The Kevin Karius Show - Mar. 13th, 2026 - Hour 1

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1:02127 consecutive games scoring at least 20 points as he passes, but great. This is sports 1440 and the Kevin Carrier Show. All right, here we go for Saul 624. Friday, March the 13th. The weekend is here, so let's tear up the old P patch clicker into Schnell and make a fast break for the 11 o'clock hour. It is feel good Friday. It is playlist Friday. Get your requests in this morning. Get them in, the Duke will get them on. Any song you want for an intro song, a walk up song, whatever you want to call it. And we'll gladly see if we can help you out here on a Friday morning and again. March the 13th, who, where the orders were, Molly walked.

2:07Last night in Dallas, 72, but they got a chance tonight to close out this road trip in St. Louis and pick up three out of four wins, which would be a highly successful road trip. Hey, good morning. Welcome to the Kevin Carrier Show on sports 1440 presented by sports select on your AM radio dial on your morning drive on a Friday or wherever you're heading out on a Friday morning. Really appreciate you are with us and spending some time with us here in sports 1440 AM. You can also watch us on YouTube at sports 1440 AM. Drop us a like a subscription. We're also on X Facebook, Instagram and Twitch. And as always, we're streaming on the many services out there like I heard radio, the tune in app, even on sports 1440. Dot C a and if you miss any part of the show, you can catch up by searching it. We're all the podcasts hang out on Spotify, Google, even Amazon, subscribe. It's free. Select the auto download. You'll never miss a second of the show. Yeah, well, there's got Walt yesterday in Dallas.

3:08We're not prepared to start the game. We're we were behind the we're behind very quickly and never recovered showed a little Spongebob to get back into the game, but not near enough. And the gold tending was not even close, not even close to being good enough. Hey, let's welcome in our Monday and Friday co host. I got to get this right now. Great cup champion from 2015, all decade team for the double E. I believe the CFL too, but I'm these all decade teams. They're trying and they're starting to stack up because now it's the use sports all decade team as well. I didn't say that. I didn't say all decade. I just said second team. Well, second team all Canadian. So again, this is for you sports at the the University of Manitoba. So good morning, Eddie Steele. K K. How are you, baby? Very good today. Very good. Good to be with you. Feeling good to look. Yeah. Yeah. Looking real groovy, baby. Well, I'm a little color to the program, you know?

4:09It's not spring yet. Well, I'm trying to get to the color. Listen, I'm trying to get spring going in. Trying to get it rolling here. We got two more days of crap weather. And then Sunday, I think it turns around. And I think we're done after that, right? What's the event? You got an event or what? No. I just feeling good. You know, after my compliments yesterday for the shirt I wore and lattice lavish me said, I looked very European. I thought, you know, one, and I got a nice shirt picked out for St. Patrick's Day on tour. Of course you do. Of course you do. You know, I thought you were just a low key Vikings fan celebrating the Kyler Murray signing. Yeah, well, you got to be happy about that because now you guys got a quarterback. Yeah, it's, it's, yeah, a body, a body. Yeah, he's a good quarterback. Yeah, he's a good serviceable. He is serviceable. Yeah, he is. Anyway, you watched the game last night. Of course I did, man. Didn't watch a bunch of a game. Yeah. I'll tell you what, you know what, at the end of the second period when Connor McDavid got into that brew ha ha and I really thought, you know, when they,

5:11I saw Connor that shot a Connor and Leon in the penalty box to start the third. I went, you know what? I got, I think these guys could come back and make this a game. And then that power play goal by Jamie Ben and its lights out. Yeah, that was it. Game over. I honestly thought because of them kind of galvanizing coming together and the captain doing that and everything else that happened there. And he was involved. I mean, he hit Sam Steel earlier. He went at it with Myers, got a penalty on that and then with Rich Covey in there. So I thought honestly, Eddie, but then if they could have got within, well, you get through that extra goal. Kill the penalty. Kill the penalty for third goal and then we'll talk. But yeah, that, that penalty was deflating so early as well. But, you know, the penalty that McDavid took on Myers. Myers, not a big fan of it. What? Oh, the penalty. That got caught. Yeah, that car. Well, he just punched him in the back. Yeah, I know. It was just his frustrations boiled over. A, he ran into Myers and he had the physical play at the net on that shift, too. Who'd he blow up?

6:11Sam Steel, I believe. Sam Steel. So that's very physical. And then Myers, yeah. But the Myers, A, he went at him once and Myers didn't even budge. Well, when that again, like he's flipping away in his skin. Exactly. So why, why go out of him again and take a bad penalty? Ah, that's my thought process. You are. He already kind of rigged all of you. He looked at you. I don't have that. I think nothing of that to be honest with you because, I mean, all the crap that he takes on a night basis. Totally. Totally. But I was surprised to get caught to be honest with you. You thought you thought it was a penalty? No, it was weak. But I also thought it was Connor just, yeah, it's frustrated. You're losing. Of course, letting the boil over. Oh, you're getting out of it. Wrong guy. I know, but wrong guy. It's just, man, Myers laughed at him. Well, sure. He did nothing to Myers. Go run another guy into the board. To me, don't go after the biggest dude. Do nothing. I think it's fine that he did that, Eddie. I think it's irrelevant what happened in the game. That was in that moment, though. That was my thought. It's like, I just thought it was funny. He going up. I'm going to come and get you. Myers, you just laughed them off.

7:12Wow. But Myers has six, eight, two hundred. Exactly. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. But I think it's great that a guy shows that. You're capped and saying, like, you know what? The first one was good. The first one was good. But then he went back a second. And then the third is when he got the penalty. Yeah. The third is when he swings it. I don't know. Like out of all the things to talk about yesterday, that's the number one hundred on my mind. I'm not nitpicking. I'm just thought that it was kind of funny that his frustration is boiled over and probably a little too much. As I said, out of the 50 things to talk about in the game yesterday, that was like about number 50 on my list. I'd say so. It wasn't high on mine, but it was a point in time we were talking about. But again, so Tristan Jari, poor performance. Terrible. And I mean, the third goal, I think, was the worst one out of them all. The fifth one. I mean, that sealed it as well to make it five-nothing at that point. Give the Euler's a little bit of credit for making a game of it on goals by Bouchard and Dickinson to make it five-two.

8:13But I mean, the Euler's were loose all in front of Jari as well. But Jari didn't make anything yesterday, so. Yeah, that fifth, both the third and fifth, the Robertson ones, the third off the rush, posting in and then the spin. That was filthy. That's been a bad goal. I don't know. Like, I mean, and the good thing is that Ingram will go tonight. And also, you know, here's the other thing that, you know, this is a tough back to back. So you're in Dallas. You get to St. Louis or whatever time. But the Blues played in Carolina last night in Carolina. So it's a longer flight from Raleigh to St. Louis than it is from Dallas to St. Louis. So the Euler's would actually get back to St. Louis or get to St. Louis ahead of the Blues. That's why. Which is kind of crazy. That's a tough one. Where do you come out with the Euler's just being so flat? Okay, well, they were flat, but you also have to look at Dallas here. And I mean, think about this city. The stars for the last two years, the owners have taken them down in the playoffs.

9:14For the most part, this is the same group. You know, Ranton didn't play last night, too. And that's big. But this year, you think about it. Like, they beat the orders eight, three in November. And they also beat them last night, seven, two. So those are two, like, very convincing wins. The other game was four, three in a shootout or overtime, whatever it was. But Dallas simply wanted that game more. Dallas is trying to, and Dallas is trying to catch Colorado here. And they're right on the heels of the Amalach. So it's just slightly disappointing seeing that effort that they put forth against Colorado because you know they got it in them. And then to regress back to just getting so severely outskated in the first period against Dallas. It's just tough. How do you go from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde so quickly, one game to the next? Well, again, the Colorado game, Colorado plays a different style than Dallas, too. Dallas is a bigger physical team. Like, if you look at that, think about the defense pairing between Myers and Michelle.

10:16Like, it's huge. Well, it's the biggest defense pairing. It has to be. We were talking yesterday to Sam Nestler from DLLS Sports and Dallas. It has to be the biggest pairing. The only he said he brought up Zidane Ocharo. So Zidane Ocharo was with a six-foot six guy. That's the only thing. I could think back in the day. Like when Pittsburgh, when the penguins were really, really, really good in one of those back-to-back Stanley Cups, they had the Samuel Sins. And that was when people talk about, you know, Mario and Yager and all that. But they put the Samuel Sins shell and, oh God, what's his other guy's name. They weren't related or whatever, but they put the Samuel Sins on. And they were big six-five, six-four, six-five, six-six. And they dominated. You couldn't get past him. That's what they're hoping here. Gang coach size, man. Ben's filthy, too. Ben's filthy vet. Yeah. Just like Radco. Dukes, boy. Oh, Radco. Recy. Takes down Austin Matthews. Think about that. If you're a Toronto Maple Leafs, no one does anything.

11:18We've harped on the Oilers Team toughness. Oh, man. That was on a whole other planet, KK. Yeah. Yikes. So good. This is going to get suspended here. We'll see how long, how many games. But I mean, the whole team's just looking around and going, oh, captain's down. Captain's down. Oh, it makes me. I'm not a hockey guy, but just seeing that makes me sick to my stomach. Oh, yeah. Conor McDavid streak ended at 19 games on the road with a point. Hey, let's welcome in the Duke of Delburn. Kevin just said, oh, Sam, you said I couldn't get it. Thanks, Kevin, for texting in. It was Shell and Ulf, the two of them. And they were just savages on the back end for Pittsburgh. Where are they from? Sweet. Oh, they were sweet, but they were tough Swedes. Yeah. Welcome in the Duke of Delburn. Good morning, Duke. Good morning, Kevin. How are you doing this fine morning? Did you have a late game last night or? No, I was purely couch bound last night watching the ducks lose in Toronto, which was disappointing.

12:18Watch the Oilers lose in Dallas, which was still a little bit more to be expected. Watch SGA's make some NBA history. So I was bouncing around on a whole bunch of different things. Obviously, very busy night in the NHL, but quite a bit of action across the association as well. So yeah, good night to be at home on the couch. 127 consecutive games. Is that good? Is that good? 20 plus points. We've talked more about Will Chamberlin here in the last week or two than we ever have. And we never even talked about the off court. Shenanigans, Eddie. Will distill. So what did you, did you see that live? Oh, yeah. About with goodness and Matthews. Oh, yeah. And it was very much like what you guys said. You're kind of like waiting for some sort of reaction because the Leafs, there was a fight off the opening face off of the hockey game. Michael Pizzetta was making his Leafs debut. He dropped the gloves with Jeff VL as they dropped the puck on the game. So it's like, okay, cool. Good for you. You're making a statement.

13:18First game with the Leafs called it from the Marley's good for you. And then later in the game, you see your captain take one of the most egregious knees that you'll see in the sport. And he's laying there on the ice for minutes. And not nobody so much as gives him a second look. Listen, goodness is a tough customer. Maybe one of the toughest in the NHL. Yeah. But that lack of response. And then later is the game progressed. You saw a little bit of pushback from some Leafs players like Max Dome. He's going after Beckett, Seneca, things like that. The Leafs get the last laugh in it because they score three times on the five minute power play. And that sends them on route to win in the hockey game. Two big points lost for the Ducks to a Toronto team that is terrible. They're really bad. So from the suspension point, listen, as somebody that's rooting for the Ducks on night tonight basis, I hope he gets suspended. He's not good. He sees the team captain. And I think if he wasn't the team, if he wasn't the team captain, I was saying I said this to Schlemmer and I were texting a little bit about it last night.

14:20I said it's some of my boys in a group chat. If he wasn't the team captain, when Carlson joins this team and is in the lineup, he would be the team seventh. Like I would be playing both Ian Moore, who is backplayed forward last night or Drew Helos and over him on the right side, nearly every single night. Well, you might get your wish now for a couple of weeks. What do you think, Barubay said? Oh, I think I don't worry. I don't want you to get fired, don't all say it. Well, he would have said quite a bit, but I think he's so frustrated. And he, because the way that the chief played is like, I mean, that wasn't it. He like, he's going, I don't understand what I just saw. So that's what we're looking at there. Should have mentioned Josh Fenwick with his today, brought in some sandwich. Drew, the boy came through. You're happy about that? I'm happy. He's a good teammate. Yeah, happy about that. I mean, he's sitting over there pretty quiet this morning, though. That's all it comes down to. Don't say it much. Doesn't he? But he's here. A stoic look on his face. He's here.

15:20Had to drop 30 bucks. That's good gas money to him. Well, we just got to give credit where credit is. Absolutely. Absolutely. Coming up on a big program. We'll have Jason Grigger with us after the break usually shows up on a Friday. Morning. To discuss the last day's orders game and some other topics of conversation. Mark Specter will check in at eight o'clock. We'll go in or out with Eddie Steele in that eight o'clock hour, too. Paul Sir from Hoop City. We'll check in at 920. We got Levi Weaver from the athletic covers major league baseball. And obviously the world baseball classic. We've got the United States taking on Canada tonight in Houston. It is a six o'clock start our time. Mike Sorolka will be starting for the Canadians. And you know the Americans are going to be some kind of p old after. Well, first how they played against Italy. And then even the premise before what they thought were the implications of the game.

16:20So it'll be USA and Canada. The Canadians have beaten the USA before. But this is a whole different ball of wax for sure. Levi Weaver at 940. Looking forward 10 o'clock Kelsey Mitchell Olympic gold medals will join us in studio. Kelsey won the gold in the Olympics in track. But then went to Bob'slay as well in the Milano Cortina Olympics. So wonderful career in the Olympics in both summer and winter. And she's going to be with us for a couple of segments in the 10 o'clock hour. So looking forward to that. Welcome back Jason Gregor will be with us. It's the Kevin Kerry show. Brought to you by sports select with Eddie Steele, Ducadellburn, Josh Fenwick on sports 1440 AM radio. We're streaming on YouTube X Facebook Instagram and Twitch. All right. Welcome back to the big program 721 in Edmonton. And that is from the request line 8 3 3 4 0 1 1440. Get him in. We'll get him on for an intro or a walk up song.

17:23Time now for the puck report brought to you by Fountain tire. And at Fountain tire, we meet all your car needs and more with our digital vehicle report. We just don't tell you what your car needs. We show you exactly what it needs. Book your appointment at fountain tire.com. Today is we welcome in the host of the Jason Gregor show. Jason Gregor himself from two till six. Greg's good morning. You're with K K and Eddie Steele. Thanks for jumping on sports 1440. Hey, before we bust this game down nuts and bolts. Simple question right off the hop. Would you would you send Tristan Jari down and bring Cal Pickard up? Well, he definitely clear waivers. So you don't have to worry about anybody claiming him. Right. Good question. It's a tough problem. I think I would. I think I would. I think I would. Why not on the follow up Greg's? Well, last night I didn't.

18:24Funny thing last night was I didn't think there was like a glaring terrible goal. He also didn't make any big stops. But I. I think if I think if you send him down, you're pretty much. No, it's kind of good night. Irene. Yeah, you're closing the page. Yeah. It's a tough one. But I mean, I look at it in a number of ways and people talk about, you know, Cal Pickard. But right now, first of all, this is this is Conor Ingraham's team right now. It's his goal for the rest of the year in my mind. Well, it's definitely his. Yeah, Intelli and tell someone else shows him better. The funny thing is Matt Tomkins is actually playing better than Calvin Pickard in the minors. But minors numbers don't matter. Might just going to be Cal Pickard who automatically gets called up. But that was just a. That was that was a bad effort from the entire team last night. Like I know it's easy to always just want to blame the goalie. But the orders weren't ready to play from from the opening face off. Like the only good news for that game was the order fans could have turned it off after

19:27one period and done something else and not have to worry about knowing what the final score would be. Yeah. It's interesting with the Oilers to coming off of such a good game against Colorado. We always talk about the ceiling being so high with this team, but the floor can be so low with them. And that just makes you scratch your head, doesn't it? Yes, they are. They have not been able to find any consistency this year that that to me is is apparent from. They've only won three in a row once. Heck, the Vancouver connox have won three in a row two times. And one was a four game or like all the all the bad teams, the teams who'd aren't in the playoffs have done it. And the order is just they can't get out of their own way. They just they have a good game and then they've decided, eh, you know what? Like, how many turnovers did Leon dry so I'll have on the power play last night? Like, come on. It's this team's commitment to consistency has not been there at all.

20:27Like, they're still searching for it this year. Yeah. In the sense though, I was telling Eddie that what happened after the end of the second period, Griggs, I thought honestly that the team was going to be getting back into the game. When you saw what happened with Connor and Leon and they're both in the box, I honestly thought that, you know, they were going to get back in the game, but they didn't kill that penalty and then she was lights out. Did you like the response at times and then there was another, you know, another little altercation in the third as well? Well, that's that's really one of the few positives. Like when you compare so big David of all people, which is good. I don't care what your name is. If you feel like your teammates being wronged, it's your job first guy there to do something. And he didn't like that they shot the puck, you know, I don't even sure he shot the puck on purpose, but who cares? You're losing five, two, you do something. You compare that to what happened when Radco, Goudus, need awesome asses and know anything. So yeah, like that's, you know, at least at least your team stood up for one another

21:31and that's something that can galvanize a team a little bit. The third period, you know, there wasn't a whole bunch of focus on hockey. I still wish one of the one of the orders kind of, you know, smaller guys would have went after Ritzkovian, right? I think it like to get him to drop the gloves like Trent Fredrick smart. Trent Fredrick drops his gloves there. He's probably getting two, ten in a game. So he's not going to do it against a smaller guy. But I would have liked like Spencer stashney somebody like that. Like my god, that guy's a little, he's a little garden. You don't have to be worried about him. Somebody should have went after him that what that was in his weight class. That's my only complaint is somebody in his weight class. And you don't have to be a tough guy to go after him. It's not like Ritzkovian's a tough guy. No, I'm with you. And I thought that they would get him eventually because he was running around like a little bench to there. Yeah, a little weasel. I don't like that. Hey, guess what? Having weasels is good. You need it. For a long time, man, like who do the orders have? Like, well, um, Clayton Burke came up and ran around and hit everybody

22:35and chirped everybody. And order fans like, oh my god, this guy is like the big David of enforcers. We need him signed for 25 years because they never see that. Like the orders are good at reacting. They're not good at initiating very often. Yeah, it's very valid, man. How how atrocious was that power play last night? All of it for the oilers. I mean, Dallas was more dangerous on the PK than the oilers were on the power play. Yeah. Well, that's what yeah, I agree. All our leads. Now, their power plays lights out. So, um, there's rare nights. But last night, they, they just looked like a power play that wasn't in sync. As I mentioned, like, dry subtle. How many times he missed passes last night? Like they just, when the orders don't, and here's like, when somebody misses a pass the dry side, oh, you know, he'll, he'll let him know. Somebody on the orders might have wanted to let him know last night at some point. Say, hey, buddy, get your head in the game here for us. Because, you know, they had a few power play chances when it was five to two, like late in the second period. That's the power play that could have changed.

23:35All of a sudden, you score there. Now it's five to three. And the orders go to the room. Hey, boys, we're still in this. And Dallas is like, what the hell's going on? But they, they took penalties and then it was lights up. What do you think that the stars did basically to, you know, you know, Connor McDavid's line, because really they didn't generate much in Connor, Zach Hyman, or Ryan Newgen Hopkins? No. I felt that, well, there's Heisken and, man, these, these are him and Lindell of our good. And I felt that they did a really good job of not allowing McDavid to have much speed through the neutral zone. A lot of their defensive checking started. I felt right at the, at the orders blue line. Like they didn't generate anything off the rush last night. Nothing. Now, Edmonton didn't have the puck much in the first period either. So, you know, and every time they did, there was a turnover. I just thought it was aggressive forecheck in the offensive zone that led to Edmonton never really getting any speed through the neutral zone. Because that's, that's their biggest forte for that line of speed to the neutral zone. And I'd have to look up the numbers from Claire site.

24:37But I wonder if McDavid even had one rush chance last night. Yeah. I don't know if I remember if I recall that either, yeah. Jason Robertson had two goals to assist. Where do you think his contract lands? I mean, Ranton ends at 12. Is he at the same? What are your thoughts would he goes for his next contract? Eddie's point. Eddie's pointing up. I think even more. Well, you know, the salary cap goes up a lot. So for people who like to use percentage of salary cap, then he'll probably go higher. From there is, there's, I think there's Alex Tuck and really nobody else on the free agent market. Now, he's an RFA, but there's going to be a lot of teams who are like, damn, man, we need a 90 point score. Because that's what this guy is. Right? Like he, he's been 109. Then it was 80 twice. And what is he got? I think like 73 is on pace. He's going to get 90 points again this year. So he averaged the four years.

25:37And that's a guy who's pretty much a 90 point score over a four year span. There's not a lot of those guys in the NHL. And he's not even UFA agent. Now, it was one year short. One year short. But still guys 26. Right? So I, he's born in 1999. I guess he'll be 27 in this summer. So he, he's going to have, you know, plus this, he's got what, six months of, of eight year deal. Now, Dallas is the only team that could do that. So it could be a sign and trade, right? Which could help Dallas get even more in the deal. So I think Robertson has lots of negotiating power. But if I'm the Dallas stars. And I just went out and got rancidin. And you look at the top teams, like look at Tampa Bay when they won. How many, how many elite guys did they have? Four, five. Look at Florida. Right? Edmonton's got two of the best. They've been to two Stanley Cup finals. If you just let Robertson go for draft picks. When you're in your window to win, doesn't make any sense to me. Dallas stars have to find a way to get him signed.

26:37Right? Trade Tyler Sagan. He's got one year left in his deal, whatever, eat some money. That's what they have to do. Like to me, this is a no brainer for Jim Nill and the Dallas stars. You figured out to keep this guy signed. I just think too for him, where else is he going to go where he has an opportunity like this? He's on one of the best teams with a core group that is there for a long time. They've got a good goal tender. Their defense is great. So for me, if they offered him, if they said, here, here's eight times 12, I'm signing it if I'm him all day. I'm not trying to get 13 or 14. Yeah. Well, that 100%. That's, that's totally valid. Right? So like to me, they're what they do with Tyler Sagan. Now, that's obviously going to be the hard thing, right? I don't know if you can, if you can move him or not, but that's, that's the guy that got to move it. Or it's one year. I have to look at the cap to see. He's got one more year cap. Yeah. He's got one more year. Yeah. I know he's got one more year. And even at 12 million. No move. Yeah. No move. And we all knew you could do it.

27:37You could do it for, even if you have to bite the bullet and do it for one year. And, and just live with Sagan. It's contracting. Maybe he becomes Jamie Ben. Right? The following year. Right? Or like a pretty big discount. Because he's not as productive anymore. Plus, he's injured. And then hey, Sagan stays three or four. But if, if the numbers can work for one year on the Dallas stars, I don't even hesitate. I'm with you. Like this, this should not be a tough decision at all. Jason Robertson's pet on himself. And so far, it's looking like a really good bet. Yeah. I also look at, you know, maybe Sagan, he's taken a lot of bullets here. He's been hurt and he's a beat up guy. He's got a lot of miles on him. Maybe something, maybe somewhere. And there's a possibility that they do something like an Alex Patrangelo. Maybe Sagan goes, I'm done. You know, and it's a Patrangelo scenario. Yeah. Yeah. I never know. It's possible. Like you hold not for, for sure. Say, but yeah, that's, that's, or, you know, what it is, Kev. Like, maybe you, you're like, God, we're really tight to the cap. And then two months into the season, he gets injured again. And now he's on LTIR and you've got all the cap space like God this year.

28:38Exactly. He, I wanted to circle back to the Matthews' goodest thing. And just how the, no one can believe that the response that the Leafs had, or lack thereof. And then when you saw the chief after Craig Barubi talking about it, like, the way he played, like, he just, he can't believe what he just saw. No one has words for this. No, like, now they did come back and win. So I give Toronto credit there down three to one. And Morgan Riley said, Hey, that's on me. And that's a nice thing to say. But I think that's the second time I've heard guys in Toronto. That's on me for doing nothing. So it tells me, and that, I'm not surprised by Kevin, because I've said this for years. The reason Toronto doesn't win, and as never one, is because they never had a dog. If we want to, you know, amongst their top guys, they got lots of skill, but they never had a guy, like, look, economic David, of all people, economic David, I'm kind of a, now they're getting their butt kicked, so he's probably pissed off. But he's down, Ryan Nugent Hopkins, remember when, I don't even remember who it was in front of the net, but just me, I'm a motel God hit.

29:41And Nugent Hopkins goes over and freaking tunes up Justin Hall for God's sake. Exactly. Exactly. I remember that. Exactly. And it gave us like, are you sure in the hymen's like, yeah, I'm all right. And then he drops the gloves and he fights like all their best guys are willing to do it. Right? Like dry side, it's not going to fight. McDavid's not going to fight, but those guys get engaged and they do stuff, right? And I just look at at Toronto, and they got none of that, right? Like Mitch Mariner was never going to do it. Matthew's never does it. Nealander doesn't do it. Morgan Riley doesn't do it. John Tavares doesn't do it. And you know what? That's okay if you can't ask guys to be what you're not. On a winning team, everybody has to be willing to get their hands dirty. At least to the point of a roughing coincidental minor or taken extra penalty like McDavid did last night. And you don't see that off enough from Toronto. And so the coach can't instill that. Ask Eddie. He played the coach can't come in the room and say, okay, what do you guys have to be the guy? No, you either have it or you don't. And the fact that Toronto has traded away any like hymen had it, traded more.

30:44Well, geez, it wasn't it was too expensive to keep, right? They've always gotten rid of their guys who have any sort of gumption and it's an organizational problem. And I'd get rid of some of my guys who have skill and bring in guys who have it because you know other guys who have it and they just don't have any of their top guys with Darcy Tucker. All that sound. Like that's what they need. Yeah. Well, hey, get shocking. Those teams are pretty competitive. That's what I mean. Matt Sundin. Matt Sundin was competitive. He didn't have to be it. But they had a lot of guys around him who would do it and you can't win when you don't have that. Like 100% you can't do it. Very interesting. Something that I think I've seen. Maybe I could be wrong more out of McDavid this year as a whole too because I saw it in the Olympics as his physicality. I know that he ramps up his play, especially in the playoffs and he plays pretty reckless. But I've seen him lay the body on people a lot more in the past. I don't know. 365. It seems like he plays with a more physical presence. Look what he did to Sam Steele right before he got into it with Myers and took the penalty.

31:46He laid him out, cleared out the net. Yeah. You know what? McDavid's highly competitive, right? You see it. But yeah, we've seen it in the playoffs. I can't remember who it was against the Kings when he just ran him over right in front of the bench a few years ago. Like, McDavid's, he's such a good skater that obviously he can close space on anybody. And he's, he puts up a ton of points. I know what time says, you know, he's not going to win the Selkie. I don't need him to win the Selkie. I don't give two scorts if he's ever out for the Selkie. But his competitiveness, no one can ever question, right? He gets even even dry settle the grumpy German. He'll deliver a few hits. You know, he sticks guys. He's always yapping at guys like there's those guys are never intimidated, right? You know, the team's not playing great right now. There's there's no debate on that. And but those guys when the chips are down, they're engaged. And you can't say that about Toronto's guys. And I've said that for years. I would have, and that with the thing is under Dubas, under, it was noticeable for years

32:48that they didn't have that guy. And like even going back to when they signed Tvars, I like John Tvars. John Tvars, one of the nicest guys, consistent player, really solid player, doesn't have that fight. You know, he's not aggressive. That's fine. Like I said, Matt Sundin didn't have it, but he had a bunch of guys around him who did. And Toronto has never seen that. And now look where they are guys are not in the playoffs this year. How are they going to get back next year? Like, it's not like they're missing a ton of players. They got their whole team all year and they're not a playoff team. Well, we'll see what the winners can do. And if they can beat St. Louis tonight, as we mentioned, they were in Carolina at the Blues last night. So it's a tough back to back for both teams. You win tonight, Greg's. It's three out of four on a tough road trip and you take that all day long. What's coming up on your show today, too, big game? That's exactly it. It's, you can last night's stunk for the orders. But if they win tonight, anybody out there would have said if the order's going in three out of four, this is a really good road trip. So the opportunities there, they got to show up. And the Blues, actually, I think I did the travel. The Blues are actually traveling farther.

33:49It's 45 minutes more, yeah, right? So, you know, we'll discuss that. Also, we're going to talk a little, hey, we're going to talk about SGA. You kid me set the record last night for 127 consecutive games. And you look at the stuff he's doing, man. Like, it is, it's impressive. It's not just his scoring, it's his assist. It's he doesn't turn the ball over. He is, he is a hell of a player. So we'll talk about, you know, a Canadian at times that, you know, one of the greatest Canadians going right now, he's a jack told me, you know, let's say, and as, like I said, the shack said SGA is the best player in the NBA. And he's going to be for a while, who was I to argue with Shaquille, and he'll sit down. He's almost a tallest. I mean, there's no argument. Hey, Greg, you see KK shared today? What about the one yesterday? Like, was that an Easter egg? Where were we out? Where we're going to Vagerville? You know, all of that. All I can tell you, all I can tell you, it barely even came up. It was so, it was like, it was trying to be in the matrix. Like all the, all the different screens going up, lines up and down. I didn't really see much.

34:50It was phenomenal. I'd say he just went shopping, though, didn't he? You can tell he went to the store. He's like a kid in elementary school, and he's wearing all his new shirts every day. All I can say is, is Laddie came in and Duke expected Laddie to blow me up. And Laddie looked and said, I like it. It looks very European. You look great. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, buddy. You know what? Hey, that's the, that was the, like, as my wife said, she goes, that's old guys trying to look younger. Oh, stop it. Don't trace the way back. Bang, bang, bang, bang. I do like the purple one, though. I like the purple one a lot. Okay, thanks for getting it. That's his, oh, he's a Loki Vikings fan. Yeah, Kyler Murray signed today. So he was feeling happy. You know, Eddie usually wears his move, you know, on Friday. So I was trying to kind of compliment that. Now Eddie, I just curious though, like, is your chair down on the lowest rungs today? Why are you? Why are you not? What are you to share up for something? Oh, man, my knee is jacked up.

35:51So when it hangs, it gets sore, Greg. I got it sitting on the ground. I can't believe you just called me open that. Well, I noticed it at first. I was like, holy cow's. What is Eddie, the smallest guy going on? It's like your rob rage trying to interview. You had like a stumpful sit up higher. Thanks, Gregs. Have a good show today in a good weekend. Thanks, pal. I always have a good one. Jason Gregor hosted the Jason Gregor show two to six. You'll hear him today on sports 1440. And that was the puck report brought to you by Fountain Tire. And again, we focus on one thing. And it is your vehicle book your appointment today at Fountain Tire. .com techs a three three four zero one 1440. And a lot of them are coming in, baby. A lot of them are coming in talking about the style. And they like it. Swav like, you know, like like Harry says, if you got it, flonnet KK. Amen. You know, they're so used to in dukel appreciate this. They're so used to seeing this Rams hoodie that you have.

36:52This Rams pull over. They've seen it for three years now. I wear it all the time. It's one of my most comfortable. Oh, actually, funny thing that you mentioned that, Eddie, because I went to hockey yesterday. And I, you know, I change. I didn't want to wear that good shirt to hockey. What? And wrong. You knew you would have got absolutely raised forward to the dressing room. So you changed before you went. I don't know. What do you have on for lowers? I just got a, no, I got a pair of like little lemon slacks. It's all for the video. Yeah. Anyway, go to hockey and I, I've brought out an older kind of a, it's not a hoodie, but it's a kind of a nice shirt, like a sweatshirt. And it's probably, I got it in, I got it from, I stole it from a buddy who stole it from Jeff Reason who used to play in the NHL. And it's got to an NHL PA be a player thing. That's what they used to do years ago. So this thing has probably close to 35 years old.

37:52And I brought it out and it's a little ratty. And the boys were going, that is a beautiful, beautiful sweatshirt. Can I come up and feel it? They all felt it in the dressing room to see the, like the quality was still there. Oh, like after so many washes and they wanted to see if it would fall apart. Oh, it's just beautiful little ratty. So we know if you're admitting it was a little ratty. That thing was tattered two year old underwear. Come on now. When we come back, we'll get to your tech. Say 3340 on 14 40. It's the Kevin Kerri show brought to you by sports select with Eddie Steele, Ducat Delburn, Josh Fenwick on sports 14 40 AM radio. We're streaming on YouTube, X Facebook, Instagram and Twitch. All right. Welcome back to the big program, 746 in Edmonton. Feel good Friday, playlist Friday. That's the Duke's slot daily and on Friday. Of course, it's always Brian Adams. Get your requests in a 3340 on 1440. The Kevin Kerri show is presented by sports select. Wondering Duke how you made out with the many, many options last night,

38:55because 13 games and what was the parlay number total? Well, I did not heed your advice. Oh, you went over it too. My QR code generated ticket was beyond that. But listen, because you put it, you parlay them all together, but then you also put some individual action on the games themselves, right? Some one and a half lines, some pro lines mix in there. I came out even on the night. So that's, that's fine. That's all I can usually. Well, and also this morning after yesterday, when I was talking about the players championship and Maverick McNeely, he was tied for the lead. Now he hasn't started yet today. He's two strokes back of a striker who's at seven under, by the way. The Duke decides to sprinkle a little bit on Maverick McNeely, winning the Masters and Duke, what did that work? Well, I find that Kevin and I are at odds so much on the show. I wanted to give us something to unify us and be on the same location. The same rooting interest for the first time in what maybe would feel like forever. So yeah, I put a little little sprinkle on McNeely to a,

39:57win this tournament, which at the moment was going off at plus 900. And then I put it on him to win the Masters, which I think was like plus 11,000. Beautiful. So, so when this loses, now I can blame Kevin, just like he blamed me last spring in our playoff draft about taking Dylan, buying Dylan Holloway. It's terrible. Did you, sorry, just wait. So this leads me to you now, Eddie. Yes, sir. Yesterday, when I said, I'm picking Maverick McNeely to win the Masters. Some guy text in and says Maverick McNeely will win the Masters the day that Eddie Steele shoots 72. Oh, he didn't even bring up Eddie 85 matter. He never win in the math. Oh, we 72. I can't even get on board with that myself. Yeah, as much as I'm a prideful fella, no way. Absolutely. I'm at Texan. It's a style. KK. That's what the kids call it.

40:58Kids, you know, here's Flossin. Flossin. Well, I don't know. I'm just trying my best at it. Just try how old is that shirt? This shirt, well, it's at least four years old. Maybe five. But again, I haven't worn many shirts like this in the last three years. Right. It goes quick. Yeah, three years. Wow. But I'll tell you what, Eddie, if you want to come pick out a tie or two, you're more than welcome to check out those long ties. Oh, I got some ties. I have probably 120 ties. I bet. You know, so look, I'd wear the shirt. You know, I'm all four colors, but they outfit the shoes. Well, hey, hey, it's abouting you. Never mind the shoes in something like this year. I wear crocs here most of the time. It's true. I don't even start. In a Ram City. Yeah. Hey, wanted to, we're going to talk a lot more winners with spec here at the top of the hour. But remember last Friday, so the whole Max Crosby thing.

41:58And then what happens this week, so I just wanted to get your thoughts. Yes, we haven't talked about that on everything. Max Crosby. It's just the way it worked because it's on Tuesday, I believe. Yeah, no, no, but I'm going back to him being traded. Yes. Okay, so he gets traded last week. Yep. Okay, so then it gets rescinded and pulled back by the Ravens. Historical trading, also, then trade Hendrickson. So I just wanted to get your thoughts. Yeah, because all the, everything he gets traded right over the weekend. And then it gets rescinded, quote, unquote, failed physical on Tuesday. And a lot of news flying around, a lot of, you know, fake news, a lot of people, BS in, I believe it's within the rights of the Ravens to do what they did. But it's greasy business, super greasy business. They came out and said that they were negotiating with both Max and Trey. And that was their plan. They wanted to have both past rushers. You, I don't buy that for a second. I thought that Trey became available. They could get trade for cheaper. And they got what everybody's saying, cold feet backed out of the deal.

43:00Now what I haven't heard a lot of people talk about is the medical, which a lot of people don't have a grounds to speak on medical for people in their own bodies, right? But I've played ball and I've had two meniscus surgeries, which is what Max Crosby had meniscus. First of all, let's start. It's on the most minor end of knee surgery, so you get to clean up. No matter how you want to cut it, if you're going in for a meniscus, clean up, just snip some cartilage off or to scope out, like suck out some floating cartilage. It's all you're doing. The rehab is not severe. The rehab is not like crazy in terms of intensive. You could be back playing. I was back playing like eight weeks after a meniscus, clean up, did it in the off season. And I was good to go. So to fail the guy knowing that he had this, it was well documented. They knew going in that he had a meniscus surgery. So to fail him, that just that it makes no sense. Other than you had cold feet and you backed out because you could get trade for cheaper.

44:01That's all it is, man, because it's not like he's coming off in a kill. He's hair and ACL rehab. And they're saving the picks. That's all it is is get the picks back. So business wise, man, it's good business, but it's super filthy and unethical. It really is. But in terms of their organization and looking after their pees and cues, it's good business. Yeah. I haven't even really looked at the schedule, but I'm assuming that all Vegas and the Ravens don't play each other. Probably not, do you imagine? And then like I heard Duke talk about it a little bit throughout the week. You talk about it, the ripple effect, right? In terms of the impact on the team salary cap, the moves that were made. How does everything fit? And yeah, it's there is quite a grand ripple effect due to this. But my overall opinion is it's super filthy business. Like it's that's nasty. Fail physical is such a cop out, especially coming off a meniscus. That is the biggest cop out. And not only that, like this isn't something that came out of the blue.

45:04No, like so you knew the raiders called them out. Yes. And then you knew it trading. Yeah, all this is disclosed. His doctor said prior to the trade, his rehab was ahead of schedule. He's fine. And I'm telling you, man, KK, it's a meniscus. You can tear your meniscus, get surgery and be back playing like within a month. So for Crosby, you think he starts the season in Vegas and then depending on what happens, then he gets traded mid season, something. What are you, what are you thinking here? Honestly, I have no thought to it. I think he gets traded before like, well, really? Yeah, I don't know what the draft coming up that there's opportunity for things to shake down Duke and I were saying, you know, but now instead of two first, maybe it's the first thing to say. Yeah, I don't think the compensation will be the same. But, you know, I heard Indie was in the market for a past rusher. Chicago, there's been some ties to Chicago with Max. So you never know a move could still get done. I don't think the dust has settled and Max is going to be a raider. Yeah.

46:06Tim Texan business aside, Eddie, who's the better player? I guess it's between that's a really good question. We talked about Max in his game just a couple of weeks ago, KK. I love his game. Love the hustle. Love the motor. He gets a ton of pressure. But if you look at his sack totals, he's not a bust and off of the page with his sacks. I don't know what his career high is, but he's all I want to say. It's like 15 right in that area. I don't know if one of you guys can fact check me, but it's he's always in that eight to 13 range. He's never like a league leader 15 to 20 tray Hendrixson has been that 15 to 20 guy. Now Max gets way more pressures. Maybe can affect the game a little bit more. Long winded answer Max is the better player. Trey Sackwise, I think has more production, but it's not only about the sack. It's how you affect and impact the game on all fronts here. Tim also said this when we were talking about the games last night. Oilers and Leafs man is a Leafs fan.

47:08I'm inspired by McDavid's leadership drop in the gloves, sort of dropped the gloves there, but seeing good as take out Matthews with no response makes me want to puke tough loss for the owners, but the leaders care man. That's what that's kind of what the just of the conversation with Gregor was to, you know, they just we haven't seen that in Toronto. And that's like the name I brought up was a guy like Darcy Tucker, you know, he was always in the fight, brought guys into the fight and they don't have that. You don't have that off the rip. We talked about McDavid going after Tyler Myers. I kind of poo poo that laughed at one off, but in the scrum were McDavid got down and dirty. That was pleasant to see that was really pleasant to see. You don't see that at a lot of superstars around the league at all in Toronto, man. Pukes. It's putting it lightly. Like let's see the what happens. The next game for the Leafs here. Like a whole they're lucky. They won. They're lucky. They got those goals. I don't even think people care in Toronto. They don't. They don't. They don't care because you had up until this point

48:09yesterday, you had lost a straight game. So you haven't won since the Olympic break. They don't care, but they're lucky. They won coming up at the top of the hour. We got Mark Specter will bust down this. Well, there's game a little bit more will go in or out with Eddie Steele as well. Before that time now for sports 14 40 update brought to you by all star construction, the shape and build Edmonton communities specializing in underground utilities like power, like gas, like telecommunications and streetlighting. That's all star construction. Here is the Duke.