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.

"I DROVE HERE IN A MAZDA!" -Steven, dispelling rumors that he is being funded by the Saudis.

@theevilascotcompany9255

14 күн бұрын

I dunno, I heard Steve's Mazda has a boss-level tape deck with AM/FM radio. You can't get that without Crown Prince money there.

@CheetahLynx

14 күн бұрын

I dunno, he did pay $1 extra for it...

Everyone: Steve and SDPN took a step back Entirety of SDPN: laughing their asses off at Steve and Steve hilariously embarrassed about it.

Jesse😂😂😂😂 “Not an email from someone who’s a prince..”. 😂😂😂😂

@RedWings80

14 күн бұрын

Diposed prince of Nigeria prolly

Steve: _March 7, March 7, March 8, March 8, March 8_ Jesse and Adam: *This is not good podcast content Steve* 😂

@CorrionReap

9 күн бұрын

I don't know providing evidence to backup your claim makes for good podcast content to me at least.

I mean, good on Steve for taking it on the chin. For all the tin-foil hats hating on the retraction, the silence from mods, deleting of comments; etc. it does actually make me feel better that even Adam and Jesse gave Steve the "lol, how in God's name did you fall for that". I feel we've seen Dangle's content for TOO LONG to legitimately think he just sold out for an imaginary Saudi-backed league. Also, shoutout to Schlossman for the update; I live in ND and he does great reporting in the Herald

@brettbainbridge3154

14 күн бұрын

Baby brain is a real thing, even for dads.

@OWlsfordshire

14 күн бұрын

He had no choice. What was he supposed to do, scream?

@hsiren

14 күн бұрын

Yep I have done some digging too and apparently this guy (or atleast "businesman Max Chambers) has tried to start a pro Can-Am baseball league with severall franchises in 1991. All sort of pie-in-the-sky type of talks. That ofcourse never went anywhere either. But got some media attention and some people fell on it. Also tried to relocate CBA (basketball) team in 1990. In 1984 he was very briefly owner of 1984 SJHL Yorkton Terriers. Until financial problems arrived quickly. That man has likely done it for decades.

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!

Where is ur helicopter steve? Jk, adressing it was the best for everyone. Im glad that the boys started with it

There is something bizarre and wonderful about Steve defending the Bruins.

Addressing it was the right thing to do.

Omg you know the league is a joke when STEVE DANGLE IS ARGUING IN FAVOUR OF THE BRUINS!!!!! 🤯😭😱🤬🤣😵‍💫

@andrewmartin6120

14 күн бұрын

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."

@davidjohnson9186

14 күн бұрын

@@andrewmartin6120the “incidental” contact happened before the rebound. That rule doesn’t apply.

@andrewmartin6120

14 күн бұрын

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.

@davidjohnson9186

14 күн бұрын

@@andrewmartin6120 I respectfully disagree

@thecinemawrestlingfederati7958

14 күн бұрын

​@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

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?!

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 / KZread clips.

Thank you Steve 🙏 hearing you call out the reffing is cathartic

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.

Considering how ruthless the NHL was at taking down the WHA decades ago, why wouldn't the NHL absolutely crush the "MLH" league before it ever gets off the ground?

@B2Roland

13 күн бұрын

If it really was Saudi backed, they'd be outmatched.

Lost in all of this is the fact that Allan backed Steve's MLH report. I'm not the biggest fan of Allan but can't deny he has a pretty good pulse on what happens in hockey behind closed doors. So when I saw him support Steve's reporting, that's when I bought into it being real.

@Gamerzsociaty

14 күн бұрын

Lots of people had heard the same stuff but the guy trying to start it has been questionable in the past (tried to buy the Blues but nobody could validate it)

Its all fun and games until Bertuzzi breaks your f*cking neck on live tv because the refs have stopped doing their job.

good on you for coming front forward and talking about it, happens to everyone

Kelly Sutherland is also the guy who stared right at Accari getting tripped in the 2019 finals and did nothing

Adam was spot on - 1 game suspension.

The Bennett situation sets a dangerous precedent.

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.

@TrAvi5link

14 күн бұрын

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"

@avalnz86

13 күн бұрын

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 😅)

@JoeMagician

12 күн бұрын

@@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.

@avalnz86

11 күн бұрын

@@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.

Adam when it comes to having bad takes as of late has been insane with the Ted Lindsey and the refs

Hyman cross-checked Zadorov in the face too! Right after Soucy’s. Z had to get stitches but ZERO consequences for Hyman. The double standard is the problem. Hyman should also be suspended for a game.

JUST ANNOUNCED: Soucy got a 1 game suspension

@Marixa1979

14 күн бұрын

And Canuck fans are so vocal to say the league is out to get them, but this one and the Pietro slash being 1 game each is a joke.

@bondageknightgael9410

14 күн бұрын

Seems fair, McDavid earned those cross checks with the over hand 2 hand slash that was ALSO after the whistle. You can’t do what big Z and Soucy did, but you also can’t do what McDavid did either.

@ajbolt7

14 күн бұрын

Crazy that there’s not even a fine or acknowledgement of Hyman cross-checking Zadorov in the face on that same play, hard enough to cause him to need stitches.

@funstarr

14 күн бұрын

Cue the Dangle scream.

@Marixa1979

14 күн бұрын

@@bondageknightgael9410 Huh? Watch it again. Are you talking about the slash to Soucy's pants which is followed by Soucy's slash to McDavid's pants? Nobody with a shred of common sense is complaining about a couple slashes to the pants, those are extremely minor.

Considering how the Saudis have dealt with reporters in the past, Steve is lucky they left the hacksaws at home.

JUST ANNOUNCED: SAM BENNETT WONT EVEN GET A FINE

Missed an opportunity to have a sarcastic show title throwback to Smart insider man

I've said from the beginning, it's all about how you respond. Mistakes are usually fine.

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.

You could make a better argument for the Canucks to be up 3-0 than you could for the Oilers.

Carson Soucy being suspended one game leaves you wondering why - in the same scrum, Hyman cross-checked Zadorov in the face with Zadorov needing stitches, and there is no supplemental discipline for the exact same play.

@NoodlesCubed

14 күн бұрын

that video is not as viral that's why. the league and DoPS cares more about optics than player safety. Ironic

Steve "Smart Insider Man" Dangle lol

Bruins fan in Sydney, Australia. Enjoy your informed opinions and the frustration against the refs is real. Refs are ruining games sometimes. Have a great week.

Missed opportunity to call this episode "not a league" on so many different levels.

@thewickedone2676

14 күн бұрын

So good 🤣

@SteveDangle

14 күн бұрын

DAMN IT!!! Oh man, good call.

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.

Oilers would be up 3-0. How? Can’t score 5 on 5 and Ian Cole has half their goals.

I’ve been made to feel bad for Boston. I need an hour long shower. Canucks fan.

Guys, you can't make betting tips to us after ranting about the corrupt league. Why would anyone, bet money on this league with officials like this?

I love that the sponsors keep getting better and better ❤❤❤❤

A Mazda in this economy? Saudi Steve indeed, 😂😂

Love my boys, good to see 'em take responsibility - great story to share too. Sometimes you just beef it.

Dont have a problem with Soucy getting a suspension. Do have a problem that the Oilers dont have to answer for their actions

The MLH jokes were funny and i hope the continue, but anyone saying Steve was paid or wouldn't address it was clueless.

Can vouch for Steve's point about fans just leaving when they get tired of the bullshit. Reffing is a big one but also the blatant lack of morals throughout the league. Used to watch all 82 games for my team plus whichever match up was best on the west coast almost nightly. I have watched 4 games in the past 2 seasons and I usually end up changing the channel.

Still think this is the stat of the playoffs (and explains the oilers being down) - Oilers without Mcdavid or Drai on the ice have 2 goals. Total...

43:16 I wasn’t expecting Steve Dangle to go on a Randy Marsh-esque Sarcastaball rant, but I am 100% here for 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

Adam the only non biased one on the show. Rielly play was completely different.

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.

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?

Congratulations on the lucrative sponsorship Steve!

Respect for addressing the MLH topic, fellas.

Here’s an idea. If the NHL wants to grow in popularity, how’s about the NHL hold their officials A LOT more accountable than the NFL, NBA or MLB. Make the refs face the media after every game. Now, I also say pay them more to take on that responsibility and transparency. I’m telling you, fans of other sports will tune in knowing that officials are being held accountable…

@villeperkkola

13 күн бұрын

Sure, but they will never pay the refs enough to make them agree with that

Thanks for the reffing convo, Steve is totally right. Call the rules, players will adapt

Just want to take some time to thank all the trolls adding a bunch of extra comments to last sdpn and giving these guys the extra exposure by helping their algorithm! Appreciate it folks! Any comment is a good comment! 😂😂😂

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.

@plushie946

14 күн бұрын

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.

@crushdavis7048

14 күн бұрын

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.

Stand-up guys are always admirable, even or possibly especially when standing up is painful. Having good mates who have your back helps.

Steve Dangle, the Don Cherry for the new generation

"Its been anarchy" - 32:40 I heard that title card pun instantly and chuckled.

Well played steve thanks for being earnest and honest, respect reclaimed

Honestly knowing now what happened with the MLH thing, it's very understandable. Don't get me wrong, you gotta do your due diligence, but also having worked in freelance journalism (albeit in a very different part of the field), I can tell you confidently many major reporters for huge outlets don't do their due diligence, but their mistakes are often lost in the noise while their major breaking stories become their resume. Really what you've learned is what so many people learn which is you're not the type of person for breaking stories, and that's fine. I wasn't either and the only reason I didn't embarrass myself trying is because as a freelance journalist no one is going to pick up your story anyways so I'd just be nuking my career (which ended up not being much of one anyways in my case) with absolutely no benefit. As for a source screwing you over, I know that all too well. Sadly the current media sphere requires things to move fast which makes dependence on insider sources so much more important, but also means if they burn you there's very little time to see it before it's too late.

that fact the oilers have that great of a powerplay and are still losing shows how bad they are 5 on 5

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.

Shanahan Fired?- ❎ Pelley Cares?- ❎ Treliving loves Woll?-❎ Defence is good?-❎ Offence is scoring?-❎ Coach solves problem?- ❎ Goaltending ?- ❎ Need I say more?✅

Steve: Turn the Stanley Cup into a cock and balls. Manscaped Execs: Genius.

Adam the voice of reason on this show. You two are on another planet today 😂😂😂

Love ya, Steve!

@steve Reminder you still have time to backtrack on your "Easton Cowan back to the OHL next year" take - complete OHL finals domination.

Thanks for directing us to Schlossman, guy seems to know his stuff.

@LynnEdwards-sl7jd

14 күн бұрын

Much more so than Steve. Also much smarter. Steve is just a blowhard that got big in the early days of KZread by screeching and shrilling like a 12 year old girl on Leafs videos.

The refs mistake their role, I honestly believe they think we are all paying high ticket prices to just ... see ... them. What a joke.

The fact that the UFC is more predictable with what’s allowed and what’s not is crazy

You know the officiating has been brutal, is when Steve starts defending the Boston Bruins. And he is 100% correct in doing so

Good show guys

I agree with Steve on this totally. Playoff hockey sucks. It is a totally different sport than the regular season.

The unlucky calls against the Bruins sucks but don’t let that take away how the Panthers have dominated the Bruins

@Seegster77

14 күн бұрын

The series would have been tied if they won the game.. doesn’t matter how you dominated two games. It affected the series.

@itsyeboi631

14 күн бұрын

@@Seegster77 all 4 games Florida has dominated, even when they lost, Florida got goalied.

@Seegster77

14 күн бұрын

@@itsyeboi631 you only dominated two games clown.

@ericbrewerguitar1499

14 күн бұрын

Agreed, I feel like no one wants to acknowledge that Florida has just been way better. No dog in this fight btw. Other than game 1 it hasn’t been even close. Take away Bennett’s goal I’d damn near guarantee that Florida was winning that game regardless. The Bruins did absolutely nothing in the 3rd. Swayman has been unbelievable and is the only reason they weren’t swept aside in 4. Pretty sure they registered only 12 shots in two out of the 4 games, like either the Bruins are playing as bad as I’ve ever seen them or Florida is just that explosive. Maybe a bit of both

@itsyeboi631

14 күн бұрын

@@ericbrewerguitar1499 w take

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.

btw you can get do a few day in a cell for punching sombody, but doing it on the ice is not a suspension

Everyone calling 3 games for the cross check cmon get your heads out of your ass. At least the guy that actually watched the game had the right take

Adam seems to be the only one who actually watched the Canucks-Oilers game, because it was on a school night. Most East Coast sports media seem to be either unaware or ignoring the big two handed slash by McDavid against Soucy before he got crosschecked. The fact that McDavid gets nothing for a huge slash is a joke. I thought Soucy would be suspended, especially after all the lobbying by TSN and Sportsnet hacks, who made it sound like McDavid was rescuing kittens when he got crosschecked out of nowhere.

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.

We love ya Steve 😂

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

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.

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.

Best show all yr steve agree 100%

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!

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?!

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.

Someone needs to make a Kendrick vs Drake esk Steve diss track on the NHL, call it “not a league”

Steve Dangle 🤝 Bruins fans “WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?!”

@andrewmartin6120

14 күн бұрын

More like Steve Dangle and Bruins fans forgetting there is more to rule 69 🤫 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."

@214cena

14 күн бұрын

@@andrewmartin6120 what is “incidental” about Bennett purposefully cross checking Coyle into the goalie?

@NoodlesCubed

14 күн бұрын

@@andrewmartin6120 incidental means part of the play, an illegal crosscheck is not part of the play unless you are saying cross checking in the crease is all of a sudden allowed and everyone should do it.

The officiating has been awful, and I’m suprised you guys didn’t talk about it but right after Soucy accidentally crosschecked McDavid in the face, Hyman crosschecked Zadorov straight to the face and caused him to need stitches because of it.

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".

43:00 killed me LOL

Dw, Juulsen will also cross check McPrecious for Soucy 😂

Problem is there is not enough Refs that stick with the career or pursue hockey reffing as a career all the way up the ranks to push out some of the old biased refs from the NHL. They really need to have a greater focus on a grass roots referee program.

I'm only 18 minutes in so far, but the fact that Adam Wylde is defending the Canucks is mind boggling to me...