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Speaker 1: From the Ponds to the pros. It's time for Beyond

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Speaker 1: the Pond on the Fan. Here are your hosts, Pat

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Speaker 1: mcletty and Kevin Fullness.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Beyond the Pond. Zach Halverson filling in for

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Speaker 2: Kevin Fallness on Pretty Slow News Saturday. Pat mcletty also

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Speaker 2: here as well as Brett Blakemore and Pat. We were

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Speaker 2: lining this show up earlier this week. We talked on

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Speaker 2: the phone Monday, we texted on Thursday, and well, we

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Speaker 2: didn't know what was gonna happen, but you did a

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Speaker 2: pretty good job of lining up some great guests for

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Speaker 2: the big shocker last night, the massive, massive trade, the

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Speaker 2: biggest trade in wild history. And my goodness, what a

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Speaker 2: what a day, what a weekend to kickoff Beyond the Pond. Here, Pat,

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Speaker 2: this is a that was that was some pretty pretty

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Speaker 2: wild news. Where did you hear the news of the trade?

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Speaker 2: I heard it, Zach.

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Speaker 3: My son was sitting and she and he said, you're

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Speaker 3: not going to believe this. I'm like, what he said,

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Speaker 3: Quinn Hughes is coming here. I'm like, you're kidding. And

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Speaker 3: then that was it. I mean, it was it was unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: And Zach, there were two guys that I targeted that

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Speaker 3: I thought, well, you know what, why not why not.

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Speaker 4: Take a swing at one of these guys?

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Speaker 3: And one was Teate Thompson, which obviously is probably not

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Speaker 3: going to happen now, And the other one was Quinn Hughes,

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Speaker 3: because Hughes obviously.

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Speaker 4: Was going to get dealt right, and I'm like, well

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Speaker 4: why not? Why not?

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Speaker 3: I was a couple of weeks ago. I don't know

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Speaker 3: who I was talking to about this, but I'm like,

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Speaker 3: you know what, why not do what?

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Speaker 4: Why not?

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Speaker 3: When you know, especially with Jimmy Rutherford, who Bill Garon

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Speaker 3: worked for, excuse me, and their relationship, I thought, you

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Speaker 3: know what, there might be there might be something there,

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Speaker 3: and you know that was just me spitballing.

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Speaker 4: Right, But to have this happen is.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I mean I think it shocked the hockey world.

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Speaker 4: I really do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh yeah, it was everywhere, said social media blaze.

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Speaker 2: Of course, everybody's phones lit up last night. And if

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Speaker 2: you're somehow unfamiliar with what happened, Marco ROSSI Liam, oh

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Speaker 2: go through it. Zach Zave William, along with a twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six first round pick, are headed to Vancouver in

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Speaker 2: exchange for one of the best defensemen in the league,

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Speaker 2: Quinn Hughes coming to Minnesota. He will make his Wild

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Speaker 2: debut tomorrow. We have a full show plan. We're going

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Speaker 2: to be talking with Kevin Gordon momentarily about this. Of course,

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Speaker 2: coming up at a eleven o'clock we will have Michael Russo.

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Speaker 2: I'm very excited to hear his perspective on this. You

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Speaker 2: talk about a pretty calm night at Edmonton turned completely

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Speaker 2: around for him. He will join us at eleven and

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Speaker 2: then we will have a Bill Garren's press conference live

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Speaker 2: at noon. We'll carry that right here on the fan

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Speaker 2: before we hear joe' donald and Tom Reid's thoughts. And

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Speaker 2: I mean, might as well bring in Kevin gorg right now,

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Speaker 2: let's bring him in. Yes, do it? And Kevin, this

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Speaker 2: is this is one of those days where you just

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Speaker 2: you wake up and you get like you don't really

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Speaker 2: remember what happened. You're still in that kind of sleepy days,

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Speaker 2: and then you look at your phone you realize, oh

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Speaker 2: my gosh, that what happened last night was not a dream.

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Speaker 2: Quinn Hughes is going to be a Minnesota Wild hockey player.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, good morning, guys. Great to be with just a shocker.

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Speaker 5: I'm still trying to process all of this. He's an

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Speaker 5: amazing player and you know, we've watched him for years

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Speaker 5: in Vancouver. He's still only fore. It feels like he's

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Speaker 5: been in the league longer eight years. He's a remarkably

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Speaker 5: talented kid. Wild gave up a lot to get him,

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Speaker 5: and I love the Bill Garren constantly pushing the envelop Guys,

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Speaker 5: he is not afraid. And this is another one of

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Speaker 5: those really bold, all in type of moves.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I I don't know if they saying that. Well,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be careful here. Okay, I'm gonna be careful here.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to say that I think Minnesota fleece them

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Speaker 3: in the deal. I'm gonna say Minnesota fleece him in

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Speaker 3: the deal in this particular time. Look at what they

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Speaker 3: gave up, right, and this has nothing to do with

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Speaker 3: potential in the future for these young players. Okay, but

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Speaker 3: Lee has done nothing. He's done nothing here yet, Yes,

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Speaker 3: Zeve william is the one I did not want to

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Speaker 3: give up. But you have to give something up to

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Speaker 3: get something, and he has. He has potential that you know,

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Speaker 3: we don't know where it's going to lead to, right,

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Speaker 3: how many times KG have we seen guys? You know,

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Speaker 3: he's uh, he's going to but but we don't know.

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Speaker 3: Marco ROSSI, Okay, very good player. You have to give

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Speaker 3: something up good to get something, and when you can

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Speaker 3: get a generational player like a Quinn Hughes, to me,

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Speaker 3: it's an absolute no brainer.

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Speaker 5: I think he's the best player in the deal, and

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Speaker 5: it's not close, I'll give you that. I think a

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Speaker 5: lot of this is going to be predicated on whether

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Speaker 5: Billy Garran.

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Speaker 7: Can resign him.

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Speaker 5: He's got a year and a half left in this contract.

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Speaker 5: It's a super team friendly contract at seven point eighty

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Speaker 5: five for a player of his skill set.

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Speaker 7: And if Minnesota can retain his services.

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Speaker 5: And they can bump him up to like a seven

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Speaker 5: or eight year extension like we saw with the Friestock,

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Speaker 5: and that would likely have to happen next summer, then absolutely,

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Speaker 5: you know, Minnesota, certainly early on, would have the edge

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Speaker 5: on this deal. I think you have to look at

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Speaker 5: it this way. If you're Vancouver. There were a lot

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Speaker 5: of teams looking to add this guy to their reference.

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Speaker 5: Who's in New Jersey where Hughes as his two brothers.

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Speaker 5: You know, Billy Garran had to give up something special

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Speaker 5: I mean absolutely did Ogrin's got the upside, but we

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Speaker 5: don't know what he is yet, first round pick.

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Speaker 7: In the mix, and mean, let's just be honest.

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Speaker 5: You know, Bill Garon outdueled other gentlemen to.

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Speaker 7: Get this guy for a reason.

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Speaker 5: And if you think about what a Minnesota powerplay could

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Speaker 5: look like, and you can fill in the blank setting

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Speaker 5: where you want, but when you start with when Hughes

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Speaker 5: Aroca priest having Matt Boldie, You've got something here that

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Speaker 5: that really is tough to argue with in terms of

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Speaker 5: what this can do for this franchise and taking them

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Speaker 5: a Cup contender.

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Speaker 3: Well, casey, here here's the here's the way I look

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Speaker 3: at I mean, you you know how many times do

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Speaker 3: were that when you have an opportunity to get a

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Speaker 3: generational player, and Quinn Hughes is a generational player. He

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Speaker 3: is the second best defenseman in the National Hockey League.

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Speaker 3: And when when when you have an opportunity to get

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Speaker 3: a player like him, you throw everything else out the window.

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Speaker 4: I mean you have and you absolutely throw everything else

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Speaker 4: out the wind, know and I you know, look at it.

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Speaker 3: Any you know, why are they going to sign them?

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Speaker 3: Resign you know, or you know, have the ability to

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Speaker 3: resign them. Hey, they're all in now, They are all

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Speaker 3: half to sign them. You know, they're they're going to

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Speaker 3: have to put the big cell job on them. He's gonna,

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Speaker 3: you know, with with the way you know things are

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Speaker 3: To me, it was an absolute no brainer to do.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and great players want to play with great players.

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Speaker 5: And Quinn Hughes knows exactly what he's coming into with

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Speaker 5: with Boldie and Capreesov and Favor and the pieces that

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Speaker 5: are in place here right now, the goaltending that Minnesota

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Speaker 5: certainly has. And I'll take it a step further, Mick,

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Speaker 5: Minnesota is going to become a place that players want

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Speaker 5: to play for a couple of reasons. They're right now

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Speaker 5: in their window to make a run move doubt about

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Speaker 5: when you look at the time of Caprice out where

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Speaker 5: take it to a different level.

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Speaker 7: With the facility.

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Speaker 5: Day practice at at Tria second to non practice facility.

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Speaker 7: The guys rave.

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Speaker 5: About the setup there when they come in, They've got

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Speaker 5: Dominic Kenning the travel court ender for the Minnesota while

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Speaker 5: I and Bill Garrett put together and I've been doing

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Speaker 5: this for twenty years, so I've seen everything. You won't

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Speaker 5: find a team in this league that travels better than

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Speaker 5: the Minnesota Wild and that word gets out.

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Speaker 7: I'm telling you, these guys talk with.

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Speaker 5: Port nations, with Olympics with the off season, so I

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Speaker 5: don't know how much of Atlee job they're going to

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Speaker 7: I get it.

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Speaker 5: A lot is thicker than water and his brother's playing

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Speaker 5: New Jersey. I understand that distraction. But this team right

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Speaker 5: now and in the next year and a half has

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Speaker 5: a great opportunity to make a run, has everything in

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Speaker 7: Guys in that locker room. And I think that matters.

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Speaker 5: And so I think Bill Garrett knows that and he

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Speaker 3: There is so much Kevin that goes on that we

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Speaker 3: have no clue about, right, And you don't think that

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Speaker 3: people have you know, harped a me, Well, jeez, they

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Speaker 3: don't have any centers now, they don't you know, you

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Speaker 3: know who's going to score from up front? And you

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Speaker 3: know when they're going through all of this, do you

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Speaker 3: think that they're not thinking about all of the scenarios

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Speaker 3: how this all plays out. And I can tell you

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Speaker 3: one thing, and you know this as well as anybody,

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Speaker 3: when it comes to the playoffs, and how important are

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Speaker 3: special teams in the playoffs?

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Speaker 8: Right?

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Speaker 3: That one extra power play goal and you're talking about

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Speaker 3: a power play with Hughes, Boldie Caprice, so ac Zucarello,

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Speaker 3: are you kidding me? And you know you know so

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Speaker 3: and and and then you look at it.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know where's their scoring gonna come from.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's already coming from those guys on five on five, right,

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Speaker 3: So they you know, they put in a system their

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Speaker 3: third and their fourth line. Yeah, you hoped, you hope

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Speaker 3: to get some help there, but you know what they're

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Speaker 3: they're going to defend like they've never defended before. That

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Speaker 4: So to me, it just it makes all the sense

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Speaker 3: And I just think it was a brilliant move. On

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Speaker 3: the wildest part, Well.

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Speaker 5: This is a guy that had a couple of years

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Speaker 5: the Norris. And I go back to something Ryan Carter's

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Speaker 5: Stanley Cups tend to find superstar players, and if you

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Speaker 3: I don't know if You're off, if his name was

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Speaker 7: to day.

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Speaker 6: Alby, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: That's Kevin York Fan, Duel Sports Network, and we will

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Speaker 2: have plenty more to talk about here regarding this massive,

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Speaker 2: He's Pat mcletdy Brett Brigmore hitting the buttons and hitting

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Speaker 2: Pond and the Fan a very special edition of Beyond

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Speaker 2: the pun on this Saturday, this December thirteenth, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. Filling in for Kevin Fallness. I'm Zach Calverson

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Speaker 2: It's Pat Nicoletti. We are moments away from being joined

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Speaker 2: It's just it's it's a hockey the center of the

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Speaker 10: Well, obviously, you know, unfortunately to go there, Yeah, Quinn

436
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Speaker 10: n Z. But a great trade for the wild I

437
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 10: mean obviously a you know, a huge difference maker on

438
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Speaker 10: the back end, and you traded away, uh, you know,

439
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 10: to get talent. You got a trade talent and obviously

440
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 10: they moved some great players to get a great player.

441
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 10: And you know, you don't you don't see a lot

442
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 10: of trades like these and sports anymore for whatever reason.

443
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 10: I mean in basketball, the salary cap hinders everything. And

444
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 10: you know, when the Luca trade comes across the wire,

445
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 10: I mean everyone's just stunned. But it's, uh, both teams want,

446
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 10: both teams want, and uh, what a great, what a great,

447
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 10: what a great trade.

448
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 3: For the wild Now were you were you an assistant

449
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 3: at all when he played on the US team, the

450
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 3: junior team, Yeah, the.

451
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Speaker 10: One in Buffalo that was his first year. Yeah, we

452
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,159
Speaker 10: took silver in Vancouver, yep, those two years yep. And

453
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 10: then obviously was that Ohio State coaching against him.

454
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Speaker 4: So that's right, that's right.

455
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Speaker 3: And you will be again assisting Bob Moscow with the

456
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Speaker 3: US junior team. You know, they obviously wanted back to

457
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Speaker 3: back and now you're going for number three. Give us

458
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 3: some thoughts on on your upcoming US team.

459
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Speaker 10: Well, I think you know everything. You know, obviously, if

460
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 10: we've got all the gift stuff came from you know,

461
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 10: we had a rings yesterday and we got the big

462
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Speaker 10: plaque with the team pitcher that all that stuff came yesterday.

463
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Speaker 10: Obviously you look at that, uh with a you know,

464
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 10: very very proudly with a smile, but you also know

465
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Speaker 10: that the page has been turned and now it's a

466
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Speaker 10: new group. It's a new you know, even though there

467
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 10: are guys returning, it's a new group because there's a

468
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Speaker 10: new leadership, Guys stepping into those roles that one of

469
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 10: those roles last year, you know, guys you know, trying

470
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Speaker 10: to make the team for the first time. Yeah, it's uh,

471
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 10: this tournament is as fun as anything, uh in the

472
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:20,399
Speaker 10: world at this age level? Is it? It's it's the intensity,

473
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 10: how good the games are. You can't take penalties because

474
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Speaker 10: if you do, it's gonna cost you. So it's it's hockey.

475
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 10: I think you're kind of in its purest form because

476
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 10: there's there there's no one's gonna fight all that stuff.

477
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 10: It's just you gotta you gotta be dialed. You got

478
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 10: to be dealt with your discipline. How well you know,

479
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 10: how fast can we get this group up to speed

480
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,640
Speaker 10: playing together as a group of five and being connected.

481
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 10: There's so many challenges that you know, start tomorrow at

482
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Speaker 10: our first media five and then get on the ice

483
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Speaker 10: Monday afternoon to you.

484
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Speaker 3: Know, I was going to ask you that you know, yeah,

485
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Speaker 3: you want it under Bob obviously, and then you know

486
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Speaker 3: the last two you know, with David Carl. But you know,

487
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 3: a big part of it is is is getting the

488
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Speaker 3: group to come together. And I mean, how how difficult

489
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Speaker 3: is it in such a short amount of time to

490
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Speaker 3: bring guys in get them together. I know you're you know,

491
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 3: together in the summer and such and and that's where

492
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 3: you started. But but you know, how difficult is it

493
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Speaker 3: to you know, to to you know, bring guys together

494
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 3: and and get them, as you said, all connected right

495
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Speaker 3: away and ready for a tournament like this.

496
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Speaker 9: It's difficult.

497
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Speaker 10: But I think you know, you start laying the groundwork

498
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 10: in the summer. I think just with when you're preaching discipline,

499
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 10: and it happens in the summer, and then you know,

500
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Speaker 10: that would be one of the you know, coaches big

501
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 10: talking points you know tomorrow night about discipline. You know,

502
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,199
Speaker 10: I think it's part of the challenge. But you know,

503
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 10: we're very fortunate as a country where we are right

504
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 10: now with our talent in the country and it comes

505
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 10: from everywhere, and uh who we are as deep as

506
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Speaker 10: any country in the world with with our hockey players

507
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 10: and our ability to play the game at a high

508
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 10: level and compete and skate at a high level, you know,

509
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 10: and to the point where we have to at the

510
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:10,199
Speaker 10: end of the day, we have to make some very

511
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 10: difficult decisions on who makes this team. And you know,

512
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 10: it might be that, you know, that player that makes

513
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 10: the team doesn't take you know, stupid penalties. You know,

514
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,919
Speaker 10: it doesn't. It plays with great discipline within a system.

515
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,120
Speaker 10: It is a great penalty killer. All those little things

516
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:29,159
Speaker 10: go into evaluating the team, you know, and putting this together.

517
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 10: But that's all part of the that's all part of

518
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 10: the fun. Part of the challenge is getting these guys

519
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 10: to play together. And I remember last year, you know,

520
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 10: we had we had six penalties against Finland in the

521
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 10: game that they beat us in overtime, and we killed

522
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 10: five of them. And uh, and then David said afterwards

523
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 10: to the team, enough is enough. You cannot do this anymore.

524
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 10: We cannot kill six penalties a game. It will cost us.

525
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 10: And then by the end of the tournament, I think

526
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 10: we were averaging maybe three three p ks a game

527
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:00,719
Speaker 10: and set or two, you know what I mean. So

528
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 10: we got that cleaned up. But that's all, that's all

529
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 10: part of this challenge. And uh and and to do

530
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 10: it in the great state of Minnesota, the state of hockey.

531
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Speaker 10: How cool? How cool is this? And a great event?

532
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 10: Uh that Uh the fans of Minnesota get to get

533
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 10: to watch their stand.

534
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's crazy in your job, and and Bob

535
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 3: and the rest of the staff, it gets more difficult

536
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 3: every year, doesn't it. Just just with the talent pool

537
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 3: and and getting the right guys and getting the right

538
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 3: chemistry and and uh, I mean the the talent in

539
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 3: the US now is just uh, it's off the charts

540
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 3: crazy good, Yes it is.

541
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Speaker 10: And you know, you kind of go back to, you know,

542
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 10: the coach Coach Brooks's quote. I think it's I don't

543
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 10: want the best players, I want the right players. You know,

544
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 10: it always it always starts and ends there with that

545
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 10: coach Brooks quote.

546
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 2: But again, like you.

547
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Speaker 10: Said, we have a lot of depth in this country

548
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 10: and that's awesome. That's where hockey is, uh, throw in

549
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 10: our you know, great country. And obviously the nineteen eighty

550
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 10: teen eighty team got recognized yesterday and a lot you

551
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 10: know a lot of people can talk about eighty ninety six.

552
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 10: They have moments obviously make me and you were the

553
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 10: eighty guys watching that unfolding from our eyes. Yeah, you know,

554
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 10: people talk about ninety six and I'm sure there's young

555
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 10: kids playing today who who might say, I remember when

556
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 10: Troy Terry scored those three shootout goals against Rush, Jeremy

557
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 10: Braco had to score two otherwise it was over Miss

558
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 10: Semis and Troy scored that last one against Canada. So

559
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 10: all these great moments throughout history for our country, and

560
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 10: I might have forgotten one, but pretty cool stuff.

561
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's uh, let's turn to our Gofer hockey team.

562
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 3: Young you lose what forty seven per forty five percent

563
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 3: of your scoring from a year ago. There were challenges

564
00:29:55,480 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 3: to start the season, but as the season is come

565
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 3: along now, how much growth are you starting to see

566
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 3: in some of your younger players from the beginning of

567
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 3: the season to where we are now?

568
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 10: Oh much better? I mean, obviously October was a was

569
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 10: a struggle for us, and we turned a good page

570
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 10: on November and just started playing at a you know,

571
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 10: a high just a harder level, higher level. Obviously, the

572
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 10: Long Island Friday Night was unacceptable, Yeah, and we took

573
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 10: a step back there, but we've responded pretty good from

574
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Speaker 10: that point on. You know, we've we've been better at

575
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,719
Speaker 10: possessing pucks and the ozone. We've been better at checking,

576
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 10: we've been better at not turning pucks over. But our

577
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 10: next step now, pat is we've got to develop a

578
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 10: better consistency with all of those things, are checking, our reload,

579
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 10: our puck possession, not turning pucks over in critical areas

580
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 10: of the ice. We've got to take another step. We

581
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 10: got to take another step with that. We've got to

582
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 10: keep we've got to develop a consistent level of play

583
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 10: because it's it's some times we don't have the same

584
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 10: legs that we do on the second end of a series,

585
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 10: and that's you know, and that happens your energies, energy

586
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 10: level in the games, game to game, and stuff like that.

587
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 10: So that's the big challenge again. We've we've taken a

588
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 10: good step forward in November and December. Now we have

589
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 10: to take the next step forward in January with our

590
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 10: consistency in checking, getting above pucks, reloading, taking care of pucks,

591
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 10: possessing pucks in the ozone, making ourselves a very difficult

592
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 10: team to play against. Then obviously we've got to, you know,

593
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 10: we've got to continue to improve our special teams, our

594
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 10: power players playing better. Our PK's got to be better.

595
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 10: And I've watched like fifty hours of PK in the

596
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 10: last months, and obviously we know that, we know that's

597
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 10: a challenge that has to be has to be met

598
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 10: head on, and when we get back the second half,

599
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 10: it will be Yeah.

600
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 3: One of the guys who is going to be on

601
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 3: on your team USA Brodie Zeemer twelve goals. The kids

602
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 3: seems to just keep on getting better and better and

603
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 3: more confident every time he steps on the ice.

604
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's doing you know, he's doing a great job

605
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 10: of you know, again, his you know, his his tenacity

606
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 10: on the fore check, and how hard he works off

607
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 10: the puck. He's been being rewarded, and then his puck

608
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 10: possession play. I think, yeah, you know, at times, you know,

609
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 10: in October, we just we're playing a little too fancy

610
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 10: on the rush. We're just turning too many pucks over. Now,

611
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 10: we're hitting the line with speed. If there's no play there,

612
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 10: we chip it. Let's go get it back below of

613
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 10: the goal line. Let's start our offense from there. Or

614
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 10: maybe we've got to protect the puck, maybe we've got

615
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 10: to turn, maybe we got to escape. So I think

616
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 10: you know obviously you know him and LJ have done

617
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 10: a great job with that for us, you know, continuing

618
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 10: to you know, if you can't make a play with it,

619
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Speaker 10: put it somewhere where we can fight for it and

620
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 10: maybe come up with the next puck and start the

621
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 10: offense from there.

622
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much for your time, coach. Find

623
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Speaker 2: some time to breathe here. I mean it is you know,

624
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 2: it's gonna ramp right back up again, as you know

625
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 2: more than anybody. And we're excited to see you and

626
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 2: and Bob and everybody here at Grand Casino Arena in

627
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 2: just a couple of short weeks. Uh, it's gonna be

628
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 2: it can be an exciting time here in the state

629
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Speaker 2: of hockey.

630
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Speaker 10: Thanks for having me, guys. Happy holidays. And when I

631
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 10: go outside today, all my packer two guns.

632
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Speaker 4: Yeah I know, yeah, I know you all and you

633
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 4: know I'll be texting you later.

634
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 3: So thanks Taylor, appreciate it all right you guys holiday

635
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 3: ye take care.

636
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 2: That's associate head coach at the Golden Golpher men's hockey team,

637
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 2: Steve Miller, also of course helping out uh on the

638
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 2: bench for the you know, the team USA, UH, the

639
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 2: world Junior Championships. They'll be coming here in a couple

640
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 2: of weeks at your tickets World Juniors m N two

641
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Speaker 2: six dot com. I can also listen to those Team

642
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Speaker 2: USA games here on Kfan and k F A N plus.

643
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Speaker 2: We'll take a break when we come back, we'll talk

644
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Speaker 2: high school in youth hockey. Tony Scott youth hockey up

645
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 2: joining us next. It's beyond the Pond on the fan.

646
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Speaker 2: Man beyond the Pond and welcome back. It's the fan.

647
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Speaker 2: We have Michael Russo coming up at the top of

648
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 2: the hour talking the Big Quinn Hughes Trake. Quinn Hugh

649
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 2: is going to be joining this Minnesota Wild squad tomorrow

650
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 2: here at Grand Casino Arena. I'm Zach Calverson, by the way,

651
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Speaker 2: filling in for Kevin Fallness. Pat Mcatty is here as well,

652
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Speaker 2: and on the phone we have Tony Scott talking a

653
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Speaker 2: little bit of high school in youth hockey. First, Tony,

654
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Speaker 2: let's talk high school. I was just at Saint Croivali

655
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Speaker 2: Rec Center saw a couple of great Class A teams

656
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Speaker 2: in Montamede in World last night. We had that game

657
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Speaker 2: here on the fan. It was a very entertaining one

658
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Speaker 2: and Montamede I was able to tie the Hill Murray

659
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Speaker 2: Pioneers not too long ago. And that's a heck of

660
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Speaker 2: a heck of a couple of teams there in the

661
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Speaker 2: Class A side. But now Class two A with Hill

662
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Speaker 2: Murray battling Saint Thomas Academy the three versus four game,

663
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Speaker 2: that should be a heck of a tilt.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's always fun when those Metro East guys get together,

665
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 9: those those teams get together. You know, you saw Monamedia

666
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Speaker 9: last night. What a what interesting story with Mount of

667
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 9: medi plays Hill Murray. There's there's cousins and brothers from

668
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Speaker 9: both sides of the towns. I'm going to get out

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Speaker 9: to that next game. There's like a grand hole, like

670
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Speaker 9: five different cousins playing on both Montamedi and Hill Marie

671
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Speaker 9: this season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't really. There's just a lot of very

673
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 2: similar names over over, not only every single year, just

674
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 2: we have the same sam Pears and and others. That

675
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 2: is very familiar names and faces out there.

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Speaker 9: Sampeire, de Mars, Red Paths. They're all related in some way,

677
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Speaker 9: shape or form. They all train together in the offseason,

678
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Speaker 9: so when they play against each other, they're playing for blood.

679
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Speaker 4: What else. What else do you have going on today, Tony.

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Speaker 9: Well, you know we talk about hitting all the time.

681
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Speaker 4: This yeahs now no, no.

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Speaker 9: And we always we always talk about Northern Minnesota. Today

683
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Speaker 9: I got a good one here. This is Southern Minnesota

684
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Speaker 9: at its finance. What Tika, who we've been talking about

685
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,919
Speaker 9: on our podcast for the last couple of years. They're

686
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Speaker 9: undefeated this year against Class A. They take on Laverne

687
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Speaker 9: who's six and zero as well, so kind of a

688
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 9: good North Southern Minnesota Class A battle. Laverne has outscored

689
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Speaker 9: their opponents fifty five to eight and their six games

690
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 9: today this so far this year. It should be a

691
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 9: fun game down in Donald Leverne.

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Speaker 6: Today.

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Speaker 2: On the girl's side, we talked about the three verses

694
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Speaker 2: for SCA hill Battle, another three verses for battle today

695
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 2: battle as well between Taca and Dinah.

696
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I thought he Dina play Centennial. Believe I've never

697
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,919
Speaker 9: said these words. He Dina girls is reeling right now.

698
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 9: They got beat bad by Centennial Spring Lake Park on

699
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Speaker 9: Thursday night. They hope to get healthy today when they

700
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Speaker 9: travel against over to Pagel and see the Skippers, who

701
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Speaker 9: are also undefeated. Should be a good, good hockey game.

702
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Speaker 9: I think the Skippers are the better team right.

703
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 2: Now and on the top of the rankings there, and

704
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Speaker 2: then in the girl's side, Holy Family battling the Spuds

705
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Speaker 2: of Morehead. We all know obviously how the boys team

706
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 2: did last year and how that program is rolling, how

707
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Speaker 2: the girl's doing up there.

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Speaker 9: So the Spots sped teams at tenths to the state

709
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Speaker 9: former go for Ryan Krafts, the head coach of that.

710
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Speaker 9: But check this out. Holy Family is nine to zero.

711
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 9: Five of their wins are over top ten teams. They

712
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Speaker 9: hope to make Morehead number six today.

713
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Speaker 2: Sticking in the girls side of things, you know this

714
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 2: is near and dear tomorrow. I've played in plenty of

715
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Speaker 2: these mouse Goheen tournaments as a kid at White Bear

716
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 2: Lake ten A and twelve A going on. Start with

717
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 2: ten A with still Water the Ponies, who are they

718
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 2: taking on?

719
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Speaker 9: So still Water play chess champ. Both the teams are

720
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Speaker 9: top ten. It's a traditional bracket tournament. They don't have

721
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Speaker 9: these anymore where they just play the quarterfinal, semi final,

722
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Speaker 9: and championship. And today what I think is the championship

723
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 9: game is still Water takedown Chefs to Chan today that

724
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,760
Speaker 9: should be a really good game. I think that winner

725
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 9: that one will end up winning the championship. And then

726
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Speaker 9: in the twelve A, you're White bear Lake Bears and

727
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 9: Ostye Mable Girl. They're on a collision course to play

728
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 9: each other tomorrow in the championship game. They played once before.

729
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 9: I saw part of the game White bear Lake and

730
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 9: asking me, but asking won that one for one. I

731
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Speaker 9: bet the Bears win the Moose, to win the Moose

732
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Speaker 9: tomorrow on home ice.

733
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Speaker 2: Would love, would love to see that update. Now'r on

734
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Speaker 2: the youth of world.

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Speaker 9: All right, so here's an interesting story, and says throw

736
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Speaker 9: us a turn results at you.

737
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Speaker 6: I wanted to.

738
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Speaker 9: I want to give you a little something to chew on.

739
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 9: Especially with Hockey Day being in Hastings, that youth program

740
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 9: is a little bit on fire right now. They've caught fire.

741
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,879
Speaker 9: Their scored eight team won the Spirit to loose their

742
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 9: number one in scored DA's right now. They've got a

743
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Speaker 9: bunch of brothers and cousins on that group down on

744
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Speaker 9: the Hastings, the Stewart brothers and cousins and their PEB

745
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 9: double A team. They're a top ten team too. So

746
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Speaker 9: would it be fun to kind of get a rebirth

747
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 9: about Hastings nineteen ninety nine. Again here in a couple

748
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 9: of years. Their top player at Peva Double A is

749
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Speaker 9: a kid named Cooper Ewing. He had six goals last

750
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Speaker 9: night in the Bamiji George Palala tournament up north.

751
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Speaker 2: I would love to see that, especially because you go

752
00:38:56,440 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 2: down there. It's obviously it's such a great town and

753
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 2: the Hasting Civic Center went a wonderful arena, and what

754
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 2: wonderful facilities they have there. They certainly deserve better, and

755
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Speaker 2: it sounds like they're they're they're putting it back together

756
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 2: down there in Hastings.

757
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Speaker 9: They're definitely put to They had their a very unique

758
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 9: squirt program where they do a lot of in ouse

759
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 9: hockey the first half of the year. East Grand Forks

760
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 9: has done this for years, More has done it for years,

761
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Speaker 9: and I think it's starting to catch on. There's trying

762
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Speaker 9: to rebuild a program down there. And for you and Isaac,

763
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 9: where we cover a lot of the top end teams

764
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 9: in high school, it seems like it's the same teams

765
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Speaker 9: over and over and over again. It's fun to see

766
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Speaker 9: a Hastings team succeed.

767
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Speaker 2: And you mentioned Hockey Day being down there this year

768
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Speaker 2: and they're very excited. Those jerseys they unveiled a couple

769
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,280
Speaker 2: of weeks ago look very very cool and it should

770
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Speaker 2: be a really I mean, and it's not just the

771
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 2: Hockey Day we talk about, you know, especially with White

772
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 2: Bear and other towns we've it's not just Hockey Day now.

773
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Speaker 2: They do multiple games ahead of Hockey Day in celebration

774
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,280
Speaker 2: of it. But they're even going beyond days. They're going

775
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 2: weeks down there. That that years league right right, the

776
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 2: Hockey Month is a great way to put it.

777
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Speaker 9: They had Orno on Dots County played over in Hastings

778
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Speaker 9: last Saturday, and I'm expecting more and more of these

779
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Speaker 9: games to pop up at their rink. It's a different

780
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Speaker 9: set up there at the United Heroes League that they

781
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 9: have set up there versus the other ones like they had,

782
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Speaker 9: like they have in White Bear and the other communities

783
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Speaker 9: where it is more like a week where they can

784
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Speaker 9: do it you know, a year round or actually winter time.

785
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the permanent blachers they have built over there.

786
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Speaker 2: It's really really cool and and just such a unique

787
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Speaker 2: unique deal out there. Really cool to see the you talk,

788
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Speaker 2: you know, talk a lot about the Metro schools. We

789
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Speaker 2: talk a lot about the northern schools, but as you

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00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 2: mentioned with with Laverne was SIKA and then now even Hastings,

791
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Speaker 2: which I guess borderline metro but still a little bit

792
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Speaker 2: out there. It's it's cool to see that part of

793
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Speaker 2: a Minnesota representative as well.

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Speaker 9: For us, it's all about the whole state and as

795
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Speaker 9: not always the dynas in Minneta, because it's it's the

796
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Speaker 9: it's the entire state that makes this thing so great.

797
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Speaker 2: What do you have coming out up on Youth Hockey

798
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Speaker 2: hub dot com.

799
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,439
Speaker 9: Well, a bunch of podcasts, seven of them will every

800
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Speaker 9: week with everything you name it, college, pro, pro women.

801
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 9: We cover obviously high school and youth, and it just

802
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 9: seems like every day we're pumping out more content for

803
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Speaker 9: people to enjoy, whether it's videos or podcasts, or rankings

804
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 9: and everything in between. If you need to find it,

805
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 9: you can check out our website and you'll learn everything

806
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 9: you need to know about hockey here in Minnesota.

807
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Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome, Tony, Well, thank you very much. I know

808
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 2: you're going to be busy with these holiday tournaments coming

809
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,439
Speaker 2: up as well. It's it's a very busy but fun

810
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 2: time year for you, and appreciate you taking some time

811
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Speaker 2: with us.

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Speaker 9: Thanks you guys. I appreciate it.

813
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Speaker 2: Thanks Tony, Tony Scott youth hockeyhub dot com. Appreciate the

814
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Speaker 2: update from the lower levels of hockey here in the

815
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Speaker 2: state of Hockey. But we're going to turn things back

816
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Speaker 2: to the highest levels of hockey. Pat, I don't know,

817
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 2: is it still hit you yet that that Quinn Hughes

818
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 2: is going to be playing in a wild sweaterneck?

819
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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Very much so, as Zach I.

821
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Speaker 3: Uh, you know again, you know, as my my son

822
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Speaker 3: told me yesterday, right, hey, you're not going to believe this,

823
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 3: And I'm like, what you know? And then you know,

824
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 3: when he when he told me the news. Uh, you know,

825
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 3: it's always kind of a pipe dream that one of

826
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 3: your teams will uh take a big swing at something

827
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Speaker 3: and actually pull it off. And and you know, for

828
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Speaker 3: for Bill Garon to do this, and you know, get

829
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Speaker 3: the blessing obviously of of the owner, Craig Leopold, and

830
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Speaker 3: and uh, you know, I, I you know, I think

831
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Speaker 3: it's just uh, you know, it's very exciting.

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Speaker 4: It's a very exciting.

833
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Speaker 3: Time for you know, all the fans in Minnesota and

834
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Speaker 3: and in the organization as a whole to uh to

835
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Speaker 3: be able to do this. So yeah, it's uh, you know,

836
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Speaker 3: it's it's gonna be a lot of fun to fun

837
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Speaker 3: to watch and see how this thing plays out.

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Speaker 2: Well, I will say well done getting Michael Russo this

839
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Speaker 2: weekend on Beyond the Pond, because there's I think a

840
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 2: few better people to talk about when it comes to

841
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 2: this trade than the athletics. Michael Russell. Go ahead, Yeah,

842
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: I know, it's just said.

843
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Speaker 3: You know, there's so many you know, you knew that

844
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Speaker 3: he was more than likely going to be dealt. You know,

845
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Speaker 3: I think that.

846
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Speaker 4: Was a foregone conclusion.

847
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Speaker 3: And you know, you you heard all these other different teams, Detroit,

848
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 3: New Jersey, you know, the New York Rangers, you know,

849
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Speaker 3: you know other teams. I think there were six teams

850
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Speaker 3: that Vancouver is talking about, but one that you didn't

851
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Speaker 3: hear about was Minnesota and h and then you know,

852
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Speaker 3: for for this to come to fruition like this is

853
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 3: just I think it. I think it blew everybody away

854
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 3: in the National Hockey League and in all of hockey.

855
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Speaker 4: And so, you know, good on Minnesota.

856
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 2: And that's that's what I want to find out. You know, obviously,

857
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Speaker 2: a guy as well connected as Michael Russo, how much

858
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 2: did this blow them a way? How much Howicks surprises you,

859
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 2: as I imagine there was a little bit of shock

860
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:11,439
Speaker 2: with him as well. So we will talk with him

861
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 2: coming up after the break and still to come. At

862
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 2: eleven or sorry, noon, Bill Garon will have his first

863
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Speaker 2: time talking to the media about this blockbuster trade. Will

864
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 2: carry that live press conference at noon. Joe o'donald and

865
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Speaker 2: Tom Reid, the voices of Wild Hockey, will join us

866
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Speaker 2: shortly thereafter with their thoughts, their reaction. And we also

867
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 2: still have a hockey game to play today, Pat one o'clock,

868
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 2: the Ottawa Senators in town to take on the Minnesota

869
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 2: Wild And what do you think of that?

870
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 3: I mean, is it kind of is it like, Okay,

871
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 3: get this game over with so we can get to

872
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 3: tomorrow's game, or you know, I mean, they still have

873
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 3: a game to play. These points are obviously still very important.

874
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 3: They're playing a very good team today in the Ottawa Senators,

875
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 3: who have you know, you know certainly you know, built

876
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,800
Speaker 3: their roster and their team and and you know they're

877
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 3: they're very very good teams, so certainly not going to

878
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 3: be an easy game today, and you know they'll be

879
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 3: a little shorthanded. Obviously without Hughes not in the lineup,

880
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 3: and you know, the three guys moving on to Vancouver.

881
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 3: But but you know they still got to play it

882
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 3: still important game and and obviously certainly when they want

883
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 3: to win.

884
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,760
Speaker 11: My question is, will Quinn Hughes be in the press box?

885
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 11: Will be will he be in Grand Casino Arena? Because

886
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 11: if they cut to him, production cuts to him saying

887
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 11: welcome to Minnesota, Quinn Hughes, that place will erupt and

888
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 11: I want to.

889
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 4: See that would be Yeah, I got a one of

890
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 4: the systems pass.

891
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 3: I certainly do not know his travel arrangements for today,

892
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 3: but that that would be something, wouldn't.

893
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:52,320
Speaker 4: Uh, Brett, I'd love to be there for that.

894
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 2: I'd be nice just to get him in the locker

895
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 2: room at the very least and acquainted with his new teammates.

896
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:01,239
Speaker 2: And obviously, yeah, but you mentioned to Pat the distraction

897
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 2: factor here these players, it's going to be certainly a

898
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 2: test to stay focused and hopefully they can can figure

899
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 2: out their game. But I will also mention the roster

900
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 2: page on the NHL media website for the Wild that

901
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 2: has been has been down as I think they're still

902
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:22,359
Speaker 2: trying to display what players are going to play uh

903
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 2: and our thoughts with Aaron Sickman and Jackson Rebuilt, Dylan

904
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 2: Daniel trying to figure out what put together on the

905
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 2: all the paperwork here, massive, massive moves happening again. The

906
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 2: biggest trade in franchise history. It happened yesterday, Ze Bulliam,

907
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,280
Speaker 2: Marco Rossi and Liam Ogren along with a twenty twenty

908
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 2: six first run pick headed two Vancouver in exchange for

909
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 2: Quinn Hughes. We will talk about this trade and more

910
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 2: with the Athletics Michael Russo when we come back. You

911
00:46:50,160 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 2: are tuned into Beyond the Pond on the fan Beyond

912
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 2: the Pond, Welcome back Zach Halverson, Filly in for Kevin Faulness.

913
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 2: Pat Mcalletty here as well in Saint Louis Park. I'm

914
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 2: in Saint Paul and we head up now and I

915
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 2: believe to Edmonton, the Athletics. Michael Russo joining us now

916
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:21,280
Speaker 2: here on Beyond the Pond, And we were talking before

917
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 2: the break, Michael, you know how shocked we were and

918
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,320
Speaker 2: how the Wild just seemingly weren't even on the radar

919
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 2: for a player like Quinn Hughes. But how shocked were

920
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:35,360
Speaker 2: you how surprised were you. Was there any sort of

921
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 2: rumblings in the world about this being a possibility.

922
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 12: First of all, what a pleasant surprise.

923
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 2: Where's Falmas He's way up north?

924
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 12: Yeah exactly, I mean truly like I was not expecting

925
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 12: the docile tones of Zach Halverson so so so yeah,

926
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 12: I mean came out of the blue. I mean, you know,

927
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 12: the one thing, it's funny because you look at the

928
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 12: team go to be in on this. There was no

929
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 12: doubt in my mind that Bill Garran was going to

930
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,439
Speaker 12: make his swing. And because you know, I talked about

931
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 12: this on my podcast a couple of weeks ago that

932
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 12: I was starting to hear Marco Rossi's name out there

933
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 12: a lot, and especially because the Wild were winning, I

934
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 12: thought that would actually almost convinced Bill Garon that that

935
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:25,320
Speaker 12: he was more expendable. You just felt like, because I

936
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:28,720
Speaker 12: knew the the Vancouver Canucks' interest in Marco Rossi dating

937
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 12: for a couple of years now, that they could be

938
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:32,879
Speaker 12: in on this. But I didn't think the Wild we're

939
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,800
Speaker 12: going to be willing to give up you know, four

940
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 12: incredibly quality assets for first round picks essentially, but what

941
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 12: they get here is a twenty six year old defenseman

942
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 12: that is the second best defenseman in the league. I mean,

943
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 12: he would be the best defenseman in the league if

944
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,839
Speaker 12: Cale mccarr didn't exist. Right, reason why Quinn didn't win

945
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:55,319
Speaker 12: the Calder Trophy a couple of years ago. And what

946
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 12: I love about this move is that he's in his prime,

947
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 12: like he is, like, look, there was a time in

948
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,439
Speaker 12: Vancouver when they were good that JT. Miller and LEAs

949
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:07,399
Speaker 12: Petterson shows together. The last couple of years, he has

950
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 12: not had the ability to really play the game that

951
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 12: he wants to play, and now all of a sudden,

952
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,240
Speaker 12: he's going to be. First of all, he's a human breakout.

953
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 12: The puck is on his stick analytically more than anybody

954
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 12: per game in the league. Ever, it's like on his

955
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 12: stick four minutes a game, which is ridiculous. I remember

956
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 12: years and years ago there was a study done about

957
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 12: Mike Madonna where the puck was on his stick at

958
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 12: times like like fourteen seconds per game. Like that's how

959
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 12: just special that, Like you know that this kid is,

960
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 12: you know from the position that he plays, but that

961
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:40,800
Speaker 12: it just it's it's unheard of the way that he

962
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,439
Speaker 12: wants to transport the pup and he's gonna get the

963
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 12: the puck up Crocaprisov and that Boldie, and I think

964
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 12: it's just going to help their overall offensive game by

965
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:52,799
Speaker 12: just being out of their own zone. So that's the

966
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 12: best way that he defends. And the other thing, like

967
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 12: I just talked to is Asian pat person for a

968
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 12: half hour. I talk to him last night as well.

969
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 12: Quinn is extremely excited about this, Like he basically told

970
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,359
Speaker 12: them it was time to go, and so he had

971
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 12: been in the loop of all the teams that were

972
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 12: talking to Vancouver and talking to Patrison about this. And

973
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 12: the best thing about Patrason, who's who's a superagent, is

974
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 12: that they that usually when high profile clients and his

975
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 12: are being on the move, the teams respect him so

976
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 12: much they led him to be they let him essentially

977
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 12: help a lot of these teams. He's been in conversations

978
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 12: with bulgarin the past week, and so Quinn was in

979
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 12: the loop. And I think Quinn's only real demand here

980
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 12: with no trade protection was he wanted to go to

981
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:38,840
Speaker 12: a hockey destination where he can enjoy hockey for the

982
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 12: next year and a half and maybe put in a

983
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 12: position where he can extend. Now the Wild have been

984
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:47,799
Speaker 12: given no new assurances that he will extend, but they

985
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:51,720
Speaker 12: are absolutely after my conversation with Paprason. Keeping an open mind,

986
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 12: you know, there's a lot of belief out there just

987
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 12: because you know of the excitement of him potentially one

988
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,399
Speaker 12: day playing with his brothers Luke and Jack, that it's

989
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 12: just a know, aforementioned thing that it's going to happen.

990
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 12: That is not the case, and I do think Wild

991
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:08,280
Speaker 12: to have the time here to convince him to stay.

992
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 12: And then you add the other dimension here, which is

993
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 12: USA Hockey, the fact that his coach will be the

994
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 12: assistant coach there, that his GM is going to be

995
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,760
Speaker 12: the GM in there, two of the greatest American players

996
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 12: on the team are going to be Boldie in favor.

997
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 12: There's a lot of intangible could help Quinn want to

998
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 12: be here, whether it's eight years, five years, whatever. So

999
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 12: I don't think that that the Wild would do this

1000
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 12: move without knowing that they're going to be extremely aggressive

1001
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:39,359
Speaker 12: and trying to convince him to stay, and I think

1002
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 12: they believe they'll they'll have a chance of doing that.

1003
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 4: Hey, Michael, how much do you think.

1004
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:51,479
Speaker 3: Bill Garran's relationship with Jimmy Rutherford and having worked with

1005
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 3: him in Pittsburgh.

1006
00:51:54,239 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 4: Did do you think that had oh any more.

1007
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 3: You know, sway to Minnesota's side, just because of the

1008
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:11,320
Speaker 3: trust between those two executives working together in the past.

1009
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,919
Speaker 12: Well it's not just that, Pad, it's also Patrick Alvin's there.

1010
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 12: But I really don't. I think the package was just

1011
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 12: the best I mean, the one thing when Bill Garrett

1012
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 12: and we've seen it, I mean, and I know that

1013
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 12: sometimes he's criticized for it, that he gives up too

1014
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 12: much in trades, like like the David Gerritrid trade or

1015
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 12: things like that. Now Bill Garon doesn't mess around like

1016
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 12: when he negotiates, He just gets to the number. When

1017
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 12: he tries to make a trade. He doesn't want to

1018
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 12: waste time. He makes the best package. So I don't think.

1019
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 12: I think if this was somebody that Bill Garroon never

1020
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 12: dealt with in his life, it would have been the

1021
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 12: same thing when all of a sudden you offer Marco

1022
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 12: Rossi's you bullyam Liam Obrian in a first round pick.

1023
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 12: I think that package right away is gonn be better, guaranteed,

1024
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 12: can be better than anything the New Jersey Devils could

1025
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 12: have offered, and probably even what the Detroit Red Wings

1026
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,600
Speaker 12: were willing to offer. You know, I think obviously the

1027
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 12: Detroit Red Wings if they wanted Quinn Hughes have offered

1028
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 12: a Dylan Markin or more excited or something like that.

1029
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 12: But in terms of what the package is equivalent to

1030
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 12: the Wild, I just think it was the best move.

1031
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 12: They get their center, they get a guy in ze

1032
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 12: Boyam that could eventually, maybe in three or four years,

1033
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 12: be like Quinn Hughes. But the Wild wet their window

1034
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 12: right now. They just signed to Prestoft to this contract.

1035
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 12: They have Matt Boldie and his prime. They have Brock

1036
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:24,359
Speaker 12: Favor in his prime. They have two incredibly good goaltenders

1037
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 12: right and I think they are just in a position

1038
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 12: right now where they were not willing to sort of

1039
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 12: wait the four years to see if Zee Boyam could

1040
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:36,359
Speaker 12: become Quinn Hughes. Right now, Quinn Hughes at twenty six

1041
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 12: years old is one of the most elite defensemen that

1042
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 12: we've ever seen play this game. And yeah, does it

1043
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 12: thin them up front? Absolutely doesn't mean that Bill Gerrin's

1044
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,879
Speaker 12: done either to maybe go out and try to get

1045
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 12: a center, But the reality is that what Quinn could

1046
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 12: do from the back end automatically will help the wild

1047
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:01,839
Speaker 12: offensively more so right now and maybe make you know,

1048
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 12: maybe maybe figure out a way to uh to you know,

1049
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 12: replace the production that that Marco Rossi is that you

1050
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 12: lose with him?

1051
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1052
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 3: That that was my next question. I'm glad, excuse me,

1053
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought it up.

1054
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 4: Will this give Minnesota.

1055
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:23,839
Speaker 3: Or will they have the room to potentially add a

1056
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 3: forward that they may be targeting or looking at or

1057
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,880
Speaker 3: is that something that we look at maybe at the

1058
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:32,879
Speaker 3: trade deadliner?

1059
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 4: How's that potentially all going to fit in?

1060
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 12: You know, right now, their cap situation is really you know,

1061
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,799
Speaker 12: convoluted because they have so many two way guys on

1062
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 12: the roster that technically shouldn't be part of their cap.

1063
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 12: So it's really hard to figure out exactly what their

1064
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:49,319
Speaker 12: cap situation is. But right now, you know, essentially with

1065
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 12: the move yesterday, they added a million dollars right it

1066
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 12: was six point eight out seven point eighty five in so,

1067
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 12: and they had a good amount of cap space if

1068
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 12: healthy still, so I think that once they could try

1069
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 12: to get healthy, if this team ever could get healthy,

1070
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 12: the goal is to accrue to eventually make that move,

1071
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 12: they would probably have to trade some money off. You know,

1072
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 12: Ryan Hartman has been on the block. I think it's

1073
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 12: probably less likely now that you would move him unless

1074
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:15,280
Speaker 12: you're getting a center back, just because you know, obviously

1075
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:18,839
Speaker 12: they traded Rossi here. But I do think that they

1076
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 12: realize that they're still probably a center away from being

1077
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 12: a true, true contender to get them on par with

1078
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 12: Dallas and Colorado, and that is always going to be

1079
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 12: the concern in this division, Like these are the three

1080
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 12: best teams right now in the division, maybe even in

1081
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 12: the conference, and the reality is that one of those

1082
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 12: teams is not getting past the first round, which is scary, right.

1083
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:40,919
Speaker 12: I mean you're right now, if the Wild finished second

1084
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 12: or third, you're playing Dallas or Colorado. So you know,

1085
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 12: that's another reason. And I think it's been well documented

1086
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 12: that Bill Germ and the staff of the Wild just

1087
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 12: truly did weren't convinced that warco It was a true

1088
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 12: number one center or that you could win with him

1089
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 12: as your number one center or a two center in

1090
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 12: the playoffs. What they didn't have and now puts them

1091
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 12: on par with Dallas and Colorado is Miuro Heighten is

1092
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 12: absolutely all world this season, especially for Dallas and Kyle

1093
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 12: mccarr is Cal mccarr. So now you add a Quinn Hughes,

1094
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,279
Speaker 12: and if you look at the you know, history of

1095
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 12: teams that win the Cups, you usually need an elite,

1096
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:22,400
Speaker 12: elite defenseman that the Wild just haven't had really since

1097
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:24,959
Speaker 12: the days, you know. I mean you could say Ryan Souter,

1098
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 12: although a different type of defenseman, but you know, Brent

1099
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 12: Burns was that Norris Trophy type defenseman, but he really

1100
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 12: developed well after you know, leaving here, so they've never

1101
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 12: had somebody like this from the back end.

1102
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:40,839
Speaker 11: Hey, Mike, you gave a lot of reasons for optimism

1103
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 11: that an extension could be coming, not guaranteeing anything, but

1104
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 11: a lot more brighter than we may have thought before.

1105
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:50,839
Speaker 11: Do you think this deal is whether we look back

1106
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 11: at it as a success, predicates on and getting an

1107
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 11: extension done or even having the one and a half

1108
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 11: years is good enough on its own?

1109
00:56:57,840 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 12: No, definitely, the one and a half years isn't good

1110
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 12: enough on its own. Now remember this, you know, Quinn

1111
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 12: Hughes has no no trade protection, and so it comes

1112
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 12: a point where where Quinn Hughes like the one thing

1113
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 12: that was very clear to me in my conversation with

1114
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 12: Pat prison just right before I got on with you guys,

1115
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 12: is that there had been an incredible amount of conversation

1116
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 12: with the Vancouver Canucks in the last three weeks. They

1117
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 12: met with not only Jim Rutherford and Patrick Alvi the

1118
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 12: owner as well, and Quinn basically told him I am

1119
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 12: not resigning here. So if that happens here, I think

1120
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 12: that that right away would tell you that Quinn is

1121
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 12: going to play ball and be like, hey, look, just

1122
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 12: out of the goodness of my heart, I'm telling you

1123
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 12: I'm not convinced that I want to stay here, so

1124
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:44,600
Speaker 12: give them ample opportunity to make a move. Then you

1125
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 12: add the relationship that Patperson has with Bill Garrion and

1126
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 12: how good of an agent he is. I think Pat

1127
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:52,160
Speaker 12: would play play a role in helping find Quinn a

1128
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 12: new home where the wildcare recruits of assets, kind of

1129
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 12: like Niko Rant and with with what happened with Carolina

1130
00:57:57,680 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 12: last year, where he wouldn't resign there and they were

1131
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 12: able to move him on to to Dallas and recruit

1132
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 12: some assets. So, you know, and the Wild have much

1133
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 12: longer time to try to convince him to stay here.

1134
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 12: And so I do think that there's that there's a

1135
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:14,440
Speaker 12: you know that that chance that that I don't think

1136
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 12: a year and a half is good enough. But it

1137
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:17,920
Speaker 12: doesn't mean that if Quinn isn't going to resign here,

1138
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 12: they can't move him. I mean, just think of how

1139
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 12: incredibly like if he's going into his uf a year,

1140
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:26,440
Speaker 12: how many teams would now step up to try to

1141
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 12: trade for him just for one year let alone, maybe

1142
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 12: even a new Jersey Devil teams who thinks that, or

1143
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 12: a Detroit Red Wings team that might think that they

1144
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 12: could resign him long term. So I just think that

1145
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 12: that was the risk that Bill Geron played here is

1146
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 12: will convince him to sign. But if not, I'm going

1147
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 12: to be able to get a ton of assets back

1148
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 12: for him anyway and try to recoup what he gave

1149
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 12: up or somewhat what he gave up in this deal.

1150
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 3: Of all the deals that were reported, do you think

1151
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 3: this was the best deal for Vailing?

1152
00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:00,200
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, I I love what Vancouver did here.

1153
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 12: I mean, you know, I think that Marco, I mean,

1154
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 12: everybody knows what I think of Marco Rossi, and I

1155
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 12: think that he's gonna go there and be fabulous. I

1156
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 12: think Steve Billyiam's gonna you know, develop into a tremendous

1157
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 12: hockey player, and and I don't you know, in that situation,

1158
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 12: let's see what Liam Ogrin can do. So I think

1159
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 12: that that that Vancouver did really really well here, but

1160
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 12: I also see the risk on why the Wild did

1161
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 12: this move. You know, again, this is not a twenty

1162
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 12: nine or thirty year old defenseman. This kid's twenty six, right,

1163
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 12: He is a absolute superstar. I mean, just look at

1164
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 12: the number of times that Vancouver plays Minnesota. Just look

1165
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 12: at what Vancouver did to Minnesota in the bubble in

1166
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 12: that playoff series, and how good Quinn Hughes was.

1167
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:39,120
Speaker 6: He is.

1168
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 12: He's just a tremendous player. And I just can't even

1169
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 12: imagine their power player. And ersonec on it with zu

1170
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 12: Carello and Quinn Hughes, like, holy moly, you.

1171
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:53,720
Speaker 3: Know, and Michael, don't you think I mean, I mean,

1172
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 3: you've been in this game long enough and have covered

1173
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 3: enough deals and non deals and stuff and such. But

1174
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 3: how many times have we seen teams just say, yeah,

1175
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 3: we've got a lot of youth, we're building, we're building.

1176
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 3: But when does it get to the point where you say,

1177
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 3: you know what, we got to make this move now,

1178
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 3: you know we we we've.

1179
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:16,920
Speaker 4: Got to take a chance.

1180
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 3: We you know, as you mentioned, we've got this window

1181
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 3: with with Capriceo and you know he's he's not a

1182
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 3: spring chicken anymore. I mean he's not old, but he's

1183
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 3: not a spring chicken. Boldie Favor, you know, Ericson Eck.

1184
01:00:33,360 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 3: You know the goaltending that they have. I mean, you

1185
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:40,120
Speaker 3: almost have to think this is the right time to

1186
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:43,000
Speaker 3: make a deal of this magnitude.

1187
01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 12: Well look, I mean, you know, fans have been waiting

1188
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 12: for four patient years for this team to get out

1189
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 12: of the hell that it was in with the present

1190
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 12: suitor buyouts, and then they went into the summertime and

1191
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:57,000
Speaker 12: they weren't able to do it, and there was a

1192
01:00:57,160 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 12: I mean, just look at the Dallaskan the other night

1193
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:01,920
Speaker 12: against a rival rival game. Nobody's in the stands, Like

1194
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 12: I'm obviously I'm being a hyperbolic, right, I couldn't believe

1195
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 12: watching here. I'm in Edmonton, but I couldn't believe seeing

1196
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 12: the number of empty seats. This moves the needle. Fans

1197
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 12: want to see this team make some moves. Bill Garon

1198
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 12: has always promised that he was going to go big

1199
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 12: game hunting this year if he could we all assumed

1200
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 12: he meant like a Dylan Lark, and well, they're not

1201
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 12: trading Dylan Larks, right, I mean, Dylan's been unbelievable in

1202
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 12: Detroit's been and you can't just invent that Tate Thompson's

1203
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:31,360
Speaker 12: gonna want out of Buffalo. And the other thing is

1204
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 12: Bill Garan's got enough history trying to make moves for

1205
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 12: Jack eichelb JJ, peterca to know the intel that Buffalo

1206
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 12: might just not be truly enamored with the with the

1207
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 12: pieces that they would get back from Minnesota. So he

1208
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 12: probably wasn't sitting there right forever for you know, for

1209
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:51,160
Speaker 12: Tate Thompson to ask out a Buffalo and then just

1210
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:53,439
Speaker 12: pray that I can get in on that. So right now,

1211
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:55,880
Speaker 12: the only big name on the market that wanted out

1212
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 12: of a team was Quinn Hughes, and so the while

1213
01:01:58,360 --> 01:01:59,320
Speaker 12: goo and make the move.

1214
01:01:59,560 --> 01:01:59,880
Speaker 6: And so.

1215
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 12: I think that what this one hundred percent tells you

1216
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:08,240
Speaker 12: is that the in that position that Billy's winning with

1217
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:10,240
Speaker 12: the fans now that he wants to turn this team

1218
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 12: immediately into a Cup contender. I'm not saying that this

1219
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 12: move alone does that, because I still am not you know,

1220
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:18,439
Speaker 12: I'm really concerned about the way they look up front.

1221
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:20,400
Speaker 12: I mean, just look at the lineup. Obviously they have

1222
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:22,360
Speaker 12: some injuries right now, but look at the lineup they're

1223
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:23,919
Speaker 12: going to be icing tonight. And I mean they're gonna

1224
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 12: have Ubei Kubel and Tyler Pittlick and Ben Jones in

1225
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 12: the lineup. I mean, you know, they've they've got their

1226
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 12: an injury away from major depth issues, right so you

1227
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 12: know they've got to still, I think, figure out a

1228
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 12: way to add or hope one of these young kids

1229
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:40,439
Speaker 12: like a Hunter Hate could come up and and and

1230
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:43,760
Speaker 12: be good. But clearly Bill Garon is in that mode

1231
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:46,960
Speaker 12: right now where he knows that turn into a contender.

1232
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 12: I think that's been the edict from from Craig Leopold

1233
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:52,480
Speaker 12: for a while. Now that you know enough is enough,

1234
01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:55,000
Speaker 12: let's let's make some big swings here. He did it

1235
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 12: with Croll Capriesov. He obviously does it here and you know,

1236
01:02:58,960 --> 01:02:59,920
Speaker 12: we'll see if it works.

1237
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 4: How shocked do you think the rest of the league

1238
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:03,959
Speaker 4: was with this move?

1239
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 12: I think I think really probably shocked, just because I

1240
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:09,960
Speaker 12: don't think a lot of teams thought Minnesota would be

1241
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:12,920
Speaker 12: in on this type of move. You know, I had

1242
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:16,040
Speaker 12: my spider senses up yesterday that something big was going on.

1243
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 12: I kind of I mentioned you up in Edmonton with

1244
01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:22,920
Speaker 12: USA Hockey yesterday. All day yesterday I was working on

1245
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 12: an Ellen Hughes feature. His mom is essentially the mother

1246
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 12: of the USA Hockey women's team, the conduit between Robo,

1247
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:34,479
Speaker 12: the head coach, and the players. So I've been working

1248
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:36,960
Speaker 12: on a feature on her to run right before the Olympics.

1249
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,280
Speaker 12: And so I did get to talk to her the

1250
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,640
Speaker 12: last couple of days a little bit about Quinn And

1251
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 12: not that I she told me any intel that he was,

1252
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:47,480
Speaker 12: you know, I mean here or anything like that. But

1253
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:49,560
Speaker 12: you know, just because I've been thinking so much about

1254
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 12: Quinn in the last couple of days, you know, you

1255
01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:53,760
Speaker 12: just start to think, like, if the Wild were ever

1256
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 12: going to get in on this, it would have to

1257
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 12: be Marco Rossi. Then you start thinking what else, Well,

1258
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:00,280
Speaker 12: you knew it would have to be boy him. What

1259
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 12: I didn't know is that he would just you know

1260
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:07,480
Speaker 12: throw in you know, an Ogren and the first But

1261
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 12: you know, like we reported, Look, you know I reported

1262
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 12: last week that the Wild offered Rossi to Vancouver for

1263
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 12: Ratu Shilov's and a first and a first round pick

1264
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 12: at the draft that was actually rejected by Vancouver. But

1265
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 12: then last week when I reported that the Wild offered

1266
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 12: Ogrind Sutherland, I heard that Marco Rossi's game came up

1267
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:31,920
Speaker 12: at a key for Sutherland deal and Bill Garon basically

1268
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:34,560
Speaker 12: hung up the phone on them. But when they're suddenly

1269
01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:37,760
Speaker 12: now asking for Rossi after rejecting Rossi, you just know

1270
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:40,680
Speaker 12: that now there might be sort of the components to

1271
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:43,480
Speaker 12: a trade to be made. And clearly Bill Garon, uh,

1272
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:45,440
Speaker 12: you know I saw that as well.

1273
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:49,439
Speaker 3: Does does this deal get done without William No?

1274
01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:52,360
Speaker 12: I don't think so, because what Vancouver gets back in

1275
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:54,240
Speaker 12: him is somebody that they in the next three or

1276
01:04:54,280 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 12: four years hope can become that Quinn Hughes and and

1277
01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:00,800
Speaker 12: as we know, you know, Quinn Hugh is the player

1278
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:03,760
Speaker 12: that Zee Boyam has long fashioned his game after and

1279
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:08,560
Speaker 12: respected the most end to play like. And so you

1280
01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 12: know that's the irony. Also, the deal is that maybe

1281
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 12: he turns into that type of player. I mean, obviously

1282
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:15,280
Speaker 12: you know it, but it's still like he has to

1283
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:17,680
Speaker 12: turn into that player. You know, Quinn is that player?

1284
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:21,080
Speaker 2: Have you gotten any I guess angling from the locker

1285
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:23,560
Speaker 2: room how the players feel about this, Is there any

1286
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:27,520
Speaker 2: sort of I mean, obviously, you know, losing Zeve not great,

1287
01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 2: but getting a guy like Quinn here, that's gotta get

1288
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 2: the locker room excited. Yeah.

1289
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:34,000
Speaker 12: I texted with two players last night, just off the

1290
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 12: record to get the reaction, and I got one fire

1291
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Speaker 12: emoji and one like holy hell emoji because he hadn't

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01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:44,880
Speaker 12: known yet, And both were extremely excited based on their

1293
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:47,000
Speaker 12: little bit reaction. But again it was just shooting the

1294
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 12: breeze just to ask what they thought kills down there today.

1295
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 12: And obviously we'll get player reaction. Will be at the Bill

1296
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:56,440
Speaker 12: Garon press conference, my colleague Joe Smith. But look like

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01:05:57,040 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 12: bat Boldie and Brock Favor already have a relationship with Quinn.

1298
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:04,120
Speaker 12: You know, John Hines and and and uh Bill Garon

1299
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 12: and the training staff already have a relationship with Quinn

1300
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 12: from Four Nations and soon to be the Olympics. You know,

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01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 12: I think Quinn is just talking to his agent and

1302
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:17,080
Speaker 12: like I said, I'm hoping to talk to his mom

1303
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:20,080
Speaker 12: here in a couple of minutes. I think that he's very,

1304
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:23,480
Speaker 12: very excited. So I look, I think that the Wild

1305
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 12: are going to be sort of this a bit and

1306
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 12: and be really really excited. Obviously it's tough to see,

1307
01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:34,040
Speaker 12: you know, good players leave, but when you add a

1308
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:36,840
Speaker 12: player like this guy, it's it's pretty special. Now he's

1309
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 12: just got to be healthy and perform, and I think

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01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:39,040
Speaker 12: he will.

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01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 4: Hey, Michael, did this?

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01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:44,280
Speaker 3: Did this ultimately come down to Quinn saying yeah, I'm

1313
01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 3: I'm all you know, all accept this deal?

1314
01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 4: I mean he was no, no, no.

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01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 12: It came down to three weeks ago him saying I'm

1316
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:54,480
Speaker 12: not resigning here, so now's the time let's move. And

1317
01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 12: then they made the move. He was because his agent

1318
01:06:57,400 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 12: was involved, well aware of the teams that were interested in.

1319
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:02,240
Speaker 12: What his agent told me is that Quinn the entire

1320
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:04,680
Speaker 12: time when he found out what Billy Garan was offering,

1321
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 12: was really excited that he thought it could happen with Minnesota.

1322
01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:10,240
Speaker 12: But so he didn't have any control of this. But

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01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:13,240
Speaker 12: that's a good sign right away that Quinn was excited. Look,

1324
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:15,720
Speaker 12: I mean, this is a great situation for him. He's

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01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:17,560
Speaker 12: very close to his parents, you know, an hour and

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01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:21,120
Speaker 12: a half flight in Detroit. He's very close to his

1327
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 12: other two brothers. He goes to a hockey loving market

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01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 12: and a team that has chance to be a true contender,

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01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 12: So I think that there's a reason for him to

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01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:31,840
Speaker 12: be extremely excited. And he gets back to the middle

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01:07:31,880 --> 01:07:33,440
Speaker 12: of the country as well. He's an Allara on the

1332
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:36,400
Speaker 12: west coast, so I think that he's going to be

1333
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:38,960
Speaker 12: really excited to get here. And I think fans are

1334
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:40,320
Speaker 12: going to like him too. Like I've sat down with

1335
01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:43,080
Speaker 12: him a number of times at ANHL media tours. He's

1336
01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:48,480
Speaker 12: very soft spoken, but he's hilarious and he's interesting. He's

1337
01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 12: liable to say absolutely anything, like any of the Hughes brothers.

1338
01:07:51,520 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 12: And by the way, as I've learned the last couple

1339
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 12: of days, mother will and you know, so I think

1340
01:07:57,840 --> 01:07:59,400
Speaker 12: fans are going to like him as well, just as

1341
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 12: off the And the other thing that he'll love is

1342
01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:04,880
Speaker 12: being out of that bubble, like he'll now be surrounded

1343
01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:07,439
Speaker 12: by six reporters have to practice rather than twenty six

1344
01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:10,400
Speaker 12: and you know, I think that'll be a breath of

1345
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:12,240
Speaker 12: fresh air for the for a kid that you know,

1346
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 12: was a young captain that every day had to stand

1347
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:17,240
Speaker 12: in front of the media in a huge, loud marketplace.

1348
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:19,439
Speaker 4: And how about this one for you, Michael.

1349
01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:24,760
Speaker 3: The ability to pair with brock Faber, who doesn't care

1350
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 3: about you know, he cares more about you know, playing

1351
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:33,839
Speaker 3: defensive hockey than he does offensive. And now, you know,

1352
01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:37,280
Speaker 3: knowing that he's got favor there, I mean, he may

1353
01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:39,400
Speaker 3: even unleash himself a little bit more.

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01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:40,559
Speaker 6: Yeah.

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01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 12: Absolutely. And you know what's really interesting about that whole

1356
01:08:45,479 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 12: dynamic too, is is that we've all assumed at the

1357
01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:50,160
Speaker 12: Olympics that they're just going to go back to slave

1358
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:52,519
Speaker 12: in favor because there was such a great shutdown line

1359
01:08:52,960 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 12: at the at the at the Four Nations. But remember

1360
01:08:56,560 --> 01:08:59,080
Speaker 12: they didn't have Quinn there because he was hurt and

1361
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:01,839
Speaker 12: they lost her Knackivay in the middle of the tournament.

1362
01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:04,800
Speaker 12: So just having those two guys back could lead to

1363
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:08,759
Speaker 12: the defense pair there. And if all of a sudden

1364
01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 12: Quinn and Brock develop exceptional chemistry here in the next

1365
01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:15,559
Speaker 12: six weeks before they get over to Milan, I mean,

1366
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:18,479
Speaker 12: perhaps that's the pair in Milan. So I think that

1367
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:20,720
Speaker 12: is a really good potential pair. And then you get

1368
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:23,479
Speaker 12: with Brodin with Spurgeon, you put Middleton on the third

1369
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,720
Speaker 12: pair when he's back from his concussion with Bagosian, that

1370
01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:28,800
Speaker 12: is going to be a hard defense. Like suddenly their

1371
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:31,759
Speaker 12: defense looks really, really formidable if they're healthy.

1372
01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:36,040
Speaker 2: Big game for the while today against the Senators. Michael

1373
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:38,640
Speaker 2: and obviously Quinn will make his debut tomorrow. You know,

1374
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 2: if he's going to be in the state of Minnesota

1375
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:43,160
Speaker 2: at this point today or is he going to be

1376
01:09:43,280 --> 01:09:44,719
Speaker 2: joining just tomorrow morning.

1377
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:49,679
Speaker 12: I believe he's, you know, with the one pm game.

1378
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:51,080
Speaker 12: I think it was hard for him to get here.

1379
01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:51,600
Speaker 2: I think this.

1380
01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:53,719
Speaker 12: You know, he still has to pack up his life.

1381
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 12: The Wild do not play in Vancouver for the rest

1382
01:09:57,160 --> 01:09:59,280
Speaker 12: of the season, so I think he'd like to get

1383
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:01,720
Speaker 12: a lot of his stuff out of there and on

1384
01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 12: the move as well. So I think Bill just gave him, like,

1385
01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 12: you know, look, the trade happened late last night. With

1386
01:10:08,040 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 12: the time difference, it was hard to get him commercially here.

1387
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:12,400
Speaker 12: I guess you could have sent him a private plane,

1388
01:10:12,439 --> 01:10:14,800
Speaker 12: but I think just to get him, you know, refreshed

1389
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:17,840
Speaker 12: and feeling good and more comfortable, I think they just decided, Hey,

1390
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:18,800
Speaker 12: Sunday would be better.

1391
01:10:19,280 --> 01:10:19,720
Speaker 6: Can't wait.

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01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:21,320
Speaker 2: It should be a fun one. Thank you so much

1393
01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:25,400
Speaker 2: for your time, Michael and joy Edmonton. We'll get you

1394
01:10:25,439 --> 01:10:26,679
Speaker 2: back your state side soon.

1395
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:30,759
Speaker 12: This was a true pleasures act or such a pro

1396
01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:34,040
Speaker 12: I mean, I just hope that Kevin doesn't get Wally pipped.

1397
01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:36,839
Speaker 4: Hey, and I wanted you for another segment.

1398
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:40,360
Speaker 3: We know you're you're busy because I wanted to talk Olympics, but.

1399
01:10:40,520 --> 01:10:43,360
Speaker 4: We'll save it for another week. About that.

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01:10:43,439 --> 01:10:45,320
Speaker 12: Yeah, absolutely, you can have you next week. I just

1401
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:49,160
Speaker 12: you're busy with this huge trade. Yeah, we appreciate you.

1402
01:10:49,560 --> 01:10:50,880
Speaker 4: We appreciate your time.

1403
01:10:51,479 --> 01:10:54,879
Speaker 2: All right, take care, all right, thanks Michael Russo the Athletic,

1404
01:10:55,040 --> 01:10:57,960
Speaker 2: read his stuff, read Joe Smith's stuff. I mean, I'll

1405
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:00,439
Speaker 2: tell you what, Michael, we were very lucky there, not Michael,

1406
01:11:00,439 --> 01:11:04,120
Speaker 2: I should say, Pat, we're very lucky to have Russo

1407
01:11:04,280 --> 01:11:07,400
Speaker 2: and Joe in this market, because, I mean, you want

1408
01:11:07,439 --> 01:11:10,320
Speaker 2: to talk about a big trade and then rising to

1409
01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:13,000
Speaker 2: the occasion covering all that stuff there, their stuff has

1410
01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:16,679
Speaker 2: been incredible to read and follow the last day or so,

1411
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:20,599
Speaker 2: so finally they finally got something that day I think deserved,

1412
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:23,320
Speaker 2: which is something like a big blockbuster trade.

1413
01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:29,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I you know this is certainly the biggest

1414
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:31,559
Speaker 3: trade in wild history. Wouldn't you say?

1415
01:11:32,479 --> 01:11:32,599
Speaker 10: Oh?

1416
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:35,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't even think of anything close, especially when

1417
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:38,200
Speaker 2: you have you know, I mean, it's unbelievable.

1418
01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 3: The biggest flash before this was was Zach and Ryan

1419
01:11:41,920 --> 01:11:44,960
Speaker 3: uh signing his free agents, but that wasn't a trade,

1420
01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:46,680
Speaker 3: so you know.

1421
01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:49,240
Speaker 2: Certainly in the middle of the season too like this.

1422
01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:50,439
Speaker 2: You know, it's just it's.

1423
01:11:50,280 --> 01:11:52,639
Speaker 4: Just very rare that that this happens.

1424
01:11:53,040 --> 01:11:56,400
Speaker 2: And it's so amazing too, because I remember where we

1425
01:11:56,400 --> 01:12:00,000
Speaker 2: were in late October. I remember that after that Penguins game,

1426
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:02,120
Speaker 2: with the locker room was like and and just how

1427
01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:05,880
Speaker 2: dreary and dark things were, and it just it felt

1428
01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:08,599
Speaker 2: like it couldn't get any worse. We were, you know,

1429
01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:10,760
Speaker 2: this was the season was was looking to be a

1430
01:12:10,840 --> 01:12:14,000
Speaker 2: lost season, and to go from that point to where

1431
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:17,240
Speaker 2: we are now with what they have done, with the

1432
01:12:17,240 --> 01:12:19,920
Speaker 2: wins that they pile up, the teams that they have beaten,

1433
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 2: and including of course uh Colorado and the Dallas just

1434
01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:24,720
Speaker 2: last week.

1435
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:26,600
Speaker 6: I mean, this is it's.

1436
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:29,400
Speaker 2: It just feels like, uh, it's it's just so shocking

1437
01:12:29,479 --> 01:12:30,880
Speaker 2: and well, obviously in a good way.

1438
01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:36,720
Speaker 3: Well it it is so hard in all of pro sports,

1439
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:42,160
Speaker 3: Zach to make deals, and especially ones of this magnitude.

1440
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:46,599
Speaker 3: I mean, it takes so much and then it takes

1441
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 3: the willingness of you know, a particular team or teams

1442
01:12:52,360 --> 01:12:55,280
Speaker 3: to actually you know, have that you know what to

1443
01:12:56,479 --> 01:12:59,479
Speaker 3: pull the trigger on it. And you know when you

1444
01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 3: when you look at it and you're giving up Ogrin

1445
01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:06,800
Speaker 3: number one, pick Rossi number one, pick Bullyam number one,

1446
01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:10,080
Speaker 3: pick uh and then to give up a future first

1447
01:13:10,160 --> 01:13:14,320
Speaker 3: drone pick that takes something and you know you can

1448
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:17,479
Speaker 3: you can break it, break it down in terms of

1449
01:13:17,880 --> 01:13:20,560
Speaker 3: the value for each of the each of the players,

1450
01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:23,320
Speaker 3: and and you know what what they bring now or

1451
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:27,599
Speaker 3: what they potentially could bring. It's it's still it takes

1452
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:33,360
Speaker 3: an awful lot of of you know, balls to to

1453
01:13:33,439 --> 01:13:34,759
Speaker 3: pull something like this off.

1454
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:38,280
Speaker 2: That's about you know what, We'll forgive that term that

1455
01:13:38,280 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 2: that I can't think of a better way of saying about.

1456
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:45,040
Speaker 2: You said it wonderfully, so so beautifully. Really what a

1457
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:47,439
Speaker 2: just what a crazy day here in Saint Paul. And

1458
01:13:47,479 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 2: it's just the start of it. We have a press

1459
01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:53,880
Speaker 2: conference at noon with Bill Garrin his first opportunity to

1460
01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:58,599
Speaker 2: share his thoughts, his insight on the trade. I wonder

1461
01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:00,640
Speaker 2: if they'll be Champagne in the lock in the in

1462
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:05,640
Speaker 2: the press. I don't think there will be, but I

1463
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 2: mean it's it's it's a big day in Minnesota wild history.

1464
01:14:08,160 --> 01:14:11,479
Speaker 2: We will carry that press conference live at noon. We

1465
01:14:11,520 --> 01:14:13,920
Speaker 2: will still have Joe and Tom coming up right after

1466
01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:17,960
Speaker 2: that as well Brad Blakemore's breakaways. We might even get

1467
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:19,679
Speaker 2: some of your thoughts out there, so if you want

1468
01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:23,000
Speaker 2: to Texas six four six eight six, we can share

1469
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:25,400
Speaker 2: some of those thoughts. Maybe even a talkbacker too, who knows.

1470
01:14:25,439 --> 01:14:27,760
Speaker 2: We'll see. So we'll take a break, we'll come back

1471
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:30,639
Speaker 2: with more. It is Beyond the Pond, a very special

1472
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:33,920
Speaker 2: edition of Beyond the Pond, the Quinn Hughes Trade edition

1473
01:14:34,439 --> 01:14:49,400
Speaker 2: Beyond the Pond. Here on the fan Pat mcceletti and

1474
01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:54,200
Speaker 2: Saint Louis Park Zach Elverson Here in Saint Paul Grand

1475
01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:58,160
Speaker 2: Casino Arena. It's Beyond the Pond. We have a press

1476
01:14:58,200 --> 01:15:00,880
Speaker 2: conference with Bill garn coming up at and talking about

1477
01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:03,160
Speaker 2: the big news of the day. We also have a

1478
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:05,040
Speaker 2: text line six for sixty six eighty six if you

1479
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:07,200
Speaker 2: want to talk about that big news of the day,

1480
01:15:07,479 --> 01:15:09,720
Speaker 2: whatever news you want to talk about, Pat, I think

1481
01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:12,679
Speaker 2: the a topic has got to be this Quinn Hughes trade.

1482
01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:16,240
Speaker 3: Huh uh, yeah, just just a little bit. How shocked

1483
01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:18,120
Speaker 3: were you, Zach when you phoned out.

1484
01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:20,960
Speaker 2: Well, we were, we were preparing, we were about ten

1485
01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 2: minutes from taking air last night, war Rowed and Montamenai

1486
01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:28,360
Speaker 2: on at San Croix Valley Rec Center and uh.

1487
01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:29,840
Speaker 3: Did you even call the game or did you just

1488
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:30,839
Speaker 3: talk about the trade?

1489
01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:34,120
Speaker 2: Well, it was initially kind of annoyed because there was

1490
01:15:34,120 --> 01:15:36,200
Speaker 2: a seven o'clock puck drop and I was like, well

1491
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:39,000
Speaker 2: it was six forty five, six fifty and the JV

1492
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:41,719
Speaker 2: game was still going on. Obviously things had been pushed

1493
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 2: back of it, so I was a little annoying, and

1494
01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:44,439
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh man, what are we going to do

1495
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:48,240
Speaker 2: for fifteen twenty twenty five minutes? Ever, when whenever the

1496
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:50,320
Speaker 2: puck would would drop, while were going to kill that time?

1497
01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:54,639
Speaker 2: And well, I gave Bill callll right into your lap.

1498
01:15:54,840 --> 01:15:57,200
Speaker 2: I gave can you do something?

1499
01:15:57,280 --> 01:15:59,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure he picked it. I'm sure he picked up.

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01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:04,040
Speaker 2: He acted fast. Yeah, it was It was nuts, and

1501
01:16:04,200 --> 01:16:07,599
Speaker 2: people that the phones of conversations at the rink started

1502
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:09,799
Speaker 2: picking up as well as every really the news spread

1503
01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 2: and uh, and then obviously we took air with with

1504
01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:15,360
Speaker 2: Danny Ryan at seven and talked about it and broke

1505
01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 2: the news basically on the air, and then we took texts,

1506
01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:21,880
Speaker 2: which we'll be doing in just a moment against six

1507
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:25,240
Speaker 2: four six eighty six, and and then even Joe o'donald

1508
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:28,439
Speaker 2: happened to be at the arena because his kid was

1509
01:16:28,479 --> 01:16:31,559
Speaker 2: playing on the other rink, and so he swung by

1510
01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:34,519
Speaker 2: in the first intermission of the game and shared his

1511
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:38,880
Speaker 2: initial thoughts, which were very similar to mine in we

1512
01:16:38,920 --> 01:16:41,000
Speaker 2: didn't what do you what do you are you supposed

1513
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:41,360
Speaker 2: to think?

1514
01:16:41,479 --> 01:16:41,679
Speaker 6: Yet?

1515
01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:43,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's supposed to talk, you know, And and and

1516
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:48,840
Speaker 3: one thing, you know, these trades that they just don't happen, right,

1517
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:52,160
Speaker 3: I mean, this has been you know, a lot of

1518
01:16:52,240 --> 01:16:53,280
Speaker 3: thought put into it.

1519
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:56,280
Speaker 4: You know, what's a roster gonna look like?

1520
01:16:56,920 --> 01:17:01,040
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, cap situation, Uh, you know, all of

1521
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:06,120
Speaker 3: these things go in, you know, so there's there's just

1522
01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:08,320
Speaker 3: a lot that goes in that you and I have,

1523
01:17:08,479 --> 01:17:11,240
Speaker 3: you know, the conversations that go on, and you know,

1524
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:15,479
Speaker 3: and and all of the different scenarios and that that

1525
01:17:15,479 --> 01:17:16,240
Speaker 3: that have.

1526
01:17:16,080 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 4: To you know, play themselves out, and so you know,

1527
01:17:21,240 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 4: it's just it's.

1528
01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:25,679
Speaker 3: We look at it and saying, oh, yeah, there's there's

1529
01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:29,080
Speaker 3: the deal they did it. But all the stuff that

1530
01:17:29,160 --> 01:17:32,479
Speaker 3: goes on that that we don't even know about, that

1531
01:17:32,479 --> 01:17:36,000
Speaker 3: that that takes place, all the conversations you know, from

1532
01:17:36,040 --> 01:17:39,400
Speaker 3: within the organization and and all of that kind of stuff.

1533
01:17:40,280 --> 01:17:43,920
Speaker 3: So it just, uh, you know, it was just for

1534
01:17:43,960 --> 01:17:46,639
Speaker 3: it to happen. I think, uh just blew us all away.

1535
01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:50,200
Speaker 2: We have a text from a sex Materia area code saying,

1536
01:17:50,240 --> 01:17:52,679
Speaker 2: anytime you get the chance design a truly elite player

1537
01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:54,880
Speaker 2: in his prime, you do so we I'm to see

1538
01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:57,479
Speaker 2: the quality talent, but you have to pay for elite players.

1539
01:17:57,520 --> 01:18:00,439
Speaker 2: Billy g swinging for the fences here sends him message

1540
01:18:00,479 --> 01:18:02,439
Speaker 2: that the time is now, let's go.

1541
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:05,920
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that that makes complete sense now, and you

1542
01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:08,600
Speaker 3: look at it from Vancouver's point of view. You know

1543
01:18:08,640 --> 01:18:11,479
Speaker 3: a lot of people up there, you know I've read stuff.

1544
01:18:11,479 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 3: Well you know I didn't get much in return. You

1545
01:18:14,040 --> 01:18:16,600
Speaker 3: don't know what you got in return, because you have

1546
01:18:16,640 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 3: a bunch of young players, especially with well, well you

1547
01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:23,200
Speaker 3: know all three of them really. I mean, Marco is

1548
01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:27,320
Speaker 3: still very very young, and you know, he's proven what,

1549
01:18:28,320 --> 01:18:30,840
Speaker 3: you know, what he can do, and it's taken him

1550
01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:33,240
Speaker 3: a couple of years. But but you know, you know,

1551
01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:36,240
Speaker 3: his numbers don't lie. And then you know with Ogrin,

1552
01:18:36,920 --> 01:18:40,880
Speaker 3: the jury's still out on Zeve William obviously, the potential

1553
01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:46,240
Speaker 3: there is h you know, is you know, potentially really

1554
01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:50,439
Speaker 3: really good, but you don't know how that's going to

1555
01:18:50,479 --> 01:18:52,599
Speaker 3: be in two or three years. What type of players

1556
01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:54,160
Speaker 3: are they going to be in two or three years.

1557
01:18:54,400 --> 01:18:57,160
Speaker 3: They're going to get a draft pick that will probably

1558
01:18:57,280 --> 01:19:02,599
Speaker 3: be what anywhere from twenty seventh thirtieth in in in the.

1559
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:03,720
Speaker 4: First round next year.

1560
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:06,519
Speaker 3: But they do have a you know, they probably will

1561
01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:10,200
Speaker 3: get a very high draft pick with their own number one,

1562
01:19:10,360 --> 01:19:13,320
Speaker 3: So you know, do they package that you know, who

1563
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:15,960
Speaker 3: know who knows what what Vancouver is gonna do. But

1564
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:19,880
Speaker 3: the bottom line is what we know is Vancouver is

1565
01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:25,120
Speaker 3: nowhere near ready to contend for a Stanley Cup title, right,

1566
01:19:25,520 --> 01:19:29,400
Speaker 3: and so so it makes you know, I think it

1567
01:19:29,400 --> 01:19:30,320
Speaker 3: it was a trade.

1568
01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 4: That probably makes sense for both teams.

1569
01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:37,759
Speaker 2: So when asked about the the reactions from William Ogrin

1570
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:41,679
Speaker 2: and Rossi what their comments have been, I know, haven't

1571
01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:45,120
Speaker 2: heard anything, yeah, right, And I know ROSSI talked to

1572
01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:49,559
Speaker 2: Russo yesterday saying he's he's you know, it is what

1573
01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:53,320
Speaker 2: it is, yeah, saying that's business, that's part of it.

1574
01:19:54,200 --> 01:19:56,960
Speaker 2: We all play hockey, we all know what might happen.

1575
01:19:57,040 --> 01:19:59,439
Speaker 2: This is all his quote. But I'm really happy for

1576
01:19:59,439 --> 01:20:00,920
Speaker 2: everything minis so it has done for me. There are

1577
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 2: ups and downs, for sure, but I had a really

1578
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:05,320
Speaker 2: good time in Minnesota. And that's you know, it's the

1579
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:11,360
Speaker 2: business side of things, pat that uh you know obviously, Yeah, yeah,

1580
01:20:11,640 --> 01:20:13,480
Speaker 2: it's it's always it's always tough.

1581
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 3: And and you know, and you have this you know

1582
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:21,160
Speaker 3: feeling of, you know, while not being wanted by the

1583
01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:22,759
Speaker 3: team that sent you away.

1584
01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 4: But then you have.

1585
01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:27,400
Speaker 3: To flip that over and say, wait a second, you know,

1586
01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:31,400
Speaker 3: the Vancouver Connects wanted me, right, And and even take

1587
01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:33,280
Speaker 3: a kid like Builliam.

1588
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:34,640
Speaker 4: He's a rookie.

1589
01:20:34,840 --> 01:20:38,680
Speaker 3: You know, he's a rookie, right, He's he's thrilled to

1590
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,000
Speaker 3: be in the league, thrilled to play in the in

1591
01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:44,200
Speaker 3: the best league in the in the world, and and

1592
01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 3: he's just getting off in his career, right, just starting off.

1593
01:20:49,840 --> 01:20:54,080
Speaker 3: So you know, for a kid like him, you know, Okay,

1594
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:56,680
Speaker 3: I'm onto the next team and I'm gonna show him

1595
01:20:56,680 --> 01:21:00,000
Speaker 3: what I can do. And so you know, from that perspective,

1596
01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:03,719
Speaker 3: you know, I think I think everyone will be pretty happy.

1597
01:21:04,520 --> 01:21:11,840
Speaker 2: I just unbelievable, unbelievable day. See some other texts coming in, uh,

1598
01:21:12,040 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 2: carill Boldie Hughes, Faber Wall of Saint Paul. Do you

1599
01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:15,800
Speaker 2: like parades?

1600
01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:16,439
Speaker 13: Ye?

1601
01:21:17,240 --> 01:21:20,160
Speaker 4: And with the skatriots, boy, surely you know.

1602
01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:23,000
Speaker 3: And and and here's the thing, you know, you you

1603
01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:26,559
Speaker 3: listen there, if I were to ask you, you know

1604
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:31,560
Speaker 3: what teams are you know, I have a legitimate shot

1605
01:21:31,160 --> 01:21:34,080
Speaker 3: at winning the Stanley Cup. I mean, you know, there's

1606
01:21:34,120 --> 01:21:37,360
Speaker 3: probably eight or nine that think they can, right, but

1607
01:21:37,960 --> 01:21:41,320
Speaker 3: not everyone can win it, guys. So it's you know,

1608
01:21:41,680 --> 01:21:44,760
Speaker 3: sure there's a risk, but if you don't try, you're

1609
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:45,479
Speaker 3: never gonna win.

1610
01:21:46,160 --> 01:21:48,680
Speaker 2: And you know, you just see how they've played some

1611
01:21:48,760 --> 01:21:51,400
Speaker 2: of the top teams in the league, including Dallas and Colorado.

1612
01:21:51,439 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 2: They've kept up with them. And you know, all things considered,

1613
01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:56,960
Speaker 2: obviously without without Quinn Hughes, what.

1614
01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:01,719
Speaker 3: And Brett, what did I say last week? The roster,

1615
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:07,479
Speaker 3: the roster as it's put together right now, cannot win

1616
01:22:07,479 --> 01:22:09,360
Speaker 3: a Stanley Cup. But I did say that, and I

1617
01:22:09,400 --> 01:22:09,800
Speaker 3: and I.

1618
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:11,680
Speaker 4: Truly, I truly believe it.

1619
01:22:13,160 --> 01:22:16,599
Speaker 3: Well, well now now now it's a little different story,

1620
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:20,920
Speaker 3: isn't it. You know, because you know how at least

1621
01:22:20,920 --> 01:22:23,800
Speaker 3: for me, how important it is special teams are in

1622
01:22:23,840 --> 01:22:27,720
Speaker 3: the playoffs. And and that's you know, obviously killing penalties

1623
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:30,400
Speaker 3: and your power play. You need that power play goal,

1624
01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:32,360
Speaker 3: you know, to maybe get you over the edge a

1625
01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:35,760
Speaker 3: little bit. And and so you know, certainly not to

1626
01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 3: say that they're going to win the Stanley Cup, but

1627
01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:40,639
Speaker 3: it just gives them, I think a little a little

1628
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 3: better chance because you know, as Michael pointed out, look

1629
01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:48,519
Speaker 3: at Dallas High skin it right, elite elite defenseman. Look

1630
01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:50,840
Speaker 3: at now, we don't even have to talk about Colorado.

1631
01:22:51,280 --> 01:22:53,000
Speaker 3: You know they have they have the best in in

1632
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:56,719
Speaker 3: Cale mccarr and so you know, they got macar McKinnon,

1633
01:22:56,760 --> 01:23:01,360
Speaker 3: we got Hughes, Caprice off right and so and Boldie

1634
01:23:01,400 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 3: and so you know, you you're giving yourself a chance.

1635
01:23:05,400 --> 01:23:08,320
Speaker 3: And then ultimately, what do you need the most going

1636
01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:09,760
Speaker 3: into the into the playoffs.

1637
01:23:09,960 --> 01:23:11,200
Speaker 4: You need good goaltending.

1638
01:23:11,680 --> 01:23:14,559
Speaker 3: Right now, Minnesota has two guys that are playing as

1639
01:23:14,600 --> 01:23:17,599
Speaker 3: well as anybody in the National Hockey League.

1640
01:23:17,600 --> 01:23:19,720
Speaker 4: And so, you know, and that's why.

1641
01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 3: I kind of think you look at it, and and

1642
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:24,599
Speaker 3: and and and Billy probably looked at his team and said,

1643
01:23:24,640 --> 01:23:28,960
Speaker 3: you know what, you know, we're we're getting elite, elite goaltending.

1644
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:34,599
Speaker 3: We've got a brock favor favor back on defense as

1645
01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:38,240
Speaker 3: one of the elite defenseman defensive defensemen in the league.

1646
01:23:38,640 --> 01:23:40,720
Speaker 4: We've got Boldie, CAPRICEO.

1647
01:23:40,800 --> 01:23:43,799
Speaker 3: And and you know we got you know, those guys

1648
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:46,719
Speaker 3: are right up there as far.

1649
01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:49,400
Speaker 4: As you know scoring in the National Hockey League.

1650
01:23:49,439 --> 01:23:54,480
Speaker 3: So you know, I think a lot of other influences

1651
01:23:55,240 --> 01:23:56,640
Speaker 3: make this deal possible.

1652
01:23:58,280 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 2: We will have a abbreviate Brett Blakemore's breakaways when we

1653
01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:04,360
Speaker 2: come back. We still have at the top of the hour,

1654
01:24:04,479 --> 01:24:08,599
Speaker 2: Wild General Manager Bill Garon a press conference. That will

1655
01:24:08,640 --> 01:24:12,320
Speaker 2: be his first opportunity to really talk about this well,

1656
01:24:12,320 --> 01:24:14,920
Speaker 2: this massive trade, the biggest trade that any Wild GM

1657
01:24:14,960 --> 01:24:18,679
Speaker 2: has made in franchise history. Quinn Hughes coming to town.

1658
01:24:18,840 --> 01:24:21,880
Speaker 2: He'll make his debut with the Wild tomorrow. But before

1659
01:24:21,920 --> 01:24:24,160
Speaker 2: that game, we have another one to talk about as well,

1660
01:24:24,360 --> 01:24:27,760
Speaker 2: the Wild and Senators. We're playing puck drop a little

1661
01:24:27,760 --> 01:24:31,799
Speaker 2: after one right here on the fan again. Big news,

1662
01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:35,120
Speaker 2: big day, big opportunity to share your thoughts as well.

1663
01:24:35,120 --> 01:24:38,240
Speaker 2: Six four six eighty six, Keep the text coming. He's

1664
01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:40,880
Speaker 2: Pat Mcaletty, I'm Zach Calverson. You are tuned in to

1665
01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:44,840
Speaker 2: be on the pond on the Fan's time for Brett

1666
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:48,200
Speaker 2: blake foroth breakaway.

1667
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:52,000
Speaker 4: Caprice.

1668
01:24:56,320 --> 01:25:02,240
Speaker 5: And now Blakemore Breakaway.

1669
01:25:01,080 --> 01:25:03,960
Speaker 11: Welcome Back Beyond the Pond and the Halvey That is

1670
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:07,519
Speaker 11: still one of my favorite opens on the fan, so

1671
01:25:07,560 --> 01:25:08,519
Speaker 11: I appreciate you doing that.

1672
01:25:08,680 --> 01:25:11,320
Speaker 2: All I did was voice it. The production in the

1673
01:25:11,479 --> 01:25:16,040
Speaker 2: fancy work was done by Kevin Falness, who we remember

1674
01:25:16,479 --> 01:25:19,040
Speaker 2: today and always.

1675
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:20,400
Speaker 11: In remembrance of Kevin Falness.

1676
01:25:20,439 --> 01:25:22,280
Speaker 2: What what a weekend to go to call rain?

1677
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:22,760
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1678
01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:25,200
Speaker 11: I know, you know you're there for twenty five years.

1679
01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:27,200
Speaker 11: You take one weekend off, the team makes a franchise

1680
01:25:27,240 --> 01:25:31,680
Speaker 11: altering trade, you know. Sorry, So speaking of we do

1681
01:25:31,760 --> 01:25:33,400
Speaker 11: have to get to a Bill garin presser the top

1682
01:25:33,400 --> 01:25:36,000
Speaker 11: of the hour. So you asked Pat how his kind

1683
01:25:36,040 --> 01:25:39,879
Speaker 11: of it got revealed to him. I was watching Christmas

1684
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:44,040
Speaker 11: with the Cranks, not by choice, and I get, yeah,

1685
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:48,240
Speaker 11: I think Santa Claus is better. I get two calls

1686
01:25:48,240 --> 01:25:52,160
Speaker 11: from a let's just say a large Long Island native,

1687
01:25:52,400 --> 01:25:55,160
Speaker 11: and I think that's weird. Get it back to back,

1688
01:25:55,240 --> 01:25:57,639
Speaker 11: and then I get another call from someone I haven't

1689
01:25:57,640 --> 01:26:01,120
Speaker 11: talked to since college. I'm like, something is awry, something

1690
01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:06,280
Speaker 11: is happening here. At the time, I was so stunned

1691
01:26:06,280 --> 01:26:08,719
Speaker 11: at the price that I wasn't really thinking about Quinn

1692
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:10,320
Speaker 11: Hughes and what he could do for the Wild and

1693
01:26:10,360 --> 01:26:13,200
Speaker 11: that first original tweet was like, boy, they gave up

1694
01:26:13,240 --> 01:26:15,640
Speaker 11: so much. I think my opinion has evolved now to

1695
01:26:15,680 --> 01:26:18,040
Speaker 11: the point where I'm just fired up to see this team.

1696
01:26:18,520 --> 01:26:20,960
Speaker 11: Is there an excitement? I mean, where is this stack

1697
01:26:21,080 --> 01:26:23,920
Speaker 11: for you guys? As far as like parising Suitor, we

1698
01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:26,719
Speaker 11: were fired up about Coroll caprice Off. I was watching

1699
01:26:26,800 --> 01:26:29,960
Speaker 11: blurry KHL highlights of caprice Off for years before he came.

1700
01:26:30,840 --> 01:26:32,559
Speaker 11: I think this is ranks right up there as far

1701
01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:34,479
Speaker 11: as excitement factor, isn't you Pat?

1702
01:26:34,640 --> 01:26:39,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I absolutely think the excitement is off the charts.

1703
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:45,360
Speaker 3: And I will say this, I don't think I'll go

1704
01:26:45,439 --> 01:26:48,440
Speaker 3: I'll go back to what I said to where this roster.

1705
01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:52,320
Speaker 4: It was was because.

1706
01:26:52,000 --> 01:26:56,160
Speaker 3: It no longer is to where it is now and

1707
01:26:57,479 --> 01:27:02,439
Speaker 3: the opportunity to make a splash with the players that

1708
01:27:02,520 --> 01:27:08,519
Speaker 3: they have that are in their prime or in that window.

1709
01:27:08,960 --> 01:27:13,360
Speaker 3: And so I think for that reason I didn't think

1710
01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:14,240
Speaker 3: it was too much.

1711
01:27:15,080 --> 01:27:15,920
Speaker 4: Does that make sense?

1712
01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:19,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, Halvey, Well, you know what, I'm gonna be honest

1713
01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:22,920
Speaker 2: with you. I got a call from Joe Donald figuring

1714
01:27:22,920 --> 01:27:26,040
Speaker 2: things out. Miss the question, but I'll agree with everything

1715
01:27:26,040 --> 01:27:27,240
Speaker 2: that Pat just said.

1716
01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:29,200
Speaker 4: You should should down on it.

1717
01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:31,760
Speaker 11: He will right as always. Well, I'll ask you the

1718
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:35,599
Speaker 11: next question. I asked Russo and I wanted to get

1719
01:27:35,600 --> 01:27:38,840
Speaker 11: your thought. Do you think the extension is needed for

1720
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:40,760
Speaker 11: this to be a successful move or if they just

1721
01:27:40,760 --> 01:27:42,519
Speaker 11: make a run in the playoffs, Well, it's a year

1722
01:27:42,520 --> 01:27:44,240
Speaker 11: and a half and we'll take it. We took a swing.

1723
01:27:44,479 --> 01:27:46,120
Speaker 11: Or do we have to sign to an extension for

1724
01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:47,560
Speaker 11: this to be a successful.

1725
01:27:47,040 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 2: Move woll Stanley Cup. Yes, at least a couple more years. Yes,

1726
01:27:53,360 --> 01:27:55,639
Speaker 2: if they don't get the extension, it really depends on

1727
01:27:56,120 --> 01:27:57,960
Speaker 2: the return if they can get rid of them. If

1728
01:27:57,960 --> 01:28:01,280
Speaker 2: it's to me, it's it's tough because I was a

1729
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:04,400
Speaker 2: big big Z fan. He had probably I think his

1730
01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:07,360
Speaker 2: best game the other night right here in Saint Paul.

1731
01:28:08,160 --> 01:28:12,120
Speaker 2: So tough to lose him. But I think there's plenty

1732
01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:14,240
Speaker 2: of routes here where this trade is is more than

1733
01:28:14,280 --> 01:28:14,640
Speaker 2: worth it.

1734
01:28:14,760 --> 01:28:15,439
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be.

1735
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:20,240
Speaker 3: I don't know if naive or stupid or whatever, I'm

1736
01:28:20,439 --> 01:28:24,679
Speaker 3: I don't even want to think about that part. I'm

1737
01:28:24,720 --> 01:28:27,800
Speaker 3: thinking about the now they got him, let's see what

1738
01:28:27,840 --> 01:28:30,400
Speaker 3: they what, you know, how far they can go with them?

1739
01:28:30,840 --> 01:28:33,400
Speaker 3: And but Ultimately, if you want me to answer the

1740
01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:38,240
Speaker 3: question the return for him, You're never gonna get the

1741
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:41,599
Speaker 3: return of a superstar. Right Let's say if they would

1742
01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:44,760
Speaker 3: have lost, if they would have traded Capri Soot, they're

1743
01:28:44,800 --> 01:28:48,080
Speaker 3: not going to get the return now, well are you?

1744
01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:52,880
Speaker 3: And you're probably not going to get a return that

1745
01:28:53,080 --> 01:28:58,040
Speaker 3: is to your one hundred percent liking if you have

1746
01:28:58,160 --> 01:29:00,880
Speaker 3: to move him. But I'm not to worry about that

1747
01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:01,400
Speaker 3: right now.

1748
01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:04,040
Speaker 11: I'm gonna squeeze one more in before he gets to

1749
01:29:04,080 --> 01:29:06,040
Speaker 11: Bill Garren's presser, because I got this text and I

1750
01:29:06,040 --> 01:29:09,559
Speaker 11: wanted to read it. People just can't have fun. People

1751
01:29:09,600 --> 01:29:12,759
Speaker 11: just can't be happy. Seven to six to three. Guy says, guys,

1752
01:29:13,400 --> 01:29:17,040
Speaker 11: they still need to get bigger. All Stanley Cup contenders

1753
01:29:17,080 --> 01:29:20,799
Speaker 11: had players like Keith Kachuk, cam Neely, et cetera. Players

1754
01:29:20,840 --> 01:29:24,160
Speaker 11: who are tough like Felino but are also scorers. The

1755
01:29:24,200 --> 01:29:27,000
Speaker 11: Wild have never had that kind of player that in

1756
01:29:27,080 --> 01:29:29,840
Speaker 11: all caps is why they're never They've never been to

1757
01:29:29,880 --> 01:29:32,040
Speaker 11: a final. And then he goes on to say, I'll

1758
01:29:32,080 --> 01:29:35,000
Speaker 11: be texting you again after the first round exit. First

1759
01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:39,439
Speaker 11: of all, have fun in life. You seem miserable. Second

1760
01:29:39,439 --> 01:29:42,720
Speaker 11: of all, I disagree with the premise entirely that the

1761
01:29:42,800 --> 01:29:45,640
Speaker 11: big thing keeping the Wild from making a run is

1762
01:29:45,760 --> 01:29:48,160
Speaker 11: just size, because I feel like they've had grinders and

1763
01:29:48,240 --> 01:29:50,759
Speaker 11: size for twenty five years, and they've had grit players.

1764
01:29:51,120 --> 01:29:53,720
Speaker 11: I've always said that they need more depth scoring, and

1765
01:29:53,880 --> 01:29:56,640
Speaker 11: even though he's a defenseman, Quinn Hughes brings that and

1766
01:29:56,680 --> 01:29:59,720
Speaker 11: then somebody makes everyone else better around him. So yeah,

1767
01:29:59,720 --> 01:30:01,240
Speaker 11: I think thing to add on. I think they need

1768
01:30:01,280 --> 01:30:03,640
Speaker 11: another forward. I'm not saying they should be done, but

1769
01:30:04,080 --> 01:30:06,240
Speaker 11: can't we just enjoy anything? Why do we have to

1770
01:30:06,320 --> 01:30:08,719
Speaker 11: have this this old school we're talking about Keith.

1771
01:30:09,400 --> 01:30:14,040
Speaker 2: For God's sake, Brett, thank you so much. We have

1772
01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:15,840
Speaker 2: to get a break in here before we head to

1773
01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:19,880
Speaker 2: the press room with Bill garon the Wild General manager.

1774
01:30:20,040 --> 01:30:23,320
Speaker 2: The press conference, Bill garn discusses the Quinn Hughes trade.

1775
01:30:23,360 --> 01:30:25,439
Speaker 2: When we come back, it's beyond the pond on the

1776
01:30:25,439 --> 01:30:46,760
Speaker 2: fan extended beyond the pond today. Normally we're already done

1777
01:30:46,760 --> 01:30:51,479
Speaker 2: and Pat mcletty has has gone his ways to do

1778
01:30:51,560 --> 01:30:54,280
Speaker 2: whatever he wants to do. On a beautiful Saturday, that

1779
01:30:54,400 --> 01:30:57,400
Speaker 2: really beautiful Saturday afternoon, Brett, I don't know, it's frigid,

1780
01:30:57,680 --> 01:31:00,719
Speaker 2: it's very cold, very cold Bill garn should be taking

1781
01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:03,360
Speaker 2: the podium at any moment. We will have that for

1782
01:31:03,439 --> 01:31:06,720
Speaker 2: you right here on Kfan. We are listening in. And

1783
01:31:06,760 --> 01:31:08,880
Speaker 2: of course you never know when these guys actually go

1784
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:10,559
Speaker 2: up there, so it could be now, it could be

1785
01:31:10,680 --> 01:31:13,439
Speaker 2: five minutes from now, and then Joe Donald and Tom

1786
01:31:13,479 --> 01:31:17,439
Speaker 2: Reid will join us after the presser to react to that.

1787
01:31:17,560 --> 01:31:20,240
Speaker 2: Also get a set for again. It's it's crazy, there's

1788
01:31:20,000 --> 01:31:24,720
Speaker 2: a game today, Wild Senators at one. The timing of

1789
01:31:24,760 --> 01:31:27,840
Speaker 2: this trade, you know, you can't really control that necessarily,

1790
01:31:27,880 --> 01:31:30,880
Speaker 2: and that's just how this it goes. And then of

1791
01:31:30,880 --> 01:31:33,799
Speaker 2: course the while play again tomorrow they host the Boston Bruins,

1792
01:31:34,120 --> 01:31:37,040
Speaker 2: so the nice thing is they're home and so that's

1793
01:31:37,200 --> 01:31:40,200
Speaker 2: definitely a much friendlier way of welcoming in a new

1794
01:31:40,240 --> 01:31:43,719
Speaker 2: teammate and Quinn Hughes. But I'm interested to see Britt.

1795
01:31:43,960 --> 01:31:46,880
Speaker 2: Maybe you can talk. Oh here he is actually well

1796
01:31:46,880 --> 01:31:51,640
Speaker 2: that's Aaron Sickman. Oh come on, erin, Billy will be

1797
01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:54,200
Speaker 2: here momentarily, he says, So, okay, do you have a

1798
01:31:54,240 --> 01:31:56,800
Speaker 2: moment here to talk? What do you expect from the

1799
01:31:56,840 --> 01:32:00,439
Speaker 2: Wild today? With about as big of a distres as

1800
01:32:00,439 --> 01:32:03,479
Speaker 2: he could possibly have and a good distraction in the

1801
01:32:03,520 --> 01:32:05,360
Speaker 2: last but still a distraction. It is.

1802
01:32:06,640 --> 01:32:08,600
Speaker 11: It almost feels like the game is a footnote, you

1803
01:32:08,680 --> 01:32:10,160
Speaker 11: know what I mean, like, oh, yeah, that's right. They

1804
01:32:10,160 --> 01:32:12,400
Speaker 11: play today. You know, we want to talk about this.

1805
01:32:12,439 --> 01:32:14,720
Speaker 11: I mean, Bill Garrett's having a press conference. We're going

1806
01:32:14,760 --> 01:32:16,719
Speaker 11: to carry live and I guarantee you there's not gonna

1807
01:32:16,720 --> 01:32:18,840
Speaker 11: be a question what do you see from Ottawa? I mean,

1808
01:32:18,880 --> 01:32:21,519
Speaker 11: that's gonna be the deal. I mean, I expect a

1809
01:32:21,520 --> 01:32:25,120
Speaker 11: good performance. If anything, If we judge from one of

1810
01:32:25,200 --> 01:32:29,280
Speaker 11: Russo's comments, which will be podcastable later, is that he

1811
01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:31,760
Speaker 11: texted a couple of players off the record and they,

1812
01:32:31,960 --> 01:32:34,479
Speaker 11: you know, fire emojis and can't believe it, what the

1813
01:32:34,479 --> 01:32:38,360
Speaker 11: hell emojis. So the players, certainly who are left that is,

1814
01:32:38,920 --> 01:32:41,479
Speaker 11: are fired up about it, and hopefully it's a big

1815
01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:43,920
Speaker 11: jolt for the team. I think the biggest thing though,

1816
01:32:43,920 --> 01:32:46,880
Speaker 11: out of all everything that Russo talked about was the

1817
01:32:46,920 --> 01:32:49,040
Speaker 11: fact that, you know, we got a text earlier when

1818
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:51,760
Speaker 11: I first mentioned that I wasn't optimistic that they would

1819
01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:54,519
Speaker 11: re sign him. I thought, you know, it's the new

1820
01:32:54,600 --> 01:32:56,439
Speaker 11: Jersey thing and his brother thing is going to be

1821
01:32:56,479 --> 01:32:58,320
Speaker 11: a real deal and something that's going to hang over

1822
01:32:58,439 --> 01:33:01,000
Speaker 11: the franchise for the next year in chain not so fast,

1823
01:33:01,080 --> 01:33:04,439
Speaker 11: my like, not a guarantee, but it seems like he's

1824
01:33:04,479 --> 01:33:06,439
Speaker 11: open to it and excited to be here. And that

1825
01:33:06,600 --> 01:33:09,080
Speaker 11: was more than what I was expecting. So I'm kind

1826
01:33:09,080 --> 01:33:11,280
Speaker 11: of fired up for that. But I hope it boosts

1827
01:33:11,280 --> 01:33:14,320
Speaker 11: the team. To answer your question going into this Ottawa

1828
01:33:14,320 --> 01:33:16,280
Speaker 11: matchup today at Green Sino Arena.

1829
01:33:16,680 --> 01:33:19,439
Speaker 2: It's just awesome to have have a presser like this

1830
01:33:19,560 --> 01:33:23,519
Speaker 2: and have something be this meaningful and be this big,

1831
01:33:23,560 --> 01:33:26,479
Speaker 2: and the eyes of the world, at least the hockey

1832
01:33:26,479 --> 01:33:30,799
Speaker 2: world upon Minnesota right now watching the Wild very closely.

1833
01:33:30,880 --> 01:33:32,320
Speaker 6: Now. I mean, we are already.

1834
01:33:32,040 --> 01:33:35,639
Speaker 2: Sort of making a case at this point, but now

1835
01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:41,479
Speaker 2: we have Quinn Heughes, the newest Minnesota Wild defenseman, coming

1836
01:33:41,479 --> 01:33:45,640
Speaker 2: to town from Vancouver. I thought we were going to

1837
01:33:45,680 --> 01:33:47,320
Speaker 2: have Bill just kind of waiting.

1838
01:33:47,800 --> 01:33:50,360
Speaker 11: Just think about think about this while we wait. We

1839
01:33:50,439 --> 01:33:54,200
Speaker 11: have a top three forward in hockey, right some would

1840
01:33:54,360 --> 01:33:58,720
Speaker 11: I mean, there's McDavid, there's there's McKinnon, and then you

1841
01:33:58,720 --> 01:34:01,320
Speaker 11: can make Armic capriz ats right there. We've got a

1842
01:34:01,360 --> 01:34:05,559
Speaker 11: top two defenseman in hockey with mccarr and now Hughes,

1843
01:34:06,360 --> 01:34:08,600
Speaker 11: and we've got one of the best goalie tandems in

1844
01:34:08,680 --> 01:34:11,960
Speaker 11: hockey with the wall of Saint Paul and gusbus which

1845
01:34:12,000 --> 01:34:13,720
Speaker 11: I want to get your thoughts on eventually if we

1846
01:34:13,720 --> 01:34:15,560
Speaker 11: still need to tap dance as far as who do

1847
01:34:15,560 --> 01:34:18,400
Speaker 11: you prefer and who started Game one of the playoffs.

1848
01:34:17,960 --> 01:34:22,760
Speaker 4: Because I think it's Wolsted, let's play, let's go.

1849
01:34:22,920 --> 01:34:23,280
Speaker 2: Why not?

1850
01:34:23,439 --> 01:34:24,439
Speaker 11: I mean, we've got it all.

1851
01:34:24,640 --> 01:34:26,160
Speaker 2: I do want to add too. I'm excited about this

1852
01:34:26,200 --> 01:34:29,240
Speaker 2: presser because, as you know Bill Garin, he says what

1853
01:34:29,320 --> 01:34:31,519
Speaker 2: he is on his mind. He does not I mean,

1854
01:34:31,560 --> 01:34:34,080
Speaker 2: he keeps the important cards close to his chest, but

1855
01:34:34,120 --> 01:34:37,439
Speaker 2: he's very open with with the media and by extension

1856
01:34:37,439 --> 01:34:40,080
Speaker 2: of fans. So we're going to have one of the

1857
01:34:40,120 --> 01:34:42,479
Speaker 2: biggest trades in Wild history, certainly one of the biggest

1858
01:34:42,479 --> 01:34:45,840
Speaker 2: trades really in the league in a long, long time.

1859
01:34:47,400 --> 01:34:49,160
Speaker 2: It's going to be interesting to have an in the

1860
01:34:49,200 --> 01:34:53,000
Speaker 2: insight of a GM like Bill and hear his thoughts

1861
01:34:53,040 --> 01:34:55,040
Speaker 2: because a lot of other guys, you know, would be very,

1862
01:34:55,560 --> 01:34:58,200
Speaker 2: you know, very short winded. He's going to be very

1863
01:34:58,240 --> 01:35:01,400
Speaker 2: long winded. I think here in press conference, here we go,

1864
01:35:01,800 --> 01:35:05,360
Speaker 2: Wild General Manager and President of Hockey Operations, Bill Garin

1865
01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:06,879
Speaker 2: at the podium now.

1866
01:35:12,000 --> 01:35:15,840
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's uh, it was a it was a good

1867
01:35:15,920 --> 01:35:16,599
Speaker 13: night last night.

1868
01:35:18,800 --> 01:35:19,000
Speaker 4: Uh.

1869
01:35:19,560 --> 01:35:21,880
Speaker 6: Bringing a player like Quinn Hughes here.

1870
01:35:22,240 --> 01:35:27,960
Speaker 13: Uh, you just don't get these opportunities all that often,

1871
01:35:30,520 --> 01:35:35,919
Speaker 13: you know, Marco rossi Z, William Liam Ogrin all great kids,

1872
01:35:36,360 --> 01:35:40,200
Speaker 13: great players with bright futures.

1873
01:35:40,240 --> 01:35:43,360
Speaker 6: Definitely hard to uh.

1874
01:35:45,360 --> 01:35:48,519
Speaker 13: Hard to part with guys that you draft, develop, you

1875
01:35:48,560 --> 01:35:51,080
Speaker 13: spend time with, you get to know them and their families.

1876
01:35:52,800 --> 01:35:56,200
Speaker 13: But like I said, when when a player of Quinn's

1877
01:35:56,280 --> 01:36:02,400
Speaker 13: caliber comes available and you have an opportunity to get him, uh,

1878
01:36:03,400 --> 01:36:06,120
Speaker 13: you know, there's a cost to it. And uh you

1879
01:36:06,160 --> 01:36:09,040
Speaker 13: know we were we were willing to to do what

1880
01:36:09,080 --> 01:36:09,679
Speaker 13: it takes.

1881
01:36:09,960 --> 01:36:12,559
Speaker 14: Rutherford said, you brought this idea to him probably five

1882
01:36:12,680 --> 01:36:13,519
Speaker 14: just seven days ago.

1883
01:36:13,680 --> 01:36:14,519
Speaker 5: Is is that accurate?

1884
01:36:14,560 --> 01:36:15,000
Speaker 12: And why that?

1885
01:36:15,760 --> 01:36:19,320
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1886
01:36:19,400 --> 01:36:23,679
Speaker 13: Yeah, I was actually flying home from a scouting trip

1887
01:36:24,840 --> 01:36:25,599
Speaker 13: a week ago.

1888
01:36:28,920 --> 01:36:30,879
Speaker 6: What's today today? Saturday?

1889
01:36:30,960 --> 01:36:35,839
Speaker 13: Yeah, uh so yeah, a week ago and or Monday,

1890
01:36:36,400 --> 01:36:41,400
Speaker 13: week ago Monday, and uh yeah I just called Jim

1891
01:36:41,439 --> 01:36:45,439
Speaker 13: and just uh we you know, obviously Jim and I

1892
01:36:45,479 --> 01:36:49,519
Speaker 13: have a relationship, and uh we we chatted about it,

1893
01:36:49,560 --> 01:36:54,320
Speaker 13: and he told me what what they wanted to try

1894
01:36:54,320 --> 01:36:57,560
Speaker 13: and accomplish with with the move, and I felt we

1895
01:36:57,600 --> 01:37:01,599
Speaker 13: could satisfy their their needs and and and we did.

1896
01:37:01,840 --> 01:37:04,960
Speaker 13: And uh, that's why it's great. You know, Jim and

1897
01:37:05,320 --> 01:37:09,200
Speaker 13: Patrick are friends, guys that I've worked with in the past.

1898
01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:12,240
Speaker 13: I know how they I know how they deal with

1899
01:37:12,439 --> 01:37:14,439
Speaker 13: situations like this, and they get right to the point.

1900
01:37:15,400 --> 01:37:20,240
Speaker 13: And I think that's why it worked worked so well, just.

1901
01:37:20,320 --> 01:37:22,439
Speaker 8: Putting the package together real or just how'd you get

1902
01:37:22,479 --> 01:37:24,720
Speaker 8: to the finish line? And it sounds like Quinn had

1903
01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:26,880
Speaker 8: some involvement or was aware.

1904
01:37:27,600 --> 01:37:31,160
Speaker 13: Yeah, from what from what Jim tells me, you know, obviously,

1905
01:37:31,360 --> 01:37:36,120
Speaker 13: Like listen, when you're dealing with players of this caliber,

1906
01:37:36,240 --> 01:37:38,920
Speaker 13: guys that are guys that have done so much for

1907
01:37:39,160 --> 01:37:45,679
Speaker 13: your organization, you know, I think, And that's that's why

1908
01:37:45,680 --> 01:37:49,040
Speaker 13: I love Jim. Like you, you want to do right

1909
01:37:49,080 --> 01:37:51,360
Speaker 13: by the player as well, but you have to accomplish

1910
01:37:51,600 --> 01:37:56,640
Speaker 13: The first thing is accomplishing what you need for the team.

1911
01:37:57,160 --> 01:37:59,640
Speaker 13: But then there is a human element to it. And

1912
01:37:59,840 --> 01:38:04,320
Speaker 13: I think we satisfied you know, both parties everything in

1913
01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:04,920
Speaker 13: in that.

1914
01:38:05,760 --> 01:38:08,200
Speaker 8: Did you get any assurance Bill that he would resign?

1915
01:38:08,240 --> 01:38:10,320
Speaker 8: And how does that factor into putting a trade together?

1916
01:38:12,680 --> 01:38:16,240
Speaker 13: Listen, you can't you can't make promises like you know,

1917
01:38:16,320 --> 01:38:20,120
Speaker 13: and after the deal done, talking to Quinn and Quinn's

1918
01:38:20,160 --> 01:38:28,120
Speaker 13: agent like you, but I think I think Quinn will

1919
01:38:28,160 --> 01:38:32,080
Speaker 13: really like it here. I think this is he's a

1920
01:38:32,120 --> 01:38:35,760
Speaker 13: hockey nut, Like he watches every game, he knows what's

1921
01:38:35,800 --> 01:38:37,519
Speaker 13: going on in the league, you know, getting to know

1922
01:38:37,640 --> 01:38:39,080
Speaker 13: him through the Four Nations process.

1923
01:38:41,640 --> 01:38:43,880
Speaker 6: Uh, he just loves hockey.

1924
01:38:43,920 --> 01:38:48,680
Speaker 13: And I think there's obviously no better market than Minnesota

1925
01:38:49,439 --> 01:38:53,240
Speaker 13: to be a hockey player. And uh, you know, I

1926
01:38:53,439 --> 01:38:56,200
Speaker 13: I believe in our our team and our culture and

1927
01:38:56,240 --> 01:39:00,200
Speaker 13: our organization and our our market, our fans are or

1928
01:39:00,840 --> 01:39:04,920
Speaker 13: the I mean, hockey's in the fabric here. And I

1929
01:39:04,960 --> 01:39:06,000
Speaker 13: think he'll really like it.

1930
01:39:06,160 --> 01:39:07,040
Speaker 12: You've already shown him.

1931
01:39:07,040 --> 01:39:09,440
Speaker 14: It seems enough though, for him to not have completely

1932
01:39:09,680 --> 01:39:12,000
Speaker 14: vetoed the idea, right, I mean, how proud are you

1933
01:39:12,360 --> 01:39:14,320
Speaker 14: of that that this was a place that he's like, yeah,

1934
01:39:14,360 --> 01:39:15,120
Speaker 14: you know, let's give and go.

1935
01:39:15,479 --> 01:39:19,080
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm very proud of Look. I love Minnesota, our

1936
01:39:19,120 --> 01:39:23,719
Speaker 13: players love Minnesota. This is a great place to play.

1937
01:39:24,560 --> 01:39:32,880
Speaker 13: But no matter what, whether you have good weather, good taxes, good,

1938
01:39:33,320 --> 01:39:37,920
Speaker 13: I don't know, whatever, hockey has to be good. The

1939
01:39:37,960 --> 01:39:41,040
Speaker 13: hockey has to be You can make, you can live

1940
01:39:41,080 --> 01:39:44,120
Speaker 13: in the sun, you can you know, live in these

1941
01:39:44,160 --> 01:39:46,640
Speaker 13: great places or make a little more money. But if

1942
01:39:46,680 --> 01:39:51,479
Speaker 13: the hockey's not good, you won't be happy. So that's

1943
01:39:51,479 --> 01:39:53,840
Speaker 13: what really matters. If the hockey is good, if your

1944
01:39:53,920 --> 01:39:59,080
Speaker 13: job is good, you will be happy. And I think

1945
01:39:59,120 --> 01:40:01,120
Speaker 13: when will be really happy here here?

1946
01:40:01,479 --> 01:40:01,880
Speaker 8: Just yet?

1947
01:40:02,120 --> 01:40:05,960
Speaker 13: Or no, we're gonna uh Chris Kellagher and I are

1948
01:40:05,960 --> 01:40:10,519
Speaker 13: gonna fly out and get him and uh bring him back.

1949
01:40:10,560 --> 01:40:12,840
Speaker 6: He'll be in the lineup tomorrow. Help with that.

1950
01:40:13,320 --> 01:40:14,280
Speaker 12: Selling him on Minnesota.

1951
01:40:14,280 --> 01:40:15,880
Speaker 2: That's gonna be blizera when he gets here.

1952
01:40:16,240 --> 01:40:17,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a big time.

1953
01:40:18,720 --> 01:40:22,760
Speaker 13: He's gonna skate on one of the lakes tonight just to loosen.

1954
01:40:22,520 --> 01:40:27,439
Speaker 12: Up the game. Though, I'm gonna go right now, will

1955
01:40:27,479 --> 01:40:28,080
Speaker 12: you start.

1956
01:40:27,880 --> 01:40:30,599
Speaker 6: With that's up to John.

1957
01:40:31,240 --> 01:40:35,400
Speaker 15: Yeah, the summer you have some flexibility cap wives to

1958
01:40:35,479 --> 01:40:38,120
Speaker 15: go after some big players. And during the season, like

1959
01:40:38,120 --> 01:40:39,559
Speaker 15: how much was like something like I don't know if

1960
01:40:39,560 --> 01:40:41,320
Speaker 15: this player was in mind, I guess, but like how much?

1961
01:40:41,360 --> 01:40:43,200
Speaker 15: Is that just a reflection of what you were talking

1962
01:40:43,240 --> 01:40:46,400
Speaker 15: about that have the opportunities to have something like this, Yeah, it's.

1963
01:40:46,280 --> 01:40:48,479
Speaker 13: Just it was it's like I said, this summer like

1964
01:40:50,479 --> 01:40:55,400
Speaker 13: we didn't make any you know. Uh, Well, according to

1965
01:40:55,439 --> 01:40:59,760
Speaker 13: you guys, we didn't do anything this summer, but you

1966
01:40:59,760 --> 01:41:02,280
Speaker 13: know what, it's nice to be in the game, you know,

1967
01:41:02,360 --> 01:41:04,320
Speaker 13: and we weren't able to do this for the past

1968
01:41:04,360 --> 01:41:07,280
Speaker 13: four years, so it was it was nice to just

1969
01:41:07,360 --> 01:41:10,200
Speaker 13: to you know, you throw your hat in the ring

1970
01:41:10,280 --> 01:41:12,280
Speaker 13: and put your best foot forward and and.

1971
01:41:13,800 --> 01:41:16,400
Speaker 6: Like I said, it's nice to be in the game.

1972
01:41:16,680 --> 01:41:18,559
Speaker 15: With the way the pre agency goes now with Celler

1973
01:41:18,560 --> 01:41:20,680
Speaker 15: cap point, everybody has money, I guess, like how much

1974
01:41:20,800 --> 01:41:22,519
Speaker 15: art Just this is the way to get these kind

1975
01:41:22,560 --> 01:41:25,960
Speaker 15: of special players. Is a trade versus like waiting for

1976
01:41:26,080 --> 01:41:28,080
Speaker 15: July or something like that, you know, to get something

1977
01:41:28,160 --> 01:41:28,679
Speaker 15: like this bug.

1978
01:41:28,920 --> 01:41:34,040
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean it's it's definitely one way, uh, you know,

1979
01:41:34,120 --> 01:41:37,360
Speaker 13: with the with the cap going up the way it is, uh,

1980
01:41:37,720 --> 01:41:41,840
Speaker 13: you know, it's definitely made it more realistic for teams

1981
01:41:41,840 --> 01:41:44,599
Speaker 13: to sign their own players and makes it a little

1982
01:41:44,640 --> 01:41:47,439
Speaker 13: more difficult, uh.

1983
01:41:48,880 --> 01:41:49,799
Speaker 6: Free agent wise.

1984
01:41:50,720 --> 01:41:54,040
Speaker 13: So when, like I said, when when a player this

1985
01:41:54,479 --> 01:41:57,679
Speaker 13: caliber becomes available and you can get in the game

1986
01:42:01,439 --> 01:42:05,599
Speaker 13: and you're serious, it's just it's it's good to be involved.

1987
01:42:06,000 --> 01:42:08,840
Speaker 8: What does this say just about the Stanley Cup potential

1988
01:42:09,040 --> 01:42:11,280
Speaker 8: in the window for the team of the message that

1989
01:42:11,360 --> 01:42:14,160
Speaker 8: it sends and just how much in mind knowing you're

1990
01:42:14,200 --> 01:42:16,240
Speaker 8: going to have to compete against the likes of Colorado

1991
01:42:16,360 --> 01:42:18,720
Speaker 8: Dallas and how much does that factor into But just

1992
01:42:18,720 --> 01:42:20,599
Speaker 8: what you believe the team's potential is now?

1993
01:42:20,920 --> 01:42:24,200
Speaker 13: Well, I mean I've always said I believe in our players,

1994
01:42:24,200 --> 01:42:25,120
Speaker 13: I believe in this team.

1995
01:42:25,160 --> 01:42:28,559
Speaker 6: I believe in what we're doing here.

1996
01:42:29,560 --> 01:42:35,120
Speaker 13: And I think adding somebody like Quinn, uh, I think

1997
01:42:35,120 --> 01:42:40,320
Speaker 13: the guys are happy. And you know what, as for listen,

1998
01:42:40,400 --> 01:42:48,720
Speaker 13: we have an extremely competitive division. It's I mean, you're

1999
01:42:48,760 --> 01:42:52,120
Speaker 13: going through the meat grinder here and and you know,

2000
01:42:52,200 --> 01:42:55,760
Speaker 13: we respect our opponents and but we we we want

2001
01:42:55,760 --> 01:42:57,920
Speaker 13: to do our own thing too, and we want to

2002
01:42:57,960 --> 01:43:02,880
Speaker 13: be we want to compete for the Stanley Cup.

2003
01:43:04,400 --> 01:43:06,080
Speaker 12: While we're in Vancouver last week.

2004
01:43:06,080 --> 01:43:08,400
Speaker 15: Between that and you're scouting from Molanal, how much have

2005
01:43:08,479 --> 01:43:10,120
Speaker 15: you watched in the season.

2006
01:43:14,040 --> 01:43:17,800
Speaker 13: I haven't seen him play live, but I think I

2007
01:43:17,880 --> 01:43:20,519
Speaker 13: know enough about him. I think the whole world knows

2008
01:43:20,640 --> 01:43:23,760
Speaker 13: enough about him to understand what he is and who

2009
01:43:23,760 --> 01:43:31,719
Speaker 13: he is. And like I said, like he's a special player.

2010
01:43:31,920 --> 01:43:37,080
Speaker 13: And uh uh, these these opportunities don't present themselves all

2011
01:43:37,120 --> 01:43:41,880
Speaker 13: that often. But so we're we're we we feel, we

2012
01:43:41,920 --> 01:43:45,360
Speaker 13: feel fortunate and uh, I just I just love the

2013
01:43:45,400 --> 01:43:48,519
Speaker 13: way the deal went down because I really, I really

2014
01:43:48,560 --> 01:43:50,200
Speaker 13: think we got what we were looking for, and I

2015
01:43:50,200 --> 01:43:53,720
Speaker 13: think Vancouver got what they were looking for. They got

2016
01:43:53,720 --> 01:43:56,519
Speaker 13: three really good young players that are going to help

2017
01:43:57,800 --> 01:44:02,400
Speaker 13: build their team, and we got you.

2018
01:44:02,360 --> 01:44:05,919
Speaker 6: Know, uh, you know, franchise defenseman.

2019
01:44:07,800 --> 01:44:11,000
Speaker 13: Just talking to him, yeah, he's he's really excited. Yeah

2020
01:44:11,040 --> 01:44:14,519
Speaker 13: he's I mean, he's such a great kid. And like

2021
01:44:14,560 --> 01:44:18,679
Speaker 13: I said, we uh through the whole four Nations process

2022
01:44:18,760 --> 01:44:21,800
Speaker 13: last year with him kind of maybe being ready not

2023
01:44:21,920 --> 01:44:26,839
Speaker 13: we we talked uh almost every day through that process,

2024
01:44:26,840 --> 01:44:30,680
Speaker 13: so we got to know each other. And all he

2025
01:44:30,840 --> 01:44:33,599
Speaker 13: all he wants to do is is win and and

2026
01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:35,000
Speaker 13: and be a part of something special.

2027
01:44:35,560 --> 01:44:36,759
Speaker 6: So he's really excited.

2028
01:44:36,800 --> 01:44:42,600
Speaker 13: And I think we have a really unique bunch of

2029
01:44:42,680 --> 01:44:47,599
Speaker 13: guys in our locker room, and he will he'll see

2030
01:44:47,640 --> 01:44:53,400
Speaker 13: how how how we operate and how that group of

2031
01:44:53,439 --> 01:44:59,320
Speaker 13: guys operates, and you know, from the leadership from Spurge

2032
01:44:59,360 --> 01:45:03,519
Speaker 13: to to carill on down, it's a it's a really

2033
01:45:03,560 --> 01:45:05,680
Speaker 13: good bunch of guys and they play for each other,

2034
01:45:05,720 --> 01:45:07,680
Speaker 13: and I think that's what he's looking for.

2035
01:45:07,920 --> 01:45:09,400
Speaker 8: Do you think you are at the mid up the

2036
01:45:09,439 --> 01:45:11,840
Speaker 8: middle now Bill, and how much is this maybe also

2037
01:45:12,360 --> 01:45:13,000
Speaker 8: indicative of.

2038
01:45:13,040 --> 01:45:17,120
Speaker 13: Your off's growth so far of what Yeah, yeah, I mean,

2039
01:45:17,200 --> 01:45:24,400
Speaker 13: Danilla's really Danilla keeps getting better and better, and I

2040
01:45:24,439 --> 01:45:28,080
Speaker 13: think that's what really made it possible. I'm not worried

2041
01:45:28,120 --> 01:45:32,479
Speaker 13: about our center depth at all. You know, we we

2042
01:45:32,600 --> 01:45:36,479
Speaker 13: still have flexibility, so you know, who knows what we

2043
01:45:36,520 --> 01:45:40,760
Speaker 13: can do in the future. But yeah, I'm really comfortable

2044
01:45:40,760 --> 01:45:42,280
Speaker 13: with with where we are.

2045
01:45:42,800 --> 01:45:45,800
Speaker 14: So with Rossi's moving on, you're losing a little bit

2046
01:45:45,800 --> 01:45:47,760
Speaker 14: of that production that he brought. But just how much

2047
01:45:47,760 --> 01:45:50,519
Speaker 14: does Quinn Hughes really tilt the ice and bring it

2048
01:45:50,640 --> 01:45:51,040
Speaker 14: as well?

2049
01:45:51,120 --> 01:45:53,200
Speaker 13: Well? Like I said, that's why that's that's why this

2050
01:45:53,360 --> 01:45:56,439
Speaker 13: deal just works because you know what Marco.

2051
01:45:56,760 --> 01:45:58,160
Speaker 6: Marco is a big part of this team.

2052
01:45:58,200 --> 01:46:00,720
Speaker 13: You know, he could play with Zuoke and Carill, he

2053
01:46:00,760 --> 01:46:04,080
Speaker 13: could play with Moosse and Trenny. He could play anywhere

2054
01:46:04,200 --> 01:46:07,280
Speaker 13: up and down the lineup. He's a smart player. He produces.

2055
01:46:08,080 --> 01:46:11,880
Speaker 13: You know, sixty points last year is not easily replaced.

2056
01:46:11,880 --> 01:46:16,800
Speaker 13: But we're also adding a guy that has had a

2057
01:46:16,880 --> 01:46:21,320
Speaker 13: ninety point season as a defenseman, and you know, the

2058
01:46:21,320 --> 01:46:24,040
Speaker 13: the way he runs a power play, just the way

2059
01:46:24,080 --> 01:46:24,920
Speaker 13: he moves a puck, and.

2060
01:46:29,320 --> 01:46:31,800
Speaker 6: I think it's a win win this deal.

2061
01:46:31,800 --> 01:46:33,760
Speaker 15: I've been done without Ze as part of.

2062
01:46:33,760 --> 01:46:37,559
Speaker 13: It, and I don't think so. Yeah, I don't think so.

2063
01:46:37,800 --> 01:46:41,680
Speaker 13: And look, I love that kid. I mean, he's a

2064
01:46:41,720 --> 01:46:45,800
Speaker 13: special he's a special kid. He's a special human like I,

2065
01:46:45,840 --> 01:46:48,240
Speaker 13: you know, getting to know him and his family, and.

2066
01:46:51,280 --> 01:46:52,560
Speaker 6: You know, Vancouver.

2067
01:46:52,120 --> 01:46:59,120
Speaker 13: Got three really good, young quality guys, and you know,

2068
01:46:59,160 --> 01:47:03,240
Speaker 13: if Hughes wasn't available, they'd still be here. And I

2069
01:47:03,320 --> 01:47:08,679
Speaker 13: was totally fine with that. And but like I said before,

2070
01:47:08,720 --> 01:47:11,960
Speaker 13: you have to you have to give something to get something.

2071
01:47:12,360 --> 01:47:14,799
Speaker 16: Why do you feel like this was the right moment

2072
01:47:14,840 --> 01:47:16,879
Speaker 16: to kind of push all the chips in and acquire

2073
01:47:16,920 --> 01:47:17,880
Speaker 16: a guy like Hughes.

2074
01:47:18,960 --> 01:47:23,240
Speaker 6: Because it's because it's Quinn Hughes.

2075
01:47:24,439 --> 01:47:29,360
Speaker 13: And if you wait for the like I don't know

2076
01:47:29,400 --> 01:47:31,599
Speaker 13: what the right moment is, but if you wait for it,

2077
01:47:32,080 --> 01:47:32,840
Speaker 13: you're gonna miss it.

2078
01:47:34,160 --> 01:47:34,400
Speaker 6: You know.

2079
01:47:35,479 --> 01:47:37,040
Speaker 13: I don't know if the weather had to be warmer

2080
01:47:37,160 --> 01:47:42,840
Speaker 13: or something, or but no, there's the when it's a

2081
01:47:42,880 --> 01:47:45,040
Speaker 13: player of this caliber, the right time is always now.

2082
01:47:45,720 --> 01:47:47,320
Speaker 8: Bill. You talked about that in the past, Like you

2083
01:47:47,439 --> 01:47:49,479
Speaker 8: called it, it's just a feel to know when that

2084
01:47:49,560 --> 01:47:52,559
Speaker 8: right moment will come along. And just now, in hindsight,

2085
01:47:52,680 --> 01:47:55,200
Speaker 8: just how happy are you that you were patient and

2086
01:47:55,560 --> 01:47:57,519
Speaker 8: you know you didn't just you didn't try to go

2087
01:47:57,600 --> 01:47:59,840
Speaker 8: for this sooner because you probably wouldn't be in this

2088
01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:01,839
Speaker 8: position out if you tried to make this move.

2089
01:48:01,760 --> 01:48:02,800
Speaker 2: Two or three years ago.

2090
01:48:04,560 --> 01:48:09,000
Speaker 13: Yeah, I patience isn't always one of my strong suits.

2091
01:48:09,040 --> 01:48:17,600
Speaker 13: But yeah, maybe some things didn't work out. Uh, like

2092
01:48:17,680 --> 01:48:21,080
Speaker 13: other deals probably didn't work out, and it just yeah,

2093
01:48:21,080 --> 01:48:22,519
Speaker 13: it just fell into place Like I didn't.

2094
01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:23,519
Speaker 6: There was no.

2095
01:48:25,360 --> 01:48:27,360
Speaker 13: I didn't have this grand plan of like, oh I'm

2096
01:48:27,360 --> 01:48:30,120
Speaker 13: gonna wait three years and then bang, you know, I'll

2097
01:48:30,160 --> 01:48:33,240
Speaker 13: do it, you know, right before Christmas in twenty twenty five.

2098
01:48:33,360 --> 01:48:33,720
Speaker 6: No, it.

2099
01:48:37,560 --> 01:48:41,400
Speaker 13: Just became available, and like I said, we just wanted

2100
01:48:41,439 --> 01:48:43,200
Speaker 13: to be involved really the last.

2101
01:48:43,000 --> 01:48:45,639
Speaker 8: Week, like even at the beginning of the season, when

2102
01:48:45,760 --> 01:48:48,960
Speaker 8: his future became kind of unclear, not even in camp

2103
01:48:49,040 --> 01:48:49,400
Speaker 8: or anything.

2104
01:48:49,479 --> 01:48:53,280
Speaker 15: Yeah, what made you decide to give him a call

2105
01:48:53,320 --> 01:48:53,639
Speaker 15: that day?

2106
01:48:53,640 --> 01:48:54,720
Speaker 12: What was in the airport where I was.

2107
01:48:54,720 --> 01:48:56,479
Speaker 13: That you know, you know, when I was I was

2108
01:48:56,520 --> 01:49:01,040
Speaker 13: in New York and and and Matt Seals called me

2109
01:49:01,080 --> 01:49:04,240
Speaker 13: and he said, hey, you know this sounds kind of crazy,

2110
01:49:04,280 --> 01:49:05,479
Speaker 13: but maybe give Jim a call.

2111
01:49:08,400 --> 01:49:11,320
Speaker 6: And I I give Matt a lot of credit.

2112
01:49:11,000 --> 01:49:14,080
Speaker 13: With just you know, he pushes me, you know, so

2113
01:49:14,200 --> 01:49:16,880
Speaker 13: does Chris kell Heer and Mike Murray. They pushed me.

2114
01:49:17,960 --> 01:49:20,120
Speaker 13: And but Matt made the call and he's like, this

2115
01:49:20,280 --> 01:49:25,799
Speaker 13: might sound nuts, but maybe make the call. And I did.

2116
01:49:27,600 --> 01:49:28,680
Speaker 15: What was it Christmas in July?

2117
01:49:28,840 --> 01:49:31,040
Speaker 12: It's Christmas and Christmas and Christmas?

2118
01:49:32,720 --> 01:49:35,439
Speaker 8: Yea confident bill from the like not maybe knowing who

2119
01:49:35,520 --> 01:49:38,720
Speaker 8: else was inquiring and what they could put together. Did

2120
01:49:38,800 --> 01:49:41,760
Speaker 8: you initially just think that you could stand out as

2121
01:49:41,760 --> 01:49:42,200
Speaker 8: a suitor.

2122
01:49:44,760 --> 01:49:52,040
Speaker 13: I don't know what anybody else offered, but I know, hey,

2123
01:49:52,080 --> 01:49:54,799
Speaker 13: look with like I said, with players of this caliber,

2124
01:49:54,920 --> 01:49:59,519
Speaker 13: you cannot screw around. There's no there's no You're not

2125
01:49:59,520 --> 01:50:03,200
Speaker 13: gonna fool anybody, you know. I mean, Jim's been doing

2126
01:50:03,200 --> 01:50:09,760
Speaker 13: this for forty years, like I know, Patrick, they do

2127
01:50:09,800 --> 01:50:16,160
Speaker 13: their homework, they know. So we had to go with them,

2128
01:50:16,800 --> 01:50:21,400
Speaker 13: go to them with something real right away, to tell

2129
01:50:21,439 --> 01:50:27,400
Speaker 13: them that we're serious, and that.

2130
01:50:26,280 --> 01:50:27,439
Speaker 6: That was the initial offer.

2131
01:50:28,680 --> 01:50:30,360
Speaker 15: There was no back and probably that much back and forth.

2132
01:50:30,400 --> 01:50:32,439
Speaker 13: Then I was just kind of like, no, I mean,

2133
01:50:32,520 --> 01:50:36,760
Speaker 13: Jim had other options, you know, and he had to

2134
01:50:37,200 --> 01:50:39,760
Speaker 13: you know, kind of see things through. I don't know,

2135
01:50:41,400 --> 01:50:42,920
Speaker 13: you know who he was talking to or what his

2136
01:50:43,000 --> 01:50:45,599
Speaker 13: process was. But we came out of the gates with

2137
01:50:45,680 --> 01:50:53,320
Speaker 13: that because they wanted to check certain boxes and we

2138
01:50:53,400 --> 01:50:53,760
Speaker 13: had to.

2139
01:50:54,240 --> 01:50:57,080
Speaker 6: We had to check them for them. That's the only

2140
01:50:57,120 --> 01:50:58,120
Speaker 6: way it gets done.

2141
01:50:58,560 --> 01:51:00,880
Speaker 13: It doesn't We're not going to nique one by them.

2142
01:51:00,880 --> 01:51:02,040
Speaker 6: They're they're smart.

2143
01:51:03,360 --> 01:51:07,120
Speaker 13: Like I said, Jim's been doing this, you know, since

2144
01:51:07,160 --> 01:51:09,320
Speaker 13: before I was even a player in the league.

2145
01:51:10,080 --> 01:51:13,200
Speaker 6: So not gonna fool.

2146
01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:16,360
Speaker 14: Him about the tools in Quinn's arsenal. Obviously the leadership

2147
01:51:16,479 --> 01:51:18,000
Speaker 14: component too. How great is it going to be to

2148
01:51:18,040 --> 01:51:19,719
Speaker 14: have that presence in the locker round.

2149
01:51:19,760 --> 01:51:21,280
Speaker 13: I mean it's gonna be great. I mean you can

2150
01:51:21,320 --> 01:51:23,880
Speaker 13: never have too many leaders. I think Quinn too with

2151
01:51:24,960 --> 01:51:26,400
Speaker 13: you know, he's a soft spoken guy.

2152
01:51:26,880 --> 01:51:27,160
Speaker 6: Uh.

2153
01:51:27,160 --> 01:51:30,080
Speaker 13: His leadership comes on the ice, in the in in

2154
01:51:30,120 --> 01:51:33,519
Speaker 13: his play.

2155
01:51:33,720 --> 01:51:33,920
Speaker 6: Yeah.

2156
01:51:34,280 --> 01:51:40,280
Speaker 13: Uh, it's always nice to have another leader in your

2157
01:51:40,360 --> 01:51:43,160
Speaker 13: in your room. And you know they come in lots

2158
01:51:43,160 --> 01:51:47,960
Speaker 13: of different you know, shapes, sizes, forms, you know whatever,

2159
01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:49,400
Speaker 13: But he is a leader.

2160
01:51:49,840 --> 01:51:52,400
Speaker 8: The team is in a unique position, Bill just before

2161
01:51:52,400 --> 01:51:54,920
Speaker 8: the CBA switches in terms of what you can offer

2162
01:51:55,120 --> 01:51:57,679
Speaker 8: just how how much I guess you think you'll stay

2163
01:51:57,680 --> 01:52:00,320
Speaker 8: in touch with his camp leading up to the summer.

2164
01:52:00,520 --> 01:52:03,280
Speaker 8: How much will that be a focus and trying to

2165
01:52:03,320 --> 01:52:04,120
Speaker 8: ignite those times?

2166
01:52:04,360 --> 01:52:06,200
Speaker 13: Can you give me one day?

2167
01:52:07,080 --> 01:52:08,519
Speaker 6: One day, that's all I'm asking for.

2168
01:52:09,439 --> 01:52:09,519
Speaker 17: No.

2169
01:52:10,600 --> 01:52:12,960
Speaker 13: Yeah, well, we'll take care of that when we have to.

2170
01:52:13,080 --> 01:52:17,240
Speaker 13: I mean it's right now, we're just we're we're focused

2171
01:52:17,280 --> 01:52:20,000
Speaker 13: on playing hockey. We'll deal with the other stuff when

2172
01:52:20,000 --> 01:52:21,479
Speaker 13: we have to do. It's just like Corella, you know,

2173
01:52:21,680 --> 01:52:27,200
Speaker 13: like there's a process and and we'll go through it.

2174
01:52:27,280 --> 01:52:30,000
Speaker 13: And right now we want to get Quinn here, get

2175
01:52:30,040 --> 01:52:33,200
Speaker 13: them comfortable, get them acclimated to his new surroundings.

2176
01:52:33,320 --> 01:52:34,280
Speaker 6: I don't care who you are.

2177
01:52:34,320 --> 01:52:37,280
Speaker 13: Your first trade is a doozy, you know when you

2178
01:52:37,280 --> 01:52:39,200
Speaker 13: get to eight teams and then it comes to come

2179
01:52:39,360 --> 01:52:42,439
Speaker 13: a little easier, trust me. But no, the first one,

2180
01:52:42,479 --> 01:52:47,400
Speaker 13: no matter what is uh is always tough and uh.

2181
01:52:47,880 --> 01:52:52,360
Speaker 13: But again, like we bring players in here for who

2182
01:52:52,439 --> 01:52:56,519
Speaker 13: they are, what they are, to be themselves as uh

2183
01:52:56,760 --> 01:53:01,640
Speaker 13: they're as human, their personalities, their playing style. We just

2184
01:53:01,680 --> 01:53:04,759
Speaker 13: want Quinn to come in and be himself. He doesn't

2185
01:53:04,800 --> 01:53:07,960
Speaker 13: have to save the world. He's just coming here to

2186
01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:09,080
Speaker 13: help us be a better team.

2187
01:53:09,360 --> 01:53:11,880
Speaker 15: When did you read the deals yesterday? And like, yeah,

2188
01:53:11,880 --> 01:53:13,760
Speaker 15: where were you when you get the call from Jim, like, hey,

2189
01:53:13,800 --> 01:53:14,800
Speaker 15: like where let's do this.

2190
01:53:14,800 --> 01:53:18,080
Speaker 6: Or I want the honest truth.

2191
01:53:20,000 --> 01:53:25,479
Speaker 13: I was making meatballs for our Christmas Eve dinner and

2192
01:53:25,600 --> 01:53:28,280
Speaker 13: Jim called, so I had to take my gloves, my

2193
01:53:28,360 --> 01:53:31,600
Speaker 13: latex gloves off, so I was rolling meatballs and uh

2194
01:53:32,080 --> 01:53:36,120
Speaker 13: he told me we have a deal. And uh there

2195
01:53:36,200 --> 01:53:37,680
Speaker 13: was a fist pump involved.

2196
01:53:39,640 --> 01:53:41,479
Speaker 6: To make after that, right you know was Eve and

2197
01:53:41,840 --> 01:53:42,439
Speaker 6: Waco and.

2198
01:53:42,560 --> 01:53:44,600
Speaker 13: Yeah yeah and those are those are tough and the

2199
01:53:44,800 --> 01:53:49,679
Speaker 13: like I said that, the three kids a, I mean,

2200
01:53:49,880 --> 01:53:54,439
Speaker 13: uh yeah, they handled it like men.

2201
01:53:55,800 --> 01:54:01,760
Speaker 6: And uh yeah, they're they're good. They're God, They're they're

2202
01:54:01,800 --> 01:54:02,760
Speaker 6: good kids. Man.

2203
01:54:02,960 --> 01:54:05,680
Speaker 13: I I can't say enough about those kids and their

2204
01:54:05,760 --> 01:54:08,439
Speaker 13: character and and what I think of them. And like

2205
01:54:08,479 --> 01:54:13,760
Speaker 13: I said, if if if Quinn wasn't available, they'd still

2206
01:54:13,800 --> 01:54:18,360
Speaker 13: be here. And I believe in them. I still do.

2207
01:54:18,600 --> 01:54:20,240
Speaker 13: I always will will be.

2208
01:54:20,240 --> 01:54:22,400
Speaker 8: The best tastiest meats that you have.

2209
01:54:22,520 --> 01:54:24,040
Speaker 12: Now on Christmas eveil.

2210
01:54:24,600 --> 01:54:26,480
Speaker 6: They're gonna be really They're really good.

2211
01:54:26,680 --> 01:54:30,479
Speaker 13: They're really good. It's my wife's recipe and like, hey,

2212
01:54:30,960 --> 01:54:32,080
Speaker 13: I'm just doing the groundwork.

2213
01:54:32,560 --> 01:54:32,760
Speaker 6: Yeah.

2214
01:54:34,160 --> 01:54:37,080
Speaker 15: Well, like you said when Kroll signed, like want to

2215
01:54:37,080 --> 01:54:38,960
Speaker 15: play with great players. So I think I'm sure sure

2216
01:54:38,960 --> 01:54:41,080
Speaker 15: why should like that could be a sung point in itself.

2217
01:54:41,200 --> 01:54:42,800
Speaker 12: You've seen that Boldie, you see Grill, you.

2218
01:54:42,760 --> 01:54:46,400
Speaker 13: See Yeah, Well, I think I think for for QUINNYA

2219
01:54:46,480 --> 01:54:49,760
Speaker 13: if he I mean, I would imagine he looked at

2220
01:54:49,760 --> 01:54:53,640
Speaker 13: our roster, you know, power play like you know, there's

2221
01:54:53,880 --> 01:54:56,240
Speaker 13: there's Krill, there's Bolts, there's Zukie, there's Echi.

2222
01:54:59,000 --> 01:55:01,200
Speaker 6: Those are pretty good guys to line up with.

2223
01:55:01,600 --> 01:55:05,240
Speaker 13: And I'm sure they're excited to get him in town

2224
01:55:05,320 --> 01:55:08,280
Speaker 13: and you know, start walking the blue line.

2225
01:55:08,920 --> 01:55:09,920
Speaker 6: Give what you parted with.

2226
01:55:10,680 --> 01:55:12,960
Speaker 2: How confident are you that the team still has the

2227
01:55:13,040 --> 01:55:16,880
Speaker 2: assets to make further moves going forward as necessary.

2228
01:55:17,080 --> 01:55:24,240
Speaker 13: I'm confident. Yeah, I'm confident. I mean, you know, we've

2229
01:55:24,240 --> 01:55:29,480
Speaker 13: built over. This is year seven for me. So over

2230
01:55:29,520 --> 01:55:33,320
Speaker 13: the last six years we've we've built up our assets

2231
01:55:34,040 --> 01:55:39,200
Speaker 13: in prospects, picks, whatever it is. We have flexibility in

2232
01:55:39,240 --> 01:55:50,480
Speaker 13: our cap uh so we can still do stuff, all right,

2233
01:55:50,480 --> 01:55:51,160
Speaker 13: Thanks everybody.

2234
01:55:52,080 --> 01:55:56,800
Speaker 2: President of Hockey Operations and General Manager, Bill Garin, we'll

2235
01:55:56,800 --> 01:56:00,800
Speaker 2: call him Santa Garin. We were promised Chris in July.

2236
01:56:01,040 --> 01:56:04,240
Speaker 2: We didn't get it, but we got it in Christmas. Christmas.

2237
01:56:04,280 --> 01:56:09,360
Speaker 2: In Christmas also saying some really really cool things, really

2238
01:56:09,400 --> 01:56:12,960
Speaker 2: candid things about about Quinn. Hughes obviously had a ton

2239
01:56:12,960 --> 01:56:15,400
Speaker 2: of respect for the three guys that are going to Vancouver.

2240
01:56:15,520 --> 01:56:18,480
Speaker 2: But as Bill said, quote, I don't know what the

2241
01:56:18,520 --> 01:56:20,440
Speaker 2: right moment is, but if you wait for it, you're

2242
01:56:20,480 --> 01:56:22,840
Speaker 2: going to miss it. I don't know if the weather

2243
01:56:23,080 --> 01:56:25,320
Speaker 2: be warmer or something. When it's a player of this caliber,

2244
01:56:25,720 --> 01:56:29,360
Speaker 2: the right times always now, and the right time was

2245
01:56:29,480 --> 01:56:32,720
Speaker 2: last night. And to go off of what Pat was

2246
01:56:32,720 --> 01:56:37,560
Speaker 2: saying earlier in terms of taking balls, well he was

2247
01:56:37,640 --> 01:56:41,040
Speaker 2: making meat balls when he got the call. So what

2248
01:56:41,720 --> 01:56:47,800
Speaker 2: a whirlwind of just epic proportions here. The biggest franchise

2249
01:56:47,840 --> 01:56:49,680
Speaker 2: in history has been made. And we're going to get

2250
01:56:49,880 --> 01:56:52,560
Speaker 2: the voice of the Wild, or the voices i should say,

2251
01:56:52,560 --> 01:56:55,600
Speaker 2: of the Wild and Joe O'Donnell and Tom Reid, their thoughts,

2252
01:56:55,680 --> 01:56:58,560
Speaker 2: their reaction to all of today's news, and then we'll

2253
01:56:58,560 --> 01:57:01,480
Speaker 2: get you the Wild pregame show before the Wild drop

2254
01:57:01,520 --> 01:57:03,280
Speaker 2: the puck. There's a hockey game today, I believe it

2255
01:57:03,360 --> 01:57:06,040
Speaker 2: or not. Through all of this, we have to drop

2256
01:57:06,040 --> 01:57:08,240
Speaker 2: the puck between the Wild and the Senators a little

2257
01:57:08,240 --> 01:57:10,920
Speaker 2: after one. That's all coming up right here on the

2258
01:57:10,920 --> 01:57:17,640
Speaker 2: fan final segment of an extended and I would say

2259
01:57:17,720 --> 01:57:20,240
Speaker 2: special addition to be on the pond. Always fun to

2260
01:57:20,680 --> 01:57:23,760
Speaker 2: have a show where we talk Wild. After one of

2261
01:57:23,800 --> 01:57:27,000
Speaker 2: the biggest Wild trades, if not the if, it was

2262
01:57:27,080 --> 01:57:30,839
Speaker 2: the biggest trade in franchise history. As again, Zee Bulliam

2263
01:57:31,240 --> 01:57:34,600
Speaker 2: and Liam Ogrin Marco Rossi in a first round pick

2264
01:57:34,600 --> 01:57:36,840
Speaker 2: headed to Vancouver in exchange for Quinn Hughes, who will

2265
01:57:36,920 --> 01:57:40,520
Speaker 2: join the team tomorrow. We have upstairs now joining us

2266
01:57:41,240 --> 01:57:44,839
Speaker 2: Joe O'Donnell and Tom Reid. The guys will call today's

2267
01:57:44,880 --> 01:57:47,000
Speaker 2: game against the Senators. It's hard to believe, guys, I mean,

2268
01:57:47,600 --> 01:57:49,800
Speaker 2: the game against the Senators today is just I keep

2269
01:57:49,840 --> 01:57:52,000
Speaker 2: having to remind myself we actually have to drop the

2270
01:57:52,000 --> 01:57:54,120
Speaker 2: puck and play some hockey today as well, after all

2271
01:57:54,160 --> 01:57:55,160
Speaker 2: this craziness.

2272
01:57:55,280 --> 01:57:56,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, is there something going on?

2273
01:57:57,360 --> 01:57:57,880
Speaker 2: I guess so.

2274
01:57:58,040 --> 01:57:58,640
Speaker 6: Right in front of you.

2275
01:57:58,680 --> 01:58:00,960
Speaker 2: I don't know, they're warming up for something. But that

2276
01:58:01,160 --> 01:58:03,960
Speaker 2: was I mean, you're just had the press conference with

2277
01:58:03,960 --> 01:58:08,200
Speaker 2: with Bill Garrion. What are you guys' reactions to his comments?

2278
01:58:08,240 --> 01:58:10,480
Speaker 2: And then just throw really that the news overall.

2279
01:58:11,040 --> 01:58:13,600
Speaker 17: Great because I thought someone was playing an April Fools

2280
01:58:13,680 --> 01:58:15,360
Speaker 17: joke on me to be honest with you, but that

2281
01:58:15,480 --> 01:58:18,400
Speaker 17: was not the case. But you know what, it's Billy's right.

2282
01:58:18,480 --> 01:58:20,880
Speaker 17: I mean, when is the best time to do it?

2283
01:58:21,120 --> 01:58:23,200
Speaker 17: That the time is now, when you have the opportunity.

2284
01:58:23,240 --> 01:58:26,200
Speaker 17: This is an elite hockey player. Getting Quinn Hughes here

2285
01:58:26,320 --> 01:58:28,200
Speaker 17: is a big, big pleasure of Minnesota. You gave up

2286
01:58:28,200 --> 01:58:30,080
Speaker 17: a lot to get him, and and time will tell

2287
01:58:30,120 --> 01:58:32,280
Speaker 17: how good this trade is going to be. But right now,

2288
01:58:32,280 --> 01:58:34,080
Speaker 17: I think the fans have to be excited, and I

2289
01:58:34,080 --> 01:58:35,760
Speaker 17: can tell you the guys in the deshroom have to

2290
01:58:35,800 --> 01:58:37,800
Speaker 17: be excited also. You hate losing the guys you're going

2291
01:58:37,840 --> 01:58:39,880
Speaker 17: to lose. At the same time, you bring in a

2292
01:58:40,240 --> 01:58:42,160
Speaker 17: you know, an all star defenseman who's going to make

2293
01:58:42,200 --> 01:58:44,280
Speaker 17: a big difference offensively for this hockey club.

2294
01:58:45,600 --> 01:58:49,720
Speaker 16: I think it's just a remarkable accomplishment by the hockey

2295
01:58:49,720 --> 01:58:50,760
Speaker 16: operations staff.

2296
01:58:51,520 --> 01:58:52,000
Speaker 2: Stunning.

2297
01:58:52,920 --> 01:58:55,320
Speaker 16: My head was spinning for probably a couple hours. Alb

2298
01:58:55,440 --> 01:58:57,160
Speaker 16: you you know, I saw you last night as still

2299
01:58:57,160 --> 01:59:00,800
Speaker 16: water there, and I don't think I had league fully

2300
01:59:00,880 --> 01:59:03,440
Speaker 16: grasp the situation. And the more that I've thought about

2301
01:59:03,440 --> 01:59:05,760
Speaker 16: this deal, the more I like it. Yeah, I think

2302
01:59:05,800 --> 01:59:07,920
Speaker 16: if you're a Wild fan, it's just my opinion. You

2303
01:59:07,960 --> 01:59:09,960
Speaker 16: got to get over the sticker shock. It's a lot

2304
01:59:10,000 --> 01:59:13,400
Speaker 16: to give up. It's a lot of prospects and promise

2305
01:59:13,520 --> 01:59:15,600
Speaker 16: and hype to give up and boo him.

2306
01:59:15,880 --> 01:59:16,920
Speaker 2: We all know what ross he is.

2307
01:59:16,960 --> 01:59:19,920
Speaker 16: He's a good two hundred foot player, sixty seventy points

2308
01:59:19,920 --> 01:59:22,560
Speaker 16: in you know, probably a great year for him, obviously

2309
01:59:22,640 --> 01:59:24,560
Speaker 16: the first rounder. You never know how that turns out.

2310
01:59:24,760 --> 01:59:27,280
Speaker 16: Ogrin maybe could pop at some point. Right, all those

2311
01:59:27,280 --> 01:59:29,240
Speaker 16: things can be true, and what also can be true

2312
01:59:29,320 --> 01:59:31,520
Speaker 16: is you got one of the world's best defensemen. You're

2313
01:59:31,560 --> 01:59:34,720
Speaker 16: adding them two A core players that are in their prime.

2314
01:59:34,960 --> 01:59:38,280
Speaker 16: He himself, Quinn Hughes, is in his prime. Whether he's

2315
01:59:38,320 --> 01:59:40,480
Speaker 16: here for the next one hundred and thirty games, meaning

2316
01:59:40,480 --> 01:59:42,120
Speaker 16: the rest of this year and next year and that's it,

2317
01:59:42,560 --> 01:59:44,800
Speaker 16: or he's here the rest of his career or somewhere

2318
01:59:44,840 --> 01:59:46,800
Speaker 16: in between. You got to take a swing like this

2319
01:59:46,840 --> 01:59:47,320
Speaker 16: when you can.

2320
01:59:47,480 --> 01:59:48,000
Speaker 2: I love it.

2321
01:59:48,800 --> 01:59:50,920
Speaker 16: So excited to see him. Everything you hear about him.

2322
01:59:51,040 --> 01:59:54,440
Speaker 16: Absolute gamer, good kid. He's wearing the C in Vancouver,

2323
01:59:54,760 --> 01:59:56,720
Speaker 16: and we all know he's all world with and without

2324
01:59:56,760 --> 01:59:58,640
Speaker 16: the puck. I mean, his puck possession numbers are through

2325
01:59:58,680 --> 02:00:00,800
Speaker 16: the roof. He's gonna help this team in so many ways.

2326
02:00:00,840 --> 02:00:03,000
Speaker 16: He's gonna put butts in the seats, and I think again,

2327
02:00:03,080 --> 02:00:04,680
Speaker 16: you get over the fact they gave up a lot

2328
02:00:04,760 --> 02:00:07,120
Speaker 16: and you look at what they got. Time will tell

2329
02:00:07,160 --> 02:00:08,800
Speaker 16: how it plays out, but I'm really excited.

2330
02:00:09,080 --> 02:00:10,800
Speaker 2: We talked with Rus a little bit earlier in the

2331
02:00:11,160 --> 02:00:13,240
Speaker 2: initial reaction off the record that he got from the

2332
02:00:13,240 --> 02:00:16,760
Speaker 2: players was excitement. Tom And you're in the locker room

2333
02:00:16,800 --> 02:00:20,040
Speaker 2: right now. You know, obviously today a little bit different

2334
02:00:20,040 --> 02:00:22,600
Speaker 2: than what will be tomorrow when Quinn does make his debut.

2335
02:00:22,760 --> 02:00:26,440
Speaker 2: But what are you thinking the players are thinking about

2336
02:00:26,440 --> 02:00:29,760
Speaker 2: all this, watching, you know, some of their favorite guys go,

2337
02:00:29,880 --> 02:00:33,440
Speaker 2: but also getting an all star player in Quinn coming

2338
02:00:33,600 --> 02:00:35,600
Speaker 2: to town tomorrow. Yeah, I think you're right, z.

2339
02:00:35,640 --> 02:00:37,720
Speaker 17: Act the fact that they are losing some players who

2340
02:00:38,200 --> 02:00:40,480
Speaker 17: to become a family here, and your part of your

2341
02:00:40,480 --> 02:00:42,760
Speaker 17: family is leaving, but there's a new family member coming

2342
02:00:42,800 --> 02:00:45,000
Speaker 17: in that might even be better for your team down

2343
02:00:45,000 --> 02:00:46,720
Speaker 17: the road here, and that's what you're hoping for. You

2344
02:00:46,800 --> 02:00:48,560
Speaker 17: want a trade like this, ACT. It'd be a good

2345
02:00:48,600 --> 02:00:52,760
Speaker 17: trade so that both organizations prosper from it. You want

2346
02:00:52,800 --> 02:00:55,000
Speaker 17: to make sure because when you do things like that

2347
02:00:55,040 --> 02:00:57,040
Speaker 17: and they both prosper, you're not afraid to make a

2348
02:00:57,040 --> 02:01:00,280
Speaker 17: deal again. It's when someone takes advantage of another team

2349
02:01:00,360 --> 02:01:02,680
Speaker 17: and then it doesn't turn out, and then you're mad,

2350
02:01:02,720 --> 02:01:04,240
Speaker 17: and then you don't want to deal with that person

2351
02:01:04,240 --> 02:01:07,520
Speaker 17: ever again. But I think being a general manager as

2352
02:01:07,640 --> 02:01:09,880
Speaker 17: Bill has been over the last few years and drink

2353
02:01:10,120 --> 02:01:12,960
Speaker 17: of hockey operations here, he knows what it takes. And

2354
02:01:13,000 --> 02:01:15,160
Speaker 17: you don't always make the right deals. You hope they're

2355
02:01:15,160 --> 02:01:16,920
Speaker 17: going to be good deals. They don't always pan out

2356
02:01:16,960 --> 02:01:19,240
Speaker 17: the way you want them to. But at the same time,

2357
02:01:19,520 --> 02:01:21,680
Speaker 17: it's difficult for the players in the locker room right now.

2358
02:01:21,680 --> 02:01:24,680
Speaker 2: But you know what, I've been there, I've been traded.

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Speaker 17: It's difficult when it first happens, but you fit in

2360
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Speaker 17: very well because a family is still a family and

2361
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Speaker 17: you know exactly what has to take place, and the

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Speaker 17: players are welcoming him coming into the.

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Speaker 2: Fold and Joe for a banged up squad like this,

2364
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Speaker 2: we just got word Jones burdeen. He will be not

2365
02:01:39,200 --> 02:01:42,440
Speaker 2: playing in today's game upper body injury. I hate to

2366
02:01:42,440 --> 02:01:45,760
Speaker 2: say it, but for more reasons than one. Quinn Hughes

2367
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Speaker 2: sorely needed for this squad right now.

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Speaker 16: Absolutely, you get the depth there, You get all world talents.

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Speaker 16: You know, you just hope that this core group of

2370
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Speaker 16: players now can stay healthy because a while haven't had

2371
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Speaker 16: their opening night lineup, not once all year. Yet they're

2372
02:02:00,480 --> 02:02:02,480
Speaker 16: still firmly in a playoff spot. They've been playing great

2373
02:02:02,520 --> 02:02:05,240
Speaker 16: the last six weeks. It'll be about health down the

2374
02:02:05,240 --> 02:02:07,800
Speaker 16: stretch will be one other moves can you make. Certainly

2375
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Speaker 16: there was talk about this team needing secondary scoring. You

2376
02:02:12,480 --> 02:02:15,000
Speaker 16: kind of get that with Hughes obviously in a different way,

2377
02:02:15,800 --> 02:02:19,080
Speaker 16: but no Marco ROSSI now moving forward certainly changes your

2378
02:02:19,120 --> 02:02:22,240
Speaker 16: forward look. So I think a lot is still to

2379
02:02:22,280 --> 02:02:25,120
Speaker 16: be told with this season in this team, and I

2380
02:02:25,160 --> 02:02:29,200
Speaker 16: think for Minnesota, particularly today, it's about trying to survive.

2381
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Speaker 16: In advance. They got a back to back. They'll play

2382
02:02:31,080 --> 02:02:33,280
Speaker 16: Boston tomorrow. They're gonna be underman on the blue line.

2383
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Speaker 16: Mac here said and David Yurchik are both gonna play.

2384
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Speaker 16: Nicholas Obai Kubella is gonna play. There are several guys

2385
02:02:40,280 --> 02:02:42,640
Speaker 16: in the Iowa Wild lineup the last few weeks they're

2386
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Speaker 16: playing from Minnesota.

2387
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Speaker 6: Today.

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Speaker 2: We'll see all pans out. I mean, let's talk today

2389
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Speaker 2: real quick as we will be dropping the puck on

2390
02:02:48,240 --> 02:02:51,360
Speaker 2: a hockey game here about a half hour from now.

2391
02:02:51,800 --> 02:02:54,640
Speaker 2: What do you expect from the Wild and what do

2392
02:02:54,680 --> 02:02:58,240
Speaker 2: you see happening in this battle against the Senators. Well,

2393
02:02:58,880 --> 02:02:59,800
Speaker 2: Anna was a good team.

2394
02:03:00,000 --> 02:03:01,440
Speaker 4: Eastern Conference is stacked.

2395
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Speaker 16: Right, Ottawa's two games above five hundred, They're three points

2396
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Speaker 16: out of a playoff spot and they are currently fourteenth

2397
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Speaker 16: in the conference. Right, so they're third to last on

2398
02:03:11,760 --> 02:03:13,640
Speaker 16: the conference, but they're three points out of a playoff spot.

2399
02:03:13,720 --> 02:03:16,640
Speaker 16: Tells you how tight the East is. The West was

2400
02:03:16,720 --> 02:03:18,600
Speaker 16: started that way and is kind of shaken out where

2401
02:03:18,600 --> 02:03:21,440
Speaker 16: there's some top heavy teams and some bottom feeders. The

2402
02:03:21,480 --> 02:03:25,400
Speaker 16: East is a bear. Ottawa beat the Wild twice last year.

2403
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Speaker 16: They gave up just one total goal in the two

2404
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Speaker 16: game season series in Minnesota year ago. They've got high

2405
02:03:30,120 --> 02:03:33,040
Speaker 16: end skill and Stutsland Batherson. We all know how good

2406
02:03:33,080 --> 02:03:36,640
Speaker 16: Brady Kachuk is. Jeff Sanderson or Jake Sanderson, Jeff's kid,

2407
02:03:36,920 --> 02:03:38,680
Speaker 16: Jake Sanderson one heck of a defenseman.

2408
02:03:39,240 --> 02:03:40,200
Speaker 4: They've got a lot of talent.

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Speaker 13: They're a good rush team.

2410
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Speaker 4: John Hines stressing.

2411
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Speaker 16: Yesterday the Wild have to be buttoned up defensively and

2412
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Speaker 16: defend off the rush well and get good box outs.

2413
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Speaker 16: If they're gonna win this game.

2414
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Speaker 2: And Tom, I mean this is the focus obviously for

2415
02:03:53,800 --> 02:03:56,000
Speaker 2: us and everybody in the whole hockey world on this trade.

2416
02:03:56,000 --> 02:03:58,480
Speaker 2: But these players having to remain focused on the game

2417
02:03:58,720 --> 02:04:01,680
Speaker 2: in front. How do you, as a player, you know,

2418
02:04:01,840 --> 02:04:03,920
Speaker 2: just kind of drown all the other noise out, drown

2419
02:04:04,000 --> 02:04:06,280
Speaker 2: the excitement of tomorrow and just focus on the next

2420
02:04:06,320 --> 02:04:06,920
Speaker 2: sixty minutes.

2421
02:04:06,960 --> 02:04:08,280
Speaker 17: And that's what you have to do as a player.

2422
02:04:08,320 --> 02:04:10,040
Speaker 17: You're sitting in that locker room on and you can

2423
02:04:10,040 --> 02:04:11,640
Speaker 17: bet through the leaders in that locker room.

2424
02:04:11,640 --> 02:04:14,640
Speaker 2: Whether they wear a C or a or wherever they wear.

2425
02:04:15,160 --> 02:04:17,280
Speaker 17: We've got to make sure that they are ready engaged

2426
02:04:17,320 --> 02:04:19,440
Speaker 17: to go once they step on that ice. And Minnesota's

2427
02:04:19,440 --> 02:04:21,920
Speaker 17: got the two points is at stake here, that's the

2428
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Speaker 17: most important thing. Tomorrow. We'll take care of itself when

2429
02:04:24,280 --> 02:04:27,080
Speaker 17: Quinn Hughes gets here and everything else comes back into

2430
02:04:27,160 --> 02:04:29,640
Speaker 17: normal for the first couple of games anyway, But right now,

2431
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Speaker 17: Minnesota's got a concentrate on this contest.

2432
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Speaker 2: Gentlemen, Thank you very much. We'll talk to you again

2433
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Speaker 2: in a bit, all right, Thanks Ellie, Joe Donald and

2434
02:04:36,840 --> 02:04:40,080
Speaker 2: Tom Ree joining us from the booth here at Grand

2435
02:04:40,080 --> 02:04:42,920
Speaker 2: Casino Arena. We will continue all wild coverage right now

2436
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Speaker 2: with the pregame show. I want to thank Michael Russo,

2437
02:04:46,440 --> 02:04:51,839
Speaker 2: Steve Miller, Kevin Gord, Pat mcletty, Brett, Blake Moore, Kevin Faullness,

2438
02:04:52,000 --> 02:04:55,640
Speaker 2: everybody involved here on this extended beyond the pond again.

2439
02:04:55,680 --> 02:04:58,120
Speaker 2: Our wild coverage continues with the pregame and then Wild

2440
02:04:58,200 --> 02:05:01,360
Speaker 2: and these senators will drop the puck very very soon.

2441
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Speaker 2: It's all right here on the fan. Welcome to Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: Quinn Hughes