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What will the 2026-27 OHL season have in store? - The OHL in 60 Podcast: Season Premiere · The Armchair GM's Sports Network

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  Speaker 1: a lot to talk about here obviously a long off
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  Speaker 1: season a lot to go over a lot of trades
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things have happened sudbury making waves we've
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  Speaker 1: with all that out of the way, Colin, all that housekeeping,
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  Speaker 1: we got a jam-packed show, but how was your summer?
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  Speaker 1: I know we're excited for football season, hockey season starting up,
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  Speaker 1: but how was your summer and getting ready for another
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  Speaker 1: hockey season?
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  Speaker 3: It's a long nine-month grind for us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good until I had a nightmare on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: I got your longhorns, but you win some, you lose some.
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  Speaker 2: What a game that was. That was a classic. And
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  Speaker 2: it was a good summer. I'm all fired up for
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  Speaker 2: the night, 8.15. My Broncos start to go to town,
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  Speaker 2: start off with the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday Night Football.
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  Speaker 2: You got to be pumped for that. But, no, it
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  Speaker 2: was a good summer. A lot of traveling. Coast to coast. Brandon,
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  Speaker 2: every time you went to text me about getting together, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm this place, I'm that place. It's hard to track down,
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  Speaker 2: I feel, this summer. all over the map, but it was,
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  Speaker 2: it was a busy summer and it's nice that hockey's back.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice to be in the arena. I went about
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  Speaker 2: being with the Bulldogs at orientation camp in June. And
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  Speaker 2: it's like, well, it felt like it was last week.
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  Speaker 2: So it's went so fast and it's it's, it's beautiful
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  Speaker 2: that hockey's back. So pumped for it. Like the preseason
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  Speaker 2: was so good in general. And you're seeing guys now
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  Speaker 2: at development camps strutting their stuff. And it's just a
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  Speaker 2: blast to see always a great time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm still in preseason to kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not not the best of intros on my end. But again, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're still getting going here on the OHL 60 podcast. Right. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're in preseason mode. I got to get
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  Speaker 1: myself ready. Regular season starts this week. And yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: just feels like for us getting back in the rhythm
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  Speaker 1: and the groove of things, you know, a weekly basis
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  Speaker 1: in the show we take for granted, maybe during a
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  Speaker 1: long nine month season, just how how much of a
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  Speaker 1: grind it actually is. But when you haven't done it
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  Speaker 1: for a few months, it's a little bit rusty on there.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we need some preseason games.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. This is a preseason game for us. The
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  Speaker 2: first segment, we'll have it as a preseason. It'll be
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  Speaker 2: our blooper reel for the year, we hope. There's many
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  Speaker 2: to come for that. I'm just lucky. I'm just lucky.
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  Speaker 2: I got the light upgrade from yourself, Brandon. I hope
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  Speaker 2: the streams like a little better this year with the lighting.
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  Speaker 2: I know that was an issue last year. Laptops crashing.
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  Speaker 2: It was, uh, it was all over the map. My, uh,
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  Speaker 2: technology took a couple of ginger ales and, uh, called
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  Speaker 2: it a night on me a couple of times, but
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  Speaker 2: shout out to my better half Liza for the, uh,
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  Speaker 2: curtain backdrop. Uh, that'll get upgraded throughout the season. There
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  Speaker 2: should be stuff attached to that. We'll have fun with
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  Speaker 2: that throughout the year. I'm sure. Um, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: it should be my play board. I feel like I
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  Speaker 2: should get like one of those like hockey things. Cause
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  Speaker 2: the amount of times I use my hands and explain
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  Speaker 2: things in the camera, I feel like I should get
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  Speaker 2: a board. Like it's a bench and just draw out
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  Speaker 2: plays and stuff just over my shoulder. We just go
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  Speaker 2: to the right, go to the right, go to the left.
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  Speaker 3: Might need Colin's whiteboard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That'd be awesome. If I got a little whiteboard
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  Speaker 2: on there and just started writing, it'd be awesome. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's something that, uh, I think that's something we
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  Speaker 2: got to do. Count down the effects. Do you have
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  Speaker 2: an effect tally?
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  Speaker 1: If you want to see that comment or like that
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  Speaker 1: you want to see Colin have a whiteboard and is
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  Speaker 1: a backdrop this year. So we can go over, we'll
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  Speaker 1: go over some plays or go over some things that
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  Speaker 1: have been bothering him throughout the week.
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  Speaker 2: Skyline on it.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. That's, that's a pretty good skyline.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It looks better.
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  Speaker 1: It looks great already. So just give you guys a
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  Speaker 1: quick rundown. If you're listening to us on the audio version,
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  Speaker 1: I'll read it off quickly for you. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: go over OHL headlines. We got about 300 of those.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to try to go through those as
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  Speaker 1: quickly as we can. Sudbury emptying out the future future
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  Speaker 1: draft pick cupboard yeah we've got a lot of thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on that one the preseason takeaways and thoughts on the
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  Speaker 1: length of the preseason Colin's got some thoughts he wants
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  Speaker 1: to maybe see some modifications there maybe the next effect
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  Speaker 1: as he mentioned as I mentioned off the top the
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  Speaker 1: OHL media poll get through that Colin and I sort
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  Speaker 1: of early predictions on some of the media polo questions
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  Speaker 1: that were given out by the OHL and Josh Sweetland
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  Speaker 1: as always and then our preseason overreaction power rankings that
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  Speaker 1: came out today so we'll we'll touch on all that
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  Speaker 1: but a jam-packed season premiere episode of the OHL in
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  Speaker 1: 60 podcast appreciate appreciate everybody being here with us and
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  Speaker 1: if you're listening the next day then hopefully no more
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  Speaker 1: news has come out on the audio version then you're
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  Speaker 1: you're out of luck on that one but regardless of
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to be live every Monday there are
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  Speaker 1: going to be some weeks we're going to be live
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesdays just depending on scheduling but every single week
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  Speaker 1: we'll be here for you guys on the OHL in
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  Speaker 1: 60 podcast so Colin let's start off with some OHL
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  Speaker 1: headlines and We have to start off again. We don't
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  Speaker 1: want to start off on a negative because we want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about a lot of great things, but just
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  Speaker 1: quickly wanted to give a quick, you know, shout out
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  Speaker 1: and just thoughts and prayers for Matthew May. It's obviously
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  Speaker 1: a really tough situation going down there in Arizona State.
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  Speaker 1: An OHL player in his own right played a lot
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  Speaker 1: with the Ottawa 67s. We had the pleasure of covering
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  Speaker 1: this young man throughout his career.
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  Speaker 3: St.
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  Speaker 1: Louis Blues, you know, highly sought after draft pick. So
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  Speaker 1: just a terrible situation. We're not going to talk too
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  Speaker 1: much about it, but uh, as an OHL grad and
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  Speaker 1: just as a, you know, the tight knit hockey community, uh,
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers go to Matthew May. It's really hoping, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that he can recover from what was really
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  Speaker 1: just a horrible situation a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely. Well said Brandon. I mean, Matthew's whole
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  Speaker 2: OHL career, how special it was in Ottawa, um, everything
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  Speaker 2: he's done in the OHL. It's such a good family,
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  Speaker 2: good person. Um, yeah. Thoughts and prayers without a doubt
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  Speaker 2: go out to the Mayesh family and Matthew himself. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see what teaching moment this can
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  Speaker 2: bring to the, uh, the athletic department in summer training
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  Speaker 2: out there in the NCAA. Definitely not a good look
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  Speaker 2: for the Arizona state program. Who's fairly new to the
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  Speaker 2: NCAA hockey division one, I guess theater you could say,
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  Speaker 2: but it's tough. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just maybe we need to rethink some of
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  Speaker 1: our off season training and what we're, we're putting these
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  Speaker 1: kids through, you know, especially when we're not even playing
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  Speaker 1: games yet. So I don't want to touch too much
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  Speaker 1: on that, but we wanted to show our support for,
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  Speaker 1: an OHL grad and Matthew May, which again, all sending
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  Speaker 1: all the prayers throughout the hockey community there. And another
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  Speaker 1: big piece of news, obviously, if you watch the, any
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  Speaker 1: of the OHL and 60 podcasts throughout the years, one
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  Speaker 1: of our own has been moved. He's moved on and
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  Speaker 1: you know, a great opportunity for our own Reese Domaney,
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  Speaker 1: the new radio voice of the Niagara ice dogs and
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  Speaker 1: country 89 Reese, you know, full circle for him started
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  Speaker 1: off with the ice dogs doing dogs, TV and, obviously
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  Speaker 1: spent some time with the Brantford Bulldogs, Brantford Titans, and
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  Speaker 1: Will and Jackfish, and really, you know, cutting his teeth
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  Speaker 1: in the play-by-play industry, and now really gets a great
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  Speaker 1: opportunity here, and a lot of great things going on
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  Speaker 1: for Niagara on and off the ice, and this was
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  Speaker 1: a great, I think, moment for the organization and for
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  Speaker 1: Reese as well, just, you know, wishing him all the best,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously we'd like to have him on the show
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  Speaker 1: here and there when we can, talking some ice dogs, but,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's going to be full-time there with Niagara,
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  Speaker 1: so all the best to him, and you know, just
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  Speaker 1: congratulations to him, obviously more than well-deserved.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, for sure. I mean, it was a great run. Um,
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  Speaker 2: it was, it was a blast and I know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: the ice dogs needed a lot of character and they
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of characters. So that's big, um, for
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  Speaker 2: that franchise and, uh, all the best recent. It'll be awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Night one, night one, Friday night in Brantford is going
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  Speaker 2: to be a blast as Brandon, you were on the
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  Speaker 2: other end of that for how many years? And now
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  Speaker 2: welcome to the club, Reese. Um, you know how that's
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  Speaker 2: gonna go brandon it's always a blast you loved.
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  Speaker 3: It bulldogs ice dogs and now he's on the other
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  Speaker 3: side of it again so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it'll be a blast there'll be more of the
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  Speaker 2: dog gas your bulldog fans listening.
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  Speaker 1: On that absolutely So, uh, yeah, best of luck to
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  Speaker 1: Reese and, uh, thank you for his contributions to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the network and the OHL and 60 podcast specifically alongside
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  Speaker 1: Colin all those years.
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  Speaker 3: So, uh, look forward to, uh, to catching up with
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  Speaker 3: him when we can.
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  Speaker 1: So Colin, uh, more headlines here and then I'm already,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can tell I'm already in preseason cause
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  Speaker 1: I forgot the, the lineup already.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: So the other, the other big broadcasting piece of news is, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Cooney, former Erie Otters play by play is now
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  Speaker 1: the voice of the anaheim ducks in the national hockey
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  Speaker 1: league aaron cooney calls a great game listen to him
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  Speaker 1: a little bit on the radio last year on the
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  Speaker 1: ducks uh uh stream last year when he got to
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  Speaker 1: fill in for a few games and i was going
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  Speaker 1: to be full-time play-by-play uh you know it's a development
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  Speaker 1: league the ontario hockey league for not just the players
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  Speaker 1: but everybody involved and great to see uh an ohl
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  Speaker 1: alum and aaron cooney getting an hl gig full-time.
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  Speaker 2: 100 um that it's awesome to see aaron um get
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  Speaker 2: that opportunity it's funny you went from reese you got
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  Speaker 2: his first opportunity calling games play-by-play filling in for aaron
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  Speaker 2: And now we got, what a segue, um, going to
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Cooney, but definitely it's great to see the ducks
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  Speaker 2: organization to trending in a positive direction is huge to
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  Speaker 2: see Aaron get that opportunity with the respective team, right?
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  Speaker 2: Like you want to be a respected team. You want
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  Speaker 2: to cover a team and call games for a team
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  Speaker 2: that gives you an opportunity to show your excitement level.
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  Speaker 2: And the ducks will do that for sure. And it's
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  Speaker 2: a great relationship. Aaron's definitely earned the right. Um, he's
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  Speaker 2: paid his dues. You could say, and for Aaron to
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  Speaker 2: get this opportunity, it's unbelievable. Um, huge for him. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: 2013 to 21, like it says on your YouTube screen, um,
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  Speaker 2: with the Erie Otters, uh, he called a lot of
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  Speaker 2: big games for the Otters when it wasn't really the
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  Speaker 2: brightest times. Then it got bright. He was there for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it. And it was, um, awesome to
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  Speaker 2: see Aaron get that opportunity. When I saw that come
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  Speaker 2: on my feed, I was thinking, that's awesome. It's nice
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  Speaker 2: to see a good person, get the opportunity to write.
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  Speaker 2: Like every time you see these people, some people get
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  Speaker 2: these opportunities and it's like, ah, you know, like they're
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  Speaker 2: great and all, but you know, like I've had a
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  Speaker 2: bad relationship or something, you know, like I just kind
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  Speaker 2: of rubbed the wrong way with Aaron. No, he's 100% respectable, man.
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  Speaker 2: It's great to see him get that opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He got to call some games for a guy that
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  Speaker 1: wore number 97 in Erie and had some great times there, but.
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  Speaker 2: He got the, the blankets, the radishes, the Strom's too.
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  Speaker 2: Like he had some teams.
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  Speaker 3: Quite the era.
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  Speaker 1: And then he's paid his dues with the San Diego
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  Speaker 1: goals and the AHL for the ducks and now getting
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to get the call up. So a great
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  Speaker 1: job for Aaron Cooney. good things happen to good people.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a, that's a great guy right there. So, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 1: always love, uh, here in Aaron Cooney. And now we're
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  Speaker 1: going to hear him more on.
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  Speaker 3: The duck stream going forward. So, uh, all the congrats
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  Speaker 3: to him.
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  Speaker 1: Another big piece of news with, uh, somebody that's not
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  Speaker 1: a player that's moved on, but, uh, I was texting
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  Speaker 1: with Colin before the show. I think this was one
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  Speaker 1: of the, one of the sneaky biggest moves of the
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  Speaker 1: off season, uh, not involving a player. That's John Wynn
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  Speaker 1: Stanley going from the North Bay battalion to the Barry Colts.
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  Speaker 1: He's now the, president of hockey operations for Barry. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: he spent six seasons in the North Bay Battalion up
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  Speaker 1: there with Adam Dennis and everything that they're doing up
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  Speaker 1: there in North Bay under Ryan Ulihan's coaching staff. John
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  Speaker 1: Winstanley did a great job, and now he's going to Barry. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Marty Williamson's still there as the general manager, but to
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  Speaker 1: have John Winstanley's experience as the president of hockey operations, Colin,
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  Speaker 1: I think this is going to be a big move
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  Speaker 1: for Barry in the long term.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think it's someone that Can work
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  Speaker 2: well with Marty. I think that's a big one in
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  Speaker 2: the front office, right, with the general manager and the
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  Speaker 2: president like this being able to work together. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of credibility, obviously, with John coming into Bay Area with
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  Speaker 2: all the work he's done in North Bay and his
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  Speaker 2: track record speaks for itself. It's interesting to go from
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  Speaker 2: North Bay to Bay Area. I wonder what North Bay
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  Speaker 2: staff thinks about it, if it's mutual, you know, but
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  Speaker 2: for the Barry Colts perspective, it's a great ad. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: in this day and age, credibility does not hurt. And
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  Speaker 2: you got to have the resources. Resources is everything now
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  Speaker 2: with the new age and hockey with the NCAA and everything.
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  Speaker 2: The more credibility you have in your organization, the more
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  Speaker 2: resources you have, the more selling features you have. And
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  Speaker 2: I think for this one and John going to Barry,
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  Speaker 2: it's just extra depth to the staff. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that's important nowadays more than ever. And the track record
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  Speaker 2: speaks for itself, right? How he started off in player
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  Speaker 2: development with the North Bay battalion, assistant general manager for
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  Speaker 2: all those years when Adam Dennis came in and then
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  Speaker 2: gets that opportunity. Adam Dennis gives, promotes them to the
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  Speaker 2: general manager spot for the last two years in North Bay.
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  Speaker 2: North Bay was one of those teams where if it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't for Ottawa last year, everyone's like North Bay battalion
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  Speaker 2: are going to take it down here. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: take it down here. And then they never really did.
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  Speaker 2: And I think there's two, two people you can credit
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  Speaker 2: that are three people. You can credit that Adam Dennis, Ryan,
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  Speaker 2: and John win Stanley. I think those are the three guys.
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  Speaker 2: And you look at that organization, North Bay, they were staples.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: And I think when you look at Barry now off
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: the year that coming off the year, they just had right.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: And the going to the OHL finals the way they did, right.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: You add, you add John to the staff. Well, now
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: you got the three, right. You got the coach, the
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: GM and the president. And I think that's huge. You
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: need a big three to be competitive nowadays with the
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: NCAA is too big of a pawn. And to have
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: three respectable people like that in your organization is is
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: massive and i think for the barry colts this is
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: a huge huge huge successful point off the ice it
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: also helps marty get a little bit of a break
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: too in the scouting staff everywhere you see him you
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: know like take it easy you gotta have someone else
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: go too right so i think it's awesome um to
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: have that respect in the organization and uh have the
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: people there to be resources as well and selling.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Features stability is is a big thing that's north bay's
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: had with those three and now With new ownership in
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Barry too, that's going to help as well with John
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Winstanley coming in there to help Dylan Smoskowicz and Marty Williamson,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: as you mentioned.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: So a big move there.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: And I think that'll take a few years to really
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: reap the benefits of it. But John Winstanley, I think
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: one of the better executives in the Ontario Hockey League.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: So a big get there for the Barry Colts and
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: taking him from a division rival in the Central Division
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: within the North Bay Battalion. So we'll see how that
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: goes over. Some key dates just to quickly go over
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: in the Ontario Hockey League this year. Colin, there's two
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: graphics here. September 17th, obviously, is the regular season opener
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: in a few days. The overage roster is reduced to
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: November 13th. The CHL USA Prospect Challenge is December 1st
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: and 2nd. So some key dates there. We'll get to
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: page two here shortly as it pulls up.
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  Speaker 3: There we go.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: December 4th to January 5th is the World Junior Trade Restriction.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: So Obviously, restricted players from goes into effect for players
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: that are participating at the World Juniors cannot be traded
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: until after the tournament's over. The holiday trade restrictions from
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: the 20th to the 26th. So a trade freeze there.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: And then the overage trade deadline is January 7th. The
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: actual trade deadline is January 8th. And then the overage
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: signing deadline is January 15th. So a lot of key
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: dates there and appreciate the Ontario Hockey League. really starting
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: to be as transparent as they can with, uh, keeping
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: not only the media, but the fans up to date with,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: with exactly what's going on and, and, and what key
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: dates are within the league.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. The Josh Sweetland, uh, PR, what an upgrade that was. Yeah.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: That's an effect on, um, from Josh's part, uh, on
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: the Instagram and on Twitter. Uh, that was awesome to
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: see that, uh, that feature that Josh has created for himself.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, that platform is huge. It's, it's definitely reliable
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: for myself and I'm sure fans really, uh, really get
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: a kick out of that. And it's nice to, it's
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: a nice piece of information for people to go for.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: So we'll go quickly over the U 16, uh, obviously, uh,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: you know, long ways away from next year's OHL draft,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: but you know, guy that didn't get granted exceptional status,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Cato worked and nobody's shock is going to be number one, uh,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: on that board, Jasper Wang and Beckham Hunter, the top
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: three there. So just a couple of names to monitor, uh,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: in the, uh, the U 16 draft and we'll see,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: you know, as tournaments go on throughout the year and
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: reach the OHL cup. And then the, uh, the live
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: ohl draft that was a big success this last year
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: in kingston so a couple notable names to keep an
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: eye on there but obviously kate o'rourke is going to
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: be on the top everybody's list just missed out on
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: exceptional status the young american defenseman but uh you know
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: going back to the toronto junior canadians for another year
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: expect uh you know him to have his name called
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: uh next whoever has the first overall pick next year
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: i guess yeah.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: No absolutely i mean it was the topic heard Here
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: on the only John 60 podcast for Reese, for yourself
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: and myself, all we talk, all that's what we talked
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: about for the last month. It felt like going into
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: the draft, Kate O'Rourke, is he getting exceptional status? Is
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: he not? Yeah. Yeah. Hear the reports from some insiders. No,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: then yes. Then it was a teeter totter. And this
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: year's the year for Kate. And it's exciting to see
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: him excel throughout the season here with Toronto again. And
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you'll have all the success in the world.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: So we'll go from the OHL draft to the NHL draft.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: OHL players, the top players that are on the 2027
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: NHL entry draft, I guess, radar. Some of the top
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: ones there, as you can see on the screen, I'll
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: just read them off. You're listening to us. Yakko Y6
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: right now, number five. Dima Zilkin, number 11. Alex Kuhlman
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: is 18th. Cooper, Cooper McGaslin is number 23. Number 25,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Levi Harper. Number 26 is Brenner Lehmans. And number 28
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: is Keaton Arda. And then Alex Forrest, a late potential
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: first round pick there. So obviously a big year for
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the Ontario Hockey League as always, but a lot of
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: key names that we'll be keeping an eye on throughout
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the year there.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm excited. I'm very intrigued to see the
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Sarnia Stank. The OHL, they highlighted in the graphic as well,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Brenner Lehmans, a greater Dalhai area guy, Langton, Ontario native,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: had to mention that. I think that with Brenner and
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: the Sarnia Sting, is this the year? Is this the
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: year where the Sting make the playoffs? Something's got to give.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: And I feel like this has to be the year
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: you have some of these players who have returned with
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: some you know, with some skills, they added the guys
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: like Parker Holmes. Does that move the needle a lot?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but Brenner lemons in his draft year,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: some of these guys that are getting bigger roles this
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: year in Sarnia, is this the year, this thing make
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the playoffs? My, my opinion that they have to, you
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: have to make the playoffs this year, new ownership, new
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: staff year one. You gotta make, you gotta make the
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: playoffs this year. Um, You know, you got to revive
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: the hive. You got to get it going again. It's
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: bee season in Ontario here. The bees are terrible. So
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: it's starting to sting time. Maybe that's a sign. I
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: But Cohen Ishkok, again, is still one of my favorite
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: names in the Ontario Hockey League. And he's a really
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: solid player for the Ottawa 67s. You know, there's a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: lot of great names on that list. I think Alex
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Forrest is a guy everybody's looking forward to seeing in
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: his first full season of Ontario Hockey League play. I
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: think if the Kitchener Rangers weren't so loaded, he probably
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: would have been up with them last season for a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: team that went on to uh win the ohl championship
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the memorial cup he played really well uh in junior
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: b last season so uh he's a guy you know
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: that everybody's kind of looking at uh ryerson edgar going
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to be a big part of niagara as well so
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of guys to look at uh at the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: top of that list though is yako ysic.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah no absolutely um ysic's going to be a stud
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: um he's gonna have every opportunity as well right and
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: i i would imagine he's gonna play a top six
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: role with the guel storm right so you're gonna get
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: every opportunity um in your draft year like that saw
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: it last year first hand with caleb maholtra Right. And like,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I feel like that's a similar situation here with a
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Y6 going to get a big top six role and
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: they're going to rely on him in that role as well.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: It's not just a cliche. Hey, we're going to put
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: the draft, the big name draft, your kid in the
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: top six and he's going to be there all year. No,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: he's going to earn his way. And I mean, he's
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: going to perform that way. And he's earned that right.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: And I mean, you watch him play on the weekend
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: here in the preseason golf has everybody out of the
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: lineup and he's still putting up points. He's still leading
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: the team. um really and a good opportunity to be
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: a leader and you still see scouts watching here in
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: the preseason just of what he's done uh with everyone
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: else gone right you think about the amount of players
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: out of guelph's lineup here in the preseason well it's
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: a great opportunity to watch um it's a great opportunity
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: so i think that um for him it's a big
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: selling feature here too in the preseason preseason games they
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: don't mean much wins and loss records but they do
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: mean stuff for the players like that to get the
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: opportunity to step up and play a role because right
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: now he's probably the the main focal feature for other
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: teams zoning in, doing a little bit of pre-scout on
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: other teams in the preseason.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: And it works out for him.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: He's going to have the spotlight on him all year
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: with the Gulf storm hosting the Memorial cup. So even,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: even more of a bump for Yakko Wysik in a
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: year where his team is also going to be in
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the Memorial cup.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: So shout out to the Gulf storm to love the docs,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: love the documentaries. Those are sweet. The eye of the storm.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Those are sweet. um, shout out to Guelph for documenting
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: their season and having it out on time like that too. That's,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: that's cool. Um, for Guelph, uh, I think that's right
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: on to really document, use the resources that you have
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: and the opportunity you have off the ice as well
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: to grow your brand during a big year for the
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Guelph storm.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be a big one in Guelph and, uh,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: obviously a lot of behind the scenes work to get them, uh,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: to that Memorial cup and we'll see if they can
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: get there through the front door winning the Ontario hockey
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: league championship. So, Another piece of news that just came
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: in right as we were about to record, so we
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: had to throw it in. It's big news in Kingston.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Troy Mann and Corey Cooper, their general manager and their
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: head coach, both extended to multi-year contracts, first announced at
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: their season ticket member town hall. So obviously we talked
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: about stability a little bit earlier and having the same voices.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Troy Mann, Corey Cooper have been in Kingston for quite
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a while now. Corey Cooper, GM of the year a
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: few years ago. Troy Mann brings that pro style coaching
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: in the American Hockey League for a long time and
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: had a lot of success. So having a Troy man
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: and Corey Cooper there, you know, locked at the hip
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and Kingston should mean long-term success for them going forward.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. And I think this is a big
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: year for the front next, right? You return both your
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: goaltenders who had success last season, a lot of returning
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: players for Kingston to give yourself a good chance. You
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: saw the deadline last year, them add for this year, right?
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Kind of what I thought the Sudbury wolves were going
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: to do. We'll get to that. That's a little preview. Um,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: but I think that this is one for Kingston that
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: is unbelievable. Um, Troy, man, the way the system is, right?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: You play that man-on-man forward-checking system. You got too low.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: You really got to earn your breakout. You got to
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: play with pace against the Kingston front. Actually, you're in
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: for one night. You have a night, especially in that building, right? Like,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Kingston fans, I want you to fill that building so badly.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: But for visiting teams, it is so tough to go
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: in there and play when you see this all the time.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: When you go into that building and the way they
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: play the system, the way they do things, it's tough
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: to play in their arena at the slush pub. It's
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: tough to play there. And I think for Kingston, this
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: is huge. I mean, what Corey Cooper's done in the
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: front office as well, getting some of these big-name draft
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: picks that they've had, making some quality trades, giving yourself
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: a chance, right? The front and back, let's be honest there,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: how long did they go without winning a round, right?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: They got that stability now. They're using it. Their resource
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: is wisely. A lot of teams got to take notes
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: on that. But for Corey Cooper, Troy, man, nobody more
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: deserving for those two gentlemen. To see Troy Mann come
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: to the OHL and lead the way he has, it's
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: been spectacular for the Frontenacs.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: It's going to be big for Kingston going forward and
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: coming off the momentum of just hosting the OHL draft.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: We'll see if they can really take a step within
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. We'd love to hear Jimmy Gilchrist calling some
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: OHL final games on the radio. It's something that I
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: really want to see in the next couple of years.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: There's only one Jimmy Gilchrist, and he's one of the
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: names you think of most when you think of the Kingston.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Frontenacs for sure.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Every time you talk to Jimmy, he's got a story.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: He's got a story.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: He's the real Jimmy G, not Jimmy Garoppolo.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: He's Garoppolo.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even think he's in the league anymore,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: so there you go. But we got about 1,000 trades
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: to go through, but we're not going to go through
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: all of them. Again, we're just going to go over
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: some of the most recent ones and some of the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: most notable ones from the offseason. So we'll start here
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: with one that's right up Collins Alley here. Recently, Max
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Korvik goes from Brantford to Owen Sound for a third, fourth,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and fifth round pick. So two goaltenders from Brantford go
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: to Owen Sound this offseason, Ryerson Lienders first, and now
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Maxim Korovic. So obviously Spencer Hyman recouping some draft pick
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: capital and Owen Sound getting himself another nice young goaltender.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Maxim Korovic getting the opportunity in Owen
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Sound's huge. From a Bulldogs perspective, Chase Petrov has come
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: in and been a huge story since day one of camp.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: There's more on the dog cast. You'll hear more on
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: that for Bulldog fans. But I explained it similar to
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: the Brett Brochu situation in London. where Jordan Coy, who
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: was a veteran, it was his kind of turn, you
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: could say, to be the guy. And then a young
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: man at a junior scene named Brett Brochu comes in
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: and never looked back. Let's be honest. He's one of
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: the best goaltenders the Knights have had in a steep
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: history of success in between the pipes. So I feel
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: like for Kurovic, it's that opportunity. He's going to be
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: an elite goaltender in the Ontario Hockey League. And for
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Owen Sound, it makes perfect sense for Tyler Nutter and
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: staff This is a perfect type of trade. It'll be
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: interesting to see what Kaprowski goes, where, where he goes.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: That's going to be interesting. It's kind of the elephant
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: in the room. When you think of this trade, you're
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: going to, well, they're not going to treat leanders. You
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: got that.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: I'm going to run with three goalies again. Like they
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: did last year.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: They better not. Or that'll be a ran every single
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: week until the trade deadline. Again. I, I think that
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: that'll be, I think that'll, I think it'll solve itself,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: but obviously you make the trade. You trade three picks,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: no conditions. Kurovic's going to play. You're not going to
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: trade for him. You make all the moves. You trade
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Kawaja in multiple picks like they did to Brantford earlier
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: for Ryerson leaners. You're not going to move leaners. If
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: you're going to move them again, you're not going to
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: get what you gave up originally. So that's just bad
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: management if they were to make that move. So the
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: writing's on the wall there with Kaprowski. I'm very interested
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: to see this duo. I'm excited to see the future
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: of Owen Sound. This deal makes perfect sense when you
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: look at it for both sides. Branford gets three picks,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: an opportunity for themselves to rebuild the cupboard with the
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: draft picks. And then for Owen Sound, Lenders is done
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: after this year. Maxime Kurovic, the future, right? You don't
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: have to play him all the time. You can play
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: him 20 games, 30 games out of the 68, and
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: that's perfect. Let's be honest, the Bayshore, it's a drive
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: in the Midwest, so they could play a Friday night
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: game in Kitchener, which we'll see a lot, or Guelph
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: or London. Saturday night, they're at home at the Bayshore, right?
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Perfect Kurovic games. They have stability in net now, and
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: I'm very excited to see what they can do. In
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: a year where Owen Sound was so interesting, Brandon, because
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: you look at Owen Sound and you think, well, Carter
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: George before the trade, it was always Carter George, right? Like,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: you knew the stability. You get Ryerson leaners. You get
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Maxim Kurovic. you got stability. Owen Sound, that's one thing
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: from their team that they've always prioritized. And now with
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: the new management there, you got to build from the
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: back out. Dale DeGray did it. And now we're seeing
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Tyler Renauder and staff do the same thing here with
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: the Owen Sound attack and the new ownership group. So
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: very interesting to see Owen Sound really knock it away
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: from their bread and butter.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: And another big trade involving the Brantford Bulldogs earlier this offseason,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: former first overall pick in the OHL draft, Caden McGregor
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: goes from the Peterborough Pete's to the Brantford Bulldogs in
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: exchange for Cooper Dennis and a one for one straight
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: up trade. Again, Peterborough has lost some really top end
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: draft picks in the last couple of years and Colin Fitzgerald,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Caden McGregor now and a one for one deal, obviously
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: a massive get for Brantford, you know, in a new
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: era for them with a lot of new faces there.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: But bringing in a guy that was literally just the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: first overall pick a year ago is a big gift
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: for Spencer Hyman. And hopefully Cooper Dennis can be, you know,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: a solid contributor for the Peterborough Pete's this season.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think this deal for both sides
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: makes sense. Originally, originally there was a lot of talk
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: on social media and that's why you can't read too
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: much into online social media, because that's where all the
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: GMs are not actually in the front office doing the
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: day to day. But we'll get to that maybe with
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: another trade. I might have a different opinion on that,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: but this trade makes sense for both teams. You look
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: at Peterborough's rosters, You look at their overagers. You look
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: at Lucas Karmiris. You look at Braden McCallum. You look
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: at some of these guys that they have that are
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: veteran guys in their lineup. Adam Novotny comes back as
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: a draft year player. Cooper Dennis fits that mold, that window,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: kind of creates what Peterborough is for the now. Question is,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: do they have the goaltending to do it? Do they
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: make a trade for a goaltender? There's been talks about
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: that as well. I don't like, I feel like with
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: the Pete's, you look at their roster right now, when
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: you make this trade with Cooper Dennis, it kind of,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: it kind of says, Hey, this is our window. It
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: announces our window. Sudbury take notes. And it's, and it's
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: kind of in the now it's in the now and
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: it gives yourself a chance for Brantford. Brantford went all
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: in last year. They, they went all in last year.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: They moved the pieces. Hey, rightly so. That was their window. Now,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Caden McGregor comes in a 17 year old fits that group.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Brantford's play Brantford's placement. They want to be a team
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: that can have guys for two to three years. You
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: look at their draft with Aiden Kelly. You look at
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: some of the guys that they've sent down in junior
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: B who came in at good cast, Brent, uh, Bo Christina,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: 10th round pick who just got cut this week. I mean,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: how many, he was a lot like Avery Hayes was
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: when he came in. Um, Dog cast. Listen to that,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Bulldog fans. If you want to know more on Bo Cristini,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: read Duffy on last week. Great, great comp on Avery
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Hayes and Bo Cristini's play. But the Bulldogs have had
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: a lot of success in the draft that they think
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: this year. So when you look at Caden McGregor, he
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: fits the court for next year and the year after
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: that when the new arena opens and an opportunity. That's
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: kind of the window. Yes, the Bulldogs made a lot
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: of signings this year and it might give them a chance,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: but it gives you an opportunity to for the fan
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: base to adapt to a new core. And let's be honest,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Bulldog fans in Brantford are having a hard time doing
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: that because they really haven't had to do that since
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: moving there. Matt Turek and staff before Spencer Hyman took
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: over have done a spectacular job building up a core.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Bulldogs are in that phase again, trying to sell the
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: roster to the fans, and we'll see what happens. But
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Cade McGregor's a huge add for them, and the offense
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: is going to be relied on any given night. Cade McGregor,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: who is cleared, by the way, I posted on X
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: about it, for the Bulldogs game on Friday night. For
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: those wondering, Caden McGregor is going to play Friday night
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: against the Niagara Ice Dogs for the Bulldogs season opener.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: So that's right on to see Caden get that opportunity.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: And it's awesome. I'm expecting a big roll for Caden McGregor.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Stay tuned to social media. I'll say that for the
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: coming week. There'll be Caden McGregor news, that's for sure.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Going to be a fun debut for the former first
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: overall pick by the Peterborough Peets last season. So expecting
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a lot from him in a Brantford uniform. Another massive
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: deal this off season was Declan McNally going from the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Guelph storm to the Barry Colts. Obviously a big gift
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: for Barry getting a young player of his caliber. And,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: you know, you get the compensatory eighth overall pick.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: You get a.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Couple of seconds, a couple of thirds, a fourth and
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: a fifth for his rights. And that just gives Georgia
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Burnett and the Guelph storm more draft pick ammunition to
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: be able to use in future trades as they continue
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: to load up for the Memorial cup run. So, you know,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: this seems like a perfect trade for both sides and
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: for John Wynn Stanley and Marty Williamson, they get a
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: good young player here.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And they must've liked Declan's game, right? That's a big,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: it's not a Sudbury give up, but it's a big,
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: it's a big amount of picks to give up. And
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: for Guelph, it's a huge trade for Guelph. I love
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: this deal for the Guelph storm, to be honest on
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: that side. I mean, Declan's going to be a heck
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: of a player for Barry. He's going to be a
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: stalwart back there for them. And he's a great player.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: It's a great trade for both sides, but for Guelph
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: and Memorial cup here to have those precious draft picks
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: and and to not have to trade other players off
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: your roster because, hey, I have an extra second-round pick.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I have an extra third-round pick. It's huge maybe for
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: the following seasons to give Guelph a chance. Remember Saginaw.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Saginaw didn't really take the biggest fall off after Memorial Cup.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: They were able to trade those extra picks because they
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: got those extra picks the year before. The Mintikoff trades
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: and trades like that, right? So this is a big
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: trade for the Guelph Storm as well to give themselves
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: a chance to the future. as well to build a
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: roster for not just this year, obviously where they are
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: all in, but it gives you an opportunity next year
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: as well to have a respectable team. Well, it doesn't
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: miss the playoffs all too often. So that's a good
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: trade for the well storm too.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Good trade for both sides and what they're looking to
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: do within, you know, their cycle and their windows in
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the Ontario hockey league. Really liked that trade a lot
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: for both sides. So another trade that just came through
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: a couple of days ago here, two West teams making
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: a swap here, the London Knights getting Carson Harmer and
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: a fourth offensively, round pick in 27 from the Saginaw
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: spirit for forward Brady Wasslin. So this will be Wasslin's
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: obviously third team here, uh, drafted by Niagara fourth overall
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: traded the London last season. And now he's going to
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: go to the Saginaw spirit. And I think this is
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: a really sneaky, good ad for, uh, for Saginaw. And
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I really, you know, think Brady's going to have a
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: really good season there, especially if a guy like Nikita
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Klepov comes back, um, would be even better for that
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Saginaw spirit team, but, uh, Carson Harmer, a good player
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: as well in his own right, Colin and, uh, you know, maybe,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: maybe Dale Hunter thinks that this is the type of
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: move that can make the London Knights more competitive in
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: all three phases of the game.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, for sure. I think this, I think this
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: trade makes sense for both teams, obviously saying, and I
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: was getting a lot of points. They're losing. They're going
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: to gain more points in Wausland than they will Harmer,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: but Harmer fits the London Knight system. And you look
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: at the London Knight type to trades. This is, this
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: is a perfect trade for the London Knights. It's a
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: responsible center. It's kind of opposite players. No disrespect to
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Brady Wausland, but, the defensive end that Carson Harmer, the fate,
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: the late face-offs that you're going to get out of
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Carson Harmer. Remember when they had the Sean McGurns, right?
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Like those are the guys that the London Knights always
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: have Landon Sim that play a huge role for them.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Jacob Julian, like huge roles. That's what Carson Harmer is
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: in a year. Then I think the Knights are going
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: to be really good. This deal makes perfect sense. They're
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: going to have a lot of goal scoring anyways. I mean,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: what's Cobra going to do in the scoring race, right?
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: He's going to be a player to watch the night.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: You're going to have a lot of scores in the
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: top end, top end of the scoring department. And that's
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: why this deal makes sense for them. And for Saginaw goals, goals, goals,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: maybe it's about scoring goals. They want to dance with
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: somebody there in that goal song. And they're going to
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: dance with the back of the net when they get
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Brady Watson. I think that's a huge, I think it's
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: a huge deal for Saginaw, right? You get to, you
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: get that opportunity. Hey, Philip Zadina, the great red wing
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: shout out to Reese. I hope he's still listening. I'm live.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: A Red Wing, great. Not. I'm going to miss a
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Red Wing. Oh, this year especially, Brandon. This year especially.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Brady Waslin. You know, he's going to fill the net
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: with pucks, right? Philip Zadina's all-time draft quote. So I
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: think that's what he's going to do in Waslin. I'm
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: excited to see this trade for both sides. I think
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: it's a great deal for both sides. It's a hockey trade.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I'd love to see if Nikita Klepov came back to
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: see him and Waslin together as a combination would be.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: With Shilkin? Yeah.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Oh man, that would be worth the price of admission
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: in Saginaw.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: I want to dance with somebody. Yeah. It's almost eight
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: o'clock on a Monday night, Brandon. I'm fired up.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: We'll be calling Dylan Clark, the play-by-play voice of the
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Saginaw spirit for, for tickets for that one. But yeah,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: so a big trade there, Waslin for Harmer and a
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: fourth round pick.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Not one more London Knights trade to go over here.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Jacob zoo goes to the Peterborough Pete's from London and
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the Knights get a fourth and a six there. So
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: it looks like Mark Hunter's trying to get some draft picks. Maybe,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: maybe looking to get, get another player. I mean, London's
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: always anybody.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: So yeah, what's going on here. When you see these,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: when you see them receiving picks like this and making
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: moves like how they, how they have, especially before the other,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: the trades that we didn't even mention that they made previously,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: what's going on here. I mean, Is there a cap
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: in a certain place available that I don't know of?
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: But no pun intended. OG, OHL, and 60 listeners know
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: that one. I got to have fun. If you're not
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: having fun, you're in the wrong business. Jacob's Zoo, it's
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: a great stay-at-home defenseman for a year. Like I said,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: I think Peterborough goes for it this year. I think
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: they go for it when it's a low risk. You're
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: only giving up two picks. You're not selling the farm
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: and giving up your January 9th trade deadline like one
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: other team that did in the Eastern Conference. you gave
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: yourself a chance, right? So I feel like for Jacob Zooey,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: he's a stay-at-home defenseman. He gives them every opportunity to
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: be competitive. And I think the Peterborough Peets have every
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: shot this year to go for it. And for London,
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: who are they getting? They're getting somebody. I don't know.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: I honestly, I haven't heard one thing yet about the Knights,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: but Mark Hunter's been around arenas. So, and he is
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: around a lot of arenas though. That's another thing, but
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: there's definitely going to be something gearing up and it
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: gives them a shot to go out and acquire a
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: player come January as well, because we all know that
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: December 1st deadline is very exciting in the league.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Mark Hunter has always got something up his sleeve.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: So I expect the.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: London Knights to make a move out of nowhere that
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: nobody's expecting and get a really good player onto that
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: roster for Dale Hunter. So our last headline, which isn't
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: really a headline, it's more so just talking about the
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Guelph storm here. The OHL put this graphic out through
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: the Guelph storm, have the best roster. Obviously they went
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: out and got some, some really good high-end players, Ryan Roberg,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Ethan Zada from the Niagara ice dogs, Vlad Javecki from
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the Bulldogs, Ben Hrabik from, the Barry Colts, Owen Griffin
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: from the Oshawa generals. So George Burnett has really put
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: his stamp on this team. And now with those picks,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: he gets in the McNally trade. You expect even more
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: to come as they're loading up for a Memorial cup run,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: but yeah, you can kind of just group all those
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: moves as to ones that the Gulf storm have made
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: to make themselves more competitive.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. A lot of personality in those gentlemen. I know.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: you know, Robrick. Well, you know, Zada. Well, I know
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Vlad Javetsky. Well, that's going to be a lot of
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: personality there. And Vlad, that's for sure. I wonder where
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: he's going to stick candle on the concourse in Brantford.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: He's always at ice level in the walkway, right behind
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: the net stick handling. And you would hear it was
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: because the gates were open. And you would just hear
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: him sticking out. You just hear this choppy stick. And
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: it was, you look over and it's Vlad Javetsky. I
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: wonder where he's going to do that in Guelph. Because
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: they renovated the arena. They probably don't want him doing
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: that in the concourse. So where are they going to
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: do it? Where's he going to do it, Vlad? What
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: a beauty. Vlad Javetsky's a really good person. And Guelph
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: added a lot of character this summer. And that's what
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: they need.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: And Hrabik's a big get for them to get him
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: back as well.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: He's a playoff MVP other than Sam O'Reilly. And the OHL.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Which was in effect, by the way, Sam O'Reilly. We
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: were both on that train in early January.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Eyes on Guelph this year. More than a cup.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Yep. So we'll move into our next topic because this one,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: it's a trade, but it needed its own topic because
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: it broke the hockey world this week. Obviously, going back
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: to the OHL draft, we knew that Tanner Adams wanted
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: to play for the Sudbury Wolves. He was drafted third
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: overall by the Brampton Steelheads and James Richmond. and you
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: knew at some point, you know, something was going to
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: have to give there. He didn't end up reporting to
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the team. And yeah, we ended up getting this trade
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: earlier this week and I'm going to pull this up
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: here because it was just, yeah. I mean, I can't
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: even find it right now because I'm just thinking about
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: it and it's blowing my mind right now, but Tanner
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Adams goes to the Sudbury wolves for 4,000 draft picks. Again,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Sudbury is a team I'm really high on this season,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: you know, and I really wanted them to make a
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: lot of big moves and and do a lot. But
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, here we go. Here's here's the trade graph.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Were you guys looking on the video pages? It almost
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: needs two pages. But for you listening in audio, I mean,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I can't even read it all off. It would take
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: me an hour here. But there's 15 draft picks from
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: the years 2026 to the years 2029. And there's also
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: a couple of compensatory picks in there. Colin, I know
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: you've been waiting for this. This is going to be
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: your moment of the show. Tanner Adams, you know, seems
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: like a very good young player and he goes to
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: the team he wanted to play for all along. But
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: when the Brampton Steelheads really had no leverage and he
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: only wanted to go to one team, how did the
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Sudbury Wolves or how did the Brampton Steelheads possibly get
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: this type of return?
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Well, I see the chat. Shout out to Reese. I mean, yeah,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: here we go. Famous rant. This is one of those
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: trades to me that makes absolutely zero sense. Zero sense.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: And I know I got these GMs on Twitter coming
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: after me. Oh, well, it's nice to see the outside
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: media talk about Sudbury, but they only do when it's
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: negative because they know everything. Well, you GM missed a
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: trade deadline one year because you slept in. Two, this
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: trade makes absolutely zero sense to me. Makes zero sense.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: This trade to me. when Sudbury had all the leverage
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: in the trade looking at this you would think oh
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: every team must have been involved on it I don't
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: get this trade at all and on this flip side
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: too for a Sudbury Wolves player after last year they
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: had such a good trade deadline they had such a
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: good trade deadline and now all of a sudden it's
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: gone because what are you going to do in January
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: okay so I get someone on my social media telling
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: me well they're going to rebuild they're going to trade
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: they're going to get some picks back yes some they
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: traded 15 picks you traded 15 picks. So you're getting
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: rid of four players, four players, five players to get
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: those picks back. That's a rebuild. That is a rebuild.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: You're not going to get three picks back for a
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: fourth line player, right? You're like, we just saw Jacob
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: zoo get traded for two picks, right? Like Jacob zoo
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: is a great player. Like, What do you think you're
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: going to get? You're going to trade a bubble player
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: who's been up and down in the geo or wherever
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: they play in the farm system for the Sudbury Wolves
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: and the affiliation. You're going to trade somebody from there,
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: their rights. What are you going to give up? A
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: 15th round pick? Well, hey, there you go. You replaced
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: the 15th. You gave up. Congrats. Go for it. All
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: the best. You know, all the best. Go get... Go
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: get Connor McDavid. I don't care. But that's not going
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: to happen. And that's what really drove me crazy. Because
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: these people are coming after me about it. And I
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: understand that. I understand that. But here's the thing. If
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: you're going to get picks back, okay. But if you're
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: a returning player, if you're the J.C. Lemieux, who remember
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: last year on the show with yourself, Reese, and I,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: we talked about Sudbury. We gave them their flowers. We
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: gave the Sudbury Wolves respect because they did what they
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: should have did the year before and sold. It's a
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: hard thing to do in Sudbury. I understand that. But
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: you did everything, and I thought they were in great
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: shape to go for an Eastern Conference. When we get
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: to my media poll, I had to change it. They
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: made me change it. They made me change my media
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: poll because, granted, I got it done. I had the
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Wolves in second in the Eastern Conference, and now they're
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: fifth because of this trade. And I think that the
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: reason why is come January at the trade deadline, you
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: are going to have to give up a decent player
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: to get five picks back. If you give up a
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: decent player in your core, you're not going to have
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: a chance to win in the league this year. You're not.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: And I think for giving up 15 picks like this
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: in September– What does it do? What does it do?
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: You know, I, I was Tanner Adams, Connor McDavid. I mean,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: no disrespect to him, but I know he's a great player,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: but you know.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Hey, he's a good player, but Sam Dickinson went for
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: seven picks. And I thought that was a good trade
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: at the time. You know, like that was a lot.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Remember when ice dogs got seven picture Dickinson and we're
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: all thinking, I remember on here chatting with Reese about it.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: We're like getting returned for both sides. Yeah. Dickinson was
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: a stud in London. but Niagara, I mean, they messed
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: up the picks, but in all honesty, they, they did
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: a good job. Like it was a good trade at
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: the time for them. He wasn't going to stay this trade.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe Brampton had all the leverage that I guess, but
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: I really don't understand this trade and good luck selling
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: it to players in your dressing room, because that's where
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: I look at it, where the trade deadline to me
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: is one of those things. When you get these players
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: that come back and when you get, when you get
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: some of these guys who are, you know, like you're
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: a good team, you're in contention. What, what picture are
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: you going to trade now to add to that? And
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: I feel horrible for the players who are in their
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: last year of junior hockey. We're excited to come back
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: to Sudbury, but this trade for Sudbury is everything, everything
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: that they shouldn't have done. It's actually when the only spot,
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: the most important thing about this trade was the only
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: spot Tanner Adams wanted to go was Sudbury.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. We don't have any leverage. We'll give up 15 picks.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: The best reel. I sent you that. I sent that
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: reel on social media to you guys about that one.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: What are we like? I had a blast with that one.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: When you see the coach. Okay. That's not bad. Oh, okay.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: And it gets worse. Is he Wayne Gretzky? That was awesome.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: But I know for a fact, if you're Brampton, this
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: sets you up for two to three seasons down the road,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: not just this year. And I'm very excited for Brampton.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: And I cannot believe. I cannot believe this out of Sudbury.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: It's the only place he wanted to go. It's the
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: only place he wanted to go. And all right, we'll
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: give you 15. We'll give you 15 draft picks.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Maybe we need to get Rob Papineau on the show.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: GM, the Sudbury wolves and get, yeah.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: We'll debate that one. I man, oh man.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: But on the other side though, James Richmond, GM of
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: the year for this move.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, he's already won. He is already, he has already
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: won GM of the year. My vote for GM of
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: the year is, is already in. It's already in. Guelph
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: could host the Mem Cup and get an exceptional status
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: over Rager and Connor McDavid for a 15th round pick,
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: and it would still be worse than this trade. For Brampton,
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: this trade was unbelievable. This is the best trade for
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Brampton in the history of the Steelheads, the Brampton battalions.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: It's the best trade they could have had. This sets
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: him up for multiple years to come. And like I said,
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: Sudbury fans, you can get mad at me all you want.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: I own that. I own that. I tried to fix
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: you guys last year. I thought it was going to work.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: Obviously this year, you just couldn't help ourselves. And we
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: had to give up 15 picks for a guy that
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: only wanted to play in Sudbury. So make that make
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: sense to me. Sudbury fans who are coming after me,
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: make that make sense. You only want to go to
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: you guys. And it was 15 picks. You gave up
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: for them. Make that make sense. Please. And thank you.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: All right. Colin leaves the chat.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Like I said on X now here's a trade as
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth would say. So, uh, I would love to
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: hear play by play announcer, the Brampton steelhead, Zach Bodenstein
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: thought on this trade, but we'll have him on later
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: in the year.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: But, uh, yeah, there's a parade, Zach.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: I want to host it. I want to host a
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: parade party. We'll do a parade show.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: So, uh, yeah, just that, that needed its own segment
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: in and of itself for that trade. And yeah, it, uh,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: it made the route, the, Made its rounds around hockey,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: that's for sure. But, you know, I would really love
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: to know what Rob Papano's explanation on this was. And,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: you know, respectfully, you know, as a guy that's been
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: a general manager in the OHL for a long time,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: I'd love to get his thought process on how this
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: whole one went down. That would be a fun conversation
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  Speaker 1: We got Colin's rant out of the way, which is
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  Speaker 1: a staple on this show. So the season premiere episode
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  Speaker 1: starting off hot already. So great stuff there. We're going
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: to move into our next topic and I have to
• 51:22
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• 51:24
  Speaker 1: preseason takeaways and thoughts on the length of the preseason. Colin,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: let's quickly pull up the preseason standings and that is
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: what it is. Take that with a grain of salt.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Nobody wins an award or anything for that. But some
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: teams played upwards of six games. Some teams played a
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: little bit less we have.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: The september championship brand.
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: We have the newfoundland regiment uh as a part of
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: the ontario hockey league draft lottery yeah imagine that but
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: uh saginaw went out there and played against uh the
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: q team and obviously with victoria they played against london
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: so got some cross chl games within there as well
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: but uh you know what are your thoughts i guess
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: and takeaways from what you saw in the preseason so far.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Um very competitive I thought it was very competitive. I
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: think with the Mem Cup here, everyone focuses on Guelph.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: And I mentioned this earlier, where everyone's going to focus
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: on Guelph being the team. And rightly so. They've earned
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: that right as Memorial Cup hosts on the ego ranking.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Shout out to Jay McKee on that one on the
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: power rankings. They've earned that right to be number one
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: across everybody's board. Quite frankly, on paper right now, anybody
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: that says any team other than Guelph in first would
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: be lying to you right now because nobody knows. London's
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: a close second and Saginaw's a possible close third. but
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: especially in the East. If anyone says, well, this is
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: a clear cut in the Ontario Hockey League over Guelph,
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: they're lying. Like, there's no way. And right now, that's
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: why I say the Guelph Storm are the only team
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: right now that you could say coming in, okay, their
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: Memco post is pretty easy to say that. Maybe London,
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: maybe Saginaw. But other than that, it's so close and
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: it's so congested. To see some of these teams like
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Peterborough get that opportunity, have a good training camp like
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: they did, it's nice to see. I want to see
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: what Sarnia can do. I want, I want to see
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: Sarnia make the playoffs so bad this year. There's no
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: way child consumer. You got to like, you want to
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: see Sarnia get in. I mean, you saw it all
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: those years in the ice dogs, Brandon, like they got
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: the hives got to be buzzing again. So I feel
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: like there's a lot of cities that you'll watch that
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: you're watching camp and you want to see how it goes.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: So I'm very excited to see how it goes here.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: I'm towing into regular season, but training camp with the
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: preseason is really good. The high competitive level. We saw
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: a couple of suspensions. We saw some, We saw the
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Erie London game, game one, get out of hand, but
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: we're seeing some, we're seeing a lot of emotion in
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: the preseason. I think that's great. You're seeing teams desperate
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: to set a tone early.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: On the screen there, you can see OHL preseason point leaders. Again,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: no awards are going out for this either, but Cole
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Zeroski led the preseason with 15 points for the Owen
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Sound attack. Second was Jason Moussa for the Brantford Bulldogs
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: with 11 points. Logan Howery for the Sarnia Sting, as
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: you've mentioned there, looking to take a step with nine.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Tyler Hine, Dima Zilkin, and Ryan Hanren. So, yeah, I mean,
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Cole Zyrowski, obviously a guy that, you know, is a
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: former first-round pick of Flint and gone into Owen Sound.
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: And, you know, Owen Sound's a sneaky team, right?
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: It's tough.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: They're in the Midwest division, which is always going to
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: be a real tough division. But Tyler, another new ownership group,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: new head coaching staff. You know, maybe this is the
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: year Cole Zyrowski breaks out.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely. I think that's an interesting one, right?
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: Cesar Ross, you get that opportunity in Owen sound. I'm
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: very interested to see how that goes to with the attack. Yeah.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Can't wait to have Greg Cowan on, by the way,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: he's definitely going to be a, be a fun one.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: And if you're not giving him a follow, one of
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: the best OHL follows on X all season long, just
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: always a fun one there. So we might as well
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: group it in here with the preseason power rank is
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: where we get to the media polls calling. You mentioned
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: their Guelph storm, number one, London Knights, two Saginaw spirit,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: three Ottawa, 67, four in Peterborough, Pete's five, uh, Um,
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: only 16 teams mentioned here. The, the four, you can
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: pretty much, uh, you know, come to the conclusion yourself unless, uh,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: you're not.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: Very, I was surprised with Erie not being on there.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: That was the only surprise to me. Brampton, Niagara, Oshawa, Erie.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: I was surprised Erie was not on there. Wasn't ranked
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: in the top 16.
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: Hey, Sarnia is at 14. So there you go.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: There we go. Hey, the Sting got to improve this year,
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: and I think they have every opportunity. I like their lineup.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: I really do. I think they should be higher than 14.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: We got to continue the effect for the Sarnia Sting
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: this year. We got to will them into the playoffs.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: The bio picture on the social media is the Hive.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: We got the Hall of Fame. We'll just put the
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: World Junior Wall, the 2015 Sarnia All-You-Can-Eat Hot Dog Contest.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: Just a gong show. It'll be awesome.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: For the sake of Lee Cunningham, they're great radio play
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: by play voice. I hope the sting can get in
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Cause I love listening to Lee, uh, on
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: the radio side of things. So we'll end the show today,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Colin with our OHL, uh, media poll. That's put out
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: every single year here by the Ontario hockey league. Uh,
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: we're not going to go over their results. I don't
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: even think the results are in yet, but we're going
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: to give our thoughts on all the questions here. And
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: you can see it up on the screen. I'll go
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: through each one again. We're not gonna spend too much
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: time on it says we don't want the show to
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: be three hours long, but, uh, Well, Colin and I
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: will both give our winners for each award and just
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: a quick little, uh, little bit on why we chose, uh,
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: the players or the teams or coaches that we did. So, uh,
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: we'll start things off here with, uh, who will be
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: the league's top rookie this season, Colin.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: Um, I don't have my rookie yet. So Brandon, I'm
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: gonna have to get you back on that one. You
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: go first and I will have it back. Um, I'm
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: still popping up my, uh, I'm still popping up my, uh,
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: She from the power ranking.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: OK, well, again, people are going to think, wow, shocker there.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to take Kane Cloutier, first overall pick
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: of the Oshawa Generals. I just think he's going to
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: have such a big role in that team this year.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: I saw him in the preseason game against Niagara. He
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: looks like an OHLer already, you know, at a really
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: young age. You know, his dad played pro hockey as well,
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: Dan Cloutier. I just think that Kane's going to have
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: all the opportunity in the world to have a top
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: six role with that Oshawa team. And, you know, he's
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: a guy that I really look to take a big
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: step as a first overall pick. My dark horse is
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Logan Pridham in Kingston. You know, obviously, you know, a
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: guy that caught a lot of people's attention just because he's,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: you know, this Tate Thompson light, I guess they were
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: calling him going into that draft year.
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: But I really like Logan Pridham.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to do well in that Kingston system.
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: So Kane Cloutier for me. And then Honoro mentioned Logan Pridham.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: I am going to the, so I got my list up.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: There's my fine for the year there. I already got
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: a dollar in the beer kitty or the pop kitty.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: I'm going to the great, Area of hockey town in Detroit.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: I'm going with the Honeybake program. Max Lappin, Niagara Ice
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: Dog defenseman. I think that with Lappin, huge, huge opportunity
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: for him in Niagara. Max Lappin, to me, is my
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: top rookie this year. You look at the points he
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: had in minor midget. I think that's going to transition
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: nice to the OHL, the way he plays. He's got
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: some size. He's 6'3. You can't teach size. He's 216
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: at 16 years old. I mean, that's crazy. I was
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: 216 at 16 years old, but it was only because
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: I went to Burger King. This isn't Burger King sponsored,
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: you know? Like, I'm excited. I'm so excited to see
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Max Lappin have that opportunity. So I'm very pumped to
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: see him win the top rookie this year. Niagara, you're
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: in my good books so far. Stay in it.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: Stay in it. Top four role.
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: Stay in it. Balls on your court. Pucks on your ice.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: Captain on that Detroit Honey Bake team that was so dominant, right?
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: OHL Cup champion. So, yeah, Hockey Town. So maybe they
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: should replace the Detroit Red Wings roster this season.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: They'd probably beat them. Maybe they'll trade for Larkin. Maybe
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: they'll trade for Dylan Larkin. That's where he's going. He's
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: getting called up.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: Right. We're not going to bring up Dylan Larkin on
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: this show ever for Colin's mental health. Next, we'll move
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: to who will win Coach of the Year honors this season. Again,
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: you can always go with the Dale Hunters, the Dave Camerons,
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: but who's going to be your Coach of the Year?
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: Coach of the Year this year, I have big expectations
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: the Kingston Frontenac so no one other than Troy Mann
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: I think Troy Mann why not Troy right so Troy
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  Speaker 2: Mann I'm off to Jamie Key Wagon because he's going
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: to get the AHL coach of the year uh award
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: but um Troy Mann Troy Mann OHL's.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: Coach of the year honors I thought you were going
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: to have the same answer as me because you're really
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: high on this guy as I am. Ryan Ulihan, North
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: Bay Battalion, you know, always a stable presence back there.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: And if North Bay does make a run for the
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: Central Division this year, I think Ryan Ulihan is going
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: to be a big part of that as always. So
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Ryan Ulihan, North Bay Battalion for me. Troy Mann, Kingston
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Frontenac for you for Coach of the Year. Who will
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: be the league's top draft prospect for the 2027 NHL
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Entry Draft? Colin, we've had that list on there a
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: little bit earlier, but is there anybody you want to
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: point out?
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, call Isaac. Yeah, Kowalski, he's going to
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: have every opportunity, and he's this year's Caleb Malhotra.
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: I like that a lot. I'm going to go Dima Zilkin.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to have a big year with
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: the Saginaw Spirit, you know, that extra year. You know,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: he's a guy that's been on the radar for a
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: little bit here. I think he's going to have a
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: massive year for the Saginaw Spirit with that wear and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: that see. So, you know, if Klepov comes back, you know,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: that could be even better for him. So I'm on Zilkin.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: And Colin's on Yakko Wysik. I did an honorable mention, Ryerson, Edgar,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: and Niagara as well. I think he's going to have
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: a massive season. Who will be the league's most outstanding
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: player of the year, Colin?
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: Colin Griffin. I think he's going to have a huge
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: year in Guelph. I think he's, I think him and
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: Ethan's out at either Hopkins or their three, you know,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: that are going to be that spark right up front.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: I think Ryan Roberg's a good player, but I think
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: he's a catch and release guy. I think these guys
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: are going to be the energizers. And I think going
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: Griffin leads that. We saw what he did in Oshawa,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: and we saw what he did on a bad Oshawa
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: team last year, right? Like, this guy brings the energy
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: every night. And I think going Griffin, why not?
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: I like that a lot.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go Adam Novotny from the Peterborough Peets.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to have a big year for
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Peterborough if they're going to obviously try to compete there,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: you know, with that acquisition of Cooper Dennis, you know,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: trading away a first overall pick and Caden McGregor under
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Rob Wilson and Mike Oak. You know, they really need
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: a big year out of Adam Novotny. you know, just
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: drafted by the Vancouver Canucks as well, you know, a
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: top end draft prospect. So I think Adam Novotny, uh,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: brings a lot to that team. I think he could
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: be a, if Peterborough does make a run as a
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: top three or four team in the East, I think
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a lot on the shoulders of
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: Adam Novotny. So he's my league's most outstanding player of
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: the year.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. I understand that Adam Novotny is going to
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: have a year for Peterborough Pete's.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: Who will win the Wayne Gretzky trophy as Western conference champions. Again,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: there's some of these that we can't even really pick
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: yet because we don't even know what some of these
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: teams are going to look like, but, uh, calling on
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: september 14th who's your west champion you want to know.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: Who the september 14th champions are in the west the
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: london knights i had the london knights winning the uh
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: western conference beating out guelph um in the conference final
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: um that's who i have uh winning the western conference
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: the wayne gretzky trophy the london knights.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go guelph but uh you know i really
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: went out on a limb on that one but uh
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: you haven't heard the last of me from London. I've
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: got them in another category here coming up. So London
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: Knights Collins back on the London train from his, his
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: junior days, but East champions.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: Hey, I was on Kitchener last year.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: I know you were.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe this year it'll be London's turn. We'll see.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: The Midwest going for a four Pete.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. It's a dangerous, the East, the Bobby or Brandon.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: I can't give you one right now. I got like
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: six teams. I was telling you this before we went
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: on air. I have six teams. And if there's any
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: team that, And obviously eight teams make the playoffs. I'm
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: nowhere close to that. I probably couldn't even answer that
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: question in two months from now. This is a very,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: this is very interesting. I like King. I'll say Kingston
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: because I said Troy man, and I said a lot
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: of success for Kingston, but I'd like Peterborough. I like Ottawa.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: I like North Bay. I did like Sudbury. If Brantford
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: has 10 of their signings workout, if they have half
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: the signings workout, they're going to have a good team.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: You're seeing them getting draft picks. So are they out
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: of it? I don't think so. you know, like what's
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: buried wide open. Yeah. I can't decide. See, I got
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: like seven teams right there that I just said. So I,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: and I named my rookie and I named my rookie
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: of the year from a team who I didn't even
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: have on that list. So I, I can't do it
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: Um, that's fine.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: Uh, I guess I have winning the J Ross.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: Well, I had, I had Sudbury until they made the
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: Tanner Adams trade, uh, which I still like Sudbury's roster, but,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: I just don't know how much better it can get now.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go North Bay. Ryan Ulihan has done
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: a really good job. Adam Dennis is going to make
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: some big moves. So I'm going to go North Bay
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: battalion for the East. I think, you know, I was
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: really high on Sudbury and I, this is the, this,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: I was ready to be the Sudbury wolves hype guy
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: this year. And I just don't know where, where they
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: stand right now.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: So I was ready. I was ready. And unfortunately it's gone.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: Now I flew off like the wolf over the goal
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: line when they score a goal.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: We were waiting for Sudbury Sarnia this year.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: Maybe they'll trade the Wolf for three picks.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: Hey, that's a good addition.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: I'd trade three picks for that.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know a team that could use that. We'll
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: move on to the J-Ross. So you had London. So
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing you're going to say London Knights, OHL champions?
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: Yep. London, Guelph, Memcup. What a representative.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: Two from the Midwest. Shocker there.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, the attendance. The attendance. An hour up the road.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: Like, whoo!
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: Business, baby. Business, man.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: Always thinking about the ticket sales. I'm going to go
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: Guelph as well because I picked them as the West champions.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: And in the East, I still don't know what the
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: heck is going on. So I'll go out on a
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: real limb here and say the Guelph Storm, J-Ross, and
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: then obviously going through the front door to the Memorial
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Cup that they're going to host anyway. So with that, Midwest,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: I've got Guelph. So you obviously have London in that
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: division because you picked them as West champions?
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  Speaker 3: Yep. And then we'll West division. I've got the Saginaw.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: You know what? Nevermind. The West division. I have Saginaw,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: but the Midwest division, I actually have Guelph winning. I
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: have Guelph first, London second, Owen sound third, Kitchener fourth,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: Uri fifth.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So you have Guelph winning the Midwest.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. That'll be something. Then losing the conference final.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: I got to have fun with it.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: So you have London not winning the Midwest, but beating
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: Guelph in the conference final.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: Okay. Let's do it.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I think we're both on, we're both on,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: we're both on sagging on the West East.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: I've got Ottawa.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: The East. I have Kingston.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: Yep. That's why I'm Kingston.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: Yep. Yep.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: And the central, I, I had Sudbury, but I guess
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: I got to go North Bay now.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: I have Sudbury fifth in the division. Um, no, no,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: I don't. I have North Bay. I have North Bay
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: first in the division. Sudbury second. Um, I was just too, uh,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: It's dramatic.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: You're just too, too upset with that trade, but most
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: surprising team, Colin.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: Sorry. I need a Brantford. I'll say that. I think
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: Sarnia with their lineup. And I think Brantford obviously being
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: close to the team, maybe and being familiar with them already.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think I could have a different answer
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: to this a month from now, but obviously you got
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: to give that answer right now. And I think watching
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: them play, I think a lot, you see Jason Moose,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: some of these guys, they added, I think are the
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: real deal. And I think it's going to change a
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: lot of, turn a lot of heads and, in the
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: Ontario Hockey League a month from now. I think they'll
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: have a different opinion on the Bulldogs. That's just my thoughts.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go London Knights. I think they're going
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: to be a surprising team.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: I think some people are down on them a little bit,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: but like you, I don't expect Dale and Mark to
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: be happy with where they were last season after being
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: in the OHL finals the last three years before that.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: So for me, in a good way, the most surprising.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: Team, London Knights.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: Scoring leader.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: Again, there's a big asterisk here because we don't know
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: what players are, are not coming back. Colin, I think
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: Nikita Klepov is on our list for both of us here.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: If he is able to come back.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: He got the most outstanding too.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: But if he's not back with the Saginaw spirit, who
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: do you got?
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: Owen Griffin. My most outstanding player goes hand in hand
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: with the, with the league goal scorer. Usually, usually you're
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: a really good contender. If you lead the league in
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: goal scoring, you look at back the last couple of seasons, right? Klepov,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: before that when you see well O'Reilly but when you
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: see some of these guys who have come in like
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: Klepoff in contention last season when you see the year
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: before with Misa like I'm I gotta go Owen Griffin here.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: I'm going from that team but again Corey Stillman at
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: 101 point year in 1990-91 as the head coach now
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: of the Gulf Storm when he was with Windsor I
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: think Ryan Robrick I really think Ryan Robrick this is
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: the year that he could break out to have a
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: 100 point year we always knew it was in his
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: grasp in Niagara, but just circumstances there, obviously, with the
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: team not being up to what it should be, you know,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: got injured last season, high draft picks, high second rounder
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: of the Chicago Blackhawks. I got Ryan Roberg winning the
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: scoring title if Nikita Klepov isn't back. I just think
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a massive year if he can
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: stay healthy for Ryan Roberg. And we've always known, you know,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: that he's a guy that can put up a massive
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: amount of points. So I've got Novotny as my most
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: outstanding player, but I think If Klepov doesn't come back,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: Ryan Rober's going to lead the league in points.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: I know the OHL socials are going to eat me
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: up for that one.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going to get that one for sure.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: Hey, I'll take it.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: Hey, it's your respectable pick, Brandon. It's your respectable pick.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: I'll take it right on the chin, guys. Bring it on.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: I can take it.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: Even though, you know, I am a Ryan Rober fan, but,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: you know, I really do as an objective member of
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: the media here in the Ontario Hockey League. I just
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: think we've been waiting for this from Ryan Rober. He's
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: got that extra year. He's in his fourth year now.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: Cause he had that late birthday. He was drafted late.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: I think this is a big year for robrick in
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: his fourth ohl season i will say i think pierce
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: buoy and brooks ragowski are going to have massive years
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Oh for sure for sure those are two big ones
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: Best defenseman of the year.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: Um want me to go first yeah you can levi
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: harper saginaw spirit.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: That'd be Henry Bristevich, London Knights for me.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: I like that one too.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: He's going to be their goal scorer. He's going to
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: be their guy on the back end that runs that
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: power play. London's always respectable back there. We saw it
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: with Bumper Bonk. He's going to have the cannon up
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: top on the point. And I think that you see
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: it all the time. If London's going to be good,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: they're going to have a strong defenseman. Why not him? Yeah.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: And it's usually goes to the guy with the most
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: points as well.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, that's kind of what this award has become, even
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: at the National Hockey League level. It's mostly a points award.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: You know, the defensive defensemen don't get maybe as much love.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: And okay.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: Sean Atchison was a, was a two way defender and
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: he won it last year.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: But you got to be able to put up the
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: points as well to be in consideration for this award.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: So I definitely see why you're going there with Brustavich
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: and then a goalie of the year. Colin, I think
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: this one is a crapshoot because you could talk about
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: what goaltender thinks would be most valuable to his team,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: which goaltender is going to have the most wins, but
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you maybe have a couple of guys as
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: a goaltender yourself.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ben Hrabik is my goaltender of the year, building
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: off his postseason last year. The only thing that's interesting
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: with Ben Hrabik winning goaltender of the year, he's probably
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: going to face the least amount of shots throughout the
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: season because Guelph's going to be really good. So that's
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: interesting to me. I could regret that one. But his
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: goals against and save percentage are going to look really good,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: but he's also going to face the least amount of shots.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: So throughout the year, when we talk about the goaltenders,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: you're going to have to look on the shots against
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: when you look at Ben Hrabik's stats because he's going
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: to face a lot less amount of shots as he
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: did last season with the Barry Colts in the postseason.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: the one he'll have this year with Guelph.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: And it's interesting because the reigning winner of this award,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Ryder Federoff, has gone to the NCAA, right?
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: It's unfortunate, but he had a great one season in
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: the Ontario Hockey League goaltender of the year with the
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: Ottawa 67s and gets himself selected in the NHL draft
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: as well. I'm going with volume here. I have Hurevic
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: in my top three, Colin, but I'm also going on guys.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: I think they're just going to get peppered with shots,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: and I think they're going to have to be really
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: good for their team.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: I look for the mid-teens.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: To A, to remain competitive, and B, you know, be
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: their most valuable players. I think David Igorov, a guy
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: that you're familiar with in Brantford, is going to be,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: you know, a guy that's going to be a rock
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: back there for the Eriotters because he's going to face
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: at least 45 shots a game. And Vladislav Yermolenko in Niagara,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: I think, is going to have to have a massive
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: season if Niagara is going to want to be a
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: team in the top six in the Eastern Conference, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as a really young roster. I think Igorov and Yermolenko
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  Speaker 1: might face the most shots in the Ontario Hockey League
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  Speaker 1: this year, and I think they could both be you know,
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  Speaker 1: guys that, you know, could elevate and be most valuable
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  Speaker 1: players for their teams on the bat and in the crease.
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  Speaker 2: A hundred percent. No, absolutely. I mean, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: face a lot of shots, but they'll also probably give
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  Speaker 2: up more goals when it comes to that too, which
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  Speaker 2: is going to be interesting. I think Shrugan too, and
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  Speaker 2: Saginaw is an interesting one too. That's one too. That's
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  Speaker 2: interesting to me. And with Jaden Nelson in Ottawa, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like tough shoes to fill it right or fed her off.
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  Speaker 2: It's cool to see Nelson get his first opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: be the guy, you know, like, it doesn't happen too often.
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  Speaker 2: Like in Ottawa, the last couple of seasons, they've always
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  Speaker 2: had that to that tandem or someone come in and
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  Speaker 2: light it up like Federoff did last year. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: very interested in what Jaden Nelson can do as well
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  Speaker 2: in Ottawa. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I know this wasn't a, wasn't one calling, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to put it out there anyway, playoff MVP. I'm
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: going to say Ethan Zada from the Guelph storm. I
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: think that, you know, the kind of the role that
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: Sam O'Reilly played last season, I think Ethan Zada is
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  Speaker 1: going to play that same type of center role coming
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  Speaker 1: back from the Tampa Bay lightning training camp. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's going to have a massive season. I think if
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  Speaker 1: Guelph goes all the way, Ethan Zott is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a big part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect. I mean, I respect that as well. Like you said,
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  Speaker 2: if I'm going to do that, I'm going to just
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  Speaker 2: have to say either Jackson Cover, since I had the
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  Speaker 2: London Knights winning, Jackson Cover.
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  Speaker 1: One of the most exciting players to watch, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Guy that only started playing hockey a few years ago, right?
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  Speaker 2: Crazy story. It'd be cool to have him on the
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: pod and discuss his career. He's went through so much
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  Speaker 2: already in his OHL career.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: So there's the OHL media poll. And that wraps it up. Colin,
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  Speaker 1: great first show here on our season premiere back, uh,
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  Speaker 1: kicking off with a bang. We got a call in
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: a rant. We had some hot takes. We got some
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  Speaker 1: foreshadowing for stuff we're going to do later in the year, but, uh,
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  Speaker 1: this was great just to be able to get back
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  Speaker 1: into the swing of things. Appreciate those listening and, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, look forward to doing this every single week.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a fun year in the OHL.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely. I think it's going to be a
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: fun year. It's definitely, it's definitely going to be different.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: A lot of things get used to, obviously, um, with
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: Reese getting the opportunity in Niagara, but I'm sure we'll
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  Speaker 2: make the most of it. And it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a blast. I can't wait. It's going to be a
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: fun year in the OHL and the best league in hockey.
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  Speaker 1: And want to give a quick shout out to our
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: OHL content team this year. I'm doing a lot of
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: good stuff on the writing side. I'm sure gmsports.com, Christina, Elliot, Joel,
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  Speaker 1: doing some great stuff. We got a lot of great
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: content up already early in the season. So if you
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: guys want to go check that out, we've got a
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: lot of good OHL stories for draft eligible players, guys
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: that are prospects of NHL teams. We've got a lot of,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: just a preseason sort of previews, things like that. A
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: lot of great stuff. Colin wanted to give a shout
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  Speaker 1: out to our great, our great content team with Christina
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: Elliott and Joel editing on the, on the, the written side.
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  Speaker 1: So if you guys are interested in that sort of thing,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: if you want to consume some content on the writing side, armchairgmsports.com
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: for all of our great articles there.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. They're killing it right now. It's, it's been a
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: blast this summer. They've moved in and they've done a
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: great job.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: So that's going to wrap it up for today's season
• 1:14:41
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