Linus Ullmark | Coming in Hot LIVE – June 27

Linus Ullmark | Coming in Hot LIVE – June 27

n time now for coming in hot with Brent Wallace and former Ottawa Senator Jason [Music] York good morning everybody Welcome to coming in hot Brent Wallace alongside Jason York and Sean Simpson both two overwork overworked individuals who I’m happy that are both buckled down this week for our fourth straight show it’s been a grind day simmer we’ve been grind in and out getting pucks just working over time Wally loves it this guy can work all he wow work work all day all night just well yeah after doing in my previous job 20 hours of radio work this feels like when I was a third golender it just feels great like I feel like I could do I could do this the rest of my life and be more than satisfied when you do a four the 4our radio show feels like an eternity I remember when I used to do the morning show with lyy it was it was it was a 2hour show sometimes an hour and a half because Jr and Warren would go so looks like an hour 20 today lyy and then yeah all of a sudden things changed and it was four fraking hours like okay I didn’t sign up for this no people wonder by Friday Wally why I didn’t want to talk to anybody it was like I just talked to another human being for 20 straight hours about ice hockey so I’m tell gonna take a little bit of a break here oh boy so what you’re saying is if I’ve got this straight you guys both enjoy working with me absolutely I don’t go that far Wally yeah yeah I’m not I’m not in the I’m not in the spot to bring any sarcasm at this point Yorkie I don’t mean to sound like a kiss ass but I’m still in the transitional stage here where you’re in the honeymoon you’re in the honeymoon stage exactly exactly Sim’s still frisky he’s still frisky yeah you’re new in the room right you can’t be throwing bombs until you really get everybody you by the way Yorkie will vouch for you more if you probably throw shade my way that’s how I know I know for sure for sure yeah uh by the way just waiting for uh lenus just to log in and get set up and then we will have lenus alar the newest W you could you a a little power move on On th On th today bring it in lus this is such a big week you can’t just you can’t [ __ ] around you have nice letting the hair down as well little F bom to start it off I like it hey look at I heard and I heard too there’s a rumor you’re wearing the MC Hammer pants for our draft show is that true yeah they are comfortable very relaxed fitting pants I want to see in those zumba pants and then I want to see in the Gold Gym t-shirt hey you’re getting ready to throw throw around some weights here a little maybe a rick Dudley or John broy was the best bro would go in between periods and throw the 225 around then all of a sudden come back in the room want to see Wally doing a lift just before the show yorky hey oh he get Pump It Up hey get the silver chest hair flowing out the sweater hey Wally oh absolutely hey uh we’re just gonna move on I let me just take care of some business until he gets Set uh let’s go Brett if you have it this show proudly presented by pway go to pway doca download the app if you will uh bet your way with bet way please play your responsibity must be 19 plus also you can bet on the top five picks of where they will go in this year’s NHL draft which is tomorrow and also this show is brought to you by our good friends at Bei boner Excavating Incorporated great for if you want to spruce up that driveway get some nice curb appeal going they do Aggregate and top soil sales plus bii also does equipment rentals you can give them a call for all your landscape needs 613 432 1120 or or visit them online at boner Excavating tocom Bei helping to shape the Ottawa Valley and slow down in those constructions zes please uh perfect without further Ado can we just welcome the 2023 vzna Trophy winner and newest member of the Ottawa Senators to the show please all the way from Sweden Lena alark sir uh thank you for joining the show we appreciate it and congratulations uh well we’re super pumped to have you thanks for having me guys I’m sorry that I’m four five late we had a boat malfunctioning so I had to take care of that so we’re living on an island at the moment so if you don’t have a boat that works it’s pretty hard to uh go there hold on you’re you’re living on you’re living on an island so how how’s that working out for you it’s awesome this it’s a special kind of life but it’s very enjoyable because you don’t get any uh unnotified visitors beautiful beautiful lenus are the kids old enough to paddle now like can you can you deploy them with engine goes down uh well I can always have one in each arm and paddle with them instead okay okay good good just put their feet in the water um so do you still live near your hometown which I looked up the population says it’s 349 people is that correct yeah that’s an exaggeration it’s probably less than 300 now what’s it like growing up in a town like that it’s awesome you know everybody there’s a lot of freedom everybody knows every everybody so for me at least when I was growing up the the hot cream was always open uh we had as we call it like pure nature R we didn’t have any fancy facilities or anything like that we had wooden boards and chicken nets for for glasses and it was great which created a lot of love for the game of hockey because you can just go out there and play and have fun and don’t worry about anything else in the world lus were you were you always a goalie cu the guys I played with that are swedes they played different positions different sports like some guys didn’t even pick up hockey till later like were you were you were you right away yeah I’m a goalie or did you come to it later no well I was always better as a goalie so I because we were so few I played in multiple teams our age groups so I played goalie for uh the older guys and then I was a forward or d man for the younger yeah player or teams as well so and I did that until I was 15 that’s when I decided that I had to choose and I chose to be a goalie because obviously I was a lot better at stopping pucks and shooting pucks and skating so uh that’s how it came naturally geez over here simmer over here if you’re 15 and and and you don’t have your agent and everything in place your career’s over yeah that’s crazy to me actually that’s and I think that creates a lot of stress in a lot of parents nowadays that you have to have everything sorted out before even 15 and it’s bothering me obviously coming from that sort of background and I think that a lot of young people nowadays I mean they’re just many professionals there’s no really no love for the game it’s only like okay we have to go to this camp we have to go to that camp if we’re not making this team we’re never going to be anything but there’s so many different ways to get to the NHL but also just to be a professional hockey player that is not a you know a straight line toward success it will be some bumps and ups and downs and there’s so many opportunities to go and play in different countries and explore other areas in the world where you can play hockey for a living and so whenever I hear people having you know issues or parents that are scared or you know they’re afraid that their kid will not make it I just tell them to relax let them enjoy the game and everything will comes uh naturally at the end right lenus we often talk here in Canada about the dream my dream growing up as the Montreal Canadians and Ken Dryden early thoughts on is it lonquist is it salow or I thought even just locally was there a goenda modeled after and then when did kind of the uh NHL Dream Come Along coming from a Tiny Town in Sweden well I always dreamt about you know the NFL in itself I didn’t really have a goal until I was probably like 16 17 that’s when the the dream of playing in NHL was my you know my my dream and my goal but before that I just enjoyed watching go tenders uh you know taking out these we have like a a book back home with like top 50 players in the nhls and we always go through them looking at their gear looking through like some stats and and whatever and just try to paint them on a piece of paper myself and create different things having a lot of fun with it and most of the times I was looking at Dominic hassk and Patrick raw oh nice so we’re gonna jump around because there’s people in our chat that want to ask you questions and I’m gonna try and get that Alie mullet you’re on uh well we’ll just do it right now um which s players are you most excited to meet in person can I say former player sure yeah sure I would probably say Al yeah ah yeah automatically you just went over all the fans right now uh so okay speaking of the Alfie uh chat what what was it or how long did it go what was it he said to you that convinced you Ottawa uh was going to be a good place and now I do understand and we’re not going to discuss contract extension because there’s nothing to discuss but uh people were under the impression that you had a no trade in your um list that included otwa but you didn’t so you didn’t have have a say if I’m clear about coming to Ottawa I know you talked to Alfie and you talked to I believe forsberg what did Alfie tell you about the city of Ottawa well once we actually got to got to talk a little bit there we you know just chatted along as two fellow Suites and I I asked him about the city of Ottawa I asked him how it is being a senator and uh he told me his experiences about being in Ottawa for so many years you know thinks that he in the beginning of his career he could never see himself staying in Ottawa and then once he got older then he realized that this is the place that I want to stay and this is you know with all with my kids and my family and which speaks a lot because I would say that a lot of sweets are they love you know Sweden for a reason I it’s our home country so there’s always that little thought in our head to always move back home once our career is done and once you actually find a place that is suitable for you as a person as a family and it’s in your place where you play so for Alie it’s Ottawa that speaks volumes because it shows that it’s a great place for a site to raise a family and you know root themselves uh to the Canadian culture is there anything you’re have you have you started Googling Ottawa are you learning anything about the city have you ever heard of what a beaver tale is is you know what the things that I I’m not scared of it but I think that I have to sit down and learn French ah yes yes so I can really uh speak my mind out to some fans out there but uh especially when we play Montreal but at the same time I don’t think it’s going to be an issue uh as of now I’m still bilingual but we’ll see if I can uh add a third language into the into the mix last quickly let me just do you hate the Toronto Maple hate is strong word I always tell my kids that hate is a strong word um I think my opinion of the beliefs uh could be one opinion um no out towards the public but then there might be a different opinion uh private but at the same time that’s for a whole different discussion a lot I have a lot of what should I say a lot of respect for the leaves you know it’s it’s a very good team has been a very good team for a lot of years so there’s uh there’s a lot of respect there and I played him for like so many times as well so that’s why it’s a you know love and hate relationship to it lenus lenus who holds the rights for the goalie hug is that yours do you is that uh are you the rights holder for that move or is that sing no that’s a 5050 one straight up straight up straight up lenus lenus go back again kind of Full Circle here you grew up with Anton forsberg played together in modo In Your Wildest Dreams first of all going back to teenagers the imagination that you’d play in the National Hockey League now to come full circle not only be partners but both of you raising young families how cool and comfortable is that for you uh as a professional and as a husband and as a father I think it’s it’s hard to explain really how weird life is sometimes because in my wildest dreams I can never foresee that this opportunity would present itself again you know we had a great time in modo uh throughout our Junior career there and also then two years um or in the uh in the big team as well but to do it all over again but at the highest level of profession hockey is so cool and I think that a lot of people that have seen us you know throughout the careers back home in Sweden we be very proud I know that our old goalie coach Mash SW is basically almost having a little tear drop from his eyes when I talked to him last time but you know it’s it’s so how should I say it but it’s so cool to uh get to do it one more time and especially when it’s what is it 10 years now so if you say that to any other El anybody else that played in in the Canadian hockey league where whatever it is that they had a goalie partner dur Juniors and yeah we’re gonna play with each other in 10 years in the National Hockey League I’m probably pretty sure that they would say nah we’re not gonna do that yeah yeah uh that Moto is a great town well it’s not called Moto it’s called OIC or envic but I’ve been there uh I have a modo tagged golf ball signed by Victor hman I know it doesn’t really matter great guy what a fantastic guy uh what a just a fantastic place to play for me like I really enjoyed it there I just wonder what your time was like as you played for Moto but and that year 1314 if I’m not mistaken you were League goalie of the year if I am correct yeah it it’s like I said it’s over 10 years ago so that’s okay it’s it’s not something that I I I can’t remember all the details about it but yes I was a top golender Del leag that year uh together with Anton shared yous with him and we had a great year I would say personally both of us but the team struggled um but like you said it’s a wonderful place and same thing as people say about Ottawa that AR there you go that’s the right pronunciation I wasn’t getting to that no I don’t have to it’s you don’t have to worry about that but it’s a great place to raise a family it’s it’s a smaller town people live and die for the the hockey team and you know that’s like the the center of attention for a lot of people and now they the year after I left for the states they got relegated to the second league and now they’re back up and was such a buzz and fuss when they made it back there that even I could feel you know how proud and how happy I was that they actually managed to do that only problem was that the same day they got bumped up to the uh big leagues again we got uh kicked out from the game seven so it was like a day that was both hell and heaven at the same time jez um so let’s I want to know per we fans want to know you personally uh one of the questions is by uh sensual healing so I’m not mistaken uh why do you wear number 35 first of all well to death question I say why not such a number isn’t it great number no a um what is it I had I had 30 uh in my junior unit times so when I got to Rochester and buffo uh obviously they had Ryan Miller there and so uh 30 wasn’t available so I choose uh 35 at that point just you know out out of respect to him because he just got um traded or so to I can’t remember it was Anaheim or which team it was Vancouver so out of respect to him I I didn’t want to you know grab his number obviously and um so then 35 and I had third into miners but 35 felt better so to speak and I like 33 also I like 39 but 35 felt a little bit more like me and myself just you know Jason York uh longtime Ottawa Senator and former Boston breu himself used to wear number 33 it’s all yours if you want lenus I don’t there’s no yeah I’m not giving you a Rox for that one I tried I tried do you have hobbies do I have hobbies yeah I’m quite boring when it comes to Hobbies no I do like um in the summertime I I do like to play golf as many other hockey players does but my uh I would not I won’t say that I’m passionate about it but I play a lot of computer games I’ve done it ever since I was very young and I still do because it’s very relaxing thing for me to do and um what else do I like to do um I heard you used to draw I I heard you used to like to draw is that true what yeah I read that somewhere that he likes to draw used to draw the goalie equipment yeah I did that I mean that’s like everybody every kid did when I was younger they would do a lot of paintings and stuff but I played Bridge growing up so that’s what a different approach to it um still do still think it’s pretty uh prettyy fun to do enjoys playing board games love blor games and Dungeons and Dragons as well and also I do love uh heavy metal death metal the heavier it gets the better it is wow W that’s kind a quite a contrast from the the bridge now my father’s in a in elderly home there we’ll get you over for some brid matches here in Ottawa lenus I want to go back though transitionally career-wise I know in Buffalo and this is a bit of a thought people look at it and say hey you’re a product of the Boston system your numbers were outstanding in Buffalo what was a transition like and what did Bob asza because I got to admit when you sign with B Boston I was kind of like wow that’s a lot of money a lot of term but obviously it was a great decision by you and it certainly transformed you as a golender going to Boston yeah so obviously Bob had a lot of uh influences on on me uh not just personally but also in in the game itself we had a lot of conversations uh and I would say the product that is me right now is you know this the honesty that we share together because it’s not just a oneman show there’s you know you play together as a team and all that but you also you know as much as I feed of the team in front of me the team in front of me feeds off of me and how I do and it’s been you know my first year I was very stubborn about how I wanted to play the game and I lose up a little bit for the second year uh after speaking to a couple other people that about his philosophy Bob so to speak and you know said hey let’s just try it let’s just try some things starty to implement it and work on it for real and that season became one of the greatest of all time uh and then last year you know I still think that there were some things that need still needs to be cleaned up but not every season is going to be you know as the in a year obviously but you can always strive to achieve the same thing or even more that’s what I want to do I want to prove myself that is not a onetime thing I want to do it over and over again because that means that the team is doing very well and we have an opportunity to win every night how much did you thrive off of the push and the pull from Jeremy Swan and I’m assuming that same competitive nature is going to be with Anton forsberg I think it’s going to be the kind of the same approach to it all I know for a fact that Anon is probably one of the most hardest working go tenders or even players in the whole uh whole league and I have a lot of respect for him in that matter he was always a guy that I looked up to when it comes to preparations and compete level and everything that surrounds the game of hockey and I think that obvious now when we’re older we’re on the same level but it’s going to be fun to compete against them on in every practice because that’s when you have time to really dig into you know sort out things in your game and develop skills and feel good about the things when you’re going into uh playing hockey in games lenus I sat through an hourlong gaming podcast last night that you did five years ago in it you mentioned yeah Dota 2 is that the name Wow you went really deep on that one you have no idea lenus how how deep this guy will go he’s doing this now he’s a little in in that interview you said uh you talked about chirping and you said how good clo jaru was at chirping and how how you basically you hated it I’m paraphrasing now you did say he can back it up without question he’s so talented I’m curious if you’re looking forward to having a conversation with him when you uh get here yeah no I I did text him and saying that I’m looking forward to our friendly vter during practices as well now instead of doing the opposite during games um and it’s funny because he it’s not not like towards me as a goalie he was never like a douchebag or anything like that there were chirps obviously and then basically saying I’m going to score what it let one in but it was also some friendly banter as well that you know it gives a little bit more personality to the player and I enjoyed playing against him but I’m also very fortunate and happy that I don’t have to play him right now um but I’m looking forward to uh getting to know Claude on a personal level obviously more than on a professional one lenus when I when I when I when I played in Boston I Tim Thomas was there and Timmy used to get so mad in practice he would swear it guys when they scored on them and and sometimes a stick would come flying you get fired up like that in practice or you more uh more calm um how should I phrase it I am most most of the time I am calm most of the time I am calm but if I do start to get you know more and more tired and I get more and more pissed yeah there’s been a stick up on the 200 level sometimes as well I love it uh lenus when I look at your career and again and maybe not by Design and I think people here in Ottawa hope you finish your career uh is it comfortable or cool the fact that you’ve played for Buffalo played for Boston played for Ottawa that you’ve actually stayed within the division your entire career so far well I got asked that yesterday as well and I think it’s I think it’s a a unique uh thing I don’t think that a lot of players have done that but also I haven’t had you know I only play play now for two teams and now the third one and the first one it was more of you know Buffalo at the time was one of the if not the worst team in the league and then Boston came knocking and as one of the best teams in the league so that was like okay great this is a great opportunity for me to go to a contender and then now getting traded to a yet another divisional team which you know I didn’t have any say in it but at the same time I’m very familiar with all the teams having played here now for I don’t know how many years but so you have that sense of um like I said familiarity with the teams and the players and so on so on uh it’s going to be uh emotional I think going back to Boston and play there with all the the relationships and ties that I have with all the people in the organization and on the outside as well but at the same time I’m looking forward to it because I mean I played in Buffalo in my first games against Boston was as opponents so now we’re back to square one yeah so I do you want to stick it to Boston when you play them obiously yeah 100% I if I wouldn’t say yes that would be very different like weird I would say especially as a golender I I can’t say that yeah I’m just gonna let go in there letting five rip in the first period and then go sit on the bench and the last two that it doesn’t work like that that you it doesn’t matter if which team it would ever be you would always want to beat your old team and I felt the same way when I came to Boston I played against Buffalo that was you know we had that little extra motivation to play them especially the first year then it kind of uh numbs for year after year because then you realize okay the players are getting changed or the ties that you have with your old team are now changed so there might be just a couple handfuls there so you don’t really have the same emotional attachment to the team after a couple years but the first one is definitely going to be uh a bit different do you know like you played two and simmer just said really big markets uh are you excited to play in the Canadian Market do you think it’s any different than playing in Boston or playing in Buffalo well playing in Boston has really prepared me for playing in if not one of the biggest hockey markets of uh all time uh with the followship they have and like throughout the whole wide world and the hockey community so I don’t think I will be surprised by anything now I’ve I’ve I’ve experienced most of it in Boston obviously and also some of it in Buffalo lenus I want to get your thoughts on uh when you look at the culture and I don’t want to be tough on Buffalo it’s just been a tough goal and I think even as sports fans we all wish that City well but what did you learn the transition from Buffalo to Boston that has had Patrice berson the city itself this incredibly winning culture and I guess applying that and bringing some of that over to Ottawa how tough it it is to win yeah and how much work it goes down to be successful that was an eye opener because I thought that I was doing the right things and thinking I was doing the right things most of the time obviously but then I get to to Boston and I get to experience players like Bergie for example and I just realized that oh shoot this is a completely different world but it was exciting at the same time because like okay so this is like one of the reasons why they’re so good and I remember that was absolutely gassed in the couple of first practice because they were just going so hard they were competing like animals and it wasn’t just like the the young fellas that wanted to make a name for thems or getting a spa a team you had the older guys like marshy you know they were going for head first into battles and uh really out compete everyone they played against and you feed off of that you feel that you get motivated watching it even though that me as a goalie don’t really care about what guy do in the corner all I’m thinking about is stopping the puck but you get the sense of you know pride in winning and uh you know you have to do it in practice because if you don’t do it in practice you know I always say that you you you practice as you play so you try to bring all these good habits into uh the games going into the season and you know throughout the season and not just in the beginning or a little bit in the middle or at the end it’s so funny you you mentioned that elenas it really starts with the older guys on the team right because they set the tone you mention you mentioned Bergie I played with him when he was a kid when he was just coming into the league and he was the exact same way but it’s it it starts with the top guys right and funnels down to the rest of the team it’s contagious yeah definitely and what I think is also good is the type of locker room that we had that it didn’t matter which guy you were it’s if you work hard you’ll get what you deserve that sort of thing and you have as much voice in the room having played two games as it is playing a thousand games there’s always something to learn from any everybody everybody has a different way of seeing things that could help other players you know maybe get an idea of okay maybe I should try this or try that okay oh that’s what you meant maybe I implement this so you got to have a high ceiling and really understand that whatever people say to your face or so is not a Act of you know trying to downgrade you or look down on you it might be a constructive criticism that they just want to help uh lenus I told you uh 30 minutes so if you have to go I I more more than accept that I just I’m only on page two of my six pages of questions so uh if you can stay longer he always lies lenus he says 30 and it turns into 40 yeah that’s F that’s fine uh yeah we can go uh I don’t really have anything I’m gonna well I do have some things to do but I I can um just I’ll get you a couple more minutes appreciate it bring the good on bring the bring the feisty on I really bring the heat W let’s go oh lenus if you could fight one go tender in the NHL who would it be what is say fight one golender yeah who’s one guy like to throw down with I would probably say sway okay okay okay are we talking like is there is there a group hug before and then is this a center ice Mass off you know what were we looking at I don’t know I think that’s a sign of deepest respect if you know if the the guys in front of you are doing everything they can to win it and it gets feisty and then there’s a big brawl or whatever there’s no emotional ties to you know the fight in itself so at that point as well if I don’t I don’t want to fight I told him multiple times during my stay in Boston I said like buddy what are you doing just I don’t want I don’t want to get out there being cold you stay in the net but but if if push comes to shove obviously but like I said I don’t I’m you know I’m I’m a lover that’s what I say oh exactly Lena you simmer asking you because simmer was in that famous fight when the lights went off versus the Russians in Canada simmer had a guy by the neck and he was choking him out when the lights SW out yeah World Juniors 1993 yeah I know and you got the LA Pac back in Boston as well they went up in the in the garden and just start shucking sh at people and that sort of thing so it’s there’s there’s been some crazy ones out there in these league so we’re not going to be as bad as that but it like I said it’s I hope it never gets to that point because like my my son said as well like he thinks he’s six and he thinks that we should get rid of the fighting because that’s mean I’m like yes buddy that’s absolutely correct but it’s a little bit different I can’t tell you all about it because you’re too young but yes you are correct I he’s very smart um I’m trying to remember your kids names Lily is your daughter’s name if I’m not mistaken oh yeah think about Harry Potter Universe see now lenus I know he knows nothing about movies basically gave you the name Harry hey I should have just gone with a royal family I would have got it um oh I’m sorry the like I know uh by the way do you have any weird foods that you like to eat or food dishes all depends on what kind of food you’re talking about we we have our own Delicacies obviously we got the um what’s it called fermented Herring for example great things oh do I love it do I like it yeah on occas when it’s done properly h i don’t just eat it out of the can uh but weird things I as and I mean I don’t know if you guys do it in Canada but I put ketchup on my pasta and meat sauce I’ve heard of I have caviar with my EG but it’s a different one it’s a Swedish one so don’t don’t worry about that one I’m not that fancy I’m still still a blue collar guy good can you get it at Ikea if you need the cavat or do you have to have it shipped over no I can get it at Ikea oh see you are blue colors um what about your goalie goal uh you’ve probably been asked a lot you you at the time were the Third NHL goalie to score a goal you’re now there’s a list of 14 of them um will you try it again yes I don’t think you know once you well I don’t need to chase it as much as I did prior to scoring so now you know I don’t have to always go for it and because once you’ve done it obviously you can always look back and say hey I scored a goal in National Hockey League but at the same time what now when I’ve done it I feel that I can do it again but I’m not like I said I’m not going to chase it if the if the opportunity presents itself I’m going to go for it obviously but I don’t want fans or whatever start screaming or like doing a lot of noise whenever I get to puck in late in the third or something like that because it’s just it’s so random and it happens so such a few times in your career that you get like a clear-cut opportunity to go for it and then you got to nail it as well where’s the puck can’t say oh it’s in a secret vault ah fair enough can’t um you talked you called Brady kachuck a bowling ball forward uh what would you use to descri I guess what’s it like to have yeah you said you said it yesterday okay I’ve done a lot of work on this I everything is factually correct uh what was it like to have him in front of the net and is it a so you also dealt with Matthew kachuck who knocked you out of the playoffs so I’m just are you okay with the kachuk family uh yeah I have a lot of respect to like again like towards them and whatever that I think that what both those guy do is uh admirable they they play the game a little bit differently obviously but they’re very good at what they’re doing and that’s what I said about Brady that he’s a bowling ball because he just runs over people he just powering through with his speed and skills and you know and the same thing can be said about Matthew obviously he’s more like you know a little bit more of a playmaker skill guy chirps a lot that sort of thing so I enjoy you know I enjoyed playing against them in certain ways but now when I got Brady in front of me as a Defender and not a forward trying to screen me that will be a lot more um joyful fair enough H do you know what you’re GNA do with your goalie mask do you have a say in it or do you let the artist pick I do not know for a fact as of now I do have some ideas but they’re not as clearcut and I haven’t really know giving them too much thought that I can say hey I’m going to go with this but it’s going to be interesting because it’s going to be different colors it’s going to be a little bit different approach I got to look into a little bit of the history of the Senators and see if there’s something to play with uh regarding that uh and who knows maybe I’ll just throw on a a Bowser with a red shell on whatever we’ll see the uh you said you’re not superstitious but uh you are you basically just a routine guy on game day and do you eat the same meal every game day yes and no I do have my routines but if my my routines aren’t as strict that I have to do a certain thing at a certain time and I have to leave my house at this point because otherwise it’s going to be you know going going badly uh I like to do what I like to do uh and uh yeah I would say that I’m more of a routine guy than superstitious because I think the superstitious in itself is when you have to turn the light off two three times before leaving the house I don’t need that I just walk out the door and lock it so lenus will you will you talk game day mornings or are you uh there some goalies you can’t talk to so after the skate are you are you are you talking are you are you the quiet guy well what do you mean like oh in the locker room would you well game game day skate so game day skate when I I was TV for a bunch of years Wally knows this there’s certain goalies that you’re not allowed to talk to the goalie on game day after the skate he is off limits you don’t talk you a guy after the after the you’re playing that morning it’s game day skate yeah I I have no no reason not to speak I’m very straightforward with my approach to the game and it’s still a new opportunity to play that game and whatever happened happened and uh and I think like I said one of the things that I was um what I had to go through in Boston is that media attention and you know ask me questions when it’s not fun or when it’s not going well and when it is a little chippy uh but also when it’s going very well a lot of buildup to this trade s Sor a lot of buildup um did that kind of prepare your family and just how does your wife and I don’t know how old your kids are um but what’s their feeling about coming to Canada and you being an auto senator now um um obviously there was some sadness to it I got to be honest with you I mean my kids are at the age where they have their friends and they have their tie so they were sad they they’re not going to see their friends and and they get to live where they’ve been now in three years but once they actually said that there’s a big opportunity that there’s going to be snow and might ex enjoy a white Christmas so to speak and that there’s some places you can go skiing and there’s a museum with Dinosaurs then my oldest one was like okay let’s go right on it it is a great City there’s a ton to do and and hopefully the canal will be open you can skate on the historic Canal um I quickly because someone asked twice now in the chat about your gear and the design will you have much to say about your design gear or your gear well I’ve got into a point in my career now when I don’t like to change too much espe uh when it comes to my designs and stuff like that so I’m probably going to keep keep it very simple you know implement the colors obviously and uh try to keep it you know kind of close to the uniform I would say and not try to know stand out too much with whatever it is so because i’ I’ve done so many types of um changes to my gears when it comes to how would they look like design wise and I I have a lot of gratitude towards the B guys as well that I work with that they can help me coming up with these sort of things so uh for for me prob it’s going to be simple it’s not going to be Pure White I hate Pure White so it’s going to be colors obviously and then I’m going to try to implement all four of them because there’s four right red black gold and yeah four okay last question and the reason we want to bring you on here I know you’re looking for a house and Jason York has been trying to sell his house uh so if you need one it’s in a great spot it’s near Brady and Drake bson so we can get you set up he’s got a house to set it’s great York here let’s go former players you know it’s set up good hot tub yeah in in hot tub in Ottawa yeah well is it is it a time machine nice nice hey L lenus thank you uh I know you’re trying to have some summer off here I oh sorry La last question I apologize what has been the feeling for you knowing the excitement surrounding this city right now with you coming to Ottawa what has this week been like for you hectic very hectic but it’s been it’s been good for every day and for every hour that goes by it feels better and better obviously and I’ve had some great conversations with multiple people from the organization and that reached out to me as well that have made me felt welcomed and the same thing applies to my wife she feels welcomed as well and my plan obviously is to sometime during the summer come in and you know have a look for myself to see how it is and meet the people face to face before Camp starts and you know get to enjoy and see what Ottawa has to offer so but those plans are you know on hold for now there are some things that needs to be taken care of here in Sweden obviously and it has to work uh when it comes to uh working out and travels and and duties obviously as a dad now that’s basically on vacation but still works out H I have my obligations as a father to care for my children as well and make sure that they have the best time of their life as well during time here in Sweden awesome awesome but you do feel the love right from the city I do I mean I feel a little I even feel a little bit love from borki hey Len lus lenus I’m from here played here five years simmer from here you’re going to love it great great City for the kids Great Schools um a lot like Sweden it’s it’ll be a nice transition for you yeah I’m looking forward to that thanks guys thanks lenus take care enjoy your thank you take care there goes lenus what a good what a what a what a you know what we’ll say this a simmer the old saying have you ever met a have you ever met a bad swed I don’t think I have uh no no no it’s incredible and all the things that you talk about and and it reminds me a little bit of eolm you know there are swedes or fins I guess that want to avoid the weather when I heard about eam going to Edmonton when you hear that for a young family and then the other part I spent a ton of time in Sweden but one of the most historic things guys at least for myself was I drove from gothenberg to Stockholm now I stopped in ly shopping on the way but I remember turning out of gothenberg and it felt like I was driving from Ottawa to North Bay and I don’t mean that in any but if you think of Sweden and you think of basically Northern Ontario it’s identical Yorkie as you know like it our Wally as well like like there’s so many things here and also I’ll say this I think really the mentality of people in Ottawa is very Swedish in a very positive way I think there’s a lot when you think about Daniel alfredson and all the other things that you know make you really feel like wow this is exactly kind of place I want to be and to me I’ve always said when it comes to raising families Wally it’s Utopia yeah it’s funny you talked about Northern Sweden we flew into ovic and landed it’s all trees it just looks like trees oh yeah yeah yeah on the runway there’s no taxi way you just turn on the runway and park and then get off the plane and go to your car like it’s so wild when you play here’s the thing too everybody in Ottawa people in Ottawa have no idea what traffic is ah it takes forever to get out to Canada and blah blah blah well listen when I played when I played in Boston I lived in Reading Massachusetts yeah morning skate or non-traffic area hours it was a 14-minute drive to the arena Pleasant Beautiful You down for a game and your game is whatever 7 o’ game so you got to leave at 4:00 it was a an hour and 20 minute drive it got to the point where I was thinking of taken the train simmer like it was crazy so this is be being here is so easy for the players to get around the city it’s they get here and they’re like wow this is great like yeah yeah to your point York when you’ve gone other places and you come back and I remember in Boston you go to scout you’re staying in the Boston area if you’re going up to Marram College there was a 10-minute window and you usually had to go on I was going to watch of all people Paul Korea and his draft here the 10-minute window was you’d get there and have dinner and see the game or you would actually miss the game that’s how different traffic shifted right to that point there and you’re right like we really from an auto perspective coming out of an Ottawa game is nothing if you’ve been to some of the other cities and even Boston for that matter parking underneath and waiting hours to hope you get out of there vice versa you play in Detroit one of the things I was told there Detroit’s a great City great Sports down but there’s certain times late at night where they tell you don’t stop at the red lights just keep going used to I don’t think it’s as bad anymore since aren they’ve cleaned up the downtown uh the ill family’s cleaned up downtown you got fo Fox town it’s much better but back in the 90s Wally oh I didn’t after a game you’re leaving at midnight I’m like blowing through red lights I’m not stopping you GNA get carjacked well so I forget now and I need to look back one of the assistant coaches from Ottawa wasn’t Perry Somebody went for a jog one night in Detroit oh my gosh top car pulled up next to him and said what do you doing get in the car you had no idea it’s yeah I was we we my cameraman and I had to empty our wallets one day walking back to the hotel from uh just dinner so thank God you had nothing in it Wally oh that’s Canadian money yeah what what the hell is the Monopoly money hey my first time I ever scouted in Chicago guys I got a ride David P I was staying at the Drake Hotel downtown I got a ride with an office official so I get to the game pretty cool Old Chicago Stadium well I decide afterwards I’m looking around well first of all there’s no taxis I’m like well I’ll walk back towards downtown and I say this in likening to some other cities and I know they’ve cleaned up I don’t think Chicago has and where the building is at but I’m walking in exact same thing cop pulls up to me and I’m finally dressed in my my tiptop tayor suit he’s like what the hell are you doing I said I’m walking back to the Drake Hotel get in get in as I slowly started to see less and less Chicago Blackhawks jerseys he realized I’m in the wrong spot of town hey speaking um a little off topic here from we’re talking about but back El mark for a well it’s it’s all Mark how how refreshing is that and you’ll appreciate this Wally a goalie that talks on game day when I when I was in when I was in Montreal uh doing games for sportset they had like a they basically had a force Fielder around kry on game you’re not allowed to talk to him he can’t talk like hold on a don’t look at him don’t even look at him look at him it’s 10 in the morning the game’s at 7 o’clock tonight he’s gonna go home and play with his kids have something eat have a nap like what Poss what possibly is going to upset this man and affect his performance that he can’t say a few words to the media like give me a freaking break there’s some teams that would have like a media intern or whatever stand by the goalie and say no no he doesn’t talk on game days no no like goalie guy and I think vasileski is one I apologize if he’s not but I believe he is would be like like he like you didn’t exist you could be like hey do you have a sec and he’d be like no I can’t no no no no no he is incapable of talking right now I’m like okay and and the media and the media guys are just doing their job because that’s what they’re told to do but let’s not but but you have to ask because Marty bro who is arguably the greatest goalie of all time and I know it’s but one of them is he would sit and talk for two hours like he he would just go hey what’s going on but Patrick W I’m 100% sure I think doesn’t talk on like there’ be weird guy like Jeff Hackett you talk about Montreal just before K Bry like Jeff hacket would be no no I don’t talk Tom brassel he didn’t talk most of time hey Sim simmer tug Ron Ron tug not tuger was the best we had tuer on the Pod about two months ago he was was fantastic by the way wall he wants to come back on we need to do part two with tuer um he wouldn’t he wouldn’t talk to us he wouldn’t talk to his teammates and this this what this this this the dog and pony show went on till game time he’d get to the rink and it became a game where where Wade R and I would try and trick him into talking he would be sitting there looking straight ahead doing his crazy routine then he told me it wasn’t until Columbus when he went to Columbus when he finally said what the hell am I doing I’ve SP my whole career having no fun before games getting all uptight and basically flip-flopped and changed his whole thing and started talking but Tugger might have been the worst worst simmer of of guys in this well where it wears you down and credit to Patrick W and I I knew Jeff hacket and hack you know a lot like myself that nervous energy it’s a terrible way to exist and when you look at a guy like Mark one thing on Patrick W always found funny too was in talking not as much to tuger but to Craig Billington uh always different of he didn’t want a backup that was any threat to him and you would think of all the goendale I want a guy that I know is only going to play 15 games is no threat whatsoever and that made him comfortable so everyone’s a little bit different but as far as ol Mark’s approach um very methodical very mature very bright typical swed and the part that has to resonate guys if I’m taking anything and I talked to Jimmy Montgomery about him um he’s a family man first and you know some people get up and chat that and say that and maybe aren’t that if you were an Ottawa person and I say this from having lived in Washington DC lived in the Boston area lived in Russia my kids raised in the United States I always say Ottawa is the greatest place on the planet to raise children if you’re not of a senator’s fan and you know and in confident and know this city you know once he arrives here with his family pretty good chance if things go right he’s never gonna want to leave that that’s the message I would take as a real positive of I’m a sense fan yeah 100% yeah yeah uh by the way I I did send him a note uh simmer I said you were volunteering to be a nanny if be for him so whatever he needs you’re gonna help him out it’s part of the goalie Union you have to do it listen I got I got how good was all Mark though boys that was uh just the just the honesty just got a hey just got a friend from our uh text from our buddy Mike Min not simmer oh nice Mike loves the show says thumbs up boys thumbs up yeah yeah it is nice and and like you said the the refreshing part of and and I’ll say this for any of the players unfortunately I’ll also when you go into some of the inseason stuff Wally and I don’t know how you did it you know yor you did it well let’s be honest that’s a different athlete when you talk to him in the End season like what are you honestly getting most times there isn’t much and I respect that once the season starts you just want to focus on hockey getting people in the offseason getting them in Sweden living on an island man oh man I find that first of all to be very cool and again another part if you’ve been to Sweden you understand their culture as far as Lakes now they have the wood sauna which I don’t know why we don’t have more saunas here but we can work on that Yorkie as far as as far as Lifestyle the Swedish lifestyle is almost identical uh to what we do here in Canada as far as the transition between winter and summer and how much they love their Lakes the barrel sauna is making a huge comeback in in the couple of my buddies just got one it’s just uh change your life summer you should invest in a barrel sauna oh I need that but I I need the cool water though you got you got to have the lake to jump into right or you got to have the cold tub or something else back back and forth that’s what it’s all about you don’t just just get a big just get a big for for the guys on a budget Wally like yourself just get the old uh get the old metal tube there like the football players fill it up with ice and you’re good to go you got to empty it all the time because of all the bacteria that builds up listen I’ve done research on this my kid asked for one and it was like I’m not spending your kid wants a c tub oh yeah yeah Jesus Christ yeah anyway we’re not not getting this and also I’ll say onar Wally just to back and and this is I think Ottawa does this and I think this is canadiana and I go back to Chris Pronger we love and I love this I think I grew up on it when a hockey telecast or an international telecast talks about how great we are as Canadians we love it and there is something very sincere and nice about olark is that this took time and I believe wholeheartedly he’s really excited to come to Ottawa and that’s still um we’re still in that transition phase here as Canadians and the Auto Center franchise that just feels good for everybody like it’s just nice after all the crap that happened over the last 15 years here in Ottawa well I’ll tell you something simmer simmer you’re you’re a goalie but being a defenseman you know when your goenda little Swagger yeah and that that Swagger rubs off on the rest of the team because you know this guy has a strong inner belief in himself yeah all Mark’s got some Swagger well him and forsberg are both playing for contracts like and and this whole thing I’m a big forsberg guy I think in the right spot and I look back to that now he was playing for a contract last time around down the stretch was out standing Wall-E I think these guys are going to be just absolutely great for each other as far as pushing and getting the absolute Max as far as a Duo here in Ottawa well you hear the one one thing that really uh resonated with me you you always wonder what the perception of other players is around the league and right away allmark says forsberg is one of the hardest working guys in the NHL and that that tells you some a lot he’s just not saying that because Mark’s not a guy that just says something that says something he thinks about it well how many times do we hear that in contrast to maybe Matt Murray’s not the thing I always took from it was forsberg’s the hardest worker aka the other guy doesn’t piss a drop uh it was brought up last year Yorkie in our summer like people were talking about forsberg and I know he was recovering from s uh sorry from his knee injuries he was at the rank all the time someone people were saying that he was working the hardest of anybody OE he was there he was he was working out on Christmas Day remember we were talking about this last year W the S celebrate on the 24th so I know I know but yeah he was uh yeah I’m with you Sim I’m I’m I don’t think we saw the real Anton forsburg last year um I know for a fact he was banged up he was dealing with some stuff so okay healthy have a good Summer come back healthy competition so I like I like it too all right uh we’re moving on a couple of things uh one we’d like to take this time now to tell you we are back tomorrow guys yeah back tomorrow we are doing a draft watchalong special oh what a promo that is look at that nice okay s look at simmer looks like he has no body there I hey now now I’m actually feeling part of Harry Potter I’m feeling like uh I’m on the dark side there Hey listen it’s not an unlimited budget here guys well that’s okay that’s okay that’ll be fun and and and it’s important that the 7:00 start cuz that’ll give us a maintenance day we can get massages in the morning kind of get lubed up there before we head for another show five in a row I thought the union no we’re not supposed to have three in a row Yorkie five in a row so that’s why we got the seven o’clock start I gotta go to the gym I’m heading over to the gym I got to do a total body realignment workout today gotta stretch on the bik sitting in this chair is a lot of work for God sake so yeah uh okay finally because we didn’t get to it the other day the uh NHL Hall of Fame uh released its inductees for this year uh great to see that’s Jeremy ronik going in as a player with pav D obviously Shay Weber um you guys both know David po really well and yeah um one of the guys you don’t hear anything ever bad about so I’m just curious of your reaction of him being in the Hall of Fame simmer I I I spent a lot of time with David he traded for me uh Sav saved my career by trading me from Anaheim and just such the way they ran things in Nashville was outstanding I know he never won but his career um nobody knows how old he is because he’s got such great hair but outstanding career um great the one the one takeaway I have from David simmer he’s just a great he’s a great human being and it’s it’s that that organization treated me as good as anywhere I’ve ever been treated and like I always say this we talked about this yesterday it always starts from the top and uh just pure class is when I think of David pole yeah uh one of the best uh people managers on the planet you’d sit in a meeting with him and he’d have a list of things that were important to you gave me a start as a player a terrible third goal tender and then to work into the National Hockey League both as a broadcaster my biggest mistake in my career 1997 I had three jobs lined up assistant GM Nashville assistant GM Washington GM of Chicago Wolves door number three I chose which I want to be a capital but it was a huge mistake one of the greatest people ever I wish he won a Stanley Cup but don’t let that take you away he has affected people’s lives one of my favorite stories ever Ally of frd had had some serious issues when we traded from Toronto wasn’t just about getting Al up and running as a hockey player he spent hours on David’s couch he had players like Peter bonder live with him he affected lives he changed lives he helped people he’s one of the greatest men on the planet and very deserving and I think what I felt is that he could have went into the Hall of Fame sooner but I bet if I know David he wanted to retire first and then have the opportunity to go in so great and hey he mentored Barry trotz from a tri out with the Washington Capitals to a scout to an assistant coach in Baltimore to a head coach in Portland to the coach of the Nashville Predators to a Stanley Cup champion and now general manager comes full circle along with Andrew brunett job well done and congratulations David the uh the very first team franchise to implement the father’s trip that was David David and and Barry trots they started the fathers that’s where it all started and that’s well we were the first team York of strength coach 1986 we had a nutritionist who actually helped out the players and the wives we were the first ones to have a summer program because of David Po and Jack button everything was ahead of the game and then people be ah he didn’t get it done in the playoffs I I I understand and unfortunately I will say that uh walli it did take a toll on David there’s no doubt that by the time he left Washington was a fresh start but I think somewhere deep down unfortunately he expected the worst to happen when it came playoff time I was thrilled to see them get to a final but I think that did alter things for him a little bit but like I said that doesn’t take away from he’ll always say it’s about the people in the game and I really really believe that in David’s case of pH he’s just one of the greatest human beings ever yeah and and and and and some great people going in as well but my God who did Alex who did Alexander mcil piss off yeah yeah well I I’ve also and this is part of the the Hall of Fame Wally that I just have a bit of a problem with you don’t have to put other people down like if you ask me and this is when I started scouting in 1992 one of the first lines I watched was Keith kachuck salani and jnov Keith kachuck should be a layup to be in the Hall of Fame and I’ll also say this for standards and I have a little soft SW for Peter bondra if you score 500 goals in the National Hockey League to me you should be in the H Hall of Fame like I I used to be 400 like if you think of and I say this people because people are this is in my wheelhouse just like Yorkie you saw these guys you knew the impact that they made and when I hear some names come up and I like Shea Weber but this is how political the thing becomes the impact that Alexander mcgil and that first year 1989 World junr he bur and and federov are align and what the impact they had in the National Hockey League I still remember watching him with Pat LaFontaine in the odd scoring from the neutral zone um just very sad but you don’t have to put other people down York I guess is my point there’s a lot of great I’d love to see Rob bremore but I I think kachuck and I think mcy should be automatics and I thought it would have been pretty cool for for big Walt kachuck yesterday after his son winning the cup I I know it’s it’s because we everybody always thinks but just the NHL but when I when I really look at it and with the Hall of Fame and this is just my opinion mhm when you are the best at what you did for a period of time and I can make that argument for Alexander mcy there was a one or twoe period where you could almost him as best player in National Hockey the year he scored 76 you could also say that Keith kachuck there was a time because I played against Keith and I’ll tell you first firstand experience Sim and Wally best power forward what he brought to the game I’m talking about physicality scoring goals and just that prototypical power forward from that from that from that generation there was there was a period when he was the best he was scoring he was he was fighting he was standing there fette and he was a force uh to me I I agree Keith kachuck is in my hall of fame because he was the best at what he did for a period of time so Keith kachuk is 35th all time in goal scored 35 yeah there have been over 7,000 players to play in the National Hockey League so that that into itself for me but Yori I’m on with you like it’s called the Hockey Hall of Fame not the NHL Hall of Fame like he’s done it up internationally right there was 96 God yeah so but you knew and the same with Jeremy ronic you knew when these guys came to town they at the time were icons and I still think that needs to be taken into consideration I don’t care about the Stanley Cup not one individual wins the Stanley Cup so all that stuff you don’t need to be a major award winner that’s not something for me either I just they they were icons of the game at that time I like you knew Jeremy ronick was coming to town or Keith kachuck and that that’s why I think they should be in there you’re 3th in goals just yeah and you can’t like here’s the thing guys and Dale Hunter will never get in and neither will probably robod brymore but the comparison to G Carbono you just kind of say to yourself are you joking the impact that these guys had and I’ll say for Jamie ronic watch in the small building and that was when they had just signed Eddie B for and they traded for Chris Chelios he get out there it was worth the price of admission and I saw Keith kachuck and him and Bill Garen this was an exhibition game Canada US leading up to the Olympics Eric lindross had flew in from warm-up Bill Garen and Keith kachuck were on Eric Lind Ross’s ass and they were after him but Keith kachuck why I don’t also get it guys it is royalty and here’s a guy that I believe played in Olympics previous to 98 96 World Cup of Hockey was outstanding had a great career I can’t really get that one I I I would have thought that USA Hockey or the St Louis Blues by now would have been really pushing to get Keith kachuck into the Hockey Hall of Fame that that to me would have been a layup before Jeremy ronuk for that matter well right because at the time he was the highest scoring us-born player yeah um there’s there’s so much about him like I I just don’t understand that one I I can’t figure out for the life me and by the way he’ll eventually get he has to why like why why is there a punishment then who know I don’t know I don’t know so um here’s a trivia question how many players in the National Hockey League have scored a thousand points oo a thousand points all time I’ll go 52 I know 61 98 players have scored a th000 points Brian prop is a th4 he is number 98 I think if you score a thousand points in the National Hockey League you are a Hall of Fame player a thousand points gentlemen okay the the only issue I have with that and here’s the other one I like Pier Turon but I never watched him and thought he was a Hall of Fame player but when you look at the amount of games he’s played that’s the only offset Wally if you played 1,500 games and only got a th000 points a bit different but I kind of go back to some of the baseball stuff I I look at 500 goals personally I don’t have a problem with thousand points but like I said you you some guys hang around long enough that they can end up achieving that but still a thousand games a th000 points is inred inedible achiev I I the goal scoring is huge but the thing I always go back to is like during vra’s career of any of those years would you have said he was a top 20 player in the NHL like overall players throughout his that’s and you look at Pier tjon and there was a period of time where you could say he was a top five player in the league it wasn’t for long he had years when he was putting up monster Seasons it’s guess per I guess perception of him perception of Pier ton when he played Yorkie was he couldn’t really win with him and strangely strangely enough and I know Dale Hunter didn’t hear the whistle but that year when he ended up getting hurt they ended up beating Pittsburgh then he came back for the Montreal series I’m just saying and I’ll use this I’m not against Chris Osgood but when I watch Chris Osgood his whole career I personally don’t ever never thought of Chris Osgood as a hall of fame hockey player but when I revisit numbers years later and I’ll go back to the rod brymore versus ton and for period of B no absolutely not I just say that you look at certain standards and think man how hard it like Dino cicarelli and I love Dino but gosh Come on like 600 goals and in comparison to what these other guys accomplished but that’s the downside of putting other people down to justify the existence of other guys Bernie federko Clark Gillies you know G Carbono um it really becomes an understanding of how secretive it is and how political it is did you ever see a guy take a worse beating in front of the net than Dino he’s like I played with ack 75 and just just Tak an absolute beating in front of that he earned a lot of those goals man no oh my God and franchising for David P who had been in a contract dispute with Mike Gardner for years all of a sudden turned around and traded Mike Gartner uh uh and Larry Murphy to the Minnesota northstars for Dino cicerelli and Bob Rouse uh Mike Gartner was not thrill I’ll just tell one quick story which is kind of funny that same year and Larry Murphy got booed out of every town that he played in in other than Detroit so don’t think this just started in Toronto but it ended up Minnesota flipped him to Pittsburgh and I love Craig Button story they lost to Pittsburgh in the finals that year and they’re having their meetings and they said listen what is the one thing we need to address this summer to take us to another level we need an offensive defenseman and everyone’s like didn’t we just trade Larry Murphy but that’s full circle for Washington Capital storytelling time okay uh last question then on the Hall of Fame where do you go Patrick Marlo is he a Bonafide Hall of Fame player did when he played did you think he was a top 20 player like you just alluded to he played oh just to we clear 1779 games Bas yeah that’s 1197 points 566 goals he has great numbers but did you ever think Patrick well ask Jeremy ronic that question remember but here’s what I’ll say here’s what I’ll say and I don’t like to put down players and say because Marlo has had a fraking hell of a career the longevity staying that healthy outstanding player if if it was me no um but there’s other guys that are already in that you could make the argument and say well he deserves in so yeah the Hall of Fame thing is just so it’s so tricky and and there’s so different things but if yeah from day one if I was doing it no I wouldn’t because I look at my thing were you one of the best in the game at at at at a time when you played and my answer to that would be no no and it felt like every year at the draft we were going to make a trade for Marlo and Stewart for Chris Simon and Peter bondra and it was three years in a row we realized it wasn’t going to happen on the case of Patrick Marlo not a chance because I never saw him that way and unfortunately he never showed up in the big games and I I can’t necessarily quantify that Wall-E to say but yeah and the other part here’s the key if you want to when you’re starting your hockey career you young hockey people out there here’s a few things you need to do become friendly with the media AKA Brendan Shanahan although Shanny deserves to be in the other one is you must secure and I’m sure York you’ll get the call at some point secure Newport Sports as your representatives if you want the opportunity to get into Hockey Hall of Fame now and I’m not and I ain’t joking and I’m not joking but and I don’t mean that anything negative the power that that group has within Toronto and you ask why is Dave branch on there well who are most of the media members who are the most of the people and so many people have been put into the Hockey Hall of Fame hanging out at the uh what was the bar everyone used to go to in Toronto wall after the games ah all the hockey night in Canada Madison Madison house so many people Rob brymore and you thought putting a man on the moon was important Rob Rob zner making the Olympic team was a greater accomplishment because I don’t even believe we put a man on the moon but I know Rob zamer made the Olympic team and that happened at the Madison and also a lot of people made the Hall of Fame at the Madison I should also also Patrick Marlo Patrick Marlo is a two-time Olympic gold Champion uh world champion so that that so that he’s a World Cup he’s a member I think the triple based on that he never won a St cop he never won a stle cop sorry but internationally sorry he’s got Junior Gold sorry go ahead okay yeah yeah so based on the criteria of what it takes to get in the Hall of Fame I would say yeah he is a Hall of Fame but for my personal view no but my view doesn’t matter so who cares I but I think you need to celebrate the Hall of Fame I don’t know what the definition is but you I think you celebrate the great players of the game and Alex McGill was a great player of the game if you were around that era you knew who Elmo was you knew who kachuck and so that’s why it’s time to celebrate those people yeah do you think mcgil the fact he smoked like do people hold that against him well then Gila Flur wouldn’t be right no that’s a good point here’s the other part I’ll say internationally guys and and you make a great Point Wally I do put a lot into that like one of the things when Alfie was being talked about if you had played in five Olympics back in the day now the window from 98 to 2018s a bit different but still if you’re a five-time Olympian you deserve Alex McGill would have played on so many teams had he not defected and not wanted to play for Russia after the fact but no his impact to it and and I do put a lot into that that that’s to me what with Theo flurry and Theo first of all I think for what he overcame should be in the Hall of Fame but world jior olyp Stanley Cup probably W of World Championships I do look at that stuff as being very important on the international level on top of your NHL resume being 56 and playing in an era when you had to be even six feet tall to be drafted is incredible and then going on to do what he did and just just so tough to play against you know when you knew when you’re playing against FY that you’re going to be in for it in a scrum he bite your finger off do he’ll do whatever it takes to win like those those are guys those are guys you win with yeah and I also don’t understand guys I I look at it from what he overcame I would think that would make you a lay up like and I met Theo in 1985 we at the under 18 team and became fairly good friends and you know Sheldon Kennedy like great guys I just put myself Wally back to as a 17-year-old kid trying to comprehend what Theo Theo didn’t get drafted our draft year got drafted the following year everything that he overcame with graham James to me that would be that should be that should be more more reason to induct him and to show people how incredible it is what he did and also what he stood for and I know forget the politics part of it but what he stood for you know uh and how he’s overcome this and being public about it well but I don’t know that you want to necessarily have him doing a speech at the hall of fame no no well maybe you do a you do no you do a recorded you do a recorded today you don’t want to tr you don’t want to cause another trucker Convoy in Toronto I mean but but he uh no okay we got breaking news oh whoa whoa whoa whoa where you go Ken Holland is out of the mton Oilers organization huh wow wow resigned fired what officially told the Oilers according to Darren drer uh Ken Holland officially told the Oilers he will not return to the team next season any capacity okay uh I’ll say this for Kenny Holland I think he kind to the Ottawa Senators um well that’s interesting I mean he ended up giving Steve stales there there was some link to Columbus here’s my feeling and the thought he got pushed up of well it was funny going back he got Brian Murray’s JW but he got pushed out in essence by Steve isman when Jeff Jackson went to uh uh Edmonton who was the agent and of course now the president ja is the guy like Jax is in charge of everything and I didn’t get the sense that he and Kenny Holland were on the same page to be quite honest with you so I can’t say this is necessarily a surprise uh I’ll just be interested to kind of see what direction they end up going uh Scotty Upshaw who by the way connection telling me that Ken Holland could be on his way to Chicago really position to be determined up dog Insight you never know I played with Scotty in Nashville for a couple couple years what a beauty yeah that there’s some characters there with the world junior in holax and him and uh loople and oh man did they have some characters uh for Kenny Holland if you’re the Chicago Blackhawks you’re trying to bring credibility back to your brand uh and trying to bring kind of a winning along with assisting a young general manager oh that’d be a great hire for Chicago Blackhawks yeah yeah I was in Detroit uh summer when Kenny Holland was making his way up yeah yeah yeah just a great great guy great human being oh absolutely so much experience that would be a great fit Chicago bring bring in his knowledge his what he knows his connections because you know when you’re making deals it’s it’s all about relationships who you trust for sure that would be a great hire yeah okay don’t go anywhere uh the stars and I apologize someone in the chat just brought this up to me I think Jordan Zimmerman I apologize okay stars are buying out Ryan sudor contract okay yeah yeah yeah I guess no shock got a nice little deal for himself after being bought out uh he’s probably going to get paid for the rest of his life I assume by now um both with uh and and I think of David pil like double kicks in the nuts the Shea Weber offer sheet which I will make one point on but when sudor all of a sudden was G given the offer sheet by Minnesota along with pzy one of the things Yorkie that and while he altered someone’s career was David P when that offer sheet for Weber for Philadelphia which is basically a foot out the door the one modification that he had made was you cannot put a no trade clause in an in an offer sheet and that was taken out by the Nashville Predators which basically paved the way for Shea Weber um becoming a Montreal Canadian that’s right that’s right interesting um interesting to not there’s someone I don’t know if this is factual so I’m only going off Twitter so if it’s wrong I apologize that yeah Ryan sud may be the first player in NHL history be bought out twice I don’t know if that’s true but he will make 833 next year by Minnesota and 1.4 by Dallas to not play for them oh man hey that is the gig I don’t know what Tony Robbins thing he’s listening to No that’s that’s that’s impressive hey you just got to figure out where to live you know so you can avoid the taxes you know yeah that’s the only thing maybe I I bet the Fell’s probably setting up shop on the Cayman Islands Yorkie AB oh boy uh all right boys see you back tomorrow hey One Last Time 7 pm tomorrow night we have guests lined up including at the time right now Ian Mendes is going to join us from the draft uh hopefully it all works out because he’s in the sphere I’d like to be able to see him hopefully we can make it video wise not sure but that would be amazing yeah a few other guys lined up as well uh Yorkie will be on fumes and probably into an oldfashioned by then so well even even with Mendes let’s hope he’s able to make the slot he’s not going on a big Bender while he’s out there hey I One Night in New York I saw him pound back some roming Cokes I was shocked he was still walking some not one multiple like he okay yeah and he just seemed like he had done this all the time like like I’m nearly buckled here I think he was pulling the 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