Steve, you did a 2024 Maple Leaps Roster Preview. What I wanted to know is... I don't want to know about the video. I can watch the video. 16 minutes of pure Steven Dangle Bliss. When you prepared this video, why did you choose July 20th to release it? What was it that you were like, You know what? I feel it today. It's coming out.

One was a complete lack of content on my channel. Another was, Drew and I talked about offseason content, and when I am available to shoot and when he's available to edit, and we came up with that day. In recent years, I've done videos like that, where I think I did one in May one year where I was like, Here's the least roster for next year right now. And it was hot dog shit. And people were like, Oh, my God. And I'm like, No, the point I'm trying to make is, Here's what the roster if they did nothing. So it helps accentuate, Hey, here's where they need to upgrade and do this and do that. This year, that's not the case. The rosters, it's done. There is still work to do. I don't understand exactly how they're going to keep everybody and be CAP compliant. Yanni Hakenpaugh is an enormous Is the word linchpin here? Everything depends on what they're doing there, if they're even going to be able to sign him. You know what I mean? Because I think what I did was I had to leave Sinyani Hockenpah to his rumored cap hit of 1.5 million.

Connor Timmins goes down to the miners, so that whole cap hit is buried. Even then, nick Robertson and Connor Duhre, who are both restricted free agents would have to sign for a million dollars, which I don't think they're going to.

I'm sorry. In order for- If Adel Sprung is signing for a million, you're signing for a million. Well, it's a fair point.

Like, what do you got? So okay, if those two sign for a million dollars or less, the Leaps can afford to keep everybody and have two spares and have cap space, which they never do at the beginning of the season. They could have a spare forward and a spare D, but I mean, it's obviously July. A lot of teams don't have a fully fleshed out roster. Some teams still have holes. You know how you were like, who's going to play for the Hurricanes? With the Leaps, I'm like, here it is. You're right.

Here's the roster. Already signed up, ready to go. Here's the whole thing. I'm curious about Yoni Hakenpaugh because you can tell all the hockey media are gone because no one's talking about it. No one's putting it out there. They are so very gone. It's one of those things where you're like, this would be a bigger story if it were any other time of the year. Like a guy who they signed, they talked about signing, they openly talked... Like Brad True living openly talked about him, and it's still unofficial. Now, are they just trying to pull a Lou Lamarilla? Have they already signed this and it doesn't matter? Or are they actually looking at this guy's needs?

I think you nailed it in that if the people whose job it was to investigate this stuff was working, we'd have more info and they would be like, Oh, this is weird. And there's something going on behind of the scenes here, but because the insiders aren't poking at this, that it's flying very under the radar. Has anyone emailed Brad? Something sketchy is going on. Hey, Brad.

Hey, Bard. Hey, Brad. Dude, anything after the second week of July? You can't get a hold of these people. No. You can't get a... You know how annoying it was at Sportsnet? Especially early on, my tenure there? Because that counts. It's not the NHL, but they cover the NHL. Dude, everyone Everyone's gone. Unless you cover baseball, they're gone. I feel like the Summer Olympics just pisses everyone in sports media off. You know what I mean? It's like, I was already working.

You know what pissed everybody off was when the NHL for two summers in a row led right into July. That was terrible.

It was horrible.

It was horrible because you're exhausted, right?

Nobody wanted to watch hockey. I mean, the number one example of that was the bubble playoffs when And no one else is playing anything right now. You have your pick of the litter. You have a captive audience, basically. Playoffs in August. Here we go. No one gave a shit.

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