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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, hey, ready when you all are, good

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Speaker 1: morning and welcome to a box in the box at

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Speaker 1: FM one hundred point three k f A n your

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Speaker 1: home from Minnesota Wild Hockey and the Philadelphia Flyers are

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Speaker 1: in town tonight. We have seventeen games to go in

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Wild season. It's a meat grinder atop the division.

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Speaker 2: Been like that all season.

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Speaker 1: Not three of the better teams in the NHL surging

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Wild coach to buy, John Hines, who joins us

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Speaker 1: from Trea Rink in Saint.

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Speaker 2: Paul in order to produces.

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Speaker 1: Kris Savage is here with the KFA and Social team

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Speaker 1: and Kevin gorg is the co host for the first

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Speaker 2: Good morning, gentlemen, How are things very good? Pa?

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Speaker 3: Great Pa, Good to be with you.

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Speaker 2: Good to see you.

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Speaker 3: Heinze.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to begin with a little bit of fill

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Speaker 1: it Helphia Flyers related trivia. If you guys are okay

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Speaker 1: with that, sure, and in fact, let's do it this way.

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Speaker 1: I have three questions for you, okay, and I'm what

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Speaker 1: you and I are going to spot up and bet

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Speaker 1: twenty dollars because I don't want to put a head

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Speaker 1: coach of a professional sporting team in a position to

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Speaker 1: best one dollar wager on the radio airwaves. And and

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Speaker 1: here are the questions. Let's so get your minds ready.

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Speaker 1: I know it's early. Now, first and foremost, the absolutely

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Speaker 1: best player in the history of the Philadelphia Flyers would

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Speaker 1: be Bobby Clark. Bobby Clark, I mean not not only best,

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Speaker 1: but formidable. All right, So here we go. So I

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Speaker 1: and you got you. We only have three questions here.

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Speaker 1: Here's the first question. Now, Bobby Clark all time leads

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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Flyers in points and assists. Who's number one

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Speaker 1: in the history of the team in goals? Your name

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Speaker 3: John Leclair.

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Speaker 2: Incorrect? I don't think he played there long enough. But

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Eric Lindress incorrect.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Now get ready, of your name's your buzzer. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna give you a hymn played in the started in

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Speaker 1: the early seventies, initials BB Phil Barber.

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Speaker 3: He didn't say his name, say my name.

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Speaker 1: All right, one zero kg to begin a very controversial

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Speaker 1: Name is the buzzer, easy one. Name the Flyers mascot

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Speaker 1: John Hinds. He go, we're tired at one surgery. Down

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Speaker 1: to the line together. It's a dead heat right now.

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Speaker 1: They come down to the line together to begin Philly

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Speaker 1: Flyers Trivia and then we'll get into the meat of

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Speaker 1: the matter. Number three, Which Flyers goalie?

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Speaker 2: Gorg So okay, Bernie proNT.

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Speaker 3: No Dan, Dan, you're going to say who's starting tonight?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which they're not going to change.

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Speaker 1: The Flyers goalie starts this evening. They used their backup

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Speaker 1: last night to back to you. It was which Flyers

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Speaker 1: goalie as the single season record four wins? Bernie Parott

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Speaker 1: seventy three and seventy four with forty seven wins. So

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Speaker 1: let's segue into let me get this straight. So the

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Speaker 1: Flyers in the seventies early seventies beat you up with

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Speaker 2: Well, it's unbelieve, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely How about if you had a fast, physical team

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Speaker 1: With Philadelphia here this evening. How excited is Bobby Brink

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Speaker 2: Say, hey, you know those guys right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 4: It's actually two games for him where obviously his first

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Speaker 4: And obviously playing so quickly against your against your former team,

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Speaker 2: How much you know players always talk about trade deadline

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's both. You know, Bobby's coming in and trying

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Speaker 2: It feels like right now, if and when you get

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Speaker 2: how much does that internal competition help build that intensity

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we always talk about you want to have.

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Speaker 4: You want to have health, healthy internal competition. I think

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Speaker 4: the stronger that your team is and the deeper that

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Speaker 4: We're gonna need them down the stretch and into the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Another new player. I'd be curious to keep your thoughts

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Speaker 2: on is Michael Mccaerre and I had a chance to

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Speaker 3: Mike's man A very big impact came as advertised.

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Speaker 4: You know, he's he's a big personality as a big human,

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Speaker 4: you know, very engaging, great teammate. He's been good in

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Speaker 4: big guy. He's added to our penalty kill, so all

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Speaker 4: those things that we you know, he can play center

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Speaker 1: When when when the trade deadline passes, you know, people

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Speaker 1: will talk about players, you know, and distractions and wondering

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Speaker 2: I am I going to be there?

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Speaker 1: You know they read social media things like that.

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Speaker 2: What about the coaches? Like what about you?

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Speaker 1: Like, when that's done, do you feel whether you added

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Speaker 1: one some maybe maybe it was stages quo, But like

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 4: And that's exactly what we talked with the team about

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Speaker 4: we're going to we're going to battle with down the

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Speaker 4: you know, prior to that, there's always all kinds of

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Speaker 4: can't do. You know, there's different targets. I thought that

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately we were able to get them.

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Speaker 1: Now, the Flyers are on a back to back now,

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Speaker 1: when teams go on back to backs with travel, like,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what, I think sometimes it's a slippery

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Speaker 3: Will away from them over the course of the game.

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Speaker 4: And I think that's if you do that, then you

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Speaker 4: I think over the course of a game. But you've

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Speaker 1: So that's a pre game breach to your team, right, correct? Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, exactly pointed out exactly like that beautifully.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of nights ago that played out. You know,

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Speaker 2: utahd played in Chicago the night before. They came out

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Speaker 2: that's a tough matchup for a lot of clubs. With

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Speaker 2: their speed and skill. They had given you fits as

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Speaker 2: the game progressed. What were you guys able to do

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Speaker 2: as a group to counteract how Utah wanted to play

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Speaker 2: and eventually put them away nicely?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think it was one of our more complete games.

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Speaker 4: You know, we were I thought we played fast, We

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Speaker 2: That was awesome.

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Speaker 1: Who gets the net for you guys tonight, Wally? I

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you God bless your heinz. See you man.

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Speaker 1: That's John Hines, coach of the Minnesota while they take

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Speaker 1: on the Philadelphia Fly this evening on KFA in shortly

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Speaker 1: after seven ill beloved KG is here for the first

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Speaker 3: K want to have healthy internal competition.

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Speaker 4: I think the stronger that your team is and the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Wild not nice enough to join Fox in the

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Speaker 1: Box from Trio with the Flyers in town tonight. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to Kfan and the nine to noon radio show

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Speaker 1: with you rsh Early Paul Allen coming up a little

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Speaker 1: later now we have RUSSO Radio at about ten o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Wild general manager Billy G. Bill Garon joins us

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know they start early. Tea time started at

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Speaker 2: And you were there yesterday.

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Speaker 1: That yeah, that makes it if you're Hockey and Saucy,

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Speaker 1: moving parts and stuff like that. I mean, shoot, Hughesy

440
00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,000
Speaker 1: wasn't on the team. You can just start there, but

441
00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,720
Speaker 1: it's way too far back in the season to be like, hey,

442
00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:19,040
Speaker 1: what are you gotta do differently there to win a

443
00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,840
Speaker 1: lower high scoring game. But the Flyers the deep diving

444
00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:28,080
Speaker 1: the Flyers yesterday. It's a non playoff team, hocking immortality.

445
00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,040
Speaker 1: They're using their number one goalie tonight. There might be

446
00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,720
Speaker 1: three players on the team I've heard of and I

447
00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,439
Speaker 1: look at it, not super closely, but kind of closely

448
00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:37,200
Speaker 1: every single day.

449
00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:38,040
Speaker 2: One of them is Nick.

450
00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,720
Speaker 1: Sealer, Eden Prairie high school kid. Yeah, fifth round pick

451
00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,320
Speaker 1: by the Wild, I believe back in the day. But

452
00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,440
Speaker 1: when I say Philadelphia's tricky, it's they. You know, if

453
00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,720
Speaker 1: you look, you know, since everybody got back from the

454
00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:56,119
Speaker 1: Olympics like their records decent. Their goals allowed ain't bad.

455
00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,840
Speaker 1: They're awful on back to backs, and they've only scored

456
00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:03,159
Speaker 1: four goals, but their record's not. So it just seems

457
00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 1: from afar that they want to suck you into some

458
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,760
Speaker 1: kind of tightly knit game and then just let puck cluck.

459
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:10,400
Speaker 2: Lead the way late.

460
00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:11,560
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, what do you think?

461
00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:11,800
Speaker 3: Well?

462
00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,240
Speaker 2: I also think they've got seventy one points. If they're

463
00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,840
Speaker 2: in the Pacific Division right now, they've got a chance

464
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,760
Speaker 2: to win a division. So part of it might just

465
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:20,919
Speaker 2: be where they're located. And then I look at their

466
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,920
Speaker 2: roster and I know it's second of back to back,

467
00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,400
Speaker 2: and I see Noah Kates stillwater Kit good player. Alex

468
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,960
Speaker 2: Bump just played his first National Hockey League game prior

469
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,639
Speaker 2: lakes Own. Scored a goal in that first game with

470
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 2: the call up. He's got a goal and assist in

471
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,919
Speaker 2: those three games with the Flyers. You mentioned Nick Steeler,

472
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,560
Speaker 2: Minnesota kid, They're gonna come with an effort tonight. They

473
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,320
Speaker 2: saved their starter for this one. You know, I look

474
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,200
Speaker 2: at the line. I know Minnesotas are heavy favorite tonight,

475
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 2: but this looks like a weird spot. To me, you're

476
00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:50,639
Speaker 2: off what was a really emotional playing with double revenge

477
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,160
Speaker 2: five to nothing win against Utah where everything went your way.

478
00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:56,240
Speaker 2: You played great for sixty minutes, and you know, here's

479
00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 2: kind of one of those weird spots on the schedule,

480
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,159
Speaker 2: and this is a test, and you know, I think

481
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,080
Speaker 2: it's gotten frustrating for Minnesota. They've played great hockey here.

482
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Speaker 5: Going into the Olympic break, coming out of the Olympic break,

483
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:08,120
Speaker 5: and they can't make up any ground on Dallas, which

484
00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:10,199
Speaker 5: is really the only carrot that's out there. If you're

485
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 5: John Hines in Minnesota right now, home ice, if it

486
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 5: matters to you, is the only carrot out there.

487
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Speaker 2: And Dallas is sitting sitting here going twelve and one

488
00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:19,840
Speaker 2: in their last thirteen, and you've played great hockey and

489
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 2: lost ground. Yeah, you're what are your three behind the Flyers?

490
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,159
Speaker 2: You're three behind Dallas and they've got a game in

491
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 2: I mean Dallas. That's that's tough. I mean, that's yeah,

492
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Speaker 2: it doesn't sound like a lot, you know, game and

493
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,200
Speaker 2: a half in baseball terms, But then you factor in.

494
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,800
Speaker 1: Dallas has a grinder game tonight. I think now they're.

495
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Speaker 2: Home Dabmonton, I don't know how grinding that's gonna great point.

496
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 5: I mean, come on, well we got we got two

497
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Speaker 5: against I thought it was Colorado fault two against Dallas

498
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:42,679
Speaker 5: down the stretch, right.

499
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have you have a Yeah, you have

500
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Speaker 2: one here and one there.

501
00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 5: I believe so that that that potentially, if you're gaming

502
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,119
Speaker 5: those two, that solves that issue for sure.

503
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 2: That does make a difference. And listen, so why can't

504
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 2: Edmonton be grind you with McDavid Dryland. They're getting off

505
00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,360
Speaker 2: a winning Colorado. They fired their bullet to night ago,

506
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 2: so pack of lunch tonight. I'm sorry, and really, to

507
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 2: be honest, I don't know how much home ice will

508
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 2: really matter. I get it, Craig Leopold, it matter. He

509
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 2: wants to gay Minnesota fans. It matter. But if you

510
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 2: really break it all down, Minnesota has been great on

511
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 2: the road all year long, and so it'd be nice

512
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 2: to have for sure. But I'm in the camp where

513
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 2: if we get down to the final week or two

514
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,679
Speaker 2: of the season and it still looks like Dallas has

515
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 2: a three or four point edge, I'm going to take

516
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,920
Speaker 2: a look at maybe giving Matt Boldie or Brock favor

517
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 2: or Quinn Hughes a game or two off and listen.

518
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:34,399
Speaker 2: I know it's not the NBA, and I know we

519
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,919
Speaker 2: don't do the load management thing, but when you have

520
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 2: an Olympic break, when you play and win a gold

521
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 2: medal during that break, when everybody else is going back

522
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 2: to Russia or going to can Kun, that matters to me.

523
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 2: And so for the guys that were absolutely on the

524
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,640
Speaker 2: grind and play big minutes every night, if the Wild

525
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,399
Speaker 2: aren't going to have anything to play for in that

526
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 2: final week or two, I would certainly consider that.

527
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 1: The NBA with what you said and order, can't I

528
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,119
Speaker 1: talk about it off the radio more than on. It's

529
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: been an embarrassment this year. Yeah, with the with the

530
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:06,440
Speaker 1: load management brutal and it's like, you know, because now

531
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: you have that, there's a player I think he plays

532
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,880
Speaker 1: for Duke Boozer.

533
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 2: Emerson Boozer.

534
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 1: Is that Carlos's kids got to be I think, so yeah, wow, yeah,

535
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 1: but I mean it's you know, there was Cooper Flag

536
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 1: last year, big time player. This bo this Boozer is

537
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 1: he's a franchise changer. At one point you had whether

538
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,639
Speaker 1: it was the Brooklyn Nets, the Memphis Grizzlies, the Washington

539
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: Wizards just like the dregs of the drag. I mean,

540
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 1: they had lost like a combined twenty one consection. Nobody's

541
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 1: trying to win. You had Brooklyn play in Memphis the

542
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 1: other night, two of the worst teams in the NBA,

543
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 1: and it was like it was like the Washington Generals

544
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 1: against the Washington Generals. Hey, Jalen Well shot an airball.

545
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 1: Here comes Nick Claxton. Watch my airball. I mean, it's

546
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: you got that. But then the resting of the players

547
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 1: and if they're like ten percent hurt, we're gonna sit

548
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 1: them out because we look at this game and we

549
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: think we can get it, but we got a big

550
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: one on the It's just it's making it really really

551
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 1: difficult to follow the league now. They I mean, the

552
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: Timberwalls are having some significant problems right now. They've been

553
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,719
Speaker 1: blown out three consecutive. To the credit of the Wolves,

554
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 1: they don't do that with generally, with Anthony Edwards or

555
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: Julius Randall. It's been a little more this year. But yeah,

556
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 1: that's sorry to rant there, but it's just very very frustrating.

557
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: Well in following that league.

558
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 5: And it's interesting, you know, whether it was Steve Kerr

559
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 5: the other night, talking legitimately about the idea of playing

560
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 5: ten fewer games in an NBA season. You mentioned for

561
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 5: years we were thinking to ourselves, whether it was the

562
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 5: Blackhawks more recently, a good example would be the Florida Panthers.

563
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 5: How those long playoff runs stack up over a number

564
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 5: of years. And so now it's not just the Stanley

565
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 5: Cup champs though. And as much as we love the Olympics,

566
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 5: we're gonna love four nations and all of these things.

567
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 2: The league's about to extend to eighty four.

568
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 5: So we're going to tack two on that, and then

569
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 5: every couple of years you're gonna have a significant number

570
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 5: of big timers in this league. Maybe not, you know,

571
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 5: an extra three weeks of work on that. So there's

572
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 5: no rest for the weary as it pertains to what

573
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 5: this schedule is going to look like.

574
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 2: And I don't think it's gonna change.

575
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 5: I think it's only gonna get more down this road

576
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 5: of a lot of games in a short period of time.

577
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 2: The one thing I'll say about this coaching staff in specific,

578
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 2: I think they do an excellent job of picking their

579
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 2: spots with practice time. And a lot was made of

580
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 2: this by Michael Russo and others in the first half

581
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,160
Speaker 2: of the season. But the way it's played out, they've

582
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 2: been able to keep this team healthy and full of

583
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 2: energy deep into the season even with really no break

584
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 2: for nine guys that played in the Olympics. And you

585
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 2: saw it again this week off day, Monday, game, Tuesday,

586
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,360
Speaker 2: off day, Wednesday. I'm telling you this recent as five

587
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,120
Speaker 2: years ago, this would never happen. Yea and John Hines

588
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 2: and Bill Garrett have worked in unison to make sure

589
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,679
Speaker 2: these guys get their rest. And you're looking at a

590
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 2: schedule this week where you're gonna play tonight, you're gonna

591
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 2: play Saturday, and you're gonna play Sunday. Now there was

592
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,119
Speaker 2: gonna be a light practice on Friday in between, but

593
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 2: coaches and now managers need to take a look at

594
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 2: how they deploy their practice time because listen, these are

595
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 2: NHL guys and you can do just as much work

596
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 2: behind the scenes, looking at film and talking things out

597
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 2: in meetings. You don't need to drag them out of

598
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 2: the ice five six times a week.

599
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 1: What how's Bill Garren is I'd say seventy thirty to

600
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: join nine to noon today. He's working with the make

601
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: a wish group and doing some stuff like that. I

602
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 1: think he'll definitely stop by. But how do you think

603
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: the general manager would feel tonight if it was, say,

604
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, five point fifteen, five point thirty and

605
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: he catches Bobby Brink out in the lobby by the

606
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: hockey lodge, setting up like one hundred and twenty five,

607
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five people to come watch the

608
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: game tonight.

609
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 2: It's funny. He got asked about that in the postgame

610
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 2: scrum and he said, listen, I didn't get tickets or

611
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 2: any but they got their own. Because you know, it's

612
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 2: kind of fun. The way that thing played out. It

613
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 2: was a little bit tongue in cheek, but then it

614
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 2: was a little bit like, no, we got work to do.

615
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 2: And I think it's this time of year, right when

616
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 2: you get this late in the schedule and your Bobby Brinker,

617
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 2: anybody that gets moved to a new team, You've got

618
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 2: to make an impression. And that competition I talked about

619
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 2: with John Hines is legitimate right now. You know, if

620
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,959
Speaker 2: I'm Marcus Johansson, I feel good about who I am.

621
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 2: I've been a good year, right But no, listen, I

622
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 2: mean Bobby Brinking and Matt Boldie have chemistry from back

623
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 2: in their days wearing the red, white and blue, and

624
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 2: so there's all kinds of moving parts to this roster.

625
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 2: And every night right now, I mean, Nico Stern goes

626
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 2: out in Denver, it scores an unbelievably cool shorthanded goal

627
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,679
Speaker 2: and he's a healthy scratch the next game. And so

628
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 2: the maturity that they have to bring to the table,

629
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 2: what's at stake, and then understanding that there's a legitimate

630
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 2: competition within this roster for ice time, it's going to

631
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 2: be really interesting to see how the final month plays out.

632
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: Well wait, wait until Moose comes back. I mean, I'm

633
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: not you know, you know a thousand times more about

634
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: this than me. But like mccaren is making all the dances,

635
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: he's big. Okay, Well, when Moose comes back, you know,

636
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, Heinzi's got to start thinking

637
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: about some different things with mccaren and Brank fat Fabric,

638
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: he's not playing right now. You talked about the Stern

639
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: like Fabric now here but hasn't even a healthy scratch

640
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: of late.

641
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 2: He has, And so you make a great point, so

642
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 2: we know what we have with Zucarello, capri Soovn Hartman.

643
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 2: We know that. Let's just play Devil's advocate and say

644
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,959
Speaker 2: that Johansson Bold the next day together and now Brink's

645
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 2: become a nice third line option with Harrisenko in Europe.

646
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 2: There's your top nine you have now when they're healthy,

647
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 2: Six guys like Trenyon, mccaren, the two Filinos, Fabric and Sturm.

648
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 2: These are six quality players. You only get to pick

649
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 2: three of those six, three good players up in the

650
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 2: press box. It's going to be super, super intriguing. See.

651
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,959
Speaker 1: I mean for coach Hines, when you asked that question,

652
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,959
Speaker 1: I was just like looking at him answer it and

653
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: you could just feel you could see his mind going.

654
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: Because some would call it the oxymoron. It's a good problem.

655
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: Well yeah, it's a good problem until you put the

656
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: wrong guy in, you know, and the it's well, that

657
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: was the wrong way to put it. It's it's difficult

658
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: from a matchup standpoint, will dictate who plays. I would matter,

659
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: I would imagine, but still it can't be the easiest

660
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: thing in the world.

661
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 2: Try having a conversation with some of these players that

662
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 2: are veteran players that are that are brought in to

663
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 2: make you know, legitimate impact on the ice right, and

664
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 2: you're gonna have a conversation with these players that, oh,

665
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 2: by the way, great job in Denver, great scoring that

666
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 2: shorthanded goal, great being a glue guy for us all year.

667
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna need you to go to the press box.

668
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 2: The ultimate again, the ultimate test of any team player

669
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 2: is if you truly care about the group more than yourself,

670
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 2: can you handle a game or two in the press box.

671
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 2: And that was kind of John Hines's point with us

672
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 2: is you have a conversation one on one with a

673
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 2: player and then you expect them to be a team

674
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 2: first guy. It's easier said than done at this time

675
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 2: of the season. How tough is it? Then?

676
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,959
Speaker 5: Maybe from a rhythm standpoint like I picture for instance,

677
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 5: if a last year I had to take a few

678
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 5: weeks off of work, well, when I came back to

679
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 5: the office, it took me a couple of days to

680
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 5: remember the thing that I've been.

681
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 2: Doing for for what twelve years now.

682
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 5: So if you're a player and it's you're a healthy

683
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 5: scratch here, then you jump in. You play twelve minutes

684
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,239
Speaker 5: or maybe ten because you're on the fourth line. Then

685
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 5: you're out again. Oh then I get fourteen, then maybe

686
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 5: I'm out two. It feels like you know that that

687
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 5: is a mental game as well. With these players puts

688
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 5: them in a spot where I know, when my numbers called,

689
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 5: I got to be as ready as anybody on this

690
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 5: squad to perform, even if it is fourth line minutes.

691
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 2: In some respects, Luckily, the six guys I rattled off

692
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 2: are all veteran players that have figured out the routine

693
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 2: that it takes in this league. There is a cadence

694
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 2: to getting ready to put your best product on the ice.

695
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 2: And so for for a player like Nick Folino, for

696
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 2: a player even like Yakov Trendon, they've done it enough

697
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 2: normal fair where where when they hit that ice for

698
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 2: morning skate on a game day, they're they're working on

699
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 2: whatever they have to work on, or at seven o'clock

700
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 2: that night they're going to answer the bell and they

701
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 2: know that they don't have the luxury of having a

702
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 2: couple of shifts to get back into that routine. Because

703
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 2: you're only going to get six, eight, ten shifts in

704
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 2: that game, you better not take two. And so I

705
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 2: think the healthy competition can be a really good thing

706
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 2: provided all these guys are actually bought into the fact

707
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 2: that this is a Cup contender. It's going to be

708
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 2: a long run. There are gonna be injuries, and we

709
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 2: are all going to be a part of this thing

710
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 2: and at the end, if we do this right, we're

711
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 2: good enough. Well, we can dream about this and it's

712
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 2: real right now where there's a chance in June where

713
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 2: we're all going to celebrate with that big silver trophy

714
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 2: and get our name on it, and that makes it

715
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 2: all worthwhile. It doesn't hurt now. I mean, you can

716
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 2: speak to Dallas if you want, but I.

717
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: Would imagine it doesn't hurt that you absolutely know in

718
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: a seven game series against the Colorado Avalanche we can

719
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: beat them. I'm not going to guarantee that we will

720
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: beat them, but it's different than it has been where

721
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, you know, they're pretty heavily favored here

722
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: and this would have to happen. It's those games against

723
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: the Abs from the game the day after Thanksgiving that

724
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: was here, the shootout loss, and then the five to

725
00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: two in between. Yeah, the Wild plays so confidently against

726
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: McKinnon and that group.

727
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 2: They do, and they play well against the best teams

728
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 2: in the league. They're two to one to one PA

729
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 2: to your point against the Avalanche, they're clearly the team

730
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 2: to beat in terms of winning the Cup. Wherever you look,

731
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,479
Speaker 2: they're the favorite, rightfully. So they've been good against Dallas,

732
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 2: They've beaten Tampa, They've beaten Vegas three straight times, all

733
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 2: three clean sweep of the team that beat them in

734
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 2: the playoffs last year. They have elevated their game against the

735
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 2: best in the league all season long. That bodes very well.

736
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 2: And I just think that the depth that they have

737
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 2: been able to out put together. Bill Garant did a

738
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 2: wonderful thing at the trade deadline, where now no matter

739
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 2: what happens, and I really do feel this way, no excuses,

740
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 2: but if you look at the last handful of years, yes,

741
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 2: first round exits, but they have not been healthy, key

742
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 2: players missing each and every year. This year might be

743
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 2: the year they have depth and health on their side

744
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 2: and it might make a big.

745
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,719
Speaker 5: Difference how much can you pull from those regular season matchups. So,

746
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 5: first of all, I think it's a good omen or

747
00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 5: a foreboding to the positive in terms of this is

748
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 5: a team, by the way, that had trouble beating those

749
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,959
Speaker 5: squads for what two three seasons we're talking about their

750
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 5: numbers weren't pretty for two or three years.

751
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 2: That's cool.

752
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 5: You can go to the shark tank and you can

753
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 5: wax them, or you have this huge long streak against

754
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 5: the Canadians. But anytime it's the Stars, anytime it's the Avalanche,

755
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 5: man cower now because it's going to be six to

756
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 5: two and it's going to get ugly.

757
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 2: That has flipped.

758
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 5: But still in the same sense we were talking about

759
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 5: the Timberwolves a bit earlier, just looking at how things

760
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 5: match up. You know, they're a team that's game against

761
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 5: the Okac Thunder for instance. During the regular season, they'll

762
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 5: lose a game in a series and five. So I'm

763
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 5: just curious how much you can pull from some of

764
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 5: that in hockey specifically that says okay, the way that

765
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 5: we matched up with Vegas for instance, and the way

766
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 5: we limited Iicele and Stone and all those guys that

767
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 5: actually can tell a story of a playoff series.

768
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 2: I think it's psychological. I think you have to convince

769
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 2: yourself first and foremost. And I think when you play

770
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 2: a competitive schedule like the wild Half, play against the

771
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 2: best and have success, it builds into that confidence. But

772
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 2: let's all be honest until you do it when it

773
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 2: matters most who cares. And so you get into that

774
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,800
Speaker 2: series with Dallas, you know it's going to be a grinder.

775
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 2: You know, it's two of maybe the three or four

776
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 2: best teams in the league. But what you've got on

777
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 2: your side right now is you've got a different look

778
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 2: and a different field Nordo to this team. And I've

779
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 2: been around this team for two decades and I'm telling

780
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 2: you right now, the swagger that they bring on a

781
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,720
Speaker 2: nightly basis from that locker room to the ice is different.

782
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 2: I feel it and I know it, and more importantly

783
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 2: they do. And I think, you know, Bill garn going

784
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 2: out to get Quinn Hughes flipped the script dramatically. They

785
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 2: were already a good hockey team. Yeah, they went from

786
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 2: being good to great and they know it right now,

787
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 2: and I think it shows in the way they've played

788
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 2: all year long.

789
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: Well, one of many things that I like about them

790
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: you just touched on they'll lose, okay, it could be

791
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: an overtimeer, regulation, they don't get killed and things don't perpetuate.

792
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: You know, That's I've just learned in all of sports,

793
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: the best teams that sustain consistently. Are the ones who

794
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: don't let problems get out of hand, and that seems

795
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:01,800
Speaker 1: to be this group.

796
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 2: Well, the clunker. They had two Sundays that go against

797
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 2: Saint Louis. Saint Louis a team you likely show.

798
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: It was a weird game, man, it didn't look right.

799
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,240
Speaker 2: The team didn't have a weirdos. They didn't play well. Okay, fine,

800
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 2: come out two nights later against a really good Tampa

801
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 2: team that's fighting for their lives guilt to win a

802
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 2: division with Buffalo and smoked them yep, and then validated

803
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 2: that by continuing on to beat Vegas and to give

804
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 2: Colorado what I thought was a wonderful game over the weekend.

805
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 2: This team just feels different, man. They have a different

806
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 2: attitude and you watch this team the way they handle

807
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 2: their business, they look and feel like a Cup contender,

808
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 2: and I'm really excited to see what they can do

809
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:41,240
Speaker 2: in the playoffs.

810
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 3: Now.

811
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: Bobby Brink played fifty five with the Flyers. He had

812
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: thirteen goals and thirteen assists. So for those who are

813
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: going to see him in person for the first time tonight,

814
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: or for those who are just starting to watch Minnetaka,

815
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 1: we get the whole thing, So maybe they remember him

816
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: from days gone by if they hadn't followed him in

817
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: the NHL. What do you like about Bobby Brink What

818
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: does he do well?

819
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 2: I like his hockey instincts first and foremost. Pa he

820
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 2: gets the game. He knows where the puck's going to be,

821
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 2: and he knows how to get there. He's got the

822
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 2: speed and skill when he makes those plays to create offense.

823
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 2: And if you watch him in the limited time we've

824
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 2: seen him in a wild sweater, it does feel like

825
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 2: every time he's on the ice, the wild are dangerous.

826
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 2: And what's interesting to me is he's got that speed

827
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 2: and skill. It's not Matt Poldie, it's not Coroll Caprice out.

828
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 2: But because he's on that third line, think of some

829
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 2: of the matchups this guy is gonna get. So him

830
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 2: and Tarasenko to me, is super interesting in that third

831
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 2: line role. Mm hm.

832
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 5: And with Bobby in particular, would you say that he's

833
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 5: playing with a more talented lineup here in Saint Paul

834
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 5: than he was out in Philly.

835
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 2: Probably a little more pressure obviously in Philly. Probably has

836
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 2: to do a little bit more. And I think when

837
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 2: you put what a player wants is his opportunity. And

838
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 2: when you give him an opportunity to play for this team,

839
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 2: think of the attention that that top line gets with

840
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 2: ninety seven. Think of the attention that Matt Boldie brings. Yeah,

841
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 2: sooner or later. OK, if they're putting their top couple

842
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 2: lines or top couple sets a d out rightfully to

843
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 2: limit our top couple lines. Who's left? And now you've

844
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 2: got players like Brink, You're like Tarasenko that have terrific

845
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 2: offensive skills, and because your up is so good defensively,

846
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 2: you're going to spend a lot of your ice time

847
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 2: on the attack. I'm Bobby Brink. I'm loving this situation.

848
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 5: And that's where, like Marcus Johanson, you mention him, I

849
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 5: kind of think about him in the same context where

850
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 5: if you asked Marcus Johansson to be the guy you

851
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,280
Speaker 5: probably could be underwhelmed potentially, and that's not an indictment

852
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 5: of him. But then you put him with a Boldie,

853
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 5: you put him in a spot with uber talented guys

854
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 5: around him. Now you're like, hey, Jojos having a hell

855
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 5: of a season here, And I'm just kind of thinking

856
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 5: mentally that maybe Brink in the new spot with some

857
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 5: different faces around him, potentially a similar type of ascension

858
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 5: could take place.

859
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 2: They have a lot of the same skills. You bring

860
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 2: up a really solid point Nortle, because they both played

861
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 2: the speed game. They both have good hands, and so

862
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 2: you look at Eck and Bolding what they do specifically.

863
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 2: Eck is the grinder, he's the go to the neck guy,

864
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 2: he's the trenches guy. Bold he's the creative guy. But

865
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 2: you need a speed guy to open up that rink.

866
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 2: They play off each other very well. Brink being a

867
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,399
Speaker 2: very similar player to Johansson sliding into that spot when

868
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 2: Joehansen was out of the lineup, I think is a

869
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 2: good thing because Marcus Johansson now has to feel the

870
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 2: heat that every night he's got to answer the bell. Yeah,

871
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,919
Speaker 2: so the depth of Minnesota has right now. The old

872
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 2: saying is all boats will rise. Well, certainly when you've

873
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 2: had that pressure to get the ice time you want

874
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 2: at crunch time in the season, everybody's gonna play with

875
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 2: just a little bit more juice.

876
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: So with the Philly Flyers mentioned it earlier in passing.

877
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: I first met Nick Sealer when he played for Lee

878
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: Smith at Dayton Prairie High school, just a quick little

879
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: fly by meeting, so I remember him from there. I

880
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: know he was drafted by the Wild. He's played sixty

881
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 1: two games this year for a for Philly, so he

882
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 1: makes all the dances about eighteen minutes a game like sealer.

883
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:05,959
Speaker 2: Is he good?

884
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 1: I mean, is he really really good on the blue line.

885
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 2: So what he does is he's one of those stabilizer guys.

886
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 2: You know, take a look at a guy like Zach Bagosian.

887
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 2: He's got enough jump to get up there. You've seen

888
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 2: him score goals. But he's gritty, he's tough, and he

889
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:21,800
Speaker 2: answers the bell. And what I love about Nick Steeler

890
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 2: when he played here, when he's played anywhere else, including Philadelphia,

891
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 2: is if there is something that goes down and if

892
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 2: there's a teammate that gets cheap shotted, he is the

893
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,800
Speaker 2: absolute first guy into the battle and he will drop

894
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 2: the gloves with anyone. He is absolutely fearless and from

895
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,240
Speaker 2: talking to guys that play with him wherever he's played,

896
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 2: just beloved in the locker arm. Since the Olympic Break.

897
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: Since the Olympic Break, the Wild's PK the penalty kills

898
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: almost ninety percent. It's third in the NHL since the

899
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 1: Olympic break. What are you saying, Well, it.

900
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 2: Starts with goaltending, and both Gustafson and Volstad have been

901
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,720
Speaker 2: brilliant since the Olympic breaks. Your most important penalty killer.

902
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 2: A little slight improvement in the face off circle, it's

903
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 2: still a work in progress. And then you look at

904
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 2: some of the pieces that Minnesota has added, and you

905
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 2: heard co Chines talk about a mccarren who's such a

906
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 2: weapon on the penalty kill. I love the way Yakov

907
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 2: Trenyon is playing right now, a big part of that

908
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 2: penalty kill. So you've got some key players making contributions.

909
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 2: You're winning a few more draws. But the bottom line is,

910
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 2: I don't care if it's now or in the playoffs.

911
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 2: Your best and most important penalty killer is the guy

912
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 2: in the blue paint. And I really believe Gustafson has

913
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 2: been amazing. And then Walstad, who gets to start tonight

914
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 2: in limited data the one start we saw here recently

915
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 2: against Colorado on Sunday that might be his best.

916
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 5: Effort of the year. And what you were there right Denver?

917
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 5: I watched on TV okay, see.

918
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: I thought maybe you were there, but just not doing

919
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 1: the work and traveling back with them. All right, so

920
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: the question is probably not in play. But that was

921
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: his first game, yep against the Abs. Since the game,

922
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: Nordo went to the day after thanksgim celebration where yeah,

923
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: let me see, he's young, he's new. McKennon and mccar

924
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: are unbelievable. He stops them both to win the game, celebrates,

925
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: and the entire Avalanche fan base just completely took umbrage

926
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 1: with it. I just wonder what ball Arena was like

927
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: that day for him.

928
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 2: Well, watching on TV seemed awfully loud, and certainly I'm

929
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 2: sure there were some fans that got after him. He's

930
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 2: a pretty cool customer, you know. You get to know

931
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 2: these guys, and you do with the Vikings too when

932
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 2: you're when you're with these guys so much, he's a

933
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 2: pretty even keel guy, and I know that on social media.

934
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 2: That celebration kind of blew up. There was a T

935
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 2: shirt in town, which is great, But you're right, he's

936
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 2: got blown way out of He's a young kid. He

937
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,919
Speaker 2: just stopped two of the best players on the planet. Yeah,

938
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 2: back to back shootout sequences in front of nineteen thousand fans.

939
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 5: He's entitled to celebrate simmer down. People like, come on,

940
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 5: let the kid well, I have his moment.

941
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 2: I think their.

942
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 5: Vox kind of blew it up too, acting that he

943
00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 5: acted like on the Stanley Cup. Yeah, I'll say this

944
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 5: just because that that audio hit me back then and

945
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 5: I was at the game.

946
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 2: But but I've checked in and listen.

947
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 5: He's actually a terrific fox Like people give that guy

948
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 5: a like.

949
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 2: He's emotional, he's in it, he loves his team, he's

950
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 2: where we're seeing that.

951
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 5: He's offended when the opponent does anything, well, it's it's awesome.

952
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 2: I think Fallness gets after him too, and that makes

953
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 2: it even more fun.

954
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 5: But when we have good foxes combined with good teams,

955
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 5: the rivalry of butting heads in.

956
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 2: This division, so bad get so.

957
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 5: Good in the Central. Right now, I want to get

958
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 5: through Dallas. It'll be tough, I get it, but I

959
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 5: want that matchup. I want Minnesota and Colorado. It'll be

960
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 5: just spectacular drama.

961
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: Max Grazerman five under through nine, Tony four under through eight, undrafted,

962
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: JT three.

963
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 2: Under through six. Good, he's getting healthy.

964
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: Ricky Castillo two under through eight, Okay, Maverick McNeely two

965
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: under through six, and that's where we are.

966
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,240
Speaker 2: No Cheffler up there, Okay, he's.

967
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: He's one under nice me. He's probably like tenth or something.

968
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: Now you're the best.

969
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 2: Love you guys. Yeah, I appreciate it. Love you too.

970
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: That's Kevin gorg Fandel. He'll be on television this evening

971
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: at Orgomatic two to one via X if you would

972
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 1: like to follow RUSSO Radio fifteen minutes from now. NFL

973
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:22,439
Speaker 1: Free Agency Kyler Murray conversation, Wolves hitting what I would

974
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: deem to be the low point of their season right

975
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 1: now despite their nice record, they're going to be a

976
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 1: playoff team.

977
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 2: But they got La Clippers.

978
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 1: That those topics and more when nine to Noon continues

979
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: with a Box in the Box presentation on KFA N

980
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: Coven and Cleanup provided by Crickets, Covin and Cleanup. It's

981
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: not Emerson Boozer who's going to be the first pick

982
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: in the draft.

983
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 2: Who's it going to be?

984
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:06,280
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Camera Boozer Governant clean up provided by Nobody.

985
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: Emerson Boozer, former National Football League player, spent his entire

986
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: careers running back for the New York Jets in the

987
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: AFL than the National Football League, played with Joe Namath

988
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: was part of that part of that Jets team that

989
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 1: upset the Baltimore Colts is twenty one and a half

990
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: point underdogs and Super Bowl three. Emerson Boozer part of

991
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: the Covenant cleanup that makes up nine to No.

992
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 2: That's an elite poll.

993
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:29,760
Speaker 3: Though, by the way, what is well.

994
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: Emerson Boozer boz because they're saying he's going to be

995
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: the number one pick in the twenty twenty six rounds.

996
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 2: Well, no, that's why. That's what led to the Covenant cleanup.

997
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 5: But step clearly you've encountered in your mind on television

998
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 5: or via an article of some sort, Emerson Boozer.

999
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you've probably experienced.

1000
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 5: This here a little bit older than I am. But

1001
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 5: you start to get to the point where guys that

1002
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 5: you appreciated, like Carlos Boozer playing high end hoops and

1003
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 5: now his son is slated to be I'm just starting

1004
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 5: to see that more and more often.

1005
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 2: Now let me know, I'm not a kid anymore.

1006
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: Russo Radio, about seven minutes from now, maybe eight, let's

1007
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 1: skate on over to the NFL and skate on over.

1008
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 2: To the NBA if we need to.

1009
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: We can do that. A little later, but National Football

1010
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 1: League free agency Kyler Murray potentially a quarterback for the

1011
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings potentially as early as today or maybe tomorrow,

1012
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: or maybe never because there are just so many things

1013
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 1: popping up about Kyler Murray and and and I'm gonna

1014
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: let you you can rattle off that work you put

1015
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,359
Speaker 1: in here momentarily, but I don't know if you if

1016
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 1: you was going on Russo Radio about seven minutes, if

1017
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 1: you've got to go get some steam. I saw something

1018
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: online yesterday from an Arizona sports radio host. So that's Greg. Yeah,

1019
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: so you saw it. Okay, Now, this guy had a

1020
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:54,439
Speaker 1: tweet that opened my eyes where I'm like, wow, that's

1021
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: kind of an outside of the box thought. Let's let's

1022
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: deep dip it a little more. So then I found

1023
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: the video of him talking about Kyler Murray and his

1024
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: representation potentially are as much concerned about next year as

1025
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: opposed to twenty twenty six. And then he's like, well,

1026
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,319
Speaker 1: think about it. Say this is Matthew Stafford's final year.

1027
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 1: You know, Kyler could go to the LA Rams back

1028
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: up Stafford. If Stafford goes down, Kyler plays, But if

1029
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: Stafford retires. Now Kyler's with McBay and Pooka you're satisfied,

1030
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,799
Speaker 1: and Kyron Williams and and that nice team with the

1031
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: good corners.

1032
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 2: I'm like, damn, man, I never thought of that. Yeah,

1033
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 2: it's it's it's.

1034
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 5: Interesting, and I'm scrambling to find because then it was

1035
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:45,280
Speaker 5: reposted or re reported on by I think both Schefter

1036
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 5: Pelisaro and others, the idea that Kyler was going to

1037
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 5: meet with three to five teams via zoom and I

1038
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 5: think yesterdaking place last evening. Yeah, and it was the

1039
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 5: idea that they were teams potentially in need of a

1040
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 5: QB for twenty twenty seven, right, and so then he

1041
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 5: would be after that would be coming to Minnesota to

1042
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 5: meet with the Vikings. So that was kind of lending

1043
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 5: to the steam that yeah, well this, I mean, just

1044
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 5: are you just showing up to sign the paper then?

1045
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,879
Speaker 5: And then we're already thinking fast forward to a year

1046
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 5: from now where it's going to be a free agent bonanza,

1047
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 5: cash him pocket.

1048
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 2: Et cetera. So that that does two things that it says.

1049
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 5: It says, okay, well, if whatever the highly favored Vikings

1050
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 5: have to say or do in this conversation, that this

1051
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 5: could be if the Vikings want this to happen, that

1052
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 5: it will happen. That's kind of what I feel like

1053
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:35,400
Speaker 5: as I woke up this morning. If the Vikings want

1054
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 5: the Kyler here, he's gonna be here. But then a

1055
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 5: year from now, it also sounds like we're gonna be

1056
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 5: battling if if, if he has a good season with

1057
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 5: the Vikings, we'd be battling those three to five teams

1058
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:48,240
Speaker 5: maybe others for his services from a financial stay.

1059
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: Well, when you watched that clip, or if you watched it,

1060
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: I got the feeling that this radio box, this Arizona

1061
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: radio guy, that he's juiced into something.

1062
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that that he either knows the agent for.

1063
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: Kyler, or he knows Kyler or he knows Kyler's dogs.

1064
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 1: But I mean, my man was talking so confidently about this,

1065
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: about the potential of this scenario that I was like, wow, man,

1066
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: you might know where some bones are buried here.

1067
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and his name the Arizona.

1068
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: R John Borzamowski or something. Well, it might be Emerson Boozer.

1069
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 1: It might be Emerson Boozer. Let me find it here.

1070
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: So it's John Gambadoro, That's what it is. Gambadoro is

1071
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: the gentleman that was talking about it used to be

1072
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: a consickly area in the Russo crime family.

1073
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 5: Yeah, so here's the post that I didn't see a video.

1074
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,320
Speaker 5: Kyler Murray's going to visit with the Vikes tomorrow. His

1075
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 5: starting spot is a priority, and Minnesota does offer that.

1076
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 5: So again the lending to the idea that if he

1077
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 5: comes to Minnesota. It's kind of been my opinion that

1078
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 5: this ain't a competition. You're not sitting Kyler down and

1079
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 5: say this is a fifty to fifty proposition with McCarthy.

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Speaker 5: He notes that a deal could be done in the

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Speaker 5: next twenty but his camper expected to explore several options

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Speaker 5: as a backup in twenty twenty six for teams that

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Speaker 5: could need a starting QB in twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: Where that come from like yesterday with Guestling or Tuesday

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Speaker 1: with Guestling. I didn't even write this down. I was

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Speaker 1: just like spitballing, thinking, you know, I mean, does it

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Speaker 1: have to be a one year deal? Can it be

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Speaker 1: like a two year with a bunch of contingencies? Because

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Speaker 1: think about it, the most well respected capologist in the

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Speaker 1: history of the NFL is your acting GM. So if

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Speaker 1: there's anybody who's able to be part of identifying something

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Speaker 1: and crafting something where it's like, hey, don't tell Kyler

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Speaker 1: you know, we're just going to bend him over a

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Speaker 1: barrel and rip him.

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Speaker 2: No, it ain't that.

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Speaker 1: It's like pragmatic for the team, cool for Kyler if

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Speaker 1: he likes it. But then the Gambino crime family guy

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Speaker 1: in Arizona, he says when he said, think about it,

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Speaker 1: this is probably Matthew Stafford's last year. Yeah, why wouldn't

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Speaker 1: you go there and roll into that thing next year?

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, damn, that sounds good.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And so if that was, if that's on the card,

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Speaker 5: if that's on the table for conversations, then this, this

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Speaker 5: entire thing changes. The complexion of the changes throughout the

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Speaker 5: next twenty four hours. But the only thing I'd say,

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Speaker 5: in a multi year deal, if you're Kyler Murray, why

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Speaker 5: would you sign to a to a full to a

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00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 5: longer extension. I understand unless you pay a true free

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Speaker 5: agent market rate, right, because he's using this as to

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Speaker 5: launch the box into twenty twenty seven box, and it's like,

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Speaker 5: you know, a financially or team friendly deal would say

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Speaker 5: that second year twenty twenty seven is twenty five million,

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Speaker 5: or even thirty million.

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Speaker 2: If he plays well in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 5: Six, he's going to immediately vault himself back into a

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Speaker 5: forty million dollars a year conversation.

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