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Speaker 1: a New Year's Eve, morn.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for hanging out.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully all of you are locked in and ready for

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Speaker 1: an awesome holiday. And I don't know how you. I mean,

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Speaker 1: way I celebrate New Year's now has changed drastically over

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Speaker 1: the last eleven years or so. Parker Fox kicking off

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Speaker 1: the Timber Tech set list. We'll do the nine to

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Speaker 1: Noon lineup for you towards the end of this segment.

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Speaker 1: But Parker Fox, you heard him hanging out with the

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Speaker 1: power Trip you always on Wednesdays, has been gracious enough

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Speaker 1: to stick around for an extra segment, whether it's PA

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Speaker 1: or yours. Truly and happy New Year to you, mister Fox.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for all the supportive of Nine to Noon over

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, whether we were hoody hooing right, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of the theme I was thinking about is just

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Speaker 1: kind of like what a year it's been, totally and

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Speaker 1: from the Western Conference final appearance of our favorite team

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Speaker 1: on the on the hardwood to our favorite team We'll

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Speaker 1: be talking with mister Faulkness around the corner about having

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Speaker 1: a two to one lead in Vegas squandering that, But

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Speaker 1: then we get Quinn Hughes, we re up Capris off,

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Speaker 2: Just dominate roddeling that. Wow, what a year it has been.

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Speaker 2: Football team and all that included.

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Speaker 1: But cool thing about New Year's Eve is the NBA

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Speaker 2: So if there's a little snow you don't want and

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Speaker 1: The roads, you can just lock in tight and starting

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Speaker 1: at two o'clock today, the Wolves at the Hawks. Why

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Speaker 1: do the Hawks? Why do we care about the Hawks?

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Speaker 1: We don't care about Trey Young? Team might actually be

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Speaker 1: We'll see the Hawks today, but is Trey Young really

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Speaker 2: He's been playing so well.

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Speaker 3: I think he hit thirty points against his cousin and

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Speaker 3: damn ball dominant type of point guard. The ball is

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Speaker 3: And yeah, this Hawks team wasn't going to go beat

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Speaker 1: You know you kind of bring you bring ball dominant

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Speaker 1: Predictable bounce back after that Nets debacle, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Now, Finally, after several minutes of digression, because that's what

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Speaker 1: trading block, and you know, maybe the Wolves might be

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Speaker 1: why does that matter? Well, it matters because I think

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Speaker 1: we need a point guard. But you mentioned it again,

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Speaker 2: I agree, and so Kobe White.

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Speaker 1: I'm focusing on him because I think he's a ball

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Speaker 1: Now he gets to play with Josh Giddy, which I

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Speaker 1: think that that's a terrific mix when he's healthy. This

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Speaker 1: I know right, it seems.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure you're looking at your fantasy lineup

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Speaker 2: Paul George is one of my most reliable players right

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Speaker 2: now that that's never supposed to happen. Jalen Green anytime.

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Speaker 1: By the way, goodness with his amstrength, hanging out, Colin

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Speaker 1: Gillespie feasting with his opportunities, ball dominant guard Kobe White

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Speaker 1: And I've put this name out there before, totally unsexy name,

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Speaker 2: Here's what I want. He's no spring chicken. I get it.

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Speaker 2: Give me twenty five a night with TJ. McConnell.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I love that is languishing in Indianapolis right now.

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Speaker 1: He will have twelve assists a game, and he will

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Speaker 2: Hey, nobody's guarding me.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm gonna go hit the hoop and I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: For a team that needs a guard, I want a

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Speaker 2: I love it?

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Speaker 3: I mean, you just wanted to mention another guy with

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Speaker 2: Mind the name out there. I honestly I love that name.

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Speaker 2: I hadn't even considered that name.

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Speaker 3: And I and I really love the fact of you

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Speaker 3: pair him with Dante Devincenzo. The toughness you're gonna get defensively,

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Speaker 3: just the entangled until the hand he goes again, right exactly.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I wonder where the PACER's head is at.

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Speaker 3: You going to the finals last year, losing Tyres Haliburton

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Speaker 2: Which hasn't worked, by the way, in no wak No,

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Speaker 2: it hasn't at all.

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Speaker 3: And I think there's been some there's been some cryptic

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Speaker 3: And I think they they thought they had the opportunity

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Speaker 3: They're leading the country in assisted field goal percentage ninety

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Speaker 1: Monday, potentially after the Border Battle and we'll break down

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Speaker 2: Thanks you see something good.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's Parker Fox at Parker Fox two four via

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Speaker 1: timber Tech set list, which will feature eleven Am Lavell

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Speaker 2: He's going to be in studio today. We're going to

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Speaker 1: It's NFL playoffs and kind of a popa ReVibe Final

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Speaker 1: Hour with Lavell ten Am Ben Lieber his weekly appearance

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Speaker 1: by phone this time around, but on the Purple and

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Speaker 1: of course, the hottest talker regarding the team over the

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Speaker 1: last few days has been the defensive coordinator. Will he stay,

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Speaker 1: Will he go? And number two two, Harrison Smith, Will

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Speaker 2: Will he go? Into the offseason? Among other bits with

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Speaker 1: But next, Kevin Faulness in studio, Minnesota Wild playing today

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Speaker 1: Year's Eve edition of Nine to Noon Stick with us

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Speaker 2: You've dragged Brett blakemore in here on New Year's Eve, So.

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Speaker 2: I get it. I'm that too.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm and I'm having a holiday pay as well.

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Speaker 2: You're getting time and a half. That's what it says.

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Speaker 5: holiday pay on New Year's Eve tomorrow it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, corporate calendars do their thing. I don't know. I

437
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Speaker 2: think he's I think he's right. I think I think

438
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Speaker 2: i'm here.

439
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Speaker 1: I think I get the same and I and we'll

440
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Speaker 1: just yeah, we'll move on from that to that end,

441
00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,639
Speaker 1: you're right. I'm working today because I want to work today.

442
00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,840
Speaker 1: You're working today because you want to work today. And

443
00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:09,600
Speaker 1: it sounds like there's gonna be a zoo at your

444
00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:11,639
Speaker 1: house later on, so maybe you'll be happy to be

445
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:12,399
Speaker 1: in Saint Paul.

446
00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:14,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's gonna be a party at the tank.

447
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Speaker 1: Today at three o'clock, puck Drop Wild in San Jose.

448
00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,119
Speaker 1: That's gotta be fun. That got you out of the house.

449
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,200
Speaker 1: That's gonna get you out of Saint Louis Park. It's

450
00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,200
Speaker 1: gonna get you to the dungeon at Grand Casino Arena

451
00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,920
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get two points against these awful sharks.

452
00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:31,719
Speaker 2: You need to come in and look at that dungeon.

453
00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:32,800
Speaker 2: By the way, it's head.

454
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Speaker 5: An upgrade over the last couple years since the last

455
00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,399
Speaker 5: time we had box in the Box and we were

456
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Speaker 5: pounding nails in that Once upon a time there was

457
00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:40,560
Speaker 5: a smoke room.

458
00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, that we don't use anywhere.

459
00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,120
Speaker 5: But we've upgraded the Bob Kurtz Radio Center and it's elaborate,

460
00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,920
Speaker 5: really it's Yeah, it's the taj Mahal of NHL radio booths.

461
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Speaker 2: That's my thinking.

462
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Speaker 1: Do you get a seat at the table at those meetings,

463
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Speaker 1: like do you get the list.

464
00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:56,760
Speaker 2: Out things I actually do? Yeah.

465
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Speaker 5: Absolutely. We designed this one, I believe me. It's a

466
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Speaker 5: collaborative effort. Yes, we've got I've got my little team

467
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,880
Speaker 5: and the people that I have making those decisions are

468
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Speaker 5: well versed in making these types of of setups.

469
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Speaker 2: And it's outstanding. I mean it's professional broadcast quality, so

470
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Speaker 2: it's it's nice and and esthetically it's pleasing as well.

471
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Speaker 1: You're saying it's nicer than even what we would have

472
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,520
Speaker 1: here in the six five one carpets nice, this is expansive.

473
00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:28,639
Speaker 2: Ours is a smaller version. We got the brick surround.

474
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Speaker 1: It's nice, which I think provides it's helpful to the

475
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Speaker 1: sound and the acoustics of course.

476
00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:39,880
Speaker 2: The again, the the brick surround, it's nice. I especially

477
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Speaker 2: like the staples holding it to the wall. It looks nice.

478
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 2: I mean, they're nice staples. It's like the vest Minard's head.

479
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Speaker 2: I love it. I have nothing bad to say about

480
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Speaker 2: this place.

481
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Speaker 5: I'm just bragging about the fact that I have a

482
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Speaker 5: state of the art recording facility inside Grand Casino Arena,

483
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Speaker 5: and it's the tais Mahall compared to I would put

484
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Speaker 5: it up against anything anyone else uses across probably major sports,

485
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,159
Speaker 5: but certainly in the NHL.

486
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Speaker 1: So when Quinn Hughes is, you know, he's walking around

487
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,160
Speaker 1: and he's just he's got his bags, and I think

488
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,480
Speaker 1: that I saw some story where they got him a car,

489
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 1: nice car for him to use until he finds his

490
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Speaker 1: own and just gets gets his legs under him. Here

491
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Speaker 1: in Minnesota, the Tria was impressive, Yeah, but once he

492
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Speaker 1: got to Grand Casino Arena, and so my radio studio

493
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Speaker 1: here's where you may periodically be forced into, which I

494
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 1: feel like, specifically with hockey players, the word forced feels

495
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Speaker 1: relevant and feels accurate that when you are forced to

496
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Speaker 1: participate in XYZ media opportunity. Here's where he wanted to

497
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Speaker 1: extend right there, didn't he after seeing the radio studio.

498
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Speaker 5: It's that nice, yes, for sure. And we do have

499
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,880
Speaker 5: a nice setup over at Trio as well. We've got

500
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Speaker 5: a nice little set up there at one time, Bob Nagli,

501
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,679
Speaker 5: now mister Leopold. They do a wonderful job for us

502
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Speaker 5: and radio is not not left wanting very much.

503
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Speaker 1: No, that's that's good. I'm excited to do boxing the

504
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 1: Box shows again. You bring back let's back out to Tria.

505
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Speaker 2: No I we will.

506
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Speaker 1: We are as Viking season ends now we will we

507
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,199
Speaker 1: will shift and bring our show on the road. Not

508
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,439
Speaker 1: to TCO. That was yesterday and that's over for the season.

509
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: Now we'll be bringing our way to uh to Saint Paul.

510
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 2: Love to have you.

511
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Speaker 5: It's been it's been an unbelievable start to the season.

512
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Speaker 5: To think of where it was after October losing nine

513
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,880
Speaker 5: to twelve to open the season, and now they've elevated

514
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Speaker 5: themselves to third place in the Central Division. If the

515
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 5: other teams would lose occasionally that would help to catch

516
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 5: up with Dallas or Colorado. Well, where they've resurrected their

517
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Speaker 5: season two. It's unbelievable and it's been just an amazing run.

518
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of that's kind of the way that

519
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: I wanted to start it in similar vein to chatting

520
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Speaker 1: with Parker last segment. What a year it has been

521
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 1: where you go from being up to one against Vegas

522
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 1: losing in that series. It's a summer sweat for number

523
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 1: ninety seven. Eleventh hour, it gets done. Billy g not

524
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: a bead of sweat on his brow. Is just like, hey, guys, relaxed.

525
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: This is the process. I told you I was gonna

526
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 1: get it, darg and that I did it.

527
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 2: It's like, all right, Billy, that's well.

528
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,440
Speaker 1: The rest of us had our doubts, sorry, mister general manager.

529
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:22,159
Speaker 1: And then there's the inauspicious start to the season and

530
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 1: now we're wondering. But from our goaltending tandem to once again,

531
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Speaker 1: it's like, if you can just go ahead and just

532
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 1: send us a list of who we should anticipate not

533
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,199
Speaker 1: being available on a night by night basis so we

534
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Speaker 1: can keep track. I got a spreadsheet. Then you have

535
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 1: that problem and then the Quinn Hughes move. What a

536
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,360
Speaker 1: year it has been for the hockey team, mister Fallness. Yeah.

537
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Speaker 5: I mean the old cliche is you can't win the

538
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,120
Speaker 5: Stanley Cup in October, but.

539
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 2: You can lose it.

540
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Speaker 5: You can get yourselves out of the running in a

541
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Speaker 5: real big hurry and you lose nine to twelve out

542
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Speaker 5: of the gates. The atmosphere was pretty thick around there.

543
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 5: It felt like not saying John Hines's job was ever

544
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:00,400
Speaker 5: in peril, but that's the type of atmosphere that there

545
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 5: was around there, like people were going to lose their jobs, and.

546
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 1: Well, I was getting I was getting text and emails

547
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,679
Speaker 1: about that. We were i mean just from Nave then

548
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 1: just tough start to the season, et cetera. Yeah, and

549
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 1: so quickly it turned into well, we're going to have

550
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:14,120
Speaker 1: to make a move.

551
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're talking about hot seats, whether it be a

552
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 5: Bill Garan, whether it be a job. And again I'm

553
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 5: saying I don't think they're their jobs are ever in peril.

554
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 5: But when you get off to a start to a

555
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 5: season like that, and especially the way October ended, you know,

556
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 5: just that horrible loss to Pittsburgh, who's a bad team

557
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 5: this year. You know, God blessed Sidney Crosby and Guinea Malkin,

558
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 5: but that team as a whole is a shell of

559
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 5: its former self.

560
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 2: They aren't winning Stanley Cups anytime soon.

561
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Speaker 5: The way they lost that game, and they had their

562
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 5: players only meeting to think, well, what's the next step,

563
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 5: Even if they're doing it in a polite fashion, and

564
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 5: they're taking questions from the audience of how to fix

565
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 5: this season, what's the next step? You know, someone is

566
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 5: probably going to lose their job. But from that point forward,

567
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 5: and the numbers speak for itself. November first, on twenty one,

568
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 5: four three November was bonkers, like a month like you

569
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Speaker 5: would not expect, especially the October.

570
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 2: When and it's followed through in December.

571
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Speaker 5: And I know that everyone's excited about the addition of

572
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 5: Quinn Hughes, but I mean they were winning big games

573
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 5: and putting up big numbers even without Quinn Hughes. It's

574
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 5: gotten even better with him in the lineup. The confidence

575
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,479
Speaker 5: has taken a step forward. But it's unbelievable they've been

576
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 5: able to accomplish considering the fact that really the only

577
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 5: addition was Quinn Hughes, and they did it with tons

578
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 5: of injuries they could not right now, not on for Mica,

579
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 5: whatever this is. They're completely healthy outside of Damon Hunt.

580
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 5: They did the bulk of this work that.

581
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Speaker 1: Twenty one four and three records since November first with

582
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 1: a patchwork lineup at best. Because a feel at all,

583
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Speaker 1: given that they've gotten so healthy recently, have you seen

584
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 1: them almost having to figure out what that looks like

585
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 1: and how to be at the best with everyone healthy.

586
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,120
Speaker 1: Have you kind of seen it at all that way

587
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: where Johansson having the season that he has, he's out

588
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 1: then he's back, and frankly, there wasn't I mean he's

589
00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: just kind of jumped back in and continue doing his thing.

590
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,400
Speaker 1: But whether it was Zucarello, we've been waiting for that

591
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: defensive pairings figuring that out.

592
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 2: I mean, Faber and Hughes, as good as that.

593
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 1: Is, just figure it almost felt like they had to reacclimate.

594
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this is what it's like to have everybody

595
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: that we were supposed to have into this season.

596
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 2: I think there's something to that. We go back to

597
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 2: that game.

598
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 5: I'm looking at the schedule eleven days ago at Columbus.

599
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 5: They were missing seven guys from that lineup. That was

600
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 5: two of their top six in Zucarello and Johanson.

601
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,120
Speaker 2: You were missing three from your defensive corps.

602
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,199
Speaker 5: And then I think Damon Hunt on top of that,

603
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 5: and then Vinnie Heinestroza, who you know, Say what you

604
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 5: want about him, He's still a valid, a valuable piece

605
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 5: of this lineup.

606
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: They found it dominate that game, didn't they, And they

607
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: ended up winning that game, they won five to two.

608
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,920
Speaker 1: That was the six of seven consecutive victories. But that's

609
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: a good example.

610
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 5: Now, slowly but surely, as they've come out of that game,

611
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 5: they've become healthy. They got back Zukerello and Johansson. I

612
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 5: think the next like five guys returned to the lineup

613
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 5: in one fell swoop, and then they got the other

614
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 5: guy back shortly thereafter. I think the biggest thing that

615
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 5: they've had going for them, And again knock on whatever

616
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 5: this is made out of. Capri Stoff hasn't been hurt,

617
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 5: Boldi hasn't been hurt. Their goaltending has been rock solid,

618
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 5: and they haven't been hurt. And Jewel rxs Neck is

619
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 5: another one who I think was out of lineup a

620
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 5: little bit earlier on. But those are your core pieces

621
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 5: and I think you can make patchwork around that as

622
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,959
Speaker 5: long as you got that solid nucleus. You lose one

623
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 5: of them and then it's it's gonna get a little

624
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 5: bit more, a little bit more worrisome. But I like

625
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 5: the way that this team has developed itself. And not

626
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 5: only that, but and of course you're gonna have Caprice

627
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,159
Speaker 5: if you're gonna have Boldie. But that second line has

628
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 5: been so good both on both ends of the ice,

629
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 5: with Jewel Arix Neck in between Johansson and Boldie, they've

630
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 5: been on another world. And of course they did it

631
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 5: offensively in Vegas the other night when they blew up

632
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 5: the Golden Knights in Tmobile Arena, but they've been doing

633
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 5: that all season long.

634
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Golden Knights, I mean, that's the kind

635
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: of the common tenor to to some of this in

636
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: terms of the season, which was the kind of the

637
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 1: frame up that, Yeah, that's cool. You can go and

638
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: and handle Utah, you can go and beat the Kraken.

639
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 2: That's fine.

640
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: And you've always for the most part, had pretty good

641
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: luck in the Pacific Sands. Maybe what the Kings. Kings

642
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: always seem like they provide some trouble for the wild,

643
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: but other than that, we've even gone to Edmonton with

644
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: great regularity over the course of time and kind of

645
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: yawn our way to victories over McDavid in Dryseidle, mostly

646
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: because their goaltending generally has been putrid over the last

647
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: half decade. But beating good teams in the Central has

648
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: been an issue for a number of years. Going to

649
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: Winnipeg and winning feels like climbing Everest. Just forget about

650
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: beating the Stars at any point in time, and the

651
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: Avalanche have been a literal avalanche on our heads more

652
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Speaker 1: times than they haven't been. Sadly, that did actually happen

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Speaker 1: recently at Can we call it.

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Speaker 2: The slot machine?

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Speaker 5: No, we called Grand Casino Arena on GCA as what

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Speaker 5: my initials for it used to be the X.

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Speaker 2: Now I put GCA. Don't you think.

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Speaker 1: Grand Casino would would appreciate that? I mean their name,

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Speaker 1: they probably would.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'm having enough trouble making the transition from

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Speaker 5: Excel Energy Center to Grand Casino Arena.

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Speaker 2: I don't need more to think about. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I think the slot was slot machine. It needs a

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Speaker 2: cool nickname. I don't know, GCA, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I have heard some other words too, some other examples,

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Speaker 5: but we'll keep a GCA or the slot machine. And

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Speaker 5: you're I like it, But they're they're going And most

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Speaker 5: recent example is going to T Mobile. And I mean,

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Speaker 5: the Wild have had some success, regular season success against

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Speaker 5: the Golden Knights, but you rarely see this team going

671
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Speaker 5: to some of these spots and just absolutely dominating the

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Speaker 5: big timers in the West. And now we're starting to

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Speaker 5: see that, and I think that's kind of part of

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Speaker 5: the grand Er Tide turn. I would put an asterisk

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Speaker 5: behind the Vegas win in the fact that Vegas is

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Speaker 5: beat up and you know, the Wild aren't gonna feel

677
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Speaker 5: sorry for him because they've had their issues too, But

678
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Speaker 5: still you went to T Mobile Arena and you dominated him.

679
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Speaker 5: I mean, they rushed out to a five zero advantage

680
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 5: and it was Coastville from that wasn't even through the

681
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Speaker 5: halfway point of that hockey game. Rep should have called

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Speaker 5: the game at the end of two. They very well

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Speaker 5: could have, and I think the part of some of

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Speaker 5: the group and there probably would have been okay with that.

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Speaker 5: But they're beat up. I mean, they're missing a ton

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Speaker 5: of their big talent. The version that they saw on

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Speaker 5: Monday is not the version that they're probably gonna have

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Speaker 5: to deal with later on in this season. That said,

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Speaker 5: the Wild have done some amazing things this year. Black Friday,

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Speaker 5: the win against the Colorado Avalanche. That team came in

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Speaker 5: to Saint Paul with a ten game win streak. Yes

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Speaker 5: for Valstad, shuts down McKinnon and mccarr and the shootout

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Speaker 5: the Wild get two points.

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Speaker 2: That was awesome. The win in Winnipeg.

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Speaker 5: Winnipeg's not a very good team this year, but the

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Speaker 5: Wild hadn't won, hadn't beat them in four years in

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Speaker 5: the regular season. They get the win in Winnipeg they've

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Speaker 5: won them to beat them on consecutive occasions. Now beating

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Speaker 5: Dallas they put five on Jay Ottinger. So's they haven't

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Speaker 5: been doing it against the dead beats of the National

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Speaker 5: Hockey League. They're taking down very good teams. Carolina, they

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Speaker 5: beat Florida. They've done it against some very good I

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Speaker 5: think the resumes speech for itself. This isn't a two

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Speaker 5: week span where they've been playing great hockey. I mean

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Speaker 5: they've been doing this for the better part of two

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Speaker 5: months and change.

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Speaker 2: So I think there's something to be said about that.

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Speaker 5: And again, they did the bulk of that with a

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Speaker 5: patchwork lineup and without Quinn Hughes.

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Speaker 2: Now you had Queen Hughes to it.

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Speaker 5: And this team has elevated itself into the conversation where

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Speaker 5: I can't believe people are talking about them in the

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Speaker 5: same breath as a Colorado Avalanche, a Dallas Stars Stanley

714
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Speaker 5: Cup contenders. When again, you go back to October and

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Speaker 5: how thick it was around that franchise. It's a beautiful thing.

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Speaker 2: Let's pause, let's return.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you some more dumb questions about our

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Speaker 1: favorite hockey team who play the San Jose Sharks. Today

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Speaker 1: your home for Wild Hockey the Fan, but more with

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Speaker 1: the King of the Minnesota Wild Radio Network himself. We'll

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Speaker 1: kiss the ring and continue the conversation with Kevin Faulness

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Speaker 1: around the corner. It's Nordo win for PA on a

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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve on the fans.

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Speaker 2: Tell us out on the final feast of the season.

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Speaker 1: Fulcome back another segment with Kevin Faulness Ben Leeber at

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Speaker 1: the top of the hour Weekly Guest. We'll chat some

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Speaker 1: football with Ben. I'm gonna ask him. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: cool to root for Sam Darnold at this point, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what we'll see what we think about that.

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Speaker 2: What kind of a.

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Speaker 1: Straddle on one seat on the line? Uh, Saturday, I

739
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: think it's Saturday at the Niners. But back to hockey. Wait,

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Speaker 1: now you're on me about clock management because it was here.

741
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Speaker 1: Yeah shah, Well you see me under the bus with

742
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Speaker 1: the Staples comment. Well, I mean it's I really thought

743
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Speaker 1: he was coming in here to yell at me about

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Speaker 1: sensitive conversation in house.

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Speaker 2: Now it's not. It's funny.

746
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Speaker 1: We all talk about the Staples. Trust me, it's been,

747
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Speaker 1: it's gone around, It's gone around. This beautiful natural brick surround.

748
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Speaker 1: Stupid question, A couple in the wild, and then I

749
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Speaker 1: do want to hit World Juniors in town.

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Speaker 2: Matt Boldie. So I actually we were at TCO yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I asked Pat mcletty the same thing, but he kind

752
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: of took it to an all time and Matt Boldy

753
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Speaker 1: emerging as one of the better American skaters.

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Speaker 2: I heard that. You can hear any them, Mike Madonnald

755
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Speaker 2: right well, and that's what I'm like. No, I'm not

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Speaker 2: going Madonna and Kane here.

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Speaker 1: I've just been like right now, I'm thinking the Robertsons

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Speaker 1: and and I know, like Austin Matthews, I think most

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00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 1: hockey fans, even the hardcore state of hockey lovers, they're

760
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: not going to put him in the in the Austin

761
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Speaker 1: Matthews camp, you know, maybe he's more.

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Speaker 2: Maybe Clayton Keller is a better conversation.

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Speaker 1: You appreciate what the Kachuck brothers do and and Matthew,

764
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Speaker 1: I mean, they they very different players. I would say,

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Speaker 1: a Matthew kuld Chuck and then Matt Boldies. You're evaluating

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Speaker 1: overall contributions versus maybe just this stat versus that stat.

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Speaker 1: I just think if if this is the trajectory from

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Speaker 1: his postseason that he had a year ago, albeit a

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Speaker 1: series loss, into what we're seeing now twenty five plus

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Speaker 1: goals already. Really, I mean, I think he's still on

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Speaker 1: a hundred point pace. He's closing in on fifty goals.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be the biggest thing. They're gonna two guys

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Speaker 1: scoring fifty goals if they stay healthy and so but

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Speaker 1: let's just this can't just be a flash in the

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Speaker 1: pan anymore with Boldie, and it can't because of what

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Speaker 1: we've seen. It also can't be because we need what

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Speaker 1: we're seeing from him. Is it fair to say that

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Speaker 1: he is truly becoming one of the upper echelon high

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Speaker 1: end American skaters in the league. Affirmative currently yes, affirmative confirmed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's one of the bright spots in the National Hockey

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Speaker 1: When you talk about offensive scoring threats, he's right there.

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Speaker 1: I filled in for Common yesterday and my comparison was

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Speaker 1: did I did as a matter of fact from thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening.

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Speaker 2: But you come into the season and into this body.

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Speaker 5: Working and think, Okay, you got Caprisa, you got Boldie,

787
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Speaker 5: that's Batman, that's Robin. But Boldie's taken such a leap

788
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Speaker 5: this year that I think you got to Batman's. I

789
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 5: think you got right now, two guys that are legitimate.

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is unbelievable what they have to work with.

791
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Speaker 5: Then you throw Quinn Hughes into the mix as well,

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Speaker 5: you've got you know, I mean right now, you look

793
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Speaker 5: at the scoring. I believe Matt Buldie's third in the

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Speaker 5: National Hockey League goals behind uh who is it? Behind

795
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Speaker 5: uh mcgeekee and then McKinnon. And it's unbelievable to think.

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Speaker 2: That that we've got that guy in Matt Bouldie and

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Speaker 2: then Capriso.

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Speaker 5: I was hot on his heels with twenty three goals,

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Speaker 5: So I think he's arrived.

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Speaker 2: I think, and now it's.

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Speaker 1: A matter Matt Bowleie currently tied for second second with Geeky.

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Speaker 1: With Geeky, Yeah, it's ridiculous name, by the way, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and on.

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Speaker 5: Boston, of all all places. So and then of course

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Speaker 5: you got Nathan McKinnon, who's on an.

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Speaker 1: Incredible pace in and of a Carill rounding out the

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Speaker 1: top five with twenty three himself.

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Speaker 2: Yep. So that's what I mean.

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Speaker 5: It should be Batman and Robin, but right now they're

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Speaker 5: playing like a pair of Batman's and the way that

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00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 5: they're they're paying offensively. It's awesome to have that one

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Speaker 5: two punch. And the best part about it is you

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Speaker 5: don't have to have him on the same line. You've

815
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Speaker 5: got Caprisov playing catch with Zuccarello and whoever you want

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Speaker 5: to throw in the middle, whether it's Hartman, whether it's

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Speaker 5: eure Off. And then you've got Boldie on that shutdown

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Speaker 5: line that's also got some offensive firepower to it with

819
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Speaker 5: Eck and Johansson on the second line. Man, it's been

820
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 5: so much fun to watch, and you know, now he's

821
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Speaker 5: got to maintain it. It's the same thing with Johansson.

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Speaker 5: He can be streaky at best. You know, I don't

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Speaker 5: know what I would expect. I don't think he's going

824
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Speaker 5: to score thirty, probably won't even score twenty, even though

825
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,280
Speaker 5: he's at twelve right now. But still keep some level

826
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Speaker 5: of intensity to your game and he might be.

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Speaker 2: I think he's having the best year of his career.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: He had some pretty good ones back with Ovechkin and Backstrom.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what his numbers were, but I think

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Speaker 5: he topped out. He had twenty goals and he had

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Speaker 5: to have sixty some points. I don't know what he's

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00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 5: on pace for right now, but he's playing the best

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Speaker 5: hockey we've see him play. And the fact that he

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Speaker 5: came in here on a one year deal one hundred

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Speaker 5: thousand dollars, he's If I'm Bill Garin, I want him

837
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Speaker 5: back next year, but I want him on a one

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Speaker 5: year contract. Keep him hungry, all right.

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Speaker 1: Let me look, well his best season, I mean, if

840
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Speaker 1: he can top this, and again, this is with the Capitals.

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00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: This is with the Caps twenty seventeen season, twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: seventeen eighty two, played all eighty two. We dig that

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00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: so far, we've had some injury issues, so actually we

844
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: don't like that at all. But he went for twenty

845
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Speaker 1: four and thirty four, so he's at twelve and twenty already. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he has an opportunity, I guess statistically to be more

847
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Speaker 1: productive in that spot. He's a plus twenty one if

848
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Speaker 1: you care about that. He was a plus twenty five

849
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Speaker 1: back then, but fifty eight points was the cap.

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Speaker 2: He's at thirty two right now.

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Speaker 5: I don't think there's any reason I think that he

852
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,359
Speaker 5: won't reach that as long as he stays healthy. I mean,

853
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Speaker 5: he's knocking on the door for an Olympic spot with

854
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 5: Team Sweden as is. Yesperval said, you know you're gonna

855
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 5: have brodein and you're gonna have Eric Sinek. Yeah, there

856
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 5: as well Gustavsen of course between the playpes.

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Speaker 1: But isn't that crazy too with that, with that goaltending

858
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: tandem so love, yes, we're and Gus Buss. What that

859
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: has done to this team is part of that crazy

860
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: November and how we've carried that they've I mean, this

861
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,240
Speaker 1: is just blatantly obvious that that's paramount to this team.

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00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 2: What's frustrating Wedgwood and Blackwood.

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00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean they've got quite the army in

864
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 5: front of them. I mean they're decent goaltenders, but nothing

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00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 5: gets to them.

866
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 2: I mean, everything's on the offensive side.

867
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 5: They sit back there in a hammock and they just

868
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 5: wait for something to run into them. That it's it's

869
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 5: what they've been able to craft there in Colorado is

870
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 5: on another level, and the Wild definitely have their work

871
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 5: cutout for them. If they meet up with the Colorado

872
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 5: Avalanche and hopefully everything plays according to the plan, that

873
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 5: would be most likely a second round matchup, But regardless,

874
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 5: there's a whole lot of time between now and then.

875
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:50,439
Speaker 2: What the Wild?

876
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 5: The Wild the biggest question mark coming into this season.

877
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,800
Speaker 5: There were two of them. Could you re sign Carill Capriceo?

878
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:56,479
Speaker 2: They did?

879
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 5: And what is Yespervalsti going to look like? Because remember

880
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 5: we're thinking as the great Wall of Saint Paul. Now,

881
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 5: we didn't have that thought of him coming into the season.

882
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 5: He was kind of an unknown commodity. The future looked

883
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 5: bright for him, but did it after last season? Had

884
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 5: a raffle year in the American Hockey League playing in

885
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 5: Iowa behind a bad team, but he was also injured.

886
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,320
Speaker 2: What would that do to him mentally? So Marc Andre

887
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 2: Fleury retires.

888
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 5: Now he comes in he's the backup to Philip Gustafson,

889
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 5: and what he's done is he's took the ball and

890
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 5: run with it. He's put up incredible numbers, four or

891
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 5: five shutouts this season. He's been Now he's the great

892
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,880
Speaker 5: Wall of Saint Paul and you have a legitimate.

893
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: One two punch in the National Hockey League and the

894
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 1: we don't know who's going to be in neck today.

895
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: I had a text or ask that, but it was

896
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 1: gust The other day.

897
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 5: Gustafson play and that's I mean, he's solidified himself as

898
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 5: the number one guy again. Yespervoalstad was getting all the

899
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:49,760
Speaker 5: headlines about a month ago. But now Philip Gustafson thirteen

900
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 5: eight and four on the season. That includes a bad

901
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 5: October by everyone, including maybe not the best outing by him.

902
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 5: But he's six oh on one of the last seven starts,

903
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 5: nine to one to three in his last thirteen. Now

904
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 5: he's been the gust Buss has been great, as has

905
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,879
Speaker 5: been Yespervaalston, and that's part of the reason this team

906
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 5: is playing great defensively in front of They only gave

907
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,359
Speaker 5: up fourteen shots against Vegas, but I mean what they

908
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 5: did offensively was great. But what they've been doing between

909
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,760
Speaker 5: the pipes. They've been playing a great, defensively sound, structured

910
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 5: game in front of him, and they've been getting offensive

911
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:19,319
Speaker 5: firepower as well.

912
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 2: Enjoying the World Juniors very much.

913
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 5: So, you know, I never realized how much I love

914
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 5: the song Freebird until I heard it at Grand Casino Arena.

915
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 5: And every time the Americans score, everybody goes nuts to crazy.

916
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 2: Yeah it's and that was a hell of a hockey

917
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 2: game six five.

918
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 5: They beat Bronco Radovoyevich's Slovakian team and they ran up

919
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 5: a six to five victory. I'm anxious to see how

920
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 5: they performed today against Team Sweden.

921
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a tough test.

922
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: Good presentation and everything at It's the slot Machine. It's

923
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: been great GCA or Grand Casino Arena.

924
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 5: I have no idea what it looks like across the

925
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 5: river at three AM Arena at Miriyuchi, where Group B

926
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 5: is toiling away, including Team Canna and guessing they're doing

927
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 5: a great job as well. I've been focused solely mostly

928
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 5: on Team USA and the presentation there at Grand Casino

929
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 5: Arena and what hell the and Parish have done to

930
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 5: the tournament this point.

931
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,439
Speaker 2: It's been great. Yeah, they've they've done a good job.

932
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: And I was Abbott was in here in the in

933
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: the break, not just because of the Staples, but just

934
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: chatting it up on a New Year's Eve.

935
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 2: Uh.

936
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: He noted that a lot of people haven't been in

937
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: the know. If you wanted to get to the game,

938
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 1: you were going to spend a small fortune.

939
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 2: At one point, you were buying a full session.

940
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 1: It's multiple games, and we're gonna get what we're gonna

941
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: get from you on the front end.

942
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 2: But now you can.

943
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 1: I mean, the get in price is almost nothing for

944
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: non American teams, and uh, it's it's pretty reasonable just

945
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: to go to singular games now. And you got to

946
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: check this thing out because if the if the Americans

947
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:45,439
Speaker 1: make it to the gold medal game, I think they're

948
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,479
Speaker 1: going to open up that top level at GCA Grand

949
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: Casino Arena, slash the slot machine and and give fans

950
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: the opportunity to jump in there and watch the the

951
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: hometown kids hoisted gold medal.

952
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 5: I promise you you will not be disappointed. If you go,

953
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 5: you'll have a blast. It doesn't come here this often,

954
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 5: certainly in the Minnesota, but even North America it's on

955
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 5: a rotation on a world stage where they go to Sweden,

956
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 5: they go to they've been to Russia.

957
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 2: They spend a lot of time up in Canada.

958
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 5: To have it here in your backyard, I really hope

959
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 5: people take advantage of it. Today's the last game in

960
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 5: the round robin portion of it, and then they'll get

961
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 5: to the medal rounds. And we already know TM USA

962
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 5: is playing at five o'clock in the quarterfinals on Friday.

963
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 5: It's just a matter of who they will face, and

964
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 5: that'll be answered here as the day goes on, as

965
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 5: there's a full slate of action today in the World Juniors.

966
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 5: But I promise you if you get down a grand

967
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 5: casino arena, whether it be today or this weekend for

968
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 5: the quarterfinals, semifinals, or no matter who's in it, but

969
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 5: especially if it's Team USA, You're gonna have so much fun.

970
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 5: And I promise you you will not regret putting down

971
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 5: the cash whatever it costs, and getting inside that building.

972
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: Well, and this is real program directing here. Abbott texted

973
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: me this just now. Lingle game tickets are available for

974
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: all remaining games. It's World Juniors m N twenty six

975
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 1: dot com that's World Juniors m N twenty six dot com.

976
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 2: Thanks for hanging out with me.

977
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you hop on the road head over

978
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,800
Speaker 1: to Saint Paul and get things started for what should

979
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,839
Speaker 1: be another rousing affair, this time at San Jose while

980
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: go get two points, call it at twenty twenty five,

981
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: and we just move on with our lives, right.

982
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 5: Extended pregame by the way, two o'clock, we'll have Joe

983
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 5: and Tom from the booth there at the Shark Tank

984
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 5: and we'll get you ready for the drop of the

985
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 5: puck coming up I believe at three zero eight here

986
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 5: in the Central time zone. And that's followed right after

987
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 5: Halvey on the call of the Americans and Team Sweden.

988
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,839
Speaker 5: So that's all say. But it's holiday bait. There's no

989
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 5: reason for people to be out on the road. So

990
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 5: I should have a clear shot to take the to

991
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 5: jump in onto ninety four off of three ninety four

992
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,760
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna get right into Saint Paul, right.

993
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 2: No problems. Well, it's a very self center viewpoint about me.

994
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:58,720
Speaker 2: Move to the side.

995
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: Do you want to give your ma can model so

996
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: his cars? Should we get a police escort?

997
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 2: Don't know it's me. I got the little Saint Louis

998
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 2: Park emblem on the back. Just move out of my way.

999
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 5: I just want to merge right onto ninety four and

1000
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:10,479
Speaker 5: just let me get to Saint Paul.

1001
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: So if you see, if you see a Superaru straddling

1002
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: the super Yes, you'll you'll know it's Kevin Fallness en

1003
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: route bp ST Paul with hopefully winning hockey on his mind.

1004
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 2: That's Kevin Faulness at Radio. Fallness via X the King.

1005
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: We kissed the ring of the Minnesota Wild Radio Network

1006
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: and we chat with Ben Leeber.

1007
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 2: Next, it's nine to noon on the Fan