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Speaker 1: Good morning, A friend loves at all times, and a

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Speaker 1: brother is born for a time of adversity. Shake, what

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Speaker 1: welcome ertaming, that's the objective. It's nine o'clock. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for rising and shining at nine for nine to noon

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Speaker 1: Paul Allen, Brett, Blake Moorephill's Infernardo today and we begin

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Speaker 1: with Kevin gorg The signor spotty Gorgomatic machine is in

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Speaker 1: the building and I happen to be quite excited about that.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Kg, And how is Graham, baby Leo and

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Speaker 1: your daughter Katrina?

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Speaker 2: Good morning guys. Great to be with you.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, fun to see the little grandson last week

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Speaker 3: and I was down in Florida seeing them for three

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Speaker 3: or four days, got to go to Sea World, got

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Speaker 3: to go to Tampa Bay Downalds and see some of

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Speaker 3: the Canterbury connections down there.

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Speaker 2: It was a little chilly, I'm not going to lie

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Speaker 2: to you.

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Speaker 3: I was expecting warm weather and we got you know,

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Speaker 3: mid fifties, low sixties, which is fine.

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Speaker 2: It's better than what we've had here for a long time.

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Speaker 3: But no, it was wonderful to see him and settling

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Speaker 3: into the break here getting ready to watch some Olympic hockey.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be really really fun. Yeah, that's terrific.

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Speaker 1: We is there game going right now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Well there was this morning last I saw the Swiss

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Speaker 3: were in complete control of the early game. And we've

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Speaker 3: got Canada's tipping off here at nine thirty. They're a

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Speaker 3: two and a half puck favorite. So the first game

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Speaker 3: went to Switzerland four nothing over France. You've got Canada

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Speaker 3: two and a half puck favorite against Chechia here.

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Speaker 2: At nine thirty.

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Speaker 3: Then at two o'clock the US three and a half

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Speaker 3: puck favorite minus twenty four hundred on the money line

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Speaker 3: against Teddy Blueger and Latvia.

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Speaker 2: KG came in with some odds.

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Speaker 1: Heg with your trip southeast during the Olympic break? What

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Speaker 1: do you like about Tampa Bay Downs? My first time

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Speaker 1: there while they were racing. I'd been to the backside

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Speaker 1: years ago to see the ponies. Jamie Nass hosted us.

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Speaker 1: This is probably twelve to fifteen years ago. Wild Off

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Speaker 1: Day went over there with a bunch of peeps from

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Speaker 1: the Wild Traveling Party and saw his horses.

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Speaker 2: But no, I've been there one time myself.

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Speaker 1: I have a descript or opinion I'm going to share

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Speaker 1: with you momentarily, But what did you think?

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Speaker 3: I thought it was pretty cool. It was really crowded

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Speaker 3: on Saturday. I wasn't expecting that. So it's it's me,

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Speaker 3: Trina and Leo in the stroller, and you know, navigating

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Speaker 3: with the little one is a challenge, even at a

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Speaker 3: place like SeaWorld the day before where it wasn't crowded, but.

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Speaker 2: It was packed.

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Speaker 3: I mean the track was packed and I'm trying to

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Speaker 3: earn my sure am, but too we had a great time.

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Speaker 3: You know a horse named Drama Chorus that runs at

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Speaker 3: Canterbury in the summer.

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Speaker 2: It was awesome, sat five across.

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Speaker 3: I of course had a nice win bet, but I

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Speaker 3: hadn't exactly what the horse that beat him fifteen to one. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was pretty cool, cool race, The horse ran great

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Speaker 3: and we made a little money, so we had some Yeah.

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Speaker 1: See, the the quasi adventurous nature that you possess, I

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Speaker 1: also possess. It's like go to a different state and

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Speaker 1: I don't know, go to a racetrack. I always love

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Speaker 1: the movies and the racetracks. Holy cow with Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: Downs the one time I was there ten eleven years ago,

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Speaker 1: had a gangster feel to it, just kind of see

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Speaker 1: there were a lot of people there when you were there.

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Speaker 1: There wasn't when I was. You were on a weekday,

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Speaker 1: It just older people with the racing forms in front

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, wow, this place has a gangster lean.

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Speaker 2: Down there and love the feel of a race track.

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Speaker 3: But I was I was really surprised at the crowd

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Speaker 3: We got there in time for race two and we

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Speaker 3: was you know, there was a Derby Prep race on

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Speaker 3: the card. Sam Davis was race eleven that afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Oh you were there when I read was there? I was?

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Speaker 3: I read was there? We got to see I read

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Speaker 3: in the paddock. Of course it was awesome.

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Speaker 2: I'm my favorite outside of Minnesota rider. I know. Did

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Speaker 2: he win? He won a couple, Yeah he did. He

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Speaker 2: didn't win the Sammi Davis no about him.

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Speaker 1: Three weeks to a month ago, I went to New

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Speaker 1: went to fair Grounds.

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Speaker 2: What's that like?

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Speaker 1: And it's it's the it's the first time that had

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Speaker 1: been there when when they were racing, went and saw

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Speaker 1: a few of our writers, Eric Murray, Yes, Harry Hernandez

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Speaker 1: oh double h double h. There went to see love Barry,

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Speaker 1: but his only Mount Scratch, so I didn't see him.

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Speaker 1: And it's old school feel it, but it's just it's

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Speaker 1: so antithetical to what we see at Canterbury May through September. Now, Okay,

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Speaker 1: pools are bigger, purses are bigger. Track is older, and

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Speaker 1: you know, more historic and things like that. You you

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Speaker 1: you could have shot a cannon through that grandstand and

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Speaker 1: nobody would have died. I mean it was me, sixteen

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Speaker 3: Come on, yeah it was it was barren weekday racing

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Speaker 3: probably yep, duly on the call, but.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, duly on the call. And and one thing I

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Speaker 1: really liked about being there. You've been to Prairie Meadows,

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Speaker 1: right yep? So you know with with like in Altuna

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Speaker 1: right you You you lived by that great, big giant cow.

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Speaker 4: I went to that elementary school where the fence is

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Speaker 4: right next to Prairie Medos.

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Speaker 3: I know exactly where that is, by the way, that

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: I played for the des Moin Buccaneers.

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Speaker 3: So double B and I always have that connection when

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Speaker 1: I went I played for the des Moines Buccaneers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well that's elite. How do I not know that in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, but hey forty years yeah. So so

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Speaker 1: like at Prairie Meadows, it's you you can and you

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Speaker 1: could do this at Canterbury too, where you get down

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: And if there are ten of them and they they

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're if you're so and so Isaac

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Speaker 1: Castillo and you just lost on two consecutive three to

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Speaker 3: There was a scene in the movie JFK where they're

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Speaker 3: at Fairgrounds Racetrack and they're talking about some of the

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Speaker 3: covert activity leading into Dallas November nineteen sixty three. So

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Speaker 3: obviously it's got an old school feel, because Sean, when

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Speaker 3: the sixties, the fairground is one of the first places

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Speaker 1: Is it is it good to have this Olympics break

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Speaker 1: for the rink side analyst in you.

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Speaker 3: I'm okay with it. You know, it's it's been a

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Speaker 3: bit he scheduled, there's but a ton of travel. But

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Speaker 3: you got a squad. We got a good team. He

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Speaker 3: got squad man my twentieth ye're doing this. This is,

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Speaker 3: bar none, the best team I've ever covered. And you

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Speaker 3: know you got three superstars right now. It's a fun conversation.

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Speaker 3: I've brought this up multiple times, but Quinn Hughes is electric.

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Speaker 3: He's far better than a lot of us, believe you know.

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Speaker 3: We knew he was a great player, but when you

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Speaker 3: watch him every day, you get a different feel for

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Speaker 3: a player we knew. Caprisov for years has been the

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Speaker 3: face of the franchise Bold. He's probably the best player

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Speaker 3: on this team, and I think he's going to blow

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Speaker 3: realize off the Four Nations, off what he's done in

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Speaker 3: the first fifty five games of this season, this kid's

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Speaker 3: about ready to take that stage as a superstar at

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Speaker 3: the national level, and so I'm really excited to watch

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Speaker 3: it and to have wild players littered up and down

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Speaker 3: these lineups validates the opinion that this is the best

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Speaker 2: Do it with Mett Baldy? Is it?

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Speaker 1: Is it truly fair to say that he went from

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Speaker 1: good too close to star status thanks to the confidence

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Speaker 1: he gained at that Four Nations.

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Speaker 2: He went to a different level last year after that.

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, Matt always had plenty of self

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Speaker 3: confidence in the right way. He's a real quiet, real

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Speaker 3: down to earth, humble kid, works his tail.

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Speaker 2: Off, but he always had that you knew he knew

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Speaker 2: he was good.

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Speaker 3: I think he realized that Four Nations tournament that listen,

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Speaker 3: I can play at a level of just about anybody

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Speaker 3: on the planet. And that gives you that confidence. And

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Speaker 3: you saw it in his game, not only last year,

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Speaker 3: and more importantly when he came into camp this year.

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Speaker 3: He's just been a different player and he looks like

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Speaker 3: a guy that's about ready to score fifty goals in

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Speaker 3: this league, which to me takes him to a completely

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Speaker 3: different level.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Gore FanDuel Ringside, analyst for Wild Hockey on a

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Speaker 1: break right now with the team in the Olympics and

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Speaker 1: Team USA. The men play today at two ten lot

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Speaker 1: via the bill of fare today and the in arena announcer,

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Speaker 1: same guy for US Bank Stadium so good and ball Arena,

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Speaker 1: Alan Roach. He'll join the show today at about eleven

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Speaker 1: twenty to say Bot Joe Bella caught on me ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, So yeah, we're really into it here. But

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Speaker 1: with the USA ladies, how much are you watching of them?

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Speaker 3: I haven't missed any of the games yet, you know,

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Speaker 3: I think the last couple of years working ten twelve

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Speaker 3: games a year in the PWHL covering the frost has

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Speaker 1: and things like that.

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Speaker 2: It's the day to day for sure.

437
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,639
Speaker 3: You know, you work hard in our business to earn

438
00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 3: the trust and the respect of everybody, but specifically the

439
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,399
Speaker 3: head coach and so big time Andrew Burnette. We just

440
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 3: talked to him a couple weeks ago, the last game

441
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 3: before the break about the profession. He says, we all

442
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 3: get hired knowing we're going to get fired at some

443
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,920
Speaker 3: point most likely. And so you walk that line and

444
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 3: you mentioned some of the coaches and Dean Evison, that

445
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 3: one hit me really hard, really hard. You get to

446
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,119
Speaker 3: know these guys, you get to really appreciate these guys.

447
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 3: You become a conduit, and you know, we're very, very

448
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 3: fortunate in our business to have these relationships with you know,

449
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 3: these coaches at the highest level, and then when they

450
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 3: get fired and somebody else gets brought in, that process

451
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 3: starts all over again. And they've all got such different personalities.

452
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 3: John Hines is a completely different guy than Dean Everson.

453
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,000
Speaker 3: Love them both excellent coaches, great to work with, but

454
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 3: completely different on the day to day. And I'm sure

455
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,919
Speaker 3: you'd say the same thing looking back at Zimmer and

456
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,120
Speaker 3: now Koc Yeah, And well.

457
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Speaker 1: I mean it goes all the way back to like

458
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Speaker 1: when I started with Mike Tice. But that you know

459
00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:01,399
Speaker 1: that if I had to identify one thing that I

460
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:07,160
Speaker 1: genuinely appreciate most or in most heartfelt with with having

461
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 1: the privilege of calling games for this team is ever

462
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: since this new regime came in and Quisio do fa

463
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: Mensa had a lot to do with it, even though

464
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 1: he's not with the team anymore. Is the finger pointing

465
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,320
Speaker 1: is not there. It may be there behind the scenes,

466
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,680
Speaker 1: but it's the spirit. It's in essence, like the spirit

467
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 1: returned to the building, you know. And like in twenty

468
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 1: twenty two, I was so sour on the situation. I'm like,

469
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 1: I don't need to be kicking my feet up on

470
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 1: coaches desks anymore to hear. Ever since Griffin and d'anil

471
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,680
Speaker 1: Hunter are going to move inside in a playoff game

472
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 1: against New Orleans, I don't need They know they can

473
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 1: trust me, they know they can trust you.

474
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 2: I just don't need that.

475
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,880
Speaker 1: The friendships that will happen moving forward will be born

476
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,679
Speaker 1: of authenticity. And then I called those wild games, had

477
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:55,239
Speaker 1: a great time doing that, and you know, after that,

478
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,399
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, well, what's going to be next? Well,

479
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 1: so I didn't go to practice like I was never

480
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,119
Speaker 1: there early in twenty twenty two, I'm like, these friendships

481
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: will be born of authenticity. They will happen in two

482
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 1: way fashion. And that's how this is gonna work. Then

483
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 1: they started playing the games and they got the Buffalo

484
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 1: game and everything was close and excitable and stuff. Well

485
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: now I'm like, well, I gotta be there every day.

486
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 1: I mean, this thing's unbelievable. What's happening right now? This

487
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 1: is unbelievable. Yeah, cousins, He's fantastic. And so it's the

488
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 1: dynamics of the of that job that you have and

489
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:34,679
Speaker 1: these jobs that we have tied into the the the

490
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 1: interpersonal communication and in essence, in surrogate fashion, raising these

491
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 1: hockey players on and off the ice.

492
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 2: It's analogous. It just because.

493
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 1: Sports are so emotional and so competitive, and these people

494
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:53,160
Speaker 1: internalize so much that you can just sense sometimes as

495
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: somebody's bursting at the seams. And if you just give

496
00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 1: them like a little compliment, authentically not made up, got

497
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 1: him on the back about something that is going well,

498
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: I mean, that goes so far. It kindness chronicles.

499
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 2: It's awesome. It is.

500
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 3: And I had a picture on my phone that I

501
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 3: found from fifteen years ago. It was draft night, the

502
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,199
Speaker 3: year that the draft was in Saint Paul, and I

503
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,679
Speaker 3: was interviewing Jonas Brodein and we both look a lot younger.

504
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 2: I mean we both look a lot younger.

505
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 3: He looked like a baby, and so I pulled it

506
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,680
Speaker 3: up on my phone at practice about a month ago

507
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 3: and showed him and he could not stop smiling. Those

508
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 3: are the things that make the job extraordinary. Like I've

509
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:33,640
Speaker 3: covered all the guys on this.

510
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 1: Roster, Like when you were on Buffy Low and the

511
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: picture in the press box.

512
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 3: And they got me on a horse and jockey sucks.

513
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,719
Speaker 3: That was a low point for sure, But well, and

514
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 3: that was during my time as a women's college hockey

515
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 3: coach and the players got a hold of that picture

516
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 3: and had that littered all over the locker room when

517
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 3: coach gorg came in to give his first speech of

518
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 3: the year, and that was comical as well. Mo Hardwick

519
00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 3: pulled that prank off. So there are all kinds of

520
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 3: layers to this. But I don't take it for the

521
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 3: rest the jobs we have and at Canterbury, the friendships

522
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 3: we have out there are pretty unbelievable.

523
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't take any of it for granted.

524
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:16,199
Speaker 1: From a coaching standpoint, with hockey, obviously, what are some

525
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 1: differences coaching women compared to men.

526
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 3: I found this out really early in my time at

527
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 3: Saint Thomas. So when when I coached high school hockey,

528
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,120
Speaker 3: you show up, the guys are out there, they've done

529
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,919
Speaker 3: their stretches, they've shot their pucks and messed around. You

530
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 3: blow the whistle, you start practice. Everything is cool. What

531
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,400
Speaker 3: I found out early in my tenure at Saint Thomas

532
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,880
Speaker 3: is with the ladies, there needed to be a little

533
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:38,200
Speaker 3: more of a run up where there was a little

534
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 3: more conversation, so we would get on the ice instead

535
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 3: of blowing the whistle right when the coaches got on

536
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 3: the ice, we'd spend two minutes kind of circling the rink,

537
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 3: touching base with a handful of players, letting it be

538
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 3: a little more communication, and then boom we'd go. What

539
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 3: I loved about coaching women is they always wanted more feedback.

540
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 3: The high school boys, especially the older ones, figured they

541
00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 3: had it all, they had it all tied together, they

542
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 3: were well. The women just wanted to get better every day.

543
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 3: They wanted more and more and more, And so is it.

544
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,640
Speaker 3: Looking back, I enjoyed coaching women's college hockey a little

545
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 3: bit more. And the other factor is you recruit the

546
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 3: players and once the parents bring the kids to the

547
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 3: college and drop them off.

548
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 2: It's the kids at high school level.

549
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 3: There's the booster club, there's the emails, the phone calls,

550
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 3: Little Jimmy needs to be on the power play and

551
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 3: all that, and just took away from some of the enjoyment.

552
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 2: So that, I mean, that's age old. Okay.

553
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: Parents, and this is a small, small, small majority of parents.

554
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: But you know, like other things in the world, that

555
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: majority can be super loud.

556
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 2: Oh for sure.

557
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: Well, so that you know, we're talking twenty twenty some

558
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: odd years ago, I mean, that's happened forever. I just

559
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: you know, because I know people who coach either hockey, basketball,

560
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: or football at the high school level all throughout the state. Man,

561
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: it gets nasty sometimes, and you know, my kids aren't playing.

562
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 3: I'm a people pleaser, so I'm going to take the call.

563
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take the email. And when I got to

564
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 3: Saint Thomas in my ten years, there not one call,

565
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 3: not one email. They're growing up, they're in college, they're

566
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 3: figuring it out.

567
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 2: Well, they're on scholarships. You just saved them twenty times.

568
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: If I'm a dad of a girl there, I'm like,

569
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: you do whatever you want, man, you save me twenty dimes.

570
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 3: No, it was a great experience. I miss it for sure,

571
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 3: but I made the right choice.

572
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: Ever, Well tell me, because like I had the privilege

573
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: of coaching girls junior varsity high school basketball in southern California,

574
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 1: graduated eighty four so like eighty six eighty seven, two years,

575
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: and an assistant coach with the boys high school squads too,

576
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: like third on.

577
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 2: The bench or whatever.

578
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: But with the girls, you put a play in, they

579
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: run that play to perfection, you know, so like say

580
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: it's passing game, and like, okay, pick down, flash in,

581
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: come back out, get the ball elbow, elbow of the

582
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: foul line. Now you got a backpitch and they're looking

583
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: for it. So the play goes exactly like that, and

584
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: it worked. You get your best player in the spot

585
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: to score. Run that same play with the boys, and

586
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: my man thinks he has an l on him and

587
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: the perimeter, Well the play is dad, and he's waving

588
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: people off like now here I go watch me.

589
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, we can all look back

590
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 3: when we were seventeen or eighteen, we probably thought we

591
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 3: knew more than we really did.

592
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, the boys just would free lance a lot more

593
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: a living Yeah, a little more ad libbing KG and

594
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: studio Kevin Gorky is the best you ever have a

595
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: player at close to just with I guess Saint Thomas

596
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: would be the would be the comparison here ever have

597
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: a player close to what we see in who you

598
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, Abby Murphy.

599
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 2: She's a power forward. Yeah.

600
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 3: I had a kid named Tanaa Wrights from Morehead who

601
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 3: could have played Division one hockey, decided she wanted to

602
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 3: go to Saint Thomas for a lot of different reasons.

603
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 3: Be more of a big fish in a small pond.

604
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 3: She was physical, you could skate, she could create space,

605
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 3: and she was an offensive weapon every time she was

606
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 3: on the ice. Not quite to the level of an

607
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 3: Abby Murphy, but a terrific player that was our go

608
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 3: to player that every night when she was at her best,

609
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 3: we couldn't be beat. That's how I look at Abbe Murphy.

610
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 3: When she's at her best, there's no way that the

611
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 3: Americans are going to get beat. She's the best player

612
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 3: on the ice. And pretty remarkable when you see all

613
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 3: these pro players that have that experience at the p

614
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 3: dub level the last couple of years, and here's a

615
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 3: college kid that's taking over the Olympics. That is uncharted

616
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 3: waters and that's what makes her such an extraordinarily talented player.

617
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 2: They with the Frost, they get decent crowds they do

618
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 2: at Grand Casino Arena, right.

619
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, they get between six and ten thousand, depending on

620
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 3: fantastic and what it is. It's a lot of families, right,

621
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 3: you know, it's going to a hockey game at any

622
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 3: level is a big expense. But when you go to

623
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 3: a Frost game, it's a remarkably different expense than it

624
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 3: might be for a wild game. And you can sit

625
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 3: in the lower bowl and you can see the pace

626
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 3: of play and how physical it is, what good hockey

627
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 3: it is, and so it's a great value. You see

628
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 3: a ton of families there and a lot of afternoon games.

629
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 3: If they play on the weekend, I would say nine

630
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 3: out of ten times, PA, it's a it's a one

631
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 3: or two o'clock game. And I think that also makes

632
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 3: a difference.

633
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: You know, with with with the way you and I

634
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: are wired, we we absolutely with what I'm about to say,

635
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: are in the same fish bowl, and we're under the

636
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: same rock in that you know, we neither of us

637
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: are team employees and we're independent contractors. But we want

638
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: the team to win for sure, okay, and it really

639
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: really matters to us. So here, here's where, And I've

640
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: never seen this with you, So I'm just gonna venture

641
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: a guess here, like a home game when things are

642
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: good and the crowd's all fired up, and there's like

643
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: a big moment or a big goal, like the box

644
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: box behind the Vikings bench at about the thirty yard line.

645
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's I mean, I'll stand up

646
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: sometimes and go like aye and get the people to.

647
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 2: Look and go yeah, yeah, yeah.

648
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: And I would have imagine you're like that, you know,

649
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: high five and people of wild games.

650
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 3: So I'm in the tunnel right behind the bench with

651
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 3: all the athletic trainers. You got a Tony DaCosta, you

652
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 3: got a Matt Benz, you got a Cliff Bar down there.

653
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Speaker 3: So we're the ones doing the high fives and the screaming.

654
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 3: But you know, I can hear the players and the coaches.

655
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Speaker 3: I'm twenty feet removed from John Hines and you kind

656
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 3: of live in that moment and feel that energy in

657
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 3: the middle tunnel. That's where you hang right mind when

658
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 3: they come off the ice, and I love it. And

659
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Speaker 3: I love being able to kind of kind of listen

660
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Speaker 3: to what they're saying and how they're taking in the moment.

661
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 3: Then when you hear that crowd, right, the crowd, just

662
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 3: the crescendo at those big moments, it does it makes

663
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Speaker 3: the hair on the back of your next stand up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't even imagine that to the Olympics. With

665
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Speaker 1: with once again USA Latvia today two ten with a

666
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Speaker 1: Hella Buck, Ottinger and swaymen does the US absolutely have

667
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Speaker 1: the best goalie situation in Milan.

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Speaker 3: They're the deepest h They've got to play at a

669
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Speaker 3: high level, and I think if you look back at

670
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Speaker 3: the Four Nations last year, Hella Buck and Bennington was

671
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 3: probably a wash and that can't be. If the US

672
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 3: is going to win gold, their goaltending has to carry

673
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Speaker 3: them there. Hellibuck's going to get the start today, he's

674
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Speaker 3: the incumbent. I do think Andrew will get a start

675
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Speaker 3: here in the preliminary games. But their goaltending has to

676
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Speaker 3: be elite. When you look at the weapons that Canada

677
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 3: has up front, they can outscore just about anybody in

678
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Speaker 3: this tournament.

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Speaker 2: Double B. How excited are you?

680
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Speaker 1: Fourteen USA Men's hockey I'm absolutely fine.

681
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Speaker 4: I've been with fort since twenty fourteen for a best

682
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Speaker 4: on best Olympic setting. I mean, the Four Nations faceoff

683
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 4: was a nice appetizer. This is the real deal, is

684
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Speaker 4: the reels it gets. I have a question for you,

685
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 4: Gorgi on the defensive pairings. I thought it was a

686
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Speaker 4: shoe in that you would pair the two Wild defenseman

687
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Speaker 4: Hughes in Favor together. I understand that Slaven and Faber

688
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 4: were a great pair in the Four Nations face off,

689
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Speaker 4: and I get why you'd want to keep that. But

690
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Speaker 4: you've got chemistry already with the two of them playing

691
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 4: for the Wild for twenty thirty games. So what is

692
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Speaker 4: your take on the defensive pairing separating those two.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you.

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00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 3: I assume that Quinn and Favor would be together because

695
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 3: of how well they have meshed here in the nearly

696
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 3: two months that Hughes has played in Saint Paul. But

697
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 3: I understand what they're doing. They want an absolute shutdown pair,

698
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 3: and that's the one thing that Fabor Enslaven showed in

699
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 3: the Four Nations that they could shut down one of

700
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 3: those top lines when they played Canada. But specifically, any

701
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 3: of these teams throughout the Olympics. Is they want one

702
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 3: pair they can absolutely rely on to be a shutdown pair.

703
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 3: They're going to get offense from other areas, including wherever

704
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:35,280
Speaker 3: Hughes is on that depth chart, So I'm not certain

705
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Speaker 3: that they're not going to try a couple different things

706
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 3: here in the prelims. They're a significant favorite today, They're

707
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 3: going to be a big favorite Saturday against Denmark. I

708
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 3: think the game Sunday against Germany. By then they want

709
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 3: to have this thing kind of buttoned up. So I

710
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 3: think you'll see coach Sullivan along with Coach Hines kind

711
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 3: of shift through these first two games, but I think

712
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 3: by Sunday they're going to have this kind of set

713
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Speaker 3: the way.

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Speaker 2: They want it.

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Speaker 1: Heard the name, seeing the name, it's not clicking with

716
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: me right now, Carolina, Yeah, right, But like what's good?

717
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 2: Good with his game?

718
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 3: Like like skating his elite skating hues. Yeah, this is

719
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 3: a different type of player though he Hughes is more

720
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 3: of an offensive player, where Slaven's more of a shutdown guy.

721
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 3: Think of Jonas Brodein, maybe a little bigger version of Brodein,

722
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 3: and the way he can close space, take away and

723
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:24,280
Speaker 3: again when you're facing McDavid and cele Briney and Crosby

724
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 3: and McKinnon. The way you can get in their way

725
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,760
Speaker 3: and stay with them. Not many can do it. Slave

726
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 3: and Ken what really.

727
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: And and the the the Olympic hockey with with the

728
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: women a lot this year for me because about well,

729
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 1: I've gotten a Taylor and Parker and I just find

730
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,919
Speaker 1: myself and some Winkle too. Yeah, I'm just pulling for him.

731
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: And so I'm watching all the games like you. But

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Speaker 1: Team USA men's hockey is immortality. I mean, do you

733
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: believe in miracles? Yes, started there yours turly twelve thirteen

734
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 1: years old, same with you. Not many TV channels. I'm

735
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,720
Speaker 1: an a YMCA in Washington, DC, getting babysat or something.

736
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: I was working and it was on this little TV

737
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,919
Speaker 1: the game against Russia, the semifinal game, right, yeah, Friday night, right,

738
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Speaker 1: so that you know, I'll never forget that. I was

739
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,240
Speaker 1: playing basketball and the whole thing stopped and then everybody

740
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: watched it.

741
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,479
Speaker 2: I'll never forget that. So I was bit there.

742
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: But what really got me this week is the last

743
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: couple of days having Zach Peizi and David Bacchus on

744
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Speaker 1: the radio show.

745
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 2: I listened to the BACKUS interview that was so good.

746
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: Well, and you know David all right, now, David was

747
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: so thoughtful, vein opening and long winded yesterday so good.

748
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: And I've had David on the radio show probably three

749
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: four times during his career and went again back to

750
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: what we were saying about athletes and interpersonal communication and

751
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 1: internalizing and coaches and trust and all that when and

752
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: I've known David forever. When David was playing might be

753
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: a thirty word answer, but like yesterday from Nashville, and

754
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 1: he's talking about twenty ten and twenty fourteen and this

755
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: goal he had where he went in to end and

756
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: never escaped faster in his life. I compared him to

757
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: Brian Giontam at that time and how he went power

758
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 1: forward on it to get in front of the killer

759
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: the goalie and score the goal. And you know then

760
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: in a game against Canada, he didn't play for like

761
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, so he's like, you know, me and me

762
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: and my dog here at the end of the bench,

763
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: we're not playing, so we might as well root. And

764
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: he was a power forward on a fourth line with

765
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Speaker 1: Ryan Callahan and Chris Brewery. I'm like, are you kidding

766
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: me for a fourth line like that? And and what

767
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: got me excited with him and with Perizi when we

768
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: played the Perezy game tying goal from twenty ten against Canada.

769
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Speaker 1: What a game that was with Doc Emrick on the call,

770
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Speaker 1: and I've heard docim forever and I'm like, oh wow,

771
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: this is unbelievable. And Zach loved it too, and he

772
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 1: like chuckled. But they're so into this team winning a

773
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: goal because they were part of it, and there's no

774
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 1: spite like well, yes, twenty twenty six, nice squad and

775
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: every thing, but I mean we got close in twenty ten.

776
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: Twenty fourteen wasn't great, twenty eighteen wasn't great, So you

777
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: know we didn't do it, So I guess I guess.

778
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: You know it doesn't matter to us if nobody ever

779
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: does it for USA.

780
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 2: No, they want it done. They want Canada to be

781
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 2: on the losing side.

782
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: Of it big time, and like scratch this big rival

783
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: border battle rivalry related.

784
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 3: Inch Well, think of the relationships throughout their careers and

785
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 3: you know Canadians and US players and the talking and

786
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 3: texting back and forth, how much it means to these

787
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 3: guys and being around the wild players that are that

788
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 3: were heading off to the Olympics and I'm playing for money.

789
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 3: They're playing for their country, They're playing with their boys,

790
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 3: and there is something sacred about this and it's a

791
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 3: huge deal when you're there. But what I what I

792
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 3: loved about your interviews is reminded. It reminded me of

793
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 3: what a big deal it still is. Yeah, like for

794
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,959
Speaker 3: the players me too, that have played before, and it

795
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 3: matters so much to these guys, even going back to

796
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 3: the guys that played in nineteen eighty, all those guys,

797
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 3: the bus Schneiders who have got to know so well,

798
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 3: the Neil Broughton's, you know, Mike Ramsey, you know, listen, Yes.

799
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 2: It matters so much of these guys.

800
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 3: So to me as a fan, just sitting back on

801
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 3: my Barker lounger and watching, I feel that and I

802
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 3: can't wait to take it in.

803
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: Checchi and Canada are in the air. They just started

804
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: from Milan and zero zero just.

805
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 2: Into the game.

806
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: Bennington and goal, Bennington and goal, and and Bacchus who

807
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: played with Bennington. That's another thing that got me fired

808
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: up talking about the goalies and he's like, well, here's

809
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: the deal.

810
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 2: With Bennington. He was spot on. By the way, if

811
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 2: you get him early, you got him. He's all done, yep.

812
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: And he might he might be all done for the

813
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: whole thing, like all the games.

814
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 3: But don't let him get hot. Yeah, that's what happened

815
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 3: last How bright was that. That's exactly what happened in

816
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 3: the Four Nations. The US came out and played so

817
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 3: well in the first period. But he was that good

818
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 3: and he got hot, and then as that game went

819
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 3: on and it was a a tight game and he

820
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 3: went into overtime. He's that big game guy that can

821
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,800
Speaker 3: rise up. And that's why people keep ripping them. And

822
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,399
Speaker 3: the numbers are bad. He's playing in Saint Louis. They

823
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 3: stink this year. But I am telling you this guy,

824
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 3: when you've got those chips on the line, will show up.

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00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: That's the voice of Kevin Gore, And unbeknownst to him,

826
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Speaker 1: he's going to give his buddy another segment about four

827
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Speaker 1: minutes from now and we'll be done.

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Speaker 2: Close to tim. Why is he doing that?

829
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Speaker 1: Because a friend loves at all times and a brother

830
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Speaker 1: is born for a time of adversity.

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Speaker 2: Cage, We'll be right back.

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Speaker 2: Personal foul equipping.

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Speaker 1: Cagey chechu Canada zero zero five into it, five minutes

842
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: into it.

843
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 2: Can't remember who I was chatting. It might have been

844
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Speaker 2: Russo Radio.

845
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: Recently with the team USA women's team, what we got.

846
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 2: Five oh five to one? Five Oh, I mean, we're

847
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 2: just you know, it's it's like who beats that team?

848
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,720
Speaker 1: So then you know, when when talking about the odds

849
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: of the men and into this thing, Canada plus one fifteen,

850
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: about even money to win the gold for US A

851
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 1: plus one seventy five, you know, so those two are

852
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: one in one A then you get up to six

853
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: and a half to one to Sweden, and so that's

854
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: kind of a big gap there, as you would know

855
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: in the spot up business. Uh, And then I'm you know,

856
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: we're talking about the games, and you know, latis five

857
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: NHL players, so this should be easy, right, and he goes, yeah,

858
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: it should be and probably will be. But with the men,

859
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: it's different when when you got these NHL play and

860
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: holy cow, did Finland learn that yesterday?

861
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:22,879
Speaker 2: Right?

862
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 3: Finland learned it and Sweden almost did. Our beloved Gus

863
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 3: Bust didn't have his best day. That's in a goofy

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00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,959
Speaker 3: goal early in that hockey game. Sixty shots on goal

865
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 3: and this is a three to two game early in

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Speaker 3: the third period.

867
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Speaker 2: So yeah, you take nothing for granted.

868
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Speaker 3: You know, we talked about Canada being a two and

869
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 3: a half puck favorite here in the US three and

870
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 3: a half half puck favorite there.

871
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,359
Speaker 1: That's what it is, yea. And these are prelim games,

872
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 1: so trust out like minus eleven hundred or something, straight

873
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: up play it.

874
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:50,879
Speaker 3: I mean, if you want the US, you can lay

875
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 3: the twenty four hundred to make a hundred, which is ridiculous.

876
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 2: Jumper three and a half the.

877
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 3: Puck line, you've got early and a half mers Leakens,

878
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 3: the Columbus goaliean goal who you know is capable. You

879
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 3: got your guy Teddy Blueger second line center, solid hockey player,

880
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 3: but no, if the US comes to play, they're gonna

881
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 3: win a four or five goal game, no doubt about it.

882
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:13,720
Speaker 3: These games are only about getting into that next level

883
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 3: where it's it's a playdown and you want to buy.

884
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 3: And so if you run the table in the US

885
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 3: is going to be favored to win heavily today, heavily

886
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 3: on Saturday against Denmark, and then I think it'll be

887
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 3: a good game Sunday against Germany, but they'll certainly be favored.

888
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 3: You run the table, you end up being the one

889
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 3: or two seed. You get the buy all twelve play,

890
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 3: but the top four get buys, those eight play in

891
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 3: those winners all match up, and then you get it

892
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 3: down to that great tournament where it should be Canada

893
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 3: on one side, US on the other, and I think

894
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 3: on both the men and the women they end up

895
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 3: playing for the gold dope.

896
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 4: You know what's a breath of fresh air that I

897
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 4: just realized is this game the Canada and check game

898
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 4: checked you was scheduled at nine The puck dropped at

899
00:43:58,239 --> 00:43:58,919
Speaker 4: Isn't that nice?

900
00:43:59,000 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 2: Doot?

901
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 4: Why can't we because the Wild will schedule it at seven,

902
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 4: and that's what's listed.

903
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 2: Don't drop until seven twenty three. That's the league.

904
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 3: Why it's not the wilds me they don't want to

905
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 3: play eight fifty two.

906
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 2: I wasn't using that game one does we're talking about

907
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 2: to pick five at Gulf Stream Park, like.

908
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: Five or something where they always start twenty minutes late.

909
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 4: Why is just the league just hit because it's odd

910
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 4: Like soccer games, they always start exactly on the dot

911
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 4: of when they're supposed to be.

912
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: And I think it's just because nobody's watching it and

913
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 1: they don't care. I'm just kidding, but.

914
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 2: It's a sign or alert.

915
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 4: It's the same thing that happened here. It's supposed to

916
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 4: are nine to forty and it started a nine to forty.

917
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 2: Why can't we do that? Why can't we just.

918
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,760
Speaker 3: List the time right to your point rather than saying

919
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:45,280
Speaker 3: that Game one in Saint Paul, the Dallas Stars against

920
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 3: the Minnesota Wild April eighteenth, per se starts at eight thirty.

921
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 2: Why don't they just say it starts at eight fifty two.

922
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, because we know they're going to show the early

923
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:55,919
Speaker 3: game in its entirety and they're not going to drop

924
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 3: the puck until that early game is over.

925
00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 2: Why do they tease us that?

926
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 4: Well, then the best part is to say pregame coverage

927
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,479
Speaker 4: starts at eight. It's like, okay, well now I gotta

928
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 4: wait an hour for a lot.

929
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 2: Of build up, man, a lot of build up.

930
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 1: I mean, this is radio, you know, and hopefully a

931
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: lot of people are listening. But with the with with

932
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: NBC or USA whatever it is right now, the box

933
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: is Kenny Albert, okay, who is elite calling hockey good

934
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 1: and the analyst is.

935
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,399
Speaker 3: Eddie Oljak as good as a guest those over there,

936
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 3: of course he is.

937
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's terrific. Man.

938
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: Hey, Jared, do me a favor. Put that microphone in

939
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: front of you real quick, all right, get that on

940
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: button that microphone on over there? All right, Jared, Hello,

941
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: I'm not welcome to the studio. I have a question

942
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: for you. But just a quick little backdrop here. We

943
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 1: have some remodeling and construction and things like that going

944
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: on at our campus just west of Minneapolis. So I

945
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: was walking with my head down the other day and

946
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: there's Jared and he's all kind and everything looked like

947
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: he was, you know, like I don't know if it

948
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 1: was frustrated. There's a lot going on here with the remodeling.

949
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 1: I'm like, why don't you come on in the studio. Man,

950
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: put the head phones on and just look at your

951
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: phone and chill. So my man just walks into the

952
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: studio now, got hockey on.

953
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 2: It's got himself some coffee. It's a good spot. You're

954
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 2: enjoying yourself, aren't you. Yeah? Would you be described as

955
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 2: a contractor.

956
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 1: I'm a I work for a general contractor, so I'm

957
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:17,800
Speaker 1: the superintendent on the project.

958
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 2: Oh, I got you.

959
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: So sometimes it just sometimes you just need to catch

960
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: your breath right, And this is a good place to

961
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: hide in the radio studio of one. I can't get

962
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:28,399
Speaker 1: you here, No, they can't come get you. I can't

963
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: wait for you to try to do this three to

964
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: six thirty. Hopefully, hopefully you caught your breath by three.

965
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: I'm playing okay, one left, so FL hockey on your hat.

966
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: Here's the question. What's f L hockey course like? Oh,

967
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: Forrest Lake Hockey. What's the nickname Rangers? So you got

968
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: kids that play there?

969
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 2: Or do you have a second year pee wee in

970
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 2: a first year of mic?

971
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: Right on? Very cool, Welcome to the studio. Now you're

972
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: welcome to stop by any time you want, especially if

973
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 1: you need to catch your breath and enjoy checchy in Canada.

974
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,879
Speaker 1: Kevin gorg FanDuel you're a big hockey fantas you told

975
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: me yesterday, and that's my main man. They're like, you know,

976
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: we've been friends for over twenty five years. All right,

977
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: let's fly through this. Thank you, but I appreciate you.

978
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 2: Let's see la fia.

979
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: Any idea when the USA might be meeting Canada, like

980
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,240
Speaker 1: I haven't looked at like how they stack up and stuff.

981
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 2: Well, won't it have to be to the end the

982
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 2: golden medal game?

983
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: Yeah?

984
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 2: So well probably a week and a half away. Yeah,

985
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:22,439
Speaker 2: but there wasn't.

986
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: It was a four Nations where they played Canada and

987
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:26,919
Speaker 1: the teams though, oh that's right.

988
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 2: So this with twelve teams, you're not going to see

989
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 2: them to the end.

990
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 1: Yep, Sweden is six and a half to one to

991
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 1: win the gold Eric Sinak Johansson boss Baalstet repping the

992
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: wild for that squad despite what you saw against Italy.

993
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,800
Speaker 1: I mean, now that we're starting to see these teams

994
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: and the depth and the voluminous nature of the talent

995
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:50,880
Speaker 1: on non USA or Canadian teams, what do you think

996
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: about the Swedes with the puncher's chance to win the

997
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: gold Well, they're absolutely good enough to make a run

998
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 1: and likely that semi final matchup. Whether they match up

999
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: with Canada or the US, either one of those two

1000
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: favorites is going to have to play their very best

1001
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: to beat them.

1002
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 3: They've got to arguably the best blue line in the tournament.

1003
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 3: Their goaltending has got great potential between let's not sleep

1004
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 3: on mark Strom, who's behind kind of in the middle

1005
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 3: of Volsted and Gustafson. Gust got to start in game one.

1006
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 3: He's the incumbent. He didn't play great yesterday. He's capable

1007
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 3: of much better. He'll play better as the tournament wears on.

1008
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 3: But the Swedes are deep, They're physical. They've got a

1009
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 3: good power play. We saw that on display. The sixty

1010
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,760
Speaker 3: shots on goal tells you that. Don't be fooled by

1011
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 3: the way they had to grind that thing out. I

1012
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 3: thought the Fins were a sleeper coming in. They out

1013
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 3: shot and out played their opponent yesterday. They just ran

1014
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 3: into a hot goaltender who ironically plays for the Iowa Wild.

1015
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 3: But there's still a team I would not want to

1016
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,800
Speaker 3: play in the semi finals, like Sweden and the Swiss

1017
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 3: this morning put on a clinic. They're another team that

1018
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 3: a lot of the so called pundits are saying could

1019
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 3: upset the Apple cart.

1020
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: When you get to that final eight, Canada coach John

1021
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: Cooper he just tripped out. He just I don't I

1022
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: think I know why. He lost his mind. Even though

1023
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:06,320
Speaker 1: the sounds down, McKinnon scored okay, and the bench went nuts,

1024
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 1: but it was nullified because of an interference penalty that's

1025
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: being served by Suzuki, and like Cooper's arms were out

1026
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: stretched and everything. So now Chechi is on the power play.

1027
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: These Canadians were so pissed off whomever is on their

1028
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: first PK. I mean they like shots just I mean

1029
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: I thought they were going to get a shorty right

1030
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: right away off off this penalty kill.

1031
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 2: So the Canadians are a little pear shaped early in

1032
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 2: the equation.

1033
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 3: Benningsen just made a big save in the early part

1034
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 3: of that sequence on the power play too. I mean,

1035
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 3: Check is hanging with them, and that's a big overturned goal.

1036
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 3: Because you know, when you're a heavy favorite and you're

1037
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 3: supposed to dominate, you get that early goal. Everybody can

1038
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 3: kind of deep take a deep breath. I just kind

1039
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 3: of play their game. Now they're going to kill a penalty.

1040
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:51,320
Speaker 3: There's a little tension involved.

1041
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 2: I love it.

1042
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: Okay, help me with this before we say goodbye Slovakia.

1043
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: All right, So they upset Finland yesterday. Who is I

1044
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: think it's eurag Cosky. I scored twice in that upset. Yeah,

1045
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 1: he's probably their best weapon. He's known for his hands,

1046
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 1: he can snipe. Again, if you watch that game yesterday, Honestly,

1047
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:14,320
Speaker 1: I'm looking at that game going how are they winning

1048
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: this hockey game? I mean, Finland had great a chance

1049
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 1: after grade a chance and could not score, And it

1050
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: just felt like a game where if you looked at

1051
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: the game and didn't see the scoreboard and saw the

1052
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:29,280
Speaker 1: final score, you would have bet everything you had on Finland.

1053
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: They were the better team every step of the way.

1054
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,320
Speaker 1: Canada killed the penalty, and you know, I think in

1055
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: in closing here one in the wild before we leave

1056
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: is I mean it's safe to say better not go

1057
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 1: to the box versus the Canadians. I mean, holy cow,

1058
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: how about Canada's first power play? Your guy Crosby McKinnon, McDavid,

1059
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,240
Speaker 1: Cale mccarr and Sam Reinhardt.

1060
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,240
Speaker 2: That's absurd. You take penalties.

1061
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 3: You're going to obviously be in a really tough situation

1062
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 3: against this team. They've got so much firepower they can

1063
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 3: score themselves out of trouble. But specifically, if you're going

1064
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 3: to give them four or five man advantages in a game,

1065
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 3: you're not going.

1066
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 2: To beat them.

1067
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 3: I mean, they're going to get you a couple of

1068
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:07,879
Speaker 3: power play goals every night if you take a bunch

1069
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 3: of penalties. So it'll be interesting to see how these

1070
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 3: games are called because they really let them play at

1071
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 3: the Four Nations. Different set of rules here, and obviously

1072
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 3: there will be no fights because if you fight, you're

1073
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 3: out and you're done. So real that mean it means

1074
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 3: you can't fight in the Olympics, so you're out of

1075
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 3: the tournament.

1076
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:24,760
Speaker 2: So the whole thing, yeah, you're done.

1077
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 3: So I mean you have to you have to realize

1078
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 3: that they're going to call this game probably a little tighter.

1079
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:31,400
Speaker 3: They're not going to let them play like they did

1080
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 3: the Four Nations. And if you're the US or anybody

1081
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 3: playing against Canada, you have to know going into the

1082
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 3: game kind of pick and choose your spots. You want

1083
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 3: to slow them down, you want to be physical, you

1084
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 3: want to get in their way, but the stick penalties

1085
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 3: have got to be limited. It's going to be a

1086
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 3: fascinating tug of war because I think the US team,

1087
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 3: you look at the matchup, you know, you love that

1088
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 3: blue line, you love the goaltending, you talked about it,

1089
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,959
Speaker 3: but you also love the grit that they can play

1090
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 3: with along with the skill they bring. Bill garn made

1091
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 3: a statement in the way he picked his team. He

1092
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 3: didn't pick the twenty best offensive weapons. He picked guys

1093
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 3: that can play specific roles, and he talked about that,

1094
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 3: and I know that, you know, Jason Robertson's camp down

1095
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 3: in Dallas is disappointed, and I get all that noise,

1096
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 3: But you know, Herb Brooks those forty six years ago

1097
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 3: said it isn't just about picking the best players, it's

1098
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 3: about picking.

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00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 2: The right players. We'll see if he did.

1100
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you can look at that roster and understand

1101
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 3: why you've got a brock Nelson on that fourth line.

1102
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 3: It reminds me a lot of a guy like David Beckett.

1103
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 3: He has a specific role to play, and it's a

1104
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 3: different role here than he plays in Colorado, where he's

1105
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 3: probably going to score forty plus this year. He's there

1106
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 3: to shut people down, to play physical, to kill penalties,

1107
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 3: and that's going to be where the rubber meets the road,

1108
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 3: to see if the US can hang in there and

1109
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 3: beat a team like Canada when they probably play for

1110
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 3: that gold.

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00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 2: All right, now, what's up? Not you run in the

1112
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 2: little lake?

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00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: Come on and say hello to KG and Jared Supervisor,

1114
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 1: Jared Forrest Lake, Jarrett just just he just slid me

1115
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: a question to ask you.

1116
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 2: He's feeling good about himself? Isn't?

1117
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 3: Now?

1118
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 2: He must be?

1119
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:05,359
Speaker 1: Here's the question for ust Lake, Jared Supervisor. Here at

1120
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,879
Speaker 1: a plan of Utica out of the break and right

1121
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 1: into a back to back at Colorado and Utah. Ask Kevin,

1122
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: how far do you think the Wild can take this?

1123
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: If they stay healthy in the right spots.

1124
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,359
Speaker 3: If they're healthy, they're good enough to win the whole thing.

1125
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 3: And I think the beauty of where they are right

1126
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 3: now is you're gonna have two tough series to start

1127
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 3: the playoffs. You're gonna have that Dallas series, which is

1128
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 3: likely going to be a coin flip, and I don't

1129
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:33,760
Speaker 3: think the home ice will matter in that series. Whoever

1130
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 3: wins that series, in my opinion, the team that wins

1131
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 3: that next series Colorado against Dallas or Minnesota is the

1132
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:43,319
Speaker 3: team that ends up winning the Cup this year. That's

1133
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 3: what I think about this division. That's how deep the

1134
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 3: central is. That's how good these teams are as they

1135
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 3: are assembled right now. That's that second round series might

1136
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 3: decide the Cup. And if you're the Wild, you're right

1137
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 3: there in it, and you finally get You beat Dallas,

1138
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 3: you beat a great team, you beat a great goalie.

1139
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 3: I enduring you finally got that whole first round narrative

1140
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 3: off your back.

1141
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Speaker 1: Enjoy the downtime, enjoy the Olympic Hockey. Thank you very

1142
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: much for helping you today for an hour, and we'll

1143
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,800
Speaker 1: stay in touch. Love you, brother, Love you too. Kevin

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Speaker 1: gorg kg from fan Duel and the Side Ernk, analyst

1145
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Speaker 1: for Minnesota Wild Hockey. Here comes not Cho liber Ben,

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Speaker 1: liber Ben liber Nacho liber joins nine to noon around

1147
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 1: the corner.

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Speaker 2: It's ten oh three. Good