Are the Leafs a Team or a Club?

32 Thoughts: The Podcast

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Kyle and Elliotte open with Auston Matthews taking a knee-on-knee from Radko Gudas and the lack of response from Toronto, before discussing Brad Treliving’s uncertain future and tightening playoff races across the league. They also touch on Nashville’s GM search, the Hart Trophy debate, Nathan MacKinnon’s controversial goaltender interference call, Connor Bedard’s big night against Utah, and Nick Schmaltz’s new deal. The episode wraps with updates on Ottawa’s draft-pick ruling, Montreal surging in the Atlantic behind Jacob Fowler, and a Final Thought on the Canucks for Kids Telethon.

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0:00.0	Before we get to the show, we wanted to send our thoughts to the Larson family.
0:04.8	John Tortorella shared on ESPN on Thursday night that we lost Hannah Larson,
0:09.3	the wife of Brad Larson, a longtime player and most recently a coach for a number of years.
0:14.7	Brad had stepped away from his role in the coaching staff with the Calgary Flames last season due to family reasons.
0:20.5	And the reason was Elliot, Hannah was in a battle with cancer.
0:25.4	We've gotten a no brat a little bit over the first couple of months of the season.
0:30.0	And not surprisingly, to anybody who knows him, he's a great teammate, very easy to get along with.
0:36.1	And we just wanted to send our best to him and his family.
0:43.7	Welcome to 32 Thoughts, the podcast, presented by your Canadian Toyota dealers and the 100
0:49.0	percent electric BZ, available now during Red Tag Days. Kyle, Elliot, Dom, back with you. And, Elliot,
0:56.8	continuing the theme that you had laid out earlier in this week, that how many teams across
1:02.8	the league are seeing red in matchups that maybe you didn't necessarily expect, but this time
1:09.3	of year, the nastiness, the hate has been ratcheted up.
1:13.1	We saw it in Boston and San Jose on Thursday night.
1:16.7	We saw it in Dallas and Edmonton.
1:18.4	Maybe that one we shouldn't be surprised by, given their playoff history the last few years.
1:22.2	And the one that surely is going to get plenty more discourse, there's already has been
1:26.5	lots on Thursday.
1:28.9	The theme in this era of Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player gets hit in a bad way, gets taken
1:37.0	advantage of in a bad way, and the lack of immediate response. And on Thursday night, it was
1:43.6	Austin Matthews, the captain. Shortly after
1:45.6	snapping a 12-game goal drought, taken a knee-on-knee from Radko Gudis, and what followed immediately
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