Jessie scrolling right by ovechkin and then having a long winded conversation about how Connor mcdavid is the only hockey player on the list is infuriating

Bill Zito with the totally relatable analogy

Im not a Leafs fan but Bob Ogden is quickly becoming my favourite Leaf player of all time

I've been watching this game for 60 years. You're right Steve. This is a golden age. It started about 10-12 years ago and is deep right now.

Zito is so intimidating but genuine at the same time lol. Comes off so friendly and genuine, but the eyes make me worry he might snap me in half at any second :D

52:52 You can almost make out Stamkos’ brand of shoulder pads in that photo. Those jerseys look see-through to me!

SDPN when introducing the VIP subs: don’t worry, if you’re not a vip subscriber, it won’t change a thing for you Also SDPN: stop talking and save this for a vip episode

I love how Bill Zito just did what Steve has been struggling to do for nearly 3 months since the Leafs have been eliminated from the Playoffs, in striking a good analogy to make the people terrified of losing a Marner trade understand that you can lose the trade on paper and still drastically improve the team composition, and Steve couldn't help himself but to make himself the star in the moment and prioritize his Lazer Eyes Bit, over getting the point across that has been eating him alive for months. Oh Steven, we love you buddy.

“As a sweaty guy I find my temperature doesn’t even out until the afternoon” I have never related to Adam more in 8 years of listening to this show

Quinton Byfield at age 21 (will be 22 heading into next season) since people don't want to do there research. - One of the fastest players in the entire NHL at 6'5 (look at NHL Edge's stats) - Is 6'5 220lbs (in itself that is worth something) - Was a second overall pick but it was during the weirdest draft of our generation and he fractured his ankle in the 2021 pre-season - Just had the first healthy season of his career (fractured ankle in 2021, COVID in 2022 & lost over 20lbs) - Scored the best goal of the 2023-24 NHL regular season (Kings VS Blue Jackets Feb 20th 2024) - Had 20 goals, 55 points, and was a beast in the playoffs for the second straight post-season He's doing all of this while having a very unlucky start to his career, being younger than everyone in his draft, and being MASSIVE. That contract is def worth it right now and will become unbelievably good value as soon as this season.

Great contract for LA. Byfield is one of the most underrated players in the league. He is invisible over in the LA market.

missed ovechkin at 54!!

The stamkos picture told me two things. 1. Nashville needs a uniform change 2. It really finally hit home that he isn’t gonna be a lightning player anymore

Binnington was fantastic last season

1:02:51 So something I'll always remember is in 2014 when the Sochi olympics were on there was a situation where Canada made the gold medal game which was going to be on at 8 am Sunday morning. The problem was back in the 1800s Bars werent allowed to be open on Sunday before 11 am or something like that and its a law that just never went away. So when this happened the Toronto council had to have an emergency Saturday meeting to repeal that law so that the bars could be open for the gold medal game.

"Binnington's gotta find his form"? Did you see him last year? One of the only good players on the team last year it felt like many times.

Adam said Binnington needs to find his form this year? Guy is coming off his best full season, he’s just on a bad team.

Bill Zito looks and talks like a guy who, when on a big night out. He goes to the washroom often. And, the Macho Man comparison is on point. OHHH YEAHHHH!

I can tell Maddy is away because there's no iso-cam on each guy when their name is said during the intro.

I think the Leafs have finally broken Steve.

Petition to bring a hat-picks/dang-its to sdpn

The difference is the Yen is respected on the world stage currently, while the Ruble is basically toilet paper.

Also ovi was on the list too haha scrolled to fast Jesse

This ESPN list is a portrait of American exceptionalism. To have Schumacher and Zidane behind (what comes to any non-US citizen as) a random American football player is a joke.

new marner jar game!: whenever the guys whine about marner, the leafs all time winger, his next contract goes up 100k. think he's at about 14.5M by now 🤑

If the NHL had another lockout Lanny Mcdonald would absolutely award the cup to another league. Hence the reason Bettman said last time during the lockout that they will finish the season and award the cup. He will not let that happen.

Kucherov and point arguably have some of the best contracts in hockey. How about Hagel? Theme? Ya bolts do it really well..

Ovi's in there!

The 04-05 Lockout REALLY helped alot of young players like Spezza

Nice hand hold!

Hockey is a tiny sport in the grand scheme of things. The size of the sport is part of greatness. Being the best curling player ever is for example way lesser than being the 10th best soccer player of the season, in a global perspective.

Dig the shirt, Steve. 👍

Ovi is on the ESPN list in the 40’s i think but the fact that McDavid is 98 is insane

As a nucks fan whenever I see the leafs cap structure or management decisions, then look at my nucks it blow's my mind how insane JR and Allvin are. When they took over we were one of the teams in cap hell despite sucking. As of now with a 24 man roster which includes poolman at 2.5 , we have 200k in cap space. The fact we could play out the season without using LTIR and carry 24 players is absolutely insane. Then when you look at who's locked up long-term and just as importantly not signed long-term it's even more impressive. JT who's a stud is the only player over 30 with more than 3 years and not one contract that you would say will hold the team back. What's impressed me this summer is after finally breaking out, Allvin not only managed to keep all of our own UFA's that were part of the core that was the best team in hockey in January, he somehow made the team younger and didn't commit term to any player over 30 and somehow the team on paper is better than the roster we had in October. Many will say well losing Zadorov and Lindholm was a miss but they were both given way too much term and really didn't do much in the regular season. Who would of ever thought that Vancouver would be one of the best run teams in the league after the Benning years😂

Great interview guys. 👍 👍

Nobody in Calgary was thrilled that Tkachuk left. No flames fan who watched Tkachuk since he entered the league was saying the flames won that trade. Tkachuk is a star. He told Calgary he wasn't going to resign, so they did the best they could to recoup the loss.

I assumed the yen was always an American cent, so 113:1 is a very believable conversion. Also I hate Krug so I’m happy he might not play. I think his last contribution to a team was charging Thomas in the 2019 Final for the Bruins.

Burke’s Law is an absolute must listen !!

hello early crew! Hope yall are having a great wednesday

I think Ovi was 54 and Sid has got to be on there somewhere.

Bill Zito lands somewhere between Stone Cold and classic Henry Rollins.

Torey Krug issue is actually at 42:03 and not 49:45

Knies deal prob looks like a 5 by 5 or like a 4.5 for 6 years

Crosby at 22 Ovi at 54 Mcdavid at 98 decent

I think Byfield's contract is gonna be a MacKinnon situation where it'll be a top 2 or 3 bargain in the league well before it's done.

marner will be on the leafs after the trade deadline next year. After tavares is still cursed.

I called it!! Marlies vs Gulls. SDPN takeover of San Diego!

Can we get steve to just act as Gordon Ramsey and talk about contract extensions cause that would be *HILARIOUS*

I really think people don't remember the last NHLPA negotiations. They walked the kids to free agency faster and what happened is it forced teams to pay for potential. When players used to get paid for what they accomplished but again its the fault of the NHLPA. When they negotiated i don't think they saw this coming.

Byfield’s extension is so weird, they kept the number down with the years, but it’s walking him straight into his prime UFA years.

A perfect example of what Bill Zito is saying is the Taylor Hall trade for Adam Larsson. Right now Larsson definitely has more value than Hall.

today is also connor bedard's (#98) 19th bday!!

That list had Simone biles ahead of Tiger Woods 😂

Did anyone else mark out when Adam said live sdp from San Diego??? I’m in Philly but that would be so stoke

At 33:00 imagine they almost had their skiing trip and they said they were so close to having their trip but if they run it back next year maybe it will work

39:34 Ruble has bounced back to pre-war levels 😳

Teams in the KHL wont hold Kuznetsov personally accountable for his personal issues the same way the NHL would. Any NHL team would take him, its almost as though he doesn't want the NHLPA over his shoulder the whole time

Quin hughes, making 7.75, is the best value contract in the league. Buddy won a Norris last year and has 2 more seasons on his deal.

56:39 who let out that moan lmao??

Binner had his form this past season

From a cricket fan - Kohli is the Connor McDavid of cricket. Best in world (with some competition)

Recommend that backpacking trip to anyone under 25!, Until 25 you are a student in Europe and many things are cheaper. I did 6 weeks and 10 countries. Major part of my life!

I’m terms of conversion- the Korean Won is about 1000:1 with the US dollar. I had to look it up when the prize was in Squid Game came up and I wondered, because in the show the winner got like 45 billion Won lol.

Knies had 20 point's less then byfield last yr as well adam what r u doing today lol

If you understand playoff hockey, that Huberdeau Tkachuk deal was OBVIOUS for Florida. It was a blockbuster but soft guys don’t win in the playoffs.

Huby, Kadri, Sharky, Backlund, Coleman. Zary and Pospisil had great first years and Coronato's waiting to break out. Manthas fighting for a better contract. I would argue it's the defensive core and goal tending are the bigger issue. I don't talk hockey for a living but I'm pretty sure I could quite a few worse cores than that.

I just want to throw out there that Chuck Fletcher's incompetence might've saved the Flyers on that Gaudreau fumble. Johnny's contract isn't great now and is only going to get a lot worse. Also if they signed him then there is a good chance Flyers don't draft Michkov.

Both Binnington and rookie Joel Hofer were far better than anyone the Leafs had this past season, and Binner especially was fantastic this past year. It would be nice if these guys are going to talk about other teams, they at least try to have some knowledge of the teams in question.

Tennessee is an awesome state so I get players heading there and if I wasn’t a leaf fan I’d have a hard time choosing between Nashville and Minnesota who are up there mostly cause I love the jersey

Please do live shows from San diego.

I think that Nashville's home is awesome, but their away is just such bland garbage. It was such a smart decision to take the color yellow as their primary color since no one else was using it as such.

The Japanese is a relatively strong currency. I just imagine it as a currency that doesn’t use the decimal system. For example, dollar stores in Japan are literally called 100 yen stores.

Bill Zeto is a good GM who did get lucky. Florida was ginna clean house if Pittsburgh beats Chicago to make the playoffs in 2023. One game between unemployed and Stanley Cup caliber GM.

There's 31 teams who really hope they screw up signing Knies...

Fanatics are using the exact same Adidas jerseys for the upcoming season. Just adding their logo to it. 2025-26 they will apparently have their own version.

Ah yes, the draft with Byfield and Laf, who were picked by playoff hopefuls LA and NY, in the year Detroit finished last by 20 points and didnt get a lottery pick. Pain...

Did it with pasta too, he had a 6x6.66

All of this talk about Byfield and Lafreniere, meanwhile Raymond has more points than both of them 🤭

4.3 x 6 for Knies. Jesse you should try out Eastside Hockey Manager!

Byfield is looking good.

Skjei's cap hit is 7m but in actual dollars he's making 10M this year so technically he's 9m+ too

So out of the atheletes revealed only 2 Ovi and Mcdavid are on there.

Is McDavid being 98 a hockey thing or an ESPN thing? Just saying I looked at their top 100 MLB players all time and I don't think anyone thought that saw that list and didn't get pissed off at something

Ovie was at 54.

I don't know what Adam is talking about with Don Maloney. I agree that it seems he's the one driving the fued between the flames and leafs now but Maloney wasn't hired as president until 2023, and Sutter got fired anyway. I think Sutter was kept on by Brad in 2022-23 because remember that Sutter won the Jack Adams after the 21-22 season. I don't think they should've kept him on because he was likely a reason for Tkachuk and Gaudreau wanting out but I think that was Brad.

That ESPN list was total bs. How the heck Marta far above Ronaldinho and R9? Kohli was there but no Tendulkar, Ponting and Sehwag? LOL. Total clickbait bs by ESPN.

tampa bay "played" the salary cap in 2020. They should've been penalized draft picks.

Knies on a Lundell Deal 😊

San D. Here they come!

13:03 Adam comparing Matthew Knies to Byfield is delusional. QB has the potential to be an elite 1st liner, Knies is a 50-65 points guy at best.

Flames fan here, many of us want Maloney fired into the sun. We are fully aware he has hamstrung our organization for a decade just to have a couple playoff games. On the bright side, seems like Conny finally has authority to rebuild (or retool, cause Maloney can't stand rebuild), but he's not making gross signings in free agency, keeping things within 3 year contracts, and trying to recoup the draft picks Tre gave away. Plan is to be competitive for new arena, between now and then is acquire assets and young prospects

Like on one hand I get the Tavares signing argument... But like also I don't. He's was a captain with playoff experience. Was a proven performer on several levels. Those kids were not the same. They paid for potential (which they've gotten) but they should have paid less and used John as an argument that way. Oh well, here we are 😅

I feel like even though the penguins probably dont have the assets its surprising we arent talking about Dubas finding a way to get marner on the penguins because as we know...Dubas LOOOOOOOOOOOOVES his guys...i dont think thatd happen but hockey is weird like that sometimes

NHL lockout will happen, IMO. Now I hope that the PWHL champ gets on the Cup

My names Steve and I loooove ya fight

Guess Ovi isn't a hockey player anymore. Maybe he's gonna do the MJ thing this season and play baseball.

I'm gonna say it. I don't want a Marner trade where the best thing the Leafs get back is cap space.

Cole Schwint was GREAT for me in NHL23 for the Steelheads. We won a memorial cup, so Calgary did win the trade. I'm sorry I do make the rules

31:42 to give a Toronto example Kwahi for Derozan. Everyone's like "what the hell Ujiri? WHy are u trading a fan fav for a one year guy that doesnt want to be here and has stated multiple times he wants to go to LA?" What happened that year? We won the NBA title. Now we've been dogshit since then but still we won.

Ninety-Nine incoming!