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My pleasure. Yeah, no, it was cool. I enjoy, I always love going out there to Vegas for various reasons, but also because the players tour is a really good time to ask goofy questions and get some insight. And everybody's in a good mood. Like every single one of those guys, maybe outside of Connor Bedard, was in a really good mood and wanted to talk and was free and flowing with the information. Is Connor Bedard already over it? So I was talking to somebody earlier today about Connor Bedard. Connor Bedard is, you know, obviously everybody knows the first of all draft young superstar with the Blackhawks, not good at the media thing yet.

And my theory on that is that I've seen him now twice as some of the rookie availability in Virginia that I saw him in Vegas. And my theory on that is that he just wants to get going. Like he's been asked a thousand times, Hey, what, what's your, what's your standard for excellence in your first season? And I'm thinking, he's thinking, I don't know.

I'd like to just go out and show you what I can do. So I think he, he doesn't quite know why he has to do this stuff and he has to do this stuff to sell the game and be a star and other young players have had to learn that over time too, like McDavid. But in his case, I think it's just kind of like, like one of the things he keeps saying is I haven't even made the team yet, which is accurate, although they're selling, you know, thousands of season tickets in his name. But I think he's just raring to go and tired of having to talk about it in Vegas. I wonder if you can get a place, a wager on whether or not Connor, Connor Bedard will make the Blackhawks opening night roster minus a trillion. You think minus a trillion for that?

That's if you can make a wager Vegas. I was there during the hack. You heard about the hack, right? Oh, no, I didn't. What happened?

Okay. So all of the MGM properties in Vegas and some of some other ones outside of Vegas were hacked in a giant cyber attack. I did hear that.

I thought immediately that it was Danny Ocean. 75% of the slot machines were inoperable. The credit card machines were inoperable. They had to put somebody in the elevators of the Aria because the phones didn't work.

So if you needed to contact the front desk for any reason, you had to walk to the elevator, call the elevator, tell someone with a walkie talkie what you needed, and then they radio down to the desk. The weirdest thing was the lights in my room are obviously all controlled electronically. And so Tuesday night I'm there a couple of days after this hack, they all start turning on and off on their own. The curtain in my room starts opening by itself, like a poltergeist. And finally to get to sleep, I had to unscrew the light bulbs in my room. Oh my gosh.

The lights are off. For those that have been following it, it's still going on, I think, and it's really serious stuff. The cyber attack is no joke. Well, I'm sure it's costing Terry Benedict a fortune. Greg Wyshinsky is joining us here on the Adam Gold show from ESPN. All right, let me just get to this.

The reason I texted you yesterday was because we should have seen this coming, right? Mike Babcock hired to help a turnaround with the Columbus Blue Jackets, which had already started through player acquisition, and shockingly it ended badly. Explain to people what Babcock did to get himself to the point where he ultimately resigned yesterday. Yeah, so basically he's somebody who had a litany of abuse charges against him, mental abuse charges against him after he was fired by the Maple Leafs. Stories came out about how he made Mitch Marner as a rookie, make a list of his teammates from the guys who hustle the most to the ones who don't hustle and then shared that list with the players that are at the bottom, embarrassing Marner. He was emotionally abusive to Johan Franz and who played with the Red Wings for a long time. His reputation, Babcock as a coach took a huge hit.

That being said, he was still getting interviews for NHL jobs, the Washington Capitals gig, and then got hired by the Columbus Blue Jackets. Now, in the last week what happened was the spit and chiclets podcast and Paul Bissonette is an analyst on TNT, got wind of the fact that Babcock was asking players on the Blue Jackets to share their camera rolls with him on their cell phones. He's asking some veteran players this and just being like, hey, I just want to see your family. Here's pictures of my family, what have you. He was also asking younger players this and younger players that are in a much different place in life.

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Listen to Supreme the Battle for Roe on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And so the younger players on the team felt very weird about this. And when you're Mike Babcock and you are under all of this scrutiny already about your behavior in past situations, and apparently he did this phone thing in Toronto too, it came to light through the podcast and then the NHLPA and their new executive director Marty Walsh used to be the mayor of Boston flew to Columbus to investigate this on their own. So they interviewed players at the arena, got all the information, then met with the NHL.

The NHL and the NHLPA shared their information with to the blue jackets last Friday. And then it became kind of apparent that moving forward with Babcock as the coach was not going to be tenable based on his current relationship with half the roster, right? So he resigned.

Pascal Vincent, who was an associate coach there already, was named head coach over the weekend. And then yesterday the team tried to explain how they allowed this to happen to, you know, everybody kind of admitting it was a mistake. And when asked about the critics, like myself, who said hiring Babcock in the first place was a bad idea, team president John David said, said, well, maybe it was.

Yeah, you know, it was, it was a bad idea. And the NHL just met, and the NHL just met allowed Joel Quinville to make a presentation as to why he should come back into the league. And Babcock has a Stanley Cup.

I get it. He has been a successful coach. But at what cost do does the NHL allow people like this to who and the NHL already has a little bit of a problem. And I think I probably am sugarcoating that with some behind the scenes stuff in terms of abuse, mental abuse with players, right? What what Joel Quinville essentially oversaw was a situation where it didn't matter that one of their prospects was being sexually abused by a staff member. What was more important to Quinville was winning a Stanley Cup. So I don't I can't process why the NHL would even allow Quinville to come back. But I get the sense that they're going to.

They might. I mean, he's been on the outside looking in for a long time, and maybe this Babcock situation gives them some pause and so far as trying to reinstate the guy. But in Babcock's case, like, look, his reputation was certainly tarnished. But like you said, there was also a number of people within the hockey world and frankly, within the hockey media that were desirous to see this guy's reputation get mended.

Yeah. And to see him get another chance. I mean, on top of having a successful run with Detroit, where you want to Stanley Cup, by the way, didn't really do anything once Nick Lindstrom left the league. Remember that he also won two gold medals of Team Canada.

Again, you and I can use the greatest assemblage of talent and probably win a couple of gold medals as well. But nonetheless, he was there and gets credit for it. So there's a certain mystique to his success.

And he's got a lot of friends in the industry. And one of them was Yarmulke, the lion and the GM of the Blue Jackets. He said yesterday, look, I've known this guy since the late 1990s. I wanted to give him a second chance. I reached out to people that I respect. They all thought that he deserved a second chance.

I'd love to know who these people are, by the way. And and so he gave it to them and then the whole thing blew up in their face. And now they're going to have to face the repercussions for it. I mean, what does that locker room look like after this whole thing falls apart and what happens to check a line and rather and John Davidson, the team president after the season is done, ownership came out with a statement yesterday to say we're going to keep him in place now because we don't want to further disrupt the season, which is not exactly a vote of confidence. So we probably get to see what the ramifications are for those two insofar as this becoming such a disaster for the franchise. I also wonder what it means for Boone Jenner, who's the captain of the Blue Jackets, who was either at least publicly on board with what Mike Babcock wanted to do and even went to bat for him in at least initially.

And again, I don't know how much of that is. He's our coach. I got to keep the peace.

He might have been saying other things behind closed doors. One one hockey thing that I thought that I loved your piece about, you know, talking to all these players about stuff that isn't necessarily nuts and bolts. But Johnny Godreau suggested that we no longer have a shootout. I am team Johnny Godreau. In this case, just play three on three until we get a winner. If we have to have a winner and I'd be OK with the tie. But if we have to have a winner, then just play three on three until we get a winner. We'll get one. There's no question we'll get a winner. Yeah, I was I again, I hate I've hated the shootout since the moment it was implemented.

I was never a fan. And and I'm happy that there's strong anti-shootout sentiment from from people within the league. I don't know if it'll ever affect change, but that's good to see. But yeah, the the superstar roundtable that we had today on ESPN, I think my favorite part was that rules part. I mean, you had some really interesting thoughts. Cage Thompson saying you should be able to kick the pocket. Sidney Crosby saying he's not saying it should happen, but saying he'd be interested in seeing if we put the red line back in the way, those two line passes, what the what the sport would look like. Now, he's probably saying that because the average age of his team is like 41 years old. You know, it's still an interesting thought nonetheless.

And some other really interesting ideas. I always like to talk about rules changes with these guys, because while some of them are a little bit resident, reticent to put their opinions out there on these things, there are other ones that certainly have mulled over what they would change about the league when they thought about it. Yeah, Seth Jarvis said he wants referees to be interviewed after games.

I can't, I mean, I disagree with that. We just don't need to feed the beast anymore. We have enough conversation about referees like I don't really want to question them after games. I think we have a pool reporter if there are legitimate questions, but they don't need to. We don't need to have these guys. I would love to know more about we do have full reporters and sometimes they speak and sometimes they don't after games on controversial calls.

I agree with you. What turned me around about it was talking to some officials in the league about it and the idea that the more we know about these guys and the more we hear about these guys, the harder it is for them to do their jobs because now they're going to be on the record about certain things. I get that, but I mean, when it comes to big moments, controversial calls, there absolutely needs to be people on the record talking about it after the game. I think that's what we get from a pool reporter, Rob Brindamore, and I'll let you go on this Greg Wyshinsky from ESPN. Rob Brindamore wants an eye on the sky reviewing all the calls. He said, we can do this in two seconds. Like, was that a penalty? Nope. That was a bad call.

That's okay. Cause ultimately the guys on the ice want to get it right too. Like everybody wants to get it right. I mean, I know where Roddy's coming from, but at the same time, that's, that's a little during a little bit too close to Robo umpires at the end of the day, right? Like human error remains a indelible part of pro sports.

I mean, we see it every Saturday and Sunday during the fall, as much as it pains us to see it. It's one of the things that makes sports fun is that a game can change on a, on a call, whether it's a good call or a bad call. I'd be all for getting rid of replay across all sports, every sport. I mean, for the most part, these guys do a great job and dealing with bad calls should be part of the game.

I'd be a hundred percent in favor of it. Uh, I, I, I, you see, I think I know where you're coming from. I do think that we still need it for scoring place. That's where I draw the line. You know, a scoring play for me is like, does it go over the line? Does it cross the line over line? And maybe we can eventually use technology to get that right or, or not.

But I mean, I think for me, that's, that's the biggie for me is like, if we have the ways to determine if it's a goal or not, we should use those ways. Greg Wyshinsky from ESPN at Wyshinsky on Twitter. Hey, thank you, man. I'll see you soon. I know.

Anytime. Greg Wyshinsky here from ESPN on the Adam Gold show. From I Heart Podcast, Supreme, the battle for Roe tells the story of the unlikely champions behind the landmark case Roe v. Wade, starring Maya Hawk as 26 year old lead attorney Sarah Weddington. We're challenging the Texas abortion laws in federal court. And Academy award nominee, William H Macy as Supreme court justice, Harry Blackman. Time is not the most important factor. Getting it right is listen to the podcast Supreme the battle for Roe on the I Heart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.