Does Toronto Maple Leafs loss to Boston Bruins change trade deadline priorities?

Does Toronto Maple Leafs loss to Boston Bruins change trade deadline priorities?

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First deposit teams terms conditions apply see sleepers terms of use for details what’s going on Dave how you feeling well it was uh not a great night let’s just say yeah I’ve been trying to get over this cold and the last thing I wanted to see was that game because want

To vomit after that yeah so I was uh I was out for dinner last night and I was trying to keep an eye on the TV as much as possible uh and anytime I looked over it seemed like the like the puck was was on the Brewing stick like they were like

Dominated especially like the back half of the first you know I was I was able to watch a little bit more of that and yeah they were really really uh pushing there and ultimately you know the the the Bruins end up winning this game four to one and like what’s so annoying about

This leav team is just when you start to get hope and just when you start to think one way about this squad they typically zag on you and then it’s like okay what’s is this team what is this team you know like I don’t think that this game undos what they’ve done over

The course of the last month I think they’ve played some really good hockey but like some of those habits start to creep up and then you realize okay if you’re not getting the secondary scoring from you know that that knee Lander line or if you’re not getting you know up

Goal from McMahon or the power play is not clicking there there’s still some warts in this team’s game that do need to get cleaned up ahead of the playoffs if they want to do anything no for sure like it is there is a lack of consistency there and I mean if you

Really want to know what went right and what went wrong for the leas what went actually well not lot went right for the lease but what right for Boston was David panak accounted for pretty much set up three of the four goals yeah the leaes top guys the only one that did

Anything only forward with the point was John tovaris yeah great shot by the way great shot great great play alog together like lbushkin to Riley Riley to tarz Big Bang done Bruins did that quite a bit in this game and no leaves could do it yeah they they did I I thought

That um Sheldon ke’s comments after the game were interesting I he was actually much more tame and calm and I thought he was going to be to be honest with you but you know he basically came out and said look there was a lot of good like I

Thought we play good tonight said but against a team like Boston good isn’t good enough you got to play great and uh that’s that’s the type of teams that you’re going to be playing in the postseason two right a team that’s big that’s nasty a team that’ll fight in

Front of the net uh fight for that space fight for that area and Toronto just a little more unwilling to do it tonight uh the Bruins I thought won that net front game both in their own end and in Toronto Zone um and and that’s ultimately you know was was kind of

Costly tonight for them couple of goals in and around the net uh that they allowed and you know that’s that’s kind of the difference in tonight’s game you know you mentioned uh you mentioned John tovaris and and look I I think that that line has played really well the last

Couple of games and Taris in particular has you know kind of seemingly stepping up his game over the last couple and it’s you can look at it one of two ways you know of course he is he’s now on a third line which means you know he’s playing other teams he’s playing Les

Lesser opponents right the strength of opponent isn’t as good so it allows him to shine more but I also wonder if it has anything to do with like the ice time like the fact that okay we’re GNA only give you like 15 minutes tonight but you can excel in those 15 minutes

And and you don’t have to go out there and play 20 minutes of hockey right so like that could be tiring him out but you give him 15 compact minutes I wonder if that’s kind of just what’s best for his legs at this point in his career um

But I thought that that third line was was real solid him McMahon and and yarro um Keefe gave them you know some some good words as well after the game saying that they’re you know all Puck hounds they’re always attacking the puck but I I do have concerns with this second line

At this point this is a few games here in a row now where okay if they’re not scoring uh typically they’re being scored on and and that’s kind of an issue here right so you look at the numbers right that they were scored on last night but also the expected goals I

Think they were like 34% yeah 34% as a line last night uh in in expected goals which it’s not great you know and this is a few games here in a row I think I saw DOI like seven straight games sub 50% expected goals um

And now it’s kind you’re kind of in a bind if you are this Leaf team you’re thinking to yourself can we how much longer of a of rope can we give this second line of DOI with neander and uh and and Tyler bruzi while also juggling the fact that dvara seems to be

Excelling in his new role and with those limited minutes giving him maybe more uh you know fresher legs throughout these games I it’s it’s going to be a an interesting it’s an interesting conundrum for Sheldon Keef it is and and to me I don’t even think you touch that

That that tarus line like if it’s working you can’t touch it and if let’s say we’re no one of two things have to happen honestly I don’t think the first is going to happen is you try to get that line to play more defensively reliable it hasn’t happened I don’t know

If it’s going to happen right like it hasn’t You’ talked about it it’s been a stretch of games that it’s been like this it’s not one or two games last game neander got benched for six minutes for basically Sheldon ke sending him to the sbin for not playing to the

Structure and then somebody brought up to me that overtime against the Rangers where that play where samsonov had to make the amazing save it only happened because neand decided to go off the ice and do a line change and left the leaves as on a three on two yeah like things

Like that it’s happened all season long I I just think that if you’re going to look for something different you might that’s that’s a line you’re going to have to make a change on in some way shape or form well what are you going to

Do like if if you’re not moving to bars pack up there what you get put pontis Holberg in the middle well that’s the issues you can’t trust p i that that’d be unfair to put pontis homberg in a in a Top Line a top six role but outside of

Tarus and and yarro I guess but if you’re not touching that line there is no one else so that leads the question is like is that now maybe a quiet need going into the deadline is is upgrading down the middle and someone who can maybe play a little bit more reli

Defensely has gone away and I don’t know if it it it probably won’t go away until either A Change Is Made on that line and look I I’m not all favor of just changing lines willy-nilly like if things are working right I I someone suggest me maybe you need to put Marner

On that line just to get that defensive mindset there but I don’t think Marner alone is going to change and make Max doy a better Defender that’s why I think you probably have to look at that at that Center position because again they all but the problem is who’s

Out there all the players that would be targets that’s your first round pick probably which is fine like that I’ll give that up if if it improves the club in the top six that’s the type of thing that I think is worth giving up for first round pick I don’t be worried

About that but who’s out there you know like if you look at the trade bait boards there’s not really someone that screams to me okay he’s a bonafide number two Center or Top Line like it’s just not there like it was Elias Lind Holm and that’s about it I suppose

Gensel uh is is that guy but I don’t know if the leaps are in on gensel at this point he would be the only person but again he’s injured I don’t know when he’s coming back like he’s he’s he’s gonna be out for a little bit so um yeah

It’s going to be interesting to see how much more run that second line gets together but it’s been a few games in a row here where yeah they’re scoring and they’re getting their opportunities but they’re fishing a lot of pucks out of their own net and it’s not a good thing

It’s not a good thing and especially when it’s happening at home like that’s I mean at home you can at least uh protect these guys right you can shelter them uh with a lot of ozone starts but they still end up fishing pucks out the back of their net so uh yeah that’s

Going to be something going forward over the next couple of games that I’ll definitely be keeping my eye on and now uh kind of a storyline to watch heading into the deadline is do they get more depth down the middle so that they can you know put someone else uh in that

Spot if they don’t want to put tovaris there and break up that third line uh an interesting interesting situation that’s Brewing here for Toronto all right uh let’s come back and let’s get into uh get into the game a little bit more we’ll dive into it get through our Good

The Bad and the Ugly then we got some news and notes from around the league including a couple other defensive targets that have popped up for the trto maple we’ll tell you those names on the other side it’s Mike Toano with Dave morisi you’re listening to the lockdown

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Conditions appli that’s code locked on NHL see sleepers terms of use for details and locational availability welcome back into the lock on leaves podcast it’s Mike to stepo and Dave morisi were recapping a 41 loss to the Boston Bruins last night Sheldon Keef said the team played good but uh

Good is not good enough against a team like Boston gotta play great and uh well we do this after every Leaf’s loss it’s The Good the Bad and the Ugly from the game so why don’t we start with uh with the good what did you like what did you

See that you liked in last night’s game Dave I mean we talked about quite a bit in the first seven but the third line like that I I was struggling most of that game like thinking about okay we’re I’m preparing for the good Bad and the

Ugly when they got to three nothing I’m like what the heck am I going to do is good that was really the only good yeah honestly it it kind of was which is sad uh that your third line stood out to you I mean it’s the only

Line that scored a goal right John tovaris nice little rip um but like he in particular I really liked liked his game like I went back and I watched it uh afterwards and and I liked his game a lot you know and I I was actually

Looking up this I I don’t know what is going on with the like stat counters and hit counters in uh in the NHL these days I know they went back and they like adjusted all their hits but now at this this just seems out of whack you know

John tovaris had nine hits last night he was recorded to have nine hits like that just that just seems weird to me like the fact that John tarus recorded nine hits in like 16 minutes of ice time um but four shots on goal uh obviously he

Scored the lone goal for the Leafs in that game and uh he was pretty good in the face off dot as well and you know he’s somebody who again it’s it’s he’s relishing in this new role uh whether or not he gets to stay there or if he has

To bump back up into the top six I I’m not sure but uh he’s he’s been playing pretty well and last night I thought he was uh one of if not be the best Leafs player on the ice last night yeah I mean that’s that’s gonna be Sheldon ke is

Gonna really that’s gonna be the toughest part of thing over the next couple days is determining if he has to kind of bite the bullet and move JN tarz because I think tares has played really well over this stretch and you wonder though maybe the confidence that he has

In himself maybe moving him might not be the worst idea right now just to get that second line in check because as good as John toar has been as a third liner that second line needs to be better yeah exactly uh what was bad about last night’s game Dave um bad special

Teams had the exact same thing not good man like when you have opportunities to G Boston you got to Tak advantage and now look I I was one of those people that thought that puck went in on Austin Matthew on the goal line well everyone celebrating like and that was close man

Like it’s a really really nice play to swipe that puck off the line like give credit where it’s du to to Boston but it was so close an inch an inch away from fully crossing over that over that line and it would have been a totally

Different game if that puck goes in but obviously it uh it did not and you know the the Leafs even like a couple of seconds later like Matthews just healed steals a puck and then San just gets a glove on it but it’s like that seemed

Like all right he’s going to get one here like that was the only time the power play looked looked good because that the the first Power Play they got holy smokes dude like they couldn’t even break into the Zone like it was it was ugly and it gave Boston the momentum and

Then they went out and they scored uh you know on on their power play right afterward um which was that the N penalty that that hooking penalty he took I’m that was so bogus so bogus honestly like that that should have been a dive on makoy like that that’s just

Ridiculous right there but anyways I’m not going to spend time talking about the refs uh but yeah the Leafs last night 0 for four on the power play uh just one for two on the penalty kill so special teams obviously a big factor in last night’s game and uh it’s it’s a big

Reason as to why Boston had a lot of the momentum coming out of those for killing off all for those power plays and you know Toronto was uh was was not able to kill all theirs off so that’s kind of you know was a big difference in last

Night’s game it was in in playoff games what have we seen if if this team’s Power Play Isn’t clicking when they got their opportunity like don’t be yelling at the refs give you play power play opportunities if you’re not going to score like let’s let’s not get on the

Refs if they’re not gonna be able to score on them yeah I suppose that’s one way to look at it I mean again the power play like last month was 50% like I mean when they get their opportunities they’re usually scoring so I’m I’m not going to sit here and bury them the

Power play has been pretty solid over the course of the last month uh tonight not so much and you know they’ll look at the tape and they’ll figure out why I mean I guess after the first period I’m sure they did look at it and be like why

Aren’t we gaining entry into the Zone like what’s going on what do we got to do and there’s some slight adjustments and they found a little bit more success at least we’re able to set up in the offensive zone for you know the second period P power plays but overall yeah

Not not a good night for the least special teams uh the ugly I mean I think we’re going to be aligned on this once again um the Brody and lill GM pairing not great on the ice for a couple of goals and a 21% expected goal rating uh expected

Goal differential rating it’s it wasn’t good like those guys were giving up a lot of chances they’re on the ice for a lot of opport opportunities uh against and and obviously a couple of goals uh a couple of goals against as well and it it just didn’t look good um yeah we’re

Looking at this game card and hockey stat cards was putting out this uh they put these out after every game um and the game score basically you want to be as far to the right as possible and go figure John Taris the top player is as

Far to the right with a lot more of the dark green and that dark green means uh was that on Ice offense I think is is what that one means and then you do not want to be far to the left that is not good uh so a negative3 game score for

Timothy lilligren and then just behind him was was TJ broy um and a lot of dark purple which means uh negative defensively uh they were negative defensively or offensively rather and then you know negative defensively as well they pretty much didn’t do a whole lot of anything of any good last night

According toh to this this sheet this game score that we’re looking at here on uh on on the YouTube elements the video elements of the lockdown Leaf show yeah I mean I was trying to really like like really figure out how bad was that were they unlucky or were they just really

Bad and then I saw that game card I’m like yeah I know it could my assertion of they were really bad was right like especially lilligren I said the other day when we were talking about what this team needs to look at this week I said I need to

See if they need to upgrade on Timothy lilligren can he show that what he was doing the last few games was you know is he going in the right direction or do they need to look at an upgrade there if that’s how he’s gonna play against a team like

Boston it ain’t happening like I don’t know like he was made like there was some plays where he W he wasn’t strong with his like conviction of where he was what he’s trying to do with the puck it gets turned over and he’s he’s you know

In a bad position and then there’s an odd man Rush the worst one was the last goal where zaka goes right to the net he has no idea zaka is behind him I don’t know what he’s really he’s Puck watching and zacha is there for two he

Gets two three wax headed before beating Joseph wo yeah yeah the sat down and had himself uh had himself a pint yeah exactly waiting for for Brody or for Len to come back and defend on that play yeah it wasn’t a good night for them um I mean similar to what we

Were talking about with with special teams and that power play and that second line you know we’ve seen enough good hockey I guess out of out of that pairing over the last little bit you’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that tonight just a Biv and off game for them

Uh but I’ll be watching him pretty closely in Buffalo and then again in Boston on Thursday to you know decipher okay can lren play in these types of games because like don’t forget last couple years Lily’s been the guy who’s been up in the Press Box like Sheldon

Keefe clearly looks at him and is unsure if he can handle playoff hockey yeah and you know he’s obviously another year into his career he’s approaching that 200 game Mark where you kind of figure out okay what is a defenseman at that point uh um you know we’ll see over the

Next couple of games what what he thinks of lilligren and potentially that means they could go out and make an addition uh maybe there there’s another player that they feel strongly about uh maybe Len could be packaged in a deal I don’t know or lillig becomes again like the

Seventh defenseman for this team I don’t know how things are going to shake out but last night not good uh and they got to be better they have to be better uh for for certainty going forward because if you’re going to throw these guys out

There for 18 19 minutes a game you know they can’t be losing 21% of their minutes you know they they gave up a a team High 11 shots on goal at five on five when they were out there as a pair like you just can’t give up those

Opportunities like that and uh expect to win a whole lot of hockey games so I’ll call it an off night we’ll give them the the benefit of the doubt cuz Brody and Lily has actually been a decent pairing over the last little bit certainly while uh while Morgan Riley was out there with

His suspension so hopefully they regroup and then in Buffalo we see a much better Duo come out and uh and and then all will be forgotten probably by Lea nation that being said if not maybe the least go uh shopping for another right-handed defenseman at the deadline it certainly

Think seems like they’re still calling and poking around on some guys let’s come back and talk a little bit about what we’re hearing uh just a few days out from the NHL trade deadline and a couple of the names that the Leafs are being linked to and some other hot

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Heading into the NHL trade deadline from a maple leas perspective and then a couple of you know big newsy items from around the league as well that’s happened over the course of the last 24 hours uh first and foremost um it sounds like the leaf are still kicking tires on

Some more right shot defensemen some rugged right shot defensemen what are a couple of the names that uh that you’ve heard Dave well Chris Johnson uh by the way congratulations to Steve dang on the birth of his baby girl ah yes uh he was

He took Steve spot on the sdp uh on on the podcast and he put out three names that he’s heard or he’s kind of thinks about as fits for the leavs the first one really surprised the heck out of me Zack bagoan M who okay people going to

Hear that name and think yuck but actually since he’s left the Tampa Bay Lightning and went to the Minnesota Wild he’s been much better now has that also been a factor of who he’s playing with in Minnesota because Minnesota actually has pretty good blue liners more than likely but this is also

Someone that the Leafs are familiar with and Sheldon C is very familiar with so that’s one name out there I know the wild are looking to sign him but if they can’t sign him they’re going to trade him uh second one and this name just won’t go away Matt

Dumba that name just continues to be out there um I I I don’t know maybe maybe we’re maybe I’m over maybe I’m overthinking it too much but from what I’ve seen from Dumba it hasn’t looked good I don’t know how much better it’s going to look for

The Leafs but a lot of people have been talking Dumba CJ brought up Dumba and then the third one uh one that I think it’s G to happen but CJ thinks that if the Leafs Pony up a little bit more it would happen it’s David svard for the Montreal Canadians

Who look the style-wise fits what the Leafs need pricewise I don’t think so because I think Montreal is gonna definitely want a first for Savard and I don’t even know I don’t remember if card has trade protection I don’t think he I think he does it might be limited

But I think there is some trade protection there for card and and he’s got one more year left on his deal so there’s actually no trade protection oh really okay I thought I read that that he had a little bit of uh of a say and

What happens with him but maybe maybe it was somebody else who I was reading maybe it’s just an implied like an implied like yeah they want to do good by him potentially um yeah like he’s got he’s got another year left on his deal I believe as well three and a half million

For one more one more year and he’s making what three like 325 three and a half million three and a half million which you know it’s it’s digestible and maybe you can find a team to to take a chunk of that perhaps um yeah that would be an interesting

Name I think of the three that you mentioned like sard is probably the best of the trio in terms of giving up your first round pick like you should have done it for Chris TANF because tan is a better defenseman than David SAR so like

Yeah now that being said tan was a UFA SAR you can get two years out of um that that is worth noting obviously but still like I mean go get the better player you’re willing to Pony up a first round pick exactly go get the guy who you know

For a fact can be a top four right right because like Saar has the same issues injury issues age issues it’s the same cons that you have with tanip so if you’re willing to Pony up a first rounder for uh uh you know a second pair

Defenseman and I’m not even sure sard is that like he’s more of a five we’ll say uh than at least a Bonafide 3 four like tan of then you should have just done that deal well I mean that deal might not have been there I suppose but we heard if

Toronto wanted to Pony up a first they could have got tan they just didn’t want to do that um I would be floored if they gave up a first for saard um yeah I wonder if if if Center is is now like a possibility though too

You know I like Adam Henrik is a name that’s kind of been floating out there a little bit as someone who’s going to be on the Block and probably going to be traded pending UFA out in Anaheim and he’s he’s a good serviceable middle six centerman you know is Adam Henrik a name

That that would interest you because you know he’s someone who could come in and he can play you know on both sides of the puck he’s a good two-way forward he’s very reliable defensively and he can you know provide a little bit of offense as well like that’s somebody who

I think would be willing would be worth giving up a first round pick for yeah like I I think you to you have to Value what that like the the not just the uh player but the position they’re playing and the role they’re playing I’d

Rather yeah pay up a first round pick to go and get a top six guy than go and get a third pairing defenseman like it it just one guy’s gonna be on the ice more and have a more sub play a more substantial role like to me I don’t know

If you agree with this I think either leushin the whole thing was overblown because he’s actually not look bad the last two games like since he like the two games he’s played granted the first game he would he had to leave because of the uh he had to clear concussion

Protocols but I don’t think he was an issue last night against Boston like that’s someone I’m I’m comfortable playing like now am I saying that him adding him makes the leaf done on adding on defense no because we we just said that you’d really want to upgrade and

Get another right shot guy if you could or even just maybe at this rate any defenseman that can play better right um in the top four but yeah I think you have to really weigh how much you’re spending that what you’re like that first round pick you’re going to look at

On the back on a few years and say was it worth giving up that first round pick to go and get a third pairing defenseman or hey that first round pick landed us a top six guy that really really helped kind of solidify the lineup a bit more

Yeah yeah so so we’ll we’ll see what the lease end up doing at the deadline uh a few more days it’s Friday so you know there’s there’s still going to be a bunch of phone calls that I’m sure will be uh that’ll be made and and hopefully

Friday’s a busy day and Toronto part of it making a splash of some kind we’ll see we will uh we will definitely wait and see what happens there uh couple other big news items from around the NHL Lindy Ruff let go fired in New Jersey

A little a little late on this one Dave like did they kind of pull the trigger a little late I don’t know I think so well the only reason why I say so is like well you weren’t willing to go out and fix your go tending why’ you waste long than the

Like over car comes out and says H the next couple of games is going to dictate what we do at the deadline play the Panthers tonight in your first game so that’s one game where it’s like okay well good luck with that one uh in Travis Green’s first game and then they

Got the blues who you know are are pretty solid team as well and then they got the Hurricanes over the weekend so like they’ve got a tough sket coming up you know and I think I was looking they have one of the tougher schedules down the down the stretch here let me see

Strength of schedule for the for the Devils I I’m pretty sure they have one of the hardest strength of schules the rest of the way which makes it an even more difficult decision if you are you know this Devil’s team now look in Lindy ruff’s defense uh he lost douge Hamilton like

That’s not an easy thing for a lot of teams to overcome and and the gold thing was already brutal terrible terrible they everyone knew last summer they needed yeah new go tending and they didn’t do it they didn’t get it so and all summer all winter it’s been like they got to trade

For one of these guys they got to trade for markstrom they got to get new gold ending and it just never happened apparently now they’ve kicked you know they’ve circled back on marstrom and they’re willing to uh take on that full Freight uh of his contract we’ll see if

Something ends up happening but Calgary is starting to win some games too so I I don’t it’s it’s going to be interesting the next uh 72 Plus hours in Jersey but uh in terms of their strength of schedule they have the third hardest schedule remain

In the NHL so tough uh tough SK they S three games against Toronto yeah they haven’t really they haven’t really played Toronto this year so yeah Bing three games against the Maple Leafs uh from from here on out uh the Leafs by the way have the sixth hardest strength of schedule remaining

Boston has the fifth hardest so Boston’s got a harder sked than Toronto uh Florida is eighth so they’re all kind of in the same same little Toronto’s heavy Eastern Conference from now to the end of the season that I know for sure so Toronto’s hardest opponents that they’ve

Got to play their toughest opponents they’ve got two against Florida they’ve got one more against Boston which is going to be this uh this Thursday they’ve got one more against Edmonton two games against Carolina and they’ve got two against Tampa and one against the Redwing so they’ve got a lot of

Divisional games and it’s a tough division which is why you know all of these teams do happen to be in the top eight uh in the division actually of the top eight uh one two three for five of the top eight are Atlantic teams that’s how tough this division is they all got

To play each other and you know they all have uh good records at this point who’s got the easiest SK Minnesota and Chicago they don’t need an easy sched they got one but they got one uh but yeah anyways when it comes to the Devils um

I don’t like I like Travis Green I thought he did a decent job when he was in Vancouver uh I’ve I’ve heard nothing but good things as him as a coach and a person um we’ll see if they can find a way to claw back in I mean they’re what like

Seven or eight points out of a playoff spot they do got a couple games in hand but it’s gonna be tough it’s gonna be tough if they don’t get goal tending it’s gonna be much the same the the rest of the way um so we’ll see what happens there

Um actually I to talk quickly about because you I’ve talked about this on the show before how I’m I’m a big Card Collector did you see the bounty on a specific Connor Bard card I’m I’m I was floored when I saw when I saw that come out like so I I

Wrote about this on on the hockey news so you can you guys can go check it out i’ it’s all over my Twitter at Mickey Canuck um a company called David Adams they’ve been in the Collectibles industry they’re they’re like a card and collectibles company they’ve been there you know they’ve been

In the industry for for many many years and they typically have bounties on like highly sought-after cards so um series two is going to release on Wednesday tomorrow and inside of it is car Bard’s Young Guns which is going to be very highly sought after but this year they’ve done something different with

The Young Guns they’ve added extra parallels and one includes a one of one gold Outburst Young Guns parallel so it it’s it’s going to be the only one in the world and David Adams has set a bounty on it for whoever gets it at $1 million $1

Million for a hockey card that anyone can open like it’s going to be available to the public there’s obviously only one but it’s going to be randomly inserted in in a in a pack in one lucky person is going to open this bad boy up when uh

When they hit the shelves uh Wednesday morning and we’ll see how long it takes for someone to find it but a million dooll bounty on this it’s it’s just absolutely insane if you ask me it’s it’s crazy um what people pay sometimes for for some of these hockey cards you

Know who’s going to be very happy to see that Upper Deck because everyone’s now going to flock to the stores and buy a bunch of packs 100% like part of this is a marketing I might even dable and go get a few few myself well so here’s the

Thing yeah you can go buy a couple of packs if you’d like but they it’s they’re going to be expensive they’re all right the boxes I wrote about this too the boxes for bards uh like for this series 2 set is like $330 is what it’s retailing right now

Which is an increase of 106% from what series one was going for back in November yeah we’re going to need some more subscribers to the podcast for yeah yeah it’s it’s expensive now I I got some pre-orders in so I got them at a bit of a cheaper rate

But like now they’re going for more like if you’re going to walk into your card store you’re probably going to be paying over $300 for what happens to the days you go to Walmart get some hockey cards I mean you still could do that uh retail doesn’t come out until the 13th believe

But even then like you’re probably looking at $100 for like a 10 or you can get a couple of these packs uh randomly I suppose but this one of one will not be in those packs I think the one of one the million-dollar card will only be

Available in in the hobby boxes which are going to run you 300 bucks a pop plus the game has changed the game has changed the game has changed that’s for sure but uh it’s a game that I love and that I’m passionate about and uh yeah when I saw that bounty get released

Yesterday by David Adams my jaw dropped to the floor and uh St hope and a prayer now man well even the regular Young Guns which there’s going to be thousands of them but the regular Young Guns uh is pre-selling it for like 1,500 for his regular Young Guns it’s

It’s wild man like the the the the Mania about this card about this set is just running rampant and then this bounty came out and now it’s going to be even more of a frenzy and uh it all starts tomorrow March 6th March 6 is the

Release day I’ll be uh I’ll be all over it I’ve got myself a couple of boxes that I’ll be opening up I’ll be on the hunt for The Bard one of one and uh yeah you can follow along on on Twitter uh I’ll be I’ll be posting things or on my

My cards Instagram A.B.C cards on Instagram as well uh if if Instagram Works wasn’t working this morning morning uh Facebook and Instagram both were down I don’t know if it’s back up yet or what but uh metas really really screwing with us right now no look at

Like as of now as of like 11:30 still not up still not working I don’t know what’s going on there anyways all right let’s uh we we’ll leave it there for today Dave um that’ll do it for us here on the podcast like to thank you all for

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It was not a great night for the Toronto Maple Leafs as they allowed the Boston Bruins to earn some breathing room in the Atlantic Division standings following a 4-1 loss. Mike DiStefano and David Morassutti give their thoughts on the Leafs performance against Boston and why a glaring concern upfront might make the team rethink their priorities of where they spend their assets heading into the trade deadline. They look at how John Tavares continues to be a bright spot and how the change in role has played a factor, they look at a dud from the special teams and an ugly night for Timothy Liljegren and T.J. Brodie which gives concern about how the blue line looks heading into the deadline. To end the show, Mike and Dave discuss three defencemen who continue to be connected to the Leafs heading towards the deadline and if any of them make sense, Lindy Ruff losing his job, Toronto’s schedule going forward and a crazy bounty placed on a Connor Bedard hockey card.

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