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Speaker 5: Yes, now we finally killed off two three minutes. Now

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Speaker 5: I have to get into the Suhan callum right away though,

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Speaker 5: read the whole thing Jim Suehan and the charch of

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Speaker 5: Let's start with you, angry Twins fan. I understand from

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Speaker 5: So I kind of like the marriage counts their bit,

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Speaker 5: You're tired of listening hearing the same old whining. You

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Speaker 5: be humble. No, try hugging this therapy pillow and repeating

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Speaker 5: Now ATF, that's angry Twins fan? Can I call you

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Speaker 5: At least they're winning some games within them. The Twins

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Speaker 2: They literally slashed payroll damn near in half after said

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Speaker 5: Say, if you want to rip Twins fans, it's because

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Speaker 5: Get negative towards the pole ads, and they picked the

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Speaker 1: So improve your product.

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Speaker 2: And in no way, shape or form, is any of

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Speaker 5: It actually wouldn't be enough at this point because they

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Speaker 5: I just love Vikings quarterback death chart discussion, don't you?

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Speaker 1: Max?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? Especially in April.

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Speaker 5: Pro Footballtalk dot Com had coach Kevin O'Connell on with

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Speaker 5: the Vikings obviously have four quarterbacks. We've got Kyler Murray

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Speaker 1: He says that seems unlikely.

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Speaker 5: The goal, as Koc explained, it is to have one

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Speaker 5: O'Connell explained that he has no concern about McCarthy becoming

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Speaker 5: That's why Murray came here. Like Murray could have had

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Speaker 2: And that clearly shows he's been thinking about Kyler as

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Speaker 1: Yes, well, well and I get it.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to play to kyler strengths a little bit.

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Speaker 5: You want to go through that during the off season,

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Speaker 5: So you're gonna wait, and you're gonna wait until August

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Speaker 2: That seems to me.

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Speaker 5: You don't sign a name like that to push him

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Speaker 5: It makes no sense for him to sign in March.

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Speaker 2: Sam was basically like a whole ass dissertation, do you know,

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Speaker 5: Agree Kyler's just please do your midterms exactly?

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Speaker 1: Ed Yeah, he's Max. I'm tend to be wild.

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Speaker 5: Win last night over the Vancouver Canucks by a score

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Speaker 5: to five two and they clinch playoff spot, so they

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Speaker 5: are in the playoffs for the twelfth time since twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 5: Now joined by Beyond the Pond co host, you can

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Speaker 5: hear him tomorrow ten am to noon right here on

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Speaker 5: the Fandom Beyond the Pond, the Great Pat mcalletty.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Patrick, Hello Brandon.

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Speaker 6: Great to be with you. We haven't done this in

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Speaker 6: quite some time, so I'm I was very happy when

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Speaker 6: I got the text from you about coming on. It's

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Speaker 6: great to be with.

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Speaker 1: You, you know.

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Speaker 5: I just feel a little pity for you if you

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Speaker 5: have to talk hockey with falness all the time, So

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Speaker 5: I know, I've got to sprinkle in something different every

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Speaker 5: once in a while, someone a little bit more higher

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Speaker 5: educated hockey talk.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I better watch what I say because I probably,

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Speaker 6: of course you hear about it tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: So, of course, what do you think of the game

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Speaker 1: last night?

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Speaker 5: You know, the Wild had gone through a stretch there

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Speaker 5: in the month of March where just pretty mediocre, not

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Speaker 5: what we'd seen for most of the season, and you know,

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Speaker 5: I common's been panicking all month, and not that I

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Speaker 5: love the way they were playing, but I kind of thought,

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Speaker 5: you know, they're kind of dead set where they are

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Speaker 5: in the playoffs, and it's it's not often in a

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Speaker 5: hockey season you're at a point where these games don't

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Speaker 5: mean as much right where you just they're not like

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Speaker 5: as must win as as as typical seasons, especially in

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Speaker 5: Wild history, where used to them always having to go

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Speaker 5: to the.

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Speaker 1: Last game to win games.

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Speaker 5: But it just felt to me like the team just

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Speaker 5: hasn't had the same umph, same the same amount of great.

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Speaker 1: I felt like they got a bit of that back

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Speaker 1: last night.

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Speaker 6: They did after the first period, and you know me,

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Speaker 6: I'm I'm mister positive about this team, and I really

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Speaker 6: like what they did at the deadline, uh, in terms

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Speaker 6: of adding the depth and getting bigger and making them

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Speaker 6: hard to play against. And so that being said, when

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Speaker 6: I watched that first period last night, UH, I was

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Speaker 6: really really disappointed in the effort. Sam's Matt Boldie, you know,

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Speaker 6: I thought he was just magnificent last night, but I

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Speaker 6: was not. I was not happy with the way that

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Speaker 6: they played in that first period last night. And I

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Speaker 6: thought that was and and let's not forget, they're playing

496
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Speaker 6: the worst team in the league in Vancouver Canucks. You know,

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Speaker 6: their their last place and in the National Hockey League.

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Speaker 6: So I thought, you know what, to everything that you

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Speaker 6: pointed out, that they were just kind of ma that

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Speaker 6: they know where they are and all of that, I thought,

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Speaker 6: you know what, tonight to night or last night, you know,

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Speaker 6: but I was thinking yesterday, tonight, tonight, they can come

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Speaker 6: out and show who they are and what they're going

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Speaker 6: to be, And in that first period they didn't. I

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Speaker 6: thought they were much better in the second and third period.

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Speaker 6: And what I mean by that was, you know what,

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Speaker 6: they implored their will, they hit, they for checked, you know,

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Speaker 6: they they kind of took over the game. And that's

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Speaker 6: the way that they're going to have to play come

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Speaker 6: playoff time. And you know, I was texting with with

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Speaker 6: our good friend Wes Walls during the game, and you know,

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Speaker 6: he pointed out that guess what they're going to be

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Speaker 6: in one goal games throughout the whole playoffs and that's

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Speaker 6: where they really have to you know, uh, you know,

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Speaker 6: overtake teams make it tough all of those things, and

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Speaker 6: so much better in the second and third And you.

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Speaker 2: Know, are you so there?

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Speaker 6: Pat? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Okay, sorry, yeah, your phone went on a little bit

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Speaker 1: at the end there.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry, No.

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Speaker 1: It's okay.

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Speaker 5: You mentioned Matt Bolding like the way he played. He

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Speaker 5: clearly had a different gear last night, and maybe some

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Speaker 5: of that is the competition they're facing, but he had

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Speaker 5: been through he was in really the first time all season, right,

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Speaker 5: I mean.

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Speaker 1: Up until the last eight games.

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Speaker 5: He was as consistent and beforeward as the Wild have

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Speaker 5: had all season long, argue yardbly their best forward, maybe

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Speaker 5: their best player, and he just kind of hadn't had

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Speaker 5: the same feel over the last seven eight games and

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Speaker 5: last night. You know, Boldy's a guy because of his size,

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Speaker 5: because of his reach, Clearly he has tons of skill.

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Speaker 5: But if he has a little bit more of a

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Speaker 5: four checking mentality, a little bit more of attacking the

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Speaker 5: middle mentality. He can be dangerous, and I felt like

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Speaker 5: we got a little bit of that last night from him.

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Speaker 6: I mean his hands were in his hands. Yeah, branded

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Speaker 6: I mean, which goes excuse me, which goes to show

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Speaker 6: you know what you know, once he gets the puck,

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Speaker 6: excuse me, through the middle of the ice.

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Speaker 5: Hang on, go get a glass of water, Pat, I'll

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Speaker 5: talk with Mac. I can talk with Sorry to drink

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Speaker 5: some wine.

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Speaker 6: I swallowed. Run anyway, when he gets the puck and

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Speaker 6: he's going through the middle of the ice and his hands,

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Speaker 6: his ability to beat guys is it's just, uh, it's

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Speaker 6: so much fun to watch. And and he implored his

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Speaker 6: well down down low. You know, with his size, he can,

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00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 6: he can, he can win battles, and and he just

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Speaker 6: showed how how great he is. And you know, you know,

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Speaker 6: for him to hit forty goals last night, you know,

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Speaker 6: I I think he'll eventually get to fifty. I don't

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Speaker 6: know if he'll do it this year, but he was

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Speaker 6: just so good last night. And guess what, you know,

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Speaker 6: you and I and and Kevin talked about it on

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Speaker 6: Wild Weekly you know, the record is what five hundred

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Speaker 6: since the since the break, and and those guys haven't

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Speaker 6: really been Him and Caprice up haven't been great. And

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Speaker 6: I didn't I thought Caprice I've had a terrible first period,

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Speaker 6: really good in the second and third. But when those

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Speaker 6: when those guys uh play well, well, you know, the

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Speaker 6: entire team seems to get on their back and and

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Speaker 6: you know, and follow along, and so I obviously think

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Speaker 6: they're two keys, uh to the team. But but to

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Speaker 6: get back to my point, maybe when my phone broke out,

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Speaker 6: was that you know, it was a game last night

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Speaker 6: where they really could have got healthy and you know,

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Speaker 6: for two periods they did, one period they didn't. But

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Speaker 6: you know, they're they're going to have to play you know,

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Speaker 6: you know, hard and tough and and and really get

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Speaker 6: going and have some momentum going into the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: Now, you clearly have scored a lot more goals than

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Speaker 5: me and my hockey career, So maybe you and speak

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Speaker 5: to this a little bit more than I can.

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Speaker 1: What I love about Boldie.

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Speaker 5: You know, both of his goals last right night, last night,

579
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Speaker 5: right he's one on one with the goalie. The first one,

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00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 5: Eric Sinek forces the turnover. The second one, he gets

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Speaker 5: the breakoff after. I don't know what Zee Bulliam was

582
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Speaker 5: doing at the blue line there, but he's easy, easy

583
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Speaker 5: breakaway right. But you know Boldie, when he gets one

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Speaker 5: on one with his goalies, he has this thing where

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Speaker 5: like he just glides in with his skates right, Like

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Speaker 5: his skates don't move and he can get he can

587
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 5: get so much power and he has such a quick

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Speaker 5: release without moving his skates that I think it really

589
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 5: throws off goalies and the goalie last night, the first one, right,

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00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 5: he just quickly shot five hole right. So now when

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00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 5: you're on your breakaway, that goalie has to be thinking, Man,

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00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 5: this guy can do a quick release five hole on

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00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 5: me and it really opens up. You know, we've seen

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Speaker 5: him do it in shootouts before, right where he goes

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Speaker 5: in that same the same motion. He can deep to

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Speaker 5: his backhand. Last night he just quick shot top shelf.

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Speaker 5: I have to imagine like when a goalie gets beat

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00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 5: like that five hole. Now you don't know where that

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00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 5: guy's going to go the next time you're one on.

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Speaker 1: One with them.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, even add you know he has the ability to

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Speaker 6: to deek, right, I mean he has has that uh

603
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Speaker 6: in his repertoire also and so and and a big

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Speaker 6: thing with with goal scores is that they're called they

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Speaker 6: don't panic. They wait that extra whether it be millisecond,

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Speaker 6: just whatever it is. They wait for that goalie to

607
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 6: make the first move. And once the goalie does that,

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00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 6: you've got him. And you've got him because he can't react,

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Speaker 6: uh quick enough to you know, for a guy like Buldie,

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Speaker 6: who can you know, who's faster at at making a

611
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 6: quick move? And so you know that that's the that's

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Speaker 6: the reason why capriesoft and both both have over forty goals.

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Speaker 6: They they're just ability to read goaltenders and and know

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Speaker 6: when to shoot it and when to deek and go,

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Speaker 6: when to hold on to the puck. You said extra

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Speaker 6: you know, split second or whatever whatever time they need.

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Speaker 6: And uh and that's the difference. And that's one thing

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Speaker 6: about Caprice Soft that bothered me about his game in

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Speaker 6: the first period last night.

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Speaker 2: He's a goal.

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Speaker 6: Scorer, Brandon, and and you know, to me, he got

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Speaker 6: caught up in traffic, whether it be behind the net

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Speaker 6: or trying to win a battle. You saw the goalie

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Speaker 6: the you know, the one goal they scored he got

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Speaker 6: in the open area and and that's what his other

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Speaker 6: two linemates are there for, is to get him the puck.

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Speaker 6: And so I'd love to see him, you know, you know,

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Speaker 6: not be that guy that has to do everything, all

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Speaker 6: the all the heavy lifting down low and and all

630
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Speaker 6: of those type of things, get an open spots. Let

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Speaker 6: his you know, let Hartman, who's got to be better,

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Speaker 6: and and zu Carello get the puck and find him.

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Speaker 6: And zu Corello did on the you know, on the

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Speaker 6: on the pass back and forth and and and he

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Speaker 6: put it away. And I'd love to see more of that.

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Speaker 6: And I think, you know, once he does that, he'll

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Speaker 6: get more productive.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about that line. I was going to add

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Speaker 1: on to that.

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Speaker 5: You know, I thought caprice Off and even that line

641
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 5: played well in Boston the game before, and I just

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00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 5: felt like Capriceoff is more engaged in battles and one

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00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 5: on one battles at the corner, which is something that

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00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 5: he's what he can separate himself from other superstars in

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00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 5: those areas, right those small areas and not getting knocked

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Speaker 5: off the puck. And you know, last night, I thought

647
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Speaker 5: that line, especially as you mentioned second period on when

648
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 5: you get that the Zugarello, capriceoff chemistry back where they're

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Speaker 5: making those cross ice passes with the one timers.

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Speaker 1: Hartman. I think Hartman's been playing pretty well lately.

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Speaker 5: He looks like he's turning into playoff left the Ryan

652
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Speaker 5: Hartman we saw in the playoffs last season and has

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Speaker 5: been a good fit with those centering those two. I

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00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 5: feel like that line is starting to come together. But

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Speaker 5: I know we still have a little bit of waste

656
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 5: so each the playoffs, but it's starting to turn in

657
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 5: the right direction, at least with those three.

658
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, and maybe I'm being too hard on him, you know,

659
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 6: because I didn't think they had a a good first period,

660
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 6: but but they started to find it in the second period.

661
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 6: And and you know, you see once you know, once

662
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 6: the puckets on Zukarostick, he'll find he'll find the guy.

663
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 6: And and and maybe it was just Capresop, you know,

664
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 6: not getting to the areas that that he should have,

665
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 6: and he did starting in that second period, and you

666
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 6: started to see them go and and Hartman, you know,

667
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 6: we talked about it, Brandon, you know, he could have

668
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 6: been their best player in the playoffs last year. And

669
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 6: and and so you know, if he's you know, he's

670
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 6: and he's approaching what did he get his twentieth last

671
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 6: night or nineteen something like that, and so, uh, you know,

672
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 6: I mean they're they're they're going to be key, no question.

673
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 6: In the playoffs.

674
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 5: Well it's funny, you know, law was made of Marco

675
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 5: Rossi being lowered in the lineup last year after Game

676
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 5: one of the of the playoffs series and moving down

677
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 5: to the fourth line. Yeah, what people don't talk about

678
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 5: is part of that was Ian Hartman had to be

679
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 5: elevated because he was playing. Yes, he had such a

680
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 5: great game one that you had to elevate him. And

681
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 5: it just happened to me that you know, you're not

682
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 5: gonna you're not gonna take what jewel Eric's the next

683
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 5: playing time.

684
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 6: No, and and you know, and that's the thing that

685
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 6: guys have to realize, and even Mark, I mean, look

686
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 6: at the depth that Minnesota has now and the ability

687
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 6: for Hinz to move guys to center or wing or

688
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 6: down or up or out of the lineup, you know,

689
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 6: to to win. To win, you're gonna need everybody. Everybody's

690
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 6: gonna have to know that, you know, based on matchups,

691
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 6: based on you know what whatever the coach is feeling

692
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 6: and and you know, guys are going to be in

693
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 6: and out of the lineup. Look at you know, Nick

694
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 6: Felino out of the lineup last night. Do I you know,

695
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 6: do I expect him in for Game one? Maybe? Maybe not.

696
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 6: I mean, we'll see and and it all depends, you

697
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 6: know what you know, what Dallas is throwing out there

698
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 6: for example, and and what you need to beat them,

699
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 6: and if they lose the first game or if they

700
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 6: win the first game. But the great thing is, the

701
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 6: great thing is is that they have the depth to

702
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 6: do that now. And you know, if you get buying

703
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 6: from everybody, then then I think things could could go

704
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 6: the wild way.

705
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 5: I'm curious what you think of what's your confidence level

706
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 5: on the goaltending moving to the playoffs? Pat, I'm one

707
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 5: of those where I like Philip Gustison. I don't know

708
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 5: if I love him. Yeah, I do feel like and

709
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 5: I get he's still young and he's not dependable at

710
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 5: this point, but I still feel like, yesper Valstad still

711
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 5: at some point.

712
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: It's gonna be go. I just I feel like Valstad's

713
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: going to have.

714
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 5: More capability of stealing a game or stealing a series

715
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 5: than Gustafson. I mean, Gustafson, I think is one that

716
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 5: you can you can win with as long as you're

717
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 5: playing well around him. But I don't know if he's

718
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 5: just going to like flat out steal one for you

719
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 5: or steal games for you. Right, how do you approach

720
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 5: how do you what is your confidence level? And the

721
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 5: goaltending and and and if you're if you're John Hines,

722
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 5: how would you be approaching it?

723
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 6: You want my hot take, I'm going to give you

724
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 6: my hot take. I think Volstead is going to take

725
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 6: over at some point in the playoffs. I think they're

726
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 6: going to start with Gustuson. But you know what, I

727
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 6: look back to the past and in the big games.

728
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 6: I'll go back to last year that Anaheim game where

729
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 6: he had to get pulled because he was sick, he

730
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 6: threw up or whatever. Same thing happened in the Four

731
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 6: Nations with Sweden had to pull him because he, you know,

732
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 6: he got sick. I don't know if it's if he

733
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 6: was legitimately sick or he get sick because he can't

734
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 6: handle the moment.

735
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: I think he had to go to the bathroom in

736
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: the third period a couple of weeks ago.

737
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 6: Well, exactly exactly, and so for me, I don't know

738
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 6: what it is. And and and you know, let's look

739
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 6: at compared to uh dust of Sid Lurie just you know,

740
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:10,879
Speaker 6: he just exudes confidence and the guys playing in front

741
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 6: of him and they see that and they and they

742
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 6: really want to play for him. I don't know if

743
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 6: personality wise or I shouldn't say, I don't know. I

744
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,879
Speaker 6: don't know if I trust if he has that yet. Yeah,

745
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 6: you know, he's fine, he's a good goalie, he's all

746
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 6: of that. But man, he's got to prove it to me.

747
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 6: And again, if there's one area that concerns me, it's

748
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 6: it's right there in the net. Well.

749
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 5: And obviously when you're looking at you know, they're playing

750
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 5: the Dallas Stars first first round of playoffs, when you're

751
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 5: trying to do the tail the tape of how you

752
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 5: match up against Dallas, that is the area where you'd

753
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 5: probably think Dallas has the advantage in the series. Is

754
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 5: Otteneur versus Gustafson, assuming gust of sins.

755
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 6: The one going, yeah, I think it's a really even matchup,

756
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 6: and and it could come down to who's going to

757
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 6: make that who's going to make that game, that goal

758
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 6: that saved in game seven or whatever, in the elimination game.

759
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 6: Let's let's just call it the elimination game because we

760
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,320
Speaker 6: don't know how long it's going to go, but in

761
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 6: that elimination game, to either win it for you or

762
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 6: force another game. And so, uh, you're you know that

763
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 6: that's that'll that is really going to be the key,

764
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 6: uh in this first round.

765
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 5: You know, we saw Quinn Hughes and Brock Faber reunited

766
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 5: as a defensive pairing last night. For a while there,

767
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 5: Quinn had been with Jared Spurgeon, Favor with Rodine. I

768
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 5: don't know what your thoughts are, Pat, I like those

769
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 5: two together better. I know the argument when they were was, hey,

770
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 5: it'll allow Favor to play a little bit more offensively.

771
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 5: I still think he plays offense with Quinn Hughes, I don't.

772
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 5: I don't think that that takes away from it. And

773
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,839
Speaker 5: in fact, I think, uh, you know, Quinn can put

774
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 5: him in spots to create offensively that maybe others can't.

775
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 5: And frankly, you know, I thought Quinn was real good

776
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 5: last night, But up until last night, he'd been pretty

777
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 5: leaky defensively. Pat, he's having issues just not even tying

778
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 5: up guys in front of the net, turning pucks over,

779
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 5: losing battles. We've seen him probably at his worst. We've

780
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 5: seen him all year, the Boston game of the game

781
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 5: before that. I think Favor is your best defensive defenseman.

782
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 5: And if Quinn Hughes does break down a little bit defensively,

783
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 5: I think Brock is the best of covering for him.

784
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 6: Does does that not tell you how valuable how good

785
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 6: brock Favor is, because you're dead on right. I notice, Brandon,

786
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 6: that when Hughes and Favor are together, you see an

787
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 6: extra little jump in Favor, meaning meaning you know, Hughes

788
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 6: gets him in the position to be offensive and he

789
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,439
Speaker 6: goes and I mean you don't, I mean, we don't

790
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 6: under understand how how great a skater Brock Favor is.

791
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 6: And once he gets going, you know, and he can

792
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 6: handle the buckety can make a play, and you're you're

793
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 6: dead on with that, and and he has the ability

794
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 6: to cover for for Hughes when when Hughes, you know,

795
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 6: because Hughes isn't great defensively, you know, and let's just

796
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 6: admit it, he's not. He's an offensive defenseman who is

797
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 6: fabulous at that. But he needs help on the defensive

798
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 6: side and favors there to do that. And so yeah,

799
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 6: they're they're gonna have to play together. And and and listen,

800
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 6: Spurgeon and Brodeen have been together for how many years

801
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 6: I've really lost track, you probably know off the top

802
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:43,439
Speaker 6: of your head, but really since they won, right, maybe

803
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 6: maybe Spurge in a year before Brodeen, But so, you know,

804
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 6: having those two together, I think that's the you know,

805
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 6: the right way to go ahead into the playoffs.

806
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 5: Now, assuming let's say, let's say Game one of the

807
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:01,320
Speaker 5: playoffs was tomorrow against Dallas, how would you structure the

808
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 5: forward line specifically kind of your bottom six, because it

809
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 5: seems like they've been kind of rotating players and now

810
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 5: you're offset for a little bit. Nick Folinosa that last night,

811
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 5: you know they're gonna be in a spot where Bobby

812
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 5: Brink a euro A, Nick Filino, someone like that, it

813
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 5: is probably gonna have to sit game one in the

814
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 5: playoffs and really probably aren't deserving to be sitting.

815
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 6: I probably should Brink to be quite honest with you,

816
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:31,919
Speaker 6: I really like Nick Fillino's presence in the lineup, whether

817
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,879
Speaker 6: it be you know, probably in the fourth line, third line,

818
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 6: however you want to slice it. But I think if

819
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 6: you're going into Dallas in the in the in the

820
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 6: you know any more, it probably is going to be

821
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 6: Dallas homece.

822
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 2: Yes.

823
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 6: So that being said, you know, I'd rather go in

824
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 6: there and and and really make your presence knowing that

825
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 6: you know what we're here to play, whether you win

826
00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 6: game one or lose game one, if you set the

827
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 6: precedent that hey, if you think this is gonna be

828
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 6: an easy series, you're dead wrong, and then you make

829
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:10,439
Speaker 6: your adjustments from there. Or you know, if you win

830
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 6: game one, you wrote the same lineup in game two

831
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 6: and and you know, then try to steal game two

832
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 6: with that with that same mentality. If not, then you

833
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 6: have the ability to bring to bring in Brink if

834
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 6: you need them, you know, for a certain matchup or

835
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 6: whatever the case may be. And that goes back, you know,

836
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 6: to the depth that I'm that I would that we

837
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 6: were talking about, and so you know, I like your

838
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 6: off speed, I like I like I like what he

839
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 6: does out there, and and so you know, you mix

840
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 6: that in a little bit. So I definitely have Nick

841
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 6: Polino on your lineup, and if that's pulling Bobby Brink

842
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 6: from for Game one, you know, so be it. It's

843
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 6: if you're gonna win the Stanley Cup, you are going

844
00:42:55,400 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 6: to absolutely need everybody and so and if you communicate

845
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,359
Speaker 6: that to your team, then it should be no big

846
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 6: deal that player X or player Y is sitting out

847
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 6: that first game because you know what you're going to

848
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 6: get in at some point and you may play a big,

849
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:16,800
Speaker 6: big role in winning a game, winning a series, whatever

850
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 6: the case may be.

851
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 5: You know, it's funny you bring up Bbby Brink because

852
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 5: I pose this question or this comment on X I

853
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 5: don't know a week or two ago, and I threw

854
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 5: up Brink as one of the names that potentially could

855
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 5: be sitting out week one, and just the amount of

856
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 5: comments that got going, No, you can't pull Bobby bring

857
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 5: blah blah blah.

858
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: And I think you know a lot of a lot

859
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:35,240
Speaker 1: of fans.

860
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 5: And this goes back to the Team USA roster construction, right,

861
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 5: They look at stats and they go, well, Bobby Brink

862
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 5: is going to provide more offense for you than a

863
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 5: Nick Folino. He's going to provide more offense for you

864
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 5: than some of these other guys in your bottom six.

865
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 1: And I don't disagree with that.

866
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,839
Speaker 5: You know, the problem is for Bobby Brink to play

867
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 5: in the playoffs, he has to provide offense because.

868
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: He's not going to do faceoffs for you. He's not

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Speaker 1: gonna kill penalties.

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Speaker 5: And when you're playing the Dallas Stars, we've seen this

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Speaker 5: in the past, Pat, you better be able to kill

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Speaker 5: penalties and you better be able to win faceoffs against them.

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Speaker 5: And I do think they're going to put a premium

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Speaker 5: on those guys in the bottom six.

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Speaker 6: Well, and here's another factor that people never bring in

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Speaker 6: into the equation. You know, you can look at analytical

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Speaker 6: stats about you know, goals for you know, chances all that.

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Speaker 6: Sometimes it's not sometimes like sending a message like we're

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Speaker 6: coming in and we're going to hit you. Yeah, and

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Speaker 6: we're and you, we're going to stop you, We're going

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Speaker 6: to frustrate you, and you know all of those things

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Speaker 6: that are a big factor in winning sixteen games to

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Speaker 6: win the Cup. And so you know, some nights it

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Speaker 6: may be different where you know what we're going to

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Speaker 6: go and we're going to.

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Speaker 2: Play you know, a really i'll.

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Speaker 6: Call it clean game, try to be offensive, try to

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Speaker 6: really score, you know, and and all those type of

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Speaker 6: things where uh, you know, other nights, you're gonna have

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Speaker 6: to say, you know what, we're gonna We're really gonna

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Speaker 6: lay a Ford check on you. We're gonna make it

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Speaker 6: tough and hard, and you're not going to get through

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Speaker 6: the middle of the ice and it and uh and

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Speaker 6: your in your top end guys are going to feel

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Speaker 6: it when we hit you and and so I you know,

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Speaker 6: sometimes I think we just get overblown by, you know,

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Speaker 6: goals for or expected goals or you know, it's not

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Speaker 6: just all about offense. There's other things, other parts of

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Speaker 6: the game that you have to win if you're gonna

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Speaker 6: win the Cup.

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Speaker 5: Pat, always love chatting with you. I can't wait to

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Speaker 5: hear you. I Beyond the Pond tomorrow tenam until noon.

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Speaker 6: Thanks Brandon, thanks for having you.

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Speaker 5: Later yep, Pat mcletty, I guess said he'll be co

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Speaker 5: hosting Beyond the Pond along with Kevin Fallins tomorrow. Up next,

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Speaker 5: Matt Max and I will do some big bikes, big bites,

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Speaker 5: all the great audio from yesterday and the world of

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Speaker 5: sports especial here local talking, wild Timberwolves, twins and some

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Speaker 5: other stuff.

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Speaker 1: Will do that next