there was going to be a push way more than Toronto. I mean, Toronto's in this way. We can get back to that if you want or not. To me, it's a different situation, but you know, just managing the pushes from the other team and the strong moments and the momentum swings, I thought they did well. I mean, Montreal got taken after game last night by the Nick Cousins of this world at some point and then, you know, they figured out they can't play that game or they're going to lose and then they got it back. You bend, you don't break, you manage it. And yes, protecting the lead, I think, has been better. And not necessarily we was spot on last night, you know, five on six. Obviously, Montreal is a young team. We all know that you need reps. They haven't had a whole lot of reps. I think getting the magic at the end of games and coming back in games has been more of their brand of hockey. But now if you're going to have to protect the lead, you need some reps, but you eventually need some saves. You need some key saves under dress. And you got them last night and you

34:30got them from Dolbesh. Well, did you get them from Dolbesh? Not really down the stretch against Toronto, but you got them from Dolbesh historically winning games. So you're going to need ingredients left and right. And to me, getting through reps, doing it a different way here and there. We'll go a long way. So yes, absolutely. I'm seeing progression. And to me, it's the next logical step. Can't use. I remember, I think I'm pretty sure this is this is what I'm referring to. But I'm sure you guys have seen the clip, right? Of the trade, no, the draft floor acquisition of Kirby doc and saying, Hey, listen, here, it's all offense. We're not going to hold you back. We're going to we let our players express themselves and all that. That's great. That's great for to build. But then at some point, you need to get to the next step. And the next step now is winning the two to one games. And they've done that the last couple of games. Obviously, it's a three to one engineer in a three two game. But you guys get the point, right? In tight games. And last night

35:34wasn't great execution. It was kind of a hard fought trenches type of game. And they came up on top. Yeah, I mean, they're not again, they're not exactly crossing time zones, etc. But it's still a back to back situation against a more rested team. That is literally playing are like arguably playing for their lives, their last night marks. They are last night was a hard blow to them. Really? Because it's the game in hand, right? Only two games in the NHL last night. It's the game in hand that you're thinking if we can just win that one, now we're really in heart of it. Right now you're on the outside looking and so absolutely. So where do we go from here in goal? Back to back coming up this weekend. And then the schedule, I mean, you know you're going to be experiencing it. The schedule is crazy. It's the Bruins on Tuesday, the Red Wings on Thursday and Detroit, then it's the Islanders on Saturday, Hurricanes Tuesday, Blue Jackets Thursday, Predators in Nashville on Saturday, Hurricanes host the Canadians on the following Tuesday Thursday night, they're in Tampa to face the lightning. Then it's the Rangers at the Bell Center on Saturday night. Like this is going to be crazy. What do you

36:36think? I mean, is it is it those two guys sharing the net for the foreseeable future? My short answer is yes. Now, obviously, I think you need to remain flexible, 30 obvious reasons, because the golden thing situation has been, I mean, anything but stable, right? So let's not get carried away. But once again, I'm going to try to give you a quick answer and we can debate or talk about it. I don't think there's much debate. You talk, you said there's a back to back. What's the recipe? Well, there's a recipe that worked out pretty well here in the last back to back. I would go right at, right back at it. Dobesh would be ready for Saturday. And let me say this, I strongly believe not to say that I know because that'd be preposterous, but I strongly believe that a lot of the call up and the decision to start father, obviously, if Montaubeau would have played well, it wouldn't have been a decision. Montaubeau would have played. But a lot of it was motivated by the fact that Jacob Dobesh is now with the win against Toronto,

37:40kind of solidified his role as the right now number one, not to down the line or playoffs. Let's not get carried away here. The right now number one. So do you want to put him in a bad situation where now the sudden and next the Saturday game becomes a in jeopardy or not already part of the unknown? Every time you've turned to him to play, you know, a lot of games in a row at or three in the week, usually the third one is not that great. So now he's played, you know, two pretty good ones against LA in Toronto. Doesn't play last night backs up day off today gets a full day of practice. So now he's going to have the rest and the recovery, the practice with with Marco Marcello and the team to make sure that his game doesn't because Dobesh's game is as a tendency of getting away, right? From him when he gets a little hyperactive. So now all of a sudden then you have to be able to the ability of dictating the starts and and and the space between them for Dobesh. And you have another player that is definitely in the conversation in Faller. So yes, it's a three men's situation. It's not

38:44going to be a three men rotation this time. I think now you turn to to Dobesh and Faller on a human aspect. Let me tell you this. It was really hard for Martin to say to me. It's semi multiple. It's not making enough saves. We all agree. Yes, right? Okay. Do we really have anything else to say against the men from his work ethic to his professional approach to be unavailable to media even through tough times? He checks all the other boxes. But eventually you need to come to decision and that decision was not easy from a human perspective. But the team came first and the team has to come first moving forward. And any athlete or anybody that's been in pro sports or in a competitive environment understands that. So for Motable, it's it's about doing exactly what he did yesterday. Although it's not a it's not something you enjoy. It could be tough personally. You show up, you go to a

39:46rank. And if there is another opportunity for you and it may be there may be one, you need to be ready. If not, you need to be a good teammate. And I strongly believe he will be. But that's how he can do at this point. So that's my long winded answer. But it's it goes back to my my short answer and nearly going. Yeah. It's Dobesh and Faller's team for now. And you know, last night is a long time ago. And next game is a long ways away. You know, that's hockey. Here goes Newhawk through center. Far side shot. Stop. Rebound in front of the score. Newhawk with a shot rebound out in front. That's stuffed home by a five demi-dove. And Montreal pull ahead three to two. So no, Mark, that the Montreal Cadetans have stacked that top line. Obviously, Caulfield, none the line up yesterday. But Suzuki, Slavkovski and Caulfield, we know it works. We've seen it work in the past. But how do the Canadians avoid becoming a one line

40:47team? And does that fall solely on the shoulders of Ivan Demidov, who now becomes an X factor down in that lineup? It's a good question. No, I guess I want to say it can't fall solely on the shoulders of a of one 20-year-old as dynamic as he is. Newhawk has been a nice addition. I've liked what he's brought since he's been he's been back. I don't know how you guys have been seen it, but like he's talking about dynamic and pace and speed. When life gets unpredictable, preparation matters. In medicine, it's all about staying alert. Ready for whatever comes through the door. On the road, it's no different. That's why Volvo designs vehicles to help anticipate risk, reduce harm and protect lives. The Volvo XC90's advanced safety systems inspire confident decisions wherever the road takes you. The Volvo XC90 for life. Proud sponsor of the pit podcast. Learn more at VolvoCars.ca slash safety.

42:05Your digital station for brand new drops, fresh vines, and tomorrow's bangers. Discover Iheart new music. Always fresh. Always first. Stream now on the free Iheart radio app. I really think he's not like he's not in his head, which usually slows him down in every way. He's he's going. He's going. He's creating chaos and the zone entry was really good last night. Obviously on that goal and that's these are the type of game winning goals and these types of games, right? Game the zone with speed. Use the demand as a screen. Pounce on the rebound. Wow. That's that's pretty textbook. So the game against Toronto to me, you have three center iceman scoring goal. None of them names Nick Suzuki. So it's a testament to your depth. I think you can get that. I'm not saying that Philip that know as a whole lot of offense, but you're beginning it pretty steadily

43:06from Jake Evans with points and six straight now. And you know, I think you need to tap into a little bit more from from dock and bulge it there. If you can tap in just to tap more from those two, because I think there's potential there. I hope there's there's more. If you can tap in just a little bit more, then then you have your answer. But for being dynamic and bringing it, yes, to meet off is absolutely a next factor. It's a it's a great way to put it. Do you know anything more than we do about the illness that kept Cole Caulfield out of the lineup last night? Flu like. Okay. Flu like. Listen, he they add us on a goose chase there in on Tuesday's game, because as soon as the first period, as early as this one and the first period, I should say, he cut a shift short and I told our our production mobile unit, I said, listen, there's something wrong with Caulfield and they tracked and watched and looked at every single of his shifts

44:06before that. And they couldn't find a clear cut injury like something that was obvious. And he stayed on the bench. I'm like, well, it can be something bad because he's staying around. And then he waved my thing saying, we off in the second period, saying, yeah, he couldn't go. And yeah, ran to the dressing room. I was thinking, this is the end. He's not going to protect the lead. So he's he's going to get ready if there's there's over time. Well, if it's flu like symptoms, then I guess we figured out why he ran to the dressing room. Right. So yeah, just feeling ill, flu like, um, I think saying we expressed that it wasn't something going through it. There wasn't a bug going through the room. But I heard of at least one other player that had a few symptoms. Um, but that's it. Yeah. Well, there was what Fowler went through recently, too, obviously with Laval. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if that's the same thing. I think there, there were, there were for him and Florian, I think they took them away from the team for a little bit. They had there was some like testing and blood testing. I heard in everything. So they thought it could have been something like, well, they kept them away for like two weeks. I'm not expecting coffee to be out for two weeks, but enough to keep him out of the, well, limited ice time on, on Tuesday

45:11and then out of the game last night. But Texas, it was, uh, you know, if you have depth players and from what I understand and I talked to him during the second intermission yesterday, Texas, you know, he seemed to be happy with that role. And he knows if there's going to be an offensive role to fill, he'll be to one. And most likely if there, there's a defensive role to fill, Valeno will be called upon. I'm guessing. Yeah. But he, he brought what he needed to last night, Texas, he, he wasn't trying to be coffee, because he can't be. But he had pace. He was physical enough enough details in his game, where he didn't slow Suzuki and, uh, and Slavkovsky down. So I liked it. And obviously he scored a big goal. Mark, come on. I mean, that's a, that's a huge, a huge, a huge goal. Yeah. And to be pressed into a spot like that, after missing the time and he was injured, even writer who's playing through something before that. Yeah. Um, that's, that's not an easy thing for a guy to do. No, I agree. And what do you think, though? Like, how do you, if coffee all this healthy, how do you keep this guy to the lineup? If he's healthy,

46:14he's been so productive when he went and he's done everything they've asked him to do. Yeah. Yeah. He has been, um, hmm. You put him into a rotation. I, I, I believe there's something with Evans, Balsic and, and Doc. I know it's not on this course sheet enough, but I think there's something there. I'm seeing it. So do you take that apart? Maybe. I mean, as I said, there's more there from Balsic. Do you take the Anderson Dennell Gallagher? A part that could be an option if you want to instill a rotation, I guess. But is it an option to, to, I don't know, one of the other guys, I don't think so. Because those veteran guys, we talked about bending, not breaking, they'll call them everything down when there's going to be some, I hate calling it adversity, but you know what I mean, like sports adversity, there will be within games. And usually that's what Matheson and Gallagher are, therefore, and then the show from Gallagher against Toronto, showing up, like that's, that to me.

47:19And until all talent works as hard as Gallagher, I mean, you know, skills can grit, but until they can grit like Gallagher, Gallagher is my 12th forward. I'm not even talking about it being the 11th forward 12th. Yeah, that's this spot. I'm totally fine with that. All right. I wish we had more time. There's plenty of stuff I would still like to have asked you about. Mark, thank you a rare, rare, sorry, go ahead. Fun weekend coming up. Yeah. Too good, young talented teams. Celebrity, Santa, coming in, Anaheim's fun. So San Jose, obviously goes without saying, so it'd be a fun weekend at the Bells. Yeah. Celebrity is not going to catch him off guard this time, right? I mean, we know what to expect. All right. Hey, the best players, when you know what to expect, they still get you. True. All right. Get into this world and all that. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, Mark. Cheers. That's Mark to me. This is the morning show coming up next. How did a pothole save the life of a woman who had been declared brain dead? That story is coming

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50:25get so bad. A woman apparently got her life back because of a pothole in a city called Uttar Pradesh, which I've never heard of, but it's probably bigger than any city in Canada. Her name is Veneta Shukla. She was declared brain dead, discharged from the hospital. Doctors gave her next to no chance of living. But they were driving her home on a highway, called the NH74, the ambulance she was in, hit a pothole that shook the entire vehicle. The violent jerk proved to be a lifesaver for her. She suddenly woke up from the shock of the bounce on the pothole. Her husband told the times of India that he had told his family to prepare for the last rights. She was not breathing her heartbeat was sinking, but the encounter with the large pothole, bam, miraculously brought her back to life. He says her breathing instantly returned to normal and they canceled the cremation process and rushed her back to the hospital.

51:26Oh my, is there any actual science behind us to why that happened? Detached brain, maybe? I don't know. It's possible that the doctors maybe screwed up a little bit in terms of their initial assessment. Maybe. But yeah, apparently the pothole brought her back to life. So, you know, I shouldn't be laughing because it's a pretty incredible story. It could be, if it's true, what I, here's what not to do though. This is don't take this story and next time something you're encounter an emergency and you're thinking I got a call 9-1-1, you're like, wait a minute. Instead of that, I'm just going to drag my husband out to the car and drive up Charlevois Street to 50 kilometers an hour and that ought to bring him back to life. I wouldn't bank on that, but I guess it's a stranger thing. But what if you've exhausted all options, Connor? Well, let's say let yourself and her shoes. Yeah. Let's say you needed a last

52:28ditch effort. Would you be okay with, yeah, as long as they called 9-1-1 first. Okay. As long as the doctors say, I'm brain dead and it's over and take me home for last rights and cremation. Knock on wood. Then by all means, you can do the pothole thing. But I want to do that after after the paramedics have done their best and et cetera, et cetera. We'll be back in a few moments. Eric MacRamella is going to be joining us. Boy, still down I'm glad. Yeah, Eric MacRamella. World baseball classic Canada's facing the US. Would this be redemption for losing the gold metal to the Americans in hockey if we can beat them in baseball? We'll see what Eric has to say about it when he joins us next here on the morning show. Introducing Brian Adams Radio. Hosted by Brian Adams himself. Join me for an insider look on a wild ride through 40 years of global rock and roll. Brian Adams Radio. Now available on the free iHAR radio app.

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