I love Steve Dangle and Steve Dangle loves RMNB. My favorite team is the Washington Capitals and Steve’s favorite team is the Toronto Maple Leafs. Oh god. The next two weeks are going to suck, aren’t they?

Monday afternoon, after Steve drank a liter of coffee and I chugged a Red Bull, we spoke somewhat coherently — for 90 minutes to be exact — about the Capitals and Leafs’ first-round playoff series, which begins Thursday at Verizon Center.

We also made a playoff bet that Steve’s really going to regret.

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If the Capitals win the series, Steve — who contributes to Sportsnet and has 71k mostly Canadian Twitter followers — must change his Twitter avatar to our angry Ovi face for a week. And if he’s the fun human being like he says he is, Steve will take a picture in one of our RMNB shirts crying, preferably in front of Air Canada Centre (but I’d be fine with one of him in his room too). I just want real human tears.

If the Leafs win, which — haha, yeah right — I will change the RMNB Twitter avatar to a “Canadian-flavored” photo of Auston Matthews. I guess that means it’ll have mounties, timbits, and a moose in the background. I will also wear a Steve Dangle shirt — which you can and should buy here — and eat waffles everyday for a week.

Links and notes

• We begin the podcast trying to insult each other. You have no idea how difficult that was for us. Here’s some context.

See now that it’s a reality I’m realizing how nice @russianmachine and Caps fans have been to me and I genuinely like them and I HATE THIS.

— Steve Dangle Glynn (@Steve_Dangle) April 10, 2017

Steve Dangle is the best. This first-round series against the Leafs is going to be so fun. Everybody make sure to follow @stevedangle for the best Leafs coverage. And with that said, for the next two weeks, we now officially hate you and your stupid team, Steve.

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• According to the Dangler, the Leafs have been one of the league’s healthiest teams all year. Well, until last week. Now literally everyone is hurt.

No sign of Nikita Zaitsev, Roman Polak or Tyler Bozak as Mike Babcock blows his whistle to start #leafs practice. Frederik Andersen returns.

— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) April 11, 2017

• While many Cans fans will overlook the Leafs, they are one of the league’s most dynamic offensive teams.
• Here are more stats from Jeffler.

Leafs key metrics, end-of-season. Very solid overall result, though looks like shooting lanes weren’t good to them towards the end. pic.twitter.com/sIsXqV37Xw

— Jeff Veillette (@JeffVeillette) April 10, 2017

• The Leafs, despite what professional weenie Peter Hassett says, remind me of the 2007-08 Capitals. That Capitals team – featuring four young guns (Hm? The Leafs have Matthews, Nylander, Marner, Rielly) destroyed teams down the stretch with their skating and offensive talent and nearly beat the first-seeded Flyers in the first round of the playoffs. The Caps rallied to win Game One, shook off two elimination games, and eventually fell in overtime of Game Seven.
• Don Cherry totally knows who Steve Dangle is.

• Steve explains his hatred for the people of Ottawa, which is very funny to me.
• I explain why I think Mike Babcock is one of the best coaches in the NHL. Really, it’s basically these three photos from Tyler Dellow.

• I talk about my new bundle of joy.
• Steve talks about his new dog Iggy for 10 minutes.
• We take questions from donators of RMNB’s Patreon.
• So. Many. Lulz.

Thanks for your time, Steve. I wish nothing but the worst for your team.

You can find Steve on Twitter and Facebook. He runs one of most popular hockey podcasts in the world. You can watch his brilliant LFRs on YouTube. You can buy his merch here. He contributes to Sportsnet and Leafs Nation.

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