How Can The Stars Add Another Layer Beyond Just Their Rush Offense? | DLLS Stars Podcast

How Can The Stars Add Another Layer Beyond Just Their Rush Offense? | DLLS Stars Podcast

Are we live? Are we live? Hey students, boys and girls, did you bring your notebooks today? How about a number two pencil? You better be ready because Professor Lewig is about to deliver a lecture that you do not want to miss right now on DLS Stars. Let’s go. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] This is the DLS Stars podcast on Friday, July 18th. Welcome inside the podcast studios. I’m Owen Newkerk alongside our producer today, Katchcha Va. Yeah, cat’s in town. She’s here. She’s here. She won’t put herself on camera like John used to do. Elijah has the day off, but don’t worry, he’ll be back on Monday. Craig Lewig, Sam Nestler joining me today as always. And boy, do we have a treat for you because Professor Lewig is about to put class down. No chalkboard. Get out your tablets. Get out your little writing styluses that Sam does cuz Sam is very fancy. Look, he got his pencil out. What the heck is that? Get out your 20-year-old tablet that LS has. Get your trapper keepers. Put the paper shopping bags over your book binders. That’s really dating me now. Oh man, when you had the schoolisssued textbooks you had to cover. Now it’s all on a a Chromebook. Don’t worry about it. All right guys, we are going to get into a LDS tactical breakdown today and it’s going to be a good one. A little bit later today, I’m going to quiz Luds and Sam. Leds has no idea. I told Sam I didn’t give him a heads up so he could study, but I I’m going to quiz them on some interesting things we saw in the NHL. But let’s get right to this. One of the things I’ve been sitting on for a bit was something Pete Dbor said. We talked about it briefly after the season was over, but former Stars head coach Pete Dbor at the end of season media availability. Yes. The same one where he doubled down again on Jakeer getting pulled and said, “Oh no, they have a great relationship. that just haven’t talked and that’s clearly a good thing. Well, he’s not the Stars head coach anymore. Glenn Golson is. But one thing that Pete did say stuck with me. And so I want you to listen to this conversation that he had with the media. Sam and I were there up in Fris. This was after they had lost game five and did the end of season media that Saturday. So it’s two days after the loss to game five. And then we’ll get into what LD’s solutions are. But here’s the big thesis of today is Dallas’s rush offense kind of disappeared as the playoffs went deeper. Do they need another layer? This is what Pete Dbor had to say. Well, I mean, you know, I think the same the same things apply. You score enough to win in the first round and the second round. You know, this there’s no change in the third round other than the teams are better and there’s less room and there’s less time and everybody’s dialed in. So, you know, I I don’t think there’s a thing where a switch goes off in the third round. I just think you’re down to the tiniest of margins. Sometimes the other team’s better. Sometimes they’re, you know, a lot of times they’re tighter, they’re better defensively, you know, they’re getting better goalending or they wouldn’t be in the final four. So, I think they kind of, you know, go hand in hand and that’s why a lot of those games are, you know, 2-1, 3-2. They’re tight tight games. So, there’s always there’s always things you you look at. I mean, I think in general, you know, we didn’t score enough in the playoffs, uh, like we did in the regular season, I think when you when you talk to scouting reports on from other teams on us, you know, I think they considered us a rush team, uh, got a lot of offense off the rush. You heard that consistently. And the reality is in the playoffs, you know, rush dries up. You got to find other ways. You know, our power play was hot. We got some offense there, but you’ve got to find, you know, the other offense outside of rush and that’s the hard offense and that’s in zone getting to the net. You know, the kind of offense that Florida’s creating a lot of and has won with. So, we’ve got to get more of that in our game. The other thing is I think there would have been some more rush there for us had we got leads in some games. You know, then the other team can’t just defend and not, you know, they took that away from us. when you’re behind 15 out of the 18 games we played or whatever to to start you’re chasing the game. It’s a lot easier to to defend rush when you’re when you’ve got a lead when you’re when you’re behind in a game, you know, then you have to open it up a little bit to try and get back in. And that’s where our rush, you know, probably would have appeared a little bit more if we could have got into that situation. Okay, so that started this all of the stars need more, but Luds, they fans couldn’t hear. viewers couldn’t hear what I could. About a minute and a half in, you started groaning. Why? Well, we should nickname him Tom Sawyer. Who sang the song Tom Sawyer? Anybody know? Yes. Rush. How many times did I hear the word rush? And they take away space and things close. Well, make your own space. You got to make your own space. The problem is is when things get tighter, they went outside where they’re supposed to go. if you’re the opponent. So, what do we do? We play more in straight lines. Put your take your little panties off and put your work boots on and and go to those spots. I don’t mean button. I shouldn’t have used that word spot when I said panties, but I’m just saying get in tight. Oh, man. I don’t think spot was the word that I was going for there. All right. Well, so Sam, if you can collect yourself after that, stopping by. When you hear that’s our show. When you hear that, Sam from from Dbor, what goes through your mind? Yeah, I think the biggest thing for me is that what we talked about with that he was out of out of plans, right? He he had done everything he could and he looked like a defeated coach in that entire exit interview, but the he just kind of went in circles with most of the questions during that exit interview. It was a lot of nothing changes in the in this final round, but then he went on to list all five, six, seven things that do change. Um, so it just kind of felt like he was lost for words and didn’t have an answer. Um, I thought it was interesting that he kind of I don’t want to say he he took the blame off of him or the team, but he did sort of kind of throw it on the circumstance more so than the team. He wasn’t saying we needed to do this, we needed to do this, this is how we needed to be better. He was saying it would have happened if blank it this the other team got better goals. I just think that that was a big part of why the whole thing happened and why he was so frustrated at the end and why he got fired is he was he was out of answers and he was throwing the blame or the circumstances out instead of looking at what they needed to do better internally. And I think that’s what coach Lewig is here to do for us. Well, he what here’s what he didn’t do. He didn’t challenge his players. He didn’t challenge them to get to the inside. He didn’t challenge them to get to the front of the net. Just like you have to challenge your players to not allow the opponent to get to the front of your goalender, which happened. Hey Luds, he is right in the sense that because the Stars failed to get the lead in a lot of that series and and a lot of playoff games in the run, it didn’t play into their strengths. But that doesn’t mean that they just stop and say, “Oh, well, they could have done the things you’re saying and the things you’re going to show us tactically in a moment to get the lead and then force the other team to open up.” And that’s when the rush offense becomes more dangerous and they can compound that. Well, you know, we saw the Florida Panthers. They did what they needed to do. But in the exit meeting or interview, this is what Pete said about you can’t just be the Florida Panthers. I think every every team’s built differently, too. You know, everything every team’s built differently and and there’s not one way to do things like, you know, because Florida won, we can’t go, okay, let’s become the Florida Panthers. Like, let’s go, you know? I mean, they’ve got some special ingredients there, you know, that you just can’t go out and get uh to play that way. So, you know, I I just think we probably need to be more of a hybrid. You know, I think we relied too much on on that piece. And when it became tough because of the circumstances, behind in games, other teams taking that away, you know, we had trouble getting to that secondary way of creating offense. [Laughter] Luds, do you need some Tylenol or aspirin? There it is. You’re That’s not the first person in the chat that suggested you may have had one or two already today. No, I have not. Have not none. None. Zero. Why that reaction to what Pete just said? Well, again, that’s what the 82 games are for. And hopefully that’s what Glenn Golson was talking about about having two or three different ways to approach the game. So when things you you again you can’t just keep throwing the same thing over and over again because for 82 games your opponent and then for in this case for two rounds whatever it was 13 games um Edmonton coaching staff were you know figuring out exactly if they already didn’t know um they knew what Dallas’s strengths were and they took it away and so Dallas wasn’t able to make an adjustment. Sam, when you hear him talk about hybrid offense, right, it makes me think of what Rick Bonis said when Roe Hint was still trying to establish himself as one of the stars top now, of course, clearly number one center of if it’s not on the rush, Ro is pretty ineffective that he needs to add the inzone element to his game. And that sort of parallels with the way the Stars played last year in the playoffs. Yeah, you have to have multiple attacks, right? You can be a team that’s amazing off the rush and score a ton of your goals off the rush, but you can’t simply be that. You have to be able to adjust. You’re going to play different teams in the playoffs and teams that are going to shut down your either your top players or your top style of play. So, if you’re if they’re shutting down your rush and they’re playing way back like Edmonton was, sitting on their own blue line, giving him a trap and not letting him get through, you have to be able to establish a forche and establish a cycle. I mean, I go back to the line of of hints, um, Pavvelski and Robertson, they did it off the rush a bunch with Roe Hints driving the middle of the ice, but if you watch their goals, especially the ones they used to score like the first minute of games, they all came off the cycle. They were just chance after chance digging out of the corner, throwing back to the point, Ch, we didn’t see that a whole lot this season, the regular season or playoffs. And I think you just have to be able to adjust. And if you if you can play both, one can be your strength, but then when that gets shut off, you can lean on the other. And the Stars this year, when they weren’t able to score off the rush, off transition, they looked lost. And as Luds talked about, they would chip it in, which is good. Okay, go get the puck, but they wouldn’t get it. They’d chip it in, it would get turned over, and it come right back at them. And that just is not a strategy that’s going to work for you. And I think that establishing the hybrid where you have something that you’re better at, but you also have something you can lean on when you’re not getting that is a huge part of a success in the NHL over 82 and then obviously the playoff series. All right, this is time for us to take a quick pause because coming up next, it’s time for Professor Lewig to show us all what we’re talking about, what went wrong, and what can be done better as the Stars get ready for the 2526 season. We’re going to do that next right here on the DLS Stars podcast. Luds, don’t jump in here. I’m I’m going to go. I knew it. I knew he was going to say it. Oh, wait. Or maybe I’m not going to go. Am I going to talk about Vegas or you going to talk about game time? You’re going to do true fan travel first. Okay. I’m looking at the screen. All right. Let’s talk about Las Vegas. We are We’re going to get these things down one day. I promise. We and not we as in the three of us. We, as in the DLS Dallas Cowboys team, are headed to Las Vegas with true fan travel for the ultimate fan experience. DLS Cowboys has taken over the strip for an unforgettable weekend in Vegas, and you need to be there. Join us as the Cowboys take on the Las Vegas. Still weird to say, Raiders on November 17th, Monday Night Football. The all-inclusive trip includes a three-ight stay at a luxury Vegas resort, game tickets, VIP parties, exclusive events with the DLS crew and fellow diehard fans, and much more. 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You can trust that they’re going to be 100% authentic tickets, fees always included, so you always see what you pay. And of course, you can take the guesswork out of buying tickets with Game Time Pick. Download the Game Time app, create an account, use the code DLS for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply again. Create an account and redeem the code DLS for $20 off. Hey Cat, watch this guys. What time is it? Game time. Game time. We’re working on it. Okay, Professor Lwig. This the class is here. They’re awake and they’re ready for you to take us to school. Get it up, Cat. Get the first one up there. Cat’s gonna set a new record today. All right. Wow. So, here’s what we’re talking about as far as Pete talking about being on an off the rush team and when you play against an opponent that’s not going to allow you to be an off the rush team, but they do it to themselves. This is Liam Bishell. I believe this is on the wall. Has the puck and look at the other three players in white jerseys. you. Well, of course, their feet are not moving because we can only show you still pictures. But Bishel ultimately takes this shot with nobody going to the net because this team wants to make that pass or that extra pass to get that highlight reel goal. So, here’s one goes to the net ultimately goes into the corner. Now, comes back to the point and this is Colin Blackwell who was standing right on top of the faceoff circle. His legs are spread, the other player’s legs are spread, and they’re waiting for the shot to go to the net and the and Blackwell’s going to try to tip this instead of going to the net. All right. Now, if you want to go to the other end of the rank and when you see where we talk about high danger, high traffic, get into those areas, this is just one little shot here of what Edmond does. Now, you tell me if you look at them first two clips, did anything look like this? This is how you get to the front of the net. Ultimately, Duchain tries to chase behind the net. And you can see, I think this is Essa in front. That was by design by that player from Edmonton to seal him to the outside. So, Jake’s got to get around, make a save there. Go ahead. Now, here’s your man-on-man coverage. This is, and again, I know we’re supposed to be talking about offense all the time, but I’m trying to show you what other teams do, too. Now, just look at how much space there is from the Dallas players. You’ve got on the far right hand side, I can’t tell. Looks like it’s a lefty up there, but he’s covering that defenseman over on that side of the ice instead of being down lower where you can help out. But look at mainly where that Edmonton Oiler player is. Standing right in front of Jake, standing on top the crease. The next move is he turns and spins. Next thing you know, for a defenseman, now he’s got position on you. Here comes the shot from the point. Find a way to get it through the net. And now Jake has to make some kind of a save because of that one player that’s standing in front of the net. But again, if that offside winger when the puck is on the low side of the bottom of the screen here, why he’s way over there, I don’t know. He might be in a lane to help or rebound, but we’re so spread out. And again, that’s what I mean by opening up spaces on the ice. Go ahead, Cap. This is on an entry now. And this is what happens. Again, it’s man-on-man. You can go ahead, go to the next one, and you’ll see where the our Dallas Stars player on the top of the screen. He’ll take his player over to the wall. On the next shot, it shows him staying over the wall. Now, all of a sudden, there’s more space that’s open up because we want to just chase our guy around. Next shot, again, it ends up being I’ve got my guy. And now, again, look at all the space that’s being created. And look at where the two players are that have their guys. They’re in no position to help the with with the puck carrier. What happens if that defenseman falls down? Well, they’re just going to pick their man up. The right winger is still over on the far side. Go to the next one then. Here we are. There’s your man-on man. Okay, now look at all the middle in the ice. Again, what happens if something happens? Now, Dallas is usually really good on entries. It’s when they get pinned in the zone for 5 seconds or so and teams get in there and they’re able to cycle is where they create some more space. So, here they’re good, but again, you’re just relying on my guy to do his job, which is okay, but I say it all the time. this kind of system is it’s a get out of jail free card and it’s like well I had my guy I don’t know I don’t even know what happened. See you look at the far side over there. Hey, go back to that one. You guys quit. You’re laughing. So No, I’m just laughing because you’ve said this before and it’s totally right. I have my guy. It’s it’s it’s deferring the problem to someone else. Yeah. Well, but look at the defense. I think it’s a defenseman on the far side there. Does he even see what the hell’s going on? He has no That’s Miro, isn’t it? Yeah, it is. Looks like it’s Mero. Yeah. Yeah. But but and ultimately he’s going to get driven back to the net. But again, you don’t even know where where the problem may occur. And if something happens, that’s what happened. Now, Jake to the rescue. Go ahead. Here it is. Now, you see where Mero picked that guy up the first time. Where was it? Over there someplace by the top of the circle on the far right. Now, go ahead and let it go. Now, now we get a little cycled. The forward turns up. Look at where Mero is now. He’s back there. There’s And now now what happens is because we’re easy to play against on our own zone, we allow players to push us where they want us to be. Here’s a shot from the point. What happens next? Mhm. Now look at the traffic in front of Jake. Now go to the next one. Seems to me people are going to be celebrating because that puck went in the net. There’s no way it should been in the net because he shouldn’t have got pushed back. Again, I know I’m at the wrong end of the rink for what Owen’s trying to do, but I’m trying to show you what other teams do. When when you talk about being a off the rush team, it doesn’t mean that you tic-tactoe the puck in the net. Sometimes it’s just blue collar- like. And that’s exactly what Edmonton did to Dallas now. Where are we? There’s the goal. Oh, yeah. They’re celebrating. All right. Yeah, that’s the celebration. Okay. Now, next one ahead here. Here. Now, when we talk about off the rush, all right, so Dallas wants to spread out and they’re going to take one forward. Right here, you can see the forward closest to the far blue line. But what happens when they spread him out and the puck carrier doesn’t advance the puck, he has to stop. Now, when he stops, he can’t catch up to the play or he can’t get to the net. Now, this puck goes to the net, but it’s just another easy little play right here. There’s no danger. This isn’t a dangerous shot. Well, I don’t know. You tell me. Is that a dangerous shot? Nope. Okay. Now the puck is already into the corner. The the goalender probably didn’t give a good rebound, but it was already in the corner and our forward never even got there. Now here on the breakout, same thing. Go ahead. Guys are breaking it out. Now it’s coming up through the middle of the ice again. Now when you want Here’s this guy standing in the middle of the ice. He’s got no speed. There’s nothing he can do. Now he just bumps it. He has no speed to to to participate in this. Now we’re trailing. And now look at what you’ve done. You’ve given three of those forwards or three of the players from Edmonton to get back in. And now it’s not another dangerous shot. And then there’s the rebound laying right there because there’s no net drive. Everybody wants to be a little bit little bit late and get that highlight. That’s the perfect one. That’s the perfect clip there, L. That that that picture of of nobody anywhere near that shot is just such a repeat in the playoffs. Yeah. Go back a couple frames again and we’ll do it kind of quick. If you can go like three or four frames back and we’ll show it one more time here. Leds just the end zone maybe right here. So as Johnston is flatfooted now he does the right play to bump it to Granland but as you said go forward now Granland’s on his on an island here less. Yeah Wyatt has no speed. And again how many times you see the Edmonton Oilers do this? They come up through the ice together. I mean it’s one thing you know the the whole flipper pass and all that kind of stuff will work. That’s when they were tending sending two guys out in the zone. that was a little bit different. But here they’re only putting one guy there and he’s standing still and this is a result of it. You’re making a goalender that was suspected a lot of times you you just make it easier on. Here’s here’s another this is a twoon-one. So what I don’t like about this is we end up getting our our feet stopped and we’re looking for better plays and we’re looking for the passing lengths. Now go to the next one. Now we go ahead instead of driving I think that was Duchain on the entry that had the puck. If he wants to drive a little bit wider, Sean can keep catching up, but he doesn’t. So that allows this back second guy to get back into the play. Then Tyler gets it and then go back one frame. So instead of Tyler right here, why doesn’t he take this puck and look at look at the lane in front of him, drive to the net. But you know why Duchain stops his feet? Because he’s looking for another pass back. Tyler’s looking to make a pass. Now nothing happens. puck never even gets to him because we don’t drive the net and we don’t go to the net without the puck either. It’s always making a second or third puck and you’re just making it easy on a team that has everybody coming back into the zone and like you said right from the beginning. Well, Pete said it. They made it hard on us. Well, I don’t know. They just went to where they figured you guys wouldn’t be, which is in the most dangerous of the ice and they just kept you on the outside of the rink the whole time. Now, Dallas got their chances. I shouldn’t say that, but there’s just wasn’t Here’s one. Here’s a point shot. Okay. Now, the forward that’s standing facing the shooter is just standing there. I’m not sure where he is. The player off to the left of the net. He doesn’t even drive to the front of the net. This puck gets to the net. There’s nobody there for a rebound. Nothing. There’s and and there’s no one there. Look, there’s the one guy that comes in late. Now, here here’s the one thing again. You have to time and score the series. You’re down two to one, right? You’re what 10 11 minutes into the game here. You still have to be aware like Pete said, we got to get out to a lead quick, but you got to do it smart, but now you got three forwards that are below the goal line and ultimately it leads to a rush going back the other direction, which they did not score on this, but that early in the game, they ultimately scored a bit a little bit later. But here, go back one frame. So, here’s your man-on-man again. This defenseman is going to stay on the I think it’s McDavid that’s got the puck. Okay, keep going. Now, now I think this is Harley. Harley wants to stay with McDavid instead of just letting him go across the top and now you take yourself out of a spot and as plus the forward that just kind of took to the net, you should have him. But now here in the middle of the ice, this is Thomas Harley chasing back. So if he would have been stayed in his position, the player that’s in front of the net right now with Jake wouldn’t be at the front of the net. He would have been able to seal him out of there. Now it just creates another chance. And it’s it was fortunate here because alls we had to do I think this was a pass and Jake made a a real good play on this. Otherwise, it’s just a little tap in at the net. But there’s no reason this should even happen. Okay. So, now you can go ahead and move up the ice again. Just so you can see where here the puck starts right here. I don’t know who our player is. I don’t know if that’s Duchain, but side of the So, Duchaine wants to carry it a little bit. If he’ have moved it right away, he can get into the play. So, now what Duchaine does now look at look at who’s all caught up because he slows up. Now, all of a sudden, you let three players back into the zone because you want to make another little play. Ultimately, go ahead. I think this is Marchment. Now, look at where our quality scoring chance is coming from. Like the third row. That’s where that shot’s coming. And then Duchain just ultimately gets sealed out of there. So, here here’s the this is Miro. All right. So, Miro we say transports the puck with his legs, which he does. But now there’s a guy that he can move the puck to on the right wing, but he doesn’t. The centerman now has to start going through the middle of the ice to try to keep some speed going because then what happens? Look at everybody’s got to stop. Now what happens now? Look at all the blue jerseys back in the zone. So this is not off the rush. This is just skating the puck and trying to make a And now we try to see send a pass here in the middle of the ice. And now there’s your coverage again on the outside looking in. There’s no chance you’re getting anything here. Hey Luds, on that one, Miro’s got such great ability with his legs to blow through their whole neutral zone. So, if he can do that, which we know he can, you’ve talked about this all year of his his feet, his legs can be a one-man breakout, what do they have to alter to not get stuck at the offensive blue line when he does that? Okay, here’s what you do. Go back about four frames where Murrell had the puck at his own blue line. Just across his own blue line. Keep going. Keep going. Go back. Right. No, right. Uh, okay. Right here. Mero can move this puck. Well, go back one more frame. Actually, it’s going to be two more frames. One more. Cat’s getting a workout today. Okay. Right here. Mirro can take he can take one more stride. Move it to that right winger and then Mirro follows up with the play. There’s times for Mirror to skate. Yes. But look at he’s got three players ahead of him. When Mero keeps the puck, all three of them have to slow down and wait for him. So, if he moves the puck now go ahead. Now, Miro doesn’t have the puck. Let’s say that right winger’s got it. Go ahead. Right winger gets across the up to the blue line. Now he can because Mirill can skate away from people. Now they can give it back to Mero and he created some space. But here he just allows everybody else in a blue jersey to come get him because he keeps the puck. Again, I don’t want to say that you don’t want Miro to to never skate the puck. But when you can advance it and and Mirill Hasten should be allowed to skate and go he jump. That’s how you break things down and you lose people. You know how when Conor McDavid gets the puck and he moves it to his right winger, then he keeps his feet going and then they just bump it back to him. That’s an oh no moment. Mural can do the same kind of thing. But ultimately, look where we are. Four guys on the outside looking in, guy behind the net, no chance here on a on a change and where you got one of your best skaters in the NHL that can a little give and go and you get nothing out of it. Now again, you can look at the shots up there and say they’re seven and two at this at this particular moment, but there’s no high danger chances that they’re all coming from the perimeter with nobody in front of the goalender and they’re trying to make the extra pass all the time. They’re trying to make a game one through game 82 kind of pass. So here here’s just a couple things I wrote down. So this year at the end of the year, high danger shots for Dallas is in the bottom third of the league. Okay, they’re again passing kind of team, right? So then medium danger shots, they’re number two in the league. Um, shocker because they shoot from the outside, the perimeter, nobody there. But here’s the most important one. Percentage of goals from rebounds. They’re in the bottom quarter of the league. One and done, because they’re a rush team and they have success in the playoff or in the regular season, they think they’re going to tic tac it, tic-tac-toe it into the net. And when it doesn’t work out that way, they don’t change gears and play a little bit more direct, a little bit more bluecollar. So, in about 60 seconds, what would you like to see Glenn Gulatin do to utilize this Rush team because you don’t want to take it completely away, but add that other layer? Well, I mean, he can just go ahead and look at the the Conor McDavids and the Leon Bry. Those guys, they take pucks to the net. I mean, they play the same way in their zone against Dallas and they do in the offensive zone. Take a page out of what they did against Dallas this year. You just go back and look at some of them clips where you see all the blue jerseys in front of the goalender. I don’t know how many blue jerseys you or white jerseys you saw on the right side of the blue jerseys in any of those clips there. That’s what it was. And again, we can say that they got through Colorado and they got through Winnipeg. But that was that was goalending. All right. And Miko Ratn came out to play in the first round and then he decided he had enough. No more sand in the sandbox. But at the end of the day, it was goalending that got him to there. And then Jake just couldn’t finish it off or Pete decided that Jake couldn’t finish it off or whatever. That ultimately finishing himself off. I hope you guys took notes because Cat just set a record for the most screenshots used in one segment and Ludge just took you to school. It was 48. How about that? Professor Lewig, well done. Much appreciated. Just just to be fair to Cat, I told I gave Owen 14 clips. Somehow it turned into 48. So, that’s not on me. Uh, we have to make sure if we can’t play the video that you can see those rushes and progressions. One one still shot wouldn’t have done enough. So, we made we we teamed up to make it hard. Why don’t you guys email that email that stuff to Gully? Would you? You think that’ll work for them that they they it’s stuff they wouldn’t see themselves? I’ll clip it and we’ll ship it to him. Yeah, we’ll send that clip out. Up next, let’s see how much Luds and Sam know about some pretty high-end things around the league. 50 goal scorers, rookie single season by franchise. Do they know? We’ll test them next here on DLS. Rugged Road is dedicated to creating innovative and durable outdoor gear for adventurers who demand the best. Their products are designed with the highest quality materials and craftsmanship, ensuring they perform in the toughest conditions. Whether you’re on land or water, Rugged Road gear is built to accompany you on every adventure. One of the most unique features is its ability to always float upright. Crafted to handle the toughest environments, and their coolers are built to last, ensuring that they keep up with any adventure. The coolers are guaranteed to keep up and keep their contents cool for some way seven days. Seven days. your week if you need your cooler full for seven days. 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Unlike traditional neon, these LED signs will not break or shatter, but give you that classic uniform glow that you know and love. LEDs last up to 100,000 hours, so you’ll be enjoying your sign for years to come. Super easy to install using the provided hardware or with the 3M Commando SAM strips, as LS likes to call them. Low voltage so they don’t get hot and they’re always safe to touch. The perfect gift for any season, especially around the holidays. Head over to saturdayneon.com and use code DLS for 10% off your favorite sign. All right, guys. Thanks very much. We have a super chat. So, Cad, if you can find that bing bong or I can just have Luds do it, but I know Cat can find it. There it is. Ken Murphy photography with a Yuri Leton Jamie Ben. How many profs do you see with a Corona? Love it. floods. Your students were dozing off, passing notes like two pansies. Enjoy the weekend, boys. Great show. Great show. First of all, we were not passing notes. We were very, very alert. And it’s just that we’re reing in Professor Lewig because we hear it all the time and we love it. Okay, listen up. you ready for this? I wanted to test you. I found something on NHL.com or NHL Twitter last week, I think it was. And so I wanted to see how you guys how well you knew this. I’m not going to show it on the screen yet because it’ll give away the answers. They posted a graphic. Most recent 50 goal scorer by franchise. Sam, do you know the Dallas Stars most recent 50 goal scorer? Mike Banano. And do you know what year that was? 9394. Very, very good. All right. I knew you would get it. Ah, LS, who’s the which team had the most recent 50 goal score in the league by franchise? Most recent. Yeah. Who did anyone score 50 goals this past season? Matthews didn’t get there. Cuch didn’t get there. Correct. I don’t I don’t think anybody did. There’s one. We’re just talking about that team. He’s on a team that they that the Stars lose to very often. I don’t know. Sam, it was Leon Dryidle. Ah, sorry Sam. I I saw your hand up after I started saying it. Oh, you know, I picked him by the way. I I picked him I believe at the beginning of the year to win two awards, which was what? The Heart and the Rocket. No, no, it was the rocket and uh yeah, Art Roset. I remember what the other one was. It wasn’t the heart because I had uh No, it was the heart as a matter of fact because I had the the Hella Buck Buck Buckbuck just one of them. He I saw Dry Sidle won like the What did he win in the ESPs? Like the best hockey player or something award at the SPS as well. Is that right? I didn’t watch it the other night. I don’t know what the exact award was. Yeah. I don’t know what it was called, but I don’t know how the SPN does it. We should ask, right? I thought that was Oh, Vetkin got the What? What award did he get? No, got like best male athlete or something. Oh, yeah. That could buckle. Found the body. I love it. Okay, guys. So, there are actually, let’s see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven franchises that have never had a 50 goal score. The three that are easy are the Utah Mammoth, right? These are current franchises. Utah Mammoth, the Vegas Golden Knights, and the Seattle Kraken. Have not had a 50-goal score. Can you name any of the other four franchises that have never had a 50 goal score? And this is open-ended for either of you to answer. When you say never, like in their history. In their history. Yes. Correct. There are four other franchises besides the three that I just mentioned. Did Tae Thompson get 50? Because I want to say Buffalo. Uh Buffalo has it’d be somebody before that. So Lud, if you were to guess the last Buffalo Saber, there’s actually two in the same year. Do you could you guess them because it was not Tae Thompson? No. Think think your last year in Minnesota. Who was the big goal scorers for the Sabres? Was uh No, he wasn’t. Not the big guy. Um, squirrel. So, one of them just got named to the next class of the hockey hall of fame. That didn’t help Luds at all. Alexander McGillny. I was gonna say McGilly, but I didn’t know if he was on the team then. And Pat Lefontaine of the last Buffalo Sabres. Sam, one of the franchises that has never had a 50 goal scorer is close near and dear to you. Oh, Jersey Devils. That’s correct. They’ve never had a 50 goal scorer according to this graphic. So, I’m assuming that it’s right because the NHL put it out. But they won Stanley Cups by being a team. Yes, they did. More than one, too. A decent goalie. So, the other three are all teams that were expansion franchises within the last 25 years. Well, Anaheim would have had Salane, right? So, he would have He’s not the most recent 50 goal scorer for the Ducks. There’s actually a guy in 2010 111 who scored 50 plus. Oh, god. For the Ducks. Correct. I’ll give you a hint. He also played for Cory Perry. Very good. All right. So, the other three that haven’t, Columbus Blue Jackets, Nashville Predators, and the Minnesota Wild have never had a 50 goal score. Interestingly enough, Luds, last Montreal Canadian player to score 50 was in the 1989 90 season. Do you have any idea who it could have been? It wasn’t Flower because he wasn’t playing then. Uh 8990. Um you were on this team. Was Bobby Smith there? No. Well, Smitty wasn’t there. Well, I know I was on the team, but um wonder how many assists you had on this guy’s 50 plus. L was drinking. LS was drinking back then. He doesn’t remember. Yeah, it was Molson Canadian. Um, just remember they sent 100 cases of Molson golden to my wedding in Wisconsin. 100 cases. Uh, we drank 85 the first night. Um, let’s see. Uh, God, I don’t know. Chel was there. I was there with Chel 890. I I do not uh You’re going to kick yourself when I tell you the answer. It was Stefan Reishe. Oh, Gree. Yeah. Okay. Now, you can shoot the last couple because I we’re not going to go through all of these because this is a lot. Thank god. And we have another category to get to. The team that has gone the longest since they had a 50 goal scorer, but has had one is 198182. There’s no way you’ll get this because it’s not the Carolina Hurricanes. It’s the Hartford Oilers. who scored 50 goals for Hartford, 50 or more in 8182. I know who it is, too. I know his name and very much in Luds’s uh sort of modus operandi. His initials are BS or what? BS. Boy, this is a BS. Oh, Bla Stoutton. There it is. Yes. Well done. All right. I was right there. Frag, he got away with that one. Hey, uh, Sam, I want you to give me one more and I can name I’m just going to pick one and then we’re going to move on to the other category. So, do you want Eastern Conference or Western Conference? West. Okay. And do you want Pacific Division or do you want Central? I want this segment to end. All right. Well, we got four minutes. So, which one? Pacific. Okay. The last player to score 50 goals for the San Jose Sharks was in 20056. Who was it? Oh, tough one. What was it? Big Joe. It was not Luds for the Steel. I was going with the other uh the swoop big guy. No, little guy. He scored 50 and then I don’t think he ever got close again. It was Jonathan Chichu. Oh, yeah. Okay. So, Cat, go ahead and pop the graphic on for the most recent 50 goal scorer by franchise. There you go, guys. That’s the first half of this. Now, we’re going to have to do a little bit quicker one because we have to get to our NHL notes. So that is I just think that’s fascinating and you can see some fun history there including the Flyers haven’t had a 50 goal scorer since Johnlair in 199798 the Canucks since Pavl Burray that same year. Kovchuck on the Thrashers. Kovaltchuck with the Winnipeg Jets as well. So aka the Thrashers, right? So yeah. So now let’s go to the other one and this is we’ll try to do this a little quicker. most points in a single season by a rookie rookie rook guy a rookie in franchise history. So, how about the Dallas Stars? It was actually done by a Minnesota Northstar in 8182. Most points by a rookie. No, that was Yeah, that would be Bratz’s first 98 points in 8182. How about that? LS Montreal Canadians. Gilaf Flleur. Who? Gilaflur is not Gilafleur. The point total is 71. Matt Snazzlin. Matt Snazzlin did it in 8283. And another guy did it in 8586. Just any guy or a rookie? It was a rookie with the Canadians in 8586. had 71 points as a rookie in one season and you would have played with him. It wasn’t Pepe, was it? Was it Lemieux? No, because he wasn’t a rookie then. Um, I don’t know. Shell Delene. Oh, Shell Delen. Who was a better rookie when you were you weren’t there for Matt Snazzlin, but was Delen a pretty heck of a rookie? You were 82 83. Yeah. I thought you were still in North Dakota in 82. Nope. That would be uh 79 80 81 82. Ah, okay. I was gone. 79 80 81 81 82. So 82 83. That’s why I thought Matt Matt, we were rookies together. Ah, nice. Yeah. I thought you were one year later, so I got that one wrong. Okay. Um, let’s see. Any really fun ones? All right, Sam, I’ll just give you yours because we have to move on. Scott Gomez, 70 in what year for the New Jersey Devils? Oh, man. This was near near their cup. Um, I don’t think it was the cup year. Is it Was it the cup year? Was it 2000? 99 2000. Bravo. Very well done. I don’t know if he was a rookie or if that was his second year. So, we could do another five 10 minutes of this. I think bloody might take that number two pencil and shove it in his ear. So, here’s the list that they tweeted out. Most points and wonder what is going on inside their head. Most points in a single season by a rookie by franchise. It’s just a fun look down memory lane. Whether you go back to Sylvane Ton of the Hartford Whalers or you go look at Trevor Zegris with the Anaheim Ducks. Wow, Zegris. That’s hilarious. the Danny Heatley, Atlanta Thrashers, all that’s really fun. Um, new, they actually don’t have Tamu Salani with the original Winnipeg Jets because those stats are currently in purgatory, right? Because they went to the Coyotes and they didn’t they didn’t translate to the Utah Mammoth. I like that. Josh Don just gets it. It’s 19. I know. So Salani had the record, right? The most ever by a rookie, I believe, but it’s not on there, so go figure. So Jo, as you know, Sydney Crosby the most on this particular list, except for Peter Stasny with the Quebec Nordics. How about that? Mark Pavlich, another uh USA 1980 guy. Love it. All right, guys. Up next, some NHL news and notes. There was a trade that happened yesterday. Let’s talk about it next here on DLLS. All right, let’s talk about being a diehard first. 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We always go in there to get questions like we did. Sam asked a diehard question to Greg Washinsky yesterday. Welcome back, Sam. We will have Toby Peterson on next week, the new head coach of the Texas Stars. We’ll take some dieh hard questions for him there. Another perk of being a diehard. All right, luds. Let’s get your attention back. Let’s get Sam back in the frame because no more trivia questions. There was a trade that happened yesterday. Toronto Maple Leafs acquired Dakota Joshua from the Vancouver Conucks. A fourthround pick went the other way. And I wanted to get both of your guys’ thoughts. So Led, we’ll start with you. What do you think about Dakota Joshua as a player and the fact that Toronto was able to get him for what seems like a pretty inexpensive cost? I I what I recall from him coming into the league, there was a big upside skill and, you know, all that kind of stuff. And I don’t think he’s lived up to it. You know, I think he’s got what 10 15 goals maybe a year or so. Um I I I think maybe playing playing with um in Toronto there, depending on who he plays with, maybe you’ll get a little bit of that out of him. Um but for me, it’s just been I I remember him coming out and a lot of talk about him, you know, I think there’s there was more hype and I I don’t think he’s been able to live up to the hype, I guess, is what I’m trying to say. Sam, do you think that there’s a sort of a slightly skilled, more skilled player replacement? Toronto’s bringing Joshua as they traded Ryan Reeves to San Jose recently. Yeah, that’s what I was just about to say is they they got rid of a true fourthline guy and now they have someone who can, as Led said, he has the skill. I mean, he scored 18 one year with Vancouver. His he hasn’t played really a lot of full seasons. He’s played I think he played like 15, 20, 30 games in his first couple years in St. Louis. played I think 60s something in his in his first year where he did score 11 I think 18. So he’s he’s showed that he can do a little more. Um it’s going to be interesting as Led said he could he could be that guy that we’re talking about the the Sam Steel type that jumps up on a line with a skilled player there in Toronto and puts in 20 goals and gives them a little more of that uh two-way hockey. So I think it’s a good move for them. It’s clearly an upgrade from Ryan Reeves in terms of what they’re looking for. Reeves is kind of on his way out of the league here uh with his type of role. So, I think it’s a good trade for them to if worst case you get a pretty responsible guy who can win a couple faceoffs. Best case you get a guy who puts in 1520 on a second or third line. Let’s look at the other news from yesterday and it was surrounding the Anaheim Ducks. They have a ton of cap space with your buddy Pat Verbique at the helm. Luds, they want to make the playoffs this year. They just traded John Gibson away. Yep. Right. They traded him to Detroit. Oh, did you? Oh my god, you are so on top of it today. She was quick. I didn’t even hear it. It was quick. It was very quick. Yeah, I’m going there. There. See, it’s it’s nice. And they just extended Lucas Dostall, a five-year deal, 6.5 million a year. And clearly with the fact that they already got rid of Gibson and they re-updol, he is their present and their future, isn’t he? Yes. Perfect. I was too busy quacking. I don’t remember what I told you. Sam, you’re our goalie guy with Shawn out today. What do you think? Uh, yeah, he he’s their he’s their guy. Obviously, Gibson, we talked about when he when that trade happened. Um, but I think the the key for them is they they brought in Morazzic. They have I think there as well. So they have they have an interesting depth of goalies, but it seems to me that they are leaning on Dostall to take over and kind of take the reigns. But that was important for them to get Morazzic was to have the the option there where I don’t think they’re going to put Dostall and have him play 60 games here this year. So, um it’ll be interesting to see how much he’s able to take that and if he’s able to say this is my team now going forward because he’s a I mean he’s put up some pretty good numbers for a team that allows a lot of shots and chances against um and he didn’t get a ton of time because of Gibson playing as many games as he did when he was healthy. So, I’m interested to see he could be a very very big star in this league as a goalie as long as that team can defend a little bit better. You know what? You talk about Gibson too and they’re talking about him in Detroit and all this kind of stuff and he’s going to be the guy and getting hurt because he had so many shots again. Detroit is worse than Anaheim is as far as giving up shots. It’s a shooting gallery. So look for Gibby to be on the shelf by game 17 or so. Hey Luds, Pat Verbique signed Dostall to the extension, but he also brought in Peter Morazzic at four and he has four cap hit of 4.25. Now, cap space isn’t a problem for the Ducks right now, but then he also signed Billy Huso to a 2-year, 2.2 million per year deal. They have three NHL goalies, all making millions, and you just wonder, is he just making sure that he’s got plenty of depth behind their 25-year-old that’s going to lead the charge? I would say he might do that, but I think also it’s a trade piece for him, you know, depending on how that team does and you can package up one of those guys. Um, you know, I think Billy Huso really come out of the shoot, right? When he when he got traded, he was a good goalie and and and again, it’s not easy playing in Detroit land. So, um, you know, but I just think that when you have cap space like that, which most teams don’t, it it’s a way for these guy and I think that Anaheim and I think Beaker looks at think of a team that’s on the up and coming right now and so they expect a team like that to be a playoff team and um and if you can maybe you’re a little bit better than a playoff team and if you’ve got one of those goalenders at some point in the first 40 50 games that you you know you look around the league and you find another piece that you can add that can you know give you a a little more uh punch. Um that to me that’s that’s the only reason you’d bring in three of those guys right now. Yeah, Lud’s L’s point on the trade is perfect because I was thinking as soon as you started reading those and I looked at the the depth they have, I wouldn’t be surprised. Maybe more, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see one of those veteran guys playing for the oil in in the spring here. That’s a a Morazzic is a perfect type of guy they they could trade for to upgrade their goalies in the halfway through the year. Before we get to our next topic, I just want Cat to bring up Stanky Lankkey’s comment from the chat because the comment is, “Pav doesn’t need to bring a duck call when he hunts. Just bring Luds.” Pretty good at it. We pract We practice on that stuff around here quite a bit. We’re Luds. I want you to talk about Jumbo for a second. Joe Thornton joins the San Jose Sharks in an official postplaying capacity. Player development coach and hockey operations adviser. This seems like a no-brainer for a guy that’s staying out there. Yeah, I I think his personality, uh, just the way he’s been his whole career, uh, everything that you hear about him as a teammate, uh, I think it it’s the perfect kind of guy to to kind of bring in some young kids and especially some some kids that they’re, you know, on the positive with, you know, looking at the future and things like that and and to be able to talk to a guy that’s been in the league over 20 years and everything that he’s gone through. Um, you know, and it could be a first round pick or a second round pick. Everything that he’s had to go through. Hey, you know what? It’s at the it’s the same but different that we talked about like with the Jordy Ben, you know, being down in in Cedar Park, all the things that he’s lived through from that standpoint, dealing with the players that get sent back and down and hang around too long and be able to talk them through those kind of circumstances. I would say the same thing with with with Joe. And um he’s just an outgoing guy and he’s not that he’s not that grumpy guy walking around, right? He’s got a lot of a lot of things going whether he’s got his shirt on or not, but he’s he’s you know, you know what I’m saying? Like he just seems like a good time Charlie, but but probably and you watch him play, he you can see where he gets heated at times where he wants to win and you can see all that. So, I think he’s a great guy to add to that organization. And they’re not the same PE person, but doesn’t that sort of feel like why Jim Nil has got an open invitation, Sam, for Joe Pavvelski. That’s what I was just about to ask. It feels like type of role. We got it. Feels like the exact type of role that Joe would would want to do, right? What you Who are you talking about? Joe Povvelski. Okay. Must have been must again. Yeah. Yeah. It feels like that. I mean, the the the roles are so different. You some of them are meaningless, right? You just put some sort of label on it, but it just means they’re around the team. They’re there to help players in certain capacities, whether they’re on the ice, whether they’re down at Cedar Park or or moving up and down. It just feels like these type of players like Jumbo and like pavs bring so much more than just the on ice stuff. And that is huge for L’s made it say it perfect. Not just all the experience, all the leadership, the winning, everything for Thornton, but he’s going to make it fun as hell to be on that rank. And it’s not a lot of fun to be on a team that wins 20 games a year. So, I think it’s an easy slam dunk for them, just like it will be when Joe go finally makes his way back to Big D. Sam, before we sign off today, I’ll leave it up to you how much you would like to share your personal life because you’re not going to be on the show Monday or Tuesday next week. Do you want to tell the viewers why? Sir, I am finally after a year plus moving Katie down to Dallas to move in with me and live down in Dallas so that we are no longer on Zoom dates uh every night. And for the better chance, I’m hoping their parents aren’t hearing me. Sorry if you hear me. Uh but hopefully that limits our travel to New Jersey as much as possible so that I can I can decrease the trips back east. Uh, but I’m very excited to have her there. Bring her to the Christmas party and, uh, have her come to some games so I’m no longer hiding in my dungeon by myself in my apartment. There you go, Luds. No more long term. Long distance. I didn’t mean long term. I definitely meant long distance. Hopefully long term. It’ll be nice when It’ll be nice though when Sam is sick. At least there’ll be some decorations in his bedroom or hospital bed or whatever. There’ll be Put a sticker or two on the bubble. Yeah. I love it. Well, fellas, I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend. Next week, Sean will be here uh on Monday with me and Luds. Tuesday, we’re going to interview Texas Stars new head coach, Toby Peterson. And then, barring any major setbacks or illnesses or other freak accidents. Knock on wood. Sam will be in studio again with me on Wednesday. So, that should be a lot of fun. If you haven’t had a chance already, go back and watch the tactical breakdown from Professor Lewig. It is fantastic. and we hope you have a wonderful weekend. Big thank you to our producer today, Katya Valba, for all the buttons, all the graphics, all the production today. She was on her game for Craig Lewig, Sam Nestler, Owen Newkerk, and Quack Quack. Have a great weekend. [Applause] [Music]

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Before he was fired as Dallas Stars head coach, Pete DeBoer said the team’s primary rush offense dried up in the playoffs and they needed to add another layer to their game. So, we unleashed Craig Ludwig on the video clips and he’s going to teach us what the Stars need to do moving forward. The NHL recently put out the lists of the Most Recent 50-Goal Scorer By Franchise and the Highest Single-Season Rookie Points By Franchise. Owen is going to quiz Sam & Luds to see how they do. Plus, NHL News & Notes, including the Dakota Joshua trade to the Toronto Maple Leafs from the Vancouver Canucks.

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