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Speaker 1 (00:26):
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Speaker 2 (00:41):
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
Confused yourself?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah I did. Yeah, it's been a while. The music
was too loud in my ear. I couldn't hear myself.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Who controls that?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah? Seriously? Wow, Well might have to fire the producers.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, she get on that guy who controls that music?
Keep putting it in your ear?
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
We Hey Sam, Hey, Sam, I hate to tell you,
but if it's too loud, you're too old.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Too old? All right? Well, as producer, we could just
go to a two shot right now and then just
eliminate the source.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Just kidding, oh man, Sam, just jokes. Sam. Do you
like Do you like my new backdrop behind me? I
know it's your favorite. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
As a matter of fact, I'm getting your jersey jersey. It's
probably in my mailbox right now. I just gotta go
grab and then it's gonna be sent off to that
wonderful place in New York to get stitched Plot eighteen.
I'll do that tomorrow. As soon as that happens tomorrow,
we're gonna be in breaking news mode. But let's go
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to all this podcast to announce a big trade to
get us under the cap by five pm tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah, well, you don't have a lot of time to
send it out.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh yeah, well you know I have time. I have time. No, yeah,
I'll set it out by tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
M as long as the intent is there, Sam Will,
I think you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The intent. There's definitely intent there.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
The intent is there. I just know also that this
could potentially this trade may not happen for a couple
of weeks, only because I know the lead time at
this place. So well, we're still at least six more
weeks of p a lot. Well, we have at least
we we have one day to six weeks more of
a plot based on their lead time for.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, good thing, Good thing, Beer Baron's not stitching it,
otherwise he'd be here for the rest of his contract.
Mm hmmm, yeah, that is actually Beer Baron's on assignment today.
He has excused absence.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Okay, yes he does, if you say so.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
No, no, boss, that's seriously. I asked him what he
was doing tonight and it was actually pretty cool. I'll
tell you guys off air, it's pretty cool. Project he's on. Okay, yeah,
I'm just covering for him.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yep, m hmm. I heard the project is is uh
has done sixteen ounces at a time.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, yeah, I think the I think the project is
get drunk at family family's house, you know, but it's
neither here nor there. Yeah, but yeah, hello everyone, what's up?
See a lot of people on YouTube time chiming in already.
How's going? Yes, there's the obvious, you know, elephant in
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the room as they like to call it, with the
New Jersey Devils. Right now, after graciously signing one Luke
Hughes to a long term contract, which we can all
rejoice in the fact is not five years long, the
Devils are now officially in their salary crunch and they
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have to, let's see checks watch, less than twenty four
hours to get underneath the So the moves are gonna
have to be made now the Devils. Yeah, Sam, Well,
how do you feel about this, because the first part
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of the news is that and what's up there? Ted
just saw your note there on YouTube. The first part
of the news in the wee well after Luke was
that the Devils downgraded in toughness and they traded one
Curtis Big mac McDermott up to the Ottawa Senators after
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the Senators got smoked by the Canadians in a pretty deep,
pretty big line brawl, which we also got another one
between Tampa and Florida last night too, which was a
lot of fun. But the Devil's kind of downgraded in toughness.
No offense to Zach McEwin. I'm sure he can beat
the hell out of me, but you know, you watch
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some of those fight videos, he throws one or two
and then he kind of gets pummeled. So not that
McDermott played a lot anyway, but how do you feel
about the team? I mean, it's obviously a salary cap
saving measure, but it's like, what are we saving like
five hundred K, four hundred k or something like that,
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So it's like billion. Oh because of year? Okay, all right, okay,
because mcdermodd had one more year, Okay, So it was
it like a million and a half. So is that
what we're saying? Okay, because of that next year.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
But I'm I'm more concerned about.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
The toughness aspect of it. How do you feel about this, Samuel,
as someone who loves the beef.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, I don't like sacrificing toughness, but you gotta get
under that under the cap. There's not much time left.
I mean, as a matter of fact, we're in less
than twenty four hours. You gotta think that there's gonna
be a transaction somewhere, is there? LTI r uh?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
But that's still not gonna fix everything.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
You know, there's gotta be you know, could we you know,
I don't know doing Nancy Kerrigan and whack someone's knee
and be like, ah, you're out six months? Do we
figure this out? I mean, I don't know what they're
gonna do. That's a tough question to ask me. That's
a real tough question. I you know, is there a trade?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I was, I was asking you how you feel about
the team not being as tough. I wasn't even asking
about all the gas.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Okay, all right, Well, my mind's all over the place.
So to answer your question directly, I don't like it,
but at the same time that McDermott didn't play that
many games. He's good in the locker room. But you know, again,
I mean, you have enough here you know too, whether
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that's storm if you want to say, but you know
McDermot is one of those guys where you know, he
gave me some beef. When you have like a Matt
Rempey that's gone wild, you know, somebody to tame him,
and the Devils don't have that guy. But again, you
can't just you know, build your roster just to beat
up one guy. Either I'm i'm I'm I'm good with
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the beef that's on the roster right now to answer
your question, okay, but you know, at the same time,
you know this is a salary cap cost move that
they gotta get, you know, five pm on Monday. But
you know, getting guys with beef, you know, I mean,
you can get these guys on the cheap somewhere else,
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somewhere down the line.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I heard Zach McGowan and h Brady Couchuck are best friends,
So you know, just throwing that out there, you can
make all the connections you want, you know, just go
for it, you know, but my inside sources tell me
that they're really good friends, kind of like a Pat
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Maroon Taylor Hall situation.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
I just say, I'm just saying, I'm just you know, Yeah,
I want to say how many rumors we could start here?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
By the way, who by the way cleared waivers and
will be straight on the bus to Utica. So I
guess we cleared a little bit more salary cap there
as well.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I also heard that Ty Smith is gonna be Luke Scheff.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yes, he's moving back to New Jersey. Yeah, instead Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
It's not gonna cost us against the Caps, just moving
into just some burgers.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
He's just moving into lessen the rent, bring the rent,
bring the rent down.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
But there's also another, you know, set of moves, Like
you know, a lot of guys got placed on waivers
and signed to Utica. Nothing really too surprising over there
except one name who you know. I we won't find
out until tomorrow if a claim has been put in,
but I find it highly unlikely that it would come up,
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that it would get as far as to the Edmonton
Oilers turn and they would you know, not take a
chance on one Nico Dawes, so it's kind of crappy that,
you know, it feels like someone's gonna claim him and
he's gonna walk for nothing, Like I was really hoping
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fits he would have been able to like package him
as part of a deal short Sky as our as
our resident goaltender here. You know what, what do you well?
What did you see in because he didn't have a
great preseason. We know he had that run, but it
was just inconsistent. But did you feel the team is
ready to move on from him now that they got
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you go off coming through or I don't know, what
are your thoughts on it?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I was I was thinking about this going into the
you know, the show tonight, and I my mind's all
over the place with it. I think we have I
think we're all still searching for the heir apparents bro door.
It's been what was it, two thousand and three, team
(11:00):
fourteen or whatever then he left, and I feel like
we've been we've been searching for a goalie since and
we've seen goalies come and go, come and go. You know,
Mac Black was going to be the next, you know,
Corey Snyder was going to be the next. And I'm
going out order here, I get that. You know, Keith
Kincaid was going to be the next guy, you know,
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and we all like Nico Dawes. We all seen what
Nico does can do. He didn't have a great preseason,
and yeah, the potential is there for them, you know,
for him to be snapped up. Would I be shocked
if he was tomorrow morning? No, would I'd be shocked
if he wasn't. I also wouldn't I feel like that.
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I feel like this is going to really show what
his real true value is out there on the open market,
because I have a feeling if there was a move
to be made packaging him with someone like, let's say
a plot, it would have happened already. So if that's
the case, then you know what, you know, maybe he's
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and I if you have any issues with what I'm
about to say, please it's primetime, sam Wu. It's at
primetime Sam Wu on Twitter. I believe as a spearhead
of this podcast, So bring bring all your your hate
to Samu for what I might. If you don't like
what I'm about to say, you know, he may not
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be as valuable as we think he is or as
we want him to be, because we're still searching for
that next goaltender because we had goaltending that was so
consistent for so many years. We have not yet found it.
And I think we're still pining for that consistent goaltending
and we want.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It to be.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
We've wanted it to be everybody since bro Door, and
nobody since bro Door has been it because nobody will be.
It's it's one of those things where could it be
yagger Off? It could be could he be the you
know who? Could could he go on that on that
scrap pile like the rest of them? Have he could?
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You know? I mean we you know, it's it's we're
looking beyond mark Strom already with this because Mark Strum
still has to resign. I think tomorrow, the next twenty
four hours is going to be a teller with really
what nico Does' value is. We could be potentially overvaluing
Nico does. And I like Nico does. I like how
he plays.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
We lost the short sky oops.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Well yeah, see, I I mean, I agree that his
value isn't very high, but I just I was really
hoping that Fitzy would have been able to include him
in some sort of package plan to you know, not
just let him walk for free because we have invested
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a lot of time in him. I get it that
he's probably I'm with Jake Allen now, I mean he's
that kind of sealed his sealed his fate. I feel like.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
So, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I think I was just more a little disappointed that
Fitz he wasn't able to work something for him. He's
out on waivers now, and I don't know. Someone mentioned
on YouTube maybe with Steve over here. Yeah, I think
that will will help out the old cap as well.
And if you put COVID Savage on long term injury
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reserve and Stephen Nason, then maybe you know you're getting closer.
But I still believe that you got to make Oh
there he is, He's back.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Yep, I'm back. Yeah. I think the people revolted. I was,
as I was saying, you know that we maybe are
over valuerie Nico does. I can't believe, man, the retribution
was quick. But uh anyway, I don't know where I
got cut off there by the by some rogue hacker man.
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But uh, bottom mine is I I like I was saying,
I love Nico Das, I like how he plays. We
could be overvaluing him uh. And I kind of caught
a little bit what you were saying, Scottie. If there
was a way to move him, I think we would
have it really may be telling of what our value
of his uh, what what our value of Nico does
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is versus what the league's value is. Uh. And And
I'm gonna be honest, I don't know what happens in
this in in all of this waiver stuff to where
if a GM, if like the GMS have, I'm gonna
go out on limb here. Maybe the GMS have a
group you know, a group text like we do, and says, hey,
I'm throwing this guy on on waivers, let him go.
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Like I don't know, like I like to text.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I know I would love to be on that group
text there.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah yeah, but I know you were getting into COVID Savage. Truthfully,
I think the best bet for us, and what we'll
probably see is Ovi Savage on an lt I R
to buy time, to make that space and to make
the right moves, because I think that if no one
has wanted plot pull ot six million, we're four million
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over cap. We would lose maybe four of that six
because there's no way anyone's taking that six million in total.
And if someone if if part of the deal was Nico,
Dawes and Pollot for straight up, like that would be
the deal. Just take it. No one wanted it. Uh,
it's it's gonna be a team Florida's has had, has
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had injuries. Maybe Florida wants a Pullot. You never know,
Like it's it's now that you know once once those
early season injuries happened, that's really when maybe you move plot.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
But you think there's a limit to how many teams
you can offer Plot too. If I'm not mistaken, ten
it's ten, but I think it it is ten.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
But I don't know if that means that, like if
something else comes up and the team goes to him
that's not on that list and says, hey, here's we've
found this. This team would like you. And I don't
know how often they update that list. I don't know
how often that Like, is that list written at the
beginning of his contract, And maybe a team that's not
on the list is now doing better, so maybe they
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could come onto that list. I really don't know if
there's anyone out there that can explain how the lists work.
I have a feeling maybe Max would know that information.
But it's one of those things to where that list,
could you know, maybe that list changes it season on season,
maybe a team has come up on that list that
may need him. Now, you don't know, at least I
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don't know, and I'm not going to pretend to know.
But we're gonna find out a lot. But really the
best thing right now because we're just over we're just
under four million, I think by half a million dollars.
COVID said, which on l C I r for right now?
To buy more time.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Max, Max has got a beer Baron trade. These are
these are the type of trades that beer Baron comes
up with, Dougie Pilot and Dawes for Quinn Hughes. They'll
take it. They'll take it.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
It's a good deal. Yes, maybe five first rounders.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah you know. Oh oh and and and why don't
we also throw in, uh, you know, expunging Sam's cousins
criminal record for the Riots back in uh when Vancouver
lost the finals too standing narrative, stick all proud, breaking
the window. At least you're at least you're not the
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black sheep anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Sam. It's funny that everybody blames the Vancouver canuckts fans
for rioting. But that's actually not what happened. I've had
I've had people that covered the Stanley Cup Finals said
it was literally anarchists that that were wearing Canucks jerseys
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and then feeding the drunk Canucks fans.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
You know, maybe they're just Canucks fans. I got driven
to be anarchists from all of the you know, that's.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Another story for another day. But I remember, I remember,
I remember the time when we were covered the Stanley
Cup Finals. It was told to me that it was
it was what you saw on TV was not exactly
what was really happening.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Well, ask your cousin the pictures out there, it's.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Not out there.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Yeah. Uh. Dubbs actually brings up another good point too,
and uh, I think you're you're on the money with it,
is that the Devils will likely sign Glenn Denning as
a fourth line center who's had a pretty strong training camp.
If they don't, somebody will. That's for sure. I think
he's had he's had a strong training camp as a PTO.
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So that's more money that fits. He's got to find,
and he's got to do it quickly. He's got to
do it quickly.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
L t I R for COVID Savage is your move
to buy more time because.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
But even like it's still now, I don't know if
that'll give you. I don't know if that'll give you
all that you need. I think you're gonna have to
do two people. Yeah, you got to do more than that,
because the rules, the rules have changed.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
What I'm looking at now is well, at least at
least just to get for for what I'm looking at
on puck Pedia or projected cap space, we're in the whole.
We're over by just a shade under four million, three million,
nine hundred and ninety five, five hundred and forty seven.
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According to their math, COVID Savage is books. Mcdermot's off
the books, off the books. Yep. Mcdermotd's off the books.
And you've got COVID Savage with four and I don't
know how long the stephanation injury is going to be.
That would be another two point seventy five. So maybe
the COVID Savage and the stephanation with a short term
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ILTI are for him. That opens up six point seventy
five almost seven. That could be it too. I don't
know how long. Stephanas's projected to be out. You know here,
what does it say? Stephanason is, well, where's that injury part?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Brett PESSI but Pes she's out too.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Stephanation is week to week with the groin injury. I
mean right there. Jonathan Covid Savage is month to month.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yeah, Covid Savage, Yeah, he's out, but uh Nace's wants
to start skating soon. Mm hmm yeah, Covid Savage yeah,
is out for a while.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
And Seamus Casey's out with a lower buddy in dream.
But that's that's a minor amount. I mean, more than
I'll ever have in my life, but a minor amount
of money. As far as this is all concerned, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
FITZI has has it all figured out, and if he doesn't,
I don't know he'll figure it out.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Well, we're all still gonna go to Opening night, so
it's it's not like we're gonna protest Opening night.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
We'll find a way. I mean, I'm sure you can
send somebody to Utica to make it work.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Okay, hanging in, Hang on one second, let's just yeah,
I wanna if a team cannot be CAP compliant on
opening day without using long term injured reserve. The lt
I R pool is the amount the team exceeds the cap.
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For example, if a team is three million over the
cap and places a player on long term Injured reserved
with a four million cap hit for the opening roster submission,
the lt I R pool is the three million that
the team exceeded the cap. So I think I'm not
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sure if they get back the full amount. How yeah,
how that works exactly? It's a little it's a little confusing,
and I'm not good with math.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
But I'm not good with math either. But if you
add Nason into the into the mix, if he's going
to be out for a little while, because I will
tell you from personal experience, and I hope I don't
ever do it again, but a groin injury is very
fickle and takes a lot to come back from, depending
on how seriously you you should strain that groin.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Okay, so wait, how how long? Wait? How much are
they over the cap right now? Just just a shade
under four, Just a shade under full, Just a shade
under four. So if you yeah, so, you would have
to get a different person then as well. Because COVID
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Savage would only be worth whatever they're over at the moment.
Mm hmm. So there were definitely there would have to
be a second person, I guess maybe or maybe Nico Dawes.
Maybe that that'll just do it. If he gets claimed
and he gets taken off the roster, maybe that'll maybe
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that'll be it. There'll be able to sneak in then
just recording COVID Savage.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
He's well right now, he's he's not listed on the
roster here on Puckipedia.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Well he has waved.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah, so and we're still over, so.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
And we're still three worth three point nine over or whatever.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
It is, three point nine.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Okay, where's my Oh there we go. Okay, So if
he's he's moved off, they're three point nine over. So yeah,
they would have to get another person. Covid Savage would
only be worth that three point nine million if he came,
if they put him on.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
So yeah, that's why I say Stephen Nason, if he's
going to be out for a couple of weeks, just
put him on the l t I R.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
He's on injured. It says he's on injured reserved now,
but it doesn't say like retroactive to whenever.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
No, because he's he's two point seventy five. So that
will open up that extra space to become compliant.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
And I guess they'll likely. I mean, right now you
got Nemetz and Cholosky here, so that's a little bit
of money being taken away. They might be they might
be able to well, they might be able to sneak
in there. But I don't know. Ye, if you're gonna
sign Glenn Denning, will you have enough? I don't know
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if they're gonna.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Rudy hasn't really done too much. I feel like in
the preseason I haven't heard too much uh from him.
I've seen good things with Glenn Denning.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I mean I would love to see a chance get
a shot. But they are currently where are they at
right now? They have active roster. There are twenty two
of twenty three. Hum oh, I guess I thought they
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had some other. Uh. I thought I read somewhere they
had some other They gotta be they have to cut
some more people or send them down. There's definitely there's.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Gonna have to be there. There's I mean, there's you
know what, there's there's gonna be something to open up
that either way, they've they've they've got to be compliant
by five. Uh, we can speculate all that we want,
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but we're we're not making these moves.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Oh wait a minute, yeah, yeah, so that's only that's
seven defenceman there you Oh nemts. I'm thinking, sorry everybody,
I was thinking Casey. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, he's out.
I'm thinking like, oh yeah, they'll send down Nemos. No,
they're not sending down Nemos. He's until Ovi Savage comes back. Yeah,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Out forget that, like, they're not sending him down.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Well Pesci they said is not gonna be is not
too serious, so he should be back then Yeah, you
got your marks. Strum and Allen there for goaltending, Okay, okay, yeah,
I mean then all they gonna do is sign Glenn Denning.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I mean they might be able to get it done.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
What was contracts previous cap pit eight hundred thousand. I'm
telling you, I'm Stephen Nason and and Covid Savage. The
l T I R opens up enough space to beat
cap compliant and signed Glenn Denning to a league minimum contract.
Yeah that maybe that may be the only move that
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may be the only move that's that's available to us
currently right now.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Well, what's his name too? Is on injured reserve too?
Who's I don't know how to say his name? La Miko?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Yeah, that opens up eight hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yeah, so I mean could be a little bit of
a swamp there and then yeah, you have some other guys.
I could get sent back down like the chance if
you wanted to, and that finished.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Kid.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I don't think gritz Yuk is going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
He is.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
He is here to stay on.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I think he's here to say. But if you need
to move him temporarily to be compliant, I wouldn't be shocked.
I wouldn't be shocked to see that that that move happen, Yeah,
just to become compliant. It it, It wouldn't, and I
wouldn't be mad about it. I mean, I want to
see him. He looked really good in the preseason. But
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if they had to say, hey, listen, man, you got
to start in Utica for a little bit because we
got to get our house in order, it wouldn't surprise
me in the least.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I mean, it looks like a bad summer signing to me.
Glenn Denning played better than half the roster during preseason,
glasted nothing. Well, we'll see give him, give him at
the time here, Rooney had two good games. But they
can't sign anyone. Yeah, I mean I think they would.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I think they would go with Glendenning over Rooney at
that point two.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
But I mean, we'll we'll see.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, like tomorrow's tomorrow's it.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
We got to figure it out.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
But I mean, yeah, if they just.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
If they put COVID Savage on there, get some cash there,
maybe send a guy or two back down, save some
money that way. I think that I think fit to
be able to swing it.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
So, I mean it. It wouldn't be a popular move.
But if you're only gonna get three million for uh,
if they can only put COVID Savage onto lt I R,
there's your three million and at least to get cap compliant,
Ritzia is sent to NICA temporarily that that at least
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gets your cap compliant, you know, and then and then
potentially Rooney and Glendenning are not in the picture. I
don't know, that could be. That could very well be
another potential move. I think everything hinges on Covid Savage
going to l T I R right now.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Uh yeah, I think I think that's what it is.
And then I think they'll be I think Fitz will
be able to just finagle a couple moves to get
them under, but they'll definitely need they'll need the l
T I R to become cap compliant. So that is
why if I was reading that correctly, because they need
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it to be compliant at the end of the season.
That's where that rule comes in about not getting the
full amount. So well, and at least.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
It's three point nine.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
It's it's basically all of Covid Savage, Covid Savage's contract.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
So so if kind of if it play actually worked out,
if if a player is waiver exempt, that means that
we don't have to worry. They just get put on
waivers and they go down to Utica.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Right, what's that?
Speaker 4 (32:47):
I'm sorry, If a player is waiver exempt, we can
put them on waivers and send them to Utica.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Correct, Well, you know, to put them on waivers. Then
if they're exempt, you just you put them down.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Send them to Utica.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, I mean so, I mean yeah, so like the
guys like like Grits yuk and the chance in them.
I mean, if you look at the punk Pedia, anything
with that little arrow means they can be just sent down.
They don't have to go through waivers. So yeah, Nico
DAWs was out of options at this point.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
It's four, you know, so I was gonna say, send
Luke to Utica, you open up nine million, not gonna happen.
But I don't know that's gonna happen. Yeah, Yeah, Hey Luke,
we need you to go to Utica for like a week.
Yeah listen, we got you the best airbnb we can
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find in Utica. It's right next to the brewery. Uh,
just go hanging up state in New York for like
a week and a half.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Yeah, man, Yeah, Jay Snow, I think they're gonna be fine.
And also, like we were just talking about too, that
Zach mckew and trade. You know, they they grabbed a
little money there because he cleared waivers and got sent down.
Big Mac is now Upta Max.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Max just pointed out Luke to Utica for a conditioning
stint boom.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
For condition Okay, all right, that could work.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
They do in a Major League Baseball they send the
big guys down to like the lower levels just to
like go play a couple of games. I like that idea,
Max Luke to Utica for conditioning, opens up nine million
in cap space, we become a compliant for opening day. Yeah,
I mean, and and we'll sweeten the deal. We'll send uh,
we'll send uh what's his name to go cook for
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him ty Smith. Yeah, ty Smith will go cook for
him in Utica at the you know, put him up
next to the brewery all all as well.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Sam will will pick him up and drive him to Utica.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Actually yeah, yeah, he won't even charge.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
The matter of fact, I think Ryan Graves may may
drive him too.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
That's such a surprise, man. He he had such a good,
like two years with us, and then he went to
Pittsburgh and it just crashed and burned for him for
some reason. I don't know. I thought the old gravy
train played well for when they're in his tenure as
a devil.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
If we had the space, would you take a flyer
on him just to see that.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Deal? No, I don't think so that's a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
No, definitely not.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Ah. Max said, you know what if if it's going
to open up space, we'll get a loaner through David
Decker of Town Toyota to get Luke up to Utica
for his conditioning stint, driven by one Sam Wu.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
That's the luxury upgrade right there.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
It'll be a prius. It will be ninety nine miles
per gallon.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Get there, and Sam when you drive him up to Utica,
I can give you some beer to get for me
up there.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Well Ben Utica.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
Yeah, all right, there's there's something will happen, but you
never know, you never know, Sam Wu.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Sam Wu is available.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
I think bottom line is, I think the Devils are
gonna be all right, you know, once once you talk
it out a little bit and you realize actually how
much money they they actually need to recoup now after
making some of these favor waiver moves, I think they'll
I think they'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Here's here's the problem. We're gonna do the same thing
as the Golden Knights and the Panthers who are worse
off than us and not get and they won't get
in trouble, but we will.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Well, you know, yeah, it's it's not as easy as
it used to be.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
For some teams, not for other teams. I'm just being
a conspiracy. Conspiracy theorists. Now there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Oh, Sam Wi loves it.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
I know Sam we loves yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
But yeah, for for all Devils fans out there, don't
don't worry yourself to sleep tonight. Well we will be fine.
We will be a compliant now that we've talked it out
and see exactly where the numbers are now it makes
sense why if they weren't, if they couldn't move Nego DAWs,
some's gut going waivers.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Yeah, and he may not be as valuable as we
all want him to be.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yes, and we have some I mean with with Alan
signed and Mark Strum you know, mm hm. And also
it's hey, here's a chance, kid, you know, go for it.
Another team may may be looking for someone who is
looking for an opportunity. Actually it's actually a really good
opportunity for Nico as well instead of just it looks like,
you know, we have another you know, crew of goaltending
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prospects coming through now that are going to be at
you yea Utica, So good for Nico.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
May not yeah, he may just not fit in. And yeah,
I'll tell you this. You want to it as as
a goalie, you only one guy plays a night. Uh,
and you want to be that guy, So you don't
want to waste the early years of your career just watching.
There's maybe we're just a there's something to be said
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to to watching and learning, but time marches on you.
You want to be in that net eventually, if you
want to make yourself a long term career in the league.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Maybe we're all just a little bit spoiled to expecting,
you know, the way it fits. He turned halts he
into Paul Cotter, So maybe we're just all like, hey, wait,
you made that magic happen.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
To come home?
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Yeah, fleece Gerald.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
But he also did select well.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Yeah, hey, we all thought that shot was was a
pretty damn good shot. And it is exactly just he
just couldn't skate fast enough, couldn't skate fast enough, and yeah,
seemed to fall asleep at times out there on the ice.
But a hell of a shot, hell a shot kid.
He'll be fine when he goes back and plays in Sweden.
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I don't even I don't think the Knights. I think
he's on waivers too. I think was put on waivers too.
I tell you the truth. Hey, that's contract.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
I'm I'm looking to watch more of that Swedish league
this year, that it's a it looks like a hell
of a fun league to be a fan of over
there in Sweden. Well, it looks like.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Anywhere with the larger anywhere, with the larger ice rink,
ice service, he'll be fine because then he could just
hang out on the side and wait for someone to
pass in the puck. Oh but yeah, so maybe or
maybe maybe maybe that's why I'm a little a little spoiled,
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you know, anything for those because fitz he has made
a lot of these things happen at nothing and gotten
a lot of good valuable pieces, like a Seagan dollar
that was fitz Yeah right, yeah, yeah, yeah, Seagan dollar.
Covid Savage, Well, it made some sneaky good moves like that.
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Some players You're like, who what.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
I'll tell you what I'm afraid of, Scotty is the
track record of FITZI where he lets these goaltenders go
and then suddenly they become Vezina type starters on their
respective teams. Like you know, when when the Wedgwood left,
we needed we eventually needed him, but he was at
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that moment expendable and as soon as he got rid
of him, then Bernie suddenly gets hurt. Then suddenly Mackenzie
Blackwood gets hurt. Then we had like what seven.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Other goalies that don't classify as you know caliber.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
I was I was called sarcasm, it was called against us,
it was he was visit a caliber every time we
faced him.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
He did very well against us.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Now, Mackenzie Blackwood is this starting goaltender Colorado.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
Now, yes, I also I think Mackenzie needed some other
I needed. I think he definitely needed a change of scenery.
But I also think he needed some more senior leadership
on an established team as opposed to this when he
was here, this younger Devil's team that were all kind
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of finding their footing at the same time. I think
for Blackwood, it was better to go into a place
where there is, you know, a set standard already and
this is what you're going to do, kid, if you
want to play here. And I think that's what Mackenzie
Blackwood needed. But he wasn't really getting with the Devils
because we just we just weren't there yet.
Speaker 4 (42:29):
Yeah, and Mackenzie Blackwood is actually on I R. Is
he surprised I'm looking.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Up with you?
Speaker 3 (42:40):
I mean that sounds about accurate.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Yeah, that hurts.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Not that not that we don't wish him well, we
wish we saw a lot of the injury report with
Mackenzie black when he was on the Devils as well.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Yeah, I mean, well, when he's help that he's making
good decisions. He's pretty good. But they even when it
was healthy, it would make some decisions that would you'd
scratch your head over.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
I remember when Sam wu coined the immaculate save that
Mackenzie Blackwood made one night.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Mac black maculate save. Oh yeah, that's right. I remember
as against Boston, right, I think so, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
It was a big game. It was a big game.
Speaker 4 (43:26):
Brought to you, brought to you from this is this
is tying everything kind of like how the kind of
how the the rug ties the room together. Uh, Scott,
here's a here's a headline from the Denver Post. Scott
Wedgwood excited to start season as Avalanche is number one
goalwa for now, Yep, yep, Colorado's got.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Would Well, you know, I guess let's just pray that
the the the mark Strom and uh and Allen stay healthy,
you know, if Yah is not around, you know, because
they don't have that third, that third stringer that could
just come in, you know and ride the pine for
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a bit.
Speaker 4 (44:18):
Yeah, it's it. That's kind of the tough spot of
of goaltending right now, is because good goaltender is going
to want to play and uh, it's it's they're they're
not gonna want to accept that third stringer or that
starting spot in the h L. They're gonna want that
starting They're gonna want the starters in the NHL. H
(44:40):
it's it's it's it's a tough position to be in.
And I can tell you what it sucks to be
anywhere from the number two on down as far as
the goaltending ranks are concerned. Uh, for a team's roster,
it sucks. It sucks to watch uh guys get playing
time and make mistakes that you know you wouldn't it it.
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I don't know, it's it's really but again we don't know.
We time will tell in the next twenty four hours.
If Nico Das goes clear through waivers, we're fine. And
obviously that shows what his value around the rest of
the league is right now. And I know the goalie
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market is very, very shallow currently, the goalie pul is shallow.
Uh so it's it's possible he gets snapped up. But
at the same time, I don't know. I just you know,
we've we've got other goalies in the pipeline. It's not
like it's it's not like he's the only other goalie
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in the pipeline right now.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Send you guys in text. It's a wire. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Uh oh, just going out here, coming through.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
Just a little uh just one of the guys. What's
going on behind the scenes. Well, let's go podcast.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
We haven't gotten an update like this in a while.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
Yeah, well, you know.
Speaker 4 (46:08):
Yeah, Colorado's got wood, lots of wood and lots of
wood into reserve wood and starting would.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Should we get to our final thoughts?
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (46:30):
Sure, why not?
Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yeah? Who's going first?
Speaker 3 (46:41):
I can go first? In wait a minute, Oh yeah, yeah,
so we got we got some regular season action this
week about to happen. This We have made it everybody.
(47:04):
The long haul without Devil's Hockey is now coming to
a close. M HM, Thursday night in Carolina. Let's go
seek some revenge, wow, and start off the season on
a good foot. Pile up some points early, get a
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little patting there, and then find your groove. The season
is upon us. And remember Sam Wu said in the
year twenty twenty five, and you know, maybe it's twenty five,
twenty six. We'll see, we'll see what happens. But remember
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Sam Wu said, so call your bookie now.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
I want to go that far.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
That's my final thought.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
All right, Uh so I'll go. Yeah, I'm I'm pretty pumped.
Not only does uh do the Devil start this week,
which I gotta get into that mindset because my mind's
all over the place.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (48:14):
College hockey starts next weekend as well. So uh that's
why I got my Sacred Horror hoodie on. Sacred Heart
starts next uh next weekend. The Devil start this week.
I gotta really get into that. Holy crap, we're here
in the uh, we're here in the regular season. H A. J.
Visco says he's ready for Saturday. Uh and uh yeah,
(48:37):
we got Tampa on Saturday, so uh, you know, we'll
see what uh the Devil's you know do coming into
this season.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
Unfortunately, Sam Frontier Airlines has no really good deals on
flights from Trenton, so we can't go to Tampa this year,
which kind of sucks. It's clumps day weekends.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
Yeah, so they're blacked out. Yeah, they're even blacked out
on the go Wild plan. Wow.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Yeah, because Samu and I will tell you from experience,
Frontier Airlines out of Trenton, New Jersey is one of
the best places to fly out of And I know
Brooke Amanda agrees with me on that one wholeheartedly. Devil's
Hockey this week. I'm excited next week home opener. Can't
wait to be there. Sam Scotty, I'm hoping you get
(49:29):
to come out this season. There'll be a lot of
fun and uh yeah, I'm gonna wear my brand new
jersey to the home opener. How about that? Sam's gonna
love it awesome.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Well, I'm gonna email the fine folks or you're done
with your final thoughts.
Speaker 4 (49:45):
I am okay, I am.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
I got a lot of final thoughts. I'm gonna email
the folks in New York to get that Palot jersey stitched.
So at four four fourth, if you hear Pilots traded
to get us under the cap, yeah, that means that
email went through and the deal is done. Secondly, it's
(50:11):
it was the last two weeks for me personally. It's
a sports weekend. It's been hell Penn State football lost again,
but at least Penn State hockey Gavin McKenna looking awesome,
beat Penn State beat Arizona State at the Mullet, brought
back memories of our man cation trip at the Mullet.
(50:35):
Giants suck, Jets, suck Mets. At least the Mets did
us a favor by just not making the playoffs, so
none of us are spending ungodly money to go play
see playoff games. Yankees, they look like they suck. They
were down what thirteen to two at some point today?
I think they lost thirteen.
Speaker 3 (50:53):
They lost thirteen.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Yeah, but we got Devils Hockey. We got Devil's Hockey
Coaster right around Game Day Live, Devil's After Dark starting
this Thursday, October ninth, We got Stay the Fan Address
two hours special eight to ten pm Eastern this Wednesday,
(51:15):
the preview, we got a lot of guests line up,
and also the debut today of the Morning WU, the
only Devil's Morning Podcast live live, the only one that
you're not gonna get anywhere else, talking about Shenanigans, talking
about a whole bunch of nothing. We're gonna talk about
(51:38):
Mark Sanchez and what the heck he did in Indianapolis.
It's gonna be the like the Morning Zoo Show, you know,
of a whole bunch of nothing, but we'll sprinkle in
some Devil's hockey in there as well. Also, on a
serious note, before we end of the podcast, one of
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our own is missing. It's now all over the news.
Thomas Mack from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey is still missing.
Last seen on October third at four forty five am.
I met him once, talked to a few times, Big
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Devil's fan. Unfortunately, his family is looking for him right now.
So if you have any information, please call the Berkeley
Heights Police Department. I know a few people that were
out of the search party looking for him. Hopefully he
comes home safe. Wanted to put that out there because
I've seen it on Reddit, I've seen it on all
over social media. As a community, as the Devil's community,
(52:47):
we come together and we hope we find him soon.
On that note, I'll be back tomorrow the morning. WU
probably coming around five thirty to six am. It's gonna
be true. More so, you gotta get your caffeinated beverages, guys,
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that's what you're gonna need. I'm gonna need it because
I'm gonna, if you know what, ever, want to see
me Sam Wu talk half asleep on air. I'll sound
like I'm drunk, but that's as close as you're gonna
get me. Being incoherent was when I'm really tired and
(53:28):
I'm really grumpy, and then I'm just gonna We're gonna
talk about that, Mark Sanchez, because that thing is just bizarre.
Speaker 4 (53:35):
Is absolutely Hey Sam? Yeah, Hey Sam. The next time
I go to Liverpool, yep, when you're doing a morning move,
I can call in live from Shenanigans. I will call
from Shenanigans in Liverpool, Peter.
Speaker 3 (53:55):
I can't wait to see what I can't wait to
see the eight hour long Morning Wu on the YouTube page.
It started out and then it's just Sam sleeping at
his chair. What's he doing?
Speaker 4 (54:16):
I think? I don't think he's asleep. I think we
only have four hour maximum limits if I remember correctly
from the Outdoor game.
Speaker 1 (54:26):
Yeah, I think it was four hour, well four hours
on I think it's on X that's four hours. I
think YouTube you can go on pretty long time. We'll
figure it out.
Speaker 3 (54:36):
I'd love to see it just Sam sleeping.
Speaker 1 (54:39):
There, so keeping yeah, keep it here, We're gonna all
devils all the time. I can't wait season upon us
till next time. Let's go Devils,