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Blueshirts Breakaway: A show about the New York Rangers

The Flying V: EP 30 - Auston Powers: International Man of Mystery with The Athletic's Jonas Siegel

Blueshirts Breakaway: A show about the New York Rangers

Ryan Mead and Greg Kaplan

Sports News, News, Sports, Hockey

4.5686 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The Flying V is back for its regularly scheduled podcast. Vince Mercogliano talks about the ongoing draft prep for the New York Rangers and what the latest off-season scuttlebutt is. Plus, Toronto beat reporter Jonas Siegel joins the show to discuss the state of the Maple Leafs, Auston Matthews' future, and the team's off-season strategy under new management. Then, answers to questions, as per usual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Some follow the noise.

0:03.3

Bloomberg follows the money.

0:05.4

Because behind every headline is a bottom line.

0:09.3

Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings,

0:13.8

there's a money side to every story.

0:16.5

And when you see the money side, you understand what others miss.

0:49.4

Get the money side of the story. Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. Thank you. What's going on to bring your fans, and welcome to episode 30 of the Flying V podcast.

1:11.3

I'm your host, Vincent McCogliano of The Athletic. I apologize for coming to you guys a day later than usual this week. It was kind of a last second thing. Just a couple scheduling things came up where I could have tried to squeeze it in on our usual Wednesday of recording, but it just kind of made more sense for all parties involved. If we gave ourselves the day and recorded today, which is Thursday, May 28th,

1:18.6

so this episode will be dropping Friday morning as opposed to the usual Thursday, but I hope

1:24.4

you guys still hung in there and hope you're still able to find the podcast

1:28.4

and hopefully enjoy the podcast. We are going to continue with some draft talk this week

1:35.6

that's going to dominate a lot of these podcasts leading up to June 26th when I will be traveling

1:41.2

to Buffalo for the draft.

1:54.9

My loose plan for the next month or so is to have guests on that will preview the teams who are picking in front of the Rangers.

1:56.9

We're going to probably work some other guests in here.

1:59.1

I do plan on probably having either Corey Promin or Scott Wheeler, our prospect writers at The Athletic on, to kind of preview the draft a bit as we get closer to it.

2:08.2

Did that a few weeks ago with Chris Peters as well. But I'm finding myself sort of curious about what the teams picking in front of the Rangers are thinking, whether that might be

2:18.3

trade possibilities, whether that might be which prospects they're honing in on to give us a

2:24.2

better feel for who might be available to the Rangers. And so this week we are going to kind of

2:29.6

start sorting through that by talking to my colleague at the athletic Jonas Siegel, who covers the Toronto Maple Leafs.

2:40.1

I don't know if you've heard anything coming out of Toronto recently, but they have had a lot of drama going on all season, but especially in the last couple months, hiring a new GM, firing their coach, their best player.

2:53.7

Does he want to stay?

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