The Kevin Karius Show - Mar. 2nd, 2026 - Lowetide

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2:01Yeah, well, and you know what they say though, Ty, the graveyard's full of people who thought they were irreplaceable. Especially in radio, man. You better believe it. Yeah, you've got that right. Yeah, Duke was just telling you and he was telling our listeners that he was babysitting all weekend, man. I picture like an uncle buck scenario. Yeah, I think so. You know, my feeling is they did get him to babysit, but there were cameras everywhere. Probably somebody monitoring it, you know, like they do with security cams. I'm sure they weren't far away. They probably just drove around the corner and had an ordered food outnated in the car and they came home quickly. You know, I mean, the trust level can't be high. Yeah, no, it can't be. It's it's low. It's low for sure. Well, there's a couple guys on waivers yesterday. One of them will likely not get selected in Manjapani, but there's maybe a possibility. Someone takes a fire on regula. What would you? Is it like one in five, one in six?

3:03Something like that. What are you thinking? Ordinarily, I'd say one in five is really good. The problem is we're at the deadline. And there's always teams that are looking for, you know, everybody's banged up like every defenseman has some god awful thing happening to them. And you know, they're they're planning through pain. And so there's a contender out there who just wants an extra body and maybe even for a couple of weeks, but I I think there's a better, I'll say there's a 40% chance he gets going. Yeah. And I mean, it would save, I think, between the two of them, about 1.8 gets saved on the cap. You think about Yan Mark and his situation. So there's some added funds that can maybe are freed up here as the trade deadline, as you mentioned. So I mean, there's opportunity, but I don't know. I use the word mediocre for this team right now, Ty. They're just a mediocre team. Well, they're they have made inroads. They have been they're better now. And when the big David and dry side aligns are off the ice at five on five,

4:04but it's not it's not consistent. We saw it on the weekend where there were two games in California that were, you know, I mean, if you know, there weren't snow on the ground, I would have been mulled on every 11 minutes. It was just one of those periods where the the attention to tail was so bad. And they they I think that Paul coffee coming in mid season, changing some things, you know, are probably are going to have moments like this, but they they can't play a consistent game. And it is a problem. And you know, they they changed out the gold ending. And we're not sure that it's better. I think that Jari and Ingram deserve a longer period than we've seen. But part of it is the way they played expensively, you know, in terms of structure, in terms of awareness. I mean, right now, the Evertan Oilers, if there's a loose puck in the Evertan Oilers zone, the chances of the opponent finding that damn puck over an oilers player is about 90%. And that's just awareness. Well, Mitchell with us on sports 1440 have been trying and talking about

5:10Darnell nurse and whoever his D partner is for. Man, it's an awful long time. And for whatever reason it is. And I honestly thought that Jake Walman could be a solution there. At times when you look at these two guys on the ice and you look at the amount of games that they've played in the NHL, it's where that they they have no idea of how to play together. I can you put your finger on why or what you're seeing here tied. Well, what I like to do is I like to go back and out the look at at times when a player was successful. Nurse had success with Cody CC fans were still not happy, but they're, you know, they were over 50% as, you know, at 5 on 5 and outscoring. Nurse Bouchard is also over 50%. Nurse Stetcher was pretty good. And last year, Nurse Walman worked well. This year not so much. I think part of it is that Walman's been heard a little bit. And Nurse is like, I don't know why, but he's not having a terrific year. And that's a fact. And, and, you know, people, I guess somebody sent me a video video of the play where

6:12where Walman tries to get the puck back to Ingram. And it ends up being a goal against because nobody can cover it. And I don't know why Walman just didn't fire it down the ice. But it was sent to me a couple of times by people saying, look how bad Nurse is. And I'm like, well, you know, the Nurse is in the problem there. But people are are, you know, in Edmonton, there's a period of time where where fans get so down on a player that it that it becomes almost, well, we saw it was through a Skinner. It becomes like the story. And I think we're there with Nurse. We've been there with Nurse before. But, you know, he has a lot of natural talent. He has been a defenseman who has played well in the past. And I mean, I don't think they're going to be able to get a defenseman who can play right side with Nurse based on how much money and how many assets they have to play with. The owners are in a spot a bother here with the cap and with assets out. Unless they're willing to trade Math Savoy, I don't see a big move happening here. I see more like

7:15a third pairing right defenseman than a second pair. I don't see them trading Math Savoy. I mean, he had this was a great weekend that he had these three games. They didn't want to have six points. So I don't see yeah, he got to keep him there. They're not trading them. There's no way. Yeah. And so then then we get to okay. They're not and I agree with you. I don't think they should or will trade them. But then then the reality sets in and and we're probably, you know, I mean, we're probably talking Conor Murphy, you know, as and I don't know that fans will be thrilled with that. The deadline with Conor Murphy with the teams playing so poorly, that's not going to make them happy. But the trade for Kristen Jari's been a lot of the cap Adam Henry reportedly not willing to manage your ponies been waived now. But that's that's a different deal. So in terms of cap, they have a little bit of room in terms of assets. If they're not trading Savoy, they can trade the 2027 first round pick, but they don't have a lot. And and so we'll see, but I like I don't see

8:16Bobby McMahon and something coming here. I don't see two big moves like that. And you say, well, it's not a big move, but it kind of is because there's not a lot of sellers this year. Yeah, they don't have a first. They don't have a fourth. They don't have a fifth in 2026. They have their first in 2027 in 2028. But now you're talking way down the road as far as what your currency is. And they just don't have anything. They don't have a lot in the miners after I powered. They don't have a whole lot. I mean, you can talk about Samansky. You can talk about some other guys. But I mean, these are guys that haven't played very much in the NHL at all. So you're, I think you're out on a limb here with what the, what the currency you have here, Todd. Yeah, I agree. And I think like, look, I think Josh, Josh Samansky is a really good young player, but his, his trade value is, is, you know, he's not, he's not famous yet, right? Like in a way that I powered would be with first round pick, everybody saw him and evaluated him, same with Savoy, you know, and, and, um, you know, I saw Maddie tweeting out about Thai Emerson. And maybe

9:18that's a guy you trade, but Emerson's good. I like Thai Emerson. I don't know why you would trade Thai Emerson or Spencer Stashti. I, I think a seventh offense, but a six seven guy, a third pairing guy is probably where they're going to land. If they can't find a, uh, or, you know, a right shot, you know, center, uh, I keep, I mean, I, they need a right shot center. And Seattle is unhappy with, uh, their kid with the shame right. Uh, I, I don't know that a deal could be made. But I'd rather go that route because you're, you know, man, they keep renting these guys and they're 33 years old and then they play well. They sign them to a no movement clause that, for me, the theme this week is no movement clause. It's going to kill this deadline for the others. It just is. I, you know, with Emerson there, Tide, it's not crazy to say a lot of the, a lot of the time this season, a lot of the games, he's been their third best defenseman. That's absolutely, you know, and a price point of 1.3 million. I mean, that, that, that's just poor management. If you were to trade him. Yeah, I agree. But you're, you're in a situation now where

10:23you're asking for players and the other team is coming back and they're asking for players, you don't want to trade. It may come down to, we'll see because coffee just got there, but they may move all the down with, with Emerson for the second pair of partners. Bush, I don't people will be mad, but you, or maybe you put Nurse on the third pair, people will go be outraged by that. But you, look, we saw them play on in California this weekend. This is untenable. You can't go to war with this group as they're currently matched up together because there's too much chaos. And, and, you know, the, the, I like what they're doing with the outlets with coffee here now. They're using the middle of the ice more. I think the gapping between the forwards and the defenseman is better. I think there are improvements, but, uh, you know, I mean, you mentioned Savoy Frederick scored a goal. I love Frederick. I'm just cheering like hell for him because I former Bruin and he played so well there. And I think he's got game and, and people will grow to enjoy him. But if they could, and we can do like Conor Brown

11:24in a couple of years ago, just turn his season around. That would be great. So there are some positives, but not on the defensive side. They've got to figure it out. And maybe it's a, like a paring shuffle, maybe something like that. Because, you know, they got some good teams come with the town this month. And, and the, I don't know if anybody's looked at it, but the playoff picture, you know, on, on, uh, January 30th, they were in a time with Vegas and points for first place in the Pacific. Vegas had two games in hand, and they've gone one five and oh, since then, and they've looked, they've looked like a one five oh team. When McDavid and dry side are on the ice, they're a championship caliber team. When they're off the ice, they're an expansion team. They've got to fix that. And they have no money. There's no money. The engine blue. They've got no assets. Uh, I, I think that stand moment needs a miracle this week. Hi, this is Pablo Torrey from Pablo Torrey finds out. And today, I want to talk to you about boost mobile because we spent a lot of time analyzing inefficiencies in sports, overvalued contracts, money tied up in the wrong places and so on. But those inefficiencies

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14:30but his wheels didn't turn earlier. NHL Edge always does the sprint speed, like the fastest speed, and the one at the game in L.A. I think was as fast as the season. So he's coming around now. I just think he's probably feeling better. His legs are better. I remember people saying it's only this long and he's been, he got hurt two years ago in Boston last April. Last April, Frederick had his last, you know, high ankle, spring, quique, or twinge, or whatever. It's been not quite a year, but that's that's I think how long it can take. So I think you're going to see a much better player move before. And I sure hope so because the style of player that he is fits perfectly with the other fans, they will love him if he plays at his established level of ability. What do you make of the goal tending? And you said you want to give him a little bit longer of a run runway here. I just, I mean, there's an opportunity here for Conor Ingram. There was like after

15:32the win in L.A. But then he comes out and has this so, so just an average mediocre game against the sharks. So like neither goal tenders grab in the bull by the horns here. Well, two things. Number one, I think that that what it proves is maybe next time people will be different. But when there were just wild calls for Stuart Skinner and, you know, he's not in any shell goal. He sent them to, you know, Europe or whatever. It's hard to play goal in front of this team. They are they are offense oriented. They want to move the puck out. They don't really want to play defense. And I get that want to create the puck and get it out. But when they have to play defense, they're not good at it. So the, you know, a couple of the goals were like nobody who nobody could see the puck and then all of a sudden an L.A. King player found it and ripped it into the net. So I, I think you have to. You're pot committed. I mean, everybody wants just for wallstead. But how are you going to get him out of Minnesota? You don't have the ass end to help Minnesota this year. So it's a, it's a pipe cream. They've already committed. And I think that that, you know, when, when we go

16:37through life, we understand sometimes, you know, your company you work for will hire somebody and then what the devil do they do that for? You've got to give them a chance. And I think that both Ingram and Jerry, you know, they've, they've shown well at times and then poorly at times. But let's give Paul coffee a little opportunity here to get this team sorted out because they've got out. There's a lot of confusion. And, and they were, they were less predictable on the coast. I think if they're less predictable, that's probably good. But my god, they've got to tighten up holy man. Some of those plays that ended up in goals against in California were were they were Washington Capitol 7475 bad. They were simply awful. Dennis Marook. Yeah. That's right. That's right. You got, you got a rookie out there who's never played and Doug Mones who's 46 out there playing on defense. It was, it was bad. It really was. And Ronnie Lohanette. Yeah. Yeah. We're on low. Don't look at his goals against average that season. It's in the five.

17:39Yeah. Unbelievable. For sure. Alan Mitchell with this on sports 1440. You know, just with regula and the possibility of Figgitz claim, we'll see what happens. But I mean, they went through this already earlier in the year where, you know, they put Troy Stetcher on waivers. And now to, to, you know, when you think about it. So what in three months now, you're putting another guy on waivers again that that probably was a decision at that point between Stetcher and regula, not? Yeah. Oh, for sure. But this is about cap, you know, this is about cap and, and they, you know, they set him down for conditioning. Let me, let me change my answer. This regula has him played well. I like him as a defenseman. But this is, we can't trust him. And we got to get him off the roster. And maybe they have a deal for him. I think they, they wouldn't mind having him play in Bakersfield. He plays well there. Maybe he'll strengthen this game out. I think he has an NHL future. But he's coming back after a year off. And they're not going to count on them. They're not going to count on him in the, in the playoffs. They're going to replace him for

18:40another defenseman here in the next few days. But I, I mean, I think that the mistake with Stetcher was a mistake, hindsight being 2020. But and defensemen are so valuable that this time of year, you're going to pay a premium on them. But they, NHL teams are always worried about size on defense. And they had Stetcher and Emberson on the right side, along with Blue Shard, who's not a physical guy. And that's why I think they, you know, at some level, there's a possibility that they just go, okay, you know what? We're only going to go get one guy because that's all we get afford. Let's go get Connor Murphy out of Chicago. Yeah. Well, we're going to see what happens here in the next few days. And the wheels will start in motion here once we figure out around noon or whatever time it is with Monday, Connie, with regula. And then again, as you mentioned, we have Jan Marker decision to make on him. So there is going to be a little bit of play, a little bit of room to play with here. So Tide, what's coming up on the big program today at noon? We have Rachel Kryschack. She's going to solve the order's defensive issues and talk deadline.

19:44We'll talk about the Toronto Maple Leafs now. I don't know if anybody knows, but they're, they're, they're sinking like a stone. Man, I'm telling you, holy mackerel. That's a, that's a story worth following. So we'll talk about that. And the deadline in general, looks like Colorado is scouting Nazum Codry. So that'll be an interesting situation. And Jason Gregor will join us at 120. I want to talk to him a little bit about obviously the oilers, the deadline. We can in California. We'll get into March Madness as well. Definitely we'll do as Mama MMA. And it'll be the, the organized chaos that is the low-dower flow tide at noon today. How about those New York Islanders? Oh, that kid. Oh, my God, Terry. That kid, holy crap. That guy is real. Oh, my God. Matthew Schaefer, 20 goldmark, unreal. Pretty well runaway for the, uh, caulder, would you say or not? Yeah. Look, this is, this is, this kid is building a resume that's an all-timer, you know, like, uh, and he's like,

20:48you know, he's, you can tell he's just a kid. He looks like somebody's paperboy, you know, and, and he's out there and he's playing NHL hockey. And, and like, that was an important game yesterday from both teams. And he was the difference. He's, he's like, the guy isn't even 20. I got socks older than that guy. You got lots of socks older than that guy. You're right, I do. Uh, good stuff. Tide, uh, take care, big guy. And as always, thanks for leading things off here on, on, on our own. All right. All right, my friend. Be good.