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Speaker 1: Sunshine on a Monday morning and is Nordo in for PA.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in nine to noon. The host will

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Speaker 1: return from his exotic location tomorrow. A fun week ahead

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Speaker 1: of us. We got high school hockey and and many

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Speaker 1: things to get into later this week Vikings News. We

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Speaker 1: got trade deadline for the pro team. Many things to

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Speaker 1: dive into this week. But right now we're gonna kick

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Speaker 1: off a Monday with the Weekend Rap, which is presented

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Speaker 1: Weekend Rap's gonna start here with some good.

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Speaker 2: Edward switched to from the left handle the right picked

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Speaker 2: up by Hardaway. He's on the logo at midcourt and

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Speaker 2: now moves forwards, creeps to his right off the rudy screen,

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Speaker 2: Dante on the wing, right back to Ant five to shoot.

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Speaker 2: He's got a hoist. He launches it, hits, that's unstoppable.

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Speaker 2: Hardaway was right in his space and Aunt just drained

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Speaker 2: his third three the night.

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Speaker 1: He's got twenty one. The Wolves in a Mattinee yesterday

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Speaker 1: a mile high. They beat the Nugs. The Nuggets one

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Speaker 1: seventeen one oh eight rising to the occasion are the

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Speaker 1: how were the Howe yesterday? Rising up the Western Conference charts?

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Speaker 1: Bones when they needed them, it was Bones is in

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Speaker 1: Bones Highland when nobody else had it. Specifically, early on yesterday,

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Speaker 1: I think Ant had like four shot attempts as they

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Speaker 1: were midway through the second quarter. That's not good. They

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Speaker 1: needed Bones and they got Bones. Eighteen points on the

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Speaker 1: day for Bones, nearly a triple double for the MVP

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Speaker 1: O Kitch Jamal Murray did his thing. I know the

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Speaker 1: Wolves were were zero to three against Denver this season,

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Speaker 1: but it just feels like, you know, yesterday is more

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Speaker 1: the eventuality of this particular matchup. Wolves have things to

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Speaker 1: work on. Wolve's not perfect, but as it is with

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Speaker 1: this particular team, this particular matchup, it just kind of

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Speaker 1: feels like we got Denver when the games matter, and

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Speaker 1: they weren't going to go zero to four against the

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Speaker 1: Nuggets yesterday. And so now you know, this is reaction,

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Speaker 1: this is recency bias probably or likely. But taking a

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Speaker 1: breath and moving on from the inconsistency frustrations with the Wolves, Yes,

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Speaker 1: they will lose inexplicably to the Utah Jazz. Yes, they

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Speaker 1: will lose inexplicably to the Memphis Grizzlies. I think that's

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Speaker 1: their next opponent. In fact, preposterous as that is, but

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Speaker 1: we also know they'll rise up and muscle their way

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Speaker 1: through a game with a contender. So if it was

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Speaker 1: the five stages of grief, yes, the five stages of grief,

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Speaker 1: as it pertains to the how from denial this isn't happening.

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Speaker 1: To anger. That's happening, and it's awful, and it infuriates me.

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Speaker 1: To then some bargaining, what if we did this? What

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Speaker 1: if this happened? Could we do this? How about that?

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Speaker 1: To then maybe a little sports related depression? Ugh, why

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Speaker 1: fire of the coach burned the whole thing down. I've

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Speaker 1: entered the acceptance phase in some ways, Howell related acceptance.

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Speaker 1: This is that team, this is what we'll see. Let's

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Speaker 1: just get to the playoffs. They've won three straight. They're climbing.

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned, the Western charts locked in with Houston.

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Speaker 1: I think Houston's played two fewer games, so one fewer win,

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Speaker 1: one fewer loss. But keep this train moving, find their

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Speaker 1: way into third. Still, don't think anybody's catching the spur

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Speaker 1: or Okasee at least during the regular season. So let's

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Speaker 1: get that third spot into the playoffs. So that's where

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Speaker 1: the Wolves this weekend. How about more good from the

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Speaker 1: marooning gold side of the hoop squad. Now back to

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Speaker 1: Reynolds on the wing left. Not a Durkin off a

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Speaker 1: screen open three Bobby Durkin with twenty one uster.

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Speaker 2: Bucket Minnisoda by six to two minutes to go.

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Speaker 1: Weekend rap presented by Northern Fire Grilling and Barbecue Supply.

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Speaker 1: Nico Medved's Gophers beat UCLA at the bar and over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. Now it's not exactly it's not John Wooden's Bruins,

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Speaker 1: but not completely lost. Nineteen win operation. The Gophers beat

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Speaker 1: him seventy eight, seventy three. You heard that grim highlight,

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Speaker 1: Bobby Durkin seventh triples, That was the seventh you heard

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Speaker 1: it dig that basically the starting five all over again.

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Speaker 1: They have a cat coming off the bench named Kai

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Speaker 1: Shinholster Kai Shinholes. Now he was mostly concealed, mostly concealed

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Speaker 1: as he played just nine minutes, but Kay Tyson's the dude.

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Speaker 1: He and Langston Reynolds added twenty one apiece to help

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Speaker 1: out with Bobby's work. Fourteen and fifteen on the season.

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Speaker 1: They're at Indiana and they host Northwestern this week before

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Speaker 1: the Big Ten tourneyt to Gophers hockey. They split with

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Speaker 1: Michigan a win on Thursday, a loss on Friday. It's

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Speaker 1: a tough year, winding down weekend rap style for Motsko's team.

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Speaker 1: They have a home affair this Thursday and Friday Michigan

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Speaker 1: State Sparty and then it's a Big Ten Tourney for

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Speaker 1: the hockey team as well. Vikings news. It was reported

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Speaker 1: and then I think there was some banter Ben Lieber

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Speaker 1: this that I saw. The Schefter News reposted it on

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Speaker 1: x But this is probably expected. It's not shocking. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to brace yourself on a weekend wrap Monday morning.

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Speaker 1: But Aaron Jones and Jayvon Hargrave, where are set to

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Speaker 1: be released if they are not traded by the opening

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Speaker 1: of the league year and financial levers and they're going

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Speaker 1: to be a couple different spots that we chat about this,

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Speaker 1: not just Aaron Jones and Javon Hargrave, but the path

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Speaker 1: forward for the Minnesota Vikings finding their way back under

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Speaker 1: the Caps so they can make moves and improve the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six incarnation of our favorite football team. Javon

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Speaker 1: Hargrave lack of impact combined with massive dollars totally makes

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Speaker 1: sense to me. Aaron Jones in a lot of ways

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Speaker 1: totally makes sense to me the way we were lauding

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Speaker 1: him two years ago. Plays all seventeen, but I don't

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Speaker 1: believe it would be hyperbole to say that there were

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Speaker 1: times back into the twenty twenty four season he made

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Speaker 1: all the games, got a bunch of reps. Aaron Jones

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Speaker 1: did maybe the first time in his career that he

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Speaker 1: played all seventeen, unless there was a moment earlier in

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Speaker 1: his career. I don't have his game logs in front

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Speaker 1: of me, but that was a thing soft tissue injuries.

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Speaker 1: This is a packer loving rube that you are the

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Speaker 1: thing with there in there that you love Aaron Jones.

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 1: But you knew that you were going to be without

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Speaker 1: his services for anywhere from three to five games a year.

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Speaker 1: Is that fair? Yeah, it just happens. It sucks, and

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Speaker 1: availability is the best ability.

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Speaker 4: I get all that, but it's just been a thing

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Speaker 4: that's followed him for the last I don't know, at

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Speaker 4: least three four years of his career.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, they kind of knew that going in availability

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Speaker 1: is the best ability. That's correct. That might be my

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Speaker 1: next tattoo. Well that's why is any location you know

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Speaker 1: obvious lower back of course, But to that end making

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Speaker 1: all the games in twenty twenty four, it was cam

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Speaker 1: Akers in some ways towards the back end of that

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Speaker 1: and spark to his game. That's not supposed to happen,

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Speaker 1: and then he does miss it. I think he played

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Speaker 1: in twelve games this last season. Love Aaron Jones, but

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Speaker 1: the cap number combined with he's thirty one, I think

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Speaker 1: it kind of extends beyond that though. So okay, he

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Speaker 1: missed his games every single season. He is one of

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Speaker 1: those dudes in the locker room that everyone freaking loves,

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Speaker 1: and so finding that answer and just appreciating maybe from

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Speaker 1: a culture standpoint, the big sombrero and everything with it,

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Speaker 1: that that that will be that will be a tough

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Speaker 1: goodbye for this team. But understanding given the situation with

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Speaker 1: the Purple. Hey, you know new regime. We want to

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Speaker 1: get we want to get younger, and we want to

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Speaker 1: get more financially flexible. Well, the team is older and

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Speaker 1: forty million dollars under the over the cap. So how

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Speaker 1: did that work? Four years later? I want to get

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Speaker 1: younger and more financially flexible. Now we got to cut

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Speaker 1: eight guys just to get under the cap. So that's

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Speaker 1: Vikings news that we'll get into a couple times throughout

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Speaker 1: nine to noon today. And then finally the hockey Him

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Speaker 1: team thrilled this a mile high. But then there's this.

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Speaker 5: back to circ chev shooting one, bat it down in front.

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Speaker 1: They score. Oh well that was Friday at Utah. What

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Speaker 1: about yesterday? Welcome back to Grand Casino Arena, Wild Fans

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Speaker 1: rather by.

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Speaker 5: The Blues books David's to Tom as a Robert Thomas

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Speaker 5: back in the lineup, salts this one away.

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Speaker 1: Thank you to Joe O'Donnell on the call. Did you

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Speaker 1: hear anything? How about stay Lock? Now Tom Reid had

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Speaker 1: to take a day off. Alex Staylock providing some elite analysis.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday Wild Radio Network Joe O'Donnell, loving him, of course.

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Speaker 1: But the Minnesota Wild losers now of two of three

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Speaker 1: since becoming to the break, and it was a yawner

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Speaker 1: yesterday against the Blues. Loved capriz Off getting that power

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Speaker 1: play tally, but scoreless meets one one and it was

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Speaker 1: snow on a Sunday until buck Nevich finds that goal,

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Speaker 1: like seventeen minutes into the third. You heard the empty

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Speaker 1: netter from Robert Thomas. Robert Thomas available. Robert Thomas is nice,

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Speaker 1: isn't he. He's a good player when he when he

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Speaker 1: wants to play, He's very good. He's bad bad. Three

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Speaker 1: won in the final yesterday. This Utah thing is incredible. Now,

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Speaker 1: Mikoletti's uh, he's right around the corner, so I want

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Speaker 1: to ask him about this. But the Wild have lost

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Speaker 1: two to Utah this year by a combined eleven to

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Speaker 1: four score. Okay, well that's this year. Let's not get

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Speaker 1: ahead of ourselves. At least we dominated them last season.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, hang on last year six to one okay

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Speaker 1: Here you go. We won in a shootout against them

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Speaker 1: in their building. They are the Mammoth for five oho

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Speaker 1: this year, so let's change that lightning in town tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Top of their division eighty points. Like the Wild they've

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Speaker 1: struggled out of the break too, just smoked by the Sabers.

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Speaker 1: Sabers kind of fancy themselves a playoff team, don't they Unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: We've also added some blue liner to the Iowa mixed

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Speaker 1: Roman Schmidt. He came from Philly. We sent them Boris.

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Speaker 1: so he can't be related to Brady or Matthew. But

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Speaker 1: we sent Boris. I didn't know we had Boris on

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Speaker 1: the team. Best of luck to him. Is that a

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Speaker 1: move that leads to another move trade deadline later this week.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask Micletty about that. Next segment. So that's

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Speaker 1: this case is just one man's opinion. Do you use

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Speaker 1: Thank you? The flavor ruins it? Apple juice yes, cider

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Speaker 1: two six two six. How are you doing this morning? Pat?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing pretty well, Nordo. How about yourself?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean irific. It's a sun soaked Monday and

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Speaker 3: What could be better?

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Speaker 1: What could be better about it? Yeah? Nothing? Absolutely, who's

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Speaker 1: Hey, what's your thought my thought on this with kind

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Speaker 3: Somebody that can contribute, got to be the right guy

430
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 3: and don't want to give up too much. Do I

431
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 3: think they need to add one or two pieces for

432
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 3: them to be a legitimate contender for the Stanley Cup. Yes,

433
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 3: I really do. And so it's all the matter about Wayne,

434
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 3: you know what you're giving up. And if you truly,

435
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 3: truly believe that this is a year that they can

436
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:44,880
Speaker 3: do it, then I think you do it. But if

437
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 3: you still have hesitation that you think, well, you know,

438
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 3: we still we still need to grow a little bit, okay,

439
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 3: and maybe next year would be that year, Well well

440
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 3: then you wait, it's got to be it's it's got

441
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 3: to be the right deal without giving up the farm,

442
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 3: if you will. But I'm I'm I'm one of those

443
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 3: guys that you know, the window does not stay open

444
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 3: for that long a period with the players that you have,

445
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 3: and when you're talking hughes at BOLDI Caprisa, those are

446
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 3: guys that you know that can that can get you there, right,

447
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,440
Speaker 3: And so I guess you know, if if the right

448
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 3: deal is there, of course you you've got to you

449
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 3: gotta go for it. And so I don't know who

450
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 3: that player is going to be, but well, well well

451
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 3: we'll just have to wait until Friday, I guess, right.

452
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the reason I bring this up in that

453
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: way in terms of you know, you trust in Billy

454
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 1: g He's never been shy about out making a move.

455
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: But I'm curious, as the week goes on, how okay

456
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 1: would would wild fans, how okay would you be if

457
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: they don't make a move. I mean, right right now

458
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: that the steam Patrick pat mcletty at Pat Mick two

459
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: six six, here him beyond the pond. Of course, hear

460
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: him doing Gophers radio, hear him doing all sorts of things,

461
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: and one of the fan favorites as he is. But

462
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: Vinnie Trochek's been the steamy one to this team and

463
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: for a while now just kind of weeding your way through.

464
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: This team wants a center, this team wants a certain shot,

465
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: This team wants to win face offs, this team wants

466
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: this and that, and Vinnie Trocheck thirty two is years old.

467
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: He might be that guy. But if the asking price

468
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: is so astronomical that it gets into the territory that

469
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: you're mentioning and he doesn't end up making a move,

470
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 1: I just wonder how people will feel about that, because

471
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: it has been the conversation has been exclusively tidal waves coming.

472
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 1: Another moves, Another move's going to happen, And if you

473
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: do want to maintain something that can continue to be

474
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 1: built where it might be a next year sort of conversation.

475
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: I just wonder how you know, first you and maybe

476
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: how wild fans might take that if a significant transaction

477
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 1: isn't made.

478
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 3: Well, here's the deal. I don't think I don't get

479
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 3: too excited per se about Vinny Trocheck. That being said,

480
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,239
Speaker 3: because and I'll frame it this way, what the New

481
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 3: York Rangers want for Vinny Trocheck I think is going

482
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 3: to be crazily high. And so for that, I don't

483
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 3: like the thought of acquiring a Viny Trocheck. I said

484
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 3: two weeks ago, maybe even three weeks ago, Nodo that

485
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 3: maybe this team, you know, if you're putting guys on

486
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 3: a level and you're calling Vinnie Trocheck, you know, at

487
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 3: that top level, I wouldn't mind because I because I

488
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 3: don't think Vinnie Trocheck is that all star caliber guy. Okay,

489
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 3: I think he's a really good player and can can

490
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 3: check a few boxes for you. But there's a bunch

491
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 3: of guys that in that next tier underneath that I

492
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 3: think can do the job just as well as as

493
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 3: Vinnie Trocheck. And you won't have to give up uh uh,

494
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 3: you know, all of those assets, per see, and and

495
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 3: there are players out there that can do that. And

496
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 3: maybe also, you know, instead of throwing all your assets

497
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 3: out of Vinnie Trocheck, maybe you can get another d

498
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 3: because you know, in the in the playoffs, with the

499
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 3: way that these guys block shots, get hit all that stuff,

500
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 3: you're going to need depth on the blue line, and

501
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 3: so U for me, I would love to get a

502
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 3: top six forward and I would love to get a defenseman.

503
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 3: I think those are two critical areas that they need

504
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 3: to hit as they entered the playoffs, and so you know,

505
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 3: that's where I kind of look at things. But if

506
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 3: you can get tro Check at not the assets that

507
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 3: you know the Rangers want, well, then then you you know,

508
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 3: you you you look at that that That's how I

509
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 3: kind of look at it. But you know, we're all

510
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 3: guessing here what Billy Garon's thinking too?

511
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, And you know the crazy thing about Bill too,

512
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: is it is truly a guessing game, isn't it.

513
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean you know, yeah, I mean listen, and

514
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 3: there's there's a lot of teams and we and we

515
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 3: look at it from the perspective of, oh, we're the

516
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 3: only team in the league, right, Well we're not. And

517
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 3: guess what there's other teams that think, hey, if we

518
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 3: get player X, Y or Z, we have a chance

519
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 3: to make a run at the Cup. And there are

520
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 3: other shooters out there for not a very I mean,

521
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 3: if you look at the centers that are available, they're

522
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,239
Speaker 3: not you know, Nazem Kadri's thirty seven years old. I

523
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 3: liked him when he won the Cup with with Colorado

524
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 3: what three years ago, and you know, and I don't know,

525
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 3: and he's making like eight million dollars for the next

526
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 3: three or four I don't know, three four years. So

527
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 3: I just it's very risky to go after, you know,

528
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 3: players like that, because then it hamstrings you going forward.

529
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 3: And so it's it's it's it's a really it's you know,

530
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 3: they've got a very tough job and and with the

531
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 3: lack of centers that are out there, those prices go

532
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 3: up higher, and so you know, you got to be uh,

533
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 3: you gotta have what it takes to walk way if

534
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 3: you have to walk away from something like that.

535
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: Time for a couple more here for you at first

536
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: out of the college and then I want to jump in.

537
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: It's a big week for high school boys and the

538
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: hockey tournament coming to Grand Casino Arena.

539
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 3: And as we had the first topic on college hockey, Yeah,

540
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 3: a big shout out to the Minnesota State Mavericks.

541
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: Oh really, who horns up win?

542
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 3: Who win the mcnaton Cup. They kind of they fell

543
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 3: into it. There were five teams that were that that

544
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 3: could have won the Cup on Saturday night and the

545
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,959
Speaker 3: pieces had to fall for Minnesota State to win it,

546
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 3: and it happened. And so a big shout out to

547
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 3: the MAVs for winning it their second year in a row,

548
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 3: and I don't I don't know how many they've won,

549
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 3: but good for them them, good for Luke strand, good

550
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 3: for the Mayo Maniacs who support Minnesota State on a

551
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 3: nightly basis down there. And it's gonna be a great playoff.

552
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 3: So a big shout out to Minnesota.

553
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: State, the Mayo Maniacs. I love that you mentioned college hockey.

554
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: So we mentioned the MAVs and mcnotton Cup, and as

555
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: a fan Cato native, I'm rooting horns up for them.

556
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: But since down year for Motsko's team, who are and

557
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: maybe it's the Mavericks, But in terms of our area,

558
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: who are teams that you're looking at that could potentially

559
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: make a splash in the NCAA tournament. Now Gophers could

560
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: go win the Big Ten tournament and find their way in.

561
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: That's cool and I hope they do. But in terms

562
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: of this particular season, who's potentially ready to make a

563
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: little noise in the tourney?

564
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 3: Oh? Boy, are we talking to the teams from the

565
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 3: the state of Minnesota. I mean, you know, you know

566
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 3: if we're talking that you know want to Yeah, you

567
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 3: have the UMD Bulldogs who have had a good year.

568
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 3: Now they haven't played as well as of late, but

569
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 3: they get home ice against Saint Cloud in the in

570
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 3: the in the first round of the NCC playoffs. I

571
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 3: will tell you this, Nordo. This year, you know, the

572
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 3: Gophers go into Michigan, the number two team in the

573
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 3: country and in their building, and they split with them.

574
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 3: And my point being is that this year in college hockey,

575
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 3: the parody is it's so tight, it's you know, you

576
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 3: just you don't know on a nightly basis who is

577
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 3: going to win. So it there's a lot of there's

578
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 3: a lot of teams that have a chance to win

579
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 3: the national title. This year. There's a there's about five

580
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 3: or six, maybe even ten teams that aren't going to

581
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 3: make the tournament that certainly could be worthy of it

582
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 3: and make a run at it. And that's how that's

583
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 3: so good or you know, if you don't want to

584
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 3: call it good, you can call it. That's how out

585
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 3: tight the college hockey landscape is this year, and it's

586
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 3: it's been a good year for college hockey.

587
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, it has been, indeed, And you know Grand Forks.

588
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: You could look up at Grand Forks and see maybe

589
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 1: a certain team that's had a heck of a season. Sadly,

590
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: you could look over at Madison and see a team

591
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: that's that's primed to do some good things what Hastings

592
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: has done. Out there, so plenty of good teams around us,

593
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 1: and we just expect Moscow's team to be back in

594
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: the mix a year from now. Last last topic for you,

595
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:50,280
Speaker 1: mister Micoletty Boys High school Boys high school tournament lifts

596
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: off this week. We see the brackets. How about your

597
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 1: hibbing squad? How about your hibbing squad? As I believe

598
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: a top seed in the.

599
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 3: Number one seed, number one eating class A.

600
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,800
Speaker 1: How about that? Can you tell me about my scarlets?

601
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: Do the Mankato West Scarlets have any shot Wednesday against Delano.

602
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 3: I will tell you this, and you make it to

603
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 3: the state tournament, you got a shot. You're doing something right.

604
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 3: I don't care what league or what what conference you're in.

605
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 3: You've you've got a shot. Now. Is the task tall

606
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 3: for a Mankato West, for a Dodge County? You know,

607
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 3: for teams like that, of course, but you know what

608
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 3: they're there. You never know what can happen. Hitting as

609
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 3: the number one seat, better come in ready to play,

610
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 3: and I you know I I will get to see

611
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 3: them because I'm working their game on Wednesday, So yeah,

612
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 3: it'll be nice too, nice to see my my I'm

613
00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 3: gonna call them my hitting blue jackets. But no, it

614
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 3: it should be a great tournament. Looking forward to it.

615
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. And uh in double A what do

616
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: we got here? Well, Tanka's number one? Okay, that's not

617
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: shocking a Dina back in the mix? Puck luck at all?

618
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: Be damn they're handling business. Lakeville South, uh is is

619
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: certainly a force. How about the Spuds? Uh, the Spuds.

620
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: I believe this would be a repeat campaign for the

621
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: for morehead, wouldn't it.

622
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're they're they're loaded with they're loaded with Putlin's

623
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 3: Uh if you obviously remember that name, and they are

624
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 3: loaded with Division one players.

625
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: They're a very very.

626
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 3: Very good team. Uh. Minnetaka is I think going to

627
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 3: be the favorite. Uh. They're a team with you know,

628
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 3: they're it's odd in a in a year with Mannetaka.

629
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 3: They they don't have a lot of per se stars

630
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 3: on their team, but they have a lot of depth

631
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 3: on their team. And uh and so uh, you know,

632
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 3: the Double A is going to be really good with

633
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 3: the as you mentioned, the teams that you mentioned, so

634
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 3: you know, every year it's a great tournament and this

635
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 3: year should be no different.

636
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: Well, and your terrific as always. I appreciate you giving

637
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: me some time on a Monday morning, have an awesome day,

638
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: and then you're working that hitming game, So rest up

639
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: and be ready to rock for your blue for your

640
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: blue jackets on Wednesday.

641
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 3: I certainly will thank you, Nordo. Take care.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. That's Pat mcletty at Pat Mick two

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Speaker 1: six to six, wild back at it against the Lightning tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: And then as we were talking about, you have high

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Speaker 1: So looking forward to all that, Looking forward to Pete

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. This is a super short segment here nine

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Speaker 1: to Noon because Pete Nigerian is going to be in

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Speaker 1: studio for a couple of segments following here at the

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Speaker 1: top of the hour, and then Alec Lewis Vikings heavy

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Speaker 1: conversation post Combine news coming out. I'll probably get into

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Speaker 1: Pete a bit about this. I mentioned it in the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Rap just all the financial levers that the Vikings have

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Speaker 1: to pull being I mean, geez, nearly fifty million over

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Speaker 1: the cap it was forty five and change and again

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Speaker 1: for a team okay three four years ago. If we

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Speaker 1: can just bring our minds back to that point, here's

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Speaker 1: what I need from you, Quasia del Famensa. Here's what

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Speaker 1: I need from you, new Vikings regime. I need you

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Speaker 1: to get more financially flexible. Oh that didn't happen. I

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Speaker 1: need you to get younger. That didn't happen either, And

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Speaker 1: so so Aaron Jones sadly, unless he's traded, it sounds

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Speaker 1: like he'll become a cap casal cap casualty in that regard.

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Speaker 1: Javon Hargrave one and done and he will be a

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Speaker 1: cap casualty as well. And you know, part of that

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Speaker 1: conversation with Pete and I'll just kind of reset this

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Speaker 1: in a few minutes. Is the path ahead for Brazinski

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Speaker 1: and this group you heard anine to noon last week.

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Speaker 1: And you know whether it is, of course, pulling all

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Speaker 1: those financial levers. More to come, by the way, DJ

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Speaker 1: Hawkinson though, and restructures and void years. Oh my, but

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Speaker 1: the path forward in terms of the getting younger portion

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Speaker 1: of things being successful in this draft. And you know,

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Speaker 1: Javon Hargrave, hearkens me back to a year ago where

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Speaker 1: we're thinking about his edition, we're thinking about the Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Allen contract. We're thinking about Wow, I didn't even know

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Speaker 1: center was on our radar. But we move on from

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Speaker 1: Garrett Bradbury and we had Ryan Kelly and you start

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Speaker 1: putting these things together on paper, and there was a

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Speaker 1: lot of yeah, butts, Yeah, but I only played in

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Speaker 1: five games last year.

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Speaker 3: Yeh.

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Speaker 1: If if all these guys stay healthy, these are material,

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Speaker 1: substantial changes. Well, that plays into the draft as well,

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Speaker 1: and so they're gonna plug holes. They're going to add

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Speaker 1: bodies to this team via the draft in April. But

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Speaker 1: just like we had to wait for things to play

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Speaker 1: out on the field last year, with these free agent acquisitions,

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Speaker 1: we really have to wait even longer before we know

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Speaker 1: whether April's draft was a success or not. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I think Dallas Turner would be one of the finest

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Speaker 1: examples of that as a guy that we traded up for,

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Speaker 1: moved up for. If he could only get on the

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Speaker 1: field for about three hundred snaps his rookie season, more

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Speaker 1: productive last year. There are positive things to dig into

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Speaker 1: with Dallas. We know we can play the willy ever

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Speaker 1: live up to the draft equity that we put in him.

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Speaker 1: That's a conversation for another day, but think about that,

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Speaker 1: through two years of Dallas Turner, we're still kind of

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Speaker 1: scratching our head saying there's some really good things about him.

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Speaker 1: Seventeenth overall good. Not sure yet, but we're hoping for

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Speaker 1: year three. And that's the path ahead for Brazinski and

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Speaker 1: company is we're going to see a lot of names

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Speaker 1: on a list in April, but we're going to have

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Speaker 1: to play that waiting game to figure out how successful

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Speaker 1: they really were. So that's that's kind of where we're

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Speaker 1: going to get into with Pete. Pete Najerryan my next guest.

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Speaker 1: He's going to be in studio right around the corner

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Speaker 1: Brett blake More produces I'm Nordo in for Pa on

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Speaker 1: a sun soaked Monday right here, nine to noon on

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