Episode Phil Watson (410): It's the Connor Bedard Show as Canada Wins Gold! Vegas Stories.

Canada takes gold at the World Junior as Connor Bedard justifies the hype. We're back from Vegas and not everything has to stay in Vegas.    Listen Here:  iTunes  Google Play  Stitcher  Direct MP3   iHeart Radio

Banter - Vegas

Title Player Phil Watson

Phil Watson -> 40-41 Rangers Bryan Hextall -> Grandfather Ron Hextall -> 98-99 Flyers Trent Klatt -> 00-01 Canucks Matt Cooke

Phil Watson -> 47-48 Rangers Fred Shero -> Coached 79-80 Rangers Ed Hospodar -> 87-88 Sabres Benoit Hogue -> 89-90 Sabres Rob Ray AND 01-02 Bruins Eric Manlow

Phil Watson -> Coached 62-63 Bruins Ed Westfall -> 78-79 Islanders Bryan Trottier -> 93-94 Penguins Shawn McEachern -> 03-04 Thrashers Mark Dobson DPP

 

Feedback / Shoutouts - Islanders Fan / Philadelphia Coaches

News

World Junior - Canada wins back to back

Connor Bedard

Jochen Van Cauwenberg - first game experience - Oilers vs Kraken 

Leafs - Marner gets 500th point

Oilers - out of playoffs - trade deadline coming up - will they trade 1st round pick?

Ken Holland under lots of pressure right now

Oilers still giving up far too many good chances

SH Against - 4th most in the league. Teams around them are ARI, MTL, CBJ, ANA - wtf?

SH For - 10th but less than against

All Star Game - Preliminary Announcements

2 players and a goalie to be added to each division via fan vote

 

Metropolitan Division (All-Star appearances)

F Sidney Crosby, PIT (5th)
F Johnny Gaudreau, CBJ (7th)
F Kevin Hayes, PHI (1st)
F Jack Hughes, NJD (2nd)
F Brock Nelson, NYI (1st)
F Alex Ovechkin, WSH (8th)
F Andrei Svechnikov, CAR (1st)
G Igor Shesterkin, NYR (1st)

Atlantic Division (All-Star appearances)

F Nikita Kucherov, TBL (4th)
F Dylan Larkin, DET (3rd)
F Mitchell Marner, TOR (2nd)
F Nick Suzuki, MTL (2nd)
F Tage Thompson, BUF (1st)
F Brady Tkachuk, OTT (3rd)
F Matthew Tkachuk, FLA (2nd)
G Linus Ullmark, BOS (1st)

Central Division (All-Star appearances)

F Kirill Kaprizov, MIN (2nd)
F Clayton Keller, ARI (3rd)
F Jason Robertson, DAL (1st)
F Vladimir Tarasenko, STL (4th)
D Seth Jones, CHI (4th)
D Cale Makar, COL (2nd)
D Josh Morrissey, WPG (1st)
G Juuse Saros, NSH (2nd)

Pacific Division (All-Star appearances)

F Matty Beniers, SEA (1st)
F Kevin Fiala, LAK (1st)
F Nazem Kadri, CGY (2nd)
F Connor McDavid, EDM (6th)
F Elias Pettersson, VAN (3rd)
F Troy Terry, ANA (2nd)
D Erik Karlsson, SJS (7th)
G Logan Thompson, VGK (1st)

Guess the 5th

Predictions Review - 1/2 way

 

Atlantic

Bonn TOP 4 (3/4)

Hoard (2/4)

22-24 Games by Pts %

1/2 Way (40 G)

TBL

TOR

BOS

BOS

TOR

FLA

TOR

TOR

BOS

OTT

TBL

TBL

OTT

BOS

DET

BUF

FLA

TBL

FLA

DET

DET

DET

MTL

FLA

BUF

BUF

OTT

OTT

MTL

MTL

BUF

MTL

Movers - BUF - 8th to 4th / MTL 6th to 8th (Race for Bedard)

FLA - what is going on?

 

Metro

Bonn (3/4)

Hoard (2/4)

22-24 Games by Pts %

1/2 Way (40 G)

CAR

CAR

NJD

CAR

NYR

WSH

CAR

NJD

PIT

PIT

NYI

NYR

NYI

NYR

PIT

WSH

WSH

CBJ

NYR

PIT

NJD

NJD

WSH

NYI

CBJ

PHI

PHI

PHI

PHI

NYI

CBJ

CBJ

Movers - NYI - 3rd to 6th / WSH 6th - 4th

 

PACIFIC

Bonn (3/4)

Hoard (2/4)

 

1/2 Way (40 G)

CGY

LAK

VGK

VGK

EDM

CGY

SEA

SEA

VEG

EDM

EDM

LAK

LAK

ANA

LAK

CGY

VAN

VAN

CGY

EDM

SEA

SJS

VAN

VAN

ANA

SEA

SJS

SJS

SJS

VEG

ANA

ANA

Movers - EDM 3rd to 5th - trouble in EDM

Bonn (3/4)

Hoard (2/4)

 

1/2 Way (40 G)

COL

COL

DAL

WPG

STL

NSH

WPG

DAL

DAL

STL

COL

MIN

MIN

DAL

MIN

COL

WPG

MIN

NSH (Tie for 4th)

NSH

NSH

ARI

STL

STL

ARI

WPG

ARI

ARI

CHI

CHI

CHI

CHI

Movers - Not much movement

 

Hot/Not

Metro WSH 7-1-2 / CBJ 2-8-0

Atlantic BOS 8-0-2 / MTL 2-7-1

Central MIN 7-2-1 / CHI 2-8-0

Pacific LAK 7-2-1 / SJS 2-5-3

 

Crazy Stat of the Week

DOPeS

Mason Shaw 2 games kneeing https://www.nhl.com/news/minnesota-wild-mason-shaw-suspended-two-games-for-kneeing/c-339141568?tid=27754907