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Speaker 3: begin with Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch courtesy of

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Speaker 3: Second Harvest, Heartland, two Harvest dot Org and Prize Picks. Hey, Chris,

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Speaker 4: I'm doing well, Pa, I'm doing real well.

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Speaker 4: Before we get started, I just want to give a

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Speaker 2: So are no governant collapsed? Second Arvest Heart lamb indeed,

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Speaker 2: thank you, thank you very much. Nice touch.

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Speaker 3: Now on the radio, Chris, remember the last time we

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Speaker 2: Remember that I did.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys did that Sunday at Denver and it

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Speaker 3: the game is different than those two. Then you get

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Speaker 3: the mac Jones situation that's kind of become cold product

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Speaker 3: you're just not you're not hearing much or but you

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Speaker 3: know what, when when things are most silent sometimes maybe

436
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Speaker 3: maybe the wheels are ground grinding most loudly. Yeah, when

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Speaker 3: it's most silent, not only here but other places.

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Speaker 2: So I think that I'm confused the mac Jones.

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Speaker 5: The reason I brought up the age is is, so

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Speaker 5: what is the what is the purpose in making the move?

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Speaker 5: If it's Gino Smith, it's a shorter term option. If

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Speaker 5: it's Kirk Cousin, certainly a shorter term option. And with

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Speaker 5: with the lack of faith that many have in JJ McCarthy,

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Speaker 5: kind of the idea is, Okay, let's let's see if

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Speaker 5: number nine can grow. We've only seen ten games. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: but man, if it goes south, I want to I

447
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Speaker 5: want that competition, whatever that looks like. In twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 5: we're still all just kind of mentally putting that picture together.

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Speaker 4: Yea.

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Speaker 5: Then I got a guy that's still like in his

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Speaker 5: twenties that mac Jones could potentially be the answer for

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Speaker 5: five or six or seven years health and productivity, of course,

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Speaker 5: playing a part of that versus a Gino Smith love

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Speaker 5: what he did and his own reclamation project that took

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Speaker 5: place in Seattle. He was just dreadful last season among

456
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Speaker 5: many issues in Las Vegas. That leaves a certain taste

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Speaker 5: in people's mouths, I think. But also that is not

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Speaker 5: as long a term and option potentially as maybe these

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Speaker 5: younger cats would be.

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Speaker 3: Jeremy Fowler, the senior reporter for ESPN, when I sat

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Speaker 3: down with him last week and we played the interview

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Speaker 3: back Tuesday, I mean Thursday, but I sat down with

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Speaker 3: him on a Tuesday. A lot can change at Steam

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Speaker 3: Central in Indianapolis from a Tuesday all the way through

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Speaker 3: a Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Reason I bring it up

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Speaker 3: is because I I caught a headline somewhere that Fowler

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Speaker 3: kind of made it sound in an interview with podcast.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's a story, but it was something recent,

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Speaker 3: maybe even yesterday or the day before that, like like

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Speaker 3: like McCarthy's time here might be done. It's like it

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Speaker 3: just think about it, you know if if I saw that, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you and I are dating all right now? All of

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Speaker 3: a sudden I'm talking about somebody else. Well, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's just launch and you know we're going to bring

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Speaker 3: somebody else in. It was some kind some type of

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Speaker 3: like boyfriend girlfriend dating or some type analogy that he used,

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Speaker 3: and like the writings on the wall, when you see

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Speaker 3: that they're interested in bringing others in, well, the question

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Speaker 3: would be what type of of of quarterback would they

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Speaker 3: bring in off what you said, you know, if you

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Speaker 3: could get four or five, six, maybe potentially a future quarterback,

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Speaker 3: so that there's that part of the equation too.

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Speaker 5: It's it's crazy how much geez. It's not really a

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Speaker 5: post mortem. He's still on the team. But it has

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Speaker 5: been interesting over the course of the offseason where it

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Speaker 5: kind of trickles out. Okay, i've seen reporting done. He didn't,

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Speaker 5: We didn't. We were worried about maybe how he would

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Speaker 5: handle having to sit a second year.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you've seen some of that where.

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Speaker 5: It's just the The post mortem on the twenty twenty

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Speaker 5: five season has been such where there was more to

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Speaker 5: what happened last spring with the quarterback spot and moving forward,

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Speaker 5: there are concerns about how he might even handle being

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Speaker 5: the leader of a franchise being QB one in the NFL,

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Speaker 5: and these are just kind of new things.

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Speaker 2: That we haven't talked about before.

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Speaker 5: So if there is worry about that, then then there

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Speaker 5: is trouble potentially with that spot long term. But in

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Speaker 5: the end, I think Kevin O'Connell, sticking to his guns,

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Speaker 5: is going to say I need this room to be

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Speaker 5: better and create and and you know what, JJ, you.

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Speaker 2: Can continue to grow.

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Speaker 5: You got the right to win this job and we're

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Speaker 5: excited for you to do that because we took you

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Speaker 5: with the tenth though overall pick. But we got to

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Speaker 5: handle what's best for the team. And maybe what's best

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Speaker 5: for the team means a more competitive environment for old

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Speaker 5: number nine.

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Speaker 3: From the radio station of Hockey in the State of Hockey,

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Speaker 3: kg joins nine to noon next fair.

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Speaker 4: What up?

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Speaker 5: Gorge joining us in just a couple of seconds. But

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Speaker 5: I did this a year ago and I'm pumped to

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Speaker 5: do it again. The Northwest Sports Show is back. It's

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Speaker 5: gonna be there this Friday from four to six pm.

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Speaker 5: It's a Friday night fish fry at the Northwest Sports

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Speaker 5: Show at the Minneapolis Convention Center. So join me four

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Speaker 3: Clearly approaching the National Hockey League postseason or off the

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Speaker 3: Blues loss after the Colorado win.

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Speaker 2: Clearly you got too much on your mind right now.

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Speaker 3: Spot And here's what we mean with Kevin Gork side

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Speaker 3: rink analyst Van Duel. The Wild have Tampa Bay this

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Speaker 3: evening the Fox nine. All right, So I saw I

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Speaker 3: saw on social media this morning that you were going

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Speaker 3: to do a Fox nine hit talking about the Wild

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Speaker 3: or what a tournament, the whole thing, Hockey State tournament,

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Speaker 3: whole thing. So you drove from the west side to

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Speaker 3: the east side, and what happened.

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Speaker 1: I walk into Grand Casino Arena, and you know, I've

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Speaker 1: been texting with producer Guy as recent as last week,

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Speaker 1: and walk in. They're not there, and I'm like, this

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Speaker 1: is weird. They're normally Saturday goes. And so I go

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Speaker 1: back to my text chain I'd written down Tuesday the

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Speaker 1: third you know p there at eight to fifteen on

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Speaker 1: the air at eight thirty.

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Speaker 2: I look at the text chain. It hits on Thursday.

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Speaker 3: Oh geez, so it was your mistake, right end line.

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Speaker 3: And with the state High School Hockey Tournament beginning Thursday

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Speaker 3: to a man named Tony getting tomorrow. Beginning tomorrow, Tony

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Speaker 3: Scott from Youth Hockey Hub. He's going to join nine

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Speaker 3: to now a little later. It's an annual occurrence. And

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Speaker 3: do you have any preferences in the double A. You know,

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Speaker 3: I think Morehead's gonna be really tough. They you know,

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Speaker 3: they got the monkey off the city's back last year

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Speaker 3: after what eight different runner up times for the Spuds.

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Speaker 1: They've had a great year. They've put a great schedule.

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Speaker 1: It's cool that some of the big dogs are in there.

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Speaker 1: I think the most intriguing matchup might be a Friday

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Speaker 1: night showdown with a Dina and Morehead. If they both survive,

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Speaker 1: they'll be favored to do so. On Thursday. They played

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Speaker 1: in the state football championship back in November. He dined

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Speaker 1: on an epic game forty two thirty five. That's or

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Speaker 1: guard Morehead beat e Diner for the title. Last year

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Speaker 1: they beat still water they beat still Watering. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: so did Morehead beat he Dine of the game before that,

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Speaker 1: it might have beat him in the quarters if they

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Speaker 1: meet here. He Dina beat him forty two to thirty

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Speaker 1: five in the state championship. It Dina's goalie pure Guard,

565
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Speaker 1: had six ptchdowns and rushed for three hundred and twenty yards.

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Speaker 1: So really interesting dynamic. Now I'll be traveling Thursday. I'll

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Speaker 1: be watching via the laptop, but I'm working all four

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Speaker 1: games on Wednesday for Channel forty five. I'll be in

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Speaker 1: the booth with Jim Erickson. Super excited about the opportunity.

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Speaker 1: I think, is Georgeky part of the mix? Seorsky's been

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Speaker 1: there forever, Micalletti's in the mix. I know Parish and

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Speaker 1: Climber will both be up there. Of course, Chris Long

573
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Speaker 1: at the desk, and Jimmy Rickson does an awesome job

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Speaker 1: on the play by place.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how he does it.

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Speaker 1: Pa, You've done the gig on the hockey side to

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Speaker 1: memorize all those names and numbers and do all those games,

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Speaker 1: four on Wednesday, four on Thursday, and then obviously the

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Speaker 1: weekend's busy. He is a machine god is he good now?

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Speaker 3: Somebody I was chatting with somebody last week about the

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Speaker 3: state high school hockey tournament. Yeah, kid, so Joey Collin

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Speaker 3: Matt's kid. Okay, I think he's a sophomore. Yep, all right.

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Speaker 3: Somebody said to me last week that he there's a

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Speaker 3: good chance he'll be the first overall pick in the

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Speaker 3: NHL draft, like whenever, whenever he's eligible to be drafted.

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Speaker 2: That's that's high praise.

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Speaker 1: That's that's saying a lot right like it's uh, it's

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Speaker 1: still a year or two away. But man, you know,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't surprise me if you you know, we both

590
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Speaker 1: got to know Matt Cullen when he played UH for

591
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Speaker 1: the Wild and played pro forever. The work ethic, the

592
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Speaker 1: hockey knowledge, the hockey skill. It feels like it's been

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Speaker 1: passed on to all his kids because when you watch

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Speaker 1: his kids play, there are many Matt Cullens. So I

595
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Speaker 1: think NHL teams see that and say, you know, sometimes

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Speaker 1: it might just be in the bloodlines, and they're they're

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Speaker 1: unbelievable players. More.

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Speaker 2: It's got just such a stacked lineup. It's it's going to.

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Speaker 3: Be fun to watch Tampa Bay tonight. Where where do

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Speaker 3: you couture off? What where do you slot kouchure Off

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Speaker 3: among the best in show these days? Could you like

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Speaker 3: never hear his name in the conversations, But then all

603
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Speaker 3: he does is put up fat numbers every single year.

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Speaker 1: We just had this conversation coming off the Winter Olympics

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Speaker 1: because it was a minor upset that the team USA

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Speaker 1: beat Canada in that gold medal game, and on paper,

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Speaker 1: we argued, at least I argue that the best four

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Speaker 1: players on the planet right now are named McKinnon, McDavid,

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Speaker 1: mccarr and Celebrini. So those are your four best. I

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Speaker 1: think Kuchiov has to be considered next in line, right.

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Speaker 1: I think he's top five if you look at his

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Speaker 1: consistent production, if you look at the Cup cred won

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Speaker 1: a couple of Stanley Cups, He's got to be right

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Speaker 1: in that mix for top five. I will argue that

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Speaker 1: those four are clearly the best four. The next five

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Speaker 1: or six include Kouchiov, they include Quinn Hughes and boy

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Speaker 1: the way Matt Bold he's playing, he's making quite the push.

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Speaker 1: He's top twenty for sure, top ten, maybe on the

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Speaker 1: horizon for number twelve.

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Speaker 3: And then so if you get to the next five

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Speaker 3: and like casting the Gays the way a year or

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Speaker 3: two down the road, Lucas, Raymond, Logan, Cooley. I mean,

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Speaker 3: names like that are part of the equation because they're

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Speaker 3: coming in, they're coming up these players hard.

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Speaker 1: We just saw Logan, you know, Coolly, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you look at the young talent in this league, and

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Speaker 1: you look at some of the the up and comers

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Speaker 1: celebrating still a teenager. You look at Connor Bodard in Chicago.

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Speaker 1: Who the wild They're going to see twice here later

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Speaker 1: in March. It's unbelievable. What a great place the NHL

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Speaker 1: is in right now. And you look at some of

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Speaker 1: the drama around Bill Garon when he picked that roster.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Cole Kawfield's an unbelievable player, he's electric watching.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible. But I mean, you know, and Billy clearly

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Speaker 1: made the right picks. My point is, though, there is

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Speaker 1: talent all over this league, and a lot of these

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Speaker 1: players are under the age of twenty five, and so yeah,

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Speaker 1: the league, the league right now is in a very

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Speaker 1: good place. Off that Olympic push. I think you're getting

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Speaker 1: more people to watch these games. And when we get

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Speaker 1: the playoff hockey here in six weeks. Boy is it

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Speaker 1: going to be you know, get your popcorn ready.

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Speaker 3: Take advantage at Steve's Appliances dot com. So, whether it's

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Speaker 3: with the Wild or what you've seen around the league

649
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 3: after the Olympics, then there are a lot of them

650
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 3: coming off layoffs, the celebrations and winning at Denver for

651
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 3: this team, that Saint Louis game, look, I mean it

652
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 3: looked like the trap of all traps ever to trap

653
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,359
Speaker 3: and did it play out that way?

654
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Speaker 2: Did it surprise you at all?

655
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Speaker 1: It did surprise me just because the while had a

656
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 1: hard time consistently generating good looks, which even when they've

657
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: had tough nights, and I look at the game in

658
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: Utah off that emotional win in Denver wasn't a total

659
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: shock to any of us that they struggled, but they

660
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 1: still got a bunch of Greade eight chances in that

661
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: hockey game. And Bolding had a couple of breakaways. Capriestoff

662
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: had a couple of good looks. What surprised me the

663
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Speaker 1: most out the Saint Louis game is how well Saint

664
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Speaker 1: Louis czeched Minnesota. They kept Minnesota to the outside outside

665
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: of a couple really good looks. I know, Tarasenka with

666
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: the goalie, Pold had that amazing chance on hope for

667
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: Minnesota didn't have a lot of great looks, So I

668
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: think that was something that certainly John Hines and the

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Speaker 1: coaching staff looked at and said, Okay, we got to

670
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 1: hit the reset button, and that's going to happen in

671
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Speaker 1: the course of the season.

672
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Speaker 2: The Wild Pa are.

673
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 1: In a really weird spot right now because you're not

674
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 1: catching Colorado and no one behind you can catch you.

675
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 2: So you pretty much know six weeks.

676
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: Ahead of time you're getting ready to play Dallas in

677
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: that first round.

678
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:35,760
Speaker 2: That's going to be a hell of a series.

679
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, we've got six weeks of hockey here,

680
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: We've got twenty one games left to play, so they've

681
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: got to stay focused, they've got to keep playing their game.

682
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: It wasn't one of their better games against the Blues.

683
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,240
Speaker 1: I thought Saint Louis played great. I thought their goalie

684
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: was solid. But I would expect a good bounce back

685
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: tonight against the team in Tampa.

686
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 3: Bay that is really good. No no chance to catch

687
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 3: the Avs in the division. Right They're nine up with

688
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 3: two games in a hand. It's not happening.

689
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, Abs, mine is three thousand to win the division.

690
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,439
Speaker 1: Shane Lowry was minus three thousand on the sixteen team.

691
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: What's not getting into that because you never know.

692
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 3: I guess Wild plus ten thousands, So we'll cross out

693
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 3: that that divisional spotty for spotty. But of the off

694
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 3: the way I asked her that last question, off the Olympics,

695
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 3: the layoff, celebrations, all thing the I would guess I

696
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,760
Speaker 3: would bet that the Wild will have big time pep

697
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 3: in their step tonight for sure, because I mean, and

698
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 3: you know more than me, man, do you think there's

699
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 3: a transition for the USA Olympians to go from that

700
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 3: frenetic pace in the Olympics back to regular season games?

701
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 3: Human nature, as we say, gets to win two occasionally,

702
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 3: but they and then so you get that Colorado game,

703
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 3: and then you get the Saint Louis game, well, now

704
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 3: we're all back to normal.

705
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Speaker 1: Tonight's going to be the bomb. Ty should be great

706
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: because it's national TV. It's a late night puck drop.

707
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: I think it's like eight forty five pm in Minnesota.

708
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: The Wild had a way of elevating their game against

709
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 1: the league's elite, and we've seen them beat Colorado now

710
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 1: two out of three matchups. We've seen them the last

711
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,720
Speaker 1: couple of years, beat this Tampa team, beat the Florida

712
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: Panthers with all their Cup creds. So I would expect

713
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,399
Speaker 1: Minnesota tonight to bring their a game.

714
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 2: For sure.

715
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: It's going to be a great atmosphere at Grand Casino Arena.

716
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: And then I think for all those USA guys specifically

717
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: now to get back into the rhythm of the season.

718
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,919
Speaker 1: And I know quinn Us has done the little media

719
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: tour and that's been really cool to watch. But now

720
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,439
Speaker 1: you can settle back in and John Hines talked about

721
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: this after tonight, they've got a couple of good days

722
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: to just catch their breath, have a practice day, and

723
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: then you go back on the road. You play Vegas

724
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: on Friday, you go back to Denver for a Sunday.

725
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: Matt Nae think about this week Tampa Vegas, Colorado. I

726
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: think that'll bring out the best in the Wild as

727
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: they kind of sit in this weird spot on the

728
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: schedule where they know who they're going to play in

729
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,839
Speaker 1: the playoffs, they really do, but they've got to still

730
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 1: play some great hockey and create some.

731
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 3: Momentum and trade deadline Friday Friday. So mine, you know,

732
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 3: mind's drifting. It just happens with everybody, every everywhere this

733
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 3: time of the year. What dumb Robbie Fabric, Robbie Fabric,

734
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 3: yep Wild claimed him off waivers.

735
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 2: What do we know about him?

736
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 1: He's won a Stanley Cup, So I think the Cup

737
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: cred is always a good thing to have in the

738
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 1: locker room. And he's a perfect addition for your bottom six,

739
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: your third and fourth line. You look at players like

740
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: Ben Jones and Tyler Petlick, they've been just fine. This

741
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: guy brings a little more offensive potential, a little more

742
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,720
Speaker 1: flexibility in the lineup. And with that, you know, again

743
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: the experiences that he's had, he's never gonna be guys

744
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 1: going to light the world on fire. But you go

745
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 1: back a couple of years and he scored fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, goals.

746
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: So this guy can produce and he can be a

747
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: nice depth player for you. And I think you know,

748
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: if you look at this week from Minnesota, they're probably

749
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: just fine. The way they are right now, ready to

750
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 1: make a run. It just feels like and listening to

751
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: Bill Garrin he had that afternoon press conference before we

752
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: did the broadcast against the Blues, they're really pushing hard

753
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,399
Speaker 1: for a center and read the te leaves, PA, They're

754
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: really pushing hard for for Trocheck on the Rangers.

755
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's and I picked this up from the Athletic

756
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 3: this morning. Might have been a Russo radio story and

757
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 3: or with Joe Smith Rangers centerman Vincent Trocheck. He had

758
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 3: a quote and from the Athletic maybe you've seen him quote,

759
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 3: if I'm if I'm if I'm going to get traded

760
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 3: to a team that's in the same situation as us,

761
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 3: the Rangers, then I don't want to move. That sounds

762
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 3: miserable in a news to be in a new city.

763
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 3: I'm thirty two years old. I would like to win

764
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 3: a Stanley Cup. So if I'm going to get traded,

765
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 3: I'd like to go to a team that's winning or

766
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 3: as a chance to win so that I mean clearly

767
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 3: he's open to getting traded. He has a twelve team,

768
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 3: no trade Wild not on set list. We are a

769
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:52,760
Speaker 3: winning team. That's your Minnesota Wild. Clearly they they Covet

770
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 3: Trocheck and he doesn't mind leaving.

771
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 2: What do you think of all this?

772
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,399
Speaker 1: I think he wants to come here, and I think

773
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 1: part of its might be when they were doing the

774
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: different pictures throughout the lead up to the start of

775
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: the Olympic hockey they did a picture with the three

776
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: Wild players and he photo bombed, Wow, the three Wild

777
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: players as kind of a prank. And he's got a

778
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: great relationship with Billy Garran. He's clearly tight with those

779
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: three guys, right with Faber and Boldy and Quinn So

780
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: and you got John Hines right behind the bench and

781
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: he was a huge part of that penalty kill that

782
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: John Hines ran during the Winter Olympics that went eighteen

783
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: for eighteen. So the Rangers kind of have the Wild

784
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: in a weird spot because the Rangers know how much

785
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 1: the Wild won them. The beauty of Bill Garan is

786
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 1: and Russell reported that in the article that you that

787
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: you read, he gives you his offer, and this is

788
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:42,760
Speaker 1: his offer. And he did the same thing with Vancouver

789
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: when the Wild were able to get Quinn Hughes. So

790
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 1: the offers on the table from what everything we've been told,

791
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: and now we'll see what the Rangers do.

792
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 3: What is Robert Thomas's name still in the ecasion? I

793
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 3: mean he kind of tore us up on Sunday, didn't he.

794
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, a decent game ahead that empty net goal. And

795
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: he's a younger version of Trocheck. Right He's a guy

796
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 1: that can win your face offs. He's a right handed

797
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: shot guy. You could use him on the power play,

798
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: you can use them in all different areas. He's a

799
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: really solid player. The difference in looking at a Trocheck

800
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 1: move compared to a move for Thomas says you're going

801
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,800
Speaker 1: to probably have to give up a lot more capital

802
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: to get Thomas because he's six years younger, and I

803
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 1: think that that might include some bigger pieces. So I

804
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: think Billy is looking at Trocheck is the perfect fit

805
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: for right now. And I think if you're handicapping this,

806
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: it makes more sense. So Marcus Felino.

807
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 3: So with beloved Moose being out an unspecified amount of

808
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 3: time with a lower body injury and it being trade

809
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,360
Speaker 3: deadline weak and he got a bunch of monsters on

810
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 3: the horizon beginning tonight with the lightning. Like you said,

811
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 3: he's heartenuous times. I mean, I just wonder if the

812
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 3: trading part of the equation, if anything changes with Moose

813
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 3: being out.

814
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 2: For a little while.

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00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 1: Well, we asked Bill Garrion that direct question pa in

816
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 1: that presser on Sunday, and he said players like Marcus

817
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: Fellino are not easy to find. And so you know

818
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,919
Speaker 1: what I read from his commentary to us is they're

819
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: hopeful that if you can get him a little time down.

820
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: When I say a little time, it might be you

821
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: get this guy right, maybe in time for the playoffs,

822
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: because I look at Marcus Felino's game and how the

823
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,919
Speaker 1: rink absolutely does shrink during the playoffs, and how much

824
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: more physical it is, and how much more you need

825
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: players like Fellino. The red flag for me is we

826
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: just had three weeks off and he's still got something

827
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: going on here. So they've got to get him right.

828
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 1: And so the timing might be okay to say, all right,

829
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,399
Speaker 1: we believe we can get him back and are ready

830
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: to go in time for April eighteenth, when the playoffs start.

831
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: In the meantime, let's fix this center position. Let's go

832
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 1: get Trocheck. But it's a huge concern because Fellino's great

833
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: every night, and you felt being around the guys even

834
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: on that afternoon day when they played Saint Louis, that

835
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: something was missing. The emotion he brings, the energy he brings.

836
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,040
Speaker 1: It just it's a different team without him, and so

837
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,799
Speaker 1: they've got to get him right in time for the postseason, no.

838
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 2: Doubt, Stevens.

839
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 3: Stamcoast is obviously hockey immortality might be available, right.

840
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, Nashville's kind of teetering on playoff contention.

841
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 3: But you're right, Well, so I read that in the

842
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 3: same athletic story this morning for stam Cooast twenty nine

843
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 3: goals for the Preds they lose to the Wings last night.

844
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,919
Speaker 3: And he's a right handed shot who always has had

845
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 3: high end, left circle snipe to him on power plays.

846
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 3: He's still strong on faceoffs, as I read. In fact,

847
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 3: he won five of eight face offs last night against

848
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 3: the Wings. So like, if it comes to stamcost I

849
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:38,840
Speaker 3: think he's like thirty six, thirty seven or whatever.

850
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:40,799
Speaker 2: We do You think I wouldn't say no.

851
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: I mean watching him up close a few weeks ago

852
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 1: in Nashville. This guy still brings the juice really. Oh yeah,

853
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 1: he can still play man, I mean, and think about

854
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: what he would Okay, specifically on.

855
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 3: The power Coast in Martin's San Luis that's in La Cavalier.

856
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's like twenty years well, I mean younger

857
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: than those two. But here's what I'll tell you. If

858
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,760
Speaker 1: you envision the Wild in the postseason with Quinn Hughes

859
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 1: at the top of the power play, and you've got

860
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: Boldie on one side, you've got stamp Coast on the other,

861
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: you've got Eck in front, You've got caprisov roving around.

862
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 3: So you've got stam Coos in the OV circle on

863
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 3: the power play. Correct, Well, that's the bomb. Yeah, and

864
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 3: that's what that's what's missing.

865
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: Like, Minnesota does not have a ton of right shot

866
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 1: options for that half wall position that can do what

867
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: a guy like stamp Coast could do. So I wouldn't

868
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: count that out.

869
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 3: The speaking of the Red Wings, the Red Wings fifty

870
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 3: to one to win the Cup. Does that have some

871
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 3: spot up to you or are they not ready? It's

872
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 3: it's higher than I thought it would be me too,

873
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 3: because they've been really good all year.

874
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: They've got a ton of offense, They've got enough star

875
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: power up front. You know, you look at what a

876
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: dynamic player Dylan Larkin is.

877
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 2: Yep.

878
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: I wonder about their goaltending, you know, trying to win

879
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: four consecutive series. But at fifty to one, I mean,

880
00:44:58,520 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: they feel like a team that should be in that

881
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 1: twenty to twenty five to one range, like Minnesota is

882
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: Minnesota's around twenty eighteen. Yeah, and so that does seem

883
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: high as I look at those numbers, that might be

884
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 1: a team worth a little ten dollars spotty.

885
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 2: All right, first time Cup winner? What do you think

886
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 2: of this?

887
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 3: You got you get all these teams for plus six hundred,

888
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 3: San Jose, Seattle, Nashville, Columbus, the Wild, Utah, Winnipeg, Buffalo,

889
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,319
Speaker 3: and Ottawa at plus six hundred, which you so you

890
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 3: get the field there of the of the non Cup

891
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 3: winners of plus six hundred.

892
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 1: Well, I'd rather just bet two teams on that list

893
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 1: to Minnesota and Buffalo, because to me, they're the two

894
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: best teams on that list. You just rattled off, And

895
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: how cool would it be? I mean, obviously for US,

896
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: Minnesota is a no brainer. But Buffalo, man, they are

897
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: turning some heads. They are playing some unbelievable hockey, and

898
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: it's a great story. You know, we know how good

899
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 1: tamp is. We're gonna watch them tonight. Buffalo is like

900
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,760
Speaker 1: three or four points behind them for the division leads.

901
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 1: So the Sabers, to me, are one of the great

902
00:45:58,760 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: stories this year.

903
00:45:59,560 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 2: Yeah.

904
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 3: Remember the Saturday mattin a you had out there, yes,

905
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 3: the day of our day before Buffalo, Denver and football.

906
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 2: Yep.

907
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 3: I mean that that's like the first time that I

908
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 3: really sat down in my life and honed in on

909
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 3: Quinn Hughes. And I was because it's very early in

910
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 3: his run here, and I'm like, holy Tage Thompson, that

911
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 3: big who knew?

912
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 2: Oh look at our guy? What a game two? That

913
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 2: was phenomenal. All right?

914
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 3: What about this all Canadian teams missing the playoffs? All right,

915
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:34,240
Speaker 3: it's plus twenty seven hundred. It should be Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa.

916
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Speaker 1: See the problem you're going to run into here is

917
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 1: it's going to be really hard for a couple of

918
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 1: those teams to miss Edmonton, you know, and Montreal to

919
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 1: me seemed like almost locks. But the rest of them

920
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:48,399
Speaker 1: are all I mean Vancouver. What a disaster that's turned

921
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Speaker 1: out to be. Hoofta Safe travels this week. Thanks for

922
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: the time on the radio. Enjoy the high school hockey tournament.

923
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Speaker 1: We'll be watching you and I'll go wild tonight. Thanks Pa,

924
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 1: Thanks brother.

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00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 3: Kevin Gorg's in your on the world of hockey on

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Speaker 3: the radio station four Hockey in the State of Hockey, Minnesota,

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Speaker 3: State of Hockey nine p.

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Speaker 2: Fifty eight.

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