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Speaker 1: Man, Welcome back to Tree Rank for our inaugural Box

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Speaker 1: in the Box for the twenty twenty five twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six Minnesota Wild season, Nordo produces on site. Devin Ward

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Speaker 1: is guiding the great Ship of Covenant at FM one

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Speaker 1: hundred point three kfa N and I'm Paul Allen, happy

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Speaker 1: to be at the right hand of Russo Radio. To

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Speaker 1: the right of Russo Radio as we all watch jul

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Speaker 1: Eric Zinek, Pepper Gustav sim who's between the pipes in

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Speaker 1: advance of the morning skate and from talking to John

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Speaker 1: Hines earlier, sounds like a fifty fifty ish that does

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Speaker 1: juel Eric Sinek will play this evening. Looks pretty good

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Speaker 1: to the untrained eye though, and Russo Radio joins us

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Speaker 1: now at Russo Hockey via x Athletic Athletic dot Com.

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Speaker 1: We've chatted on the radio. Pis Bump right here. I

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Speaker 1: haven't seeing you in forever out Have.

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Speaker 2: You been good? Yeah? Get back, survived that two week trip.

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Speaker 3: Now leave tomorrow for what a three game trip and

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Speaker 3: then leave for the Olympics soon after that. So we've

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Speaker 3: had meeting after meeting after meeting to prepare for the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: It's it's really impressive the work that New York Times yeah,

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Speaker 3: What do I mean keep you safe? Yeah, not Mogadisho. Well,

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Speaker 3: I mean it's the Olympics. You know, you never know,

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Speaker 4: Just alright, but that I was drinking some water.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, uh you know, I mean it's it is

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Speaker 3: There's always protests, there's always uh you know, a chance

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Speaker 2: Have you been of Oh yeah, many, You've been everywhere

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Speaker 2: I was there August for like three times, three three days.

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Speaker 3: And then we were there actually called one of those

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Speaker 3: no no, that was the NHL media tour, and then

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Speaker 3: uh had some access. Yeah yeah, it sat down with

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Speaker 3: Gus as one of like twenty eight guys just me.

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Speaker 2: So it was kind of cool where I was the

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Speaker 3: And then and then actually our Lapanta trip this year

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Speaker 1: So when you were in Milan the upper chance did

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Speaker 1: you did you get a chance to see Leonardo da

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Speaker 3: No, I've seen it before, and I am actually going,

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Speaker 2: So uh, I don't think i'll have chance while we're there.

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Speaker 3: Our schedule is so we have like thirty writers there

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Speaker 3: I can't see uh, I can't see seeing it this time.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's see how up to speed you are on this,

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Speaker 1: because you're up to speed on so many things, with

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Speaker 2: I'll just build it up.

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Speaker 1: If you don't know the name, uh, then we'll dagger

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Speaker 2: Lynn Jones, Lyn Jones, Okay, so you know who she is?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, okay, So let's frame it up this way,

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Speaker 1: Lynn Jones, the lady with Liam Cohen after the Jags loss. Uh,

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Speaker 2: Did did what she did? Her approach to Liam Cohen

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Speaker 3: And then and then it makes all of us look

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Speaker 3: Wasn't that the thing that uh Sean Payton got got

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Speaker 2: What was funny about that? There's another one, did you see? No,

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Speaker 3: It was it was definitely a young reporter and Sean

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Speaker 3: this evening.

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Speaker 2: But follow me at Russo Hockey tonight on on ye

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Speaker 2: help me with this. David Spatchick right, yep, all right,

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Speaker 2: I've heard I've heard the name. He's a blow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah in Florida, and his mother's name was Sissy. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So with this call up, I mean I saw it

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Speaker 2: Who is he? And why why is there a call

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Speaker 3: Well, they flipped Matt Kirstead and him, and they sent

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Speaker 3: I just have a feeling one of their defenseman is

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Speaker 3: This season, it's going to be like this. First of all,

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Speaker 2: So this is this, you know.

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Speaker 3: I hope the NHL and the NHLPA realizes what it's

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Speaker 1: Cash is king, brother, Yeah, I mean, just well just quickly.

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Speaker 1: The NFL okay, so they're probably eventually going to go

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Speaker 1: But the NFL preaches competitive advantage, competitive disadvantage, keeping everything

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Speaker 1: The because cash is king, man, It's like, why have

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Speaker 1: spend that same amount of the or advertised in that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the ing man, it's just your mind.

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Speaker 3: I agree with you, and and I've trust me. I've

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Speaker 3: done a lot of whining about how dumb the wild

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Speaker 3: schedule has been this season, you know, but it is

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Speaker 3: such a hard job to just try to do all

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Speaker 3: this because you have all these other entities in there,

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Speaker 3: like stuff that doesn't make sense to us.

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Speaker 2: You don't realize it's because of what you just said.

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Speaker 3: So anyway, back to your original question, Spatchik is a

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Speaker 3: the guy that I've that has performed incredibly h on

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Speaker 3: the international stage over and over and over again for Checchia,

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Speaker 3: and the Wild have yet to give him a chance

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Speaker 2: So what's cool is even if he doesn't play tonight.

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Speaker 1: I was supposed to focus on Spatchik when you said

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Speaker 4: How detrimental is it during this time?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, because it was the third period where they

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Speaker 3: But as John Hines said the other night, I mean

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Speaker 2: You're playing three games and four nights.

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Speaker 3: Buffalo is tremendous and then you know the Montreal game,

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Speaker 5: Fifteen games, I believe with Quinn Hughes, what do we think,

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Speaker 4: What do we think about court?

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Speaker 3: He is playing with something that I think is affecting

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Speaker 3: He's completely like the one thing it's done. Also, is

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Speaker 2: He gets the puck up the zone.

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Speaker 3: He's he is a player that you have to learn

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Speaker 2: How did you come up with that? Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: Know how long jilbil Perrot had the puck on his

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Speaker 3: I remember years ago, like I remember, like remember when

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Speaker 1: There outside of the wild Covenant, as the players had

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Speaker 1: Everison always gets fired in season. Yeah, it's well, I

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Speaker 2: Is that weird? I mean this year it is. I

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Speaker 3: You know, Columbus has had a very disappointing year. He

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Speaker 2: And this is a guy that used to be the

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Speaker 3: So whether it's hyperbolic or not, whether it's hyperbolic or not,

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Speaker 3: So right away, when you're not even getting a vote

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Speaker 5: Dean Everson or if I'm anybody, I'm going out there's

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Speaker 2: Whoever's going I don't know if that's the way i'd

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Speaker 3: I would just say that the Columbus Blue Jackets have

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Speaker 2: But and it's just been over and over again.

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Speaker 3: And that's why, you know, I think the Wild fans,

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Speaker 3: this is interesting. Heines and Hennistroza having a long talk.

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Speaker 3: Hennis Roza really has not done much at all since

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Speaker 2: Yeah, barely getting points.

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Speaker 3: And even I've been saying, you just wonder when Tyler

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Speaker 3: almost was indicating he's on part of time.

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Speaker 1: So well, two things to close here. First and foremost

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Speaker 1: got no twenty five out there, Yeah, no twenty five,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see you twenty five unless maybe you know

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Speaker 1: twenty five. All right, So we got some we got

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Speaker 1: some Brodein related terrorism. Uh Spatchik called up and Jonas

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Speaker 1: Brodein is not on the ice for the morning skate,

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Speaker 1: and everybody else is out there now. And secondly, if

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Speaker 1: you don't subscribe to the OPPI nine to now, we

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Speaker 1: were inaugural subscribers to the Athletic thanks to Russo Radio

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Speaker 1: and at Russo Hockey.

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Speaker 2: There there are there's a.

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Speaker 1: Story that Michael and Joeco wrote about five things that

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Speaker 1: will define the wild second half. I want to hit

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Speaker 1: on a couple of them. Give us your best thirty

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Speaker 1: to forty five seconds on these first and foremost. Bill

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Speaker 1: Gharon's next move, what do you think?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't think that you trade. I

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Speaker 3: just thinking this logically, like I don't think you trade

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Speaker 3: four huge pieces for Quinn Hughes and then be done.

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Speaker 3: Because I think that Bill Garon is probably even looking

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Speaker 3: at this team right now and saying, man, you know,

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Speaker 3: we can be a contender and elevate to the close

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Speaker 3: to a Dallas or Colorado, but you still got to

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Speaker 3: beat probably both those teams in the first two rounds

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Speaker 3: to go where you want to go. So I think

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Speaker 3: that they are still probably looking around significantly to get

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Speaker 3: a top six forward, probably center being the priority.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I do think.

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Speaker 3: That what comes next is gonna be the most interesting thing,

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Speaker 3: and then the other thing that I just do wonder

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Speaker 3: is with the Olympics coming up, when do you make

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Speaker 3: that move? Because if you're the player you're getting is

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Speaker 3: in the Olympics, you really, you know, would be heartbreaking

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Speaker 3: if you trade for somebody and then he's heard at

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Speaker 3: the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: So do you wait till after right or.

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Speaker 3: Do you if the player is so good, do you

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Speaker 3: just say I got to get a jump on everybody else?

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, lastly, and this was a very enjoyable part

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Speaker 1: of the piece. Gorill caprisof and Nightly star Power. For

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Speaker 1: those who didn't see it, you know what, describe it?

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Speaker 8: Well.

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Speaker 3: Fans have been even saying it to me, like when's

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Speaker 3: he gonna step up? When's he gonna take over games?

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Speaker 3: And you look at his numbers and they're they're respectable.

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Speaker 3: He's top five in goals, he's top fifteen or in

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Speaker 3: points or whatever. But I agree with the fans like

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Speaker 3: he just hasn't been dominant. There have been so many

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Speaker 3: times this season where in the third period you're just like,

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Speaker 3: all right, now it's time for Carol to show up.

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Speaker 3: Now I give him a little bit fit of the

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Speaker 3: doubt because he doesn't have a true number one center

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Speaker 3: on his line. It does feel like Zukie is you

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Speaker 3: know thrown talks away and and and and it is

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Speaker 3: slowed down a bit here. So you know, when he's

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Speaker 3: with Boldie he looks dynamic and and so I'm just

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Speaker 3: gonna be curious what the wild do.

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Speaker 2: But I think that when you're when you.

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Speaker 3: Are a superstar and the superstar on the other team,

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Speaker 3: whether it's McDavid or Drizidel, whether it's Macklin Celebrini, whether

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Speaker 3: it's Connor or Scheifeley, when they're outperforming you on almost

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Speaker 3: a nightly basis, you have to start to look in

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Speaker 3: the mirror. And he I think the one thing is

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Speaker 3: that he would agree with this. He's been intimating that

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Speaker 3: he's upset that he's not scoring more so I think

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Speaker 3: that that is going to be a big thing and

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Speaker 3: and you know he'll continue to get chemistry with with

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Speaker 3: Quinn Hughes. I sat down with Quinn's parents the other day,

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Speaker 3: and I think it's really uh neat just how this

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Speaker 3: family and how dynamic they they they they're all three

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Speaker 3: of their sons are and but they even talked about

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Speaker 3: how like it's still it's an adjustment when you're in

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Speaker 3: one place and you're in entire life and then you

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Speaker 3: go to a new team, you have to get used

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Speaker 3: to each other. So I think Quinn, Carol, Quinn Gooldie,

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Speaker 3: they'll continue to really develop incredible chemistry.

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Speaker 2: We've started to see that with favor.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate the time and we'll call you next week see

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Speaker 1: if you have time. Okay, but thank you Michael. Now

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Speaker 1: that's Michael Russo Russo Radio at Russo Hockey via X

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Speaker 1: from Treo Rink Minnesota Wild Morning Skate. The Jets are

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Speaker 1: in town tonight and if you missed the last little

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Speaker 1: portion of the radio show, No Jonas brodein out for

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Speaker 1: the morning skate. Jul eericson Eck took part in a

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Speaker 1: like a workout with a skating coach, Andy Ness, and

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Speaker 1: Philip Gustafson was the goaltender. He was out there for

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Speaker 1: about forty five minutes to see if he could go.

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Speaker 1: Tonight he's taking part in the morning skates, specifically the

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Speaker 1: line Rushes Radio. Joe Joe O'Donnell calls games with Tom

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Speaker 1: Reid on KFAM and the Wild Audio Network. He joins

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Speaker 1: us next from Saint Paul on CA.

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Speaker 1: Joe o'donald does superb work calling Minnesota Wild games on

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Speaker 1: the radio at Wild Joe Radio via x in areas

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Speaker 1: with us at the Wild Morning Skate once again, Sans

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Speaker 1: Jonas prodein really from under the cover of darkness, from

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Speaker 1: what we understand, No, No Jonas prodein. Jul eericson ECHA's

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Speaker 1: out there, Winnipeg's in town tonight. Listen to Joe and

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Speaker 1: Tom at FM one hundred point three k F A

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Speaker 1: M and Joe joins us now ten thirty eight. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: Sorry about the lost man, We'll just begin there. Sorry

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Speaker 1: about the loss.

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Speaker 8: It's very Minnesota of you.

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Speaker 2: What do you mean?

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Speaker 8: You know what?

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Speaker 7: Any texts I got from people that are like Minnesotans

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Speaker 7: and non Eagles fans saying.

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the Eagles, No your flyers. Last

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Speaker 1: night to the Buffalo Sabers, I caught him on the

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Speaker 1: NHL Network when Nordo told me you were on the show.

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Speaker 2: I'm my damn. That's a bad run for Radio Joe

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and Theabers just killed him, just one win in

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Speaker 8: the last five.

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Speaker 7: So you know, go through these stretches as sports fans

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Speaker 7: and sports team's employees, don't you.

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Speaker 8: And you just got to ride the wave, Pa, got

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Speaker 8: to ride the wave.

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Speaker 2: I understand that.

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Speaker 1: Uh there you being low key in NFL fan, actually

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Speaker 1: high key in NFL fan.

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Speaker 2: I know you left the NFL in your Eagles.

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Speaker 1: Adam Schefter reported recently the John Harbaugh he used to

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Speaker 1: be with the Eagles, right.

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Speaker 8: Special teams coach back in the day.

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Speaker 1: All that's where he cut his teeth with special teeth.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, and he was like one of consider one

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Speaker 1: of the greatest in the history of the NFL. At

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Speaker 1: that absolutely that he that he probably shoot. He's back

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Speaker 1: in your division supposedly with the Giants.

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Speaker 7: Oh no, yeah, that's uh like the Skataboo and h

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Speaker 7: Dart thing this year was a problem.

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Speaker 2: They don't neighbors.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and they missed him for what thirteen games or something,

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Speaker 8: so like Dart.

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Speaker 5: You fear Dart. I don't know what to say about Dark.

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Speaker 5: I guess where I'm at. I will never tell you.

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Speaker 8: I like anybody that plays for that football time. So regardless,

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Speaker 8: they could be the MVP of the league.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 8: Respect their game at all.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm sure you were a big Bill Parcells fan

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Speaker 1: right when you were a little Joe in Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 7: Those two Dart and Scataboo look like and and as

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Speaker 7: you said, neighbors, they look like they have a lot

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Speaker 7: of potential, right, and maybe they're missing that culture center,

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Speaker 7: that head coach that that writes the ship there and

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Speaker 7: what's been a grease fire since they had their their

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Speaker 7: boat photo many years ago.

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Speaker 1: You're so your offensive coordinator lost his job thankfully. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's really with all no I know, but but the organization, right,

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Speaker 1: that's just been the common refrain, right And and the

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Speaker 1: thing is in that niners AJ Brown and the whole thing. Well,

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Speaker 1: the thing is, despite all the consternation between the coach

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Speaker 1: and AJ and you know whatever. I mean, the Eagles

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Speaker 1: great drama and they seem to thrive off a bit

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Speaker 1: at times. It's through everything. Offensive coordinator now fired, super

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Speaker 1: big negativity in Philadelphia, the defending champions. They still were

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Speaker 1: right there to win the game.

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Speaker 8: I know, that's what's crazy.

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Speaker 1: They played terribly and they got arguments and stuff. They

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Speaker 1: almost won.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, maybe a call goes their way, maybe a non

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Speaker 7: drop is you know, maybe they catch the football, maybe

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Speaker 7: they win the game. But it was still the whole

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Speaker 7: year for a team that had won the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 7: was miserable to watch.

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Speaker 1: If I'm being honest, let me ask you this with

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Speaker 1: the team in front of us now, broad question, how

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Speaker 1: good are is the Minnesota Wild really good?

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Speaker 8: You know?

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Speaker 7: Look they when you have fifty games left in a

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Speaker 7: season or forty five games left in a season, like

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Speaker 7: you're going to hit your your rough spots along the way.

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Speaker 7: There was no way that this team or any team,

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Speaker 7: you know. The Avalanche have dropped a couple of their

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Speaker 7: last ten, which by their standards is is a slump, right,

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Speaker 7: a slump.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 7: Dallas, I think at one point was win less than

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Speaker 7: three and they they've had a great year. So one

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Speaker 7: win in the last five for the while, you know,

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Speaker 7: a couple of overtime shootout losses in there. They've got

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Speaker 7: to find a way to get back in the win calm.

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Speaker 7: I think there'll be a desperate team tonight. They should

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Speaker 7: have more more juice, more energy. That had the last

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Speaker 7: two days off essentially just.

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Speaker 2: Look at this skate. I mean they're on fire, right.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna.

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Speaker 7: I could feel it from up top of seam as

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Speaker 7: they started the drills, like it seems like, you know,

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Speaker 7: it doesn't matter who's in who's out in the lineup

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Speaker 7: right now. They know they need to win. They know

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Speaker 7: they need a little bit more energy. I think you'll

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Speaker 7: see that tonight. It's a divisional game. The Jets are

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Speaker 7: playing better hockey. They've won three in a row, so

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Speaker 7: I expect this to be a really highly contested, fun

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Speaker 7: game tonight. And this hockey team has made huge tried

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Speaker 7: since October. I think they'll be right there when it

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Speaker 7: comes to playoff time and have a real chance to

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Speaker 7: do something special.

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Speaker 5: Specifically from the vantage point of the box box, the

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Speaker 5: first two against Winnipeg, what stood out to you are

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Speaker 5: as defined those games that kind of leads into the night.

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Speaker 5: You mentioned they've won three in a row the previous

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Speaker 5: fifteen though I think they had a total of six points.

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Speaker 5: I mean, just the tough season they've had, but these

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Speaker 5: division games certainly matter.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 5: What stood out to you about those first two that

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Speaker 5: kind of gets you peeking ahead to the.

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Speaker 7: Night, Well, we've had two overtime games in the season

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Speaker 7: series so far between these sides, and you just expect

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Speaker 7: it's gonna be a close one. And I know that

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Speaker 7: Winnipeg's not had the season anybody expected. They won the

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Speaker 7: President's Trophy last year, that's the regular season title. If

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Speaker 7: they were to miss the playoffs this year, I think

657
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Speaker 7: they've become the fourth team ever in NFL history to

658
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Speaker 7: win the regular season title one year, missed the playoffs

659
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Speaker 7: the next.

660
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Speaker 8: So they've got a long way to go. They're eight

661
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Speaker 8: points out of a playoff spot.

662
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Speaker 7: I think when I look this morning, they've got one

663
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Speaker 7: hundred teams ahead them, it feels like so they have

664
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Speaker 7: to really take a one game at a time. But

665
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 7: anytime you have Connor hellibucking net, which the Jets do,

666
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 7: and I'm sure he'll get the start tonight, you've got

667
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 7: a chance. So for the wild tonight, for me, it's

668
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 7: can they find a way to pot three goals?

669
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Speaker 8: Can they get a little bit more stable goaltending?

670
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 7: And they've had the last few nights and they just

671
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 7: need to find a way to win a hockey game

672
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Speaker 7: before they hit the road.

673
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Speaker 1: So would you say definitively right now before the Olympic

674
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: break into the second half of the season. The Colorado

675
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: Avalanche are the best team. I mean they're the best

676
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: team in the best division.

677
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 2: Yep. So does that make them the best team in

678
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Speaker 2: the NHL.

679
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it'd be crazy to say otherwise. Right now,

680
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 7: I know Tampa's on a heater. I think they've won

681
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 7: ten or eleven in a row.

682
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 4: Eleven, Yeah, you know.

683
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 7: So look Tom Reid, who I love working with. He's

684
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 7: seen every Wild game ever. I just respect the heck

685
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 7: out of his playing career and his broadcast career.

686
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Speaker 8: As you guys know, he always talks about.

687
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 7: Sometimes it's when you play a team, yeah, you know,

688
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 7: And tonight, if the Wild are without Brodeine, maybe they

689
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 7: get Eric sineckback, But if they don't have Berdeen, they

690
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 7: don't have a Goji in Like maybe the Jets are

691
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 7: without a guy or two.

692
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 8: It's like, who are you when you're playing them?

693
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 7: Are they on a heater? Do they have everybody? Are

694
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 7: they banged up? Are they at a slump? You know,

695
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 7: there's a lot of factors to go into it, as

696
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 7: you guys know, depending on your sport and your situation

697
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 7: where you're at. So yeah, but yeah, Colorado, you know,

698
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 7: they are a handful and the record shows that.

699
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 8: And they've got the experience too.

700
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Speaker 7: I mean, so many of those guys have won the

701
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Speaker 7: Stanley Cup just a few years ago as well.

702
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Speaker 8: Well.

703
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Speaker 1: I mean the the you know when you play them

704
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: is a major factor in all of sports, no doubt

705
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Speaker 1: about it.

706
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:16,719
Speaker 2: But it does.

707
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Speaker 1: It's we're not connecting the dots here. I mean, it's

708
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: not A has to go to B and that has

709
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Speaker 1: to go to C. And here's the example. It's you know,

710
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: the the New Jersey Devils. All right, so the Wild

711
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: get back from that two week trip and you know,

712
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: they they lose to the Islanders, which really didn't surprise me.

713
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: That first one Back's kind of like an extension of

714
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: a road trip for a lot of teams, all right,

715
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: So then you can decompress. I know they've had trouble

716
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 1: against the Devils the last few seasons. But the Devil's

717
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: played the day before against Winnipeg. Okay, it was early

718
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: in the day. Whatever, it's still a back to back.

719
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: And then I started reading up on the Devils a

720
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: little bit, and I'm like, I'm like Dougie Hamilton, Holy cow,

721
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: i mean, he's like he's a healthy scratch. Well, then

722
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: they make him active, you know, so they were you

723
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Speaker 1: just get the field.

724
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Speaker 2: There were some internal situations taking place.

725
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Devils haven't been anything great and they don't just win.

726
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 1: They smoked the Wild where you would look at it

727
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: like you're catching the devils at a good time agreat,

728
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: you know, to counterpoint my point, you nailed it right

729
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: on head.

730
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Speaker 7: Sometimes, like you said, it doesn't always make sense the

731
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 7: storylines coming in. You're thinking one thing and something totally

732
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 7: different happens. And it was the first really the first

733
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 7: clunker for the Wild in quite some time, if you're

734
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 7: first lost by three.

735
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 8: Or more goals.

736
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Speaker 7: Since they played the Abs back on December the twenty first,

737
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 7: I think it was at home, so they had gone home,

738
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 7: you know, three plus weeks without losing by three goals.

739
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 7: So those Wild Tea's been really good. They've been really consistent,

740
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 7: and it was important. I always felt this when they

741
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 7: were on that seven game heater and back to you know,

742
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 7: two seven game winning streak.

743
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Speaker 8: You've got to stack points when you.

744
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 7: Can, Yeah, because you don't know when the injuries are

745
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 7: going to come aboard, or you don't know when you

746
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 7: might hit a little funk or go on a tough

747
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 7: road trip, and.

748
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Speaker 8: So you've got a stack points when you can.

749
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Speaker 7: Because NHL has so much parody, you know, a bad

750
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 7: week can all of a sudden you drop from eighth

751
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 7: to eleventh in the conference or worse.

752
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 5: You mentioned could be in a little bit of a

753
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 5: funk and into the show today, just kind of prepping

754
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 5: and putting things together.

755
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Speaker 4: That was kind of where my mindset was, Joe.

756
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Speaker 5: Is just you look at the way they They've gotten

757
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 5: points I think in eight of their last ten, but

758
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 5: they've only actually won four of those games. You know,

759
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 5: all that is that a funk? Is that a function

760
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 5: of we're talking about when you play teams. This team

761
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 5: has had trouble against the Kings for as long as

762
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Speaker 5: I can freaking remember, Yeah, and you think about just

763
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 5: the grueling nature of that two week stretch. Are they

764
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 5: in a funk or did they really just meet a

765
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 5: brick wall of circumstance and schedule?

766
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Speaker 8: Well, are you a glass half full guy or not?

767
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:39,439
Speaker 2: Right?

768
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 8: That's how you have to look at it.

769
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Speaker 4: You know, timeslot, I'm glass half fall right.

770
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 7: So you're getting if you're getting a point most nights,

771
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 7: you're gonna probably make the playoffs and so as you say, well,

772
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 7: they've only won four of ten, but they got points

773
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 7: in what six or eight of them?

774
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 8: So it's like, how do you want to look at it?

775
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 7: I tend to look at it as again, stacking points

776
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 7: it is the most important thing. You know, at some

777
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 7: point there's gonna be real stretches where maybe you lose

778
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 7: three or four in a row in regulation, but hopefully

779
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 7: then you win three or four or five coming out

780
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 7: of it. So, uh, this team has been really consistent

781
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 7: home and road special teams. I know it's one thing

782
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 7: John Hines would like to see improve, but their five

783
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 7: on five game has been strong for six plus weeks

784
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,919
Speaker 7: now and again I feel like the goaltending if if

785
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 7: we get Vaalsett and Gustofson to play to where they

786
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 7: played for that you know month and a half stretch

787
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 7: there anything close to that the rest of the way,

788
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 7: this team will be just fine, all right.

789
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:31,320
Speaker 1: At Wild Joe Radio via X many of you follow

790
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: him if you don't follow him as nine to Noon does,

791
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: because I would imagine coming up shortly here as the

792
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: morning skate minute.

793
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got the morning skate. What's what what's on

794
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 2: tap for the morning skal? Yeah?

795
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 7: I can it's down in the morning. You know, that's

796
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 7: the key to the morning skate minute, doesn't.

797
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to break in a second. Just turn

798
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: around with your camera and there you are.

799
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Speaker 8: Does it always go as plan?

800
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 7: But yeah, we'll catch up with John Hines here in

801
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 7: a minute, see what he's got to say, and then

802
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 7: see what the Jets have going at their morning skate

803
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 7: and piece it all together for a quick little ninety

804
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 7: second or less preview of the game.

805
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're cool. I watch every fay. Thank you, Bud.

806
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: That's up Joe Donald. Listen to him tonight on kf

807
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 1: AM called Wild in the Jets ten forty eight Marcus Felino.

808
00:36:08,320 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: He'll be joining nine to Noon shortly sneaking up on

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00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock. It is a rapidly flowing box in the box.

810
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: First first box.

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Speaker 2: In the box for nine to noon.

812
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 4: Good to be back.

813
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 2: I love it, absolutely love it.

814
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: Shows here they just at least I mean, I can't

815
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: speak for the listener. It's like people will be to

816
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 1: me like, you know, hey, I was the show today

817
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: and I appreciate the question. But it's beauty is in

818
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: the ear of the beholder, so I may think technically speaking,

819
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: things dead or did not go the way I wanted

820
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: them to. But it's beauty's in the ear of the beholder.

821
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: But so therefore why I lead up with that is

822
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: because A I and we always have a good time

823
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: when we're here. Oh yeah, b the shows fly by,

824
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: I mean they just we're almost at eleven o'clock. Man,

825
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: feels like we were talking about jul Eric Sinek and

826
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,439
Speaker 1: Leonardo da Vinci with Heinze ten minutes ago, and there's

827
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: just a lot going on. It's it's you know, we

828
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: we roll in here for box in the box, and

829
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: you know, then you talk to the coach and and

830
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: you know, we we we get up to speed on

831
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: things that you know, casual hockey pens don't want to

832
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 1: miss when you're when you have the privilege to be

833
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: at a pro team's practice and skate, you know, so

834
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: we don't want to roll in here and be like,

835
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: oh geez, what happened here?

836
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 2: How come?

837
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: You know?

838
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 2: I didn't know this guy was out.

839
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: So we were up to speed with with Juel erics

840
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: in Nek and Bogosian and some other things that have

841
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: taken place of late. But then you know, Kevin Gorg

842
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: starts the show asking a question about fourteen jul riks Ink,

843
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 1: and ten minutes after that he's out on the ice

844
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: for about forty five minutes, just busting butt around the

845
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: ice with skating coach andy Ness and shooting and quick

846
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: stopping and circumnavigating and stuff like that. So then he

847
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: kills for a little bit. The big key is does

848
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: he come back for the line rushes at the morning Skate. Well,

849
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: the answer to that was yes, So the deduction is

850
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,720
Speaker 1: going to be he will play this evening.

851
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 2: So then Russo Radio.

852
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 1: Rolls in at ten o'clock and we had written down

853
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 1: in our notes for me it was like David Spatchik,

854
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: all right, I've heard the name, who is he? And

855
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: why was he called up today? And then Russo's like, well,

856
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: morning Skate begins in fourteen minutes, be curious to see

857
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: if twenty five's out there. Oh great, So then I'm

858
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: going through the tweet machine like, well nobody, I mean

859
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: it's like that, nobody said that.

860
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 2: Where did this come from?

861
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: Well, then Brodine is not at the morning Skate, so

862
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: Brodan probably is not going to play tonight.

863
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 2: That was from under the cover of darkness.

864
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,919
Speaker 1: Well, then now the next thought is is a couple

865
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: of things. A. He's really good and he helps a lot,

866
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: but B how long you know? The Russo radio is like, well,

867
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Speaker 1: I mean the Olympic break's coming up in a few

868
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: weeks and everything, and you know, I think the thought

869
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: for him would be not necessarily how quickly he can

870
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: get back here, because that'll take care of itself. But

871
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: is this going to be a situation where he misses

872
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: legit time and if it's a month month and a

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00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: half and misses the Olympics because because he's on he's

874
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Speaker 1: on the his country's Olympic team.

875
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,359
Speaker 2: It's just there's just a lot going on right now.

876
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 2: I don't know.

877
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 1: The first time I've seen Quinn Hughes in person, he

878
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: was just right below us. I mean, you talk about

879
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 1: somebody who looks like a rink rat, I mean, my

880
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: man is just all hockey. You can just look at

881
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: him and be like, just hit his hair, his countenance,

882
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: the way he interacts with people. I mean, we knew

883
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: about him and we followed him from Afar. He's stone

884
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: called rink rat man.

885
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 4: Well, I just I feel that maybe this happens with a.

886
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 5: Long ass Mornieskate too, it is and maybe it's just

887
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 5: a couple of days off there. They're going hard today

888
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 5: and they want to get its jets tonight. I feel

889
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,399
Speaker 5: like this happens to us maybe every year where we

890
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 5: make the true transition, Viking season sadly doesn't go the

891
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 5: way we want to, and then we just kind of

892
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 5: get in the rhythm of simultaneously not necessarily playing full

893
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 5: catchup but officially just sinking our teeth into the state

894
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 5: of high and what's going on in front of us now.

895
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 5: But everybody in the NHL is immensely talented, right And

896
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 5: and that's the same case NFL. The worst player in

897
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:13,240
Speaker 5: the NFL was the pride of his hometown in high school,

898
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 5: was an elite college player and found their way into

899
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,720
Speaker 5: a pro job. But some guys are just different. Ninety

900
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 5: seven's different. We get that Boldie becoming different. When you

901
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 5: see Quinn Hughes in person, there's just there is a

902
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 5: vibe to how he exists and operates on the ice

903
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 5: that it's it's not like we don't love having Spurgeon

904
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 5: on the team. It's not like we don't appreciate and

905
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 5: love brock Favor at a high level.

906
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 2: Quinn Hughes is just freaking.

907
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,399
Speaker 4: Different to how we operate and how we move.

908
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: That's what I'm noticing here, That's what I was trying

909
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:46,439
Speaker 1: to That's what I was trying to say.

910
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 5: No, he's he's just on a on a completely separate

911
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 5: level than than than many in the league. And that's,

912
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 5: you know, again to the state of the hockey and

913
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 5: the hardcore is most obvious thing you'll.

914
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 2: Hear all morning.

915
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 5: But that's one of my favorite things about doing the

916
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 5: box in the box and we saw we saw Hinsey off,

917
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,359
Speaker 5: the two day layoff, a couple of a couple of

918
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 5: gather around let's talk moments during this skate so far

919
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 5: from the team, I mean, just the the ebbs and

920
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 5: flows long season, eighty two games soon to be eighty four,

921
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 5: which is insane to me.

922
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 2: Uh, I didn't know about that, did you?

923
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, I did know. I It's it's one of

924
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 4: those things you forget about.

925
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:24,479
Speaker 5: But I had read about it maybe a year ago

926
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 5: that that eventually twenty twenty six, twenty seven was happening.

927
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 5: I just can't believe you know, you mentioned cash as

928
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 5: King when we were talking with Russo just kind of

929
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 5: the idea you're gonna you're gonna rip a couple more

930
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 5: regular season games into the mix, but then you're also

931
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 5: going full board NHL players back in the Olympics. We

932
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 5: had the four Nations bit last year, as awesome as

933
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 5: that is, but I wonder, you know, how much of

934
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,879
Speaker 5: this cash is king NHL thinking, you know, we need

935
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 5: to do something with.

936
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 2: Our salary cap.

937
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 5: Ye watching the NFL, I saw some number. I don't

938
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 5: know why I was deep diving the CFL, but there,

939
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 5: but then eighty Yeah, but you're doing I think, like

940
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 5: the the the Stampeders or the Alouettes or whatnot, like

941
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 5: their team salary caps like six or seven million dollars.

942
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 5: And meanwhile, we've watched what the NFL has done via

943
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 5: TV deals and things in recent years. How how insane

944
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,399
Speaker 5: that number is? Right, and everybody gets a TV deal

945
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 5: like a four hundred million dollar check every spring, and

946
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 5: the NHL trying in their own right to figure out

947
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 5: their finances and continue that evolutionary process. You know, COVID

948
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:31,720
Speaker 5: was kind of a hit for a lot of people,

949
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 5: including the league and.

950
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 4: Those sorts of things. So the cash is king nature

951
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 4: of it.

952
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 5: But specifically, going back now to our team nasty ass

953
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 5: road trip. Team had just gotten really fully healthier, almost

954
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 5: ninety nine percent healthy two three weeks ago, and now

955
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 5: you're talking about missing Brodein out of the mix. It's

956
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 5: just the the toast dubbing that potentially takes place in

957
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 5: some of these some of these seasons, in some of

958
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 5: these stretches. So surviving Brodean, getting making it three or

959
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,240
Speaker 5: three against the Jets, a couple of a topics, certainly

960
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 5: Endo tonight.

961
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Speaker 2: We're gonna pause.

962
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: Marcus Felino with the Minnesota Wild should join us around

963
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Speaker 1: the corner from Trea Rink in Saint Paul.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the fan