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00:00right right okay yeah anyway yeah i'm just yeah just we're just gonna i'm done with it yep block
00:06it out yep yep well we are through the hockey draft but not through the whole busy section of
00:16the offseason there was no well we had the trade earlier on friday for the defenseman
00:21but there was no biggie on friday night but here we are on monday and there still are connor hellebuck
00:33rumors and speculation and i'm thinking of a conversation we had maybe not even a week ago
00:41do we take from what's being reported that they want him and i i still think yes i think yes
00:48is
00:49the answer there i think winnipeg wants to move him yes me too i think i think he wants to
00:54be moved
00:55and i think the sabers are absolutely still you know in on it and i'm and i'm a little surprised
01:02i guess by that i mean the the draft picks like you know balking at whatever price might have been
01:07discussed or you know however it happened i mean all we know is that the trade did not happen on
01:13on friday night or over the weekend at all um and i can my mostly feel like when that comes
01:20and goes
01:20like i don't have the fourth pick anymore i don't have the 20th pick anymore well that's probably it
01:26on the trade like one of those was surely going to be a part of the trade if it was
01:31going to happen
01:32and now that those picks are you know they're actual players now right in the form of rudolph and
01:38morozov uh new names i mean i guess you could trade those players i i don't know um or just
01:45other stuff um so i mean it's funny it was never my favorite idea when we talked about it but
01:52i said
01:52to me it's gonna be can i do this for a forward or that for a defenseman no no okay
02:02let's explore
02:03this goalie thing and i don't know if that's the order that things went down in or not um maybe
02:08they've
02:09just prioritized this move and it's still the move that they would like to make and just didn't find
02:13a price that they found palatable um over the weekend um but now i'm sort of left hoping they can
02:20pull off a connor hellebook trade when i think yeah because i i feel like they they kind of do
02:27something more and i like the zellweger kid that that sounds like a good enough idea
02:32to replace byram to me so like i'm okay there um i don't think there's anyone really out there i
02:40mean
02:40i guess there's still guys you could trade for forwards to try to replace tuck but i'm sort of
02:45settling into they are just going to go internal on that and i would i feel like their their attention
02:52is on goalie and goalie should all be all that i'm hoping for because i don't know that there's
02:56anything else to be done well you also have if you want it the other names like larkin were not
03:03traded either right so what does happen with him what happens with the other big the stars who
03:11robertson you know is that going to be an offer sheet is he just going to stay there i mean
03:15some
03:16of these guys i think it was sounding like a trade was wanted i mean maybe by both the player
03:23and the
03:24team but you didn't get it so are we at a point now maybe this will work out for the
03:28sabers where
03:29prices come down i bet teams maybe kind of hammered them for that fourth pick once they got it and
03:36they wouldn't come off it they picked a player that for the many hours we spent talking about
03:43the draft never once right was mentioned right i mean who's that i didn't even know who that was
03:49you'd think i would and i probably should have i had read i wasn't completely i wasn't watching i was
03:55wrapped up in in ride for roswell stuff and thanks to everybody here you specifically for you know
04:00giving me the leeway to do all that it was great so i wasn't my call so i was playing
04:05catch up uh
04:06you're the one i care the most about i mean i don't know you're the one that's in the room
04:10with
04:10me every day i felt like i was letting you down but anyway um i had read something earlier in
04:17the
04:17day that sort of indicated hey the sabers are high on this guy i don't remember i don't think it
04:22was
04:23chad um it might have just been a national guy i'd never heard of but like this is a guy
04:28to keep an eye on this the sabers like this guy so i wasn't completely it wasn't the first time
04:33i'd
04:33heard or seen the name uh when i found out that he was the pick um okay it was mine
04:39yeah
04:40uh but still it was it's still somewhat surprising i mean you know there were how many how many guys
04:46did we talk about with steven ellis on thursday um three or four defensemen i think we talked about
04:52and none of them were this guy and he ends up being the first defenseman off the board is how
04:57it went down the big name there was uh chase reed right who i think i remember john butcher gross
05:03trying to tell you yeah they're gonna pick chase reed like he's chris berman now right if they
05:08have the pick he's gonna yeah yeah yeah you know i guess not right good good intel though yeah right
05:14so yeah you know i was i gotta admit i was kind of bummed out on friday night when i
05:19you know i
05:19caught up and oh oh and now i'm watching and they're on the oh then they're gonna make a pick
05:26at 20 okay huh well at least they didn't trade for vincent trochek which i just like yeah that is
05:35like the thing that i didn't want them to do the most as much as i wanted some sexy matthew
05:42nye's
05:42jason robertson counter halibut whatever some some trade idea i really did not want them to pull the
05:49trigger on a trochek trade and you're right to say that not yet i mean i guess that still could
05:54happen
05:54if we're talking about halibut you'll still be talking about anything um but i i hope that that
05:59doesn't happen well they're really in the same position they were before the draft other than
06:05zellweger well zellweger but other than not having those picks to to spend anymore right to use as
06:11currency i mean they're not going to do that right they're not going to draft these guys and then trade
06:14the guys i think so you have next year's picks you have the same group of young promising right
06:23players the ostlands of the world who are still sitting around you have the same holes you can't
06:30take either of these first round picks as replacements for alex tuck or bowen byram
06:34i think the anaheim defenseman is somewhat in theory in concept he's a replacement i think that's the
06:41bet right now yeah he certainly reads like that on on paper i'm fine with that i mean that's me
06:46too
06:46let's just see did you have an opinion of him already i really i did not zellweger no not really
06:51i i had
06:51to i had to read i had to read about him but you know fast and yeah young skilled gifted
06:56like puck
06:57mover like i think it fits and and really right needs needs to brush up on his defensive zone
07:04awareness that that sort of reads like byram at you know we'll see what the contract comes in it he's
07:09an rfa but it's probably half half price byram from his old deal even not even what he's going to
07:15get you know once july 1 comes around and chicago can sign him to a new contract um but yeah
07:20this kid
07:21might come in around between three and four million i might hope um so they have the same
07:26work to do mostly yeah as we go into this week the draft is over and they mostly have the
07:31same work to
07:31do figure out someone for tuck and you need it like just to reset the conversation to not be someone
07:38who's already on the team ideally yeah um but i like i said at the outset here my focus has
07:44shifted
07:45to hella buck and i sort of feel and that might be a mistake i mean they could still make
07:50make up you
07:50know the brusque is still out there there's um there's a guy in seattle that chad has written about
07:56uh but they didn't get tuck and that i think his logic was like this guy mcmahon becomes expendable
08:03if they get tuck and they didn't get tuck so i don't know what's going to happen there but so
08:07they
08:07could still fortify that but i don't know the smoke around the goalie thing the fact that elliot
08:12friedman is still talking about it on the monday following the draft just tells me that's probably
08:18where that's where my our attention should be i think i agree with that um so you know if they
08:24if
08:25they if they do something to supplement the forward group great uh depending on what it is you know
08:30i'm not gonna love everything i didn't love this trocheck idea that who knows could still be out there
08:35unless it's a replacement for someone who goes in the hell of a trade right like if for some reason
08:41winnipeg wants and the sabers might want to include some money in that in addition to lucanin so maybe
08:48if ryan mcleod is you know a part of a trade package for anyone but hellebuck specifically i'm thinking
08:54about well then maybe i do have i have a need for someone like trocheck what do you think the
09:01fan
09:02reaction is going to be if they put something together for him one of the guys that we're really
09:08excited about maybe murka lucanin and a maybe next year's draft something i mean that's that's sizable
09:17and you know maybe it tips based on what that package is but one of our young studs goalie
09:27acts for him are fans gonna be into it i think probably yes i think it's pretty split i i
09:36think that
09:37there's always i think a lot of the people that would be i don't want to trade for a big
09:42name
09:42goalie i don't trade for a big name goalie will go we got a big name goalie like you know
09:46i think a
09:47lot of people will turn um some of that camp that would be like not i don't want to pay
09:53a goalie big
09:53money i don't want to spend assets on a lot of the he's on my team now did you see
09:58him in the
09:59olympics i think that plenty of people will get swept up in that um but now i don't think it'll
10:05be
10:05unanimous at all it's it's a it's a goalie there's there's people are dug in um about what that you
10:11know how good a bet that could be and he's on the older side and he's had playoff failures you
10:18know
10:18he's not perfect right as an idea so i think it'll be pretty split if they were to do that
10:24but i i still
10:25think as i did last week that and this is you this is usually easy for me because i tend
10:31to fall for
10:32everything that comes along that okay well why are they talking to winnipeg and you know
10:38bob rofsky or whoever else goaltenders if they didn't want one of them like why would they even
10:44bother a lot of teams you don't see boston mentioned for example in any of these conversations
10:49because they have a guy they like and that's obvious but the sabers are and i think it's fairly
10:56obvious why they would want to with how the season ended as we talked about last week i could see
11:02yarmo kekalainen and company in a boardroom maybe he doesn't have to be at the stadium are they still
11:07in there are they still out if it's nicer it's nicer i mean i guess just sort of hang out
11:13until
11:13they kick you out wherever they are talking about goaltending as the one area where they need to be
11:22different and this is an opportunity that would pretty easily seem to allow for that if you get
11:31connor hellebook so yeah i think as you said uh as this week starts there the focus is i think
11:39there
11:40and i think we can talk with the same sort of enthusiasm about all the possibilities as we did last
11:46week because nice too like nobody went the first round came along as awkward as ever as a entertainment
11:56vehicle and a broadcast as awkward as ever for some reason the national hockey league draft is just
12:02always weird does it does it just have to be gary bettman cannot help himself like it's just always
12:10so awkward yeah and i think he must love it i think he must love doing it and i mean
12:17it's just
12:18like the cringy oh you gotta love the enthusiasm when the fans are booing him nobody's laughing
12:24right it's not funny at all just like he's doing his best to try to diffuse whatever embarrassment
12:31but i don't know justin bieber could not even name i mean he didn't even announce mckenna he just
12:38mr mckenna eventually did you hear that no i did not oh my gosh not batman doesn't name bieber
12:44i've just seen pictures all over town listen yeah that i don't think are real listen to that sentence
12:50batman doesn't name bieber like the reports came out during the day um emily caplan quote a major
12:55a-list celebrity and i was enjoying thinking about like who that couldn't be brian cosio mentioned
13:02tiger woods like would tiger woods qualify and i said no not that he has any connection to the
13:07leafs anyway right it was not never going to be tiger woods but no a major a-list has to
13:12be on a
13:13level up from you know right now not 20 years ago but from tiger woods so bieber and drake were
13:20the
13:20two names that i think picks were the possibility and batman introduces justin bieber but he doesn't
13:26say his name i'm in the car like i i'm not looking at it right i think i would recognize
13:31justin bieber
13:32not everybody would right you know you got to name him doesn't yeah you usually do yeah what what
13:38is it about this guy i don't know i don't know i did i something happened when garen won the
13:44uh
13:44gm of the year thing yes we what the the mic didn't work when he was supposed to talk and
13:49then they went
13:49back to it and when they went back to us right before the sabers were picking 20th because i was
13:53really paying attention waiting for that pick that pick was the finish line for my night like are they
13:58going to make this pick are they going to trade this pick i got to get up at four in
14:01the morning
14:02to go ride a bike 40 miles i'm i want to you know what's happening and he's waiting for the
14:08something
14:08to happen on the video screen it took well it seemed like forever i'm sure it was only like 20
14:13seconds
14:13but there was this time where he's just staring at the screen and the screen's blank and i'm like what
14:18are we what are we doing here can you make this run a little more seamlessly i well he was
14:25orange
14:26by the way he was orange or red even red i would say so that didn't work when they there
14:34were two
14:35looks at him eventually when they got that fixed and when it was just a shot of that room he
14:42was in
14:42he looked like a normal person but when it was you know over the fireplace the fake fireplace or
14:48whatever like he was red and i don't think they wanted that either but probably not he's the gm of
14:52the year great yeah sure sure queen hughes trade yeah that's it in the olympics yep anybody else we
15:02can give awards to that just haven't won anything in a while we got to make sure to do that
15:05right
15:07um yeah so you could tell us out there how you would react to the sabers trading for connor hellebuck
15:16because if you're listening and paying attention to what we're talking about bulldog and i both think
15:21like that might still happen and it does kind of read like the sabers wanted to but you know we'll
15:29see how it ends maybe to their credit they are waiting this out you know it's interesting negotiation
15:35stuff i got to give them a lot of a lot of credit to not because i i and i
15:39i knew this was
15:42not the smartest way is the way i think i want to say it to view that fourth pick
15:48um i would have had a very hard time not having that pick burn a hole in my pocket
15:54yeah you know i i just would have i came here to buy a car today you know that's the
16:00sort of that
16:00that would have been me and i i know that that's not what you want to do you want to
16:05protect you know
16:06the value of the asset just because it fell in your lap sort of surprisingly at least from out here
16:12i
16:12don't know how surprised the sabers were um that they got that pick for for byrum or as part of
16:17the
16:17byrum return but i i could have easily spent it on anything that wasn't exactly worth it
16:26and i want to respect that they didn't do that even though you know we don't have some shiny new
16:31hockey player to play on the sabers right now we got you know we have draft picks um and those
16:38can
16:38you know this rudolph kid's going to go play in denver like they're going to be in the national
16:42title conversation whether they get there or not i mean there's hockey games to be played but they're
16:46a a powerhouse team year over year over year so he's he's going to be i mean he's got an
16:53opportunity to have a great year and maybe roll right into the nhl um and that's that's pretty
16:58exciting you know maybe the runway won't be that long he said already i think he he he's shooting for
17:04being in the nhl after playing a year of college but that could even be like this season
17:10right as opposed to oh i guess after the year ends yeah yeah he could he could do the boston
17:15had a guy
17:15he could yeah right right higgins yeah they yeah he could yeah even even if he plays in the national
17:21championship game there's still runway after that like a lot yeah you know if they're in if they're
17:26making a playoff run i think i'm pretty sure mccar went to the avalanche after winning the national
17:32title at umass um it might not he's not maybe maybe it took until the playoffs but he he played
17:39that spring for colorado we have a five o'clock deadline for rfas today peyton krebs among them
17:47and the new acquisition zellweger we'll see if they complete me him i'm just going to keep using
17:55that good good uh six players in total krebs be the biggest of course he'll be qualified i think
18:01those two for sure get qualified and i don't really know about any of the others like how
18:08important they are to organizationally yeah they're they're very much guys that are down the depth
18:13chart i think so i you know nothing would surprise me uh but maybe the the thing i'd expect the
18:21most
18:22is krebs and zellweger and maybe that's it on the uh qualifying offers well on hella buck as i'm
18:28asking and we're talking just sort of how does it feel i both would expect to be bummed out
18:39about what they gave up especially if it's helen use or murka both i mean i would not lucan in
18:48i'm
18:48ready to be done there but i would be sad about the two very promising whoever if it's this promising
18:56players that the sabers would have to trade probably if they were to do it but at the same time
19:03i would
19:04be super excited for for the season you know that's kind of how trades can be you can't just always
19:10be
19:10happy with all of you have to give give to get ouch right so there should be some pain if
19:16they are to do
19:17it are you hoping that florida saves them from themselves or even some other does it matter if
19:24it's florida or some other team ends up outbidding the say the uh sabers for hella buck so that you
19:31can be spared this this uh particular pain yeah no i know like i think like i already alluded to
19:41it feels and again this doesn't have to be the case but it feels like the only move left to
19:48me
19:48which kind of makes me want it like again i'm the guy that that fourth pick was going to be
19:53burning a
19:53hole in my pocket like i want i want action i i thought i was going to get action and
19:58you know
19:59like wednesday night like wednesday night the byram trade happens you get all that return dribs and
20:05drabs eventually you get it all like i'm i'm up until midnight waiting to see what else is going
20:10to happen and then i woke up at four in the morning the next day like i can't wait to
20:13look
20:13like what's next and so the juice that i'm seeking really is represented by hella buck at this point
20:22which makes me want him more than i did last week at this time but is that how it should
20:28work
20:28probably not you don't want as i believe it was
20:35wc fields who said you can't be a slave to the juice you don't want to be a slave it
20:41was it him
20:41was it someone else was it robert frost who was it that said you can't be you don't want to
20:47be a
20:47slave to the juice uh play-doh play-doh right those guys just were copycats play-doh we have
20:54warren sharp today hey now get some football in he's got his annual you know thorough vast
21:05topics are covered his book is out and we'll the almanac we'll talk to warren uh at four o'clock
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