one of these next episode one one thing i was decidedly unimpressed with and this is my first what the hell are you thinking of the season ilia mccave requesting a trade oh i guess what no i don't and them saying no yeah so look at that here's what i tell me tell me where i'm wrong here okay because this is this is my impression of it and i'm fully hoping to be wrong here but this guy comes in they take a sh they take a chance on him and bring him over from russia as we've seen with uh igor zhikanov and alex barabanov sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't worked in san jose but mccabe was great right off the bat like straight up the first NUMBER_TOKEN games or whatever he was playing and he heated up too and it was in the babcock end of babcock era where everything sucked it was when he was his hottest it was with keefe and and i remember i remember saying this when um that this oh god this is what i said heading into the bubble because remember how badly the leaf struggled up until the bubble yeah i was like you know what the leafs with mackay of in the lineup under keefe were like NUMBER_TOKEN and four or something like that or like they were they were really good and he was really good and then they play that that warm-up game against montreal and a minute in him and tavares click for a goal and i'm like here we go ilia mccabe the straw that stirs the drink apparently and he's going to be playing up in the top six this is going to be great and then he was quiet those playoffs and he's never really gotten it back well and of course you know he had the wrist injury and that was a brutal injury which and it's not like you know matthew's oh you injured it you go and you get surgery you got his wrist slashed with a skate right and made it back that year which was a miracle as you mentioned but i want to say this is the thing so he the leafs take a chance on him once yep and then we're good to remember dubus was at the hospital that night for four days for four days dubis did really good by him and then uh last year he shows up oh sorry the bubble wasn't great for anybody so we'll we'll we'll erase the bubble like no one i think it's fair you know what like okay the columbus series the team shouldn't get a pass they should have won the series but i i'll say you know what it was coveted nobody was at their best i was i could tell you i was a psychological disaster at that point so fair enough right fair enough yeah but this past season when again covet but still you gotta we gotta we gotta at some point we gotta move on here we gotta push forward um he was ineffective offensively for sure yeah he was fine defensively yeah and it's not as though he didn't get a chance every night he was playing NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN minutes and so at the end of the season admittedly a tough season after frankly and i
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