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The Sports Junkies

Should The Wizards Trade Back In The Draft?

The Sports Junkies

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🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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From 05/28 Hour 2: The Sports Junkies debate if the Wizards should trade their draft pick.

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0:00.0

Just to tie a bow on the John Tortorella conversation.

0:03.1

Yeah.

0:03.5

Yeah.

0:03.8

So, look, I don't follow hockey that closely.

0:06.5

So I knew one of these teams fired their coach right before the Stanley Cup playoffs.

0:10.7

And it was Vegas.

0:13.1

Former Capitals coach, Bruce Cassidy, got bounced with eight games left.

0:17.8

Thrown overboard.

0:19.0

And how's that field?

0:19.7

Do you think in the Stanley Cup final he roots for his squad?

0:23.7

So he's coaching Vegas.

0:25.3

And then eight games left in the season after they lost in a shootout to the capitals, I believe.

0:30.3

Yeah.

0:31.4

The general manager said, see you later.

0:33.6

We're bringing in torts.

0:35.1

Wow.

0:35.4

And torts never played professional hockey, at least the teams that I saw on his

0:40.1

Wikipedia page, they look like minor league.

0:42.6

So now the question is, if Vegas wins the cup, if I'm Bruce Cassidy, I'm going to

0:48.8

lobby to have my name on the cup because I coached.

0:51.9

Now, I didn't coach them during the playoffs, but I coached them during the regular season. I'm going to lobby for that. If you win, there will be lobbied. You'll get a ring, but won't you feel a little. You'll feel like it's stolen valor. Yeah, bittersweet. Wouldn't you want your name on the Stanley Cup? I would if I'm a hockey life or like Bruce Cassidy. I would, but he's been coaching forever. I mean, if he wasn't there for any of the playoff games, I don't know if they will do that. Who knows? But Tortorella, man, that's pretty impressive to come in there after the coach was fired. Yeah. And just rock and roll and get him to the Stanley Cup final. But if you're taking over a good team.

2:18.1

Yeah, but they obviously were underachieving, according to, you know, the general manager of the owner. They fired their coach. Right. You know who their fourth line center is, right? Doubter. Doubtor. Dick Dowd. Of course. I know Nick Dowd's out in Vegas. It's the doubter. And I'm forced to root for the Vegas Golden Knights because I can't have the Carolina Hurricanes win. I still hope for a Canadian's comeback, right? Isn't it three games to one? They're down three one. They've lost three straight. They're done. They got boat race last night. And it's going back to Carolina, I believe, for the next game. There's this. Carolina, Vegas. Carolina, any former capitals on Carolina? On Carolina? Not to my knowledge, but I'd have to look at the roster. I don't think so. I don't think that's a case. Definitely a tough spot, though. You get fired with eight games left and then like, all right, so you got relationship relationship with the guys you want to see the guys do well but you kind of don't want to see the new coach swoop in and do great

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