EITM: Hockey Survey 9/18/25

Happy Capitals Training Camp!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Diane, you're a player in the league. You're a player
in the league. Tyler, do you want to be a
player in the league as well?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (00:05):
All right, I will give you the questions from the
anonymous NHL player poll that took place when players were
out at their media workarounds. Players didn't have to identify
themselves by name, So Diane, you don't have to say
this is Diane.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
My answer is so they they went.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
To the players that were there, and there were players
from all teams. If you had to be traded to
a team, which team would you want to be traded to?

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Not your own team?

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Obviously you can't stay on your current team. What team
do you want to do you want to be traded to?
Of any team in the NHL?

Speaker 4 (00:51):
I think people would say Vegas, Vegas.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
One, two three. They are fourth on the list, fourth
on the list. Why are you saying Vegas?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
They've had a good run, newly established team, I mean
fun City.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Okay, all right, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's got to be one of the Florida teams.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Put me in. Put me on the Florida Panthers. Yeah,
they are.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Just all they're doing is winning and they're still good.
It's not like that team blew itself up.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Did the Lightning not make the list?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
There were number three on the list, Dallas, Yeah, Dallas
comes in another great team. A couple of players did
say no state income tax, which made me laugh. Florida's
number one, far and away. Dallas and the Lightning were
neck and neck. After that, it dips down to the Rangers,

(01:46):
and I think, what the Rangers. A lot of that
is just old well Manhattan, New York and like original six,
like old school hockey number. And then right behind them
the Colorado Avalanche, which I get.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I get that's a that's a well run team.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
So you're happy with all those answers?

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, I thought there are only one player, said the Capitols.
Now they didn't identify which player, but I thought I
thought that might have been a little bit higher.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
But Panthers not shocking.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
You win two Stanley Cups in a row and return
with a team that's essentially, I don't want to say
essentially the same.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
The core is the same, I get it.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Not including question number two, question number two, and I
can't wait to see who you say, No, no, I'm
being serious. Not including the current stars of today who's
the next who's the next face of the NHL?

Speaker 4 (02:52):
I would have no idea, Yeah you would, you said,
not including like.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, so today Connor McDavid, alex ovechki In, Sidney Crosby,
Leon Drysidel, Alexander Barkov.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Of all the little kids.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well you have one that you have followed for years.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, I probably have followed him since he was a kid.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, Connor Bodard, not number one, and I blame Chicago
for that.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
No, I really do start building Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Where'd he come in?

Speaker 3 (03:30):
He comes in at number Well, there's a runaway number one,
a runaway number one, number two, three and four, or.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
All within a short and curly of each other.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
McKenna, Badard, and Shaeffer, Gavin McKenna, Connor Bedard and Matthew Shaeffer.
Keep in mind McKenna hasn't been drafted yet.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Shaeffer hasn't played an NHL game yet.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Badard was supposed to be the next one, but Chicago
is messing that up. They are not doing anything to
get better around him.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
So number one, Diane, come.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
On, that's a that's a giveaway if you already know
it's not Gavin McKenna, who again has not been drafted yet.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Connor Bedard or Matthew Schaeffer. Who is it?

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Do you mention this kid a lot? I don't know
if you've been following him for as long, but I followed.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
I definitely talked about him a lot during the World
Junior Championships, which you should always pay attention to and
is And I will say this, for what Chicago hasn't
done for Bedard, his team is doing for him and
the other kids.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
They got a bunch of kids on that team.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Is this a West coast organization?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Very west?

Speaker 3 (04:42):
You know, Diane in that East coast bias, very far west,
very far west. They wear teal, So it's the Sharks, right,
who's the kid on the Sharks? Well, they have several.
It's not Will Smith. Oh my god, Diane.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
You're making your eyes big. Does not help me?

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, that look, that wasn't a real hint.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
That is who's the stud kid? He just got invited
to Olympic camp.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh my god, I think I do. Yeah, I mean,
I I can't say.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
I know.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
It's the answer household name is it?

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Maclin Celebrini?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yes, to see if she knew the last name, no chance,
no chance? Why nicking the big eyes? Then did you know?

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Did you know Celebrini? Diane? That's unfair? You know what?
How do you not know Maclin Celebrini? He just got
invited to to Team Canada.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's only so much room up here.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Would you have guessed Gavin McKenna or Matthew Shaeffer? When
did Matthew Shaeffer get drafted? He's not drafted.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
That's Gavin McKenna.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
I asked you, not me, the me Clarkydichi, Bigsie, sweet Nelly.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
We're road trip into Penn State to go watch Gavin
McKenna play.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
I can't wait. He's at Penn State, hasn't been drafted yet.
What was the question, I asked, Diane, the face of
the league. No, no, no, But when she said Gavin McKenna,
and I was like, he has Oh who was the
number one pick last year?

Speaker 1 (06:25):
This year? For this year?

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh my god, Diane, who was the number one pick
going into this year?

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Right?

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yes? Who is it?

Speaker 4 (06:35):
What? Come on?

Speaker 1 (06:37):
It's embarrassing, it is yes, Islanders.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
You realize answer giving me the team and a disease
doesn't help me.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Mother.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
They made such a big deal the team was, so
this is why everybody was like, thank god, lul Lambarillo
is gone because Matthew darsh their new GM. You know
that was like great about the jersey with the ribbon
on it.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Can I give her a hint? Yes, okay, I already
named I was gonna say his name. Justina said yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
I and you know it's not Badard. And you know
McKenna hasn't been drafted yet. It's not Celebrini. He's already
in the league. Who's the only one?

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Oh my god, Diane.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
The weirdest part is she has notes in front of her.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
No, I just I've written down Dallas, Tampa Bay in Vegas,
Matthew Celebrini, that's Maclin.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Matthew Schafer.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
By the way, can I disagree with Celebrini. I still
think if Chicago can pull their head out, I still
think Bdard could be the face of the league. You
know who I think is unfairly being left off the list,
Michael Misa. I'm willing to now listen. I like Celabrini.

(08:02):
I like him a lot, and I like the the
number of kids that are on that team. Now you
don't know who they're you do know who their general
manager is. But if I put a plate of a
million dollars down it said name me the GM of
the of the Sharks, you wouldn't do it.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
But he's done a fantastic job. Do you remember Mike Greer?

Speaker 4 (08:26):
No, he played here.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Earlier today?

Speaker 1 (08:32):
That not Green?

Speaker 3 (08:35):
He said, yes, Mike Greer and Mike Green look nothing alike.
And it's not because Greer has fewer tattoos.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
How many questions are in the service?

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Not enough? He've only done two the okay, number three.
I'm not going to give you all the breakdown of
like fifteen million to fifteen point nine, sixteen million to
sixteen point nine. Actually I'm doing it, seventeen million to
seventeen point.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Don you know you're not listening. You're not listening.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
I am too.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Do you think when they asked the players during the
Player's Poll they all.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Just went.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
No, what is the question?

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Fifteen million to fifteen point nine?

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Well, no, no, because there's eighteen to nineteen, nineteen point
one million or twenty million. How much will Connor McDavid
sign for aav annual average? What's his annual salary going
to be?

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Nineteen?

Speaker 3 (09:46):
You think it's nineteen So you don't think Connor McDavid
is the first twenty million.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Dollar a year guy. No, why.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Edmonton doesn't have that money?

Speaker 1 (09:58):
You know the salary caps going.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
I didn't take that into account.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
So would you like to change your answer now?

Speaker 4 (10:04):
I'm gonna stick with that, you know what?

Speaker 3 (10:10):
The other way, it surprised me most NHL rs that
they talked to think McDavid will sign between sixteen and seventeen, like.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Pre tipping on a cruise the second cheapest.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Isn't that weird? I would have guess he signs for.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
More, the said the majority picked that.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
The majority think it'll be sixteen.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Keep in mind Carill the Thrill, Diane, we just talked
about him.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Who does he play for? No?

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Not today, say no, no, we didn't talk about him today,
but we talked about him this week.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Who does he play for?

Speaker 4 (10:48):
Toronto?

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Oh my god, No, he plays for an American team?
He is not American? Oh okay, capriceov.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Panthers, Oh my god, the Rangers.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
You know what, I'm gonna let you keep going. I
bet you don't even name the.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Team, the Avalanche.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
What are you looking at? What are you looking at?

Speaker 4 (11:11):
A random page of hockey players.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Plays for the Minnesota Wild.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Oh, I wasn't gonna get there anytime soon.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
They offered him.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
They offered him sixteen sixteen and change, and he said, no,
you take Connor McDavid every day of the week and
twice on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Diane, I bet he takes twenty million. I bet he
takes twenty million.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Oh, back to Connor David. Yeah, so you disagree with
the players, I do.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
I do.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Board doesn't get back to the locker room.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
And by the way, if I'm the players, I want
him to take twenty now, Diane, knowing what you know,
because we just discuss salary cap, are you more open
because everybody's signing for eight years right now? Because of that,
owners want to get you locked up now instead of
a couple of years from now, right when the salary
cap is even higher.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
But because of the opening up or the.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Skyrocketing salary cap, are you more open to doing short
term deals?

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yes, of course you are. You bet on yourself.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
That's an easy one four or against an eighty four
game season.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Four.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
But why they just want to be on the ice.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah they do.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
It was not even close. Three votes mixed feelings, four
votes hate it. Well over thirty like it because of
what they got in return. You were and games the
what's wrong? Oh yeah, no, you're now you're thinking like
a player. Now you're like Tommy Wilson sitting over there.

(13:10):
Fewer preseason games.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
The sea.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
They were like, listen, the season's already long. More money
you get, you get a good paycheck for that. Okay,
now let's focus on defense, Diane.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Which, what Diane? Do they say about defense for all sports,
not just hockey? What does it win? What?

Speaker 3 (13:40):
What does defense win games? And if you win all
the games, what do you win trophies? The championships? Defense
wins championships?

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Which?

Speaker 3 (13:59):
And they asked hockey players and like yourself, you're in
the player pole.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
This is for three in a rod all.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
I just hope that there's not like some car pool
right now where it's like Strom and Ov and like
Logan in his sweet ass car. I say it at Starbucks.
The remember I sent you guys a picture. I took
a picture of Starbucks that was creepy.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
The I said a snapschat.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
I just hope they're not listening.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Well, I do hope they are, but like they're not, like, oh,
I hope always not like, Oh god.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Damn, Diana, she suck. Okay, defenceman. Who's the NHL defenceman
you find hardest to compete against. I'm Wilson okay, number

(15:01):
one forward. Okay, yeah, not.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
A defense I'm not good positions?

Speaker 1 (15:06):
The oh you know what, we're all over the ice.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
How about Austin Matthews?

Speaker 1 (15:09):
The or his coaches would say, he's a center.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
The or his coaches would say, if we don't have
the puck, we're all on defense.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
No, but your natural position is a defenseman.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Oh, you hear it all the time. You're hear it
all the time.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Ask mumu. When we're playing old man hockey, you know, we're.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
All on d backjack like you backchack.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
It's like the high school's cross country coach. I overheard
him say this. He did not say it out loud
to the team, but he doesn't care if it's your
pr if it's garbage, Diane, hardest.

Speaker 6 (15:42):
Defenceman to play it to compete against? If two strikes,
I'm sorry one more time. Matthew Matthew, Okay, he's a forward.

(16:03):
You know Matthew could chucks a four?

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Can you even name a Matthew that plays defense. No,
who's number one? Okay, he plays left wing. Jesus Christ.
You think the all time but let's think you can.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
I intervening because it sounds like you may now start
attacking her.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
But you think the all time leading goal scorer in
the entire league is a defenseman? Come on, that deserves
belta ass. That's just not you know what that is.
That's just answering to answer. We're not thinking, we're not thinking.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
We can do a staring contest all day.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
But give me an answer.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
You haven't even named the defenseman yet because I don't
know the names.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Okay, okay, you want to hint. You want to hint.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
This may not help, it will it will?

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Colorado Avalanche? Go ahead? Well, who is sending you notes?

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Nobody? It would help be helpful if somebody would.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
No, she'll be able to get it because she does
hear these names a lot from you. Yes, give her
the first name. I know it didn't it didn't work
for macclin. But give her the first name. I guarantee you.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Well, I don't.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
I don't know who it is, but I have a
guest as to who one of the.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
Top three and you ready, I'm gonna say the first name,
you say the last name.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
He's a defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche. He is.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
He has won the Norris Trophy for best Defenseman in
years past.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Cal macarr Yeah, beautiful.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
I knew she could do it.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
See number two Carolina Hurricanes. Jacob, Yes, say it, don't
say Samarron?

Speaker 6 (17:58):
No?

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Who who?

Speaker 6 (18:00):
No?

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Jacob Mazerowski? You do you talk about him a lot?

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Slaven? Oh slave, I got the right? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (18:13):
No, no.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
When you started with I was like, oh my god,
she's nailing it. Yes or no question?

Speaker 2 (18:21):
I bet Are there are there any others on that list?
Are they only two to get votes?

Speaker 1 (18:25):
No? No, no, there's definitely is ready.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Diane Quinn Hughes, Yah.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah he is. Actually he's number four on the list.
He knows him right behind Gustave. Yes, yes, I don't know.
Gustave plays for the Panthers. Gustave M. Foorsling. Oh my god,

(18:54):
Jeff Alburn be so mad at you right now?

Speaker 4 (18:56):
Sorry?

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yes or no question? Should there be a separate award
for defensive defenseman?

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Let me explain. Cal mccarr is an offensive defenseman. Quinn
Hughes is an offensive defenseman. John Carlson is an offensive defenseman, right,
Jacob Chickrin offensive defenseman. Somebody who would be a more
stay at home defenseman or defensive defense would be like
Martin Ferivari. And so a lot of times the Norris

(19:30):
Trophy goes to the defenseman with the most points.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Now, cal mccarr, nobody's gonna argue is great.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
But should there be a separate award for guys who
aren't going to put up statistics, who are going to
just play defense and not get all of the highlights,
but deserve a tremendous amount of credit.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
I think the players would say yes to that.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Absolutely absolutely, Diane, very good, very good.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
And I'll tell you two names as to why that is.
Jacob Slaven who still scores. Jacob Slavan will still score,
but he is a defenseman. And Gustave Foresling.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Did you remember that last name?

Speaker 1 (20:13):
No, the are you serious? If you ask?

Speaker 3 (20:18):
If you ask John Cooper, the head coach of the
Lightning and one of his assistant coaches that I know.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
When they game planned.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
When the Lightning game planned against the Florida Panthers, the
most important person was Gustav Forsling, because he'll shut everything down,
everything down. When they moved Foresling to playing against Connor McDavid.
McDavid was going to have him from having like five
six seven shots a game to like maybe two.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Ridiculous. Ridiculous, Okay, I could do this all day