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Speaker 1: What an absolutely amazing day of hockey. Yesterday for casuals

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Speaker 1: like me might have been the greatest day of hockey

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Speaker 1: a blowout.

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Speaker 2: Probably going to get busier as they try and go

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Speaker 3: Well, I always convert a three on one because I

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Speaker 3: felt like the players messed it up because you rarely

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Speaker 1: Well, here's another two on one.

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Speaker 4: Host into the room for them, you.

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Speaker 1: The Slovaks with with a goaltender, who's the fourth goaltender

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Speaker 1: in the wild system? Who knew? What about those fins?

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Speaker 5: To Lindell.

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Speaker 1: Pass a head looking as it all alone, looking it

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Speaker 1: on the party stars, it's over. The champions are still alive.

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Speaker 1: That tune to the semi finals.

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Speaker 5: I'm Alona fourteen a twenty twenty six looking.

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Speaker 1: In the hair of all at the time, and holy cow,

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Speaker 1: those checks will punk talk. They made life difficult for

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Speaker 1: the heavily favored Canadians until it got to overtime goal

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Speaker 1: wins winner onto the semifinals.

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Speaker 5: Nice thing, prudy.

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Speaker 6: Stars deliverers cat into the cities and finally for the

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Speaker 6: United States of America.

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Speaker 1: It's time to drop the put put a que around advancing.

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Speaker 4: I got to the stick of Quinn Hughes and across

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Speaker 4: the line hues for BOLDI.

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Speaker 1: Now Quinn Hughes.

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Speaker 4: We played three and a half minutes and overtime. Wit

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Speaker 4: here since his stars, his stars, Quinn Hughes and overtime.

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Speaker 5: What's it?

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Speaker 4: Head of the United States. We'll move on and faschol

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Speaker 4: fuck here he the Semmies. It's head coach by Sullivan.

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Speaker 4: Pash referred to Quit Hughes. Pashpatrick Ole bout this tournament,

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Speaker 4: a Patrick oldman.

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Speaker 5: Get over talk it belonged.

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Speaker 1: Hallo my go today.

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Speaker 7: Nine to noon is in the air in the USA.

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Speaker 1: Talk indeed the greatest day of hockey I've ever witnessed.

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Speaker 1: To my wife, Oh Saint cow.

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Speaker 7: Now we're set for the final four, pulling for the USA.

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Speaker 7: Hallo my cot, USA, Slovakia, Canada, Finland, Team USA women

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Speaker 7: going for the gold today shortly after nine to noon.

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Speaker 1: What's play hockey? Pat mcalletty, You've seen a lot more

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Speaker 1: than me, mctucket, But yesterday that's one of the greatest

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Speaker 1: days of hockey I've ever witnessed in my life. What

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Speaker 1: about you and good morning.

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Speaker 2: Uh, it was. It really was fabulous hockey all day long.

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Speaker 2: All of the games were terrific and and and that's

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Speaker 2: what you get in the Olympics, and uh, a one

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Speaker 2: and done type tournament. And and it was it was

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Speaker 2: great hockey. It was great hockey. And any of the

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Speaker 2: teams other than Germany could have won yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Right, And you had three overtime games and and in

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Speaker 1: that you know, the the Canada Checkia game was on

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Speaker 1: during nine to noon and it was just so fascinating

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Speaker 1: watching these massive underdogs, these Checks, grab a two to

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Speaker 1: Canadians to hold that lead while while still playing their game,

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Speaker 1: keeping it so tight. And then with U with the

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Speaker 1: tight checking, playoff type atmosphere, playoff type game. Uh, those

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Speaker 2: You know, Let's start with Canada and the and the Checks. Uh,

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Speaker 2: the Checks had a chance in overtime. I mean Jordan Bennington,

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Speaker 2: who at least I have been ripping on all year

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Speaker 2: is he the guy for Canada? And is Canada you know,

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Speaker 2: is that going to be the Achilles Heel for Canada. Well,

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Speaker 2: he came up with one of the biggest aves ever

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Speaker 2: Marner wins it for him, So you're you're right, I mean,

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Speaker 2: it was just it was it was great.

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Speaker 1: Well with with the Bennington conversations interesting you know because

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Speaker 1: analysts to like David Backus being on the nine to

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Speaker 2: In in the big moments, he's big and and so yes,

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Speaker 2: because it was it was an unbelievable save where Canada

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Speaker 2: and that's what you need. And and the goaltending, the

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Speaker 2: goaltending in this tournament has been terrific for all of

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Speaker 2: the teams. Yesterday, you know, Mark Strom and and Hella

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Speaker 2: Buck We're we're both really really good for their respective teams.

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Speaker 1: Mick talkot Pat mcgalletty noted Hockey Mind eighty nine to

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Speaker 1: now on the Olympic Hockey festivities, and for that we

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Speaker 1: are grateful with with the Swedes and USA and and

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Speaker 1: Sabana Jad the Ranger with the equalizer, UH, the the

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Speaker 1: Lucas Raymond pass to Sabana Jad, it was amazing. Now

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Speaker 1: you got Dylan Larkin scoring for the USA. They're both

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Speaker 1: Red Wing. How good are the Red Wings?

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Speaker 2: The Red Wings are very good. And UH and you

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Speaker 2: can go over to the UH team Germany and they

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Speaker 2: have one of the most up and coming defensemen will

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Speaker 2: probably win multiple Norris Trophies. And Morris cider ye who's

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Speaker 2: who's just a beast? And and Detroit's really good. They

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Speaker 2: were confused a year ago. I don't think they had

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Speaker 2: and and they're they're really good. You know, we'll see

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Speaker 2: what type of goaltending they get in the playoffs, but

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Speaker 8: You know, I want to focus on Dylan Larkin for

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Speaker 8: a second, because it's not like I've dug into all

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Speaker 8: but just casually paying attention to results. Is Dylan Larkin

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Speaker 8: one of the best Team USA players of the last

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Speaker 8: fifteen years. Pat it feels like he's always we're talking

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Speaker 8: World Championships, maybe even down to juniors, but he's always

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Speaker 8: finding goals and production when he's wearing the country sweater,

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Speaker 2: For the fan fair, doesn't get enough of it. Great

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Speaker 2: leader for Detroit, can skate like the wind. Gets kind

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Speaker 2: you know it's showing. I mean, you know, he's been

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Speaker 2: he's been great for the US in this tournament.

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Speaker 1: Here is a novice slash casual hockey fan. Take so

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Speaker 1: Canada's decor all right, I mean, you got my car,

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Speaker 1: you got high enders. Obviously, they they have their problems

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Speaker 2: I agree with you wholeheartedly, and I think a fatal

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Speaker 2: you know, they they they they dialed it back a

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Speaker 2: You've got to continue to pressure them, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, if we're going to handicap a potential gold,

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Speaker 2: right now. But you know, I would say, goaltending pretty

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Speaker 2: slight edge, but then you got big game Bennington. I

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Speaker 2: I would say that the decor you would give to

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Speaker 2: the US. So that's what we potentially have looking forward

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Speaker 2: to early Sunday morning.

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Speaker 1: Now, the three on three overtime in the Olympics. What

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Speaker 2: you've got to take some chances. You you know, if

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Speaker 2: But you know that's international rule. So what are you

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Speaker 8: Hey, with Slovakia coming up in this this young wild

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Speaker 8: goaltenders down in Iowa. Well, he's in Milan now, But

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Speaker 8: Samuel hall of I I think I want to get

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Speaker 8: that pronunciation right?

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Speaker 5: Is right?

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Speaker 2: You pronounced it instead of me?

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Speaker 1: Yes, Well, well we'll get there.

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Speaker 8: He's only twenty four and he's got like a nine

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Speaker 8: he's really the story for Slovakia getting to where they are.

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Speaker 1: How much did we know about him?

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Speaker 5: Well, I heard about him.

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Speaker 2: He started in the Olympics. So how's that for you. Okay,

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Speaker 2: do you think that's not a chip for Billy Garan?

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Speaker 2: Does that not potentially keep what's his name Walstead from

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Speaker 2: do they know now that hey, this kid's ready, let's

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Speaker 8: No, I love that, and and I hate to get

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Speaker 8: negative for a moment, but loving Hall of Fame I'm

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Speaker 8: hoping our favorite team beats him of course tomorrow. But uh,

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Speaker 8: for Markstrom. Markstrom showed out and and and handled business

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Speaker 2: I don't think so, you know. I mean, he let

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be overly concerned about him. You know it probably

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Speaker 2: same with uh with Walstead. But you know, listen, you're

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Speaker 2: You come back and you'll be dialed in with your team,

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Speaker 1: The the lastly, the the Civil War, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: Aspect of these games is just so fascinating. You got

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Speaker 1: Dallas out of the All Star break. That's a target center.

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Speaker 1: All right, So you guys, right now, our sixth in

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Speaker 1: the conference, but just a game and a half from

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Speaker 1: third and twenty eight to play, what do you expect

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Speaker 1: to see from your guys beginning tomorrow night.

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Speaker 5: Well, I hope we see more of what we've you know,

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Speaker 5: saw right before the break. You know, we found a

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Speaker 5: great offensive rhythm. Defensively, we were locked back in. You know,

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Speaker 5: I think right now it's about, you know, once and

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Speaker 5: for all. You know, everything that comes comes and goes

445
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Speaker 5: throughout the season has has gone, whether it be All

446
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Speaker 5: Star games or you know, trying to establish yourself or

447
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Speaker 5: role definition and all that kind of stuff. Once and

448
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Speaker 5: for all. Now you got to give yourselves over to

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Speaker 5: the greater good for for the last twenty six games,

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Speaker 5: whatever it takes. And you know, we're excited about the

451
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Speaker 5: addition of Ayu, We're excited about having Mic back. You know,

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Speaker 5: we're excited about a lot of things that feel. We

453
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Speaker 5: feel like we're as deep and as flexible as we've

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Speaker 5: ever been. We thought we'd be this way earlier in

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Speaker 5: the season, just didn't turn out that way for one

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Speaker 5: reason or another. So right now, I think, you know, guys, uh,

457
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Speaker 5: you know, they know who we need to be to

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Speaker 5: be good, and that's that's what we we should be

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Speaker 5: focusing on.

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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, off topic for a second. Former MADS owner

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Speaker 1: or maybe he's co owner. Now whatever, Mark Cuban says,

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Speaker 1: n b A and and the fans should embrace tanking

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Speaker 1: to help with draft picks, free agency and cap space. Uh,

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Speaker 1: there's more to it, but but that's the meat. What

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Speaker 1: do you think about all that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I'm not so sure I get what

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Speaker 5: Mark's saying that this is a mechanism to build, you know,

468
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Speaker 5: a build a better franchise given the rules of the

469
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Speaker 5: way things are constructed right now. You know, I think,

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Speaker 5: you know, it's a very tricky subject in the sense

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Speaker 5: that you know, you can't play with the integrity of

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Speaker 5: the league. Uh. You know, tanking is not just about

473
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Speaker 5: what's going on in you your team and your market.

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Speaker 5: It does have an impact on the teams that you're playing,

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Speaker 5: the teams that are relying on certain results and elsewhere.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, it's you know, to me, it's not as

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Speaker 5: simple as just you know, saying that. I think it

478
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Speaker 5: is something at the league I know is of course

479
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Speaker 5: looking at Adam's been on record as late as the

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Speaker 5: All Star Game just talking quite a lot about it,

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Speaker 5: and you know, it's it's a hard one because you know,

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Speaker 5: if they have to figure out of some sort of

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Speaker 5: mechanism to continue to mitigate this type of you know, yeah,

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Speaker 5: roster building exercise.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's this is age old, you know,

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Speaker 1: all the way back to the Spurs. I think trying

487
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Speaker 1: to put what Duncan with Robinson or Robinson with Duncan, whatever.

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Speaker 1: But there's a game fixing element to it that I

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Speaker 1: just don't like. Man and from John Tay Porter through

490
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Speaker 1: Chauncey Billups through all this college basketball stuff, I just

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Speaker 1: be very careful with how you're doing this because because

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Speaker 1: if the wrong people, if those of the CD variety

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Speaker 1: get tipped off on it, I mean you're going to

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Speaker 1: have obscure betting markets and it's going to draw a

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Speaker 1: lot of attention to the wrong things.

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Speaker 5: You know, yeah, one hundred percent. It's a different landscape

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Speaker 5: than it was when these things start started. I mean,

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Speaker 5: with the with the legalized betting aspect of it adds

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Speaker 5: quite another dimension and another pressure to it all together.

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Speaker 1: How the rookie, the Frenchman, how's Baron Jay coming along?

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Speaker 5: Oh, he's coming great, you know, like he's he's been great,

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Speaker 5: He's had an incredible season, he's at already gives us

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Speaker 5: incredible energy when he comes in. You know, been trying

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Speaker 5: to find him some consistent minutes and you know, even

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Speaker 5: if it's five, six, ten minutes a night, not going

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Speaker 5: to be the case every single night. But it doesn't

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Speaker 5: mean that he's kind of falling out of favor here

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Speaker 5: at all. It's quite the opposite. You know, we're we're

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Speaker 5: definitely looking for opportunities to play I am. You know,

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Speaker 5: his production will go up and down, we expect that.

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Speaker 5: But what he does bring us brings us energy and

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Speaker 5: effort and hustle plays and kind of inspirational basketball, uh,

513
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Speaker 5: and that never changes, and plays with a purity that

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Speaker 5: is infectious. And those are things that you know, we're

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Speaker 5: really excited about and we're excited about his future.

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Speaker 1: Is if io to assume though now you mentioned him

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Speaker 1: earlier the former ball Is he a quick learner? And

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Speaker 1: and and were you saddened yesterday that there was no

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Speaker 1: practice assumably due to the weather.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was definitely sad, and I was looking forward

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Speaker 5: to getting back over the court. But uh, kind of

522
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Speaker 5: the storm came up in the exact wrong time for us.

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Speaker 5: But we had we had a bunch of guys that

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Speaker 5: we're already in and got some got some work done.

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Speaker 5: Guys have been working through the break, so we'll be

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Speaker 5: ready today to get after it. As far as I owe. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: he's a quick learner, you know. We we he told

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Speaker 5: him not to, you know, overthink anything. I think we

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Speaker 5: might see coming up here over these next few games.

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Speaker 5: You know, maybe maybe a little regression on some things

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Speaker 5: with him, just as he kind of learns some stuff

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Speaker 5: and tries to fit in around his teammates and and

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Speaker 5: maybe he overcompensates a little bit. Just this is just normal.

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Speaker 5: I've seen it happen plenty of times. And then you know,

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Speaker 5: after you go through that period, you come out the

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Speaker 5: other side with a complete understanding of like, you know,

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Speaker 5: how you fit into what we do.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, my brother, and I'm glad you had a

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Speaker 1: nice chill. Best of luck against the MAVs and I'll

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Speaker 1: call you monday. Okay.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate it, Pa, thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, see man. That's Chris Finch, head coach of

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Speaker 1: Milan for RUSSO Radio. That uh that call from from

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Speaker 1: USA from from USA Network Kenny Albert on lead vocals,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't call a better game than he

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Speaker 1: called yesterday. Holy cal was he good on the microphone?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Such a pro and so versatile where he could do

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Speaker 3: you know, everything from as you know, NFL, uh you know,

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Speaker 3: on Fox for a long, long, long long time to

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Speaker 3: baseball to basketball. I mean he works with Walt Frazier

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Speaker 3: doing Knicks games now that is the voice of the

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Speaker 3: Rangers on TV as opposed to radio for years, uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, replacing the legendary Sam Rosen on MSG with

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Speaker 3: working with Dave Maloney, one of the best captains in

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Speaker 3: readers history every single night. And then obviously the National

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Speaker 3: Games of Brian Bouchet and and Eddie oldschaka who I

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Speaker 3: know you know well as well, one of the best

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Speaker 3: and also versatile her horse racing experts. Made a lot

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Speaker 3: of money doing that. So it's been cool hanging out.

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Speaker 5: With those guys.

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Speaker 3: Here in Milan the last two and a half weeks,

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Speaker 3: and we're definitely on the home stretch right.

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Speaker 1: Now, no doubt. Now to the here and now. First,

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Speaker 1: the USA women are seeking the gold today against Canada.

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Speaker 1: USA is a four and a half to one. Favorite

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Speaker 1: house is housing the gold for the first time since

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen? Is it EAZPZ for the Red, White and

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Speaker 1: Blue ladies today?

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, it's hockey, right, Anything can happen. It's

577
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Speaker 3: you know, bad goal tang and injury things like that.

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Speaker 3: But I have covered them now play what the four

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Speaker 3: rivalry series games? I covered them four games and the

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Speaker 3: prelims and two games and the quarters and the semis

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Speaker 3: here and so we're talking ten games and I don't

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Speaker 3: even know if they've given up ten shots in any

583
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Speaker 3: of those games. Wow, they are a dominant, dominant, juggernaut

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Speaker 3: of a hockey team that is incredibly a well oiled machine,

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Speaker 3: coached by an awesome coach that I wrote about the

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Speaker 3: other day in gen ra Bleski and just up and

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Speaker 3: down the lineup, uh as as dominant as I've ever

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Speaker 3: seen from from one hockey team there there. They've got

589
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Speaker 3: incredible depths their balance from from veterans to youngsters. Is

590
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Speaker 3: is second to none, either fast or skilled, and they

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Speaker 3: have some of the best players in the world, so

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Speaker 3: it would be be It would be one of the

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Speaker 3: biggest shots that I think I've ever covered in sports

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Speaker 3: if they somehow don't be Canada tonight. But it's still Canada.

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Speaker 3: They still got Maurice Felipe Poole and who's one of

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Speaker 3: the best players still in the world. And and this

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Speaker 3: is one of the great rivalries in in in hockey.

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Speaker 3: So anything can happen, but.

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Speaker 5: It would be a real true upset if.

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Speaker 3: The United States don't take home goal tonight.

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Speaker 1: All right, Now, I know you didn't see in person

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Speaker 1: all the games yesterday, but but with those re overtime games,

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Speaker 1: what was yesterday one of the better days of hockey

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Speaker 1: you have covered or witnessed. Uh, just period, and you've

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Speaker 1: done it a long time, Yeah, big time.

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Speaker 3: You know you're right. I wasn't at the Simlin Swindling

607
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Speaker 3: game Switzerland game because that was at a the secondary

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Speaker 3: rink here, but obviously it was at the Canada game

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00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 3: in the United States game, and and you know, with

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Speaker 3: all to be blunt, we needed it. This has not

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Speaker 3: been a very compelling tournament up until this point, until yesterday,

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Speaker 3: not a lot of you know, overtime, not a lot

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Speaker 3: of comeback. Yep, the games haven't been very very competitive.

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Speaker 3: I hate to say like this, but you needed the

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Speaker 3: lesser life out there. Haven't been upsets, and yesterday all

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Speaker 3: that changed. The first corner final was again boring, but

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Speaker 3: then Finland Switzerland's Switzerland is up to nothing with six

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Speaker 3: minutes to go, and Finland comes roaring back, forses overtime

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Speaker 3: and wins in overtime. Then the Canada game, they're down

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Speaker 3: in the second period, they tie it up, they're down

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Speaker 3: in the third period, obviously, they lose Sidney Crosby to

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Speaker 3: the knee injury. Suzuki ties it up with three minutes

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Speaker 3: left and then Marner wins it in overtime. And then

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Speaker 3: the US game, in a true playoff type game, they're

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Speaker 3: up won nothing with a minute and thirty to go,

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Speaker 3: and then Zabanajet scores five seconds in two a six

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Speaker 3: on five the courts overtime and almost ruined what the

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Speaker 3: United States really had been trying to build here, which

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Speaker 3: is the first potential gold medal in forty six years.

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Speaker 3: So you know, then Quinn Hughes, like he does so

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Speaker 3: often to the Minnesota Wild, takes a pass fitting leaf

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Speaker 3: from my boldie picks the spot posted in and is

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Speaker 3: the ot hero and reminded all of us exactly what

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Speaker 3: this team, this nation did not have in last year's

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Speaker 3: Four Nations when they went up against Canada. And to

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Speaker 3: the United States's credit, you know, they didn't have one

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Speaker 3: of the best defense in the world. And they never

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Speaker 3: once used that excuse during the tournament, after the tournament

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Speaker 3: throughout this year, you know, despite the real disappointment of

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Speaker 3: not winning that Four Nations and they add now Quinn

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Speaker 3: Hughes to this lineup, and it reminds you exactly what

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00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 3: could be different if they get through Slovakia tomorrow night

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Speaker 3: and wind up playing Canada or Finland in the gold

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Speaker 3: medal game.

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Speaker 1: Well, the off here, let's call it a gamer from

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Speaker 1: yesterday with USA and Sweden. You can read it at

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Speaker 1: The Athletic Theathletic dot Com subscribe if you have not.

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Speaker 1: It's fantastic. It was. I mean, I knew this, but

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Speaker 1: to have to have the Quinn Hughes Four Nations experience

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Speaker 1: even more deeply explained about Vancouver blocking him right at

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Speaker 1: the end with the obleak and Billy g is going

652
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Speaker 1: to bring him into the Four Nations, but then Sanderson

653
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden is en route it. I mean,

654
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Speaker 1: this is big for Quinn hughes Man after missing that

655
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: Four Nations, right, yeah, he got robbed.

656
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Speaker 3: Of playing with Jack and if it was up to him,

657
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 3: he would have played. And if you're remember, you know

658
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 3: they lose Charlie McAvoy in the middle of the tournament

659
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Speaker 3: and at that point, Jake Sanderson had already replaced Quinn

660
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 3: hughes when when the Vancouver Canucks wouldn't go. And I

661
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,280
Speaker 3: remember sitting in that press conference at the TV Garden

662
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Speaker 3: and we asked Mike Sullivan who quincid Ellie is Charlie

663
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Speaker 3: mcvoy's father in law, Like what are you going to

664
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Speaker 3: do to replace him? And they he, you know, already

665
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 3: bring in Bratt Peschi. Like who can you do? They said, actually,

666
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Speaker 3: Quinn's coming. So he announces this in front of all

667
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 3: of us, We all tweet it live and next thing,

668
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,800
Speaker 3: you know, all hell breaks loose. You know, we're getting

669
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 3: text messages from the Canucks saying this isn't true. Were

670
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 3: you coming up with this? And I mean the coach

671
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 3: announced this to a press conference, you know, so it

672
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 3: created some chaos for about twelve hours where essentially at

673
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,760
Speaker 3: the end of the day, the Vancouver Canucks just forbid

674
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 3: him from coming right and wouldn't clear him medically, and

675
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 3: so he couldn't come, and so there was a lot

676
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 3: of hard feelings there, you know. I look, he was

677
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 3: genuinely hurt. He hadn't played in the in the days

678
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 3: leading up to the Four Nations, but he suddenly couldn't

679
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 3: play with his brother in some huge games, especially the

680
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 3: one against Canada in the finals. So you know, for

681
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Speaker 3: him to now get this opportunity for the United States,

682
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 3: that that you know, cress right on his chest with

683
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Speaker 3: him to get this opportunity with his brother here with him,

684
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 3: to be able to be able to go to tonight's

685
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 3: USA Women's game and watch his mom, who's there, you know,

686
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 3: is their development consultant. Essentially, she's the liaison between the

687
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 3: coach and the players have a chance to win a

688
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 3: gold medal. I think it's pretty.

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Speaker 1: Awesome story Canada and Finland on one side of the bracket.

690
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Speaker 1: Do you give the Finns a chance to pull the upset?

691
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Speaker 3: You know, hey, look, you know Chesche gave everything they

692
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 3: could yesterday to potentially beat beat Canada. So yeah, so

693
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Speaker 3: I mean, I I think there's absolutely that chance. I mean,

694
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 3: you know, it was very lucky to get out of

695
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 3: that game yesterday. And so look, Finland has been outstanding

696
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 3: since their initial lost Slovakia in this tournament. They've outplayed

697
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 3: a lot of teams. They have Sebastianajo and Nico Rantnam

698
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 3: playing as good as theirs as can be so far

699
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 3: in the tournament. Mikyle Gramlin has been tremendous, So I

700
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 3: give them a chance. But look, you know, and then

701
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:24,919
Speaker 3: the other factors here is there's a real good chance

702
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 3: to Crosby is not going to play in that game,

703
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 3: and we know how important he is. But this is

704
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 3: still a team with Nathan McKinnon and Cal mccarr and

705
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 3: Maca Celebrini playing as unbelievable as you can so they

706
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 3: are still a real formidable exponent. So I mean, I

707
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,919
Speaker 3: obviously Canada's favored in that game. And when you get

708
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 3: this close to a potential gold medal, I can't imagine

709
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 3: that Canada is going to allow them so lose to Finland.

710
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 3: But again, hockey, and you get one bad game by

711
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 3: Jordan Bennington and anything can happen.

712
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Speaker 1: The USA against Slovakia. Michael wrote a really cool story

713
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Speaker 1: but The Athletic about Slovakia goalie Samuel Hallabi. He's, in essence,

714
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Speaker 1: the wild fourth goalie in tends net for the Iowa Wild.

715
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Speaker 1: As Michael wrote, the worst team in the AHL. Bill

716
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Speaker 1: Garren gave him his first contract. If the Slovakian team

717
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Speaker 1: indeed is Cinderella, this goalie seems to be holding the

718
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Speaker 1: magic wand right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And it's shocking because this guy in the

720
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Speaker 3: minors one, he's their fourth goalie in the organization and

721
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Speaker 3: they can't even get a puck to hit him in Niland.

722
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's been terrible, and yet every single time

723
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Speaker 3: he puts on that Slovak jersey in any tournament, whether

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Speaker 3: it's the World Championships or World Juniors, or Olympic Qualifiers

725
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 3: or now in the Olympics, he's just a different type

726
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Speaker 3: of goalie with goals against averages blow two and save

727
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 3: percentages above nine thirty. So I don't know if this

728
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Speaker 3: is an indictment on the Iowa.

729
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Speaker 5: Wild, which you very well could be, or just it.

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Speaker 3: Shows you what happens and the pride that had that

731
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Speaker 3: occurs in your body when you put on your home jersey.

732
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Speaker 3: And he's been just tremendous in this tournament from start

733
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Speaker 3: to finish. That Slovak team is not a team that

734
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Speaker 3: the United States are just going to push over. They

735
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 3: have gotten incredible plays from guys with like Safkaki, whose

736
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 3: first overall pick for the Montreal Canadians. They've they've just

737
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Speaker 3: got a number of really good players both professionally in

738
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Speaker 3: the NHL, two players that play over here in Europe

739
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Speaker 3: and the United States definitely has their work cut out

740
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Speaker 3: for them because they are you know, I was talking

741
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Speaker 3: to Matthew Kachuck just a couple hours ago over at

742
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Speaker 3: the Olympic Village, and ka Chuck was saying to me

743
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 3: that that, you know, this Slovak team has, you know,

744
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 3: dominated Finland, played Germany better than the United States played Germany,

745
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 3: and so he knows that again, just like Canada, if

746
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Speaker 3: they want to get to where they want to go to,

747
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 3: they can't just look past the semi final tomorrow and

748
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 3: wind up in that bronze game. They gotta they gotta

749
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 3: put you know, all peddled.

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Speaker 5: In the medal.

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Speaker 1: Russo Radio, you mentioned Bennington earlier the goaltender for Canada.

752
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: He catches strays left and right for bad rebounds and

753
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 1: at times like mysteriously unraveling. Meanwhile, the Canadian goalie has

754
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,399
Speaker 1: won a coup and was a big part Canada won

755
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Speaker 1: the Four Nations. I mean, it's perplexing. What does your

756
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Speaker 1: trained eye think of Canada's top goaltender.

757
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Speaker 3: He's been unbelievable. I mean last night with a minute

758
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 3: left and starts Marty. He stops Marty Nietzschez on a

759
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 3: breakaway and over time he made another tremendous say. He's

760
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 3: been great all tournament long. And to your point, I

761
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 3: mean just kind of like Klava. I mean, Jordan Bennington

762
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 3: statistically has been the worst goalie in the National Hockey

763
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 3: League this year. This year, his saves above expected is

764
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 3: forty six out of forty six that qualified for that

765
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 3: stat He's been brutal. Yet he comes here and he's

766
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 3: got them potentially two wins from a gold medal after

767
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 3: winning the Four Nations last year. So again, you know,

768
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 3: when you're playing he's not playing behind the Saint Lewis

769
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Speaker 3: Blues here, He's playing behind Al mccarr and Devontay's and

770
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 3: Chafe Or and Drew Dowdy, you know, and a bunch

771
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 3: of really really good forwards that have the puff a lot.

772
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 3: So it's a different type of atmosphere when you put

773
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 3: on that team Canada Jersey. But he's been he's been

774
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 3: great right now for Canada, and I give him his

775
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 3: props because to your point, I've been one of his

776
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 3: biggest critics. Not so much on the way he plays

777
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 3: gold because I actually respect him in that way, but

778
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 3: the way that he melts down in games. I've watched

779
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 3: Minnesota Wild players, especially Ryan Hartman. You get within his vicinity,

780
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 3: you can make this guy outravel. And so he's done

781
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 3: a tremendous job of staying composed all tournament long.

782
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 1: Heinz last two. Heinze joins in a couple of hours.

783
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:43,280
Speaker 1: What's his role on Mike Sullivan's bench.

784
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Speaker 3: I just chatted with John Hines for about ten minutes

785
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 3: in front of the Olympic Village. Had a great conversation

786
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 3: with him. He is their penalty kill coach during the

787
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 3: penalty during this Olympics, and their PK is ten for ten.

788
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 3: He's got a great group of forwards from Vincent Trocheck

789
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 3: and j T. Miller being one set to Rock Nelson

790
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 3: and Joan Larkin being another set, to Matt Boldy and

791
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 3: Jack Eichel being a third set. And then he's got

792
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 3: guys like slaven In Favor as a set, so he

793
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 3: is he is Hannafin and Favor and McAvoy is another set.

794
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 3: So he's got incredibly good players. They've been very disciplined

795
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,359
Speaker 3: in this tournament and they're ten for ten. The other

796
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 3: thing he does is he he is, you know, from

797
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 3: a defensive tactics standpoint, he's got to be huge part

798
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Speaker 3: of that, a big part of my story that's about

799
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 3: to go up in the athletic any minute. When I

800
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 3: when I chatted today with Matthew.

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Speaker 5: Kachuck and J. T.

802
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,839
Speaker 3: Miller and Zach Borensky, is them giving him props about

803
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 3: all the stuff that he did on the bench there

804
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 3: in the last ten minutes of yesterday's game to get

805
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 3: him prepared for that that five on sex. Now they

806
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 3: gave up a goal, but that was really not a

807
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 3: five on six goal. You know, the the extra attacker

808
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 3: wasn't even in the offensive zone when.

809
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:54,720
Speaker 5: It's Abata jet scored.

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00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 3: So you know, he's done a really, really good job.

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Speaker 3: He's got incredible chemis chemistry with guys like Mike Sullivan

812
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 3: and David Quinn and John Tortorella, the rest of the

813
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:07,839
Speaker 3: coaching staff, and obviously here I know there's a lot

814
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,399
Speaker 3: of pride with Bill Garon and Chris Keller, so many

815
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 3: Minnesota wild people represented in Red, White and blue.

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Speaker 1: Lastly, Quinn Hughes, He's I haven't met him. You work

817
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: with him. He's all business, isn't he? And what I

818
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: mean is in his postgame chat with Catherine Tappan, I

819
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: mean it seemed like he couldn't wait to get to

820
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: the room with the boys and wasn't real keen on

821
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: sucking up the spotlight. Is that kind of who he is?

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00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, it absolutely is. You got to catch him in

823
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 3: the mood to want to talk. And you know, I've

824
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 3: had a lot of really good conversations with him since

825
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 3: he's been to Minnesota. You know, I was joking by

826
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 3: editor last night after he scored that goal. I was

827
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 3: sort of out of words with him, even because I've

828
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 3: written so many features on him, his relationship with Brady Couchuk,

829
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,439
Speaker 3: his parents, and you know, the brother Bull with Jack

830
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 3: and Luke. I mean, it's just been over and over

831
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 3: and over again. So you almost got to get other

832
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 3: people to talk about him because he.

833
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 5: Doesn't love to talk about himself. But he's a true pro.

834
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 3: He's as good as it gets in this league. I

835
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 3: think all Wild fans knew how good he was, but

836
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 3: until he's in your uniform, you can't really understand what

837
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,440
Speaker 3: he does to a team with the puck on his

838
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 3: sick and he has transformed the Minnesota Wild and he

839
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,399
Speaker 3: has been an absolute catalyst right now, already setting all

840
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 3: sorts of American records here at the Olympics. And he's

841
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 3: a big reason why if this team's gonna win gold.

842
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 5: Why it will happen, it's because.

843
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 3: Of having Quinn Hughes in this lineup compared to not

844
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 3: having him at the poor nation.

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Speaker 1: Hey, the athletic has done awesome work with the Olympics,

846
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 1: but specifically you and Pierre Lebron, I mean, you guys

847
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,840
Speaker 1: are just killing it, man, So keep up the good work.

848
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Speaker 1: Enjoy the ladies today and the final four for the men,

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Speaker 1: and we'll chat soon.

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Speaker 3: All right, yep, see a PA, Thanks letter Bud

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Speaker 1: Michael Russo Russo Radio, and we segue to football been

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Speaker 1: labor next