Jarmo Kekäläinen on the Blue Jackets retool. Canucks shock Maple Leafs and Dallas Stars back in the playoff race

Jarmo Kekäläinen, the General Manager of the Columbus Blue Jackets is our guest this week on the Two Man Advantage edition of the Athletic hockey show. Jarmo discusses the retool in Columbus, acquiring first round picks for Nick Foligno and David Savard, plus how he is going to proceed on extending Patrik Laine, Seth Jones and Zach Werenski. Jarmo addresses the future of John Tortorella as head coach, and his opinion on Torts benching big name players.

Scott and Pierre talk about the playoff races in the league, highlighting the play of Vancouver who has beat Toronto in back to back games after overcoming an outbreak of COVID-19 which crippled the Canucks for three weeks. Plus, the guys take a look at how well Dallas and Carolina are playing and what kind of roster Roberto Luongo's team Canada will have at the 2021 World Hockey Championships.

Finally, in the latest edition of 'Ask the Dorks' Scott and Pierre discuss the front runners for the Jack Adams trophy, which players acquired at the deadline, might be 'sneaky' good pickups, including Sam Bennett, Riley Nash and Jani Hakanpaa and who has the best goaltending duo in the NHL?

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