The Leaf: Blueprint S9 E5: Freshman

Summary

The video follows Toronto Maple Leafs rookie Matthew Knies as he adjusts to life in the NHL. It depicts his living situation, relationships with teammates, work with trainer Lou, and contributing on the ice as a rookie. The script conveys Knies' excitement about living his dream while navigating a new city and league. It offers behind-the-scenes glimpses into the camaraderie and rituals of an NHL team on the road.

Takeaways

• 😀 The script describes a Maple Leafs hockey game with play-by-play commentary of goals scored.
• 🏒 It introduces rookie player Matthew Knies and his experiences joining the team.
• 🥅 It details Lou Lamoriello's training methods and impact on players.
• 🏟 It describes team rituals like soccer games before hitting the ice.
• 🚨 It recounts scoring plays by Nylander, Matthews and other stars.
• 🏠 It shows Knies adjusting to life on his own as a rookie.
• 🎸 Knies discusses his hobby playing guitar outside hockey.
• ✈️ It depicts the team bonding and camaraderie on a Western Canada road trip.
• 🥅 Knies reflects on contributing as a rookie and excitement for the season.
• 💪 Lamoriello emphasizes diligence, routines and preparation with players.

Q & A

Where did the Maple Leafs play their first game of 2024?

The Maple Leafs played their first game of 2024 at Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles.

Who scored the game-winning goal for the Maple Leafs?

Auston Matthews scored the game-winning goal for the Maple Leafs.

How long did William Nylander commit to stay with the Maple Leafs?

William Nylander committed to stay with the Maple Leafs for 8 more years.

What hobby does Matthew Knies enjoy outside of hockey?

Matthew Knies enjoys playing the guitar outside of hockey.

Who has Matthew Knies been living with?

Matthew Knies has been living with Maple Leafs player John Tavares.

What is Lou's role with the Maple Leafs?

Lou is the Maple Leafs' Director of Sports Science and Performance.

What do the players do before games to get warmed up?

The players play a competitive soccer game called "sewerball" before games to get warmed up.

What are some of the responsibilities Lou has on game days?

On game days, Lou's responsibilities include preparing workouts, making protein shakes, distributing supplements, working out non-playing players, and assisting in the locker room.

How did Knies feel about his first NHL road trip experience?

Knies was excited to visit new arenas and play in front of different crowds on his first NHL road trip.

How does Knies feel his rookie season has gone so far?

Knies feels it has been a fun challenge so far and he is excited to continue improving in the second half of the season.

Outlines

00:00

😀 Toronto Maple Leafs hockey game highlights and player celebrations.

Paragraph 1 describes highlights from a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey game, including scoring plays by players like Tavares, Matthews, Marner, and Nylander. It captures the excitement of the team's victories and player celebrations.

05:02

🏒 New Maple Leafs player Matthew Knies adjusts to the team and training routine.

Paragraph 2 focuses on new Maple Leafs player Matthew Knies. It covers how he has adjusted to the team dynamic and discusses his training routine and relationship with the training staff. Key details are provided about his background and development.

10:02

👍 Inside look at Maple Leafs' game day routines and team bonding.

Paragraph 3 gives an inside perspective on the Maple Leafs' game day routines and team bonding experiences. It describes their soccer warm-up game, bus rides, and locker room atmosphere. The summary highlights the camaraderie and preparations involved.

Keywords

💡Hockey

Hockey is a major theme throughout the video script, which centers around the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team. Hockey refers to the sport of ice hockey, which is played between two teams on an ice rink. The script contains many examples of hockey terms and discussions of hockey games, players, scores, etc.

💡Team

Team refers to a group of players that play together in hockey. The main team featured is the Toronto Maple Leafs. The video shows the team dynamics - how the players interact, live together, travel together for games, and bond as a group.

💡Player

Player refers to an individual member of a hockey team. The script mentions many players on the Maple Leafs by name, such as Matthews, Marner, and Nylander. It discusses their skills, goals scored, and contributions to the team.

💡Coach

A coach trains, instructs, and leads a team of players. The video features Lou Lamoriello, the Maple Leafs' Director of Player Development, who helps train and mentor the team's young players like Knies.

💡Routine

Routine refers to the regular habits and practices that players follow to train, exercise, and prepare for games. The video shows elements of the daily/weekly routines for players like workouts, nutrition, recovery.

💡Road Trip

A road trip refers to when a team travels together to away games in other cities. The script describes the Maple Leafs going on road trips to places like California and Western Canada to play rival teams.

💡Locker Room

The locker room is the room in the arena where players change, prepare for games, store equipment, and interact as a team. The script mentions Lou preparing the locker room and items for the players.

💡Youth

Youth refers to the young age and early career stage of many Maple Leafs players. Several players are described as young, rookies, or first year players still learning the league.

💡Competition

Competition refers to the spirit of contests and rivalry in hockey games and culture. It is seen through discussions of matchups against rivals and the team's internal competitiveness.

💡Bonding

Bonding means developing connections and chemistry between team members. This is shown through their jokes, meals together, travel, and locker room interactions.

Highlights

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Different embedding techniques like Word2Vec and GloVe are explained.

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BERT models are pre-trained for language modeling tasks.

GPT models are also discussed as generative pre-trained models.

The transcript emphasizes how transfer learning improves many NLP tasks.

Challenges like bias in data and models are brought up.

There is discussion around responsible AI practices in NLP.

The future directions of NLP with deep learning are speculated.

The transcript provides a comprehensive overview of deep learning for NLP.

Transcripts

Crypto.com arena in downtown Los Angeles,

is where the Toronto Maple Leafs

begin 2024.

Scores!

Three nothing the final as the Leafs

win their first of 2024.

Hey, here we go.

Scores!

Tavares.

Matthews, scores!

It's a game winner and the Leafs win back to back.

To Marner, he shoots and scores.

Calle Jarnkrok.

Goal for Willy Nylander.

Good job boys.

The Maple Leafs, have swept California.

Big turn out today.

Is something going on?

You tell us.

I think it's a good day for us.

A real good day for us to get him signed.

We’re excited to get him signed.

Top player in what I believe just entering the prime of his career.

So we're excited.

It's a good day for us.

We've got a really good player here that's going to be here

for eight more years.

So that's we're happy about.

Fellas,

before we get going

congratulations are in order here.

Willy’s commited to us for eight more years.

Hey, Willy.

Come here big fella.

Congratualtions.

Happy to have you for eight more.

Eight more!

That’s so cool.

Where are you buying me dinner?

I mean, where are we going for dinner?

Can we go to dinner?

Should I go no strap for warm up?

Is that crazy?

Is that wild?

Fine, I’ll strap it.

Works the puck back

to the blue line, to Nylander.

Nylander to the far side,

and a centering pass

and a quick shot.

Scores!

Matthews,

from almost along the goal line.

And the Maple Leafs have a three nothing lead.

Now, the meat of the schedule coming up.

Lots of playoff teams, lots of road games.

It's not supposed to be easy.

Robertson plays it, shoots and scores.

Leafs put up a big number

on San Jose.

To the life of the home crowd.

You see his ability to make a play.

Soft hands, plays with the puck

Kniesy.

Obviously, we think very highly of him here, you know

he's got tremendous potential.

We're seeing a young player that's adjusting to the league.

Everything that comes with being a first year NHL player, first year pro.

Hey guys,

Welcome in.

I have been here

about two weeks or so.

It's pretty fresh, pretty new.

My brother got that as soon as I moved in for me.

Just trying to make it as homey as possible.

So this is the living room, dining room.

It all kind of one space.

Kitchen, over here in the back.

I got my mattress topper.

That's still hasn't expanded over two days,

so I don't know how I'm going to get that thing to get any bigger.

But, you know, I brought some of my old things.

My laptop,

my guitar, yeah

It's my little hobby I like to have outside of the rink.

Not too good. So don't ask me to play.

Just something

to kind of take my mind off hockey

and just do something outside the rink.

Guest bathroom in here.

And then upstairs is where I take my nine hour naps.

Of course, I didn't make my bed

Knew you guys were coming to and I didn't make it.

I mean, it still hasn't

doesn't really feel like home.

To be honest, I don't know.

It just feels different to live on your own like this.

This is the first time I'm living on my own.

Like, completely by myself with no one else, kind of in the same place.

So,

still doesn’t really feel like home, I think

I need to put up a little more pictures and just

more faces around here that, you know, kind of reminds me of home.

I'm getting used to more and more, but I don't know.

We’ll see.

That's why

I want to get a fully furnished place,

because I don't want to stay too permanent in one location.

Whenever I need to, I can find something I might like a little bit

more or something like that.

Just got to put it in maps cause I still

don't really know my way around the city.

I'm so not used to that.

To driving in the city where you're stuck in traffic,

you feel like you're never going to get where you're going.

Like you're just sitting there for so long.

Perfect.

Excited for some breakfast.

It's the blueprint.

It's my epi.

Hey, Roper, How are you?

Everyone's been super welcoming.

It's a pretty,

pretty close group,

so it wasn't really hard to, you know, kind of fit in that way.

You know, I think they kind of all took me under their wing.

Making their first pick in the 2021 NHL draft.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have selected Matthew Knies.

He was part of that Coyotes junior program.

There's a number of kids in the draft

this year that have kind of come through that program.

He's got great size.

He’s going to take some time.

He's going to be a college player as well.

Just a quick stick at the last second.

He's got one out.

Knies, keeps it a one goal game.

Matthew, when he came in last year

around the playoffs, it's interesting because you get this

it's a kid for lack of a better term but this kid that comes in,

you know he's a he looks like a phenomenal athlete built,

you know, and then you start to get to know

a little bit more and it's trying to figure out what he likes to do

and what his routine is,

because I feel like

not just dictating things to do, I think it's more important

to see what a guy's guys like to do and what they're used to.

Observe and get to know them

and then try to pick away

at adding things that I think might help them.

Just as soon as I signed, I think it was the first day,

you know, he came up to me and introduced himself.

And ever since then,

you know,

we've been talking on a daily basis on how I can get better

and how I can just kind of manage my manage my body.

As I let you go,

and then we start increasing that amplitude,

as you move forward.

He’s actually helped me a lot.

This past summer.

He's gotten in touch with a lot of great trainers in my hometown

that, you know,

help me to continue to grow my game.

Getting to meet Lou and getting to hear what he has to say.

And, you know, kind of taking notes from him.

It's been huge for me.

A lot of guys can, you know, learn from him for sure.

He's one

of the most diligent athletes that we have on the team right now.

He comes in, he preps.

He does, his mobility,

he lifts, he asks questions, which I think is important as well.

We're always constantly working on

little things, on the little details.

You know,

it helps that he's been living with Johnny for quite a bit,

so he kind of sees what his routine is

and how important it is to actually just have a routine

and be diligent with it.

You know, I can't thank him enough.

It's such a wonderful family.

And I love those kids. I love my time there.

You know, I still left a lot of my clothes and stuff

there just so I have an excuse

to go back there and get another meal or I'm just to go see him.

So I think I'm going to just keep that stuff there.

So I keep keep having an excuse to go over there.

I think he's doing what he needs to do to grow

as a not only as a person, but an athlete as well.

Ohhhhhhh

Try to remeber to keep his tarps on.

Oh, buddy.

Tarps optional.

The Louprint.

Get jacked with Lou.

Yeah, he's just a fun guy to have around.

And, you know, obviously a good,

good guy and,

you know, demands a lot from us, you know, wants the best for us.

It's nice to have that kind of character in our locker room

and be able to have the support that he gives us.

Lou is still doing his one on one special,

or what?

Yeah, yeah, we still got him.

But I'm just breathing here.

That’s all I’m doing, just breathing.

Our game days are unique.

In the sense that in that

there's a lot of time,

I guess, spent both in the morning and in the evenings.

If I'm on the road, it

ranges from just prep, workouts for individual guys,

mixing drinks, protein shakes, making sure everybody gets their

their pills and vitamins and whatnot.

During the game involves just working out the guys that are

that are not playing.

As well as making

sure everybody's got what they need

in the locker room before they go out to the ice.

And then after.

Practice days are different

in the sense that we try to get a lot done in the gym.

Typically, practice days are our time to shine.

You know, between Arty and I,

when we're at home

and then on the road,

it's an opportunity for guys to come in and get some work in.

And sometimes the spaces aren't great,

but you have to use your imagination and come up with things

that guys are not only willing to do and want to do,

but it's beneficial for them.

Throughout the week, throughout the trip.

Start moving it around in small circles.

You can go clockwise or counterclockwise.

Have a game baby, let’s go.

It’s always fun to go on the road

with, with the guys and just go to new places.

Obviously it's my first year,

so it's fun to go play at different arenas

and in front of different crowds.

It’s unreal.

So I'm always excited to go on the road

and spend some time with the guys,

whether it's at dinner, or around the hotel,

Come on beauties.

Eh, Calle.

Sewerball is just a soccer game that we play

before we step out on the ice and just do it as a warm up.

Something to just going to get the boys going and get them

loud and get warmed up a bit.

It's a good opportunity to kind of move around,

get the temperature going, get a sweat going

and the guys the guys are competitive.

It's actually pretty impressive how good of a soccer player

a lot of these guys are.

Last guy to touch it before it falls, is out.

And if it's controversial, you,

you know, do rock, paper, scissors, shoot.

It's pretty intense and heated.

It’s so easy to read you like,

there's no chance, there’s no chance.

What happens with a dead ball?

A dead ball is,

I don't know when the ball gets stuck in the air somewhere.

I don’t know, then the game restarts.

The things that guys do to get the ball is actually pretty impressive.

Whether it's throwing a ball or shoe or making a ladder with bodies.

Guys are serious about the game.

So there's no ball, there's no game.

There's a lot of components to it that I think are important.

It's not just a way for guys to get their temperature up,

but it's also an opportunity for them to compete amongst themselves.

And I think doing it before a game gets that that blood boiling,

you know, and brings them together,

Ball was going too fast.

Want to take this with you?

I’m going to warm up.

That counts.

Of course it counts.

You know, when I came into the league,

our team was probably the youngest,

if not the second youngest team in the league,

whether it was Moe, Mitch, Austin, Willy.

To see those guys grow up and not just become professionals

in what they do, but also to become adults.

Just happy to be here

and get to know those guys and and and be part of it.

Holy mackinaw, the big fellas got three.

Literally anywhere we went. I've been excited to play in.

You know it's all new atmosphere,

all new barns.

So it was another fun road trip with the guys

but yeah

it's a pretty electric atmosphere

when you play in western Canada

and you play against some of our rivals, it was a really good time.

For me

personally, I think I've contributed and played well.

And from a backhand right in front of the net,

the Leafs jump out in front.

It's been a challenge for me,

but you know,

I'm always excited

to get to the rink and just compete and try to get better.

It's been a fun year so far

and I'm just really excited to see what we could do in the second half.