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JD POV: Mikko, talk to me. Mitch, pack your bags. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: The whole thing with Ranton in all season long, it's
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  Speaker 2: been so diluted, it's been so weird, the way he
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  Speaker 2: left Colorado, all the issues with Tulsky and Carolina. I
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  Speaker 2: think Tulski made the biggest mistake out of anybody through
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  Speaker 2: this whole, this whole debacle of a season for Miko Rannon,
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  Speaker 2: and not only Miko Rannon, but the Carolina Hurricanes. I
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  Speaker 2: think they do well in the playoffs. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: they have a chance of winning with what they've done.
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  Speaker 2: For them to make a trade without you heard Marty
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  Speaker 2: Nachs come out and say, I don't know why they
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  Speaker 2: would trade for somebody that they don't aren't one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent she is going to sign. So I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the whole issue with Carolina is just taking a like that.
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  Speaker 2: There's taking a swing and then there's just being absolutely foolish,
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  Speaker 2: and this was just foolish. I just don't think they
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  Speaker 2: needed to make that trade. Marty Nachius is still a
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  Speaker 2: great player. They could have found somebody else in trade,
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  Speaker 2: or they could have signed somebody. I just don't know
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  Speaker 2: what's going on, and I think Rod Brendemar got frustrated
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  Speaker 2: with the whole situation and maybe just spoke out of turn.
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  Speaker 2: But again, this we don't there's so many unknowns with
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  Speaker 2: Miko Ranton and his agent and this whole season surrounding him, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's true with this. I just know
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  Speaker 2: that it's been a mess and now he's in Dallas
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  Speaker 2: and Jim Nill reaps the benefits and Jim Neill, who's
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  Speaker 2: another fantastic GM, and I talk about levels. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: even mention Billy Zito, but Jim nil is just so
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  Speaker 2: fantastic as a GM and he just finds the right angles.
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  Speaker 2: And Logan Stankven is a great player. But Miko Ranton
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  Speaker 2: and on that team is exactly what they need and
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  Speaker 2: he's just such an high impact player. And it's just
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  Speaker 2: the difference between gms, Like I think Telsky just got
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  Speaker 2: a little bit ahead of his skis and Jim Nill
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  Speaker 2: just took advantage. And I just it's weird though. It's
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  Speaker 2: just such a weird season. And Rod Brandamar, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's just so frustrated with the situation. In the past
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  Speaker 2: two years, the guys they've missed out on the guys
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  Speaker 2: they've let go. It's just frustrating. There's guys I know
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  Speaker 2: in Carolina that just kind of it's been tough for them,
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  Speaker 2: like they've I got a few texts of just guys
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  Speaker 2: being like, I don't know what we're doing. And nothing
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  Speaker 2: against those guys and nothing against the GM You're they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to do stuff. But that's frustrating for a team
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  Speaker 2: when you think you have a team that can win
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  Speaker 2: the Cup and then you lose such a big player
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  Speaker 2: like that and the return is good, but it's not great.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like, Okay, we're knocking the side of the park.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, okay, yeah, we got a good player
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  Speaker 2: and we got a couple of good players. Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're worse soft than we were before the trade deadline.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Hurricanes is definitely one of the losers of
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  Speaker 1: the trade deadline. However, the whole rant and drama, it's
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  Speaker 1: even crazier because it extends to Leaf's nation. The Hurricanes
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  Speaker 1: asked about Mitch Marner as explored potential rants and trade.
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  Speaker 1: The Leafs poorly ask Martner, but waving his full no
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  Speaker 1: trade clause has expected leaves fans and media have now
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  Speaker 1: gone nuts. Marna, by the way, is the UFA this summer.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think Mitch Martin's gonna come back to the
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  Speaker 1: Maple Leafs.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't if I was him. I'm just telling you
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  Speaker 2: right now, Mitch Marner, if you hear this, I'd be
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  Speaker 2: running for the hills, because not only has the not
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  Speaker 2: only has the fan base abused.
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  Speaker 1: You been very tough on him.
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  Speaker 2: Been very tough on him come playoff time, and it's
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  Speaker 2: not it's not been his fault. And I've been hard
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  Speaker 2: on him just as much and said, hey, he's one
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  Speaker 2: of the guys that haven't picked it up in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: But he has carried this team for the most part
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  Speaker 2: this season. He has been one of one of the
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  Speaker 2: if not the best player. The fact that and listen,
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  Speaker 2: Brad Tree Living, I tweeted the other night, in a
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  Speaker 2: haze of rage, said I don't think Mitch Barter's resigning.
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  Speaker 2: I think Brad Tree Living. I think the GMing has
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  Speaker 2: been very bad in the NHL. People, I say, people
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  Speaker 2: thought you called out three well, people thought I said
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  Speaker 2: Brad Tree Living was a bad GM. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: done some great moves. And Kyle Duba's kind of hurt
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  Speaker 2: this team. But I think that move specifically. Listen, I
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  Speaker 2: asked a couple guys straight up, I said, okay, I said,
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to trade Miko Ranton in for Mitch Martin,
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  Speaker 2: would you make that trade? I wouldn't make that trade.
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  Speaker 2: Why wouldn't I make that trade? Because Number one, I
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  Speaker 2: think I think Mitch Marner impacts the game a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more than Miko Ranton on the defensive side of
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  Speaker 2: the puck. Mico Randon is very good offensively, He's big body,
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  Speaker 2: he's a great winger. Mitch Marner plays all he plays
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  Speaker 2: five on five, he plays penalty kill, and he plays
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  Speaker 2: power play, and he's impactful in all three zones. You
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  Speaker 2: cannot give a player like that up. Even though he's
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  Speaker 2: not the biggest, strongest guy, he is a great hockey player.
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  Speaker 2: And the fact that they entertained Miko Randon for Mitch Marner,
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  Speaker 2: whether it was straight up or for some picks, I
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  Speaker 2: think is not a good move by Brad Tree living
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  Speaker 2: in this in the Toronto Maypleas organization. Yeah, it's fine
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  Speaker 2: to kick the tires and see what Ranton will yield,
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  Speaker 2: but why would you go to Mitch Marner and ask
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  Speaker 2: him to what wave is no move and that if
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  Speaker 2: that's true, And they went to Mitch Martin and said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: would you wave your no move clause, I'd be out
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  Speaker 2: of there July first, See you later, Mitch Marner. There
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  Speaker 2: will be there will be thirty teams that would sign
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  Speaker 2: him and pay him ten to twelve million dollars a year,
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  Speaker 2: and I think he deserves that, maybe even more than
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  Speaker 2: that with the cap going up. So for me, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: Mitch Marner, see you later, pack your bags, get out
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  Speaker 2: of there, go enjoy yourself somewhere else, because you've been
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  Speaker 2: stepped on way too much in this organization and you
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  Speaker 2: don't deserve it. Unfortate like maybe a little bit, but
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  Speaker 2: right now it's gone too far. I think for him
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  Speaker 2: as a player this season he's having they should be
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  Speaker 2: re signing him and paying him what he wants, especially
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  Speaker 2: with the cap going up. They're not see you later,
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  Speaker 2: and they're asking to wave his new move clause by
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  Speaker 2: get in the car, turn it on, shut up, and draft.
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  Speaker 1: He has yet to elevate company had to elevate. Shut up.
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  Speaker 1: And I know you love Rihanna, but Tron's thing like
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  Speaker 1: this thing. He's yet to elevate come playoff time, but
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  Speaker 1: he's everything other than that about the other guys if
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  Speaker 1: get to elevate come playoff time, so there's other blames.
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  Speaker 2: Alo.
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