Well, if they were gonna address it, relentlessly mocking Steve for not even having the decency to get a paycheck from the bad source first was probably the right way to do it.
This was the perfect way to address the MLH situation, kudos to Steve for taking it on the chin, and you know you have a good group of buddies when they can laugh at you on a very public platform and you can all have fun with it. Good stuff!
Thank you Adam for finally acknowledging what got Reilly suspended, it was all because he skated after him to deliver the hit it’s not the same as the Sousey cross check at all.
And he is wrong. He is so quick to mention rule 69, he fails to keep scrolling and see Rule 69.7 "in a rebound situation, or where a goalkeeper and attacking player(s) are simultaneously attempting to play a loose puck, whether inside or outside the crease, incidental contact will be permitted, and any goal that is scored as a result thereof will be allowed."
I would argue the rebound is happening during the incidental contact. Rewatch the play again. When Bennet hits Coyle in the back. The shot was already blocked by Swayman and was infront of Coyle and Bennett as a rebound. Now, you could argue Coyle was interfered with on the rebound by Bennett. That I could see. But that is not what was called. What was called was goaltender interference. Coyle played some terrible defense by being in the crease and being in the way of Swayman, possibly, being able to get to the other side of the net. Even if Coyle was not in the crease, Swayman's legs and knees were on the ground. He wouldn't have had time to push off on his left leg. To possibly make the save because....it was a rebound shot Bennett got off in quick succession of the hit. Again, it is not just Bennet playing off the rebound. It's the rebound, Coyle being in the crease and already blocking a potential path (fully blocked, or partially blocked) and Swayman not being in a position to quickly respond to a quick rebound due to his bodies position. It was the right call to not overturn the goal due to Bennett's hit. As much as people want to be angry at the officiating, which people can be. Playoff officiating is always horrendous. But in this instance, no. It's a good goal.
@andrewmartin6120 69.7 specifies it's incidental contact between an attacking player and the goalie. Bennett intentionally cross-checking Coyle into Swayman wouldn't fall under that. This is goalie interference in any serious league. But as we know the NHL refuses to have consistent Goalie Interference rules
Feel like having Adam & Jesse streaming different series has done wonders for the podcast; they’re able to fully understand what it’d like as fans of non Leafs teams beyond Twitter / TH-cam clips.
To add onto Steve's point about the players adapting if you call the rules, look no further than Brady Tkachuk complaining that he's not allowed to be a goon in the World Championships against Slovakia. Look at what happens if the officials and organization commits to not allowing the kind of ridiculous physical play that is typical in the NHL and the Tkachuk brothers make their living on. Suddenly, they're forced to play hockey and they will even if they don't want to. He hems and haws, but you know what's not happening? No one is getting sucker punched in the face in that game and staying in the game and the tournament. No one is getting cross checked in the face after the whistle. Brady isn't laying out everyone then trying to start a line brawl after every whistle. The players will adapt if you make them. It is 100% percent possible to make these plays and injuries and styles of play disappear from the NHL. They just do not want to. Imagine if a player got tossed after throwing one punch in a scrum after the whistle and then the very next play. Think anyone on the ice is gonna risk throwing that punch if they know they're out of the game for doing it and not just a 2 minute time out? There's a reason in football they do not break into spontaneous fights at the end of every play like happens in playoff hockey despite being an equally physical sport especially talking about linemen. Every single one of those players knows that they will be thrown out if they do it, and they will hurt their team and that's not worth it. Everyone else has figured it out. Even baseball! There was a fight between white sox and Guardians last year where the benches cleared and the guys fought each other. The players involved didn't go sit in a box for 5 minutes. They were suspended for 6 games each as well as the managers for a game each. The mlb embarrassed the guys that engaged in that fight instead of glorifying them for being tough guys, and as such fights are very rare in baseball now when they used to be far more common. There's your path NHL.
Yeah, Steve was definitely right about the NHL not caring about being a sports league. They care more about being the violence on ice league. I bet they even think all the talk about the referees is good for the game because "no press is bad press"
Yup. I’ve grown up around rugby my whole life, and ‘magically’, ‘somehow’, that sort of BS is rare as hen’s teeth. Because-shocker-the rules are policed and enforced. I just read a news item the other day about a player in my country being suspended for several weeks (yes, weeks) for a dangerous play. (And thus North Americans are frequently tickled pink by how polite large rugby players are to refs 😅)
@@avalnz86 I saw a clip of two rugby players getting scolded by a ref for dangerous play, and both of them promised to get their players under control. And they did. I literally cannot imagine that happening in hockey.
@@JoeMagician Ha, yes that was what I grew up thinking was just how professional sports were. Imagine my rude awakening getting into hockey a few years ago. The prevailing cultural attitude is to blame the player too, i.e. *they’ve* quite possibly left their team in a difficult position for X many games due to undisciplined/juvenile behaviour, rather than assuming the disciplining body was in the wrong.
Thank you for mentioning rugby, Steve. As a newer hockey fan, and an international one who was not raised on any North American sports, I frequently roll my eyes at North American parochialism (/exceptionalism) with regards to hockey. The high standard in Rugby Union reffing is what I’ve come to expect, and the standard of reffing and player safety rulings in hockey-regardless of team, regardless of player-is the worst I’ve personally ever seen. So egregious it often feels comical, and I think it really does impact the sport’s international marketability and growth. I find I have to think of hockey as having some inherently unserious elements or I wouldn’t be able to enjoy it.
This is why most reporters are trained in how to verify a source. It's unfortunate Steve made this mistake, but hopefully it can be a good opportunity to learn the important of verifying information from more than one source before blasting it out to the internet as a fact
I didnt understand all the outrage to begin with, but Steve's sense of accountability is very admarirable. Love that Jesse and Adam broke his balls for it. Perfectly handled, even though it was really a non-issue.
Hyman should also be suspended. He cross checked Zadorov in the face (aimed for it because height difference) and Zadorov needed stitches. But no, not even a fine for him. How am I not supposed to feel like Edmonton is receiving favourable treatment?
Much more so than Steve. Also much smarter. Steve is just a blowhard that got big in the early days of TH-cam by screeching and shrilling like a 12 year old girl on Leafs videos.
My respect for steve after that rant on the officials has absolutely sky rocketed. Good on you the sport is starting to hurt because of these officials.
Hockey has such a huge opportunity to become more of a mainstream sport in America, especially with the overwhelming success of the PWHL and the post-covid landscape benefitting sports generally and the NHL specifically, but you're absolutely right. I bet a lot of people who would otherwise enjoy hockey are one egregiously badly officiated game away from losing all fledgling interest. And I've never seen this amount of fans, offline and online, all united in pointing out how bad the officiating is across the league. Everyone feels pretty united here in their anger.
Steve for sure doesnt watch other sports because the NFL is so so much worse than the NHL. And with how awful the reffing is in that, it still manages to stay as the number 1 sports league in the world. If people are leaving hockey to go to another sport, they are going to get equally or even worse reffing than hockey.
Much respect from a bruins fan who has followed you for years. No one does Bruins analysis like SDPN. ALSO thank you for being the one smart person responding to Sweeney’s comments thinking they way he phrased his words to demand them put the refs on the stand to be questioned. Everyone was pisses he didn’t “intentionally take the fine and give them a piece of his mind” What a win would it be if we could question the refs? The biggest of all time that’s what.
Loved the officiating discussion. Look at the Premier League (European Football), VAR has completely taken over. It seems in sports currently, atleast the ones that I personally watch, that there is no middle ground between missing everything in the rulebook (NHL) and going so far into it and using all the devices at hand that you STILL make the incorrect call (EPL).
Good on you Steve Dangle. I'm fine with watching the Bruins fall. Frankly they've been the second best team in this series, but holy crap the refs need to read their own rule book and stop "interpreting" the rules into meaning the opposite due to their feelings.
Gym bro here and got to defend Steve pullups and pulldowns both primarily work the Lats. Pull downs are good accessory work or training if you struggle with pull ups.
Bruins fan here. Thank you for validating my opinion on that bullshit goal last night. I am just absolutely crushed man. Juat go back to 2019 where we got scored on after that blatant trip and its just like who hates us?!
I always love Steve... I have lost my faith in the NHL... I will still follow Steve and all similar outlets, but I lost faith in NHL playoffs from here onto eternity... Either the officiating is blind and ignorant, or they are following prescribed marching orders. I don't want to believe either option... but what else is there??
I'm hearing WWE when Steve says : "it's not a sport league!" Feels like it. The action is real, as in wrestling, but the result is influenced by the refs and DOPS. 😂 Fire Gary
boston has had a decade of refs looking the other way and now that they look the other way on them i dont have a problem with it. all things balanced out.
Also I really think we can say that Jeremy Swayman is definitely close to Shesterkin at this point. He is the only reason the Bruins still have any chance at all.
Thank you for calling out the rampant incompetence at the level it warrants. This isn't just bad what we're seeing, it's a complete and utter disaster. No one fumbles the bag quite as comically as the NHL, but at this point it almost feels like they're actively TRYING to remain a niche league. I can't imagine a single casual fan tuning in and trying to get into the league, watching these mouthbreathers in stripes not having the slightest clue how to do their job, and then thinking "hell yeah I'm gonna invest more time and money in this league".
41:00 fully support a perfectly fair drop. Failing to win faceoffs is one of the easiest ways to lose control of the game. Caps and Bruins in round 1 got absolutely pantsed in faceoffs and the results showed. The Bruins are built better to survive not owning the puck, but still dropped games they would have won had the faceoff percentage been closer to even. I'm not saying those drops weren't fair, I'm just saying the faceoff advantage can be more of a game changer than penalties.
Pretty sure the officiating was horrible last year playoffs as well. It’s a yearly occurrence and nothing will change. Fans/media scream and yell, the heat subsides and life goes on. Fans continue to watch, buy tixs and merch. The NHL just waits it out as they know fans have short memories and won’t stop watching/buying, so nothing changes. Suck, but that how it is w all major sports leagues. 🤷♀️
Smart Insider Man!! 2024 edition. That said I do want to apologize for being part of the Saudis-paying-Steve brigade. Once I saw you'd taken down the video I knew it must have been a gross misunderstanding. Thank you guys for the transparency and for being such good sports about it.
McBaby started this by taking advantage of his position and sticking people, cheap shots, all over the ice. This is, by all intents and purposes, a fixed league.
I feel like where you got into hot water was, while it may have supposed to have been just a news video, it really really came off like a promo, which made people (including myself) assume you'd been paid for it. And then there was a tweet from some reporter that there was Saudi backing. Getting got is way better than that, but that's just a hard lesson learned.
To Adam’s question, what’s different is that it’s NOT everything goes. That would be consistent. They’re all over the place without any rhyme or reason. Bruins got called for a ticky tack goalie interference penalty in game 3 right before Bennett was allowed to cross-check a guy right onto the goalie score. Steve used to tell the refs to pick a thing and they’ve now done the exact opposite.
It's weird how you Toronto people mention Zadorov and Soucy but no one complains about McDavid's slash or Hyman's cross check to Zadorov's face. Yea that's all fine...
I remember when Adam first mentioned the fake dropping puck thing and I was like what the hell. But no it's actually the stupidest thing in the world. What fuckin minigame are the refs playing just drop the puck and skate off idiots
Adam is right. You have to overcome the refs as well as your opponent. It's just part of the game now. But Steve is having the more important conversation about the desperate need for change. It protects the stars, creates a truly fair ground for opponents and creates a more entertaining product by way of not giving fans high blood pressure every night during the playoffs over missed/bad calls.
I get the rent on poor officiating but my question is: would different teams have gotten through a lot more often if the officiating was different? I get the feeling the bad calls are more or less equal so the effect on the overall results is not major. They do lead to many more unnecessary injuries that i agree with.
About the ref situation, in WCOH the match between Czech and Swiss, one of the guys on commentery was Jakub Voráček and on question, what is the worst about that game, he said refs 😂. Do this is not just NHL, it is all around situation and it is damn shame.
Damn the Bruins got fleeced there, I guess everyone should just push defending players into the goalie to create scoring opportunities because that's good hockey, I guess
BIggest reason Canes are now behind in the series is because the freakign powerplay cant score and they have given what... 3? shorties its the thing thats the difference in one goal games, if you get 5 powerplays in a game agaisnt rangers, you have to score on them
How about Kane”s slewfoot on Hughes, Jessie wants to say he’s all for protecting superstars so what is Quinn not a superstar?? Oh and the spear and cross check from Ryan and Hyman get nothing. “ department oh Mcdavid safety strikes!” This league is So inconsistent
I think you have to look at in the other way, if you suspend someone for one playoff game, you would have to suspend them for four or five regular season games for the punishment to hit as hard as
Well, if they were gonna address it, relentlessly mocking Steve for not even having the decency to get a paycheck from the bad source first was probably the right way to do it.
Jesse😂😂😂😂
“Not an email from someone who’s a prince..”. 😂😂😂😂
Diposed prince of Nigeria prolly
Everyone: Steve and SDPN took a step back
Entirety of SDPN: laughing their asses off at Steve and Steve hilariously embarrassed about it.
This was the perfect way to address the MLH situation, kudos to Steve for taking it on the chin, and you know you have a good group of buddies when they can laugh at you on a very public platform and you can all have fun with it. Good stuff!
There is something bizarre and wonderful about Steve defending the Bruins.
Addressing it was the right thing to do.
Im a leafs fan and love seeing marchand get his as much as anyone..BUT how is morgan reilly suspended for 5 games and bennet not even fined?!
Thank you Adam for finally acknowledging what got Reilly suspended, it was all because he skated after him to deliver the hit it’s not the same as the Sousey cross check at all.
Omg you know the league is a joke when STEVE DANGLE IS ARGUING IN FAVOUR OF THE BRUINS!!!!! 🤯😭😱🤬🤣😵💫
And he is wrong. He is so quick to mention rule 69, he fails to keep scrolling and see Rule 69.7 "in a rebound situation, or where a goalkeeper and attacking player(s) are simultaneously attempting to play a loose puck, whether inside or outside the crease, incidental contact will be permitted, and any goal that is scored as a result thereof will be allowed."
@@andrewmartin6120the “incidental” contact happened before the rebound. That rule doesn’t apply.
I would argue the rebound is happening during the incidental contact. Rewatch the play again. When Bennet hits Coyle in the back. The shot was already blocked by Swayman and was infront of Coyle and Bennett as a rebound. Now, you could argue Coyle was interfered with on the rebound by Bennett. That I could see. But that is not what was called. What was called was goaltender interference. Coyle played some terrible defense by being in the crease and being in the way of Swayman, possibly, being able to get to the other side of the net. Even if Coyle was not in the crease, Swayman's legs and knees were on the ground. He wouldn't have had time to push off on his left leg. To possibly make the save because....it was a rebound shot Bennett got off in quick succession of the hit. Again, it is not just Bennet playing off the rebound. It's the rebound, Coyle being in the crease and already blocking a potential path (fully blocked, or partially blocked) and Swayman not being in a position to quickly respond to a quick rebound due to his bodies position. It was the right call to not overturn the goal due to Bennett's hit. As much as people want to be angry at the officiating, which people can be. Playoff officiating is always horrendous. But in this instance, no. It's a good goal.
@@andrewmartin6120 I respectfully disagree
@andrewmartin6120 69.7 specifies it's incidental contact between an attacking player and the goalie. Bennett intentionally cross-checking Coyle into Swayman wouldn't fall under that. This is goalie interference in any serious league. But as we know the NHL refuses to have consistent Goalie Interference rules
Feel like having Adam & Jesse streaming different series has done wonders for the podcast; they’re able to fully understand what it’d like as fans of non Leafs teams beyond Twitter / TH-cam clips.
Kelly Sutherland is also the guy who stared right at Accari getting tripped in the 2019 finals and did nothing
To add onto Steve's point about the players adapting if you call the rules, look no further than Brady Tkachuk complaining that he's not allowed to be a goon in the World Championships against Slovakia. Look at what happens if the officials and organization commits to not allowing the kind of ridiculous physical play that is typical in the NHL and the Tkachuk brothers make their living on. Suddenly, they're forced to play hockey and they will even if they don't want to. He hems and haws, but you know what's not happening? No one is getting sucker punched in the face in that game and staying in the game and the tournament. No one is getting cross checked in the face after the whistle. Brady isn't laying out everyone then trying to start a line brawl after every whistle. The players will adapt if you make them. It is 100% percent possible to make these plays and injuries and styles of play disappear from the NHL. They just do not want to. Imagine if a player got tossed after throwing one punch in a scrum after the whistle and then the very next play. Think anyone on the ice is gonna risk throwing that punch if they know they're out of the game for doing it and not just a 2 minute time out? There's a reason in football they do not break into spontaneous fights at the end of every play like happens in playoff hockey despite being an equally physical sport especially talking about linemen. Every single one of those players knows that they will be thrown out if they do it, and they will hurt their team and that's not worth it. Everyone else has figured it out. Even baseball! There was a fight between white sox and Guardians last year where the benches cleared and the guys fought each other. The players involved didn't go sit in a box for 5 minutes. They were suspended for 6 games each as well as the managers for a game each. The mlb embarrassed the guys that engaged in that fight instead of glorifying them for being tough guys, and as such fights are very rare in baseball now when they used to be far more common. There's your path NHL.
Yeah, Steve was definitely right about the NHL not caring about being a sports league. They care more about being the violence on ice league.
I bet they even think all the talk about the referees is good for the game because "no press is bad press"
Yup. I’ve grown up around rugby my whole life, and ‘magically’, ‘somehow’, that sort of BS is rare as hen’s teeth. Because-shocker-the rules are policed and enforced. I just read a news item the other day about a player in my country being suspended for several weeks (yes, weeks) for a dangerous play.
(And thus North Americans are frequently tickled pink by how polite large rugby players are to refs 😅)
@@avalnz86 I saw a clip of two rugby players getting scolded by a ref for dangerous play, and both of them promised to get their players under control. And they did. I literally cannot imagine that happening in hockey.
@@JoeMagician Ha, yes that was what I grew up thinking was just how professional sports were. Imagine my rude awakening getting into hockey a few years ago. The prevailing cultural attitude is to blame the player too, i.e. *they’ve* quite possibly left their team in a difficult position for X many games due to undisciplined/juvenile behaviour, rather than assuming the disciplining body was in the wrong.
The Bennett situation sets a dangerous precedent.
Its all fun and games until Bertuzzi breaks your f*cking neck on live tv because the refs have stopped doing their job.
Thank you for mentioning rugby, Steve. As a newer hockey fan, and an international one who was not raised on any North American sports, I frequently roll my eyes at North American parochialism (/exceptionalism) with regards to hockey.
The high standard in Rugby Union reffing is what I’ve come to expect, and the standard of reffing and player safety rulings in hockey-regardless of team, regardless of player-is the worst I’ve personally ever seen. So egregious it often feels comical, and I think it really does impact the sport’s international marketability and growth. I find I have to think of hockey as having some inherently unserious elements or I wouldn’t be able to enjoy it.
Missed an opportunity to have a sarcastic show title throwback to Smart insider man
Love my boys, good to see 'em take responsibility - great story to share too. Sometimes you just beef it.
I've said from the beginning, it's all about how you respond. Mistakes are usually fine.
I’ve been made to feel bad for Boston.
I need an hour long shower.
Canucks fan.
Steve "Smart Insider Man" Dangle lol
Dont have a problem with Soucy getting a suspension. Do have a problem that the Oilers dont have to answer for their actions
You could make a better argument for the Canucks to be up 3-0 than you could for the Oilers.
Oilers would be up 3-0. How? Can’t score 5 on 5 and Ian Cole has half their goals.
"Its been anarchy" - 32:40 I heard that title card pun instantly and chuckled.
Larry Murphy. He got chased out of Toronto, landed in Detroit. He won with the Red Wings and spent his day driving the Cup around Toronto.
A Mazda in this economy? Saudi Steve indeed, 😂😂
Well played steve thanks for being earnest and honest, respect reclaimed
This is why most reporters are trained in how to verify a source. It's unfortunate Steve made this mistake, but hopefully it can be a good opportunity to learn the important of verifying information from more than one source before blasting it out to the internet as a fact
I didnt understand all the outrage to begin with, but Steve's sense of accountability is very admarirable. Love that Jesse and Adam broke his balls for it. Perfectly handled, even though it was really a non-issue.
The MLH jokes were funny and i hope the continue, but anyone saying Steve was paid or wouldn't address it was clueless.
Adam the only non biased one on the show. Rielly play was completely different.
Stand-up guys are always admirable, even or possibly especially when standing up is painful. Having good mates who have your back helps.
Hyman should also be suspended. He cross checked Zadorov in the face (aimed for it because height difference) and Zadorov needed stitches.
But no, not even a fine for him. How am I not supposed to feel like Edmonton is receiving favourable treatment?
Thanks for directing us to Schlossman, guy seems to know his stuff.
Much more so than Steve. Also much smarter. Steve is just a blowhard that got big in the early days of TH-cam by screeching and shrilling like a 12 year old girl on Leafs videos.
My respect for steve after that rant on the officials has absolutely sky rocketed. Good on you the sport is starting to hurt because of these officials.
Hockey has such a huge opportunity to become more of a mainstream sport in America, especially with the overwhelming success of the PWHL and the post-covid landscape benefitting sports generally and the NHL specifically, but you're absolutely right. I bet a lot of people who would otherwise enjoy hockey are one egregiously badly officiated game away from losing all fledgling interest. And I've never seen this amount of fans, offline and online, all united in pointing out how bad the officiating is across the league. Everyone feels pretty united here in their anger.
Steve for sure doesnt watch other sports because the NFL is so so much worse than the NHL. And with how awful the reffing is in that, it still manages to stay as the number 1 sports league in the world. If people are leaving hockey to go to another sport, they are going to get equally or even worse reffing than hockey.
Unhinged Evangelist Dangle is my favorite Dangle. Great episode
Colin Campbells kid was on the bruins when they had their abomination of a stanley cup run. Nothing changes.
I need to know what level of injury needs to be done for the NHL to care about officiating.
Steve Dangle, the Don Cherry for the new generation
that fact the oilers have that great of a powerplay and are still losing shows how bad they are 5 on 5
btw you can get do a few day in a cell for punching sombody, but doing it on the ice is not a suspension
Much respect from a bruins fan who has followed you for years. No one does Bruins analysis like SDPN.
ALSO thank you for being the one smart person responding to Sweeney’s comments thinking they way he phrased his words to demand them put the refs on the stand to be questioned. Everyone was pisses he didn’t “intentionally take the fine and give them a piece of his mind”
What a win would it be if we could question the refs? The biggest of all time that’s what.
Loved the officiating discussion. Look at the Premier League (European Football), VAR has completely taken over. It seems in sports currently, atleast the ones that I personally watch, that there is no middle ground between missing everything in the rulebook (NHL) and going so far into it and using all the devices at hand that you STILL make the incorrect call (EPL).
It's nice to see someone is impartial about this! I am a Bruins fan but the ref's are insane or blind.
Why did the Leafs not draft Silvos? He was available
Dw, Juulsen will also cross check McPrecious for Soucy 😂
Shanahan Fired?- ❎
Pelley Cares?- ❎
Treliving loves Woll?-❎
Defence is good?-❎
Offence is scoring?-❎
Coach solves problem?- ❎
Goaltending ?- ❎
Need I say more?✅
Good on you Steve Dangle. I'm fine with watching the Bruins fall. Frankly they've been the second best team in this series, but holy crap the refs need to read their own rule book and stop "interpreting" the rules into meaning the opposite due to their feelings.
Gym bro here and got to defend Steve pullups and pulldowns both primarily work the Lats. Pull downs are good accessory work or training if you struggle with pull ups.
Bruins fan here. Thank you for validating my opinion on that bullshit goal last night. I am just absolutely crushed man. Juat go back to 2019 where we got scored on after that blatant trip and its just like who hates us?!
I always love Steve... I have lost my faith in the NHL... I will still follow Steve and all similar outlets, but I lost faith in NHL playoffs from here onto eternity... Either the officiating is blind and ignorant, or they are following prescribed marching orders. I don't want to believe either option... but what else is there??
Best show all yr steve agree 100%
Love ya, Steve!
Someone needs to make a Kendrick vs Drake esk Steve diss track on the NHL, call it “not a league”
I'm hearing WWE when Steve says : "it's not a sport league!" Feels like it. The action is real, as in wrestling, but the result is influenced by the refs and DOPS. 😂
Fire Gary
boston has had a decade of refs looking the other way and now that they look the other way on them i dont have a problem with it. all things balanced out.
As long as Kyle Dubas is a gm, former Soo Greyhound Darnell Nurse will have a place to play hockey. After all, Kyle loves his guys!
Steve, that goal was fine. Unless swayman is elastic man, there is no way possible for him to save it.
He doesn’t have to make the save he needs the opportunity to save it which he wasn’t afforded from the contact
Show the penalty leading to the power play too. Panther's player hits himself in the face with his own stick...but lindholm gets 2 for inteference...
I'm only 18 minutes in so far, but the fact that Adam Wylde is defending the Canucks is mind boggling to me...
Also I really think we can say that Jeremy Swayman is definitely close to Shesterkin at this point. He is the only reason the Bruins still have any chance at all.
Thank you for calling out the rampant incompetence at the level it warrants. This isn't just bad what we're seeing, it's a complete and utter disaster. No one fumbles the bag quite as comically as the NHL, but at this point it almost feels like they're actively TRYING to remain a niche league. I can't imagine a single casual fan tuning in and trying to get into the league, watching these mouthbreathers in stripes not having the slightest clue how to do their job, and then thinking "hell yeah I'm gonna invest more time and money in this league".
Just to clarify, Zadorov was not a trade deadline acquisition
41:00 fully support a perfectly fair drop. Failing to win faceoffs is one of the easiest ways to lose control of the game. Caps and Bruins in round 1 got absolutely pantsed in faceoffs and the results showed. The Bruins are built better to survive not owning the puck, but still dropped games they would have won had the faceoff percentage been closer to even. I'm not saying those drops weren't fair, I'm just saying the faceoff advantage can be more of a game changer than penalties.
I love how everyone is just ignoring that McDavid slashed Soucy. People think he has some kind of divine right to do that.
Steve: Turn the Stanley Cup into a cock and balls.
Manscaped Execs: Genius.
Huge respect to Steve for owning up to the mlh mistake
Saudi Steve lmao. I love you guys.
43:00 killed me LOL
I think we need to see Steve do some pull-ups while explaining what muscles he's using.
Pretty sure the officiating was horrible last year playoffs as well. It’s a yearly occurrence and nothing will change. Fans/media scream and yell, the heat subsides and life goes on. Fans continue to watch, buy tixs and merch. The NHL just waits it out as they know fans have short memories and won’t stop watching/buying, so nothing changes. Suck, but that how it is w all major sports leagues. 🤷♀️
I sincerely enjoy watching badly officiated games. It just makes for good tv. As long as my team isn’t playing
Love to hear the update after there was only a fine for cross checking mcdavid in the face after the game
Smart Insider Man!! 2024 edition.
That said I do want to apologize for being part of the Saudis-paying-Steve brigade. Once I saw you'd taken down the video I knew it must have been a gross misunderstanding.
Thank you guys for the transparency and for being such good sports about it.
The refs are saying don't touch mc Jesus.
I’d love to see Adam’s nightmare situation. Ducharme as the next leafs coach, or even for him to just be interviewed lol.
McBaby started this by taking advantage of his position and sticking people, cheap shots, all over the ice. This is, by all intents and purposes, a fixed league.
I feel like where you got into hot water was, while it may have supposed to have been just a news video, it really really came off like a promo, which made people (including myself) assume you'd been paid for it. And then there was a tweet from some reporter that there was Saudi backing. Getting got is way better than that, but that's just a hard lesson learned.
To Adam’s question, what’s different is that it’s NOT everything goes. That would be consistent. They’re all over the place without any rhyme or reason. Bruins got called for a ticky tack goalie interference penalty in game 3 right before Bennett was allowed to cross-check a guy right onto the goalie score. Steve used to tell the refs to pick a thing and they’ve now done the exact opposite.
It's weird how you Toronto people mention Zadorov and Soucy but no one complains about McDavid's slash or Hyman's cross check to Zadorov's face. Yea that's all fine...
Does Gregory Campbell work for the Panthers? He hasn't played since 2016. 🤔
As much as that Sam Bennett goal was a joke, I put it to you that the Bruins finally not getting calls in the playoffs is objectively hilarious.
Being held accountable like you would be if you did that to someone on the street would put an end to a lot of this sht.
I remember when Adam first mentioned the fake dropping puck thing and I was like what the hell. But no it's actually the stupidest thing in the world. What fuckin minigame are the refs playing just drop the puck and skate off idiots
thanks Steve for calling out the bad referee calls
Breaking news!!! Steve Dangle has retired as reporter/insider! 😂
You know the officiating has been brutal, is when Steve starts defending the Boston Bruins. And he is 100% correct in doing so
Adam is right. You have to overcome the refs as well as your opponent. It's just part of the game now. But Steve is having the more important conversation about the desperate need for change. It protects the stars, creates a truly fair ground for opponents and creates a more entertaining product by way of not giving fans high blood pressure every night during the playoffs over missed/bad calls.
I get the rent on poor officiating but my question is: would different teams have gotten through a lot more often if the officiating was different? I get the feeling the bad calls are more or less equal so the effect on the overall results is not major. They do lead to many more unnecessary injuries that i agree with.
About the ref situation, in WCOH the match between Czech and Swiss, one of the guys on commentery was Jakub Voráček and on question, what is the worst about that game, he said refs 😂. Do this is not just NHL, it is all around situation and it is damn shame.
I think Steve could've just done the show by himself lmao
Damn the Bruins got fleeced there, I guess everyone should just push defending players into the goalie to create scoring opportunities because that's good hockey, I guess
Everybody makes mistakes, Steve saw he wrong and corrected it. End of story. How's about them Leafs.
You know its bad when Steve is defending the Bruins
BIggest reason Canes are now behind in the series is because the freakign powerplay cant score and they have given what... 3? shorties its the thing thats the difference in one goal games, if you get 5 powerplays in a game agaisnt rangers, you have to score on them
Oh my god, the Adam Wylde King of Bad Takes streak is still going.
If tje Spucy cross-check was on Desharnais we ain't having this conversation. But because it was on McJesus, it's the end of the world
2 sources, always 2 sources steve
How about Kane”s slewfoot on Hughes, Jessie wants to say he’s all for protecting superstars so what is Quinn not a superstar?? Oh and the spear and cross check from Ryan and Hyman get nothing. “ department oh Mcdavid safety strikes!” This league is So inconsistent
I think you have to look at in the other way, if you suspend someone for one playoff game, you would have to suspend them for four or five regular season games for the punishment to hit as hard as
Steve when are we getting The Greatest LFR like The Greatest Royal Rumble?