The opening month of the NHL season is coming to a close, and it’s been FULL of surprises. The first placed Penguins? The struggling Lightning? Bedard and the Blackhawks on the rise? Jesse, Luca, and Poc discuss their biggest surprises from a crazy season so far.
0:00 Detroit Red Wings
4:38 Connor McDavid
10:05 More Red Wings
13:40 Toronto Maple Leafs
21:40 Tampa Bay Lightning
25:10 Pittsburgh Penguins
30:00 St. Louis Blues
34:20 Chicago Blackhawks
40:15 Montreal Canadiens
45:50 Utah Mammoth
48:30 New York Rangers
54:03 Goal of the Week
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Hey fellas, great listen per usual. Jesse if you see this just know you’re an absolute squid
lol these clowns still can’t give credit to Seattle and they’re missing an entire forward line. Also lol at the Mammoth being a surprise. You have a team that’s been rebuilding for a decade and finally has an owner that spent to get his kids support, unsurprisingly that’s paying off. They are the least surprising team on this list
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People wondering why Redwing fans getting angry at pundits like this and Adam Wylde for their statements.. it isnt because they dont believe in the redwings. its because they are CONSTANTLY stating the opinion with absolutely false statements and facts. The Redwings have NOT had a hot start every year. Go check the 1st 10 games records the last 3 seasons. Adam Wylde saying Yzerman is still a failure even if they make the playoffs when yzerman explicitly said over and over and over he would not trade assets for short term gains. Its basically his 5th year, not his 10th. He couldnt even trade assets when he got here because there were NONE and he got to detroit literally right when the season started. Whats fact is no GM has hit on as many draft pics as yzerman since he became a GM. NO ONE. Which is what you want in rebuilding. The pics that holland left him were Zadina (not even in NHL anymore) Veleno (traded) and Rasmussen who is now a healthy scratch and on his way out. He had Larkin. That was it. And then bottomed out several years just to never pick higher than 4th. Its not your takes, its the fact you guys are making them on just completely false narratives and events that never happened like them "always having a hot start" which they havent. also noticed its ONLY toronto people making these false statements. If you're going to comment on hockey especially for a living, d0 at least the bare minimum of research before talking out your behind. Otherwise people are not going to take anything you have to say about any team outside your favorite seriously.
The Blackhawks are so much better than the Sharks. The Hawks young defense is light years ahead of the Sharks. Wyatt Kaiser would be the #1 defenseman on the Sharks.
rangers having puck luck issues
Idk I think assuming the rangers have some potential at this point is super cope
Kraken tho!!
Absolutely sad nobody is talking about the flyers..zegras looks like the stud he was supposed to be .the flyers third line of cates,brink and foerster look incredible and michkov and koneckny haven’t every started getting hot yet.the disrespect they are getting right now is incredible.they will make the playoffs this year.and they have so many studs in wings it’s incredible
To say "from a team perspective you look at the Sharks and it's like, they're the same old Sharks" goes to show that you haven't watched a minute of this team so far. First, Askarov & Nedeljkovic are alternating games so there's that. But while there's obviously been goals that were soft or were ones the tendy's should have had, this is NOT the same old Sharks. The team defense thus far simply has not executed consistently from period to period and from game to game. We've definitely deserved a fair bit of criticism for this season, but it's so incredibly obvious if you've spent 20 mins watching San Jose that this team is very very much not who they've been the last 3 years. Do better.
HOW TF IS CELEBRINI NOT A TOPIC?
Too soon with the apology! You've doomed Detroit!
No suprises here for Dobes… Before he started in MTL we knew he was going to be special. Just wait for Fowler…
Love the goal of the week. Leave it in please. I need to watch Dvorak's goal every week
Luca my new least fav – “Yzerplan could still be a joke” is a fan of a team with a #1, a #2 and a #4 pick on his team that helped their rebuild lol. Come on Luca!!
As an Avs fan, I think our 3 goals on 30 power plays is a problem. Especially given our talent.
Malkin is always good on start of the season then age catches up with him. Hardly a suprise.
Luca sipping that Red Haterade sheeeeesh
I’m not sure why Luka wouldn’t be more happy since the red wings are his favorite team.
Maybe he’s being cautious because he doesn’t want to be disappointed again as a lifelong Wings Fan.
I’m with you there Luka.. I’m with you there.
People keep ragging on the Hawks for having a slow rebuild and not getting Bedsy help, but they forget that when he was drafted was really the start of the rebuild. That’s when they finally sold off and decided to rebuild. Celebrini came in with good players, McDavid came in to kinda cap off the rebuild. Hawks have guys on the way plus 2 first round picks this year (3 second round picks). This may be the last year of the Hawks in a full rebuild state
I dont think kadri is a great fit for the habs. They would have to give too much for a guy that is old and has at most another 2 years of 2nd line level hockey to give. They need a guy that is late 20s that theyll be able to sign for 5-6 years to be a 2nd center. Then it would solidify the core and make the habs a force to be reckon with
I'm a Habs fan and I wouldn't be over the moon about getting Kadri tbh. Sure he'd improve the team but by how much, and how much do we have to give up to get him? I feel like the price would be too high for how much we'd get out of a 35 year old player. And as much as I love that the Habs are playing amazing right now, I feel like there's gonna be a come to earth period at some point in the season. I do not expect them to win the division, so do we really need a guy for right now or do we need a guy we can sign for long term for when the Habs are truly a contender.
McDavid is just passing from the slot, because he sees Draisaitl and passes.
Good to see luka behind the bench on this one. DJ is a buzzkill. Constantly gives everyone a hard time. Always tryna big dawg the guys
if you're gonna do a bullsh*t goal of the week champ, at least show a real goal of the week contender, not lesser bullsh*t goals.
Apology accepted. Hey Luca, choke on it.
The biggest surprise is easily Nick Schmaltz being top 3 in scoring
Mcdavids whole thing is skating around and setting up others. Hes never been an elite scorer.
As a lifelong Detroiter, that statement was an embarrassing suck up. A sign of weakness, misjudgment, and personal decay.
We embrace our motto:
Detroit vs. Everybody.
Don't even think that written pathetic diatribe will sway even one diehard fan.
So good to have the podcast back weekly! Love tuning in to every episode, these were some great takes
As a Hawks fan, yes, this team is absolutely electric. Yes we will come back to earth, but they’ve got fight in every game which we haven’t been able to say in a bit. The prospect pool still looks ridiculous as well. Let’s go Hawks!
Thanks Pac, I accept your apology. Go Wings and Habs! Screw Luka and the Avs!! 🐙
I LOVE Macklin Celebrini
Thankyou Poc, much appreciated 🙏
Detroit does not do this every year, we haven’t done this since like 2012
Find someone who loves you as much as Luca hates Detroit
The rangers outplayed the opponent in 6 of the first 7 games. The goaltending and defense was awesome and the offense was getting good looks but they were really unlucky. They weren’t good against the wild and sharks at home and it looked like the sky was falling after the disaster in Calgary, but they’ve looked good the past two games. Good defense and goaltending against Vancouver and a huge comeback in Edmonton. I think once we really start scoring and trocheck comes back we can be a really good team. Also, I agree with Jesse about lafreniere. I think he’s a bust.
That was a great statement for the Wings. Luka can kick rocks
Lukas disrespecting himself 🤔
where the fuck is z bro
Luca, you’re a squid. Guys the biggest hater of all time. Poc, you don’t get to jump on this ship after you hated and hated and hated. Jessie is the only one who’s correct about the wings!
This is not surprising for the Habs. They have been building and it is finally coming together!
Canada Olympic Goalies (my opinion):
1. Mackenzie Blackwood
2. Logan Thompson
3. Stuart Skinner
Bennington was good in the final game of 4 nations but people forget how mediocre/weak he was in the games leading up to it.