A Sit Down With Bedard and Nazar

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas return with a special edition of the pod featuring an interview from Toronto with Chicago Blackhawks forwards Connor Bedard and Frank Nazar (10:15). Before that, the guys break down the big changes in Buffalo, with the Sabres deciding to replace GM Kevyn Adams with Jarmo Kekäläinen. Email the podcast at [email protected] or call the Thought Line at 1-833-311-3232 and leave us a voicemail. This podcast was produced and mixed by Steven Coyle and hosted by Elliotte Friedman & Kyle Bukauskas. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special edition.
0:02.2	32 Thoughts, the podcast, Kyle Elliott with you, and special guest, Stephen Coyle, on the production controls here today.
0:09.2	Dom is busy learning what a gift receipt is.
0:14.2	So he was unavailable.
0:15.3	He needed a whole night off to figure it out.
0:17.8	So, Stephen, thanks very much for pinch hitting.
0:20.6	You're the best pinch hitter
0:22.5	since Manny Mota. Baseball fans of a certain vintage will understand that. Manny Mota was an elite
0:29.5	pinch hitter for the Dodgers. Okay, so we're on the scene here in Toronto. We've been working
0:34.6	on this for a couple of weeks, right, Elliot, to try to set up Chicago coming through town, a chance to speak with both Connor Bredard and Frank Nazar, and then
0:42.8	of course we see what happens on Friday where Connor gets hurt and we're thinking, oh man,
0:47.1	we're still happy to talk to Frank, of course. Great talker. You will see if you don't know
0:51.5	a great talker. Yes, but Connor, I think, surprised a few of us in the fact that he made the trip with the team. He wanted to. He wanted to make the trip. So we unfortunately won't get a chance to see him. I know fans in Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa were disappointed, but get a chance to hear him. Yes. And I mean, I don't know, maybe we shouldn't have been surprised,
1:11.7	but blew the doors off, the two of them, this interview you hear coming up in in a little bit.
1:16.6	Yes, excellent. I'll say this. I always joke that the people who do these interviews give
1:22.3	great answers to stupid questions. This is great answers to stupid questions on an exponential 50 scale. Yes. Yeah.
1:30.7	The best ones are when you and I are just out of the way. The less we intervene, the better.
1:36.4	As expected. They were tremendous. Okay. So we're going to get to that here in a moment. But before we do,
1:41.4	we should talk about the big news on Monday, of course, out of Buffalo.
1:45.1	So Kevin Adams, after five and a half years at the helm, as general manager of the Sabres, he is out.
1:50.0	Yarmalke Kalainen is in a permanent basis going forward.
1:54.3	Terry Pagula, the owner, put out a statement on Monday.
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