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Speaker 3: about thirty minutes from now, we'll talk Wild, We'll talk

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Speaker 3: Bumper to Bumpers today, what's going on in the top five?

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Speaker 2: Time now for the obligatory Kevin Fallness Minnesota Wildmnshit, Yeah, it.

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Speaker 4: Feels dirty kind of doing that, despite the fact that

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Speaker 4: he had two hours to also talk Wild today.

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Speaker 1: But is that all it was? It was just two hours.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it was the Rose. I feel like I caught

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Speaker 1: all of it and then was here and caught all

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Speaker 4: Well, you were on for one of those hours that

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Speaker 4: ate into us the potential common Man program time slot.

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Speaker 4: So the Wild they're on fire right now. I believe

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Speaker 4: there's six one and one since the Quinn Hughes trade.

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Speaker 4: I think He's got a point in every single game,

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Speaker 4: five to two winners. In Vegas, it was domination from

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Speaker 4: the start. The game was over probably the end of

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Speaker 4: the first period, twenty seconds in or something. Johansson gets

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Speaker 4: on the board and then it's a flurry and avalanche

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Speaker 4: and I do think they're a move away from being

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Speaker 4: really really serious contenders. I think Bill Garn's on that,

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Speaker 4: whether it be an O'Reilly or a Taje.

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Speaker 1: Thompson. But this is fun to watch, and it's fun

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Speaker 4: You know, when Caprisov has the puck and he's skating,

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Speaker 4: you think he does things that you just don't see

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Speaker 4: anywhere else, like that's so unique, like you never and

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Speaker 4: now we got two of those guys. Quinn Hughes was

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Speaker 4: embarrassing Vegas. There was a couple times in the second

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Speaker 4: period where he literally made me say out loud, Wow,

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Speaker 4: I can't believe he just did that.

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Speaker 1: He's so fun to watch.

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Speaker 4: We've got two amazing game changers and a lot of

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Speaker 4: depth scoring on the way as well. So what's not

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Speaker 4: like how far away are the Wild? There's still a

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Speaker 4: little bit of ways, but they're a lot closer than

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Speaker 4: they were.

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Speaker 3: But also in the last month, they've beaten both of

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Speaker 3: the teams that you just mentioned, Right, They've beaten Dallas

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Speaker 3: and they've beaten Colorado.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was before the Quinn Hughes trade. This

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Speaker 1: is true. That only helps. That was before we became Quinnesota. Correct.

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Speaker 3: And they have two goalies that are still I haven't

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Speaker 3: been around for about a week, but they're still playing

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Speaker 3: really well, right they are. So they are easily the closest.

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Speaker 3: And that feels like it happened fast. I know it's

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Speaker 3: been forever since they felt like a contender. They've had

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Speaker 3: one hundred point seasons and things like that. We know

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Speaker 3: about the first round playoff exit's the whole deal.

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Speaker 4: But even that one hundred point season, they didn't have

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Speaker 3: You're right, and you remember this because you were on

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Speaker 3: Washington game, the Capitol game where they blanked the Caps

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Speaker 3: five rip I think, and we opened to the show

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Speaker 3: and I said, it's the wild in Vegas Golden Knights

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Speaker 3: after that, because the Central teams are going to have

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Speaker 3: of the Pacific, right and we'll see who they are.

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Speaker 3: But that's how enamored I was. And that was game

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Speaker 3: two of the Quinn Hughes era, I think it was.

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Speaker 3: And I heard Russo even today say he doesn't even

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Speaker 3: know if Hughes's practice with the Wild yet. He's just

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Speaker 3: out there winging it like you do with Common eleven

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Speaker 1: And I landed.

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Speaker 3: I get my days confused. Saturday Night was the overtime

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Speaker 3: power play six on four Saturday in Winnipeg. And I'm

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Speaker 3: sure you're going to get to the Wolves because you

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Speaker 3: know you have to. It's the obligatory guards eat.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I should get that made.

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Speaker 3: But so you have the two going at the same time,

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Speaker 3: and I'll talk about the wild thing in a minute,

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Speaker 3: but you go from the elation of the wild to

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Speaker 3: then the Wolves just playing just ridiculously bad, no energy

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Speaker 3: Saturday Night prices, which pisses me off. When because I'm

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Speaker 3: I'm a season ticket holder oh, good for me with

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Speaker 3: the Wolves. But I actually buy more tickets than probably

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Speaker 3: I get free ones a lot too, but I'd buy

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Speaker 3: them more often than not, just because I don't like

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Speaker 3: all was asking. And I mean, I've given my tickets

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Speaker 3: like I purchase tickets. And so I get so offended

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Speaker 3: for the people that are buying the tickets consistently they're

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Speaker 3: This isn't I should have brought it up because it's

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Speaker 3: it's talk about the while. But that was the Wolves

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Speaker 3: on Saturday. Yeah, Saturday night in the city. You're coming

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Speaker 3: off that epic Christmas game where Ant's going crazy. You know,

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Speaker 3: your joker is going crazy. He's out for like a month,

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Speaker 3: by the way, he got hurt yesterday, and that's what

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Speaker 3: they paid to watch. It just makes me so mad.

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Speaker 3: watching the Winnipeg game though before and we had just

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Speaker 3: they tie it up and then, my god, was at

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Speaker 3: a good goal in overtime? Is capriceof to Hughes who

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Speaker 3: scored the game winner?

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Speaker 1: Who else? Exactly? The other fifty goal guy?

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Speaker 3: Take that, Johnny Athletic for sure, And like you think

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Speaker 3: that sentence right there, Caprice off to Hughes to Boldy.

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Speaker 3: And that's three big knockers and they stole that game

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Speaker 3: But I know I speak for Dan. When we can

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Speaker 3: there's nothing more invigorating than that, and you feel like

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Speaker 3: again they're gonna have to go through the gauntlet. As

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Speaker 3: you mentioned, the Central is no joke. Yeah, but it

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Speaker 4: I think it's ridiculous with this playoff format that you

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Speaker 4: all in the Central, You're going to finish third. I

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Speaker 4: entire NHL and not have home ice advantage in the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they got to fix this, kind of like the

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Speaker 3: wild card thing in the NFL. Yeah, like they like

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Speaker 3: San Francisco is going to feel like this year it's

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Speaker 3: the third a twelve win team at least that'll be

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Speaker 4: I had the exact same experience as you Saturday night,

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Speaker 4: except the other game I was watching was in Green Bay,

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Speaker 4: and they didn't show up for that cam either, And

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Speaker 4: people paid their harder money and sat outside on a

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Speaker 4: Saturday just for their defense to completely not show up.

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Speaker 1: They not care.

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Speaker 1: Not to make it about Green Bay, but no, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: And I know just because he bought a ticket doesn't

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Speaker 3: mean that it's going to work out, but just the

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Speaker 3: after that, and then I said, just an absolutely future

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Speaker 3: to me because I had no idea what DAYA was

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Speaker 3: And I got multiple replies for people saying, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: That sucked. Why did I do that?

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Speaker 3: And I just feel bad for those people because it

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Speaker 3: Branshawn Brian campegn text line six four six eighty six,

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Speaker 3: two days before and it said, Hey, we're going to

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Speaker 3: the Wolves game. They're playing the Nets. Who Yes, I

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Speaker 3: know they've been playing hard and they play together and

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Speaker 3: before they came in here, like, come on, that should

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Speaker 3: But I would say that's required, that's required, and I'm

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Speaker 3: I'm a Wolves A one day one Timberwolves Breakfast Club

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Speaker 3: nineteen eighty nine, waiting for Bill Musselman's autograph on a

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Speaker 3: with this club. I love this club, but it just

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Speaker 3: there's still too much of that stuff. And even FINCHI

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Speaker 3: said it after Saturday. It's like self awareness. It's only

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Speaker 3: anybody can just take a reservation. You have to hold

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Speaker 3: the reservation. Dan Akroyd and Tommy Boy, you've pinpointed the problem.

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Speaker 3: Now step two is washing it off pine Tree air freshener,

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Speaker 3: Like we should be past this with the Wolves, and

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Speaker 3: that's what is frustrating about it.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, we were talking about the Wild, Yeah we were.

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Speaker 1: I was going to move on to the Wolves. Yeah

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Speaker 1: you did, mention Vane, I got to it. H I

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Speaker 4: I think it was interesting that nas Red actually led

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Speaker 4: in points to Chicago and the Prince uniforms see Chicago

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Speaker 4: as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he shot very well.

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Speaker 3: I should we get to the World Junior's update Halvey's

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Speaker 3: standing by. I think we need to get I have it.

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Speaker 3: He just texted me how he is ready. And it's

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Speaker 3: nice that Dan's going to be able to join us

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Speaker 3: for this as well. The World Juniors continues a lot

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Speaker 3: going to talk to Louis about it. About twenty minutes

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Speaker 3: from now. They play Sweden tomorrow night. I'm going to

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Speaker 3: hopefully i'll be there Friday as well for the quarters.

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Speaker 4: five feet of him and just goes down holding his knee.

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Speaker 1: You knew it was over.

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Speaker 4: And then the Broncos defense is no joke then, so

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Speaker 4: that's just shock in awe and the Bears game after

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Speaker 4: that was just devastation. It was very twenty fourteen NFC

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Speaker 4: Championship game and on site kick muffed. Just was that

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Speaker 4: against Seattle? Yeah it was yeah, Yeah, I knew, I

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Speaker 4: just wanted to do. Yeah it was Russell Wilson. Weren't

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Speaker 4: you guys up twenty one zero.

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Speaker 3: In that game?

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Speaker 1: Uh huh yeah, three touchdowns? My mom said, why are

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Speaker 1: you watching this game? They already won. That's too bad. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: that didn't work out. Yeah, I was in high school

451
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Speaker 1: at that point. Do you feel like though you guys

452
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Speaker 1: deserve it at all?

453
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Speaker 3: Because the second that anything really gets going, like you

454
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Speaker 3: and Synecon are so insufferable and arrogant and cocky, and

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Speaker 3: you'll start wearing your Packers stuff here like every day.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like I've got a wide collection?

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Speaker 6: I know you do.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like the.

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Speaker 3: Second that you show a pulse, which like, remember two

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Speaker 3: years ago, you didn't do it until like this week

461
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Speaker 3: because Rogers last year, because the team was dreadful, and

462
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Speaker 3: then Tua had the concussions, which.

463
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Speaker 1: Still pisses me off.

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Speaker 3: And through a gift, through multiple gifts, and that completely

465
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Speaker 3: resurrected your whole season. I didn't even know you were

466
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Speaker 3: a Packer fan until like December thirtieth because they had

467
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Speaker 3: been so bad, and then all of a sudden you

468
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Speaker 3: started wearing your stuff. Do you feel like do you

469
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Speaker 3: feel like your obnoxious arrogance brings any of this upon you?

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Speaker 3: That the second that Jordan Love starts looking like the

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Speaker 3: guy that he should be for the money that he's making,

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Speaker 3: you guys flaunted in our faces, when again, once again

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Speaker 3: we're going through it with a car eliminated with the

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Speaker 3: quarterback meltdown and we're a disaster and my guy brose

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Speaker 3: murd The Brownstones are empty right now, which is not

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Speaker 3: fun around the holidays.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like, do you feel like you deserve

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Speaker 1: any of what comes to you? Do I think it

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Speaker 1: affects anything?

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Speaker 3: No, No, I don't think it does either. But you

481
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Speaker 3: feel like, do you feel like maybe you guys should

482
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Speaker 3: slow roll a little bit? Set of after you beat

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Speaker 3: the Lions Week one saying we're going to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, if you judge from the tweets and

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Speaker 4: texts that we get in response, which granted we bring on,

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Speaker 4: we do get people going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So there is that aspect to it.

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Speaker 3: You're not expecting any sympathy is what I'm I guess

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Speaker 3: getting for because I have none.

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Speaker 1: And that's fine. I have none. No, I love you,

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Speaker 1: I have none. That's fair.

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Speaker 4: I mean I've yeah, I've seen one big game in

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Speaker 4: my lifetime, which I understand is one more than most

494
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Speaker 4: people listening, including me. I was in middle school and

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Speaker 4: it was amazing. But I have experienced nothing but playoff

496
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Speaker 4: heartbreak and great understand great quarterback play and we're blasting work.

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Speaker 4: But you know, it's it's not like I'm rolling in.

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Speaker 4: I'm not a Chiefs fan. You know, I'm not a

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Speaker 4: Patriots fan. I'm not rolling in the rings.

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Speaker 3: How about the Patriots being just rocked out again. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: coaching matters.

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Speaker 1: It really does.

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Speaker 3: You just look look around the league, the teams that

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Speaker 3: are kind of back at it. And I hate to

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Speaker 3: say it, but Sean Paige and obviously he's a good coach. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And I know they're doing a lot of it defensively,

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Speaker 3: and bo Nicks has been solid. He's not Drew Brees

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Speaker 3: two point zero. But you look at Vrabel, you look

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Speaker 3: at Ben Johnson, you look at Harbaugh. The Chargers now

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Speaker 3: we're eleven and five after like kind of scuffling through

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Speaker 3: the middle portion of the season, like they really have,

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Speaker 3: they really had.

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Speaker 1: Coaching matters. It's and I know that sounds stupid, but

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Speaker 1: it really matters. I do want to set the records

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Speaker 1: trade on one thing before we leave the Green and

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Speaker 1: Gold permanently. You're arrogance.

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Speaker 4: No no one ripped Green Bay more after that loss

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Speaker 4: than me and Sinecon. We rip them to shreds on

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Speaker 4: Packer preview Slash review. It was embarrassing. And so it's

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Speaker 4: not like it's just oh, we're still going to the

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Speaker 4: super Bowl. No one doubted like it was soft, gutless.

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Speaker 4: They wanted no part. It looked like they were the

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Speaker 4: dolphins that just didn't want any part in playing in

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Speaker 4: the cold weather.

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Speaker 1: It was embarrassing.

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Speaker 3: I love this text to walk us off before against Nanny.

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Speaker 3: It's not about you, and I don't even know if

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Speaker 3: you know this in joke. This is not really an

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Speaker 3: inside joke, but it proves the point of some of

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Speaker 3: the things we're up against some time. When you do

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Speaker 3: a show that's very topical all the time, which is

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Speaker 3: bumper to bumper, which is why I like it, because

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Speaker 3: it's always fresh, it's always new, we'd like to think

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Speaker 3: so at least we're always covering whatever's happening, right Like

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Speaker 3: tenn Tobee I.

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Speaker 1: Think has the easiest best of job ever.

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Speaker 3: Let's just rack up program password for three hours, a

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Speaker 3: couple of rock talks in there, and we're on with

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Speaker 3: the rest of our day.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: They're all evergreen as we call them, Yes, exactly ours

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Speaker 3: or not, so it's a little bit different. Seven six

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Speaker 3: three Tech says I'll be working Thursday. Wouldn't mind hearing

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Speaker 3: Sarah Spain again for Best of I always love that one.

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Speaker 3: That is steven andover. Maybe I will play Sarah Spain

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Speaker 3: for Best Of. I think that would be the fourth

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Speaker 3: time that I would have used it for a best

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Speaker 3: of situation. I'll give that some thought. Maybe Sarah Spain

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Speaker 3: can make a comeback on New Year's Day. How's it

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Speaker 3: going in the World Junior Hockey Championship of the World.

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Speaker 3: We'll ask Lou Nanny and lot more when we come back.

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Speaker 1: Well sneaks around the world from the ride China the World.

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Speaker 3: Nanny brought to you back kemps, Luigi Nana, Merry Christmas,

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Speaker 3: Happy New Year on the Connecticut Water Systems hotline.

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Speaker 6: How are you the same?

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Speaker 8: Are my favorite football broadcaster from the golfers.

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Speaker 6: It brought him a big win.

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Speaker 1: It was huge. You wanted overtime in the Rate Bowl,

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Speaker 1: didn't you.

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Speaker 3: You weren't gonna be ready to start the World Juniors

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Speaker 3: until the Rate Bowl came to its natural conclusion?

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Speaker 1: Is that fair to say?

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Speaker 6: Oh, well, I don't. I don't call that a natural conclusion.

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Speaker 3: I was open and then sooner, Yeah, I wasn't because

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Speaker 3: I was enjoying Arizona, which I know you can appreciate,

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Speaker 3: and the seventy degrees and sun that we had. How

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Speaker 3: about this, Luig, I was out of Walgreens in somewhere

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Speaker 3: Paradise Valley Scottsdale somewhere, and they had handwarmers at the

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Speaker 3: cashier at the checkout.

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Speaker 1: Can you think of it? Dump?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I know, you get soft when when you

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Speaker 3: live down south and fifty six degrees feels cold. But that,

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Speaker 3: to me was the funniest thing I saw the entire trip,

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Speaker 3: was handwarmers in Scottsdale.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's funny when you get the sun cities anywhere

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Speaker 8: down in the southern part of the United States, when

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Speaker 8: they get to the fifty five sixty degrees, all of

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Speaker 8: a sudden, you see for quotes coming out too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, some nice coats as I don't have to tell

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Speaker 3: you in Scottsdale for sure. All right, I want to

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Speaker 3: talk World Juniors first and then I want to talk

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Speaker 3: wild You obviously have had a lot to do with

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Speaker 3: the World Juniors the last year or so, coming into

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Speaker 3: the build up. Now that it's here, just what's it

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Speaker 3: been like to watch, to be a part of, to

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Speaker 3: see Obviously the US is on a great run. The

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Speaker 3: arena looks awesome. I'll be there tomorrow against for Sweden,

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Speaker 3: which I'm excited about. It's the first time in around

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Speaker 3: to actually go to the Games. So now that it's

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Speaker 3: here's what's it like to see the event match the

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Speaker 3: build up.

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Speaker 8: Well, first of all, the hockey has been terrific. It's

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Speaker 8: just been absolutely terrific. It doesn't matter, you know, which

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Speaker 8: building you go to, whether you go to the Grand Casino,

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Speaker 8: where you go to three em at Mariucci, You're going

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Speaker 8: to see some good games and a lot of talent

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Speaker 8: out there, that's for sure, and.

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Speaker 6: A number of.

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Speaker 8: Close games between the best teams. And I get a

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Speaker 8: little concerned about that because we're, as you know, into

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Speaker 8: a one game playoff when we start with the quarterfinals

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Speaker 8: and you lose one and you're out. You when you

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Speaker 8: keep going, So it's going to be tough. The crowds

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Speaker 8: have been good at Real, real good at Grand Casino.

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Speaker 8: For the US, we knew that we're going to be

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Speaker 8: a little disappointed in the crowds that re Emitt Mariucci

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Speaker 8: because many of the Canadians have come down.

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Speaker 6: But the games have been.

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Speaker 8: Good there, and there's still the Canadian games still had

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Speaker 8: some you know, loud, loud people cheering for them there

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Speaker 8: and and all the country. Is a good part about it.

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Speaker 8: They they seem to have a good representation many I

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Speaker 8: know one of my friends is just talking to just

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Speaker 8: with some of the suite. They're really excited to come

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Speaker 8: to Minnesota. It's the first time you've ever been there.

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Speaker 8: And I know looking at the German delegation they had

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Speaker 8: a number of families there, so all the all of

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Speaker 8: the families have coming. And the reason why I'm excited

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Speaker 8: because I I've been seeing it for a year and

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Speaker 8: I think it's even more now. The state of Minnesota

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Speaker 8: and especially the Twin Cities needs to get some positive publicity,

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Speaker 8: and this junior tournament does it before. He gives the

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Speaker 8: exposure to much of the good parts of the Minnesota

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Speaker 8: and the state, and and we're getting that around the world.

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Speaker 8: TSN just watching the game now with Latvia and UH Denmark,

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Speaker 8: they're covering all all day long. In Canada, we got

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Speaker 8: the NHL network all day long.

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Speaker 6: Here we got the European.

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Speaker 8: Broadcasters and media, so the coverage has been excellent. Tsm's

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Speaker 8: got I think he got two crews here and I

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Speaker 8: know I've just talked to well, we talked about Jeff

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Speaker 8: Merrick called me today, sposed to be here yesterday the

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Speaker 8: podcaster and we were going to do a podcast yesterday.

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Speaker 8: We'll probably do it later in the week, but they've

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Speaker 8: had some bad travel problems. Someone from Toronto. They've closed

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Speaker 8: the airport for a couple of days. But he's doing

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Speaker 8: tonight about seven thirty, so he'll finally get here and

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Speaker 8: that helps a little bit because we have been having

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Speaker 8: some people have a tough time getting here from the

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Speaker 8: Canadian cities because of the storms.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say, how fitting is it

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Speaker 3: that as we're welcoming the world to Minneapolis, we have

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Speaker 3: our first big snow Nambi event and in freezing rain

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Speaker 3: and blowing snow, and but it should feel like hockey weather,

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Speaker 3: right if this was I mean, I'm sure you would

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Speaker 3: take Hawaii weather you always would, or Palm Beach weather

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Speaker 3: you always would. But it's kind of kind of fitting

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Speaker 3: that if you want to make it to this thing,

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Speaker 3: you've you got to. It's like going out to the

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Speaker 3: pond when you were a kid. You gotta you gotta

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Speaker 3: buck up and get out there.

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Speaker 8: Well, the best part about is they showed on television

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Speaker 8: and you know, nothing shows any more beautiful than snow

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Speaker 8: on the tree, that's right.

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Speaker 6: And you can't see the ice in the road.

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Speaker 8: You could keep snow on the road, So snow is pretty. Yeah,

657
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 8: in my mind, it's the best scene from Afar, but

658
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 8: that's right.

659
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 6: I used to like to see it.

660
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 8: Close and it is a gorgeous look for the Twin Cities,

661
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 8: so we like that part of it.

662
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 3: I loved what Bob Motsko said before the tournament that

663
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 3: our job as coaches he's He's talked about the depth

664
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Speaker 3: of the US.

665
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Speaker 1: Team and how many great players.

666
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 3: You know, maybe even some of the best players weren't

667
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 3: on the team because they had a need for something

668
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 3: else or they had a different thought. And obvious there's

669
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 3: talent all over the United States. You're a part of that,

670
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 3: growing the game down in Florida like you have been

671
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 3: for twenty years. But he said, you know, the death

672
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 3: has never been better. We've got a super talented group.

673
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 3: Our job, and I'm paraphrasing, is to give them bumpers

674
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 3: and let the talent shine through the group play. Is

675
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 3: that what you've seen from the US side of things.

676
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 6: Well, I'm a little nervous about the US play so far.

677
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 8: And first of all, we lost two of our best

678
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 8: players and Cole Hudson got hit with that shot beyond

679
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 8: his neck and he's in concussion.

680
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 6: Protocol.

681
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 8: I think they might keep him out all the time.

682
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 8: I'm not certain about that. He might be out for

683
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 8: seven days. And plant covered last night too, so I

684
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 8: don't know how severe that is. And those are two

685
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 8: key players. And our goaltending it's been a little bit

686
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 8: a little bit soft, especially in the first and third games,

687
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 8: and I know we're going to need better goalten than that.

688
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 8: And our play last last night. We start off pretty

689
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 8: good the first five minutes. After that, we didn't play

690
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 8: very well in the first period. I was getting concerned,

691
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 8: but we bounced back really good in the second and

692
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 8: third period of the US played really well and should

693
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 8: have one deserved to win and did win.

694
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 6: That's the best part about it. But I get concerned.

695
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 8: Because, as I said, we're going to that one game

696
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,719
Speaker 8: playoff here after tomorrow's game with Sweden, which is going

697
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 8: to be important for seeding. And that's that's something that

698
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 8: I That's why I'm watching these this lasting in Denmark

699
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 8: game because last year, last year, knock Canada out in

700
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 8: the crossover the quarterfinals the ether before checkno Canada out.

701
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 8: And it's looking to me like we may catch either.

702
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 8: I think it could be either Lastier or Finland and

703
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 8: those they're all tough games, but those those games all

704
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 8: concerned me. We got to get to the quarterfinal day.

705
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 6: Already.

706
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 8: It's really important to get that or Sunday to get

707
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 8: that game because they give you a chance to get

708
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 8: a medal.

709
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: Yeah.

710
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 3: I wanted to ask you because obviously tomorrow is for

711
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 3: Group A USA and Sweden, and I wondered if if

712
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 3: that is as important as people say it is, or

713
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 3: maybe as someone like me would assume. And you're saying, yeah,

714
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 3: the go get the group, go get the top seed.

715
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 3: I think Bob said, yeah, the seed's important, but I

716
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 3: just want us to be playing well. Does it matter?

717
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 3: Is it big time for you? Like, obviously it's an

718
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 3: important game tomorrow, Yes, it is.

719
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 8: The First thing I wanted to stay away the US

720
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 8: to stay away from was any matchup with Canada in

721
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 8: the quarterfinals. I didn't want to see that for sure,

722
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 8: which I don't I don't think it have to be

723
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 8: a couple of big upsets they have to play them,

724
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 8: but I was I was hoping for Latio and I

725
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 8: think the chance of in the US, but we got

726
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 8: to play good against Sweden.

727
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 6: That's the key. Yep, that Swedish game in Swedes.

728
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 8: Right now, I say, are the dark hurts to win

729
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 8: it behind Canada and US, So we'll see.

730
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 6: What happens, all right.

731
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 3: I want to talk about a couple of individual players

732
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 3: in this tournament. He already mentioned one of them, Cole Hudson,

733
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 3: for the casual, and I would put myself, even though

734
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 3: as you know, I'm a hockey dad. Proud might four

735
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 3: dad and my son will be going to at least

736
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:28,399
Speaker 3: one of these games with me here in the next

737
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 3: few days. Bob called him their best player straight up,

738
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 3: which I think is a pretty big compliment.

739
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: So who are they missing right now in Cole Hudson.

740
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 8: Well, just look at Quinn Hughes and he's the same size.

741
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 8: He's not quite us, but he's I'm already a top defenseman.

742
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 8: He was the leading scorer I think, on the team

743
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 8: last year in the championship games in Ottawa, and he

744
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 8: was a dominant player there along I and Billiam played

745
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 8: together near a sensational He's back this year. And the

746
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 8: odd part of it odd to tell you because I've

747
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 8: been watching this kid and he's really a good occupier

748
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 8: and I rarely ever see him make a couple of

749
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 8: mistakes in a row and the shift that he got hurt.

750
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 8: I was just saying to my wife, is that's the

751
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 8: most mistakes I've ever seen that kid make. And it

752
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 8: was he had three times that he had an opportunity

753
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 8: to get the puck out and clean me and did

754
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 8: the or he got it out and they took it

755
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 8: right back in instead of what his usual play is like,

756
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:36,879
Speaker 8: he was getting the puck out of his own He's

757
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 8: so good at that and not getting it out that

758
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 8: last time is when they took the shots from the

759
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 8: blue line and he turned around to watch a guy

760
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 8: in front of that and he got it right in

761
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 8: the neck and that's when.

762
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 6: He got hurt.

763
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 8: But he is he's a real, real, tremendous talent and

764
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 8: the backbone of the defense for moving the pucket and

765
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 8: setting up place. They got another excellent defenseman there. I

766
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 8: think it's going to be real high draft pick. The

767
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 8: names Chaz Reid number twenty five. He's big, he moves

768
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 8: a puck well. He's going to have to improve just

769
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 8: a little bit defensively and he will because he's so

770
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 8: young right now. He plays in sus Marie with the

771
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:24,879
Speaker 8: junior grounds. But he's a real good one, But when

772
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 8: you're missing the guy that you're a puck mover and

773
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 8: also point producers, that's huge shit. And plant is you know,

774
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 8: he's just a terrific player and he was having a

775
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 8: good tournament and I hope he's not hurt bad enough

776
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 8: that he can't play tomorrow.

777
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 3: I have to ask you about Will Zellers because that's

778
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 3: a name that jumps out if you're from Minnesota. And

779
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 3: I remember Kurt Zeller's years and years ago sending out

780
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 3: a tweet about going to watch Maple Grove in the

781
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 3: state hockey tournament.

782
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 1: I thought, Oh, that's cool.

783
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 3: You know, he's checking out his constituents, he's hanging out,

784
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 3: he's you know, being one with the people. And I

785
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 3: didn't realize his kid was a wagon until like two

786
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 3: years ago. It's a small world. Luis pretty cool that

787
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 3: Will Zellers is on this team and obviously a really

788
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 3: good player.

789
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: What do we need to know about him?

790
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 8: Well, we need to know that this kid's really been

791
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 8: a force offensively for him. He's been terrific.

792
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 6: Scoring goals and even the one that he got.

793
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 8: Last night, he went to the net like you should

794
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 8: go to the net a pass game and actually carried

795
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 8: it off his skate.

796
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 6: It was on a stick.

797
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 8: He would have just tapped it in because he had

798
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 8: the whole wide open net. But he's been a real

799
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 8: force for them offensively, and then he's been extremely productive,

800
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 8: much more so than I think they thought he would be,

801
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 8: because you weren't sure at the end of he was

802
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 8: getting on a team or not. But he's been really good.

803
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 8: He's been good in college just here, and he's been

804
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,240
Speaker 8: real good for this team, and he's been an offensive

805
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 8: leader for him.

806
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 3: We're talking about Lunani making his weekly appearance on Bumper

807
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 3: to Bumper. He's brought to you by Kemp's on the

808
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 3: Connecticut Water Systems Hotline. We're going to talk wild here

809
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 3: in a minute as well. But they had dominant performance

810
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 3: over Vegas yesterday. They've got San Jose to mar I've

811
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 3: got some wild questions for Luigi. But a couple more

812
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 3: about the World Juniors. Give us the state of Canada's

813
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 3: game throughout the tournament. As someone who's there looking to

814
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 3: get back on the metal stand, and obviously this means

815
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 3: a lot to him up there, as you know very well.

816
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,359
Speaker 3: I know McKenna had a hat trick the other day.

817
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 3: They had nine goals, and I want to know more

818
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 3: about him in particular in a second. But you mentioned

819
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 3: you want to avoid them in the quarterfinals at all costs.

820
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 3: They're going for Group B tomorrow night, while the US

821
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 3: goes for Group A. What's the state of their game

822
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 3: and play right now?

823
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 8: Well, in the first game, and I want to tell

824
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 8: you that that that game with Checks, the check that

825
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 8: they had it was Canada and Check. I keep saying

826
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 8: check of Levakia. You know the countrys were split. We

827
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 8: got both Checks and Slovak now, but checking Canada proves

828
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 8: the game that he would want to see night in

829
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 8: and night out. It was tremendous. There were nine minutes

830
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 8: stretches of no whistles, just puck moving. Transition was phenomenal.

831
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 8: I actually think that the Checks could have won that

832
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 8: game just as easily as they lost it.

833
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 6: He lost the six four with an opening goal, but.

834
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 8: They they they essentially a shot Canada, and I think

835
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 8: they had the little marginal play too. But Canada has

836
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,240
Speaker 8: got a couple of real good players won this. Brady Martin,

837
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 8: he was drafted number five last year, I think he was,

838
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 8: and he was tremendous in that first game and Martne

839
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 8: and the captain he's also good, and they talked, you know,

840
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,280
Speaker 8: McKenna could be the first pick overall. Yep, but McKenna

841
00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 8: that game wasn't nearly as good as go to org again,

842
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 8: as Son had a tremendous game there.

843
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,959
Speaker 6: So they they've got they've got an excellent team.

844
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 8: But they almost lost that game. They had to go

845
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 8: overtime to beat last via to knock them out last year,

846
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 8: so they're not winning like they should be winning.

847
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 6: But they are winning. That's a difference.

848
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 8: But it cost him a point now and and uh

849
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 8: in that h standing when when they had to win

850
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 8: an overtime rather than if you wouldn't regulation get three

851
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 8: points and two if you win an overtime and one

852
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 8: if you lose in overtime. So uh, that was a

853
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 8: big point for him, but I don't think it's going

854
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 8: to hurt him. But they they do have good depth,

855
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 8: good size, good speed, and they moved the puck really well.

856
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: So let's transition to the wild.

857
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,760
Speaker 3: In our remaining minutes, I mentioned they win again yesterday,

858
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 3: they play again tomorrow. I went to the Washington game

859
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 3: Luigs with my nine year old and I actually I

860
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 3: told him I was excited he was going to get

861
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 3: to see Ovechkin play, because you know how many more

862
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 3: opportunities are we going to get to have that. Oh,

863
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 3: Vechkin's a little older. I think we'll all agree he

864
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:11,720
Speaker 3: might not be the ov. You know that we remember

865
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 3: from fifteen years ago. So my nine year old doesn't

866
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 3: believe me that he scored more goals than anybody because

867
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 3: he wasn't much of a factor that night. He's like,

868
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 3: are you sure, Dad, that's the guy. I'm like, yah,

869
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 3: it's the guy. He's just forty. Like just trust me,

870
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 3: all right, he's forty. But the Quinn Hughes thing, now

871
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 3: that we've had two weeks to kind of watch it,

872
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 3: I said it the next day. I used to just

873
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 3: watch Caprice off when I would be at the games

874
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 3: because it's just for me so much fun to just

875
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 3: watch him. I've moved on to Hughes because it's the

876
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 3: same phenomenon and it's the newer version of it. And

877
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 3: even the other day when I got home from Phoenix

878
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,839
Speaker 3: on Saturday night, you watch that overtime goal and it's

879
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 3: Caprice off to Hughes to Boldie. That's pretty damn exciting.

880
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 3: And it's just been It's such a refreshing thing to

881
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 3: feel that about this team, that it really feels like

882
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 3: they have a chance to make this thing pretty interesting.

883
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: What have your early Hughes impressions been.

884
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 8: Well, he's been everything that they advertised why they wanted them.

885
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 8: When you watch him play, as he said, it's effortless,

886
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 8: it's smooth, and it's just the right play. He just

887
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 8: knows how to always make the right play coming out

888
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 8: of his zone. Look how much easier the while they're

889
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 8: getting out of their zone. How he released pressure when

890
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:33,320
Speaker 8: he has the puck ninety five times out of one hundred,

891
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 8: he's going to make the right play and the puck

892
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 8: is going to be out of the zone. He just

893
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 8: he is just so good at puck movement, He's so

894
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:44,399
Speaker 8: good at escape. The way he can just get out

895
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 8: of trouble. They said he could stick handle in the

896
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 8: phone boots that I'm serious.

897
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 6: It's just amazing.

898
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: Yep.

899
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 8: The kind of agility has unescates and and the fact

900
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 8: that he knows when to move up with the play

901
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 8: went to hold back, and as you said, overtime, I

902
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 8: started laughing about it. With that goal, I just was

903
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 8: so perfect, so such a beautiful play. And you got

904
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 8: the three stars and the team making it so effortlessly.

905
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:15,760
Speaker 8: The fans are very very lucky to have that treesome

906
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 8: to watch, and I'm really confident they're going to sign

907
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 8: sign youth.

908
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 6: And so when you look ahead to what.

909
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 8: You got to watch with the Wild for years with

910
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 8: that threesome, it's just spectacular. And then you got all

911
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 8: the other good players with him. I mean, we get

912
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 8: start naming the other ones there. You know they favor

913
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 8: and Eric Sinek et cetera. And the goals that he's

914
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 8: been excellent. The defense now.

915
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 6: With that move, now you've got three really three.

916
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 8: Good sets of defenseman to play and they all have

917
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 8: different strengths. And you know the ability of brought in

918
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 8: to skate and defend, and you got physicalness back there

919
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 8: with Middleton Bgos and it's just that. And you still

920
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 8: got Spurgeon and all smart and while he played, he

921
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 8: got Lil Golds, he got last name with just fantastic.

922
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 8: I didn't like to stay up that late, but I

923
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 8: had to watch it.

924
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 6: It was worthwhile.

925
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 3: Well, I go back to you know, when you and

926
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 3: I would be watching the games at what was then

927
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 3: the X in the KFA and booth and the while

928
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,879
Speaker 3: to get a power play right, and you just watch them,

929
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 3: you know, kind of muck around and have trouble getting

930
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 3: it into the zone and they're they're tripped up at

931
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 3: the blue line and then the puck gets thrown all

932
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 3: the way down there and it's like, all right, what

933
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 3: are they going to do here?

934
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: The first power play against Washington, he was just takes it.

935
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 3: It's like having a penetrating point guard in basketball that

936
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 3: just controls everything.

937
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: He takes it, Louis. They had the puck for ninety seconds.

938
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 3: The first line power play was out in the first

939
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 3: power play for ninety seconds before they had to change

940
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 3: because they just had to puck that long.

941
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: That's something that we just have not seen here forever.

942
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 3: And that's what in that And he just got here

943
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 3: like thirty six hours before that, and he was already

944
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 3: making that big of an impact.

945
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 8: Well, you have to realize that when you look at it,

946
00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 8: there's only two guys essentially in the league that control

947
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 8: of puck that defense is mccarr and it's the youth.

948
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 8: That's why it was even fun to watch him play

949
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 8: against Colorado, and that night Colorado has it better of it.

950
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 8: But those two defensemen when they get the puck and

951
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 8: start moving with it or move the puck, and it's

952
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:19,800
Speaker 8: fun to watch because it's done quickly, it's done properly,

953
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 8: and it's just the transition for both of those teams

954
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 8: just gets that much better when they got ahold that

955
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 8: puck and he he maccarr, both of them. They do

956
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 8: it all the time. That's why the fans are so

957
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 8: lucky to be able to watch that.

958
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 6: The guy is.

959
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 8: You would say he's just a genius if you if

960
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 8: he was a teacher, they're a genius. They have genius

961
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 8: in their ability to.

962
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 6: Move that puck and make the right place.

963
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 3: Let's wrap it up with a text from Ed and

964
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 3: Saint Paul. Please ask Lou about the USA Hockey Olympic

965
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 3: team that's due to be revealed on Friday, if he

966
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 3: has any insider expects a surprise or two with the

967
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 3: Olympics right around the corner.

968
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: What do we need to know?

969
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 8: Well, I don't have any insight, but I do expect

970
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 8: some surprises. And I say that because I'm not I'm

971
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:17,800
Speaker 8: not certain about some of the physical conditions. Some of

972
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 8: the guys think they got some guys injured, and I

973
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 8: don't know what the situation is with they're injuries. They

974
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 8: never talk about injuries. Yeah, we'll let you know what's

975
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 8: going on. But like I think, there there's gotta there's

976
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 8: got to be a change, at least one change I

977
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,800
Speaker 8: think on defense from what they had and one change

978
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 8: it forward. At least they could have two changes forward.

979
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 6: So we'll see what happens.

980
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 8: I also think canadall have two changes. I think Candell

981
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 8: had Celebrini and Wilson, which they didn't have before. And

982
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,879
Speaker 8: and uh, I don't know how you could ever leave

983
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 8: off that Wilson off the Canadian came when he's produced

984
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 8: like he has, and he's also so big and physical

985
00:46:58,120 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 8: and and.

986
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 6: You need you need to in the game.

987
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 8: So it's going to be interesting. But you still they

988
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 8: can name the team, but you've still got a lot

989
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 8: of games till they get to play. And sure, the

990
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 8: way guys are going down right now, there's going to

991
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 8: be there could be, and I wouldn't be surprised that

992
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 8: there will be some critical injuries to these teams.

993
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 3: Will the Arena in Italy be done? Have you made

994
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 3: progress on that in the last couple of weeks, Well,

995
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 3: it'll be done.

996
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 8: They're not going to not get it unless they got

997
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 8: to wait work twenty four hours a day.

998
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:31,959
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're not gonna They're not going to make.

999
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 8: A big think about the three and a half inch

1000
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 8: three and a half feet shorter. But they got to

1001
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 8: get all the construction part done so it doesn't affect

1002
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 8: the players. Hey, you know, when you get down to it,

1003
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 8: if you have to play just the players without the crowd,

1004
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 8: you do it because you've still got the TV revenue

1005
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 8: and that and that's you know, it's a big centerpiece

1006
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 8: of the Olympics. Is hockey is a big part of it,

1007
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 8: as scheme is. Well, so I'm I'm sure they'll be

1008
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 8: playing and there might be some some stuff in the

1009
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 8: building that they're not happy with, but the games would

1010
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 8: go on.

1011
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1012
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 3: I feel like we do this every two or four

1013
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 3: years with the Olympics. Right that some venue was in

1014
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 3: danger of not being ready, or the river in France

1015
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 3: isn't going to be up to code. Remember we talked

1016
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 3: about that last year that there was too much sewage

1017
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 3: even though they like drained the whole thing. And then

1018
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 3: it seemed like I remember Lebron and Steph and Anthony

1019
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 3: Edwards and Simone Biles all on those boats in Paris.

1020
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 3: I feel like they went everything went off without a

1021
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 3: hitch there, so that was good.

1022
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 8: So you know, I was in Greece one year before

1023
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 8: the Summer Olympics and it was a month before and

1024
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 8: I was sure that they weren't going to be able

1025
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 8: to participate, and they did so somehow, some way, they

1026
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 8: all was get it done.

1027
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 1: All right.

1028
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 3: So the finals, the championship game for the World Juniors,

1029
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 3: I think is next Monday, right, It's on the fifth,

1030
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:57,360
Speaker 3: if I remember correctly. So I assume Tuesday, January sixth.

1031
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 3: It's a six am msp to p or how how quick?

1032
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 3: How quickly are you moving?

1033
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 8: You're wrong?

1034
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:07,879
Speaker 6: I'm going on the championship dam I'm going.

1035
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:11,320
Speaker 1: You're gonna drop the puck like you did for the

1036
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: outdoor game. You say, hi, I don't right.

1037
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 6: I asked them, do I have any duties on the

1038
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 6: last day and they said no.

1039
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:21,839
Speaker 8: I said, I'm out of here, okay, Canada fifty I'll

1040
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 8: be able to watch some TV.

1041
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 6: I'll be there.

1042
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 8: I'll be there by ten thirty of Minneapolis time, and

1043
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 8: so I'll watch the TV.

1044
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 3: Oh man, see, I thought you'd at least go through.

1045
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't have any they're not. I'm going

1046
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 3: to talk to somebody there and I'm going to talk

1047
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 3: to Wendy and say Louis needs to do some at

1048
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 3: the title game.

1049
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: Let's have him drop the pike, especially for the USA Canada.

1050
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:42,879
Speaker 1: I mean, those are your two kinds.

1051
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 6: Dropped it in the first game. I don't have to

1052
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:45,320
Speaker 6: drop it anymore.

1053
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 3: Now we're gonna get a petition. We're going to make

1054
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 3: you stay just to bother you. Great stuff, great to

1055
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 3: hear your voice. I will hopefully maybe see you tomorrow.

1056
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 3: I'm gonna hopefully make it on Friday as well, So

1057
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to.

1058
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: Getting down there.

1059
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 3: The videos that I've seen and just watching the games

1060
00:49:58,120 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 3: and listening to the games here and the fan It's exciting.

1061
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: It's cool that it's here.

1062
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 3: I know you're excited for it as well, even if

1063
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 3: you are leaving on Championship Monday.

1064
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 1: And hope to see you down there, Luis.

1065
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 6: Thanks again, gay buddy, look forward to it. Thanks.

1066
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 3: That is loun Nanni on the Connecticut Water Systems Hotline,

1067
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 3: brought to you as always by Kemp's final half hour

1068
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:18,200
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1069
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 3: of the Vikings discussion, the Floors discussion. Maybe a Wolves

1070
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 3: thing er two definitely a wild thing or two. A

1071
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 3: lot more to get to in our final twenty five minutes,

1072
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 3: We're going out with a.

1073
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,160
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1074
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1075
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1076
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1077
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1078
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1079
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: So I'm in Minnesotan Brett Blake Moore. I try not

1080
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: to take on all of our worst traits.

1081
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 3: I try not to be super defensive, although I'm reminded

1082
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,839
Speaker 3: almost daily about how much I'm annoyed by the fact

1083
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 3: that Indianapolis continues to call themselves the greatest host city

1084
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 3: of all time and everything is better in Indy, and

1085
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 3: the national media just laps it up because they like

1086
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 3: to go to Saint Almos and have shrimp cocktail, which

1087
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 3: is fine, it's good. But Costco has shrimp cocktail too,

1088
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 3: and it's also fine and good, and it's a lot

1089
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,840
Speaker 3: less expensive. And you can get a lot more of it.

1090
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 3: And we've all had it. If you've been to Indy

1091
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,240
Speaker 3: and you're a media member, you've been to sant Almos

1092
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 3: and it's a great steakhouse. But we've got Murray's and

1093
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 3: we've got Manny's, and we've got Jacks, and we've got

1094
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Blue like everybody else does Capitol Grill. It's not

1095
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,879
Speaker 3: that big of a deal. But I have to say

1096
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 3: I got a little annoyed earlier in the week, and

1097
00:51:56,280 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 3: it's World Junior Hockey related where I'm watching a game

1098
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 3: right now between Latvia and Denmark. Looks like Latvia is

1099
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 3: going to prevail four point one seconds to go. Spoiler

1100
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 3: alert for those DVR in it.

1101
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: Oh, you just ruined somebody's nights.

1102
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, apologies to the Latvians and the Danish,

1103
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 3: but it's five to three. Looks like Latvia acutics dominated too.

1104
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:19,799
Speaker 3: Oh they just put in the empty net or you're

1105
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 3: about a second ahead of me there.

1106
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: But there was all this.

1107
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 3: There's like a rivalry between the US and Canada, right

1108
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 3: there is for obvious reasons, because we're bordering countries. Apparently

1109
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 3: there's a lot of things going on between US politically

1110
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 3: right now, I'm trying to stay out of all of that.

1111
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:40,399
Speaker 1: I'm not really that interested in any of it. Maybe

1112
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 1: I should be.

1113
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 3: I know that no one from Canada's coming to these games,

1114
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 3: which I think is hurting attendance at three am arena

1115
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 3: at Mariucci. I'm sure some people are checking out the

1116
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 3: Canadian team because they've got a lot of good players

1117
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 3: right that we're definitely going to see in the NHL.

1118
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 3: It's the pre eminent hockey country in the world, and

1119
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 3: the US is obviously they made some inroads there. But

1120
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 3: it was starting to bother me last week. And you

1121
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,839
Speaker 3: might remember when the Big Ten Tournament was here for basketball,

1122
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 3: there was somebody from Indiana that basically tweeted out a

1123
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:17,800
Speaker 3: picture on quarterfinal Thursday like this would never happen in

1124
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 3: Indy for the eleven o'clock game, by the way, which

1125
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 3: I've been to, Oh good for me in Indy, in

1126
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:25,359
Speaker 3: Chicago at multiple Big Ten Tournament sites in the twenty

1127
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 3: years that I've done this job, twenty plus, and it

1128
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 3: just set me off because Indiana thinks they invented basketball. Now,

1129
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 3: what's funny is they're a football school. And even though

1130
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 3: we stayed at the Graduate Hotel in Indy and all

1131
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 3: the room keys were characters from Hoosiers. I got Norman

1132
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 3: Dale like ID cards because it's the Graduate Hotel. They're

1133
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 3: a football school now and they're really not even that

1134
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 3: concerned with basketball, but.

1135
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:49,800
Speaker 1: They think they invented it.

1136
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 3: They think every Big ten tournament should be there, they

1137
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:53,839
Speaker 3: think every Final four should be there. And it's pretty

1138
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 3: obvious to me to Canada thinks every World junior event

1139
00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 3: should be there and that no one else should ever

1140
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 3: get it, and that how come the state of hockey

1141
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,800
Speaker 3: can't support it. And they were talking about some of

1142
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 3: the ticket sales when the ticket sales were tepping for

1143
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 3: some of the some of the rounds. Now, I'm not

1144
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 3: here to say that everything that's been done and said

1145
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 3: and pitched and made available to everybody has been the

1146
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 3: most perfectly smooth thing of all time. But it just

1147
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 3: rankled me. It made me annoyed me because the comments are, well,

1148
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 3: this would never happen in Canada. Look at all the

1149
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 3: open seats for the US game. Look at all the

1150
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 3: open seats for the Canada game. I thought this was

1151
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 3: the state of hockey, not the state of hockey. And

1152
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 3: I got ripped for this. I got into the Canadian algorithm.

1153
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 3: Oh but I just used myself as an example. And

1154
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 3: I know I don't speak for everybody, but I think

1155
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 3: I speak for a lot of people because even though

1156
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:52,800
Speaker 3: I'm the only person for me Dinah that doesn't know

1157
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 3: how to skate, I am in the hockey community now

1158
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 3: as a hashtag hockey dad, and I'm learning as I go.

1159
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: I don't know everything, but I talk to people, I

1160
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:03,760
Speaker 1: read things. I try to ask questions.

1161
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 3: When we have, you know, safety meetings and parent parties,

1162
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:08,800
Speaker 3: I'm usually hanging around with them listening.

1163
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: I'm trying to observe what's going on. I don't know

1164
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: this world. I'm trying to.

1165
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 3: Assimilate as best as I can. I don't speak to

1166
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:20,240
Speaker 3: hockey language. You know this, But for a hockey parent

1167
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 3: who my son is the p one audience for this event,

1168
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:28,719
Speaker 3: like he should be going to this, he will be

1169
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 3: going to this at some point. Part of the problem

1170
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:35,560
Speaker 3: and you have this pre eminent world junior event in

1171
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 3: the state of hockey. A lot of the people that

1172
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 3: want to go have hockey. We couldn't go to the

1173
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 3: first handful of games we had hockey. Most of the

1174
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:50,320
Speaker 3: people I know their kids are on like seventy two teams.

1175
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 3: It's December twenty eighth, twenty ninth, thirty thirty. First you

1176
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 3: think we take a holiday break, No, we don't. Those

1177
00:55:56,520 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 3: banners don't hang themselves. It's time to practice. We've got

1178
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 3: extra ice. Who do USA play? Last game Slovakia? We

1179
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 3: can't go to USA Slovakia. We got to have a

1180
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 3: scrimmage against Team forty three.

1181
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:12,280
Speaker 1: We have hockey.

1182
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,759
Speaker 3: So I tweeted that out, just pretty benigns, like, Hey,

1183
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 3: a lot of us like have stuff. I want to

1184
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,800
Speaker 3: go and the first opportunity I have to go is tomorrow.

1185
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 3: And guess what I'll be there, probably bringing my wife.

1186
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 3: Don't tell my nine year old, but we'll be there.

1187
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 3: And I got absolutely crushed in the comments because and

1188
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 3: people are right. Do you think the Canada doesn't have

1189
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 3: that problem? Like you did not think that they don't

1190
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 3: have hockey while this tournament's going on? Yes, I know,

1191
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 3: but it just feels different because it is like the

1192
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 3: national pastime up there.

1193
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:44,800
Speaker 1: It's not it's the state's pastime.

1194
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 6: Here.

1195
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 3: We took our knocks in the penalty box. Our mother

1196
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:49,399
Speaker 3: was a referee. There's a blue line around our state,

1197
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 3: I get all of it. I'm in all of it now.

1198
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 3: But because I got that a lot, so I just

1199
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:57,440
Speaker 3: simply tweeted out, look, I'm just telling you my reality.

1200
00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 3: I would have loved to about an all session pass

1201
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 3: been at every game with my son. However, he's busy.

1202
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 3: He has a schedule and we have hockey and we'll

1203
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 3: be there when we can. Well, not to mention it's

1204
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 3: some of it's noon on a workday.

1205
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 4: There's that too, Like there's that too, so surreal, and

1206
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 4: this isn't the first time that a sensation like this

1207
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 4: has happened. I mean, y NHC isn't even doing there.

1208
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 4: They used to come to what was the X now

1209
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 4: Grand sed Arena every year. Guess what, they're not going anymore, right,

1210
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 4: we have the Frozen Four as well. It was okay, Yeah,

1211
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 4: So I think we support our own and I think

1212
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 4: that's why the tournament does so well. Yes, I think

1213
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 4: that's why the Wild do so well. And I think

1214
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 4: Team USA has done really well as well.

1215
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 3: It seems like it's been awesome. You were there on

1216
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 3: this game and I can't wait to get there. And

1217
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 3: the other thing too, is you know, as the tournament

1218
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 3: picks up steam like every you know, every big ten

1219
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 3: tournament quarterfinal Thursday looks like Denmark and Latvia. Yeah, just

1220
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:59,479
Speaker 3: did right, yep. And even though this was and again

1221
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 3: that was in the middle of a work day too, right,

1222
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 3: Like I doubt people. I'm pretty sure our attendance is

1223
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 3: going to be pretty consistent outside of Canada. Who's not

1224
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 3: coming for a million different reasons, as we've already laid out,

1225
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 3: Like that's where they're going to get hurt, right, Like

1226
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 3: Marucci should be packed for the Canadian games. I don't

1227
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:17,920
Speaker 3: know if it is. Historically it would have been, right,

1228
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 3: And it's just not because they don't want to come.

1229
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 3: I get why they don't want to come, but that's

1230
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 3: a tough break. It's not because people don't support hockey here.

1231
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:28,840
Speaker 3: I just got so defensive and I did get crushed,

1232
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 3: and part of it I think I deserved because they

1233
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 3: obviously have hockey in Canada too, their kids are playing

1234
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 3: it in Canada too.

1235
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 4: Why are they coming down? Are they not committed to

1236
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 4: their team? I don't want to drive.

1237
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 3: I think it's more complicated than that. And I but

1238
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 3: that doesn't make a good bit though. Yeah, I know,

1239
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 3: but I don't want to make a bit out of

1240
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 3: geopolitical problems.

1241
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 1: Oh I wasn't going out. That's smart enough to do it. Yeah,

1242
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: I'm also reminded. Thanks.

1243
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 3: Indeed, like Minneapolis has so many great steakhouses, Mancini's in

1244
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 3: Saint Paul right up there with St.

1245
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 1: Almos.

1246
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 3: In fact, i'd say better ambiance, vibe, way better Mancini's

1247
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 3: in St. Paul than Saint Almos or Harry and is He's.

1248
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:11,959
Speaker 3: And I know for a fact the bartenders are even

1249
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:15,520
Speaker 3: better because if you go get a drink at Mancini's

1250
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 3: in St. Paul, it's a good chance our guy Tim

1251
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 3: Cheat is the one slinging it for you, and you

1252
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 3: can't get that in Indianapolis.

1253
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,040
Speaker 1: Final segment of Bumper to Bumper tonight. After that.

1254
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 3: It's the Bumper to Bumper Show Wrap American Pressure commercial

1255
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 3: grade Rusher Washers since nineteen seventy five, they bring you

1256
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 3: the show rap.

1257
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 1: Final segment of the show tonight.

1258
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:11,640
Speaker 3: Tomorrow we have wild Hockey in the afternoon against San

1259
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:16,160
Speaker 3: Jose and that goes right into USA World Juniors against Sweden.

1260
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 3: For all the Group A Marbles it is Halvey. I

1261
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 3: believe Mark Parrish is on there as well. I heard

1262
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:26,959
Speaker 3: Halvey with Kevin Faunas a little bit earlier in the show.

1263
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 3: Heck of a Hockey game, the second of two great

1264
01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 3: games here at the Xcellus.

1265
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 1: Fuck.

1266
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 3: He's doing a great job on the call. It is

1267
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 3: fun when Halvey gets the random bounts of energy. It's

1268
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 3: amazing what the young man can do. Don't let the

1269
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 3: kfan dot com slash watch YouTube streaming of the power

1270
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:42,480
Speaker 3: tray at morning show fool you.

1271
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 1: Helvey's got some jump hermantown. So when he gets a little.

1272
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:47,479
Speaker 3: Jump and a little cold air Halvey in that grand

1273
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:49,240
Speaker 3: casino arena, it's something to be hold.

1274
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:50,880
Speaker 1: And he's doing a great job calling the games.

1275
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 3: Rykerlee, the Michigan State spartan, gets it over, gets it back, left.

1276
01:00:56,440 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 1: Hermantown power and it's six to four.

1277
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 3: Here's my other favorite moment from Halvey on the call

1278
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 3: this year World Juniors. I don't know what what was?

1279
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 3: It was Slovakia last game? It was who did we

1280
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 3: played before Switzerland? I believe I think this is from

1281
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 3: the Switzerland game.

1282
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 1: I go back to.

1283
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 3: This is really embarrassing to admit, Okay, I'm right, I

1284
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 3: was it was the District too Youth Hockey. Uh playoffs

1285
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:32,960
Speaker 3: and uh, and I can't believe admitted to this on

1286
01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:35,960
Speaker 3: the radio, But Anthony Lapanta was the public address announcer

1287
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 3: for our game. We had too many men parasites volunteered

1288
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 3: this sermon just so Anthony Lapanta would say my name.

1289
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:45,160
Speaker 6: That's that's sad.

1290
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:49,919
Speaker 1: Well, you had a future in broadcast. I was hermantown.

1291
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 3: He's one of one and he's on the call. But

1292
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:57,880
Speaker 3: this you were there. You've been at the games. Uh,

1293
01:01:58,520 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 3: one game or two games?

1294
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:00,880
Speaker 1: This is that was my first game. Are you going

1295
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 1: to make it back? I hope so? You intend? It

1296
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:05,040
Speaker 1: is awesome, right, it's so good.

1297
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm trying to weasel my way if they do

1298
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 4: play Canada. If and when they do, that's a game

1299
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:10,840
Speaker 4: I want to go to.

1300
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 3: Well, apparently Louie's not using his tickets. Yeah, maybe I

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01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 3: should have asked Louis, can can break get your tickets

1302
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:22,480
Speaker 3: because he's that's so classic, Louis. I'm going to help

1303
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:24,560
Speaker 3: you in tournament. I'm gonna do everything I can do.

1304
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 3: I have any duties on the championship game, I don't. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to I'm going to West Palm. Thanks, good night,

1306
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 3: and good luck, I'll watch the game on my sling

1307
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 3: box staring out at the ocean. That's just so classic

1308
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:38,919
Speaker 3: that cracks me up. Couldn't go one more day? Could

1309
01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:40,640
Speaker 3: go one more night? Has to get down there.

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Speaker 1: You've seen the roads I have, can't blame them, And

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Speaker 1: now we're gonna be driving home in the dark.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully something has changed since I first got here about

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Speaker 3: six hours ago, but the roads have been dicey, be careful.

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Speaker 7: Everybody it rained before guards he It's impossible to get

1315
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:56,000
Speaker 7: rid of it, I know, but get your tickets for

1316
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 7: tomorrow's game and then Friday's games at five o'clock, which

1317
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Speaker 7: is very exciting.

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Speaker 3: Well, the quarterfinals won and done, and it should be cool.

1319
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 3: It should be very fun and hopefully people are able

1320
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 3: to make it. Hopefully people are able to make it

1321
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:09,120
Speaker 3: to Grand Casino Arena to watch the Americans. What else

1322
01:03:09,160 --> 01:03:09,959
Speaker 3: did I want to talk about?

1323
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Speaker 6: Oh?

1324
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:14,000
Speaker 3: I wanted to thank Kevin Seaffert for joining in studio,

1325
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:16,920
Speaker 3: for braving the elements and coming in studio for an

1326
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 3: hour of Viking Stocks. Spoiler alert If you missed it,

1327
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 3: you might hear it on the Best of Bumper to

1328
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 3: Bumper on New Year's Day because it was a nice

1329
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 3: clean hour of Vikings Packer discussion, Brian Flores discussion, JJ

1330
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 3: McCarthy discussion.

1331
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:32,920
Speaker 1: It was good stuff with Seaffert.

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Speaker 3: So if you missed it podcasted or just listen to

1333
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:36,960
Speaker 3: New Year's Day because I have a hunch you're going

1334
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Speaker 3: to hear that. Coming up next, we've got Vikings Country

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01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:42,920
Speaker 3: with Muss and then tomorrow, as I mentioned, there is

1336
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:45,480
Speaker 3: a Wild Hockey game in the afternoon and then a

1337
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 3: little bit later the World Junior Game with Halvey Hermantown, Hermantown,

1338
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 3: Mark Parrish and Sweden from Grand Casino Arena. Thanks for

1339
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:57,400
Speaker 3: pulling the triple shift, double shift whatever it was today, Brett.

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Speaker 3: Thanks everybody for listening all it'll be podcasted. Vikings Country

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Speaker 3: is next. Have an elite Tuesday evening