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Speaker 1: Thanks Mike all Ay, and it's been a long time

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Speaker 1: since we've talked to you last First of all, how

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Speaker 1: was your break.

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Speaker 2: Did you get some sun, did you get away for

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Speaker 2: a little bit?

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Speaker 1: Were you able to decompress and step away from hockey?

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Speaker 3: I think we did. Yeah, it has been a long

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Speaker 3: time three weeks, but it seems like about three months

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Speaker 3: right now. You know, when you know you're coming back

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Speaker 3: and you know the stakes are high and you're looking

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Speaker 3: forward to, you know, sort of the playoff push in

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Speaker 3: the last third ish of the season, that the break

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Speaker 3: just took forever did turn the brain off for a while,

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Speaker 3: which was nice. I think everybody had to do that

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Speaker 3: and was able to go home to Arizona and you know,

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Speaker 3: I was able to catch some sun that way. But

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Speaker 3: you know, happy to be back. I think we've had

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Speaker 3: a pretty good week of practice, and I think our

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Speaker 3: guys are more than ready to start playing in terms

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Speaker 3: of they're sick of practice. You know, I didn't love

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Speaker 3: our practice yesterday, but I like the ones before that,

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Speaker 3: so you know, I just think it's a matter of

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Speaker 3: we've had too many practices in a row and it's

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Speaker 3: just time.

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Speaker 2: To get played.

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Speaker 1: When you come back from a long break like this,

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Speaker 1: whether it be the summer, whether it be an All

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Speaker 1: Star Christmas holiday, whatever the case may be, what do

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Speaker 1: you do to refocus the guys to get them focused?

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Speaker 1: I mean, three weeks is a long time compared to

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Speaker 1: three days normally, But what types of things have you

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Speaker 1: done the last week to get guys refocused and knock

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Speaker 1: as much of that rust off as possible?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this one's different than say an All

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Speaker 3: Star break or a three day break of some kind

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Speaker 3: of Christmas. This one is more almost like summer. We

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Speaker 3: tweeted a little bit about like training camp in terms of,

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Speaker 3: you know, our systems and film and reminders. You know,

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Speaker 3: So we went through a whole bunch of reminders, stuff

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Speaker 3: that they should know and do know. But there's nothing

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Speaker 3: wrong with giving them a refresher course either, you know.

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Speaker 3: And then we obviously you design practices around your film

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Speaker 3: and your systems and a lot of individual stuff as well,

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Speaker 3: because you know the game is going to be about

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Speaker 3: individual battles being able to make place under pressure, as

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Speaker 3: it always is, but when you haven't done it for

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Speaker 3: three weeks, it becomes a little bit more difficult potentially,

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Speaker 3: unless you practice as much as you can and as

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Speaker 3: hard as you can to do that, and I thought

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Speaker 3: our guys did a good job of doing that. We'll

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Speaker 3: see what happens, you know, I will say this, Regardless

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Speaker 3: of what happens, our guys worked.

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Speaker 1: We saw a lot of really good hockey over the

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Speaker 1: Olympic break, capped off via other worldly generational gold medal game.

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Speaker 1: You yourself now are the head coach of two bronze

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Speaker 1: medalists and Coppocco and Elie Tolvenen. Did you get to

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Speaker 1: watch any of the Olympic hockey? What did what did

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Speaker 1: you make of the quality of play that we saw

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Speaker 1: over the last three weeks? And as you're watching Kraken

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Speaker 1: players play other guys that you've coached play, what are

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Speaker 1: some of the things that you were thinking about in

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Speaker 1: terms of, you know, the growth of the game and

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Speaker 1: what this means for the sport.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was I watched as much as

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Speaker 3: I could, which was actually quite a bit, you know.

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Speaker 3: I I watched most of the games that, in my opinion,

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Speaker 3: we're going to be well played games. You know, there's

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Speaker 3: some games there that you know, there really isn't any

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Speaker 3: point in watching your nine ones and things like that. So,

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Speaker 3: but I thought our guys played well. I thought the

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Speaker 3: competition level was high. You can tell the excitement of

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Speaker 3: the players with every country playing for their country, and

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Speaker 3: you know, they weren't holding back anything. And you know,

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Speaker 3: because of that, we've got some guys injured coming back,

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Speaker 3: you know, not from our team, but certainly the league,

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Speaker 3: you know. So that's that's kind of interesting. But what

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Speaker 3: a what an a final game as well? You know,

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Speaker 3: so I don't think that you can argue that that

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Speaker 3: Olympic Hockey Tournament was great for the game of hockey.

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Speaker 2: Dare I ask who you are rooting for in that

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Speaker 2: gold medal game?

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Speaker 3: Uh? Well, I just you know, I I'm Canadian originally,

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Speaker 3: I do you know, I do have my US citizenship,

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Speaker 3: so I'm proud of both things. How about that.

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Speaker 2: You wanted both teams to have fun? I love it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I did.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned a bit of the injuries and that that's

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Speaker 1: the high risk, high reward of a tournament like this.

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Speaker 1: You get to see best on best. But then we

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Speaker 1: find out this morning that Sidney Crosby's out for four weeks.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Fiala, his season's probably done here in Dallas. Miko

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Speaker 1: Rantman's gone for a couple of weeks. Speaking with the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Stars, they're gonna be without a couple of their

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Speaker 1: bigger pieces for for tonight's game, but they're still a

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Speaker 1: dangerous team. What are you looking for for the Kraken

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Speaker 1: to come out strong with here tonight? Keeping in mind

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Speaker 1: that there may be a few of their normal names

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Speaker 1: and faces not in the lineup for.

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Speaker 3: Them, Well, the one thing about it is, and there's

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Speaker 3: no question, you know they're not in the lineup. They're obviously,

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Speaker 3: you know, great hockey players. So you know, I guess

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Speaker 3: it's got of help for our team, yeah, in a

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Speaker 3: certain way, but you know, we've proven it all year long.

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Speaker 3: Other teams have proven it all year long. When you

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Speaker 3: have injuries and injuries to key guys, you know you're

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Speaker 3: a dangerous hockey team regardless. So you know, we certainly

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Speaker 3: want to focus on our team. We've got to play

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Speaker 3: a good hockey game. We need a good start to

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Speaker 3: this game, and that's been kind of our focus for

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Speaker 3: the last little bit here is just make sure we're

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Speaker 3: ready to go. Our brains are turned on