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Speaker 1: From the Ponds to the pros. It's time for Beyond

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Speaker 1: the Pond. On the Fan. Here are your hosts, Pat

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Speaker 1: mcalletty and Kevin Faulness.

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Speaker 2: But is there a nicer person on the planet than

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Speaker 2: one trend Tucker.

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Speaker 1: Nope, just a good dude.

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Speaker 2: And it was nice of you not to just barge

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Speaker 2: in on the end of their show this week.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about it, but I think I got

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Speaker 1: to keep Sinny guessing. I got to keep him guessing,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want him. He's very gracious in putting

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Speaker 1: up with me. When I just barge in.

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Speaker 2: I was watching him through the glass and he was

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Speaker 2: looking over his shoulders, he coming into that. No, I

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Speaker 2: can still talk my basketball. By the way, thanks for

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Speaker 2: you coming in.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? You're the one that says you

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Speaker 1: were What does that mean you were gone last week? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I wasn't gone.

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Speaker 2: I was in Saint Paul because I had another gig afterwards.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: You guys are the ones that are so scared by

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Speaker 2: the weather people.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to leave your house. I don't.

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Speaker 2: He's worried about Sunday sermons literally twenty four hours from now, because.

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Speaker 1: I'm worried about the game I'm going to today at

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Speaker 1: Leon Penny and Leean Penny, yep, Anderson Arena for Saint

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Speaker 1: for the Tommys and the Vikings. How good is that

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Speaker 1: going to be? It's going to be a very very

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Speaker 1: good game today.

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Speaker 2: Do they have special seating for you, like, will you

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Speaker 2: be doing a ceremonial puck drop?

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Speaker 1: And then they're not one of the hockey ambassadors in town? No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: but they I tell you what, Tony Pesqueeze, who is

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Speaker 1: their sports information director, has been tremendous in taking care

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Speaker 1: of me today. Okay for that game? So awesome?

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Speaker 2: Well, I want to get into that. We've got a

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Speaker 2: great show already on the hopper. Yeah we will. We'll

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Speaker 2: do a lot of college hockey with the schlass around

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Speaker 2: eleven to thirty five O game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't get him on the phone yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm with one hundred percent guarantee you it

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Speaker 2: was the other way around. No, Well, he's got busy

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Speaker 2: stuff to do and you're you're probably talking his ear off.

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine it was the other way around.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's that time of the year. It is that

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Speaker 1: time of year, and so there was a lot to

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Speaker 1: We did okay, good, We literally did Yeah, we did okay.

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Speaker 1: We literally did two segments on the phone. Yes, good.

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Speaker 1: I should have recorded it.

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Speaker 2: Lots of college hockey coming with him at eleven thirty five,

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Speaker 2: we've got basically a half hour of a recap of

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Speaker 2: the boys high school hockey tournament eleven o'clock the head

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Speaker 2: coach of Morehead eleven ten at the head coach at

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Speaker 2: World and then Tony Scott with a weekly youth Hockey Hub.

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Speaker 2: Just a fantastic tournament, I mean start to finish, especially

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Speaker 2: it was but summer final Friday into the two championship games.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, you couldn't ask for anything better.

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Speaker 1: You know, they both classes were were really good. I

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Speaker 1: mean one through eight they were. They were really good.

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Speaker 1: And continues to continues to get better and more depth

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Speaker 1: it was. It was a fun tournament.

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Speaker 2: I called the single A tournament, so I had a

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Speaker 2: different vantage point for that one. But for the Double

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Speaker 1: Why were you in that a game? Why was I

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Speaker 1: Why were you? I mean, I want to say this

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Speaker 1: like God, you were biased, soul Go World, Go War.

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Speaker 1: I heard you in the back Go World, you and

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Speaker 1: Danny not even a little bit. Go World.

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Speaker 2: I can't even put into words how much I didn't

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Speaker 1: It was so much fun. I'm kidding people. That was

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Speaker 2: And then I got a chance to watch the double

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Speaker 2: I said, since the eighties. And when that thing got

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Speaker 1: And I got to be one hundred percent honest with you.

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Speaker 1: He gave up. No, I feel kind of gave up.

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Speaker 1: That's too bad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was a great It was a

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Speaker 2: great game, a great weekend, a great tournament.

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Speaker 1: Once again, maybe we say this every year.

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Speaker 2: But man, that the drama and the intrigue, especially from

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Speaker 1: How did how did he get through?

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Speaker 2: He was struggling. I mean he called a great game.

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Speaker 1: Was thrown into it. Were you at the game? I

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Speaker 2: I said at noon, I said, if he would have

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Speaker 2: told him at noon, like I'm going to happy hour.

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Speaker 1: So if you need me, I need to know now.

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Speaker 2: Because I'm going to be whatever condition I'm going to be,

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Speaker 2: he says, no, it's my once in a life, once

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Speaker 2: a year deal. I'm going to push through it.

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Speaker 1: Can I tell you one story? You know? One silver

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Speaker 1: lining for for Hibbing, sure, and what and what this

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Speaker 1: And you know, my brother Joe was in town for

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Speaker 1: seventy six right, yeah, yeah, But the number of players

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Speaker 1: But I mean that's that, you know. So it this

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Speaker 1: for sure. And world can say the same thing, and

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Speaker 1: so can you know more head of all their championship

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Speaker 2: The tournament to me, and that's great there's no doubt

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Speaker 2: reminder each and every year. We'll get to relive it

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Speaker 2: a little bit at eleven o'clock with the head coach

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Speaker 2: for both the Double A and the Single A Champs

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Speaker 2: about ten thirty five.

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Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to this.

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Speaker 2: Your buddy, Kenny Albert's goin to join us, the voice

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Speaker 2: of everything, but the Rangers are in town. Wild to

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Speaker 2: right here on the fan. The Rangers are not having

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Speaker 2: a great year, but they want to run the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: They won't. They might get there, but they've been playing better. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a kick in the nose? Yeah? What?

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Speaker 2: But it hasn't been a great year for the Rangers,

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Speaker 2: But what a year it's been for Kenny Albert. What

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Speaker 2: a run it's been for Kenny Albert. He's calling everything

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Speaker 2: He calls basketball, he calls the NFL, called the super Bowl,

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Speaker 2: called the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: He did call this, yes, and.

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Speaker 2: Then he was on his way Westwood Wanner for who

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Speaker 2: we'll have to ask him.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's doing everything. He's maybe Armed Forces, he

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Speaker 2: He's unbelievable and it'll be so much fun to catch

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Speaker 2: to him about ten thirty five before we go and

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Speaker 2: move forward. I did want to talk about your Golden Golphers.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately their season came to run in Wednesday again against

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Speaker 2: Penn State. What were your takeaways from the six to

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Speaker 1: Well, it's not so much that game as a you know,

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Speaker 1: just didn't have enough horses. Horses that they have are young.

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Speaker 1: I think they're you know what in in in college hockey,

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Speaker 1: one year. Uh, we'll see what the off season brings.

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Speaker 1: How much they hit the portal. I think they need

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Speaker 1: blue in the face. You will not win a national championship.

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Speaker 1: You just won't. And so they need to they need

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Speaker 2: So we knew that it was going to be a

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Speaker 1: But you didn't see eleven, twenty two and three coming.

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Speaker 2: Before we go to break, let's salute the five seniors

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Speaker 2: Real quick sources tell me Lamb will be with the

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Speaker 2: Salute to each of those five go for seniors. The

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Speaker 2: That's good news because I think everybody, including Bob Moscow,

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Speaker 1: I'm a hockey guy. He's a hockey guys. That what

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Speaker 1: Of course? All right, Well he's still he's still count Dracula.

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Speaker 1: Here's a break alone.

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Speaker 4: Stuff that could be a meteor hitting the cities and

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Speaker 1: Like, how did you not get to sermons?

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Speaker 7: And now.

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Speaker 1: I do have stuff for you? Though, well, good, I

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Speaker 2: We're basically we're killing time till we get to Kenny Albert.

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Speaker 4: I saw this. This is right on the top of

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Speaker 4: I was talking to somebody today, somebody today, an executive

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Speaker 4: why don't you just put up a knon sign outside

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Speaker 1: No season's done.

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Speaker 4: He season's done, and the Leaf season is essentially done.

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Speaker 2: What do you think of that hit Patrick, the rad

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Speaker 1: Awful. We don't get to see him, say, and I

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Speaker 2: The agent for Austin Matthews, it calls it laughable, not

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Speaker 1: So what's your question, Brett?

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Speaker 1: Do you think?

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Speaker 4: And this this is a sign from Elliott Friedman? There

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Speaker 4: really isn't a question. I'm just bringing up that people

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Speaker 4: Sure, would you trade favor for Austin Matthews?

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Speaker 4: We've seen the power of what we'll find out. If

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Speaker 4: The power of brotherly love. Heard this playoffs with the

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Speaker 2: So much fun to have Jack Hughes. He's not very durable.

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Speaker 1: Well here's the thing. You can't play center for eighty games.

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Speaker 4: Which we absolutely do. That's that's not air quotes. So

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Speaker 1: So yeah, you get a sixty goal scorer but also

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Speaker 2: You're in the the mecca of criticism.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, especially when you don't succeed and they haven't.

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Speaker 2: They haven't made it out of the first run in

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Speaker 2: how long?

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Speaker 1: Why would you know the only way? I don't know

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Speaker 2: It's stated in fact, but it's kind of the same

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Speaker 2: And that's why so much fun to watch them be

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Speaker 1: Continue continue, Brat.

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Speaker 4: You did say something incorrect. You called Toronto the mecca

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Speaker 1: Ah, you poor thing, Look at you. How would you grade?

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Speaker 4: You know, we've had what three or four games with

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Speaker 2: Like this?

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Speaker 4: How would you grade the new guys coming into this squad?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm excited, very excited about Nick Folino. I'm

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Speaker 2: as someone goes down, and that's what he's there for,

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Speaker 2: his insurance. But how could you not like what they

437
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 2: did to bolster the depth of this team. They've given

438
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Speaker 2: them options and if you're not playing well, then I'm

439
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Speaker 2: bringing this guy in and you need to earn your

440
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Speaker 2: job back, and that's a great problem to have here

441
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Speaker 2: this time of here.

442
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Speaker 1: I think he did a very nice pivot because he

443
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Speaker 1: couldn't get the number one center, and I don't think

444
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 1: Trocheck is in number one center. I'll put that out there, Okay,

445
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Speaker 1: So I think he did a nice pivot in saying,

446
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Speaker 1: you know what, we've got enough scoring, and they do.

447
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Speaker 1: And so next you bring in the players that you mentioned.

448
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Speaker 1: And I think there's a three step process to this

449
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 1: when evaluating it. So I'm going to evaluate it from

450
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Speaker 1: that perspective. A. You bring them in. Secondly, you get

451
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Speaker 1: them acclimated to the team to how they're going to

452
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Speaker 1: play the next step. And that's why if they lose

453
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Speaker 1: a few here and there, it's not going to bother

454
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Speaker 1: me too much. It's saying asking you or or putting

455
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Speaker 1: a plan together of how we're going to play in

456
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Speaker 1: the playoffs, and this is your role. This is your role,

457
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,360
Speaker 1: this is your role. Here's how we roll it out

458
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Speaker 1: and we go and then that's when you are officially

459
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Speaker 1: a team and the best player is they get sixteen

460
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Speaker 1: seventeen games to eat it up, and that's the beauty

461
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Speaker 1: because they're not going anywhere.

462
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Speaker 2: They're going to be a facing off against the Dallas

463
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Speaker 2: Stars and.

464
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Speaker 1: They have to figure out what that system is to

465
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Speaker 1: be able to get them over that hump and make

466
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Speaker 1: them the toughest team in the league to play against.

467
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Speaker 2: Give us one more break, because we do not want

468
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Speaker 2: to make mister Kenny Albert Waite.

469
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Speaker 4: Head coach John Hines was not happy with the effort

470
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Speaker 4: against the Flyers. I wasn't really as red hot as

471
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Speaker 4: he was. I thought they had chances to win the game. Yeah,

472
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Speaker 4: they could have came out and stomped on him and

473
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Speaker 4: put the game away and put it to bed earlier.

474
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Speaker 4: I thought wal said had was good besides the short

475
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Speaker 4: handed goal that absolutely needs to be saved one hundred

476
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Speaker 4: out of one hundred times. But they had their chances,

477
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 4: they were in the game, they get a point. I

478
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Speaker 4: wasn't as mad about it. If it happens today, then

479
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Speaker 4: I'll start to get upset. But how do you was

480
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Speaker 4: he justified on his rage.

481
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think he's justified in his Maybe

482
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Speaker 1: as the head coach of the team he expects, you know,

483
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Speaker 1: maybe it was the effort. I didn't see the game.

484
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: I was on the road, so maybe he wasn't happy

485
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Speaker 1: with the f or something.

486
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Speaker 2: Lack of attention to detail more than anything have explained.

487
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Speaker 1: And I think that is like for the reason I

488
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Speaker 1: just mentioned. And I'm not going to go through them

489
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Speaker 1: again because we have to get to Kenny. But and

490
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Speaker 1: so I'm not maybe their standard is here's the problem.

491
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Speaker 2: They played so well against Tampa Utah, Colorado, Vegas. I

492
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Speaker 2: mean they raise up to the level of competition and

493
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 2: they're winning percentage against teams like that speak for itself.

494
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Speaker 2: On the flip side of that, teams like the Philadelphia Flyers,

495
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Speaker 2: who you know had been playing some good hockey. They're

496
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Speaker 2: not going to the postseason. Their record against teams with

497
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Speaker 2: sub zero five hundred records, yeah, is not good. And

498
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Speaker 2: it showed that the same thing against the Saint Louis

499
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Speaker 2: Blues out of the break.

500
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Speaker 1: It's very same thing against the very hard to get

501
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Speaker 1: yourself that motivation. I get it.

502
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Speaker 2: But the problem is they were outshot nine to two

503
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Speaker 2: in that first period. Once they scored those two goals

504
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 2: in the second by their two superstars and Caprice have

505
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 2: been boldy, you thought, okay, here we go. Then they

506
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 2: give up the shorty in the third period, up losing

507
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Speaker 2: in the shootout.

508
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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe this playoff system is the best thing that

509
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,400
Speaker 1: that could happen to him then, because guess what they're

510
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: gonna either replaying Dallas or Colorado in the first two rounds,

511
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: right right right, maybe you're playing. You want to get motivated,

512
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:18,360
Speaker 1: here's your chance.

513
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Speaker 2: You got the best of seven to beat one of

514
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 2: the best teams in hockey. They're saying the same thing

515
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 2: about them in a little wild So there you go,

516
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 2: all right, quick little break and then when we continue

517
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 2: the goat job, Yes, very nice work, Brett blakemore and

518
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 2: aged better.

519
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Speaker 1: Kenny albert Is next on the fan, got the first

520
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Speaker 1: cop that's in the United States. How about that call? Beautiful?

521
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Speaker 2: I mean just absolutely perfect everything about it.

522
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Speaker 1: Did he not nail it? Of course he did. He

523
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 1: always does, like he does every call.

524
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 2: That of course the voice of Kenny Albert on NBC

525
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 2: Sports calling all the action from Milan. The Americans are

526
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 2: golden and the guy behind the microphone was Kenny Albert

527
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Speaker 2: joining us now on Beyond the Pond. Kenny, that's Pat mcleady.

528
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Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Falmas. Thanks for taking time here on a

529
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Speaker 2: game day to join us on the radio.

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Speaker 5: Thanks for having me, guys. Hope you're doing well.

531
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming that you got in what you was it

532
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: last night you played the Rangers? Was it the Rangers tonight? No,

533
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 1: I know the Jets Thursday? Okay, Thursday. When'd you get

534
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: in town, Kenny?

535
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 5: We got it about one in the morning after the

536
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:48,399
Speaker 5: Winnipeg game Thursday night going into Friday morning, so about

537
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 5: thirty six hours ago.

538
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Speaker 1: Okay. So before we talk about your illustrious career in

539
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: the Rangers, I just yeah, your father, I mean I

540
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 1: grew up watching the NBA all so right, and your

541
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:06,360
Speaker 1: father was I mean, he might go down no offense

542
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: to you as one of I mean the best broadcasters ever.

543
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 1: I loved watching him. I mean, is that what inspired

544
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: you to become a broadcaster?

545
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 3: Oh?

546
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 5: Absolutely. I mean there's not a time that I can

547
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Speaker 5: remember when I wasn't listening and watching, you know, as

548
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 5: far back as I can remember. When I was about

549
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 5: five or six years old, my parents gave me a

550
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 5: tape recorder for my birthday. And they never said you

551
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 5: have to do this. I was never forced, but I

552
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 5: just always loved it. I would sit in my bedroom

553
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 5: and announce games off the television into the tape recorder,

554
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 5: and when I was old enough, I would start bringing

555
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 5: it to games in the New York area and received

556
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 5: a really big break. In high school. I was doing

557
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Speaker 5: a lot of sports writing and covering the basketball games,

558
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 5: the football games, the baseball games. And when I was

559
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Speaker 5: in tenth grade, a local cable station showed up at

560
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 5: my school the film mcgirls basketball game, and they had

561
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 5: no announcers. So, like all Beard and spoke to the

562
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Speaker 5: producer the next day, and he gave me the opportunity

563
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Speaker 5: over the next three years to call about seventy five

564
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Speaker 5: or one hundred games.

565
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I would.

566
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Speaker 5: Bring friends along as color analysts, and I felt like

567
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 5: at that point I had such a head start. These days,

568
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 5: kids in high school have so many more opportunities with

569
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 5: school programs and broadcasting camps, but back then that wasn't

570
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 5: the case. But yes, it all started very young when

571
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 5: I would tag along and go to games and just

572
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 5: learned by osmosis from him.

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Speaker 2: I have a loaded question for you, Kenny, because I

574
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Speaker 2: think when it comes to hockey play by play, there

575
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Speaker 2: isn't anyone better. I'm wondering which is your favorite sport

576
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Speaker 2: to call? Because I know there's going to be football

577
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 2: fans out there. They're going to say you're the best

578
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 2: in football. I'm saying you're the best at at hockey.

579
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm sure your basketball is austin. Everything

580
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 2: you do is outstanding. So what's your favorite sport to call?

581
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Speaker 5: Well? I appreciate the con words, and I've been so

582
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 5: fortunate to be a involved for over thirty years now

583
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 5: in both hockey and football, and I've done a lot

584
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 5: of baseball and basketball along the way. Football and hockey

585
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 5: are the two that I'm most associated with and have

586
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 5: done the longest. My goal when I was growing up

587
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 5: was to do hockey on the radio. It was my

588
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 5: favorite sport as a youngster. The others weren't very far behind,

589
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 5: it was pretty close, but hockey was the goal. And

590
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 5: I had an opportunity to do some fill in work

591
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 5: with the Islanders back in the late eighties and early nineties,

592
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Speaker 5: and I used some of those tapes to send around.

593
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 5: And my first full time job was with the Baltimore

594
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 5: skip Jacks the American Hockey League in nineteen ninety and

595
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 5: my roommate on the road for two years was Barry Trotz.

596
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Speaker 5: He was our assistant coach with the skip Jacks and

597
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 5: Joel Quenville was on our team for a half season,

598
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 5: so you know, around a lot of great people back then.

599
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 5: And went on to Washington for three years and now

600
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Speaker 5: with the Rangers since nineteen ninety five and a lot

601
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Speaker 5: of national work as well, and also very fortunate in

602
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 5: ninety four when Fox Sports took the NFC rights away

603
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,959
Speaker 5: from CBS after thirty plus years to be hired as

604
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Speaker 5: part of a really young group and thirty two years

605
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 5: later still at Fox. So but hockey was always the

606
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 5: goal was that was what I wanted to do and

607
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 5: was so lucky to get hired by the Skip Jacks

608
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Speaker 5: in nineteen ninety.

609
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Speaker 2: Now correct me if I'm wrong, as I jump in

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Speaker 2: real quick, Pat about Rangers TV. Now you're the guy

611
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 2: right for MSG and you replace That's not an easy

612
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 2: task to jump in and replace the great Sam Rosen.

613
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 2: And then right out the back door next to him

614
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 2: goes Pat's brother, Joe, so it's a whole new look

615
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 2: on that TV broadcast.

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Speaker 5: Worked so many games with Joe through the years, as

617
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Speaker 5: you know past. Yeah, he's one of my all time favorites.

618
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Speaker 5: We worked Olympics together, we worked NBC Hockey together, we

619
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Speaker 5: worked some MSc games together, not too many, but twenty

620
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Speaker 5: nine years I was on the radio side and really

621
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Speaker 5: loved every second of it. Had three great partners, Salmasina,

622
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 5: Brian Mullen and then Dave Maloney for the last twenty years.

623
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Speaker 5: And Sam retired after last season forty year Hall of

624
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 5: Fame career, one of the best ever. And then Joe

625
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 5: retired as well, so Dave moved over with me to

626
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 5: the TV side. Brian Boyle does some of the games

627
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 5: as well. But we have such a great group at MSG,

628
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 5: and I was so lucky to be part of the

629
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Speaker 5: traveling party with Sam and Joe for the last twenty years,

630
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 5: and I've known both even longer than that, and we

631
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 5: definitely miss having them around. But we've seen Sam a

632
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 5: bunch of times. He's been back to MC a lot

633
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 5: of the Centennial Knights when they honored the alumni, and

634
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,479
Speaker 5: just talked to Joe last week. But it was two

635
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 5: great decades traveling with them as their colleagues, and the

636
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 5: Rangers had a real good run during that time, with

637
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Speaker 5: five trips to the conference finals and the playoffs most

638
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Speaker 5: of those years. So both Sam and Joe among my

639
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 5: favorite people. I'm so lucky that I was part of

640
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Speaker 5: that group with them for the last twenty plus years.

641
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Speaker 1: Hey, Kenny, you know, you know, part of being a

642
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: play by play guy is you know, you know, calling

643
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: the game and and and all of that stuff, and

644
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: you know all the work you put in, but talk

645
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: about the you know, you you you do so many

646
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: different sports and then you have so many different and

647
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: you've worked with so many different analysts, and I think

648
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: sometimes people forget as a play by play guy, you know,

649
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: when you every analyst is different, right, and and knowing

650
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: how they you know, like to analyze games and all

651
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff.

652
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 8: Talk about how you go about working with one analyst

653
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Speaker 8: one night and a different analysts the next night, or

654
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Speaker 8: a different sport, or whatever the case.

655
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Speaker 5: Maybe, Yeah, it's a great question, and I might hold

656
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 5: the record. I think I've worked fifty analysts in the

657
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 5: various sports, some of them for only one game, many

658
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 5: of them for only one game, and others for fifteen

659
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 5: or twenty years. So you know, I like to the

660
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 5: first time I worked with an analyst, I'll do a

661
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 5: little research because I want to try and lead them

662
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 5: into some stories, you know, relevant stories about their careers,

663
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 5: either as a player or a coach or a broadcaster.

664
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Speaker 5: I think that's important to know as much as you

665
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 5: can about your analysts and the career that they had.

666
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 5: Joe and I were thrown right into the fire. The

667
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 5: first time we worked together was back in Salt Lake

668
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 5: during the twenty two thousand and two Olympics, and I

669
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 5: knew him. We were colleagues at Fox Sports and MSG

670
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 5: as well, but never had worked together. And I think

671
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 5: it was twenty three games in thirteen days. Wait, so

672
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 5: you know, we spent a lot of time together and

673
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 5: got to know each other really well. This past Olympics,

674
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 5: for example, with the men's and women's hockey, I worked

675
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 5: twenty four games in eighteen days with a couple of

676
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 5: different sets of analysts. I had Eddie Oldcheck and Brian

677
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 5: Bouschet on the men's games, AJ Molesco on the women's

678
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 5: and then Jen Botterl joined us later in Milan. But

679
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 5: I've been so lucky to work with some of the best,

680
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 5: whether it was Joe mccoletti, did some games with John

681
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:28,760
Speaker 5: Davidson through the years, Eddie Olzek, Brian Bouchet, Keith Jones,

682
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 5: you know so many others hockey side, two men at

683
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 5: the Mension. Had had a great opportunity to work about

684
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 5: thirty or forty baseball games with Tim McCarver, who, in

685
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 5: my opinion is the best of all time. Worked hundreds

686
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 5: of basketball games with Walt Clyve Frasier in New York.

687
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 5: And on the football side, you know, again two men.

688
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 3: In a name.

689
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 5: But you know, among my full time partners have been

690
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 5: Hall of Famer Anthony Munos, Hall of Famernde Barber, the

691
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 5: great combo of Daryl John and Tony Suriusa now Jonathan Vilma.

692
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 5: But I've also worked several games through the years with

693
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 5: with guys like Troy Aikman, Joe Namath, Dan Fouts, you

694
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 5: know other Hall of Famers. Worked one Sugar Bowl game

695
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 5: with Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long. They brought them out at

696
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 5: the studios. So just, you know, so fortunate when I

697
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 5: look back at some of the people that I've worked

698
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 5: games with here in Minnesota. Got to work at baseball

699
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 5: game with Paul Malliner, yeah at one point.

700
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I've.

701
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 5: Run into him a bunch of times since then. Such

702
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:37,879
Speaker 5: a great guy. But Bert Blylevin, so you know, real

703
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 5: lucky to have all those names that I mentioned and

704
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 5: so many more on my list.

705
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 2: All right, the voice of Kenny Albert joining us. He'll

706
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 2: be in Saint Paul today as the Wild take on

707
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 2: the Rangers pregame of four to forty five right here.

708
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Speaker 1: On the fan.

709
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Speaker 2: Kenny, I mean, you just named all the great people

710
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 2: that you've worked with. You've also worked some pretty cool events,

711
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 2: and to say that something's at the top of your

712
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 2: list has to be a real tall task. But I

713
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 2: can't imagine it gets any better than being boots on

714
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 2: the ground in Milan to see the Americans win gold,

715
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 2: not once, but twice. Both the men and the women,

716
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 2: and you were behind the micro microphone for both of

717
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 2: those historic events.

718
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: How much fun was that tournament?

719
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,439
Speaker 2: And then to get rewarded with calling a golden medal

720
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 2: championship for the Americans just has to be a pinch

721
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 2: me moment.

722
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Speaker 5: Oh absolutely. And I wrote a book a couple of

723
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 5: years ago and listed a lot of the top events

724
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 5: that I've worked, and you know, certainly getting to work

725
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 5: three Stanley Cup finals on the TV side, seven or

726
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 5: eight on the radio side, many of those with Joe

727
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 5: Nicolete on Westwood One. We did five or six Stanley

728
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 5: Cups together. The Bautista home run is one that I

729
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 5: get asked about often, back to fifteen, the Ovskian record

730
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 5: breaking goal last year on Long Island, the Sugar Bowl

731
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 5: that I mentioned with Howie Long and Terry Bradshaw's and the

732
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 5: NFL playoff games, the women's gold medal in twenty eighteen,

733
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 5: and Pimchang. That's certainly up there. But this year, you know,

734
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 5: this moves right right to the top of the list,

735
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 5: the double USA Canada gold medal games. And I've been

736
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 5: asked a lot about it. I've done a lot of interviews.

737
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 5: It was my seventh Winter Olympics, so it wasn't the

738
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 5: first and I had worked many gold medal games, three

739
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 5: on the women's side, two on the men's side prior,

740
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 5: but obviously the difference this year was a On the

741
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 5: men's side, you have the NHL players back for the

742
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 5: first time in twelve years. I worked the gold medal

743
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 5: game in twenty eighteen and then twenty twenty two we

744
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 5: were remote working out of Connecticut, and the NHL players

745
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 5: weren't there either year, so it wasn't exactly the same.

746
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 5: And then you know, on the women's side, it's a

747
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 5: given pretty much that it will be the US and Canada.

748
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,800
Speaker 5: Seven out of the eight Olympics it's been those two countries,

749
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 5: so barring a major upset, we knew it would be

750
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 5: the US and Canada on the women's side. But on

751
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 5: the men's side, look at the quarterfinal round day that day,

752
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 5: when three games went to overtime, the US and Canada

753
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 5: both went to overtime. They did easily eliminated both teams,

754
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 5: so it was not a given by any stretch of

755
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 5: the imagination. You know, two players who were going to

756
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 5: be on the ice tonight doctor heavily in that quarterfinal.

757
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,240
Speaker 5: US and Sweden because advantage out of the Rangers scores

758
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 5: the time goal with a minute and a half left,

759
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 5: and then Quinn Hughes wins it in overtime, so that

760
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 5: went the US's way, and then Canada came back to

761
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 5: beat Chechia, and once the matchup was set Friday, when

762
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 5: they both won their semis, you know, obviously it was

763
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 5: what a lot of us were hoping for and it

764
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 5: certainly more than lives up to the building of the billing.

765
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 5: And you know, from a broadcast standpoint, and I was

766
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 5: just so overwhelmed with all of the texts and emails

767
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 5: and tweets and articles that were written about our broadcasts

768
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 5: after those games. And you know, I thought the entire

769
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 5: crew was just tremendous to their level. Jen on the

770
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 5: women's game, and then Eddie and Boosh and we had

771
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 5: Captain Tappan, Mike Tarico. Everybody was just at the top

772
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,280
Speaker 5: of their game. But as you guy tho as broadcasters,

773
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Speaker 5: and I look at the three games as a whole,

774
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 5: not just the men's gold medal game, the men's quarterfinal

775
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 5: overtime game against Sweden, the women's gold medal game, and

776
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Speaker 5: then the men's gold medal game. From a broadcast standpoint,

777
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 5: if those games then five to one, nobody really remembers.

778
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: The game right, right, because they.

779
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 5: Went to overtime and had the dramatic endings, the abrupt endings,

780
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Speaker 5: with the overtime goals. So many more people are talking

781
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 5: about the broadcast than if it were a three to one,

782
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 5: four one game.

783
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: It just gets more people interested, you know, which led

784
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: up to that that gold medal game, which was you know,

785
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,439
Speaker 1: and and that Kenny to me, and I was trying

786
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: to think, you know, who's got the more pressure in

787
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: this game? You know, is it is it? Is it

788
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 1: Bill Gearon? You know, because in the US team, because

789
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: you know they lost in the Four Nations in overtime,

790
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: you know, or or was it or was it you

791
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:02,280
Speaker 1: know Canada because Canada is just has been Canada for

792
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: for all these years, right, And so I just thought

793
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: that was that just led up to what was a

794
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: fabulous game and the US coming out on top.

795
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 5: And it's so crazy when you think back the Four

796
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,919
Speaker 5: Nations game. I wasn't there. I was watching on TV.

797
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 5: Most people would agree the US out played Canada. And

798
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 5: that's sure, Yes, Canada wins it in overtime, and there

799
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 5: was no Quinn Hughes, no Matthew Kuchuck, and no Charlie McAvoy.

800
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 5: Freaky players of missing from the US lineup. It was

801
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 5: almost the reverse at the Olympics from the game. No

802
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 5: Sydney Crosby, Barrissey. You know, there were business running through

803
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 5: the team. But Canada really rose to the occasion and

804
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 5: outplayed the US. They did, and Todd rellibuck full the games.

805
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 5: So both games could have gone either way. There were

806
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 5: sort of carbon copies of each other, but in the

807
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 5: opposite direction. And you know, the players just played their

808
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 5: hearts out. You know, we were up there broadcast in

809
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 5: the game, and it just felt it was such a

810
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:08,919
Speaker 5: high level, you know, it was. It was the best

811
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 5: of the best, an NHL All Star game with you know,

812
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 5: probably forty of the top fifty players in the league,

813
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 5: because you do have players in other countries that would

814
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 5: certainly be in that mix, correct, And I remember earlier

815
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 5: in the game Brian Bouchet saying he's down at ice level,

816
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,760
Speaker 5: that that's the fastest game he's ever you know, witness

817
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 5: from light close. So both could have gone either way. Obviously,

818
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,359
Speaker 5: there was pressure on both sides and only one team

819
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 5: could win and the United States pulled it out.

820
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:39,879
Speaker 2: Kenny, We've taken up way more than enough of your time,

821
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 2: but we got to squeeze in a question about your

822
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 2: beloved Blue Shirts.

823
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: What is going on there?

824
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 2: Last place in the Eastern Conference and they're right in

825
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 2: a three game win streak. What's of the wild and

826
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 2: their fans expect tonight with the Wild and Rangers at

827
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 2: Grand Casino Arena.

828
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 5: They've actually played really well since the Olympic break. They're

829
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 5: five to one and two, Like you said, three straight wins.

830
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 5: Early in the season, they had a lot of issues

831
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 5: scoring goals, especially at home. They were playing well. The

832
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 5: coaching staff was happy with how they were playing, but

833
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 5: they just were staked fit. They couldn't score. They were

834
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 5: shut out in five home games early in the season.

835
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 5: Had the best road record in the league for a while.

836
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 5: It was astounding the differential, you know, between the home

837
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 5: and the road. And I know all teams have injuries,

838
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 5: and you don't want to use it as an excuse,

839
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 5: but there are four of their top players in a

840
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 5: significant time. Vincent Trocheck missed fourteen games right at the

841
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 5: start of the season. He got hurt in the opener,

842
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 5: and that kind of threw off, you know, the balance

843
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 5: the lines. That was a big loss early on. And

844
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:43,720
Speaker 5: then JT. Miller was injured in training camp, their captain,

845
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 5: and he wasn't healthy for a good portion of the season.

846
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 5: He played through it, battled through it, and then in January,

847
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 5: for pretty much the entire month leading up to the Olympics,

848
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 5: they had no igors to Starkt and no Adam Fox,

849
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 5: arguably their top two players. They did train ar Temi

850
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 5: Panarin right before the break. They put out the letter.

851
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 5: It's well documented Chris Trurry talking about the retool. But

852
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 5: these last eight games, you know, Shasterkin's been back and

853
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 5: he's been great, and some of the young players. You know,

854
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 5: for fans going to the game tonight, the top line

855
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 5: of Mika's advantage at Alexei Lauprenier and Gabe Perrot uh

856
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 5: they've probably been as a line the best in the

857
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 5: NHL since the Olympic break. You look at their numbers.

858
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 5: La Frenier's third in the league in goals right at

859
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 5: the top and point since the Olympic break. Gay Piro

860
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 5: is a first round pick out of Boston College. The

861
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 5: Vantagets had a terrific season Adam Fox's back, so the

862
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 5: power plays operating at a high level. Shasterkin's been terrific.

863
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,240
Speaker 5: So yes, the first half of the season was definitely

864
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 5: a disappointment, but I think the injuries did play a

865
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 5: big part of it, and the way the team has

866
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 5: played recently. They this three game winning streak, two of

867
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 5: them against teams battling for a playoff spot in Philadelphia

868
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 5: and went Conner Hellibuck allows six goals at the Olympics

869
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 5: in five games and the Rangers scored five on them

870
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 5: the other night. They've been playing well and you know,

871
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 5: obviously a step up in class with the opponent tonight.

872
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 5: I've seen a lot of the Wild since the break,

873
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,800
Speaker 5: and I'm here for the entire weekend, the Rangers today

874
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 5: and then the TNT broadcast tomorrow against the Bay p Leafs.

875
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 5: I guess weather pending, we'll see what happens. Right, certainly

876
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:25,240
Speaker 5: a fun team to watch, and I know the coaching

877
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 5: staffs and that has been a really close these two teams.

878
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 5: You have Mike Sullivan, Chris Drury, David Quinn on the

879
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 5: Rangers side, and of course John Hines on their staff

880
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 5: at the Olympics, and a lot of them were together

881
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 5: at Boston Universities. There's a lot of crossover between these

882
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 5: two teams, not only on the ice, but behind the

883
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 5: bench and up in the management poof.

884
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: I just got this in the text line.

885
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 2: I asked this to another broadcaster earlier this season, and

886
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 2: I got to ask you.

887
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: We're against the clock.

888
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 2: But I got to ask you about the Boys Date

889
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,800
Speaker 2: High School Hockey Tournament. Kenny, it just wrapped up last weekend.

890
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 2: Have you ever given any thought? And Jim Merrickson does

891
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 2: a great job. We've got great broadcasters that call these games,

892
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,320
Speaker 2: but I can't imagine anything better than having Kenny Elbert

893
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 2: call on Minnesota Boys State High School Hockey training game.

894
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: He's busy enough, but would.

895
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:14,879
Speaker 2: You consider that on your bucket list one day?

896
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 5: Well, I met Gym last week for the first time,

897
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 5: and I don't want to take any work away from

898
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 5: anybody's got game in pat and everybody else. You know,

899
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 5: as far as the history and all that, you know,

900
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,839
Speaker 5: you guys are perfect. So I've heard a lot about it,

901
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 5: have never attended. We'd love to someday. I did go

902
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 5: to the Frost game last night. That was exciting. My

903
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 5: first p WHL game here in Minnesota sat up in

904
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 5: the press box. So you know, I've heard all the

905
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 5: stories about the Nicoletty and Purpitch families last week, so

906
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 5: I've heard about the Hipping Championship and yeah, the Gofies Championships,

907
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 5: and I know you guys had the big celebration of

908
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 5: the seventy sixteen last week.

909
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: We did it.

910
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 5: It's a lot of fun to come here and look

911
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 5: at the jerseys and the arena and some of the

912
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 5: articles that are up on the walls and uh, you know,

913
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 5: it's legendary. The high school tournament and followed it from

914
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 5: Afar and hopefully we'll get to at least a ten someday.

915
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: Thanks for doing this, Kenny.

916
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 2: Hopefully we helped you get your Micheltti fixed for the

917
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 2: day and you can have a good call tonight.

918
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 1: You are the best, Kenny, and you know we appreciate

919
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: you coming on.

920
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 5: Thanks, Thanks Devin. Uh you know, love love listening to

921
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 5: you guys and checking it out and always ready to

922
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 5: get a Mikalletti fixed.

923
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: So thank you, Kenny.

924
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 2: There is the uh, in my mind, one of the

925
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 2: greatest of all time. I mean, when you talk about

926
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 2: the greatest in in my lifetime, when you talk about hockey.

927
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 2: It's Doc Emerck, but he's knocking on the door. I mean,

928
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 2: Kenny has so much fun to listen to.

929
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: Kenny. You remember Dan Kelly from the Yeah, I mean,

930
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,359
Speaker 1: but he's right up there, right up there with the best.

931
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 2: That was great, that that was an honor. Always great

932
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 2: to catch up with Kenny Albert. They're in the rink tonight,

933
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 2: the Rangers taking on the Wild. Pregame at four forty five.

934
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 2: Puck drops just after five o'clock and what could be

935
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:02,839
Speaker 2: a busy weekend of hockey in Saint Paul, depending on

936
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 2: what the weather says. Apparently, Russo put out a tweet

937
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 2: that they're contemplating what's going to happen tomorrow because Toronto

938
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,800
Speaker 2: still got to get in here after playing against Buffalo today,

939
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 2: So they will they be able to fly in. I

940
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 2: guess that remains to be seen, but regardless, the Wild

941
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 2: and Rangers will take place tonight and it should be

942
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 2: a blast. Also a blast last week in the boys

943
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 2: State High School Hockey Tournament.

944
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: Will recap it next on the fan Man.

945
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:27,840
Speaker 4: Sale.

946
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 6: Change for the Spots most change here for the Skippers

947
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 6: with the puck is tat Artiker from Minnetaka it's pulped

948
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 6: off his step. Morehead takes over next calling with a

949
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:39,879
Speaker 6: quick pass here up the right wing side of here's

950
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 6: water with.

951
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:44,839
Speaker 1: A shot for the.

952
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 5: Spots, like saying it double overtime.

953
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 2: Hell the on the call already pretty good. I did

954
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 2: not rip him at all. I can't believe he fought

955
00:48:58,440 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 2: through whatever he was doing.

956
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 1: You were ripping off hel No. I wasn't Brett, No Brett,

957
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: no Savage.

958
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 2: Everybody knows. I don't rip Halvey. He's like my one

959
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 2: of my sons. I have more pictures of him than

960
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 2: I have my actual sons.

961
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,399
Speaker 1: Some of your sons all the time, all the time,

962
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 1: all the time, so if he's one of your sons.

963
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:20,399
Speaker 2: So anyway, it's awesome to hear Halvey on the call.

964
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:24,439
Speaker 2: I can't believe already. A week ago that the boys

965
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 2: State High school hockey tournament concluded, I texted.

966
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: Him, you know healvy? Helvy did yeah. The next day

967
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 1: and I asked him if he did every year?

968
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 2: Of course he did well. Good for him. He had

969
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 2: a heck of a call and it was a heck

970
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 2: of a tournament for the Morehead Spunge. Their head coaches,

971
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 2: John Ammerman, he joins us now on beyond the Pond.

972
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 2: Congrats again, John, thanks for doing this and uh, congratulations

973
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 2: I'm back to back for the spudge.

974
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you guys. Obviously, Uh, pretty pretty fun week

975
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 9: and yeah it doesn't get a old listened to that

976
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:57,240
Speaker 9: call for sure.

977
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, John, great to talk to you. Congratulations, unbelievable. What

978
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: a game. I want to know, John, what you know?

979
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:11,760
Speaker 1: I mean you obviously you knew you had a great

980
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: team and great players and and all of that stuff,

981
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: but in a great coaching staff. Also, by the way,

982
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 1: you know, it's not just you. Your staff is awfully

983
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: ofughly good. So my question is, when you're down like that,

984
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: what was what was the emotions inside of your head

985
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: as you know you were making the comeback or even

986
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 1: more so when you were down.

987
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 2: And we should mention John too, to remind the audience.

988
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 2: Down three zero in the first, down four to one

989
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 2: in the second. So this is a hell of a rally.

990
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 2: What did you well, what was the magic of the

991
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 2: coaching staff to get them sparked?

992
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 7: Well?

993
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 9: To be honest, my my thoughts were who's going out next?

994
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 9: We uh, you know, in terms of just the makeup

995
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 9: of our team, Like you mentioned we we just had

996
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 9: some outstanding hockey players and really the makeup if if

997
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 9: you were able to come back, we had the makeup

998
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 9: to be able to do it. And one thing I

999
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 9: guess I'm most impressed with We knew we had skilled

1000
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 9: hockey players, but in a game like that, you learn

1001
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 9: a lot a lot about your group and your kids,

1002
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:21,400
Speaker 9: and so impressed with their resolves, their resiliency and all

1003
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 9: those cliche words that you never really know what you

1004
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 9: have until guys backs are up against the wall, and

1005
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 9: so impressed with them, so impressed with their coaches and

1006
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 9: the adjustments that they were able to make to get

1007
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 9: guys in positions to be successful. And then especially in

1008
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 9: that third period, just a ton of big time players

1009
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 9: making the play at the right time.

1010
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: It was.

1011
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 9: It was a heck of a lot of fun to

1012
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 9: be a part of and to watch from the bench.

1013
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 8: Jeah.

1014
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: You know, momentum is such a big, big part of

1015
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:54,360
Speaker 1: the game, and you know, when you lose it, it's it's

1016
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: it's horrible and it's tough to gain gain back. But

1017
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: once you gain that more momentum back, I mean, could

1018
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: you was there a sense of feeling on the bench

1019
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: that was like Okay, we've turned it around. We're feeling it.

1020
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: They're now looking up at us like, how do we

1021
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: stop this train? I mean, what what what was that

1022
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: feeling like or your sense that your that your players

1023
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: knew that they turned it around. Yeah, great question.

1024
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 9: In in the third period, not only on the bench

1025
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 9: but in the building, after that second goal on the

1026
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 9: power play right before the TV timeout, you could kind

1027
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 9: of you could feel it. You could, you know, sense

1028
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,840
Speaker 9: the murmurs in the crowd and the buzz. But the

1029
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 9: the period itself just played out perfectly with TV timeouts,

1030
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 9: with a timeout in hand, we were able to manage

1031
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 9: that period. You needed one before the TV timeout, so

1032
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 9: we get one, we get a power play. You know,

1033
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 9: like everything had to work out perfectly, and it obviously did.

1034
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 9: But yeah, you know, momentum is a funny thing, like

1035
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 9: you mentioned, especially in high school athletics, and the kids

1036
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 9: wrote it. They could sense it, they could feel it,

1037
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 9: and they made you know, ten fifteen big time plays

1038
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 9: at the right moments. And not only our players, but

1039
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,879
Speaker 9: our goaltender. You know, he maybe doesn't have the start

1040
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 9: he wants, but he digs his heels in and he

1041
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 9: was he was so good from the second period on

1042
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 9: and gave us a chance that that was.

1043
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 1: Really my next question. And and you know, I didn't

1044
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: follow you enough during the during the season to know

1045
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: if he was your number one guy all year or

1046
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: if they split, or whatever the case may be. But

1047
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:55,320
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't have a great first period, Okay,

1048
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: And that happens, right, I mean, it happens to everybody.

1049
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 1: Was there any thought just to maybe change things up

1050
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: or or change that, you know, we see coaches do

1051
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:11,240
Speaker 1: it all the time. You know, goalies don't have a

1052
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,479
Speaker 1: you know, a good first period or whatever the case

1053
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: may be, and they get yanked and and sometimes it's

1054
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: done to get your team fired up, and sometimes it's

1055
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 1: for other reasons. But was there ever any thought of

1056
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:27,280
Speaker 1: making a change after that first period?

1057
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:31,759
Speaker 9: To be honest, No, there wasn't one thing about Will.

1058
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 9: And I guess I can back up. One thing about

1059
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 9: community hockey is you kind of have track records on guys, right,

1060
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:41,840
Speaker 9: you know what you got coming up, and and you

1061
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 9: know the character of kids. And one thing about Will

1062
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 9: is in the biggest moments, he's his best. And and

1063
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,800
Speaker 9: that showed you know, there there were a few things

1064
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 9: that happened in the first, that didn't go our way,

1065
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 9: not only his way, but but our team's way. And

1066
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 9: the group is is just a bunch of winners and

1067
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 9: and Will's included in that. Our sophomore group has has

1068
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 9: won at every level going up, and and he's a

1069
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:13,799
Speaker 9: quiet confident kid, and you could kind of you could

1070
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:15,800
Speaker 9: feel that that he was ready to go. So no,

1071
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 9: it wasn't something that that was really even discussed, which

1072
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 9: which might sound kind of crazy, but he was our

1073
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 9: guy and I'm so happy that that he was able

1074
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 9: to play the way he did.

1075
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 2: Spuds head coach John Ammerman joining us back to back

1076
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:33,400
Speaker 2: champs no easy task for sure. And but from when

1077
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 2: I understand you guys are still loaded, John, I'm not

1078
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 2: going to make you predict a three peet, but how

1079
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 2: good are the projections for your squad going into next season?

1080
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 2: And believe me, I know we're only a week done

1081
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 2: with the state tournament, so really early to start talking

1082
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 2: about next fall, but I'm going to anyway, what are

1083
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 2: the projection for the Spuds.

1084
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:53,399
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's the fun part about it too, right as

1085
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 9: speculating and thinking about it. But with the dynamics of

1086
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 9: hockey right now, we don't we don't know who's going

1087
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 9: to be on our team next year. We have a

1088
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 9: ton of guys that will have decisions and opportunities to make,

1089
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 9: and really are our biggest goal here now in the

1090
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 9: next nine months is to show them and do our

1091
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:18,399
Speaker 9: best to sell them on that they can develop here, right,

1092
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:22,879
Speaker 9: and guys are going to have opportunities. We do have

1093
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 9: a ton of talent in youth hockey and a bunch

1094
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 9: of guys that will return. But yeah, right now, we're

1095
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 9: going to enjoy it as it's so hard to get

1096
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 9: to Saint Paul and if you do, we might have

1097
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:35,240
Speaker 9: a chance.

1098
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,759
Speaker 2: All right, Well, good luck this offseason. Congrats on back

1099
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 2: to back championships and we look forward to crossing pass

1100
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 2: with you again very soon.

1101
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 9: All right, thanks for having me on, guys.

1102
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 1: Thanks John.

1103
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:48,400
Speaker 2: John Ammerman, the head coach for the Morehead Spuds. That

1104
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 2: was the night cap on championship Saturday.

1105
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: They're talking three pete in Morehead right now.

1106
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:54,359
Speaker 5: I think.

1107
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 2: But like he says, it's never easy and you need

1108
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:59,400
Speaker 2: no further explanation how hard it is to get back.

1109
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 2: They're let alone to put back to back. Let me go,

1110
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:05,319
Speaker 2: they are very difficult and I wasn't going to make

1111
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:10,560
Speaker 2: up predict a three peet, but you were close. From

1112
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 2: what I understand, they're still loaded for next year. And

1113
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:14,200
Speaker 2: I'll tell you a team that was loaded this year,

1114
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 2: the World Warriors, Ryan Shaga, Bay Mooney one minute in

1115
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 2: overtime and for the first time since two thousand and five,

1116
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 2: the war Old Warriors are state champs.

1117
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he got a complete shot at my high school.

1118
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 2: I'll tell you the guy that was taking a shot

1119
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 2: at your former high school. Jay Hardwick, the head coach

1120
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 2: of the war World Warriors, he said he wanted to

1121
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 2: come on, you know, I wanted to I don't even know, No, Jay,

1122
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 2: I know this is going to be contentious. Hitting a lum.

1123
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 2: Pat Nicoletty talk to the head coach for the World

1124
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 2: Warriors State A champs. They took down the Blue Jackets

1125
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:01,919
Speaker 2: in stunning fashion in the championship. Just a fun hockey game, Jay,

1126
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:04,120
Speaker 2: all seriousness and all jokes aside.

1127
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 1: What a hockey game, and what a day for the Warriors.

1128
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 3: It was. It was, it was, you know, it's still

1129
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 3: it's still hard to you know, I've watched a game

1130
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 3: probably a couple of times since I've gotten home, and

1131
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 3: it's uh, it doesn't even feel real. And it was

1132
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 3: a you know, that was a game for the ages,

1133
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 3: and you know, unfortunately for Pat and I mean that,

1134
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 3: you know, somebody's got to lose that game. And I've

1135
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 3: I've been on the other side of that, and I

1136
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 3: know how it feels. But you know, I talked to

1137
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 3: it Aaron a little bit earlier this week, and you know,

1138
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 3: I just told them again that you know, they had

1139
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 3: nothing to hang their heads on and that they should

1140
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 3: be proud because they had a head of a hockey team.

1141
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 3: And you get into overtime in a state championship, it

1142
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 3: it basically turns into a coin flip.

1143
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 2: It was such a good hockey game, instant classic.

1144
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 1: I mean, the chances on uh, you know, for both

1145
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 1: teams and and the goaltending. I want to talk about

1146
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 1: your goaltender. Who was the backup, right, I mean he

1147
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:17,920
Speaker 1: was he would not have played in the tournament and

1148
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 1: your and your number one guy goes down. I remember

1149
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: on the call talking about it, and he may have

1150
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: been the MVP of the whole tournament. He was fabulous

1151
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: the whole tournament.

1152
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:34,720
Speaker 3: He was I was, and it was spectacular.

1153
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 1: And and to me, it was like bring it on.

1154
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 1: I'm the guy, you know. I mean, it wasn't like

1155
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 1: a guy like scared going into it. You know that

1156
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: that's what was the beauty of it. I mean, he

1157
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 1: made save after save, you know. And I'm not just

1158
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 1: talking the championship game, you know, the previous two. I

1159
00:59:56,240 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: don't know that shows a lot of don't know what

1160
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 1: the word moxie is that the word I'm looking for. Yeah,

1161
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 1: yeah you can, Yeah, you use that word. I mean,

1162
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 1: I mean.

1163
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think he gets nervous. He just, you know,

1164
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 3: when it when it's his turn to play, he's like, Okay,

1165
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 3: I'm I'm stepping in. I know the team needs me,

1166
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 3: and and I think you know, when when Finn went

1167
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 3: down in the Section championship, it was you know, you know,

1168
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 3: we we said Patrick, you're in, and he said, all right,

1169
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 3: I'm going. And and you know that the boys really,

1170
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 3: you know, we had a big senior class and the boys,

1171
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 3: you know, they they're they're a close knit group, and

1172
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 3: you know, they knew the situation and they they were

1173
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:42,320
Speaker 3: excited for him, and they were like, Okay, we're going

1174
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 3: to go and play. We're going to play hard in

1175
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 3: front of him because we know he's going to play

1176
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:49,240
Speaker 3: hard back there for us, and it just it ended up,

1177
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:53,560
Speaker 3: you know, working out and you can't write things better

1178
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 3: than that.

1179
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 2: And the story book fifth title in school history. But

1180
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, for the casual fame and they

1181
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 2: see the big bad World Warriors, they're back at it again.

1182
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:05,800
Speaker 2: They're bullying their way through the state turn. It had

1183
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 2: been two decades since you guys had won that championship.

1184
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:11,600
Speaker 2: But I did see a cool picture of you holding

1185
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 2: the trophy from nineteen ninety six along with the one

1186
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 2: from twenty twenty six. I know that as a coach

1187
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 2: you're going to put it all on the players. A

1188
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 2: great job by them, but this has been quite the

1189
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 2: road for you as well. Jay, How cool was that

1190
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 2: to have this you know, full circle moment.

1191
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's what I you know, as a

1192
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 3: coach and a player, it's what you strive for every

1193
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 3: year to win a state championship. And you know, I

1194
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:39,000
Speaker 3: was fortunate to do it my sophomore year high school

1195
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 3: in ninety six. And then now as a coach, I

1196
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 3: can tell you it's a lot harder as a coach,

1197
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 3: at least I think it is. When I was playing,

1198
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 3: it was just you know, that's the easy part. You

1199
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 3: go out and you play hockey and you're just a

1200
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 3: dumb young kid playing the game. And as a coach

1201
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 3: there's a lot more that goes into it, and a

1202
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:00,919
Speaker 3: lot more stress, and and you don't get to touch

1203
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:03,919
Speaker 3: the ic there. You're just trying to do the best

1204
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 3: you can to get the kids to play the best

1205
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 3: they can. But it does feel really good, and it's

1206
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 3: it's been a lot of years, a lot of hard work,

1207
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:16,120
Speaker 3: and you know, not just myself but my our entire staff.

1208
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 3: They do a tremendous job, and for us to bring

1209
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 3: another one home, it feels really good.

1210
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:29,200
Speaker 1: Hey, Jay, I have a question for you. You played

1211
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 1: Hiving during the year and you lost to them. Am

1212
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 1: I correct on that?

1213
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 5: Correct?

1214
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 3: Okay?

1215
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 1: Okay? So when you play them then in the championship game,

1216
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 1: how much did you go back to that game and

1217
01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: make adjustments for the championship game or did that really

1218
01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:00,560
Speaker 1: I mean, did that really matter? Because as you know,

1219
01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:04,960
Speaker 1: maybe that you're a different team now, or hitting is

1220
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:08,640
Speaker 1: a different team now, how much of that goes into

1221
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 1: preparing for playing that same team again?

1222
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 5: A little bit?

1223
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:17,440
Speaker 3: You know. The biggest thing I had I had watched

1224
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:20,000
Speaker 3: that game from during the season when we had lost

1225
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 3: to him a couple times. And the biggest takeaway I

1226
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 3: took from that game was I didn't think we were

1227
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 3: at our best that game. I we got down early,

1228
01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:32,720
Speaker 3: they scored I think a minute or two into the game,

1229
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 3: and it just kind of felt like we were we

1230
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 3: were chasing them the rest of the game, you know,

1231
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 3: we get it within a goal, and then they'd score again,

1232
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:42,720
Speaker 3: and we'd get it within a goal again. And it

1233
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:45,720
Speaker 3: never felt like we were ever that that first game.

1234
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 3: It never felt like we were in control, you know

1235
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:54,320
Speaker 3: at times. And I just that was kind of my evaluation,

1236
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:56,480
Speaker 3: is that we needed to play better than we did

1237
01:03:56,560 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 3: that time. And unfortunately, by the time we were at

1238
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:02,440
Speaker 3: the state tournament, we were a different team and we

1239
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:06,439
Speaker 3: were playing better than we did, you know previously. So

1240
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 3: I felt good. I knew, you know, obviously having it

1241
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:12,440
Speaker 3: was a heck of a hockey team, and you know,

1242
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 3: they've got some players that are are hard to contain there,

1243
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 3: and so I knew it was going to be a

1244
01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:19,920
Speaker 3: tall task. I knew our goaltending was going to have

1245
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,800
Speaker 3: to be good, our defensemen were going to have to

1246
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:26,080
Speaker 3: be good. And then when we when we got opportunities,

1247
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 3: we were going to have to score and and that

1248
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 3: was another thing I thought when we played them earlier

1249
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:33,880
Speaker 3: in the year that their goaltending was was outstanding. He

1250
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 3: made some really good saves that kind of kept us

1251
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 3: out of reach. So, you know, it wasn't necessarily any strategy,

1252
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 3: but it was just we needed to be better and

1253
01:04:46,280 --> 01:04:47,480
Speaker 3: unfortunately we were.

1254
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 2: Last thing you talked about the emotions for you and

1255
01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 2: your team, what's been the reception like back in Hockey

1256
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:57,200
Speaker 2: Town as you pulled that buss back.

1257
01:04:57,040 --> 01:04:59,680
Speaker 1: In the world. What was it like on whether it

1258
01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:00,160
Speaker 1: was sad.

1259
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:03,680
Speaker 2: Day night, Sunday morning, or even the week that has followed.

1260
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:06,280
Speaker 2: Anytime you go, I'm hoping you haven't had to buy

1261
01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:09,320
Speaker 2: a beer in the last seven days. They're in the

1262
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:11,840
Speaker 2: UH in the friendly confines of world.

1263
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:16,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been awesome. I know. We we got into

1264
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:21,200
Speaker 3: town on Sunday afternoon and we the fire trucks and

1265
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 3: police and the ambulance and everything. They were waiting for

1266
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:27,520
Speaker 3: us about a mile outside of town, and we pulled

1267
01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:30,160
Speaker 3: into town and we kind of did a loop around

1268
01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:32,920
Speaker 3: town and then we pulled into the arena and the

1269
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:35,920
Speaker 3: place was packed. I could even hear the kids going, oh,

1270
01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:38,560
Speaker 3: you know, jeez, look at all the people here. And

1271
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:41,280
Speaker 3: so we pull into the front of the rink and

1272
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 3: there's probably I don't know how many you know, three

1273
01:05:44,240 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 3: four or five hundred people standing outside the rink, you know,

1274
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 3: wait for us to come in. And so yeah, it's

1275
01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:55,640
Speaker 3: it's been an awesome reception. And then now this week,

1276
01:05:55,680 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 3: I've I've been trying to you know, come down to

1277
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 3: earth and get back to you know, real life again.

1278
01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:06,000
Speaker 3: But it's been fun. I wherever I go, there's you know,

1279
01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 3: people are giving me hugs and handshakes and congratulations. So

1280
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:14,600
Speaker 3: it's it means a lot to not only the team,

1281
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:18,560
Speaker 3: but just the entire community. And and it's it's just

1282
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 3: been great to bring that title back again and see

1283
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:24,479
Speaker 3: the happiness on everyone's face.

1284
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:29,440
Speaker 1: Well seriously really happy for you and your team. And

1285
01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:32,360
Speaker 1: and it was a great win. It was a great

1286
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:37,920
Speaker 1: game and and you know, we we move on to

1287
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:38,520
Speaker 1: next year.

1288
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:42,400
Speaker 2: Ye J, congrats J a heck of a tournament, wonderful

1289
01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:45,240
Speaker 2: hockey game, and congrats on the victory.

1290
01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:46,400
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.

1291
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:47,160
Speaker 1: All Right, there you go.

1292
01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:50,320
Speaker 2: Jay Hardwick, the head coach for the World Warriors.

1293
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:53,360
Speaker 1: They are champs. Jack to John Ammerman. Right before that,

1294
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:55,080
Speaker 1: the champs of Double A.

1295
01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 2: Congratulations the Attorney twenty six is officially in the books.

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Speaker 1: We continue.

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Speaker 2: We got to squeeze in our youth hockey update from

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Speaker 2: Tony Scott. Plus we got schloss before we wrap the

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Speaker 2: show up and get you an update on what's going

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01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 2: on in the conference tournaments in college hockey. All that

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Speaker 2: and more coming your way next I'll be on the pond.

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Speaker 2: All right, A quick segmond here with Tony Scott for

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01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 2: our weekly journey into youth hockey and the Youth Hockey Hub.

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Speaker 1: Have you been on his podcast yet? I have, actually

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01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 1: have you? Yeah? You haven't, Well, you've never been invited.

1306
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:38,400
Speaker 1: It's too bad. Tony Scott has taste when he puts

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01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 1: together his podcast. In the next couple of years, maybe

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01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: maybe not, Tony. How you doing, buddy? I want to

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01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:45,000
Speaker 1: talk in the air.

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Speaker 2: We are on the air. Oh no, definitely want to

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01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 2: talk about youth hockey. What's going on? We just had

1312
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 2: both of the head coaches on from the A and

1313
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:55,520
Speaker 2: Double A champs. I break down your synopsis of what

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01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:58,480
Speaker 2: I thought was a wonderful U boys State high school

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Speaker 2: hockey tournament this past weekend.

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01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 7: Yeah, in our podcast that Pat hasn't been on yet,

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01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 7: we talked about the fact that that might have been

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01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:09,360
Speaker 7: the best Saturday you'll ever witness in the state hockey term.

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Speaker 7: It was as ending in the last you know, teams

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01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:15,480
Speaker 7: tying in the last minute and then winning. Did you

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01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:18,599
Speaker 7: know that that's the largest lead ever given up by

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01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:21,800
Speaker 7: a state runner up in a in a state championship game.

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Speaker 1: I did not know that. No, that's good information.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that was a crazy fact that came out in

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01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:30,000
Speaker 7: our podcast last Sunday that passed never been on.

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Speaker 2: I hate to say it's the best ever because you know,

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01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 2: recency bias plays into it. But man, the drama and

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01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:40,000
Speaker 2: the intrigue, especially from Friday on and both games going

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01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 2: to overtime on Saturday, I just don't know how you

1330
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:45,040
Speaker 2: beat that. It was amazing and it's hard to believe

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01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:46,680
Speaker 2: we got to wag three hundred and some days and

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Speaker 2: to do it all over again.

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Speaker 7: We had a double double overtime one in twenty eleven

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Speaker 7: with the Loop East winning and Saint Thomas Academy. But

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01:08:55,640 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 7: when Saint Thomas Academy wins, does anybody really happy?

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Speaker 5: Right? Right?

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01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 1: Tony? I got to ask you something I have to

1338
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 1: ask you something and it's controversial, and and but but

1339
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 1: it's something that really bothered me. And maybe it didn't

1340
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 1: bother a lot of people, but it it bothered me.

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01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:22,320
Speaker 1: And I was disappointed in the Minnetaka program. I think

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01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:26,920
Speaker 1: a lot of media and we always clamor for media

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01:09:27,120 --> 01:09:32,360
Speaker 1: when we don't get it right. And and I really

1344
01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:36,759
Speaker 1: thought it was in poor taste. Is that the word

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01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 1: I want to use to not go and speak to

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01:09:39,280 --> 01:09:43,920
Speaker 1: the media after the game. I know it's emotional. No

1347
01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:48,400
Speaker 1: one likes to lose. Losing sucks some teams, you know,

1348
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:51,679
Speaker 1: that's why you play. One team wins, one team loses.

1349
01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:57,600
Speaker 1: But at the high school level, where we're trying to

1350
01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:05,679
Speaker 1: shape lives and all of the good things that that happened,

1351
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 1: I wanted your thoughts on it.

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01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:12,639
Speaker 7: Well, I'm glad you asked that, Pat, because we did

1353
01:10:12,680 --> 01:10:15,280
Speaker 7: talk about it a nauseum on the podcast he's never

1354
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 7: been on yet. And one of the things was the

1355
01:10:18,400 --> 01:10:21,880
Speaker 7: teaching moment or life is hard, and it's is gonna

1356
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:23,200
Speaker 7: be a hard thing to go up there and stand

1357
01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:25,320
Speaker 7: and stare down the media. But the other thing is,

1358
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:27,120
Speaker 7: like we wrote about it, Peter from our staff that

1359
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:29,840
Speaker 7: had made a really nice tweet about them missing the

1360
01:10:30,080 --> 01:10:32,880
Speaker 7: missing the press conference and the kids taking the metals off,

1361
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Speaker 7: And I thought Peter did a really nice job of

1362
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:38,040
Speaker 7: framing like, Hey, the media doesn't want to scure these kids,

1363
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:40,599
Speaker 7: they don't want to sre the coaching staff. They want

1364
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:43,040
Speaker 7: to actually hear the good stuff about the team and

1365
01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:47,120
Speaker 7: write a really positive story about that. It's not always negative. Yeah,

1366
01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:49,280
Speaker 7: and it wouldn't have been a negative experience for Sean

1367
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:51,639
Speaker 7: and the crew from Minnetaka in that situation.

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01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:52,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's too bad.

1369
01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:56,080
Speaker 2: It is definitely a bad look and hopefully both sides

1370
01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 2: have learned from it. So we got to put the

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Speaker 2: high school hockey tournament to bed. What's going on Just

1372
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:04,800
Speaker 2: because the tournament's over doesn't mean the season's over for

1373
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 2: youth hockey. What's going on in your world these days?

1374
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:08,599
Speaker 2: To keep you busy? You said you're on your way

1375
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:09,160
Speaker 2: to man Cato.

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01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:13,679
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm in man Cato now. There's we're covering all

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01:11:13,720 --> 01:11:16,599
Speaker 7: ten youth hockey tournaments throughout the state. There are nine

1378
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:19,559
Speaker 7: locations this year. That means we have nine photographers, nine

1379
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:22,599
Speaker 7: staff members that at all those places, you know, stretching

1380
01:11:22,600 --> 01:11:26,639
Speaker 7: from Bedett up and Roso Man Cato. I'm at Peters

1381
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 7: and Startel. They're all over the state covering these state tournaments.

1382
01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:32,760
Speaker 7: It's fun time a year for us, and there's great

1383
01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:35,519
Speaker 7: there's great tournaments going on in all of them, especially

1384
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:37,040
Speaker 7: PEBBA and Betom double A.

1385
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Speaker 1: Be careful, you know coming home tonight. I know, Kevin,

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01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:43,599
Speaker 1: I'm not coming over tonight.

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01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 7: I'm actually gonna go to that CCHA game which slots

1388
01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:50,640
Speaker 7: talking about later Michigan Tech and Minnesota State tell me

1389
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:51,439
Speaker 7: at that one. Now.

1390
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 1: I was planning on being in man Cato tonight for

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01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:59,000
Speaker 1: the game. However, now I'm going to Saint Thomas because

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01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:02,559
Speaker 1: it's ten and it's from my house and I don't

1393
01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:08,040
Speaker 1: have to worry. See, Kevin, would Kevin, would you know if.

1394
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:09,920
Speaker 2: If there's a game, I'm going to Saint Paul to

1395
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:11,599
Speaker 2: Manet Yeah, it doesn't matter.

1396
01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:12,639
Speaker 1: I will get there.

1397
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:15,080
Speaker 5: I have to.

1398
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:16,800
Speaker 1: I will get there. I've dealt with it before.

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01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 2: I've come home in some awful driving conditions. It's not

1400
01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:22,280
Speaker 2: my favorite thing, but you know, the show must go.

1401
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:26,479
Speaker 1: On anyway, Tony. Just be careful and in your crew also,

1402
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:29,280
Speaker 1: that is all around the state. Be careful.

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01:12:30,560 --> 01:12:32,600
Speaker 7: They'll be safe here. I'll tell your story. Maybe we

1404
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:35,479
Speaker 7: won't talk about tournament. This will sum up youth hockey

1405
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:37,880
Speaker 7: in Minnesota. Okay, it was about four years ago. We're

1406
01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:40,760
Speaker 7: hosting a tournament in Blane, and we got twenty two

1407
01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:43,880
Speaker 7: inches of snow between six am and six pm. We

1408
01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 7: had teams from all over the state that day. We

1409
01:12:47,479 --> 01:12:50,840
Speaker 7: did not have one game missed or one or one

1410
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:54,120
Speaker 7: team late to the game. One team is twenty two

1411
01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:58,400
Speaker 7: inches in twelve hours. We're a very hearty bunch. We

1412
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 7: know how to travel in the snow in this state.

1413
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:03,760
Speaker 7: We'll be able to get there. Uh just like just

1414
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 7: like our staff, the players will make it from all

1415
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:08,160
Speaker 7: of the state. I'm confident of that.

1416
01:13:08,560 --> 01:13:11,080
Speaker 2: Youth hockeyhub dot com. I go there, what will I find,

1417
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:13,080
Speaker 2: especially this week as you put a cap on the

1418
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:15,880
Speaker 2: double A Banam and pee wee tournaments.

1419
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:19,920
Speaker 7: If you follow us on Twitter, now call x, You're

1420
01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:22,839
Speaker 7: going to find a score, a period score from every

1421
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:27,160
Speaker 7: state tournament. Whether we're in Roso but dett bearable, Mancato,

1422
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:29,880
Speaker 7: start tellmen to talking you name it. We'll be there today,

1423
01:13:29,920 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 7: covering you from cover to cover every game and you'll

1424
01:13:33,080 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 7: find every score score from today's games that boys and

1425
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:38,400
Speaker 7: girls from all over the state and maybe maybe.

1426
01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,760
Speaker 1: You'll find someone to join your podcast next.

1427
01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:42,639
Speaker 2: I say, dig in your heels at this point, now,

1428
01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:43,519
Speaker 2: don't put them on.

1429
01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:46,280
Speaker 5: That's going to be on.

1430
01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:48,400
Speaker 7: Well, it's not the best time right now.

1431
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:51,760
Speaker 1: We'll be on for sure. You know what they call that.

1432
01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:53,599
Speaker 7: I think they'll be like bottom of the note.

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01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:54,320
Speaker 5: Kay, We're got to.

1434
01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:59,240
Speaker 7: Kick out of this. Yeah, before the before NHL years

1435
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:01,760
Speaker 7: and the after NHL years. I might have to do

1436
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:04,679
Speaker 7: that with you too, in July when it's forge, because

1437
01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:05,760
Speaker 7: it should be fascinating.

1438
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:08,760
Speaker 1: Maybe in July when it's slow. It's always good to

1439
01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 1: talk to you, Tony. Always great to talk to you, Tony.

1440
01:14:13,200 --> 01:14:13,720
Speaker 1: Thank you.

1441
01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:16,679
Speaker 2: We have a great day to ye Tony Scott out

1442
01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:19,080
Speaker 2: amongst the people in me and Cato. He's got a

1443
01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 2: great bunch of stuff going on and you can find

1444
01:14:21,160 --> 01:14:23,560
Speaker 2: it all youth hockey hub dot com. Find him on

1445
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:25,720
Speaker 2: Twitter at youth Hockey Hub. Yeah, he does a great

1446
01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:27,120
Speaker 2: job and they've been everywhere.

1447
01:14:27,200 --> 01:14:30,840
Speaker 1: I mean, just giving me the heisman, I.

1448
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:32,599
Speaker 2: Would take it personally if it were me. I mean,

1449
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:34,280
Speaker 2: I don't want to stir the pot here, you know,

1450
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:37,439
Speaker 2: that's just not in my makeup. We got to take

1451
01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:39,240
Speaker 2: a break I want to get into some college hockey.

1452
01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:42,640
Speaker 2: They have summifinals and all those conferences are going on,

1453
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:44,360
Speaker 2: So the Schloss will give us the update.

1454
01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:45,400
Speaker 1: Next I'll be on the Pond.

1455
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 2: I feel like this has been a long time coming,

1456
01:14:54,680 --> 01:14:57,320
Speaker 2: one of the staples on Beyond the Pond, amongst all

1457
01:14:57,320 --> 01:15:00,799
Speaker 2: our staples, and you haven't wanted him on the slot.

1458
01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:03,439
Speaker 2: I did, believe me. It's never that I never want

1459
01:15:03,439 --> 01:15:05,720
Speaker 2: to have him on. I always if I could do it,

1460
01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:08,400
Speaker 2: he'd replace you. He'd be the regular co host on

1461
01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:09,240
Speaker 2: Beyond the Pond.

1462
01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:12,240
Speaker 1: That's not up to me. Wow, that's how much I

1463
01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:14,920
Speaker 1: love the Schloss. I'm not looking to replace you. But

1464
01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:17,559
Speaker 1: the Schloss is so good. But we haven't had him on.

1465
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:19,519
Speaker 1: I think it's been since. You didn't like that, did you?

1466
01:15:19,920 --> 01:15:20,080
Speaker 3: Well?

1467
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:24,600
Speaker 1: I didn't like it because you know, I I you

1468
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:27,960
Speaker 1: know what they call a fib you know, a lie?

1469
01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:31,559
Speaker 1: You know, because I think I've wanted him on like

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01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:34,080
Speaker 1: every week since December.

1471
01:15:34,200 --> 01:15:37,280
Speaker 2: We've been so slammed. I mean, and it's been great stuff.

1472
01:15:37,280 --> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 2: I mean, look at our guest lineup and that's not

1473
01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:40,920
Speaker 2: a shot at the Schlott.

1474
01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 1: I know it came out as.

1475
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:46,280
Speaker 2: Wrong Schlass, but now we get the opportunity to get

1476
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:49,040
Speaker 2: into the college hockey scene, and that's what we're doing here.

1477
01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:55,000
Speaker 2: To end the show, we get the Brad Schlossman, perfect.

1478
01:15:54,560 --> 01:15:56,800
Speaker 10: Time for it. It's starting to be exciting.

1479
01:15:56,479 --> 01:15:57,599
Speaker 1: Now, it really is.

1480
01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:00,280
Speaker 2: We got a bunch of conference tournaments going on as

1481
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:03,000
Speaker 2: sound like the mcletty clan is going to go watch

1482
01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:05,680
Speaker 2: the CCHA in action with you. Guys are going to

1483
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:07,920
Speaker 2: Saint Thomas against right, Yeah.

1484
01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:12,960
Speaker 1: The plans changed because of the no Nami. Yeah that's

1485
01:16:13,439 --> 01:16:15,920
Speaker 1: coming today that you're not afraid of. I'm not afraid

1486
01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:19,240
Speaker 1: of it. So yeah, I'll be at Lenny Lee and

1487
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:21,000
Speaker 1: Penny Anderson Arena.

1488
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:23,639
Speaker 2: Around the University of Saint Thomas campus. That's a four

1489
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:26,719
Speaker 2: oh seven face off. Later on tonight, Minnesota State taking

1490
01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:29,040
Speaker 2: on Michigan Tech. Why don't we start there, Brad in

1491
01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:32,719
Speaker 2: the CCHA, how do you see things go down? Wonderful

1492
01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:34,120
Speaker 2: season for the Tommies for sure.

1493
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:36,040
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1494
01:16:36,360 --> 01:16:40,479
Speaker 10: These are just massive games on a national scene too.

1495
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:44,599
Speaker 10: These are all bubble teams that can really shape how

1496
01:16:44,680 --> 01:16:49,120
Speaker 10: the entire tournament bracket is formed. And right now Sat

1497
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:51,679
Speaker 10: Thomas has got to win this game to get into

1498
01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:54,400
Speaker 10: the tournament. You're right, they've had a great season. August

1499
01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:55,799
Speaker 10: Stan has had a great season.

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Speaker 5: Two.

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01:16:57,360 --> 01:16:59,960
Speaker 10: If Augi wins this game, I think the Vikings are

1502
01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:03,559
Speaker 10: looking pretty good for an NCAA tournament bid. If Oggy

1503
01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:05,599
Speaker 10: loses this game, now, all of a sudden, it's real

1504
01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:08,519
Speaker 10: nervous territory for the Vikings and they would love to

1505
01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:11,320
Speaker 10: be in the tournament. They would love to potentially even

1506
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:14,320
Speaker 10: be playing in their hometown because Suite Balls hosts a regional.

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01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:18,040
Speaker 10: And then the other side, you've got two teams that

1508
01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 10: are big time threats to win the tournament. Michigan Tech's

1509
01:17:23,439 --> 01:17:28,360
Speaker 10: had a phenomenal year. Minnesota State just you know, seems

1510
01:17:28,360 --> 01:17:31,320
Speaker 10: to keep doing it, found a way to win. These

1511
01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:33,559
Speaker 10: are four teams who all went into the last night

1512
01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:35,280
Speaker 10: of the regular season with a chance to win the

1513
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:39,160
Speaker 10: McNaughton Cup. I think that's going to be fascinating. And

1514
01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:43,120
Speaker 10: I really think whoever advances into the tournament, whether it's

1515
01:17:43,120 --> 01:17:46,599
Speaker 10: one team, whether it's two teams, that's a scary first

1516
01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:52,440
Speaker 10: round matchup for someone because those teams have great goaltending,

1517
01:17:52,479 --> 01:17:55,400
Speaker 10: They defend so well, they're going to play a low

1518
01:17:55,520 --> 01:18:01,120
Speaker 10: scoring game and they could cause some havoc in the tournament.

1519
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:05,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially against a skilled team, and there are many

1520
01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:08,920
Speaker 1: at the top that are that are highly skilled who

1521
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:12,360
Speaker 1: don't like to play that style or have a difficult

1522
01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 1: time adjusting to that style. Okay, let's move on. We

1523
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 1: saw a couple upsets last night. Now their best of

1524
01:18:21,880 --> 01:18:30,360
Speaker 1: three series. However, Quinnipiac loses and Cornell loses last night,

1525
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:36,240
Speaker 1: that could have national implications should those two teams end

1526
01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:37,400
Speaker 1: up losing the series.

1527
01:18:38,640 --> 01:18:40,519
Speaker 10: Yeah, we've got a lot of bubble teams that are

1528
01:18:40,520 --> 01:18:43,400
Speaker 10: getting a little nervous about those results. Of course they

1529
01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:46,240
Speaker 10: have to come back and do it again. But Clarkson

1530
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:49,280
Speaker 10: looks really good last night against Quinnipiac I. I'm not

1531
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:51,200
Speaker 10: sure if they'll be able to repeat.

1532
01:18:50,880 --> 01:18:51,960
Speaker 1: That type of shut them out.

1533
01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:53,560
Speaker 3: Man, they were impressive.

1534
01:18:53,760 --> 01:19:01,280
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, Dartmouth beat Colgates. So if if those

1535
01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:03,760
Speaker 10: results told, if Harvard wins one of the next two,

1536
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:06,679
Speaker 10: if Clarkson wins one of the next two, you're gonna

1537
01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:09,839
Speaker 10: have a lot of Dartmouth fans sitting on the bubble

1538
01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:13,479
Speaker 10: to win that ECAC tournament. Otherwise that's just gonna be

1539
01:19:13,479 --> 01:19:18,120
Speaker 10: another ECAC team in in and another at large team out.

1540
01:19:18,479 --> 01:19:22,240
Speaker 10: So that was not a great night for the team

1541
01:19:22,320 --> 01:19:23,440
Speaker 10: sitting on the bubble.

1542
01:19:23,320 --> 01:19:25,760
Speaker 1: Dartmouth is in right, I mean there there? Are they

1543
01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:28,800
Speaker 1: pretty secure? Or are they one of those bubble teams?

1544
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:33,439
Speaker 10: Dartmouth's good? Okay, everyone wants Dartmouth to win that tournament,

1545
01:19:33,479 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 10: ok gotcha. I think Courtnell and Quinnipiac are good too.

1546
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:39,760
Speaker 10: So those are the three you want to win if

1547
01:19:39,800 --> 01:19:44,280
Speaker 10: you're a bubble team like in Augustiana or a Saint Thomas,

1548
01:19:44,560 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 10: a Yukon, a U Mass. Those teams are really cheering

1549
01:19:47,439 --> 01:19:50,400
Speaker 10: for those squads. And and two of the three lost

1550
01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:51,479
Speaker 10: in Game one last night.

1551
01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:57,080
Speaker 1: So is is is Hockey East still as of right

1552
01:19:57,120 --> 01:20:02,599
Speaker 1: now a one team? Or where are we at with that?

1553
01:20:04,479 --> 01:20:05,000
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1554
01:20:05,080 --> 01:20:07,679
Speaker 10: Right now? In the Hockey East, Providence is a lotch.

1555
01:20:08,160 --> 01:20:10,519
Speaker 10: I think Providence is very likely going to end up

1556
01:20:10,560 --> 01:20:14,519
Speaker 10: being a two seed. The team that's really climbed big

1557
01:20:14,560 --> 01:20:18,160
Speaker 10: time in the second half is you Mass. U Mass

1558
01:20:18,240 --> 01:20:23,280
Speaker 10: is at fourteen, con Is at fifteen, and both those

1559
01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:27,080
Speaker 10: teams have massive games coming up right now. Yukon's about

1560
01:20:27,080 --> 01:20:30,920
Speaker 10: to host BU that game starts at noon, and then

1561
01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:35,680
Speaker 10: You Mass. Michael Crabbl's just been absolutely on fireing. I

1562
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:37,439
Speaker 10: will hear his name at the NHL.

1563
01:20:37,680 --> 01:20:39,919
Speaker 1: Big boy, Big Boy, Yes.

1564
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:44,559
Speaker 10: He's huge, he's phenomenal, and they play Northeastern at three

1565
01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:47,960
Speaker 10: pm today, So if either of those teams lose, I mean,

1566
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:52,960
Speaker 10: they're in really uncomfortable spots, Hockey East could get three

1567
01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:53,960
Speaker 10: in it could be won.

1568
01:20:55,800 --> 01:20:58,400
Speaker 2: Talking to Brad Schlossman from the Grand four Harold our

1569
01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:02,240
Speaker 2: Staple on the Beyond the Pond program. You can find

1570
01:21:02,280 --> 01:21:05,880
Speaker 2: them on Twitter or x at Schlossman GF S E

1571
01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:09,080
Speaker 2: H L O S S M A n GF. In

1572
01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 2: the NCC, I see the Bulldogs are still alive in

1573
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:15,120
Speaker 2: that tournament. A couple of six o'clock faceoffs, one of

1574
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:16,960
Speaker 2: them coming up at the Ralph where I assume you

1575
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:20,120
Speaker 2: will be the Bulldogs taking on North Dakota, and then

1576
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:22,960
Speaker 2: at Magnus Arena you got Western Michigan taking on du

1577
01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 2: seems like all four of those are locked into a

1578
01:21:25,240 --> 01:21:27,640
Speaker 2: postseason birth with the NCAA tournament.

1579
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 10: Yeah and the NCCHD. We've just got two really good

1580
01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:34,880
Speaker 10: hockey games between four teams that are all ranked in

1581
01:21:34,920 --> 01:21:37,599
Speaker 10: the top eight right now in the NPI. But from

1582
01:21:37,640 --> 01:21:40,439
Speaker 10: a national perspective, no one's really watching this because they're

1583
01:21:40,479 --> 01:21:44,080
Speaker 10: all in the tournament. But it should be really, really.

1584
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:45,360
Speaker 3: Entertaining hockey Games.

1585
01:21:46,160 --> 01:21:48,519
Speaker 10: This is the first time the NCHC has hosted the

1586
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:53,840
Speaker 10: semi finals at home sites. I'm used to being down

1587
01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:56,840
Speaker 10: in your studio this week. Ye we miss you doing

1588
01:21:56,840 --> 01:21:59,639
Speaker 10: the radio show from there. But this is all at

1589
01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:03,200
Speaker 10: home now, so it'll be interesting to see how that

1590
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:06,040
Speaker 10: goes the Championship games next weekend. But all four of

1591
01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:10,200
Speaker 10: these teams safely into the NCAA tournament, and probably all

1592
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:12,920
Speaker 10: four will be top two seeds. I think North Dakota

1593
01:22:13,320 --> 01:22:16,280
Speaker 10: and Western are looking pretty strong as number one seeds.

1594
01:22:16,320 --> 01:22:20,880
Speaker 10: I think Minnesota, Dilute and Denver probably good possibility those

1595
01:22:20,880 --> 01:22:22,240
Speaker 10: two are going to be number two seeds.

1596
01:22:22,479 --> 01:22:24,320
Speaker 2: They got about three minutes, Patrick go ahead.

1597
01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:29,320
Speaker 1: Well, you know, schlash As we were talking yesterday, if

1598
01:22:29,360 --> 01:22:35,880
Speaker 1: we were to handicap this tournament, we can't. I mean,

1599
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:41,160
Speaker 1: there are a number of teams that could win it.

1600
01:22:41,240 --> 01:22:44,280
Speaker 1: I mean they're really to me, and I think to you,

1601
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:48,679
Speaker 1: there really isn't a favorite for the Frozen Four this year.

1602
01:22:50,720 --> 01:22:50,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1603
01:22:51,120 --> 01:22:53,080
Speaker 10: I just look at the bubble and I see a

1604
01:22:53,120 --> 01:22:55,240
Speaker 10: lot of really good teams. I see teams that are

1605
01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:57,439
Speaker 10: four seeds that are going to be really tough outs,

1606
01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:00,519
Speaker 10: you know. I see Boston College shooting out of the

1607
01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:05,160
Speaker 10: tournament right now, right, And that's a really, really talented

1608
01:23:05,200 --> 01:23:09,720
Speaker 10: Boston College team. So if BC loses in in the

1609
01:23:09,720 --> 01:23:12,559
Speaker 10: Hockey East semi final game next week, that's it for

1610
01:23:12,640 --> 01:23:15,120
Speaker 10: the Eagles. And that that's kind of hard to wrap

1611
01:23:15,120 --> 01:23:17,960
Speaker 10: your head around with how good Boston College has been

1612
01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:20,719
Speaker 10: in the second half of the season. So I agree

1613
01:23:20,760 --> 01:23:23,400
Speaker 10: with you one hundred percent. I look up and down

1614
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:27,439
Speaker 10: the teams that are going to make the tournament. You know,

1615
01:23:27,720 --> 01:23:30,559
Speaker 10: there will be some favorites, but they're really not that

1616
01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:33,439
Speaker 10: big a favorites. You know, if you're making the odds,

1617
01:23:33,479 --> 01:23:36,280
Speaker 10: these are not massive, massive favorites at all.

1618
01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:40,639
Speaker 1: All right, well, we got to get going. But as

1619
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:44,559
Speaker 1: for our conversation yesterday, even if the Fighting Hawks do

1620
01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:49,439
Speaker 1: not make it to Las Vegas, you better find a

1621
01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:53,920
Speaker 1: way to get there and find me. Got it.

1622
01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:56,200
Speaker 10: It sounds like it's going to be a heck of

1623
01:23:56,200 --> 01:24:00,200
Speaker 10: a tournament down there. I have no idea what four

1624
01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:02,639
Speaker 10: teams are going to be there, but I think fans

1625
01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:04,240
Speaker 10: are going to very much enjoy.

1626
01:24:04,360 --> 01:24:06,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you gotta be there. Are you going to

1627
01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:07,920
Speaker 1: be there? That's my question.

1628
01:24:08,760 --> 01:24:12,400
Speaker 10: I I'll find a way. I'll find a way, all right.

1629
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:19,559
Speaker 1: Maybe Pat will say, maybe Kevin Welly, Kevin needs to

1630
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:22,520
Speaker 1: make it up for you for giving you the Heisman.

1631
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:25,680
Speaker 2: Listen, Schloss is going to be on with us a

1632
01:24:25,720 --> 01:24:27,639
Speaker 2: lot between now and the end of the show. Whenever

1633
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:29,960
Speaker 2: that is so, I think we're gonna be He's gonna

1634
01:24:29,960 --> 01:24:32,479
Speaker 2: get enough of us for sure. Schlas, thanks for doing

1635
01:24:32,479 --> 01:24:36,080
Speaker 2: this today. Maybe we'll talk again next week. Perfect, Thank you,

1636
01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:39,879
Speaker 2: Thanks Brad. Brad schlossman of the Grand Forks Herald. Always

1637
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:44,000
Speaker 2: wonderful contributions. Kind of sets the stage for the national

1638
01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:45,400
Speaker 2: scene on college hockey.

1639
01:24:45,400 --> 01:24:48,519
Speaker 1: You still got the Bulldogs alive. He got Minnesota State

1640
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:53,240
Speaker 1: Saint Thomas. He I mean, he knows, Like ask him

1641
01:24:53,280 --> 01:24:56,599
Speaker 1: about Sacred Heart. I'll tell you you know what's going

1642
01:24:56,640 --> 01:25:00,240
Speaker 1: on in the eight Atlantic Conference. He knows everything that's

1643
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:00,599
Speaker 1: going on.

1644
01:25:00,640 --> 01:25:02,599
Speaker 2: I know you're going to be at the Saint Thomas

1645
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:04,160
Speaker 2: augustanagain week.

1646
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:05,600
Speaker 1: Looking forward to it. What did you say you have

1647
01:25:05,640 --> 01:25:08,240
Speaker 1: going on next weekend? Next week? I will be doing

1648
01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:13,800
Speaker 1: the CCHA Championship game. Awesome in one of three places? Okay, yeah,

1649
01:25:13,840 --> 01:25:15,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to be in Augustana,

1650
01:25:15,920 --> 01:25:19,439
Speaker 1: Saint Thomas or back in man Cato. Ben Holden and

1651
01:25:19,479 --> 01:25:23,040
Speaker 1: I will be on the call for that and that'll

1652
01:25:23,080 --> 01:25:24,160
Speaker 1: be fun, outstanding.

1653
01:25:24,439 --> 01:25:27,200
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, tonight, the Minnesota while taking on the New York Rangers,

1654
01:25:27,439 --> 01:25:29,160
Speaker 2: amongst everything else, we haven't even had a chance to

1655
01:25:29,160 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 2: get into this today. We didn't even talk about the

1656
01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:34,479
Speaker 2: why one thousand games for the Captain of the Minnesota

1657
01:25:34,479 --> 01:25:37,880
Speaker 2: while Jared Spurgeon celebrating that tonight. I think if you

1658
01:25:38,320 --> 01:25:42,000
Speaker 2: saw Jared Spurgeon fifteen years ago today the twenty ten,

1659
01:25:42,040 --> 01:25:43,719
Speaker 2: I think he made it as Minnesota wild debut.

1660
01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:51,280
Speaker 1: Listen. I remember Brandon Maleski, our good friend. He and

1661
01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:54,840
Speaker 1: I were hosting a show at the Mall of America

1662
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:58,759
Speaker 1: when he was a rookie, and like the Jared's version's

1663
01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:00,880
Speaker 1: coming up on stage, I'm like, okay, where is.

1664
01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:06,040
Speaker 2: He even to this d he looks like a high

1665
01:26:06,040 --> 01:26:08,960
Speaker 2: schooler the same. Yeah, very much, And to think that

1666
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:10,880
Speaker 2: he's got a sixteen year old kid and two other ones.

1667
01:26:10,920 --> 01:26:13,679
Speaker 1: Besides that, congratulations to mister Spurgeon.

1668
01:26:13,800 --> 01:26:16,160
Speaker 2: We are going to salute that tonight four forty five

1669
01:26:16,200 --> 01:26:19,200
Speaker 2: pregame puck drops just after five o'clock the Mikletty Clan.

1670
01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:22,800
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Pat Alex, thanks for coming in. Yeah,

1671
01:26:22,880 --> 01:26:25,599
Speaker 2: be ready is the snowmaged and coming to the Twin City,

1672
01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:28,040
Speaker 2: so look out. Good luck there, Patrick, you too. Thanks

1673
01:26:28,120 --> 01:26:30,559
Speaker 2: that is Pat mcletdy, Brett Blake Moore, great job as always.

1674
01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:31,879
Speaker 1: Good luck with sermons tomorrow.

1675
01:26:32,479 --> 01:26:33,240
Speaker 4: We'll see you there.

1676
01:26:33,280 --> 01:26:34,439
Speaker 1: You're still nervous, you're scared.

1677
01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:37,200
Speaker 2: Why don't you can walk over and do it yourself.

1678
01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:39,800
Speaker 2: Suck it up, bro, suck it up. It's the state

1679
01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:42,120
Speaker 2: of hockey. We deal with weather, we can handle it.

1680
01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:45,520
Speaker 2: And soaking everyone else across the metro For Brett, Blakemore

1681
01:26:45,600 --> 01:26:48,960
Speaker 2: and Pat mcletty, I'm Kevin Falnas. Have a wonderful day.

1682
01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:51,920
Speaker 2: Stay safe, stay warm, and go wild.