WEBVTT - HR. 2 - Hawk's Lumps 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:09.480 Here we are seven o three parts of Morning Show 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.680 past the thousands in the studio. Hi, Perry, how are you, buddy? 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:17.240 I'm wonderful hawk. How are you doing? 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:17.440 Brother? 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:18.960 Pretty goot mess known out there yet, is it? 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:19.119 No? 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:19.680 Okay? 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:21.320 Good? Nice morning? 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:22.560 Yeah, yeah, good good good. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:25.480 Lots off on the show. They're still talking over there. 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:27.240 We'll get right back into main stadia in just a 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:27.600 moment here. 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:28.440 Yeah, it's filling up. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.960 Yeah. I can tell no mars today. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.680 No, she's under the weather. Yeah. So some dudes are 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:35.960 gonna win initials today. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:37.440 Thank God, it's. 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.080 Gonna happen that way. Anyway, good guys, we'll see. 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.320 They'd be great with it, would be we feel good 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:43.360 she's here? 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:47.800 Or everybody said over there, everybody said, Jeff is good? 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.199 Good set on Parish. 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.960 Were you you were never mister hockey were you? 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:53.280 No? 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.400 No, I was hockey as correct, but I know somebody 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:57.800 that was. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.240 Yes, he was mister hockey minister. What's up, Jeff? How 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:01.560 are you? 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.520 I'm doing fantastic. Nice to meet you. That's John Kriesel. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.080 It sounds like you guys know we should a little 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.400 bit great you guys are you guys are working together 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.240 in the next week or so on some level. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:10.319 We are. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:10.600 Yeah. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.959 Northland is the official vodka of Hockey Day Minnesota in Hastings. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.160 So if you're on site and you're drinking a vodka, 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:21.960 it is ours, so soak it in, enjoy it. Very tasty. 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.320 So yeah, there Hockey Day Minnesota. If you haven't been 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.720 down there, is amazing. We're down there the other day 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.000 and the just seeing all of the work in progress. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.800 The complex, oh spectacular. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.480 Yeah, these guys did an amazing job down the United 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.240 Heroes League tay for all these guys. 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:42.640 It is beautifully, beautifully set up. It's looking fantastic, that's all. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.160 Shanehudella your buddy. 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.840 You too, man, he has the saw you work in 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:47.520 the other day. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.320 I'm just putting I like starting the fires and put 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.840 them out at night. But we've had a tremendous support 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.240 from the community the last couple of weeks. Here there's 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.560 people out all hours of the day trying to get 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.440 the final things in and I was to increase that. 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:03.440 I mean, they were out there a couple of days ago. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.000 It's already changed so much right now. So we're super 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:07.800 excited as a community to have people down there. 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:09.240 That's awesome. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.520 So Hockey Day now is like a week in change, right, 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.720 it's been aggressive. It's not even close to a day anymore. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.200 But it kicks off tomorrow and it goes through when. 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.880 Till the following Saturday, Saturday, actual Hockey Day. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:22.120 Yeah. 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.519 So Shane had a good point. He's like, listen, we 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.480 have this great venue down here. We're putting a lot 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:30.000 of money into the infrastructure, the tents, the bleachers, you know. 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.120 To only have three or four days, it's it's kind 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.040 of a waste. So I think eight was a bit aggressive, 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.239 but we're gonna make it happen. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:39.480 It's just that it's that special. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.960 I think we try to invite as many communities as 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.320 we can, and I think they're really going to enjoy. 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.000 But we're ready to kick off tomorrow morning. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.120 Mark, you know, Jeff, Jeff you know, yeah, yeah, sure, 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.840 you're nice to meet you Jeff again again. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.560 So when did you guys meet for the first time? Oh? Boy, 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:56.560 years ago? 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.040 Probably, you know, usually usually, especially when it's the older 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.880 guys me and the younger guys. I'm the older guy. Uh, 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:08.320 it's like it's the it's at the like the summer camp. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.640 Like Brian Ltton used to have like Octagon summer camp 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.280 where the NHL is would get together and be getting 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.840 ready or staying in shape, getting ready for the following season, 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.520 and then you'd invite like the top the top talent 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.639 left from colleges or d one or whatever. So I 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.400 would put money on it would have been in one 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:24.000 of those skates. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.560 Yeah, I think so that was always a big eye 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.600 opener for the college or high school kids that they 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:29.239 invite in there. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:30.960 You're just kind of staring at these guys. 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.440 And we were laughing at a little event the other 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.640 night for the Hockey Hall of Fame that you know, 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.400 favorite players growing up. Obviously guys like perrying them. But 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:42.080 everybody's answer was Mike Crowley just right across the board. 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:43.440 And he actually texted. 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:44.720 Me last night saying that he can't play in the 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.480 alumni game, but they said, I'll save him a seat 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:48.560 if he wants to show. 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.480 Up, marking guy. I am playing. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.640 I am dustuff. I'm gonna have to get those skates sharp, 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.480 but they're gonna be so sore yesterday. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.640 Or at a wrist shot, I was a rach shot. 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.160 I did not dare go for a slap shot. I 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.000 like my wrist. I didn't want to break it. 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.040 I'm a little ignorant when it comes to high school hockey. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.200 What other notables have we had from Hastings outside of yourself? 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.120 Quite a few, actually, most recent ones. Derek step On 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.679 wait for the Rangers, a couple other teams. Taylor Chorney 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:20.680 was a Hastings guy. Then you go back a little 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.279 bit longer as Dean Talifis he played for the North Stars. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.159 John Gruden, I think he's a coach at Toronto Marley's 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.680 right now. So we've had a handful for a small town. 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.800 I think when I grew up it was maybe fifteen thousand. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.680 I think they're at twenty two thousand now. But yeah, 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:36.280 it's kind of one of those things where, you know, 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.400 even when I was growing up, we stuck with our 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.480 high school team, didn't really transfer go to the US program, 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:43.800 so we had a lot of really really good teams 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:44.680 and players back then. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.440 Do you play any other sports? 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.120 I played baseball. I had a great time playing baseball. 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.160 That was kind of one of my decisions too. I 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.640 think I was invited to the one of the first 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.840 few years of the National Development program out there in 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.000 ann Arbor, and I said, wow, we've got a pretty 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.760 good baseball team, so stuck that one out. Never won 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.839 state terma in hockey, but we wanted in baseball, so 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:04.920 I guess that was kind of nice. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:05.720 Wow, that's pretty good. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.760 I asked specifically because I love that little high school 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:09.800 football stadium you guys. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:10.560 Have in Hastings right there. 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:11.840 Man, that's sweet when you. 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.520 Turn left there by the dun Brothers and you go 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.679 towards you know, not that I've been there a few times, 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.560 but man, that is a cool little high school football staium. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.800 Yeah right, yeah, you're thinking of the beer Stuberrier right there. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:21.200 I'm sure. 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.440 Yeah, we were just talking the hallway. A lot of 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.240 people probably thought Hockey Day would be there in the 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.640 little Bowl, but you know, it worked out well to 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.920 have it at UHL seventy two acres. We got a 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.760 lot of space down there, so parking should be all set. 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.360 We got Treasure Island and doing shuttles. We got local 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.800 establishments in Hastings doing the same thing. So I think 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.200 it's going to be a great event for everyone. 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.320 So, Jeff, I'm looking at your Wikipedia page. Oh boy, no, 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:45.960 this is a I think this is a cool thing. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.640 This is one of those things that, like you know, 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.479 everybody lives their own life. I'm sure you had some 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.080 pros and cons to this, but it looks like your 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:58.159 NHL career ends. And listen to this, like four year run, 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.800 this is so cool, though you played for these are 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.760 I can't pronounce anything that first one, right, okay, So 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.800 that's in Sweden. So you start playing in Sweden. Then 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:09.520 you go to Russia. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.839 You're never going to pronounce that. Now, how do you 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.039 say that one at Nephtahimik. 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.080 You don't want to you don't want to go there. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.360 Then you go to this Slovakia. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.000 How do you say that team brought Lava? That's okay, 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.520 that's a one. I've pretty big city, correct. Then you 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.000 go to the Swiss League, right yep? 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:29.720 A little boring there for me. So then I went 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.120 back to Radislava another year. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.920 Man, that last one seems bothersome. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.040 Uh, it's not the last one. 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.719 Grant Fear is a former hockey goalie. 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.000 It's not like how Sauce called Matt la. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.640 So Sweden, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.080 That's crazy. So all right, let's go back to what 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.560 I kind of alluded to. How how much is it? Like? 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.640 All right, this sucks I'm not in the tell anymore, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.560 but you're traveling the world and you're still getting to 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:03.360 play the game you love. 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:04.680 That's that's got to be pretty cool. 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:05.680 Still. It was. 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.080 It was a great experience my first year in Sweden. 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.480 A lot of North American guys hockey was good, had 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.840 a really good season there. And then obviously, if you're 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.000 doing that, the KHL and Russia is going to be calling, 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.200 so it was kind of a no brainer. I actually 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.679 loved playing in Russia, and the two Broadest Lava teams 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.600 that I was on were in the KHL at that 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.480 time too, So basically three years over in the Russian League, 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.000 which I mean, as much as people have horror stories 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.600 about it, you're you're going to find them. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:31.560 I have a lot of them. 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.360 But I really enjoyed my time there, So it was neat. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.440 But you know, we had young kids at the time. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:38.760 Finally got to the age where I probably could have 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.200 still played a couple of years, but I was just done. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.200 I was sick of being away. They were in school, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.640 so I just went home and kind of helped the 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:47.120 wife a little bit for a few years, and then 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.360 she told me to get a job, and I don't 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:49.920 know what to do. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.560 Well, how's the pay in Russia or Sweden or so season? 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.840 If you don't mind asking seasons the same, it's it 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.280 just starts about a month earlier. So that's kind of 0:07:58.280 --> 0:07:59.920 hard when you're when you're living here in the summer 0:07:59.920 --> 0:08:01.480 and you got to take off early at the best 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:02.080 time of the year. 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:02.960 It's not fun. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.560 Russian training camps are brutal. They just don't really trust 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.040 the guys to get in shape by themselves, so it's 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:09.320 a bit. 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:11.520 It's a bit of a grind there for a while, 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:12.480 you know, hockey player. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.800 Yeah, is it basically like the montage from Ivan Drago 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.239 and Rocky for Yeah. 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.440 I mean there's no NHLPA or anything where they're going 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.080 to say it's three hour days. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:23.840 And you can go home. It's you can go home 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:24.640 when they tell you. 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.560 So, which what'd you like the best? Out of those 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.760 the foreign leagues? Which one did you have the most fun? 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:28.840 In? 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:29.520 KHL? 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.559 I think is the best one. Swedish is really defensive hockey. 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.360 Swiss is wide open. A lot of kind of selfish 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:36.960 players in that league, and that's not how I play. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:37.959 I'm more of a passer. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.920 You're older, I got what what did you think about 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.040 guys that just basically posted up around the net and 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.880 just hacked at it and never passed Harryson Radio. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:52.520 Thank you, that's the best. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.200 We just read a story I think was last week 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.080 about the Hirshey Bears. Were you ever there when they 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:58.920 did that throw the bears on the ice thing? 0:08:59.080 --> 0:08:59.280 Yeah? 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.600 The old Teddy Bear? Yeah, yeah, I played. 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:02.000 There two years. 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.679 Isn't that forever? It's God, it's probably been about fifteen 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:05.400 twenty years now. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:06.000 It's cool. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.160 I mean, it just exploded though. And then there were 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.000 some games where I think I've read sometimes where it 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:12.840 would go to overtime even and then they were worried 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.640 about people just throwing them on whenever they wanted in overtime. 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:18.360 So it's a really cool thing. 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:18.520 Her. 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.040 She's a great town. I loved it there. Like I said, 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.560 two years spent and just great people. I got to 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.160 do that. I got to be there for that once 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:26.840 day for there. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:27.320 Yeah. 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.959 Oh, and I had no idea what was going on 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.720 or it was going to happen, and I was unfortunately 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.200 on the ice when it happened, standing around center ice, 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.800 and next thing was getting buried in Teddy Bears. 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.600 It's like takes like thirty minutes. 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.640 I mean everybody brings multiple ye yeah, and that. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:45.080 Even to. 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.360 A children's hospital or something. Is that right? 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:49.600 For good? 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:50.480 It is? Yeah yah yah. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.280 Either give them really cool or Ronald McDonald house there 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:54.760 does a great job too, so cool. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.160 It's a cool community, by the way, full circle for 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.120 a lot of us. Do you have any idea how 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:04.000 many myself included people fell in love with this radio 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:08.160 station because of Pa and Debay's love of Golden Gopher. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.480 Hawkeye like twenty five years ago. 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.480 And I'm not I was never a huge hockey fan 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.400 growing up, and I wasn't even a Gopher hockey fan 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.040 when it was gigantic, But I loved their enthusiasm so 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.080 much that I seemed to care about a team that 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:25.440 I didn't care about beforehand. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.320 And I'm like, man, radio seems fun. 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.360 So you were on those teams that like had the 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.440 Twin Cities on the edge of their seats. 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:33.240 What was that like? 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.199 And did you feel the kfan presence and the specifically 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.280 the Pa and Debay presence all the way back then 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.160 and all that momentum like. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:42.480 They were part of the team. I feel like they 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:43.199 were always there. 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:44.080 It was great. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:45.440 What Perry and a lot of the guys did for 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.480 Saint Cloud and turned that program around. That was never 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.199 going to be me. I think I always knew where 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.240 I was going to go play hockey. Love the Gopher 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.600 stuff sitting over here too right now. But it was special, 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.480 Like we had a really good group of guys. Doug 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.000 wu recruited me. You came in and it kind of 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:02.920 took over that program for a while. I feel like, 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:10.160 Doug good So maybe you weren't going to go there. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.440 You were too good. So you were saying, so Doug 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.360 will get an eye for talent. You were saying, yeah, 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.200 of course to go there. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:21.719 Yeah, but man, what a wild ride right like that 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.439 was That was the Golden Age. Obviously we've seen glimpses 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.200 of it since then, but man, that was a really 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:27.640 sweet window that you were a part of. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.360 It was you had great leadership there though, you know, 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.600 Johnny Poole, Jordan Leopold, had a bunch of great players. 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:34.840 Those names. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.200 Yeah, yeah, it was legends, Man, they were legends. They 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.160 really were coming in. 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.040 I remember being recruited by Gunzol too. He was like 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.720 the Frozen four is here at the Excel Center. Wouldn't 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.880 you'll be a junior and I'm thinking, okay, whatever, not 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:49.440 a big deal. 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.400 Sure enough, we make it there. It was just kind 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:53.240 of a wild ride. 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.560 Then I ended up leaving for my senior year, turned 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.600 pro and then you get a guy like Tommy Evanna 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.199 come in and just takeover my lord. 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:02.479 Yeah. Yeah. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.480 Hockey Day Minnesota twenty twenty six starts tomorrow to the 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:07.599 twentieth anniversary. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:11.000 The website sorry to cut you off first HOCKEYDAYMN dot 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.680 com because all the questions about logistics and parking and 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:16.160 all of that can be answered on there. 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.199 And then some tickets on there. 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.439 No, it's tickets. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.560 Tickets, yep, volunteer shifts. Whatever you want to find is 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:23.280 on that website. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.840 And you'll get to see the grounds of United Heroes 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:28.600 League and what Houdela and others have have really grown 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.920 as an awesome charitable organization. And then when you enter, 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.200 you will go through the Northland Hockey or the Northland 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:39.760 Vodka tent and if you donate to United Heroes League, 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.360 we'll give a bottle of Northland and uh Mark Parish 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.600 will sign it. So yeah, yeah, Mark and I are 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.560 going to be out there a lot next week. 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:49.040 People. 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.120 He does have to sign your bottle if you don't 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:51.400 want to. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:55.000 Yeah, you know, I come running at you with the 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.120 markert understand, I mean all the best. 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:58.880 No, I'm looking at the map right now, which is 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.240 right on hockey day and come and there's plenty of 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.400 sparks to spots to park all kinds of stuff. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.560 Yeah, right, there is. And Hastings has been such a 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.800 great community with us. Across the street there's the Pillow 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:11.320 parking lot that's met council land. So we'll have some 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.960 issues probably tomorrow. Hopefully it'll be full, you know, the 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:15.679 next Friday and Saturday, but all throughout the week. 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.360 I don't think parking will be an issue for us 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:17.640 at all. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.880 Which shuttles to shuttles from Treasure Island? Do garrels in town? 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.080 Probably the Confluence Hotel and Pub fifty five, So just 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.000 check down those yet blocking down area. Downtown area is 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:28.679 you know, we're really trying to make a comeback the 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.760 last ten years or so it has. 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:31.440 It'll be great. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.440 It'll be great for people to see the community now, 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:34.480 it's awesome. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:38.679 It's a sneaky cool downtown, such a cool small towns, 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.679 such a you come across the bridge over the yeah, 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:41.319 it's such. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:45.080 A there's an old building, this now a restaurant, hotel. Yeah, Confluence, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:49.880 Yeah yeah. They will be featuring North of Vodka. 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:50.840 Yeah. 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:52.560 Yeah, it's everywhere. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.520 It's awesome and I do want to mention too. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:56.280 We try to get this Stone Neck and White Bear 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:00.000 a few years ago, but it fell apart. But luckily 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.959 you guys were able to get it done. The Iowa Wild, 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.920 which is the the farm club for the Minnesota Wild, 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.800 they're playing a game next Friday and five o'clock out there. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.120 We're going to actually join the game in progress on 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.240 KF and Parker Fox and I will be on the call. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.240 Six o'clock Fox. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:26.080 I'm sorry, I I'm doing the game with Ben Gis 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:27.560 listen on TV. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:28.160 So I. 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:37.640 Abandon sorry, No of this makes sense. 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:39.880 It's cool that they're coming to play, though. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.720 We had to make a lot of ring renovations just to. 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.240 Just to host them. But I think it'll be worth it. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.760 I think, you know, Iowa and Milwaukee guys are super excited. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.000 Obviously they'll have to get right on the bus after 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.240 the game and play the old back to backer in Milwaukee, 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.080 but all their families are coming, so it'll be it'll 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:56.600 be a fun day. 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.480 You guys got music every day every day, and that's 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.240 super right. Good for Gary, great band. I'll come great 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:02.880 music man. 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.320 Yep, that's all Alicia's are well. She works at u 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.560 h L. She wanted to take this one over and 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.600 we let her run with it. She was probably regretting 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.640 it about a month ago. But it's getting there. It's 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.560 done once again. Hockey Date dot com. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:15.120 Jeff. 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.160 Also, this is narrow casting. But your neighbors with Lonnie, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:22.160 Oh yeah, do you have dirt? Because I got a lot, powers, 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:23.280 I got a lot. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:24.680 You want a couple, you. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.400 Go on a couple of spring breaks together, you get 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:27.600 you get dirt. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:32.000 Now we're talking Oh geez, not just neighborhood dirt break dirt. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:33.600 Oh yeah, boy, all right. 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.440 He's already got to listen to everything. He says. 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.080 All right, dude, awesome meeting you. Thanks for coming in man. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:39.640 Jeff's tay. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.960 That's appreciate it. You got a roll, yes, sir, go 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.080 to my website. John Crissel dot com book me for 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:46.080 a speech this year. 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:47.960