Montreal Canadiens as professional wrestlers | Fixing the Habs with Stanley Cup Playoff players only
hello everyone and inside tonight’s locked on Canadians the Habs is professional wrestlers and wealing players from other teams again you’re locked on Canadians your daily podcast on the Montreal Canadians part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day hello everyone and welcome to episode 1, 80 of locked on Canadians we are your daily Montreal Canadians podcast part of the locked on podcast Network where you get your team every single day of the week wherever you get your daily podcast Google Apple Spotify or on youtube.com today’s episode is brought to you by Game Time download the game time app create an account and use code locked on NHL for $20 off your first purchase terms apply I am one of your hosts I am Scott Matlin I’m joined as always by the active stick Laura Sava and Laura uh we each came up with segments for today’s shows and it’s not in the direction that I think people would have anticipated do you want to tell people how we are starting this show today we are starting the show uh looking at the Habs and assigning a wrestler to each one Scott is a huge wrestling fan it is the off season I always love hearing Scott talk about it but we do know this is a Habs podcast and guess what we are going to have some trade talk later on in this episode but I did want to give Scott the opportunity to uh talk about the Habs as wrestlers and Scott I don’t know where you want you want to start do we want to just um you know talk about uh like maybe I shoot out a player and you explain what wrestler they are and why or you want to start out the show trying on wrestling this is a very serious podcast after all so and this is going on so many people’s like screenshots I promise you oh man I don’t know how luchadors do that that is but I am actually in favor of you dishing out a player and I give my reasoning for as many of them as we can because there’s a lot I could spend three shows worth a time doing this all right so I’m pulling up the Montreal Canadians roster do we shall we go by position just run it right down whether it’s cap friendly or whatever order you want to do that it’s always cap friendly it’s always cap friendly all right uh Nick Suzuki Nick Suzuki is smart Nick Suzuki thinks everything through he a cheeky little bastard when he wants to be and I’m trying to sit there but he’s also like the leader he is the one that everyone looks up to for everything he is the one who is going to guide this next Generation to the next level and someone’s gonna you know someone’s gonna yell at me in the comments because they’re not going to like the comparison Nick Suzuki is the WWE’s Cody rhods right now he is the face of what this organization is and what it means to be a Montreal Canadian what it means to be a professional wrestler and some people don’t like him which is just fine by him he’s just gonna keep doing his thing anyways uh obviously Cole Coffield is up next oh man Cole Coffield is not big but Cole Coffield does a lot of incredible things some things that we don’t really understand how he does them or how he’s able to do these things he keeps proving people wrong uh maybe not as insane and as Reckless as this professional wrestler but an undersized wrestler right now on the on the aw roster who just continues to do incredible insane things like actually lighting a Man on Fire last Sunday is Darby Allen who is an absolutely Bonkers insane human being I would show you clips of what he can do but this video would be demonetized because they are also horrifying at the same time uh Brendan Gallagher’s up next speak Brendan Gallagher being kind of the crotchet the old guy and if you can’t tell I’m trying to stick to Modern uh kind of wrestling here someone who wants to whip a group of people into shape because he’s been through it they’ve come up short for titles and other things Brendan Gallagher is what Chad Gable is in the WWE right now not the biggest guy they are driven they are not super popular with a lot of other people which is Gable’s current role within the WWE and he just wants to win and that’s been Brendan Gallagher’s whole thing is he likes to win he wants to win at that point next up is Josh Anderson oh man I I I don’t even know where to put Josh Anderson in this because it’s like actually no I know exactly where I can go with this and it’s going to be really really mean um very handsome man incredible physique all of this Talent known talent that we are aware of cannot put it together at all times Josh Anderson is Andrade in both aew and WWE this impressive Talent can do so many things cannot put it together on a routine basis there are glimpses of it where you’re like this guy’s a world champion this that not in this circumstance uh Christian V is up next should we do him or like is there a wrestler who’s like just injured all the time Christian dvorak’s always injured so we CM Punk at this point uh but we do like CM Punk uh yo or Mia kind of the quiet I’m gonna put yolar Mia as and maybe uh I’m gonna put yolar Mia as claudo cast andoli in that he is always the secondary guy but just kind of like we were talking about with Cole Coffield that he just pulls stuff out that you’re not expecting claudo does incredible Feats of Strength Yol Aria bodies three people off of him along the boards and then scores a goal while facing the wrong direction with a backhand that goes in the top corner and not a man of many words but when he you know when he’s on you can’t help but look away or look at him I should say Alex new hook I don’t actually have one for this this one’s hard I couldn’t find one for Alex new hook actually I feel like we don’t know him well enough I also had trouble with him with like the superlatives that I was doing like I feel like we just don’t know him very well yeah uh let’s jump over to actually the e i lovsky at this point okay um a young upand cominging guy you know some people wrote him off maybe that he’s not going to be that guy there and then he found his Swagger and has a c almost cult-like following I’m going to say that swerve Strickland who is currently aw world champion and your I slavkovsky kind of went along that way there Strickland was kind of in the mix of things but wasn’t at the Forefront people weren’t always begging for more and then one day it clicked just like it did with slavkovsky and now all you want to do is you want more you want more you want more and that’s what he is there’s a couple players I really want to mention Michael pizetta is one of them Michael pizetta is insane has no regard for his body whatsoever will fight anybody any time has no trouble watching himself bleed Michael bazetta is John Moxley a man who has zero regard for his own well-being uh and I just I can’t think I was debating if it was him or Arbor Jacky I’ve watched Jacky turn down fights we’ll get to we’ll get to Jackie later but uh next I wanted to talk uh Kaden ghouly Kaden gouie is he he’s part of that future a little bit in that they want that you want to build around him all the time that he is that guy that you want to step up and really be that next big thing a little bit in here and this is what I struggle because he fits in so many roles he’s not quite the best technical guy out there he’s not a high flyer of some kind and I’m actually kind of drawing a blank on this so we do have listeners who want to suggest these we will read them on our mailbag tomorrow at lorc Canadians lockdown Canadians gmail.com we do want to hear from you because I know we do have a lot of wrestling crossover fans in this podcast uh I do want to do aror Jacky though because I’m sure you’ve been thinking about this all day well like I wasn’t sure if he was going to be John Moxley at first uh and then I kind of went no he doesn’t have to be though because he know he he’s turned into this guy that he’s this big he’s a hulking brute but you know that there is more in there and the fans want to see more they want to get behind this person in that kind of role and Ward L and aw is huge physical specimen isn’t quite where they want him to be yet but he is so there’s the potential to be there for that with the right kind of guidance and path forward that I absolutely think he could be that guy um and finally pick a goalie and do the goalie both of them are so nice that neither of them can be like any of this I was going to say uh I had Mike Mat is going to be hangman Adam pagee because he’s just this Dad guy out there who does incredible cowboy stuff all the time uh I can’t pick one because Samuel mono’s too nice and Kaden Primo’s too Shell Shocked half the time to do anything uh that I can’t have one if someone can come up with who Brian Danielson is on the Montreal Canadians which you could argue Nick Suzuki could fit that role as well like I said we want to hear from you _ Canadians lockon Canadians gmail.com we’re gonna move into my segment next two segments which is weird I came up with the wrestling one and you came up with the other one this is why we work well because was like I want to do pro wrestling and I was like I’m not GNA say no to this I promise you you want me to talk about pro wrestling I will talk about pro wrestling Scott wanted to talk talk about trades yes I wanted to I came up with an idea that we’re going to trade for players with some caveats and we’re going to dive into that coming up next but first as I said off the top of the show today’s show is brought to you by game time and with baseball season in full swing hockey season’s coming to an end it’s the summer season there’s concerts there’s everything it is such a pain to sometimes find the tickets that you are looking for for the event that you want with game time it is so much easier you can pick out specific games concerts shows whatever and find things like last minute ticket deals right up until the show starts Flash Deals Zone deals and it’s easy to find them buy tickets because you 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I’ve been thinking man if the Habs had that guy they they’d be at that next level uh and I broke this up into two segments the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference we’re going to start out east here and my thought is if we could take one player from each playoff team no strings attached whatsoever they can replace whoever in the lineup if we went aunch Josh Anderson into space we can do that this all hypothetical one player from each team to make the Montreal Canadians in to a Stanley Cup Contender instantly next year who would it be with the caveat being it cannot be a team captain or anyone wearing a letter on that team which means you can’t just say I want Conor McDavid and Leon dryy or whatever we’re gonna add a little wrinkle to it to make people think who would I add on this team and Laura do you want to start with the Florida Panthers or do you want to start with the New York Rangers you’re on mute which I always d i turn it off so that I could click around through the rosters okay I want to start with the New York Rangers and my choice is Adam Fox I was not wearing a letter I was gonna say how is Barkley goodro wearing a letter for this anyways that’s besides the point um my first thought was I really wanted to say m aanad but also 31 signed for forever wearing a letter could not be him I do think Adam Fox would have been my second choice there but he is on that right side which the canadi are slowly loading up on yeah it’s like technically they don’t need him but he is the kind of caliber of defenseman that they want yes and to counter that then I would say Keandre Miller would be uh if I’m picking from the defense there that’s a really good one I think he would absolutely be that guy but I think the number one thing that I’m potentially missing here um eigor shurkin oo I love the upcoming Prospect on this team I love Jacob Fowler I think yakob doish is going to turn out pretty well I like Samuel monmo as their current starter eigor shurkin is a Next Level potential goalie that the Canadians do not have available to them and my first thought is I would take eigor shurkin then Adam Fox and then kandre Miller from that team there I think that would make adding him in net and we’re going to add all four of these players to this lineup here AAS and monmo combination feels like it would be really really good for both of those players um we are now moving on to the Florida P oh my God they have so many ufas this offc said oh my god um something here doesn’t trap because I’m looking at the roster right now and there’s a player that I am pretty sure wears a letter for this team that is not listed on here um Laura do you want to pick first while I try and figure out uh who are captains on this team so many people are going to throw things at me yeah they’re because they’re missing they’ve got like a c and an a um and obviously the C and the a are are Sasha barov and Aaron eblad who I would love uh for different reasons on this team uh Matthew kuk is not wearing a letter and Elite prospects has a has him listed as being one of the a kachuck eblad and Sam Reinhardt are all listed as alternate captains on prospects so C friendley is lying to me so I can’t pick Matthew kachuk but does everyone understand why I would pick Matthew kachuck I would pick Matthew kachuck with a in a heartbeat that I imagining him on a line any line on this team and just absolutely salivating get the prospect of it I honestly like beyond that who would I want did we ever do uh he’s 32 though I was going to say Oliver emman Larson I I feel like we did like a a a coveting um episode about him I mean maybe not for me I I’m looking at this roster and part of me is gonna say no to Sam Bennett just because that feels like a bad contract waiting to happen uh for me I out of this team here won this team looks like it’s like three seconds away from just falling apart next season oh my God uh I would take Anton Lindell oh interesting as I think a younger guy he’s 22 years old he’s an RFA this off season he play center and wing and I think he’s really coming into his own as an NHL player this year that to supplement or to supplant Christian Dvorak in this lineup I would do that also Carter Veri who just continues to be one of the most underrated players somehow in the NHL former Leafs castoff traded with seven other guys for Michael grabner Bounce from the Islanders to Tampa Bay where he was very good couldn’t resign him and then he ended up I believe in uh Florida where he has just been an Unholy Terror for the last handful of years I think that Carter Veri would it would be Anton Lindell and then Carter Veri I think as my two picks with that but if Matthew again if Matthew kachuck wasn’t wearing a letter it it’s not even close Matthew kachuck has never lied to me before well I’m devastated I can’t believe they’ve done and I’m even like I looked through like their AHL team and I was like no I want Anton londell and then I would like cter ver hey fi’s a little bit older he’s 28 years old but immediately steps into that second line spot there opposite Alex new hook and then you you’re just cooking from there at that point in that you it’s it would be almost unfair that it’s like here’s a bunch of cast offs from other teams on one line just absolutely dominating it like he played two games in the Toronto organization got traded and then has just basically lit the world on fire after that uh in the AHL coming up to the NHL and since he’s gotten to Florida he’s just hit another level he’s had an 18 goal season a 24 goal season a 42 goal season and a 34g goal season and he’s been over a point per game in the playoffs for Florida for the last three seasons carder hay is ABS i’ I’ve actually talked myself out of Anton lell and talked myself into uh carder heggy on this team it’s a really fun process listening to you have this conversation because I’m still fuming that Matthew kachu is listed as not having a letter um are we we haven’t gone to the West Coast no that’s actually going to be coming up next we are going to uh dip our toe so to speak into the Western Conference where maybe it gets a little more complicated because we can’t just pick Conor McDavid and Leon dry cidal and whomever unlike Jamie Ben this entire segment is going down next we are back here at lockdown Canadians uh I’m not sure if I’m going to be doing any editing tonight or not but we are moving on with our can we make the hab into instant cup contenders and at this point we have added eigor shurkin on my end and Carter Veri Laura has added uh Oliver Ekman Larsson andam Adam Fox to this defense to a very a potentially very good defense to start Laura do we want to start in Dallas or do we want to start in Edmonton um I was looking at Dallas but now I have to check if cap friendly is lying again um I feel like in Edmond we’ve talked about Edmonton before in this capacity and I cannot remember who we said but we made a very compelling case oh man well Conor McDavid wears the C for Edmonton obviously Leon dry Sidle Ryan nen Hopkins and Darnell nurse are all wearing uh A’s for this team I have my pick for this and this is this is the only one that when I uh thought about this ahead of time that I was like this is absolutely who I am picking no matter what okay I’m gonna let you go for it um just because I feel like you’re gonna say someone go go go ahead and say it I’m picking Evan bushard uh from their defensive group 24 years old uh makes 3.9 a year and has been absolutely on fire in these in these playoffs here uh and in the regular season uh 43 points 40 points he had 82 points this season and he has 22 points and 15 playoff games this year he has been by far their best defensive player and has been doing everything they were hoping Darnell nurse could do but better and cheaper his next contract is going to be a doozy but I imagine adding Evan buard to this team with also Keandre Miller now and some of the pieces the Canadians have coming up and you were already in such in like rarified err on that defense potentially you have a lot of players who can play both ends can score can defend you everything that you are looking for um I was going to choose Dylan Holloway because he’s still young and there’s a lot the Canadians can do with him former teammate of uh Cole Coffield at Wisconsin as well he he’s it I actually like that because I think he’s somebody that maybe he isn’t an elite top six forward in this league but I look at he’s still a first rounder and I think like his development is not entirely completed and he went first round for a reason right so I personally feel like the Canadians have very strong developing skills so they can kind of mold him in whatever way they want like was my reasoning was not necessarily like his existing stats it was more the upside and the age and I think that’s absolutely fair is that I Oilers fans like him Scout people still seem to like him is that he’s bounced between the AHL where he’s played very well put up a lot of points and the NHL where I think the Oilers are a flawed team unfortunately where they are very topheavy and don’t have that support in their bottom six potentially and adding someone to that um on let’s say the Canadians third line I think gives them that skill gives them a little bit of uh potential to really do something with him and maybe get him to that next level uh this is going to be a fun one because we’re going to shift on to Dallas now but wait I need to check first and make sure that these guys don’t wear uh letters because there’s two guys obviously that jump to mind and I wasn’t able to like I’ve literally been messing around on my phone looking for this since I found out that cap friendley has been lying to me I’m going to go back to cap friendly I’m going to mention two guys and you’re going to tell me if either one of them is wearing a c one of them is rupe hin obviously and the other one is Miro heis skinnon Meo hekinan doeses wear an a according to Elite prospects okay well then my answer is still good I was gonna say no go ahead sorry I keep cutting you off like OB obviously like that is the no-brainer choice in this scenario I he makes a lot of money but that doesn’t matter the the Canadians will find a way to fit him in again this is completely like we’re doing whatever we want rope hints was also going to be my first p but assuming one of us was going to pick him I also picked a pi backup I of course I picked a backup and I know who it is it’s going to be Logan stankoven it’s actually not oh no way okay go it’s Jason Robertson um Jason Robertson is he yeah I was gonna say he’s a younger guy he’s 24 years old he turns 25 on July 27 on July uh 22nd there he put up 109 points last season put up 80 and 82 this year he put up 18 points in 19 playoff games last year 16 and 16 this year he is one of the future stars of American Hockey he already is a star but I mean like actual like Olympic aspirations like his name is going to be up there with some of the best us players in the world yes and like 45 points in 51 games in his first full NHL season 79 and 74 109 points in 82 games last year 80 points and 82 games this year with 51 assists he is absolutely somebody that I would love to have on this team that I and I love slavkovsky do not get me wrong in this that my Top Line would be Coffield Suzuki and then Robertson and then it would be slf kovski Doc Veri new hook me and W and then your for line is maybe Dylan Holloway and and uh whatever with that guy basically sorry we’re Canadians podcast that’s ghee um but I just look at Jason Robertson and uh as someone pointed out that he fell in his draft year he was a second round pick 39th overall because his skating wasn’t very good and Dallas being the smart team that they have which we have talked about in this regard has looked at this and then we can fix this and make this better and they’ve managed to do that that I believe he is actually one of the top scorers in his draft class he is the fifth highest score in front of him Elias Pon Nico heser kale ma Robert Thomas by one point in two more seasons Jason Robertson and just ahead of current Montreal Canadians Captain Nick Suzuki who has 286 points um damn in case wondering who the Canadians picked in this draft class they picked Ryan paling 25th over overall um which he’s a perfectly cromulent NHL player and this is absolutely me doing hindsight here that well hindsight being 2020 I would have picked obviously uh Jason Robertson ironically taken right after Ryan paling is the Stars goalie Jake otinger but also uh a superstar in his own right yes one of the also fast rising stars in in this it’s I got to stop looking stars are honestly the dllas stars are quite unfair if you’re looking at this roster they are quite unfair they’re a team that has done well with trading for the right people drafting the right people drafting the right people and developing them well yes it’s like I’m looking at this like Joe pavelski is a million years old still put up 67 points this year not having the greatest playoffs however but Wyatt Johnston uh rope hints adding Matt duchaine uh in a um in free agency Miro hekinan uh trading for and or adding Mason Marchman Tyler Sean continuing to play very well there developing Thomas Harley Essa Lindell and then getting you know some mileage out of vets like fgny dadonov Craig Smith Ric foxa Etc they are where Tampa Bay was a couple years ago that we look at and go this is what I want in terms of Player Development like even Logan stank I’m glad that you mentioned him that he’s not high on this list for points but if this was if I could just add one player right now realistically Logan stankoven would absolutely be that guy but I can’t imagine teams being like yeah or the stars of all people being like yeah we’re gonna part with our upcoming top prospect uh I can I just do one parting thought absolutely so every year obviously since the Canadians aren’t that great people always ask me what team are you wining for in this Stanley Cup um playoffs and always say either Colorado when they’re left and you know they’ve had a couple of uh exits early exits they’ve had quite a few early exits second round exits but I root for Colorado because they’re a team that every year at the beginning of the playoffs you think this team has a shot to win the cup they have won the cup but you look at them and you’re like this is the kind of team that has a shot to win the cup and the Dallas Stars for the last year have felt that way for me and I think you know going forward obviously unless there’s any drastic changes you look at that team and you’re like this is a team that feels like it could win the cup which exactly how Scott pointed out that was like Tampa Bay every year you’re like they didn’t win every single year they won a few they didn’t win every single year but you would look at that team and you look this is a team that could win the Stanley Cup this year and that’s what I want for the Canadians I want there to be multiple years where even if they don’t bring home the cup which obviously I want them to you always going into the playoffs you look at that team and you’re like this is a team that could win this year realistically I’m not crazy and we also want to hear from from you who would you pick from these teams assuming you cannot pick captains or alternate captains you can tweet us at lorc Canadians lockon Canadians gmail.com it is the mailback episode tomorrow so please tweet us all your mailback questions your thoughts Habs as pro wrestlers who are you taking from playoff teams remember to follow Laura at the Active stick follow myself Scott matat remember you can find us wherever you find your daily podcast on Google Apple Spotify or on youtube.com but for now we are signing off and we will see you all next time [Music]
Inside the latest Locked on Canadiens
Scott and Laura dip into some off-season silliness, what if the current Montreal Canadiens were current professional wrestlers? Who is the Habs version of Cody Rhodes? Is there anyone reckless enough to be Jon Moxley? The hosts debate
Then to round out the second half of the show, Scott poses a simple question…Which single player would you take from each of the remaining Stanley Cup Playoff teams in order to make Montreal a legit Stanley Cup contender? The catch being, you cannot take any team captains, or alternate captains in this scenario.
Who did the hosts pick? Find out inside today’s show!
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