A little bit of background. We brought Max in probably about a month or three weeks ago for a couple of days. He was very open to not only going through a medical exam, but also getting on the ice for us to see where he was at. He feels he's had a couple of years, two and a half years, where he hasn't really had an opportunity to train. It has been rehab for him. He came back last year, jumped in halfway through the season, and at the end of the year, he felt like he wasn't where he wanted to be physically. So he's had a full summer of training. We'll see our My expectation is that he is going to come in and give us more depth. All of that stuff is trying to sort itself out in camp. I know we all get excited when we see guys added. What we're trying to do is make the roster as deep as possible. And this last quote, I think, is very important. My expectation is that he is going to be with us, but everyone has to earn their spot here. Whether that is on the roster or playing with whoever they're playing with, it gives us a lot of different options.

He's worth a shot. Is it going to work out? Is it going I don't know, but it's worth a shot. So he says two years, right? He feels like he hasn't-Two and a half. Two and a half. Last year, four goals, 23 points in 47 games. The year before, three goals in five games, which is actually quite nice, but he only played five games. That's it. The year before his last season with the Golden Nights, 19 goals and 37 points in 39 games. And again, the games played is a problem. Yeah. It's a big problem, but that's essentially a point of game player. The season before, same issue, 48 games, although I think that was the shortened season, which means he would have still missed eight games, but in 48 games, 24 goals and 51 points. So this guy, when he's healthy and in the lineup, his last couple of years in Vegas was a point of game player. I don't expect him to be that. It's not reasonable to expect him to be like, Oh, fixed. Everything's fine at his age, the ripe old age He's going to turn 35, going to turn 36, an 88 baby, just like Jesse.

What? We're the same age as Max Patcheretti.

Technically older. Yeah. Wow. It's pretty cool. Crazy.

It's pretty cool.

But if he can get to 0.5, 0.6. That's a great ad. If he can chip in. We keep talking about Robertson.

What did I tell you, Bertuzzi was like 0.54. Exactly.

Robertson is going to chip in. If he can get to 20 goals, if Robertson and Pacioretti are hovering around 20 each, it's all. Now, one might take the other spot. So that's a bit of a potential issue that I could see on the horizon. How is he defensively after the Achilles issues and everything? But it's a flyer. You're taking a flyer on a guy.

It's fine. Jesse?

It's going to be interesting because a lot of Caps fans, when the signing happened, they were being like, Yeah, whew. Leifs took him. He was one of our worst players in the playoff.

Ian Olin was brutal.

He was brutal. I wonder if you asked Max if he'd be like, Yeah.

Yeah, no, that was the point I was getting to. When It happened. A lot of the Caps fans were like, Yeah, he's not coming back. Good luck, Lefs, he was the worst. But you have to take it with the context of everything you just outlined there, in that he had an Achilles injury that held him up for a couple of years. Now he's finally having in the full offseason where he's able to train at the full extent that Max Patcheretti trains at. Adam, you would know from Alan Walsh about how seriously Paturetti takes his training. It's a guy who can't do that stuff because of an injury, and he's not good anymore in actual hockey during the playoffs and everything. Now, it's a different player we got to be evaluating.

During the playoffs?

Yeah, he wasn't good during the playoffs, but it's because... What are you...

Are you specifically talking about Max Patrick's ability to be good in the playoffs for the Leifs?

I don't know. I was evaluating his performance. Oh, no. Here it is.

We made it this far.

No, that was such a stretch.

That was a stretch.

No, because I wasn't talking.

I brought one.

It's okay. April jar. But I was talking about the previous April with Max Patchereddy in the capital. So I don't think that's what I was like.Not Leaps' playoff.

No, we know.

I think this didn't apply at all for the The April jar.

He wanted it so bad.

Yeah, that was such a stretch. You should have waited till a Leef's conversation.

Don't worry, I brought more than $1.

I have stuff coming up that could have put you there. Hey, by the way, CJ reported on Wednesday that there was mutual interest between JBR and the leafs for a reunion, and the leafs ultimately went with Patch ready.

Also, no one listening knows what you did.

That's not true.

He brought out a jar that says April Jar on it because I suggested last episode that I was going to start one, and then Steve took the initiative.

No, I I think the debut was really good.

It was great.

I think it was really good.

I think the first 10 minutes of this show are already amazing. Leaps could have brought back JBR or Max Patcheready, and they chose Max Patcheready. I have to say, given the type of player, because I know there are people who... This nostalgia factor is a factor here. Given the type of players that both of those guys were at the best points in their career and are now, I think they made the right call in theory. I say that because it's not because I don't like JBR. I freaking love JBR. I'd love to plant his ass in front of a goalie on the power play again and have him just hit pucks in the way he used to because he was crazy at it. It made the Leaps power plate deadly. But his scaling at the best of times was never great. If he's not going to play a top six role, I struggle to see where he slots in because I don't see unless he turns into Jason Spets of Flying Knee, I don't see him being a guy who's going to knock skulls together. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.

I mean, 11 goals, 38 points in 71 games.

It's good numbers.

Good numbers. I just see you can bring He can JBR, and he could potentially... I feel like his floor at this point in his career is higher than Patcheretti's. Patcheretti's floor is he doesn't play for you, right? But Patcheretti's ceiling is higher.

Does that make sense? Yeah, there's more potential in it.

There's more potential there. If he doesn't make it, wow.

Especially for a team that wants to be a little bit more mobile than I think they were last year. I think it goes undersold how slow this Leifs team was. It was not a fast team last year. There are fast players on it, but they don't set up quickly, and they don't move the buck quickly, and they're very intentional and very obvious, and teams who are actually good. Regular season teams, it's like, Well, they might not take it a task for it. In the playoffs, you get found out quick. What is it? No, that's not how it works, Steve.

That's not how it works, Steve. It's not just any mention of the playoff. It's a mention of talking about, Hey, the Leaps in the core for the playoff, and this is the result of it. That's what the April jar is for.

That April jar away. I'll put it away.

Any time you talk about the playoff, I'll put it back.

Back to what Brad for Living was saying, this time on nick Robertson. A reporter asked him, Hey, how'd you sell nick Robertson on this situation? And he said, It is not a sell. A lot gets made of him. You ask him, but nick has gone through some stuff here, right? Some of it's been injury-related, and sometimes with young players, their game is still evolving. I have a good relationship with nick. We talk throughout the summer, and you explain, Here's the situation, and everybody has to earn their stripes. I like nick. He shoots it in the net. You have to do other things, too. You have to round a great line. That's a great line. You have to round out your game. You have to be a complete player. But it is a fresh, clean slate with a new coach and a new opportunity. So clearly, this is less of a leaves thing, more of a Sheldon Keef thing.

First of all, I think you're right. Second, I hope nick thinks carefully about what he's going to say and at the first opportunity, runs for a camera and says his piece and makes good because some fans are still salty about it, and I understand.

I get that.

I get it, but he's here.

I also get why you're like, Hey, man, give me a shot. And you guys aren't scoring goals in the playoffs, and you're to scratch me in game seven. What the hell? Okay, that. Okay, that. I'll give you that. I'll get that. We're going to donate a lot of money to Easter Seals here. You sure are. This is going to be crazy. On Yoni Hauke and Pa, gentlemen. I'm going to make change. Unless you got more to add.

I'm going to take that loonie. Put it in a tuning. All right.

Unless you got more to add on nick Robertson, I wanted to move to Yanny Hockenpaw, who, by the way, we had a nice little TikTok moment go viral because we But you calculated that there was $333 left for the- There was. Well, that's wrong. Yeah, but-Because Yoni Hockenpaugh signed for $30,000 less than we thought he would. Yes.

So now there's-So now they have $33,000.

$33,33 left.

I thought it was 30,333.

No, because you said... Oh, no, it is 30,000. Yeah, it wasn't 30,333. Yanny Hockenpah signs for 1.47. Here's what Brad had to say. Obviously, there was a bit of a delay with Yanny. We We had Yanny in town earlier this summer for a bit of time. Our performance staff went out there two, three times. It was him going through rehab to the point where he and we felt confident. We'll see how it goes. There is certainly always a risk for any person coming off any injury. He has put in a lot of work. I think he had surgery and a scope on his knee in March. We went through the healing and the rehab, and he is doing well.

The Leaps are heavily leaning on their sports science department this year, right?

Well, they've invested a lot of money. Maybe they should. Yeah. You got to take risks.

I said this in my Patcher Eddie video. They've prolonged a bunch of careers.

Tyler Ennis is one that sticks out. Yeah.

We talk about Roby Dahl, and that was a famous example of them being like, you're retired. You're retired. You're done. But they've also prolonged some careers, not just guys who have dealt with extensive injury issues like Tyler Anis. But a lot of older guys have been like, I could play there because my body needs a lot of work right now, and they're the team to do it. Am I mistaken?

Do you guys remember a story where somebody had come to town too early and trained with performance staff, and then other NHL teams got mad about it?

Oh, yes. Are you thinking about when they were- Or am I conflating two things? When they added the rule because at least they were flying guys around, that stuff?

I think you might be conflating two things because it was a prospect. They, on their dime, flew a prospect, and teams were like, You can't do that.

Because we're cheap. Yeah, and they shut it down. The way the least have been running their performance department in that, Hey, they're investing all this money into it, that's how you exercise your power as a big market team who makes all the money because there's a salary cap. Everybody can only spend the same amount of money on the players. So the Lefs are doing the right thing by, We're rich. Let's spend it in the ways we're allowed to spend it. And I think it's really smart of them. And even recently last year, John Klingberg, in his back in the years now-It didn't work. A plane ride ruined it for him, but he comes and he in Toronto because he knows he's going to get that support. And yes, back didn't have the support to hold up. But that's how you as a big market team, you say we're going to be better than the teams that don't spend this money.

Hakenpah, to me seems like a better example of how it should work. And there were still things wrong with the Klingberg signing. If this is a, Hey, maybe it'll work out signing, you don't give them $4.5 million.

No. No. No. No.

Let's say Hock and Pa plays 20 games for the team. It doesn't work out. It's one year, 1.47. It's fine.

You'll live. It's fine. That's not anything where you're like, Oh, we missed out on a guy because we spent all this money on Hockball. Clingberg, that's $4 million.

It's a big consideration. Yeah. It's a big consideration. Any of those guys, Hock and Pa, Patch already, go through the lineup, I think it'll be okay.

I remember watching, I think it was either Global or TSN back in the day because Global used to have a significant... Global in Canada used to have leaf games all the time.

They used to have a lot of raptor games, too.

Yeah, absolutely. No, I'm wrong about that. No, the owner, I thought the Aspers who used to own it, I thought they were part owners in the raptors, too, but I'm not sure, so don't quote me on that. It's fine. I do know that... I remember they did a story on the doctors that went to the game and looked after the players if they were injured, and they I did a story on this doctor who was quite well renowned here in Toronto, and he had a day job. What? He would show up at the game at night, and he's just like, I have a wife, I have kids, but I really love this, and they understand, so I'm here every home game. I just think about the difference. That was probably when I was 12 or 13. You think about the difference here 20, 25 years later where it's like you have dedicated performance staff. They went to school for this and this. This guy was a pediatrician. It's like, you hurt your knee, put some ice on it.

Now, that is actually still the case today.

For the guys that are in the game?

I don't know if he still does it, but there's a member of the Leifs medical staff or training staff or whatever staff who has a private practice.

I've been to see. That I can see that. I can see that. But what I mean is- He fixed my shit.

It was good. That's great.

He fixed me. But what I mean is he wasn't relying on the Lefs to... You know what I mean? That guy probably doesn't need it. If the leaves are probably paying well for good talent.

I think Adam's point is that we've come a long way with the investment in the medical staff that sits around the game.

You would be the side hustle. The leaves are not the side hustle. Does that make sense?

Yeah. Well, Yannick Perot, he's been out for a couple of weeks, but we've applied an adequate amount of leaches, and we think we've solved the problem.