On this episode of Agent Provocateur, with Allan Walsh and Adam Wylde:
00:00 MLB contracts vs NHL contracts
15:40 The recent GM and coach firings and the Toronto search
29:00 Montreal Canadiens forward Phil Danault joins
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Recorded: April 9, 2026
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23 Comments
Would love to Rock with Adam’s Mom 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
MUST OBEY THE PIZZA MAN!
Danault is awesome 🙂🍕
Vraiment content quil soit de retour avec les Canadiens.
Chooo choooooo
Thank you Adam and Alan Habs Fans love SDPN and the Show
Pizza man is back!
This is about to be hype! Danault is one of my favorite Habs!!!!
Phil Danault is a gem. And we need Allan Walsh clients wearing the Noted Allan Walsh Client hats for like the game day walk in photos.
I’ve tried so many times to get into this podcast because I think there would be a lot of interesting inside information that Walsh could give us about how the player agent side of the business works, but every time I do I run into a point where he starts talking about how the salary cap is bad and I just have to roll my eyes and turn the video off because it’s just absurd. The only reason he thinks the salary cap is bad is because he benefits from a higher salary cap because he gets paid more if the players get paid more.
The MLB having no salary cap has resulted in exactly what everybody worries about if they were ever to get rid of the salary cap in the NHL you have five teams at the top of the league that spend way more than everybody else and they’re the only ones that ever compete for the championship. A hard salary cap is the objectively appropriate way sports should be operated.
The poorest team in the league should have every single one of the operational advantages of the richest team in the league because money should never be what decides whether a team wins or loses
During the 1st intermission on French TV tonight, Kent Hugues said he brought back Danault because while the Habs could score a lot, they were also allowing too many goals.
Danault has helped our defensive play a whole lot and it's one of the reasons why we climbed in the standings … the kids are also learning from him.
This will make an amazing appetizer for the HabsPanderfest later this afternoon!
AP now stands for (h)Abs Pandering.
Choo choooooo
Every time i see Phil, he always reminds me of the Goalie Denis Lemieux in slapshot 😉 go habs go!
Phiiiiiil 🍕!!!
I'm glad Phil is back in Montreal not because of his hockey talent but that he gets to raise his family back in the city where he started his career. When they get older, they will understand his legacy and why fans appreciate him being back.
I'm glad Adam recognizes what few people currently do. If you asked a random hockey fan which player was most responsible for the 2021 Montréal Canadiens Cup run, Price and Weber are the most typical answers. HOWEVER, Phil Danault was, for me, the man who did the most to get his team to the Final. It wasn't just Matthews and Marner he shut down. It was Mark Stone, Kyle Connor and Blake Wheeler (when he was still good)…and Mark Scheifele for one memorable game (lol…never change, Mark). The Habs weren't getting a lot of scoring from their team at that time, so ensuring that they kept their goals against down was essential to making it that far, and without question, the pizza man himself was the main reason this happened.
Speaking more broadly on the impact Danault had on his favourite team growing up, Nick Suzuki was a young player for the later years of Phil's first time with the Habs, not yet captain, not yet able to play the 2-way game like he does today. He CLEARLY took a lot of notes on how Danault played the game, getting direct experience from a very good defensive center. Yes, he modelled his game after Bergeron, but he never PLAYED with Bergeron. Danault was the key that unlocked the defensive side of his game, and now he's the second-most impactful center in the NHL (based on goals-above-replacement), behind only McDavid himself (and 3rd among all forwards – Kucherov is 2nd on that list). And he is legitimately doing it both offensively and defensively, which is why he will win the Selke this year. I'm not sure if he would have taken that same trajectory if he didn't have Danault to show him the way. So I really think that we owe at least 20% of the success of this rebuild to Danault coming to play for the Habs (and notably, another ~20% can be attributed to Danault LEAVING the Habs in 2021, although that was just lucky – the Habs had so many injuries in the 2021-22 season that they could never have made the playoffs, but Danault being there would have been worth at least an extra 5-10 points in the standings, which would easily given them far poorer odds to win the 1st-overall pick…and we all know the Devils wanted Slafkovský, so if they won the lottery or even were 2nd like they were IRL, Slaf would've been GONE before the Habs could select him*).
*Also, the Flyers AND Kraken probably would have ranked Slafkovský as 1OA on their draft boards and would likely have both been picking before the Habs, so I really don't see a world in which the Montréal would have had a high chance to get their preferred player. They might have had to settle for Logan Cooley or Cutter Gauthier…not the worst thing in the world, but I think Slaf's ceiling is the highest of the 3. Fortunately, their draft position for pick #62 would likely have stayed the same (barring the butterfly effect of course), so Hutson would probably still have been a Canadien.
What a Beauty
Amazing once a again Adam and Allan! Choo Choo Adam!
Go Habs Go
47:45 great story.
Do you guys really think people hate Toronto for fun? Has nothing to do with the terrible coaching terrible management terrible ownership terrible fans and the team itself has a attitude that they are they best and they literally haven't won anything thats why people hate Toronto not because its "the leafs"