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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: mcletty and Kevin Fallness.

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Speaker 2: Just another beautiful Saturday morning in the State of Hockey.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to be on the pond, Kevin Fallness and Brett

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Speaker 2: Blakemore Back in Saint Louis Park at Penn State, we've

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Speaker 2: got the great Pat mccoletty on the road with the

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Speaker 2: Gophers along with Wally Shaver.

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Speaker 3: What's going on, gentlemen?

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Speaker 4: Well, can I before we start? Rumor has it that

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Speaker 4: you were there like an hour ago being getting ready?

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Speaker 3: I watched it. This is as close as I've ever

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Speaker 3: cut it. I.

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Speaker 4: Wally, Wally and I have been at the rink for

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Speaker 4: what forty five minutes or so?

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Speaker 5: At least?

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Speaker 3: Do you guys? You guys are dedicated. I get it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I went Ron Johnson.

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Speaker 4: You know, seriously, when did you get literally I need

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Speaker 4: to hear.

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Speaker 2: It, literally five seconds to spare I got here before

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Speaker 2: the open start. I don't know. I don't know why

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Speaker 2: it took me so long to get here, but it

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Speaker 2: did take a little longer than I anticipated.

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Speaker 3: But I wasn't late.

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Speaker 4: Brett asked me if there was dedication to the show, and.

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Speaker 3: I guess our questioning it at that point.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're here on time.

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Speaker 3: I'm never late. I can say that. Yeah, good morning.

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Speaker 4: How are you?

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Speaker 3: Wally has changed gears?

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Speaker 5: You're doing for a couple of hours already. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 5: not like you just rolled out a bed.

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Speaker 3: No, it was not quite like that, mister Shaver.

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Speaker 6: That's not exactly you were looking for Wally to save you, weren't. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 6: he just piled right on. Yeah, let's let's switch gears.

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Speaker 6: How about the Golden Gophers. What happened last night against

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Speaker 6: the Penn State and Nitney Lyon?

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Speaker 4: You want to go, Wally?

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Speaker 5: We lost three nothing? We lost nothing?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'll you know this team and it's and it's been,

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Speaker 4: you know, kind of the way all year. It's challenged

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Speaker 4: offensively and and when they you know, when they get

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Speaker 4: the other and they've been getting their opportunities there, there's

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Speaker 4: there's no question about it. But the inability to finish,

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Speaker 4: you know, for example, it's two nothing to start the

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Speaker 4: second period and right away, correct me if I'm wrong, Wally, Uh,

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Speaker 4: Minnesota had two or three Grade A opportunities and they

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Speaker 7: Just couldn't bury it. And then the killer was right

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Speaker 7: at the end of the period. Five seconds ago, Penn

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Speaker 7: State takes a shot, it hits the post. Normally, when

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Speaker 7: a shot hits the post, it the flex off in

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Speaker 7: the corner. It dropped right in the craase onto a

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Speaker 7: Penn State stick five seconds left in the period. That's

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Speaker 7: three nothing, and that was a killer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't go into into the you know, you

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Speaker 4: go into the third period down to nothing. You know,

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Speaker 4: you're you're right there, right, I mean, you're you know,

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Speaker 4: one goal changes the momentum and all that. You know,

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Speaker 4: we've seen it, you know, forever. But giving up that

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Speaker 4: that third goal with five seconds left in the second

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Speaker 4: period kind of deflated everybody. I mean, you know, the

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Speaker 4: Gophers got great goaltending last night. Luca the Pascal was

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Speaker 4: really good, and but you know, they got to find

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Speaker 3: What is the outlook for the rest of the season.

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Speaker 2: I'm not used to seeing the Gophers not ranked, and

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Speaker 2: and you know then when we look at the record,

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's not what you'd expect from you when

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Speaker 2: you talk about the Golden golphers. So is this just

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Speaker 2: or is there hope that they can get things resurrected

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Speaker 2: in the second half.

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Speaker 4: Well, January is the month. I mean, you look at

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Speaker 4: this schedule they have and and help me, Wally, but

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Speaker 4: the Penn State this weekend, the number one ranked team

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Speaker 4: in the country Michigan next weekend at home the following

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Speaker 4: week and the number three or four, number two ranked

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Speaker 4: then home to the number third ranked team in the country,

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Speaker 4: the Wisconsin Badgers. So we'll know whether they'll be able

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Speaker 4: to get home wise for the playoffs or will they

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Speaker 4: in the playoffs. Uh to you know, make the tournament.

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Speaker 4: It's it's a daunting, daunting schedule, a daunting task and

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Speaker 7: And from the playoff standpoint to the one advantage, I

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Speaker 7: Ten first round this time or yes, good point, they've

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Speaker 7: they've gone to a two week playoff format in the

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Speaker 7: Big Ten instead of three weeks, and that could benefit

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Speaker 7: a team like Minnesota. You know, you get hot right

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Speaker 7: at the end and that's what you need to do

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Speaker 7: at that time. But we're not blowing off January. But

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Speaker 7: it is a yeah, you said, pad a daunting task

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Speaker 7: and we've just got to stay healthy, kind of like

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Speaker 7: the wild you gotta stay healthy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll stay healthy and find a way to find

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Speaker 4: we'll have to see how it all plays out.

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Speaker 3: When you can talk World Juniors in in a minute.

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Speaker 2: But it's been a while since you guys have seen

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Speaker 2: Bob Mosko because of the World Juniors.

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Speaker 3: How's he holding up?

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Speaker 2: How did he take the tough loss to Finland in

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Speaker 2: the quarterfinals.

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Speaker 7: Well, that that one was a really tough one. It

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Speaker 7: was just as he said, it was just gut runching

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Speaker 7: for everybody it. You know, you wanted to win that game.

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Speaker 7: They were a very good team, and then you'll lose

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Speaker 7: it in a three on three overtime on you know,

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Speaker 7: just a nice setup and the guy got a good

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Speaker 7: for for Notre Dame and and uh, he said it

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Speaker 7: was really tough. It affected the staff and the players,

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Speaker 7: and you know, you just feel awful for a day

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Speaker 7: or two, but then reality sets in. You got to

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Speaker 7: go back to your regular teams and you get on

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Speaker 7: with the second half of the hockey season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and and I don't think it's a game where

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Speaker 4: you could say, oh, Finlan upset the the US. The

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Speaker 4: you know, Kevin, you know and watching international hockey, you

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Speaker 4: know the Fans are a top three to four team

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Speaker 4: of their age groups, and so I don't think it

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Speaker 4: to perform and you want to get to that metal

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Speaker 4: round and and compete for a gold and unfortunately this

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Speaker 4: two years of them winning the gold. And you know,

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Speaker 4: it's the the the the depth around the world. You

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Speaker 4: look at the other teams in the tournament sans Denmark,

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Speaker 4: you know, they're they're really good teams and really good

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Speaker 4: hockey and and you know that's why we're looking forward

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Speaker 4: to the Olympics too, because you know, we're just talking

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Speaker 4: about the top four teams in there. Well, the Swiss

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Speaker 4: are good, the Germans could upset somebody. Uh, Slovaki is good,

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Speaker 4: check Ya is good. So you know, now we we

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Speaker 4: turn our attention to the Olympics, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. And the International hockey is fantastic. I

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Speaker 2: didn't watch it as close as as some as far

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Speaker 2: as the World Juniors go. I did pay attention to it,

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Speaker 2: and it felt to me like the right team one,

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Speaker 2: I mean Sweden, it felt like was on another level

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Speaker 3: And and in the end it proved to be the case.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree one hundred percent. You know, you watch

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Speaker 4: that Swede team and and I mean they were they

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Speaker 4: were loaded, and they they ended they might end up

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Speaker 4: getting the number. I can't remember the kid's name, but Stedburgh, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: he might be the number one pick in the draft.

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Speaker 4: And and uh so you know, and their and their

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Speaker 4: depth and they're they're just I mean, they're just good

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Speaker 4: teams all around all around the world.

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Speaker 7: I thought the Swedes were just so structured in their play.

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Speaker 7: They just didn't make a whole lot of mistakes. The

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Speaker 7: passing was really crisp, and you can't overlook check ye.

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Speaker 7: I mean there's a team that has a whole bunch

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Speaker 7: of NHL draft yeah on that team, and they've beaten

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Speaker 7: Canada four straight years at the World Junior and Canada

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Speaker 7: is always loaded.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Fun tournament, man, it was start to finish.

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Speaker 2: A great job by everyone who participated, everyone that was

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Speaker 2: able to take it in as a fan.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully you enjoyed it.

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Speaker 2: Sweden does come away with their third gold medal and

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Speaker 2: first since twenty twelve. I do believe, so good on them.

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Speaker 2: They got it done and we'll wait another year before

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Speaker 2: we get back to that. Brett Blakemore's breakaways coming up

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Speaker 2: in just a little can stay for that, Canny, I

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Speaker 2: hope he does. Hey, you want to witness greatness? Stick

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Speaker 2: around for Brett Blakemore's breakaways. I've always said that we

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Speaker 2: got more college hockey talk coming up at the bottom

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Speaker 2: of the hour, when the schloss will join us from

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Speaker 2: Grand Forks. He's got Brad Schlossman, always fun and you

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Speaker 2: guys are gonna bounce for the second hour.

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Speaker 4: No, we could stay up until the last half hours.

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Speaker 5: Okay, we'll give you eleven thirty Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, all right, Well, we got cal clutterback coming up

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Speaker 2: at the top of next hour, and we got our

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Speaker 2: Youth Hockey Hub report from Tony Scott and then once

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Speaker 2: you guys leave, we'll grab Jack Capuano, while associate head

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Speaker 2: coach for the Minnesota Wild.

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Speaker 4: Were you asked Jack for me how he did against

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Speaker 4: Minnesota when he played?

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Speaker 2: Feels like you're setting me up for disappointment. I think

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Speaker 2: he's gonna not be happy with that question.

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Speaker 4: He won't be happy with me.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Well I definitely went past that a.

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Speaker 4: Lot, but I just want you know, I think you

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Speaker 3: Okay, I will definitely do that.

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Speaker 2: We I'm sure we'll talk a lot about that road

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Speaker 2: trip that just concluded for the Wild. Yeah, fourteen days,

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Speaker 2: six cities, seven games, and just an odyssey of a schedule.

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Speaker 2: But they end up going four to one and two

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Speaker 2: in those seven games.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean that that's that's remarkable because being

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Speaker 4: on the road for that long, and you know, I

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Speaker 4: thought it was I thought it was a wonderful road trip.

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Speaker 4: You know, It's funny. Kevin and I love our fans,

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Speaker 4: and the fans love the While you're not gonna win

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Speaker 4: every game, You're just you're just gonna win every game,

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Speaker 4: and you know, there was heartbreak when they lost in

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Speaker 4: Los Angeles. But but no, I what a great road trip, Kevin.

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Speaker 2: It starts with an overtime win in Winnipeg and it

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Speaker 2: finishes with an overtime win in Seattle. I don't know

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Speaker 2: how much you guys got a chance to watch it,

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Speaker 2: but the finish was great. It's unfortunate because they did

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Speaker 3: Seattle scores twice.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: By the way, that kracking team is dangerous. They're gonna

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Speaker 2: be a team to watch for in the Pacific Division.

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Speaker 2: But the Wild get it done in overtime, two on

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's so, you know, Kevin, you look at it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've had a chance to talk to Pat a

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Speaker 2: The addition of Quinn Hughes. What do you like about

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Speaker 5: Oh.

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Speaker 7: I remember Frank Mazako texting me just after they acquired him,

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Speaker 7: You figured two years ago he was the best defenseman

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Speaker 4: Weally remember, you know, us calling games when when he

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Speaker 4: I don't even know what to look at it, but

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Speaker 4: And the thing is Kevin, as you know from being

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: That's that's that family.

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Speaker 9: You know.

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Speaker 2: The other thing about him, of course, you bring a

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Speaker 2: But I didn't think brock Favor could take his game

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Speaker 3: He has done that playing alongside.

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Speaker 2: Queenhes He's on He's on a level that I didn't

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Speaker 4: What's he got up to? Ten goals? Now?

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Speaker 2: He's got five points in the last three games, including

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Speaker 4: And and here's the deal. Brock Favor doesn't think offensive.

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Speaker 4: he can do it. He can do it, but his

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it might go down. It's the best

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Speaker 2: Well, it's definitely the biggest and I think, yeah, they.

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Speaker 4: Are in the favor one or the or the huge one.

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Speaker 5: And think about it, though, I know that's true.

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Speaker 4: No, I mean he was no question, but but but

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Speaker 2: Well, and you know what else you get brock Favor

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Speaker 2: get Quinn Hughes So and all. It was a win

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Speaker 2: win think. I think La really likes Kevin Fiela. I

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Speaker 3: So yeah, a win in so many different ways.

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Speaker 4: Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's squeeze in a break when we continue.

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Speaker 2: I hope Wally's wearing a seatbelt or he can buckle up,

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Speaker 2: because we got Brett Blakemore's breakaways. Lots of other actions

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Speaker 2: a Saturday morning right here on the fan. Wow, full

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Speaker 2: what I understand, the Wolves will follow us with an

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Speaker 2: eleven forty five pregames. We'll make way for Alan Horton

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Speaker 2: forty five pregame is the Wild face off against the

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Speaker 2: New York Islanders coming up next hour. We'll check in

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Speaker 2: with Cal Clutterbuck, former Wild forward, former Islanders forward, and

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Speaker 2: course you got Wally and Pat on the air tonight

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Speaker 2: five o'clock Gophers at Penn State on Twin Cities News

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Speaker 2: Talk Am eleven thirty n f M one O three

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Speaker 2: point five joined Wally and Pat from Patulace Arena. Pree

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Speaker 2: game show four to thirty pregame show. Don't forget that,

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Speaker 2: and don't forget about Brett Blake Boy's breakaways.

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Speaker 10: It's time for Brett blake Ford breakaway.

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Speaker 3: And now Blake Moore braak Boy.

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Speaker 11: All right?

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Speaker 3: Is Wally sitting down? I don't. I don't want him

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Speaker 4: Caught trapped in He's never been through this, Brett.

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Speaker 3: Have you met Wally? Not in person?

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Speaker 8: No, but.

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Speaker 3: That's Brent Blakemore.

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Speaker 12: Good to meet you, man, Good to meet you as well.

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Speaker 12: Here we go, still one of the best opens on

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Speaker 2: I bet you have appreciation. I bet is appreciation for

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Speaker 4: You've heard this. This is a hockey Day in Canada

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 3: It is their goal song or something like that. Yes,

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Speaker 4: All right, come on on.

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Speaker 8: Sorry.

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Speaker 12: Overall the road trip for your Minnesota Wild was a success.

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Speaker 12: They got points in way more games than they didn't.

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Speaker 12: Do you feel like again zero percent panic. I'm not

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Speaker 12: Maybe they're tired. It's a long road trip. Gorgy said

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Speaker 12: They're playing getting points hockey, but I feel like I've

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Speaker 12: Do you feel like they're not playing up to their

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Speaker 2: I'll start Pat and Wally because I did sit and

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Speaker 2: I think that's a cracking team that I don't think

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Speaker 3: I am not worried about them.

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Speaker 2: Twenty six wins of the season, third in not only well,

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Speaker 4: Well, if I do the math right, four wins, so

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Speaker 3: Of fourteen points. I thank you trip.

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Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, thank you. In the best league in the

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Speaker 7: And the other thing I would add to that, I

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Speaker 7: that beats you up. Yeah, you really get tired. And

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Speaker 3: The dog days.

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Speaker 5: It's the dog Days exactly.

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Speaker 7: So to come away with ten out of fourteen, I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Felina was saying in the post game that now

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Speaker 3: That's what it is.

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Speaker 2: They've got four games in the entire month of February. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: They've been playing a ton of hockey. They're closing in.

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Speaker 2: I think tonight is game number forty six. It's January tenth,

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Speaker 3: The past two weeks have been on the road.

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Speaker 2: Now they get a three game homestand and then they're

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Speaker 3: And I'm sure, all of them brutal.

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Speaker 2: Not only did they have to play at nine o'clock

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Speaker 3: So it's been a grind.

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Speaker 7: Well, the other thing is think a little practice time again,

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Speaker 3: Day, they've had none. They did some small ice drills.

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Speaker 2: rixs Neck is as important as anyone on that team.

441
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Speaker 2: And he he left the game early in Seattle. So

442
00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,360
Speaker 2: that's gonna be what everyone's holding their breath about right now.

443
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Speaker 12: On that second line has been so good for the

444
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Speaker 12: Wild that's you need him, someone who I've brought this

445
00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:27,119
Speaker 12: name up on breakaways before, and I like this player.

446
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Speaker 12: It's just I feel like he's just not having the

447
00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:33,439
Speaker 12: season that we're used to him having. He leads the

448
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Speaker 12: team in penalty minutes by a country mile. He's had

449
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:41,359
Speaker 12: a lot of uncharacteristic turnovers. I mean points with defense minutes.

450
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Speaker 12: Not really that big of a nine points in thirty

451
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Speaker 12: eight games, but I'm not really going to hold your

452
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Speaker 12: feet to the fire negative one plus minus. But it

453
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Speaker 12: just feels like we're not seeing the Jake Middleton of

454
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Speaker 12: old that we're used to seeing. He had a big

455
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Speaker 12: block last night. That was a very good play, But

456
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Speaker 12: just when you're leading forty six penalty minutes of the

457
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Speaker 12: next highest Felino at thirty four at this point in

458
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Speaker 12: the season, I mean, that's a number I'd look at

459
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Speaker 12: and go, Okay, what's going on here? Are we getting beats?

460
00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:09,640
Speaker 12: Are we taking lazy tripping penalties or hooking penalties? What's

461
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,919
Speaker 12: going on here? And he's not like a giant fighter

462
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,280
Speaker 12: either that he's filling up the penalty minutes with that either.

463
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Speaker 3: So what do we do think? Milton?

464
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Speaker 12: Am I crazy for thinking it's not standard Middleton we're

465
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Speaker 12: used to.

466
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Speaker 4: I'd like to jump in first, Kevin, Yeah, I would

467
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Speaker 4: answer it this way. This is a classic example of

468
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Speaker 4: we don't know what's going on behind the scenes. We

469
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Speaker 4: don't know how much he's hurt playing hurt, so we

470
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Speaker 4: don't know that that's one number two. I think he

471
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Speaker 4: has jumped in. I think he's had a few scraps.

472
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Speaker 4: I don't know how many. You can look that up,

473
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Speaker 4: but I would venture to guess a lot of those

474
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Speaker 4: are five minute majors for fighting where he's gone in

475
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Speaker 4: and protected. Now, has he played his best? Probably not,

476
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Speaker 4: But for those reasons I would I would just question

477
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Speaker 4: the why.

478
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Speaker 2: And I would also tell you this, if your consternation

479
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,520
Speaker 2: is about Jake Middleton, he's on your third pair now,

480
00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 2: I mean, you got Hues in favor on the top set.

481
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Speaker 2: You've got Brodine and Spurge and I think playing some

482
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Speaker 2: great hockey and for the first time in almost forever,

483
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Speaker 2: the hardly never did they play together. But now they

484
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Speaker 2: get the opportunity, they're playing great. I mean, that's three

485
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Speaker 2: quarters of your game at this point. Middleton and whoever

486
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Speaker 2: he's paired up with, they're not going to see a

487
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Speaker 2: ton of ice time anyway. So I don't think it's

488
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Speaker 2: worth the consternation myself.

489
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Speaker 12: Look, I mean I'm not saying, you know, get rid

490
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Speaker 12: of him. I'm calling first head. They're just like I've

491
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Speaker 12: just noticed that. I don't think because I like Middleton

492
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Speaker 12: and he's a great for a third pairing. You kidding me? Also,

493
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Speaker 12: I looked up he has four fights this season, so

494
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Speaker 12: there is.

495
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Speaker 4: That should be twenty then? Right?

496
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Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, here's one more we probably got to get going.

497
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Speaker 12: Did you see the test events in Italy for the

498
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Speaker 12: Olympic rank where there was a hole in the ice

499
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Speaker 12: that had to stop the game. This is a I mean,

500
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Speaker 12: I don't know if it's the IOC or whatever governing

501
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Speaker 12: or the i h F.

502
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Speaker 3: How this happens is beyond me.

503
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Speaker 4: I don't know. But you know, Milan is about an

504
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Speaker 4: hour from Lugano, Switzerland. I lived right there, so I

505
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Speaker 4: kind of know I would move the I would move

506
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Speaker 4: those games to Lugano right now. I would just say,

507
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Speaker 4: you know what, you know, the hockey portion of.

508
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Speaker 2: It, I think, and I think that would be just

509
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Speaker 2: as big as an undertaking as fixing that hole in

510
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Speaker 2: front of the gold mouth that they showed the other well,

511
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Speaker 2: I mean, they've got everything set up there.

512
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Speaker 4: All the but they got that. Yeah, but these guys

513
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Speaker 4: are going to have to their locker rooms.

514
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Speaker 5: Are trailers, aren't there?

515
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Speaker 4: Trailers?

516
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Speaker 8: So bad?

517
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Speaker 4: Lugano's got a fifteen thousand seed arena. I mean it's

518
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Speaker 4: it's right there.

519
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it. And and we had Billy on

520
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Speaker 2: not that long ago. He says, I don't care whatever,

521
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Speaker 2: and we'll do whatever. I was listening to m kennon

522
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Speaker 2: yesterday on spitting chickles.

523
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Speaker 3: I don't care. Put us on the parking lot.

524
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Speaker 4: There's a hole in the ice.

525
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they definitely care. Yeah, and may think the NHL

526
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Speaker 2: and the NHLPA will care as well. They've got a

527
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Speaker 2: limited amount of time to get this figured out. They're

528
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Speaker 2: under a month at this point from the women for

529
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Speaker 2: sure taking the ice, but the men right hot on

530
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Speaker 2: their heels.

531
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Speaker 3: This has debacle written all over it.

532
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Speaker 2: Hopefully they get this figured out, because it's going to

533
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Speaker 2: be fantastic hockey if they can get.

534
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Speaker 3: Around these hurdles.

535
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what we got, all right, Let's squeeze in

536
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Speaker 2: a break and then we'll he did.

537
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Speaker 3: Why you just sweat from his brow?

538
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Speaker 4: You should see the look on his face. Is this really?

539
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Speaker 5: This is easy?

540
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Speaker 3: That's Bred Blakemore. All right, let's uh take a break.

541
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Speaker 2: Like I said, we'll continue the hockey talk in the

542
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Speaker 2: college hockey talk. On the other side of break, we

543
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Speaker 2: got our guy, Brad Schlassman joining us from the Grand

544
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Speaker 2: Forks Herald. He's next the schloss on be on the ponds.

545
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Speaker 10: The years of heartbreak, of overtime losses, shootout losses, upset losses,

546
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Speaker 10: but now the sweets well with their third ever gold

547
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Speaker 10: medal Sweden the World Junior Championship Minnesoura.

548
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Speaker 5: Who was the teated goal.

549
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Speaker 4: He did?

550
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Speaker 3: Nicoletty started drinking early this morning.

551
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Speaker 4: I thought I heard him say it wasn't an upset

552
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Speaker 4: that the US lost.

553
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 3: Come on, man, that's a joke.

554
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 4: It was a complete upset.

555
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 2: Shots fired from the talkback line as of Brett Bligmore.

556
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Speaker 2: To work that into the conversation Pat mc mc and

557
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 2: Holly Shamer out there at Penn State. And this is

558
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 2: long overdue, Patrick, a conversation with the great Brad Schlassman

559
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 2: joining us from Grand Forks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, before he before we go to him, you blew

561
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Speaker 4: him off, like two weeks in a row.

562
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Speaker 3: I didn't blow him off at all.

563
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:06,479
Speaker 4: I believe it.

564
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 3: He knows that's not true.

565
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Speaker 8: Hello Bradley, how's it going, guys?

566
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Speaker 3: Really good? How are things in your world? I know

567
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Speaker 3: you've been busy.

568
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Speaker 2: You were in in the Twin Cities last weekend right

569
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Speaker 2: for the World Juniors.

570
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Speaker 3: What'd you think?

571
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I was in the Twin Cities, got back and

572
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 13: hopped straight on a plane to Colorado Springs, so kind

573
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Speaker 13: of all over. But it's been great, like a lot

574
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Speaker 13: of entertaining hockey to watch. That was my first World

575
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Speaker 13: Juniors I covered in twenty one years, so it was

576
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Speaker 13: really fun to be around it again. And it was

577
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Speaker 13: great to see all the players from the different countries

578
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Speaker 13: who we don't always get to see in person here,

579
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Speaker 13: Like I've seen the college guys and you know, seeing

580
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Speaker 13: a lot of the major junior players. But it was

581
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Speaker 13: fun to see the European players.

582
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Speaker 4: For me, hey, ay Schlass being around it, you know,

583
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Speaker 4: I mean a lot of these guys some will you know,

584
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Speaker 4: go to the NHL next year or sign with their

585
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 4: teams or what have you. But I mean, was there

586
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 4: a lot of college recruiting going on during this junior

587
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,679
Speaker 4: junior tournament? Seeing that it was right here in the

588
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Speaker 4: Twin Cities.

589
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Speaker 13: I think there was. You know, I did see a

590
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,640
Speaker 13: few college coaches there. I'm guessing this was a great

591
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 13: opportunity to touch base with some younger players from those

592
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Speaker 13: European teams that they're actually in the United States. And

593
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Speaker 13: I do think there was some of that going on

594
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Speaker 13: with especially with the Europeans, Like they can go touch

595
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Speaker 13: base with the Americans or the Canadians.

596
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Speaker 8: Fairly easy, but this was a chance to have.

597
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Speaker 13: Some of the European players here in the United States.

598
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Speaker 4: You know, because a lot of these teams were well,

599
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Speaker 4: there were games like in man Cato and Midgie and

600
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Speaker 4: what you thought was great by the way Duluth, and

601
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Speaker 4: so you know, I would I would think that a

602
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 4: lot of these teams did reach out.

603
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Speaker 13: Yeah, that's just a really easy way to touch base.

604
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 13: And and you know what, now, we've talked a lot

605
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Speaker 13: about the rule change that allowed CHL players to retain

606
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Speaker 13: their college eligibility, but really that is part of what

607
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 13: has allowed Europeans to retain college eligibility at a higher rates.

608
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 13: And also the fact that when they're looking at actual

609
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Speaker 13: and necessary expenses and how much money you made if

610
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 13: you played pro games, the European system is kind of

611
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Speaker 13: like think of like if the Minnesota Wild had a

612
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Speaker 13: U twenty team and a U eighteen and U seventeen,

613
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Speaker 13: and they have players who go and they play for

614
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Speaker 13: the U seventeen and then they get called up to

615
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Speaker 13: the eighteens and then hey, they have a couple of

616
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Speaker 13: injuries on the big club and you have to call

617
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 13: someone up, and then they go up and play a

618
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 13: couple of pro games that no longer ends their eligibility.

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Speaker 13: So I think we're going to see more Europeans playing

620
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Speaker 13: college hockey than ever before. That's maybe part of the

621
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Speaker 13: storyline that has gotten lost in the CHL. We're obviously

622
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Speaker 13: going to see the CHL players, but we're going to

623
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Speaker 13: see more Europeans than we've seen before.

624
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Speaker 3: Hey, Tony, first of all, have you met Wally Shaver?

625
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Speaker 4: It's not Tony, I was.

626
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,959
Speaker 2: I was texting Tony, sorry for Brad. Have you met

627
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Speaker 2: Kevin Falls That's uh, that's college Sorry.

628
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 3: Uh, first of all, have you met Wally?

629
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Speaker 5: We've known each other for a long long.

630
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Speaker 2: I kind of thought so, so I wanted to make

631
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 2: sure that that we got the.

632
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Speaker 3: Introductions out of the way.

633
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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: We were talking a little bit about the World Juniors

635
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Speaker 2: and the impressions that we got from the Americans. I

636
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 2: know it was a tough loss in the quarterfinals to

637
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Speaker 2: the Finns, but I felt like even prior to that,

638
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 2: they just didn't seem like like the force that they

639
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 2: were in the previous two tournaments. What did you think

640
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 2: from the Americans from the tournament.

641
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Speaker 3: As a whole.

642
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I heard the playback before I got on the air,

643
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 13: past pasts, right, I don't think it was an upset.

644
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Speaker 13: You could have looked at this US roster six months

645
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 13: before the tournament even started, and you knew going in

646
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 13: this wasn't as talented of a team as they've had

647
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 13: the past two years. Like that was very clear before

648
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 13: this process even started. Of course, it doesn't hurt or

649
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 13: it doesn't help when you know, Connley gets injured and

650
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 13: Hudson gets injured, and Max Plant gets injured. Those are

651
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 13: three of your top players on a team that's already

652
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 13: not going to be as talented as it was. So

653
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Speaker 13: I think going in they had an uphill battle. And

654
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Speaker 13: you know, you know, you look at the goaltenders. They

655
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Speaker 13: have one NCAA goaltender, and that just tells you that

656
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 13: the depth probably wasn't there when the last time they've

657
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Speaker 13: had two junior hockey goalies out of the three. You know,

658
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Speaker 13: usually you have a bunch of guys who were playing

659
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Speaker 13: college already, and they didn't have that. You know, the

660
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Speaker 13: decor wasn't quite as deep. You know, I just didn't

661
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Speaker 13: think it was as talented as a squad to start with.

662
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Speaker 13: And you know, I think that's what the results showed.

663
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and look at it, you know, we always I

664
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Speaker 4: think the depth throughout the whole tournament and throughout the

665
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 4: world now has gotten so much better. Kevin and Wally

666
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Speaker 4: and I were talking about it before you were on

667
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Speaker 4: the But the depth of these teams are is just

668
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Speaker 4: getting better and better every year, isn't it.

669
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Speaker 11: It is?

670
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Speaker 13: And I even looked at like we've seen the Swedes

671
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Speaker 13: have good teams and the Finns have good teams. But

672
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Speaker 13: I was even really surprised by like the Latbians were

673
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 13: incredibly competitive in this tournament. They took Canada to overtime.

674
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Speaker 13: It just seems like the depth and even the countries

675
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Speaker 13: that you know, you don't expect them to be really good.

676
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Speaker 13: Usually the Latians go there and they're getting beat like

677
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Speaker 13: eight to one, right, and now they're taking Canada overtime

678
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Speaker 13: and just you know, they have a potential top ten

679
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 13: pick on their team like that, It just does feel

680
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Speaker 13: like the depth is increasing all over across the board.

681
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Speaker 4: Hey, let's talk about Canada a little bit, and you

682
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Speaker 4: know there there is so much pride up there, you know,

683
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Speaker 4: to to win every tournament because you know, they they

684
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Speaker 4: believe that they are still the power in in hockey.

685
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Speaker 4: And you know, and I mean, obviously you look at

686
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Speaker 4: the number of players they put out, but what is

687
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Speaker 4: going on with with with the Canadian junior team.

688
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Speaker 13: Well, I remember last year they really were heavily criticized

689
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Speaker 13: for maybe leaving a couple of skill guys off their roster,

690
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Speaker 13: and this year they just went all skill and offense,

691
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Speaker 13: and they just did not defend very well. You know,

692
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 13: their decorp was full of a bunch of guys who

693
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 13: all want to jump into play all the time. They

694
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Speaker 13: could have used a steady guy on the back end

695
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Speaker 13: or or two that you know, defend at a little

696
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 13: higher level because their top players just wanted to jump

697
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Speaker 13: all the time. And you know, I wondered for a

698
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Speaker 13: while whether it would matter that they couldn't defend because

699
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Speaker 13: they were scoring like seven goals a game, but in

700
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Speaker 13: the end it did matter. They just did not defend

701
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Speaker 13: well enough.

702
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Speaker 2: Well, let's jump over to college hockey, because it's been

703
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Speaker 2: a while since we've been able to talk about your

704
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Speaker 2: favorite sport. I noticed last night, if I remember correctly,

705
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Speaker 2: North Dakota fell short.

706
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Speaker 3: Correct, didn't they lose last night overtime?

707
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Speaker 13: You know, Yeah, time three to and overtime to Colorado College.

708
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Speaker 3: So they lose.

709
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Speaker 2: The Gophers lose at Penn State. Meanwhile, you know, give

710
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Speaker 2: us kind of an update to recap the first half

711
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Speaker 2: for us as we get ready for the second half

712
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Speaker 2: that's now underway.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, from my perspective here covering North Dakota, they had

714
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Speaker 13: a really good first half. You know, a lot of

715
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Speaker 13: turnover on their roster, fifteen new guys, which is the

716
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Speaker 13: most since nineteen seventy three. And I didn't expect them

717
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Speaker 13: to come together that quickly. I thought they they had

718
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Speaker 13: a really surprisingly good first half and it'll be interesting

719
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Speaker 13: to see where they can take in the second half.

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Speaker 4: You know.

721
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Speaker 13: You know, Michigan, I thought they would be talented, but

722
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Speaker 13: they've been better than I thought they would be. And

723
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Speaker 13: in the way that the nation is shaping up as

724
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Speaker 13: a whole, especially if you look at the NPI, it

725
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Speaker 13: is the NCCHC and Big Ten show right now. Yeah,

726
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Speaker 13: those two leagues have are just all over the top

727
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Speaker 13: fifteen in the NPI. In Hockey East right now would

728
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Speaker 13: be a one bid league and the bid would go

729
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Speaker 13: to whoever won the conference tournament. That is just crazy

730
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Speaker 13: to see. We'll see if someone can push up into

731
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Speaker 13: that top fifteen range, but they're not doing it quite yet.

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Speaker 4: He seas you know, obviously, now I got a couple

733
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Speaker 4: couple different league questions here for different leagues. I mean,

734
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Speaker 4: you look at the Big Ten and you've got you've

735
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Speaker 4: got Michigan State, You've got Michigan, and you've got Wisconsin.

736
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Speaker 4: All what they're on the top five right and do

737
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Speaker 4: you see anything changing out of the Big Ten as

738
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Speaker 4: we head into the Gauntlet which is January?

739
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Speaker 13: Not really. I don't think those teams are going anywhere,

740
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Speaker 13: you know. I think Michigan State and Wisconsin are kind

741
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Speaker 13: of built to be like playoff teams. They're your traditional

742
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Speaker 13: They've got some high end players, but they can really

743
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Speaker 13: be tough to play against. They're getting pretty good goaltending.

744
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 13: You know, if if Michigan continues to get this goaltending

745
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,359
Speaker 13: from Jack Ivan Covid that would be of huge help

746
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 13: to the Wolverines. But you know, you just look at

747
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 13: the depth. You know, Penn State is got a lot

748
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Speaker 13: of firepower up front as well, and obviously last night

749
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Speaker 13: posting a shutout win is impressive that you know that

750
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Speaker 13: they're able to keep opponents.

751
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Speaker 8: Off the board.

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Speaker 13: But I don't see those teams going anywhere, and I

753
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Speaker 13: feel it's the same with the n THHD. You know,

754
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Speaker 13: I I think Western Michigan beating Denver last night on

755
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 13: the road really did win for the Broncos, and I

756
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Speaker 13: think they're going to continue to push up here in

757
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Speaker 13: the NPI. So I don't see a lot of movement

758
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Speaker 13: in the very top of it. I am just curious

759
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Speaker 13: to see who else can sneak up there, kind of

760
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Speaker 13: be you or b C get things rolling here in

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Speaker 13: the second half.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I got and now I want to move to

763
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Speaker 4: a league no one wants to talk about except for me,

764
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Speaker 4: Schlass and that is a ccha because when you look

765
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Speaker 4: at that league, there are six teams that could win

766
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Speaker 4: the league, that could win the title, and I would

767
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Speaker 4: if I'm a team in another league. I don't want

768
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Speaker 4: to play a team in the CCHA in the NCAA Tournament.

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Speaker 4: My question would be, do you think there could be

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Speaker 4: two teams that come out of that league this year?

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Speaker 13: Yeah? I mean that's that's the one of another interesting

772
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 13: story shaping up. They have a couple of teams. You know,

773
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Speaker 13: Minnesota State is high in the MPI, and then August

774
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Speaker 13: Stana is the one that's right now sitting in a

775
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Speaker 13: pretty good spot in the MPI. AUGI played all eighth

776
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Speaker 13: of its non conference games against the ncch she and

777
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Speaker 13: went six and two. So if Minnesota State and Augy

778
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Speaker 13: end up in the top like thirteen fourteen or so,

779
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Speaker 13: and then hey, let's say someone else like Bmigie State

780
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Speaker 13: or Saint Thomas wins the league, Yeah, they could get

781
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Speaker 13: three teams in. That is a real possibility right now.

782
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 13: So you're right, it is shaping up to be an

783
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Speaker 13: interesting stretch run. I'm curious if those teams are going

784
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Speaker 13: to kind of beat up on each other though and

785
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 13: kind of drop each other, or if two of those

786
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Speaker 13: teams can really establish themselves as at large teams.

787
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Speaker 2: Talking to Brad Schlassman here from the Grand Four, sheerld

788
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Speaker 2: our guy. When it comes to college hockey, no doubt.

789
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Speaker 2: I got a question from every time this kid does something,

790
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 2: my timeline blows up. He's a wild draft pick twenty

791
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 2: first overall back in twenty twenty three, and now he's

792
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Speaker 2: playing for Michigan State, goes from Wisconsin to Michigan State,

793
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 2: and Charlie Stramo feels like every night he contakes to

794
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Speaker 2: get better and better. What have any of the three

795
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Speaker 2: of you seen from Stramo there with with Sparty as

796
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Speaker 2: he continues to grow into his game.

797
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Speaker 4: Well, I you know, obviously, you know, I you know,

798
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Speaker 4: we cover him. I think he is getting closer and

799
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Speaker 4: closer and closer to be NHL ready. And I mean

800
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Speaker 4: he's big, yep, he's strong, handles a puck. Well, he

801
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 4: doesn't lose a draw, does he wally?

802
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Speaker 5: Not very often?

803
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Speaker 7: And in the I think he's become more creative as

804
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Speaker 7: a player at Michigan State versus Wisconsin.

805
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And to me, it was all about getting in

806
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Speaker 4: the right setting and him taking kind of a step

807
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Speaker 4: back and just you know, starting to be the player

808
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 4: that he can and and you know, and and and

809
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 4: let's not forget he skates pretty well, you know, for

810
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 4: a guy his size, and so uh, you know, for

811
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Speaker 4: all the people that were wondering about Charlie Strammell watch

812
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 4: out because I think he you know, he's a proto

813
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 4: typical NHL body and and with with some skill and grits. So, uh,

814
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Speaker 4: that's my take on him. Schlass.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I think those those type of bodies take longer

816
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 13: in college hockey typically. Yeah, a lot of the big

817
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,240
Speaker 13: guys sometimes they come in, it just takes them longer,

818
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 13: and so he's kind of in that route, you know.

819
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Speaker 13: I know, like Minnesota fans probably watched you know, Javon

820
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 13: Moore right, like he's going to be a much different

821
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,919
Speaker 13: player when he's a junior than a freshman. Yeah, and yeah,

822
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Speaker 13: and I kind of feel that that's typical of those guys.

823
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Speaker 13: So I'm not surprised that he's emerged as he's got older.

824
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Speaker 13: He also had a lot of injuries in junior and

825
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 13: that probably set them back a little bit. But yeah,

826
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Speaker 13: big body guys sometimes just their development takes a little longer.

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Speaker 2: Twelve goals, twenty six points in nineteen games for Michigan State,

828
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Speaker 2: continuing to get better and better, at least according to

829
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Speaker 2: my timeline, Charlie Strama a wild prospect. Do you guys,

830
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Speaker 2: mind if we take a question from the studio audience. No,

831
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Speaker 2: all right, all right, let's go to the front row here,

832
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Speaker 2: Brett in Green Bay, you're on beyond the prime.

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Speaker 12: Hey, thanks, long time, first time floss. I don't know

834
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Speaker 12: if you know this, but my side gig when I'm

835
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Speaker 12: not pushing buttons here is actually being the head coach

836
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Speaker 12: of the Arizona State Sun Devils hockey team. The Doubleganger

837
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Speaker 12: at least looking like him. You mentioned the NCAAC. It

838
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Speaker 12: is a competitive division. A tough loss to Miami of

839
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Speaker 12: Ohio last night at muld Arena. Do you think they

840
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Speaker 12: have what it takes this year to even get back.

841
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Speaker 12: I know they're always receiving votes to be in the

842
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Speaker 12: top twenty, but not necessarily ranks. Do you think they

843
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 12: have the talent to at least breaking in the top twenty,

844
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Speaker 12: if not pushed for a tournament spot.

845
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Speaker 13: I think it's going to be a tough road just

846
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 13: because that decor is so young. It is tough to

847
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Speaker 13: win with a young decorps in college hockey. Arizona States

848
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 13: is young. That top line is absolutely on fire for

849
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 13: the sun Devils right now and is going to win

850
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 13: them a lot of games. Colin Potter h is red hot.

851
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Speaker 13: They've got you know, Shimmick has been really really good

852
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 13: for them, and Lucia's has been good. But I just

853
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 13: think it's really tough with a decor that young, and

854
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 13: with the schedule that ASU is going to be.

855
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Speaker 12: Playing, including a wild draft pick. I think Kip Key

856
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,839
Speaker 12: is his name, so yeah, yeah for that as well.

857
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Speaker 3: So we go over to the grand Ford Herold. What

858
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Speaker 3: are we going to find?

859
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Speaker 2: What type of great poetry are you putting out there

860
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:55,839
Speaker 2: for the fans to read.

861
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 13: Well, I'm trying to get back to college hockey right now.

862
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 13: After going in World Junior Boat Singler cop I followed

863
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 13: a lot of that with the College All Stars over there,

864
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 13: and yeah, hopefully we'll have some good content for the

865
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Speaker 13: second half.

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Speaker 2: Of the season here, all right, Schlass, thank you very much,

867
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Speaker 2: my friend. I guarantee you will be uh touchingas here

868
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 2: again very soon.

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Speaker 13: Awesome, Thanks guys.

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Speaker 2: Brast grand Forks Harold. You can find him on the

871
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 2: X machine at Schlossman GF. That's where I found on

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00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 2: the X machine Patrick, and I'll put this to Wally

873
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 2: as well. The Big Ten sent out a tweet that

874
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 2: Pat Mcalletty ranked the Big ten broadcast boosts in order,

875
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 2: and this is what you said, Patrick, so confirmed, Deny

876
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,319
Speaker 2: Notre Dame is number one, Penn State is number two,

877
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 2: Gopher's number three, Michigan fourth, The Buck guys are number five.

878
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 2: What's so great about the view at Pagoula that you

879
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 2: put him number two in the Big ten?

880
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,399
Speaker 4: All at Wally answer that. I mean, we're sitting here

881
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 4: right now.

882
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 7: Sitting right the neutral zone, and we're only about ten

883
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 7: rolls up from the ice, and we can hear of

884
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 7: the guys yapping at each other and what they're saying.

885
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 7: And hopefully our crowd MIC isn't picking up some of

886
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 7: the profanities. But it's a great view and the atmosphere

887
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 7: in this building is just phenomenal. It's one of the

888
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,399
Speaker 7: very best in college hockey. They built this building right,

889
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 7: it's just a little over five thousand seats, and I

890
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,280
Speaker 7: tell you, they get that student section going. It's really steep,

891
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 7: and boy, they're just on top of you. And I

892
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 7: just love this play. It's one of my favorite places

893
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 7: to go because State College is a college town.

894
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 5: It's in the middle of nowhere.

895
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 7: You can't even get in here unless you got a

896
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 7: charter flight that we are fortunately able to utilize. But

897
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 7: once you're here, it's a college atmosphere and this whole

898
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 7: town caters to college.

899
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 4: Yeah. And and in Notre Dame Compton Family Ice Arena,

900
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 4: we get our own booth. Yeah, and you know it

901
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 4: uh you know for radio, Kevin, Yeah, it's and you know,

902
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 4: and it's really the same same type of atmosphere at

903
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 4: Notre Dame. So they that's why I picked them number

904
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 4: one and number two.

905
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 2: So if that's your top five in the Big ten,

906
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 2: what's number one overall in all of college hockey? What's

907
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 2: your number one spot to be at from a broadcast standpoint, Well, I'm.

908
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 5: Still not order Dames, I would agree.

909
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really.

910
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 7: Uh it's the best, well Northeastern that the old rank.

911
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 7: Now they're tearing down Matthews Arena, but you are literally

912
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,839
Speaker 7: four rows away from the ice. And as a broadcaster,

913
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 7: your darn, you have to wear a helmet there because

914
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:33,840
Speaker 7: do go up there and.

915
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 4: Kevin, you know this from you know, when you're let's

916
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 4: say at the Grand Casino where you're up pretty high

917
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 4: and when you're down lower, I mean, and as Wally

918
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 4: alluded to, you know, you look you know, when you're

919
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 4: up at Grand Casina, you say, oh, why didn't that

920
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,879
Speaker 4: guy make that play? But then when you're down there

921
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 4: and you're really seeing how difficult to play it is,

922
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 4: and you can say, oh, yeah, I get it. You

923
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 4: know that was you know, he didn't see that guy

924
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 4: or it was it was really different. It's just a

925
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 4: different perspective of what you're looking at. And uh so

926
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 4: the closer to the ice, the better for for us broadcasters.

927
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,439
Speaker 3: It feels like this is the way it's going though.

928
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 2: That's why you love these old time barns because you

929
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 2: got these the great sight lines.

930
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 3: You're you're close to the action.

931
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 2: But when they build these newer buildings, without question, the

932
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 2: broadcasters are the ones that pay the price. They go

933
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 2: further up and further back, and that's they're going into

934
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 2: the the rafters and those great seats are going to

935
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 2: the you know, the pain customers.

936
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 4: It's very unfortunate that they didn't when they were you know,

937
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 4: building these new beautiful arenas and they are beautiful, that

938
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 4: they did. They didn't think, you know what, maybe uh

939
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 4: maybe we build something for the broadcasters. Yeah.

940
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 3: Always the afterthought, right, yeah, always the after thought.

941
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,439
Speaker 2: All right, let's squeeze in a break and then when

942
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 2: we continue, we'll jump back to the NHL stage.

943
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 3: The Wild got a big one.

944
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,320
Speaker 2: They're back on home ice coming up later on tonight

945
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 2: after a seven game road trip that took them on

946
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 2: either side of the New Year holiday. Now they're back

947
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 2: on home ice to open up a three game homestand

948
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 2: and they're gonna host the New York Islanders.

949
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 3: It's coming up later on tonight.

950
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 2: And a guy that's working TV for the Islanders, you

951
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 2: know this name, well, Cal Clutterbuck joins us.

952
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:27,839
Speaker 3: Next, I'm Beyond the Pond. Dan Beyond the.

953
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 2: Pond continues our number two, getting you ready for the

954
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 2: Wolves game coming up. The pregame starts at eleven forty

955
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 2: five in that one. Later on tonight, the Wild will

956
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 2: host the New York Islanders.

957
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 3: And this guy ahead for Shaper, he's here for the

958
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 3: Right Circle tries.

959
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 4: The next stores.

960
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 8: What a boot for.

961
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 14: Matthew Shaffer had won a goal for the eighteen year

962
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 14: old Just spectacular zeal And curls Shafer stars, Matthew Shaefer

963
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 14: wicks it and time over the lad.

964
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 2: That Matthew Shaffer something special, So too is Cal Clutterbuck

965
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 2: something special? There for the television broadcast over there for

966
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:11,320
Speaker 2: the New York Islanders.

967
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 3: Cal I'm Kevin Falnas.

968
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 2: We got Pat mcletty and Wally Shaffer out there in

969
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:18,320
Speaker 2: Penn State getting ready for the Gophers and Nitny Lyons,

970
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:19,879
Speaker 2: and thank you for joining us once again.

971
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 3: I'm be on the pond.

972
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 8: Oh, happy to be here, Kevin. Good to talk to

973
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 8: you again.

974
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 2: Well that Matthew Shaeffer and I'll turn you loose on

975
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:28,439
Speaker 2: Pat and Wally here in a second. But you told

976
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 2: us in the preseason how special this kid was. Maybe

977
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:34,919
Speaker 2: we didn't see as much of them as you did

978
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 2: in the preseason and leading up into the regular season.

979
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 3: Man, there is.

980
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,919
Speaker 2: Something special about that kid that you were absolutely right.

981
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 3: What a rookie campaign he's in the middle of.

982
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's special. It's just it's one of those

983
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 8: things you don't see very often. I don't know if

984
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 8: you want to call it generational, what do you want

985
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 8: to call it? Maybe early for that, but I don't

986
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 8: think it's early for me to put that tag on him.

987
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 8: I think it's just, you know, you could see the

988
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 8: impact that he's had on the team, on the fan base,

989
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 8: just from an energy perspective, and excitement perspective, and then

990
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 8: you know, the consistent amount of production, the ability to

991
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,879
Speaker 8: play twenty five plus minutes tonight as an eighteen year old,

992
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 8: you know, in the best league in the world. Like

993
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 8: these things just continue to sort of pile up, and

994
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 8: you know, even talks about potentially making Team Canada, the

995
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 8: Olympic team, which is you know, it's it's even the

996
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 8: guy picking the team said it was kind of a

997
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 8: crazy thing that he was even being considered. So you know,

998
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 8: it's just Long Island is very lucky to have him,

999
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 8: very special kid, and you know, I'm looking forward to

1000
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 8: watching play for free years.

1001
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 4: Hey cal it did Pat here with you? Nice to

1002
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:44,839
Speaker 4: talk to you. I mean, it's just crazy, you know,

1003
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 4: in my mind, and you can think back to when

1004
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 4: you were an eighteen year old, and you know, Wally

1005
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 4: and I see it with with these college kids, you know,

1006
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 4: and we preach, you know, give the guy time to mature.

1007
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,279
Speaker 4: A kid not necess early, Matthew, obviously, a kid time

1008
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 4: to mature and grow into his body. And and you know,

1009
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,240
Speaker 4: get used to playing with older, you know, against older players,

1010
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 4: but to think this kid is doing what he is

1011
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 4: doing at eighteen year old against any chellers the best

1012
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 4: in the world who are grizzled and mature, and and

1013
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 4: you know, it just it's it's mind blowing to.

1014
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 8: See it is. And you know what's interesting to me

1015
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:33,320
Speaker 8: is there's always an aspect of somebody's game, especially young defensemen,

1016
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 8: like you say, they come in when they're young. You know,

1017
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 8: they're difficult to pick in the first round. You're lucky

1018
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 8: when you get them, but they do take you know,

1019
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 8: usually three, four, maybe five years to learn the position

1020
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,879
Speaker 8: to the point where you're comfortable calling them your number

1021
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 8: one defenseman. You know, there's always an aspect of their game.

1022
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 8: Maybe they're not physical enough, maybe they're not strong enough,

1023
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,240
Speaker 8: maybe they're not fast enough. Maybe they don't play defense

1024
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 8: well enough, especially big time. You know, these days, these

1025
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 8: these defensemen are are very offensively gifted, have to learn

1026
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,959
Speaker 8: the other side of the puck. The interesting thing about

1027
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 8: Matthew is that he's kind of very well rounded. He's

1028
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 8: he's very uh, he's very smart when it comes to

1029
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,919
Speaker 8: how he defends. And and you know this is something

1030
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 8: if you you're going to watch him the first time

1031
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 8: or the first couple of times, you're going to watch

1032
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 8: his offensive ability, you're going to watch him jumping up

1033
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 8: the play. You're going to be shocked by how much

1034
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 8: he's in the play, and then you're going to be

1035
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 8: shocked about how quickly he's the first guy back to defend.

1036
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 8: But I think for me, the the telltale sign for

1037
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:27,839
Speaker 8: me was when he goes and plays in his own end.

1038
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 8: You just watch him. He doesn't ever really get tied up.

1039
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 8: He's not stuck, so he can always get out and

1040
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 8: go the other way. He's not getting hung up on bodies.

1041
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 8: He defends really well with his body positioning, similar to

1042
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,360
Speaker 8: like a Nick Lidstrom. It's not always about big physical contact.

1043
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 8: He's kind of in the pile. The puck finds him,

1044
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 8: he moves up to his winger, and next thing you know,

1045
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 8: he's the center lane drive on a on a three

1046
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 8: on two rush from from his own corner. So you

1047
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 8: know he doesn't have those holes, and to me, his

1048
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 8: strength is going to continue to improve. His brain for

1049
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 8: the game is obviously there, so you know, it's just

1050
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 8: it's just a home run. I mean, he's a special

1051
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 8: kid that you just don't make them like that. You know,

1052
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 8: like you said, there's always a hole or two in

1053
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 8: somebody's game. As they mature. I think he's starting from

1054
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 8: a place he's ahead of everybody from where he started.

1055
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 4: Andy Cal, Let's let's talk about your former team, the Wild,

1056
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 4: and obviously the acquisition of Quinn Hughes. All of a sudden,

1057
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 4: I think, around the league, cal and correct me if

1058
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 4: I'm wrong, kind of, you know, looked at that and

1059
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 4: once they acquired it and said, you know, once they

1060
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 4: acquired Quinn, you know, kind of I don't know if

1061
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 4: you wake up or whatever, but all of a sudden,

1062
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,479
Speaker 4: you know, Minnesota's being talked about as a potential team

1063
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 4: that could make a long run.

1064
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 8: Your thoughts, yeah, oh well, my thoughts Minnesota has been

1065
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,399
Speaker 8: you know, I think they've had a good core group

1066
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 8: of players there for a long time, even back to

1067
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 8: when I was still playing, I felt like it was

1068
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 8: a good nucleus of players. And you know, they're in

1069
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 8: an arm I mean while they're in an arms race

1070
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 8: right now in the Central and so you know, you're

1071
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 8: you're sitting there looking at, uh, who you got to

1072
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 8: compete against? Who your first round opponent's going to be.

1073
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 8: It's probably gonna be Colorado. It's probably gonna be Dallas.

1074
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 8: You know, Dallas goes out and as Nico Ranton, and

1075
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:14,439
Speaker 8: they have Miro Heightskin and Colorado obviously McKinnon, mccarur Cave.

1076
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,439
Speaker 8: So that's what you're up against. And so you got

1077
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 8: to give a lot of credit to Billy Garran for

1078
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:21,919
Speaker 8: going out there and getting the one guy that can

1079
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 8: that can put this team in the same conversation as

1080
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 8: those other two teams, especially given the fact that you're

1081
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 8: gonna have to go through one of them to get

1082
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:31,320
Speaker 8: to where you want to go. So I love it.

1083
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 8: I mean, listen, I'm a I'm a big fan of

1084
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 8: the Wild. I always watch them closely. I really enjoyed

1085
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 8: my time there. I still have friends in the area,

1086
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 8: so you know, I understand how big it is for

1087
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 8: that that franchise and and Wild fans I think deserve

1088
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 8: something like that, an acquisition like that for a long time.

1089
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 8: And good on Quinn for uh deciding to go and

1090
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 8: play there, And good on Billy, like I said, for

1091
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 8: putting the chips on the table, recognizing that he had

1092
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 8: an opportunity to get a player that, you know, similar

1093
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 8: to Matthew Schaffers, is a franchise changing player. And you

1094
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 8: added to a group of guys who are already pretty

1095
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 8: good team to begin with. Then then you're kind of

1096
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 8: cooking with gas at that point. So exciting times for

1097
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 8: both of these teams playing each other night.

1098
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you talk, it's a good way to put

1099
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 2: it an arms race there in the Central Division. But

1100
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 2: now I look at the squad that you cover on

1101
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 2: a more regular basis in the New York Islanders, playing

1102
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 2: some pretty good hockey sitting there right in the middle

1103
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:27,840
Speaker 2: of the pack there in the Metropolitan trying to jump in.

1104
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,800
Speaker 3: I look at their fifty three points. They're four points away.

1105
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 2: From the top seed in the Eastern Conference, but they're

1106
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 2: just three removed from being out of the playoffs completely.

1107
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 3: What a mess it is in the East?

1108
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 8: Yeah, crazy, I mean it's it's you know, in the West,

1109
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 8: you've got your your three four teams at the top

1110
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 8: who seem to be winning every night, and then in

1111
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:48,799
Speaker 8: the East you've got teams who wins three in a

1112
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 8: row and then they lose three in a row. It

1113
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,359
Speaker 8: just seems to be the way it's going. And these

1114
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 8: teams are so evenly matched, and you know, it's just

1115
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 8: difficult to win consistently, and you you add in injuries,

1116
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 8: you add in scoring, slumps and and things like that,

1117
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 8: and the yo yo just keeps just keeps yo yoing.

1118
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:10,319
Speaker 8: And it's the same with the Islanders. You know, they're there,

1119
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:12,839
Speaker 8: they're in a position where they have a good week,

1120
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 8: they win two out of three, everyone's happy, and then

1121
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:17,239
Speaker 8: you wake up on Tuesday morning and you know you're

1122
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:18,839
Speaker 8: only two points out of the bottom and you're two

1123
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:20,880
Speaker 8: points out of the top. So it's just one of

1124
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 8: those things. You just got to keep your head down.

1125
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 8: And I know people talk about it all the time.

1126
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 8: They just got to keep keep attacking it one day

1127
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 8: at a time and uh and you know, not get

1128
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 8: too high, not get too low. Now they're in the

1129
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 8: middle of a second game of a seven game road

1130
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 8: trip there in right now. This is going to be

1131
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:36,879
Speaker 8: a big one for them given this time of year.

1132
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 8: They're going to get a break obviously in February coming

1133
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 8: off of this trip. But if they can manage to

1134
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:43,400
Speaker 8: get through this trip five hundred or just over five hundred,

1135
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,240
Speaker 8: I think they're going to be in good shape heading

1136
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 8: into March out of this Olympic break because their schedule, uh,

1137
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 8: it's pretty favorable from a travel standpoint. So right now

1138
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 8: they're looking to get through this this trip on scale

1139
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 8: and maintain their position in the standings. And you know

1140
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 8: it's in the Eastern Conference. It's coming down to the

1141
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 8: last step. Uh that's that's such a foregone conclusion. So

1142
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 8: they're in a battle, but you know, it's fun. It

1143
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:05,799
Speaker 8: makes it fun to watch hockey RC.

1144
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 2: What what is their injury situation coming into tonight? I

1145
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:11,920
Speaker 2: from what I understand, Bulho Orvett is not on the trip.

1146
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 8: Correct, well, Horvat did not travel. He might meet them

1147
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 8: at some point. It's a long trip. I think they're out.

1148
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 8: They're out to fourteen days, so if he's I think

1149
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 8: they're calling it week to week or they said they

1150
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 8: were going to reevaluate in a week, which is about

1151
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 8: right around now or next couple of days. Obviously, he's

1152
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 8: going to be careful with himself with his his nomination

1153
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 8: to the to the Canadian Olympic team. He wants to

1154
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 8: make sure he can be healthy and play in that.

1155
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 8: And they've got obviously they've got a couple of long

1156
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 8: term injuries. Alex Romanhawv out for the year, Kyle Palmry

1157
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 8: out for the year, uh ACL injury. So other than that,

1158
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 8: pretty healthy and uh yeah, they're you know, there's there's

1159
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 8: a scrappy bunch, especially on the road. You know, the

1160
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 8: Islanders just kind of seemed to hang in there and

1161
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:00,719
Speaker 8: hang in there, and and they're resilient it. So they've

1162
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:02,839
Speaker 8: won a lot of games late in games, they've come

1163
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 8: back in games, and they won a lot of overtime

1164
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 8: shootout games just by being pesky and hanging in there,

1165
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 8: especially on the road. So it should be good one tonight.

1166
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 2: How about their goaltending situation. I think I saw Sarrok

1167
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 2: in as back. So is it Soroken and Riddick. That's

1168
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:16,160
Speaker 2: the one two punch.

1169
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 8: Soroken and Riddick, And they have been maybe the best

1170
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 8: two goaltenders in the world in the last eight weeks

1171
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 8: since Halloween. Soroken, you know, his numbers are great, they

1172
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 8: really are. But if you look a little deeper at

1173
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 8: the numbers and the number of high danger chances the

1174
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 8: Ollers give up on a regular basis, and his safe

1175
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:40,840
Speaker 8: percentage when those from those high danger areas is something

1176
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 8: in like the nine sixties, which is outrageous. He's won

1177
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 8: them seven or eight hockey games already this year. Halfway

1178
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 8: through the year. He's been incredible, and you know, as advertised.

1179
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 8: This is this is the goaltender he was when he

1180
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 8: came over, when I was still playing, and he went

1181
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 8: through about a year years worth a little bit of

1182
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 8: a drought for him, and he's back and uh, you

1183
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:04,439
Speaker 8: know what a weapon he is for them.

1184
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 2: Talking to former Wild forward Cal Clarbug also played with

1185
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 2: those New York Islanders now doing TV for the Islanders

1186
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 2: out there on the East coast. Tonight, the Wild taking

1187
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 2: on the Islanders pregame at six forty five right here.

1188
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 3: On Kate f A.

1189
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 2: N over a thousand games in the National Hockey League,

1190
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 2: three hundred and forty six of them came wearing that

1191
00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 2: in Minnesota Wild uniform.

1192
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 3: Are you still enjoying.

1193
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 2: Doing the TV thing and putting on the makeup and

1194
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 2: combing your hair and getting the mustache wax out?

1195
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 8: Yeah, no makeup for me. I'm a no makeup guy,

1196
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 8: so you can't see is what you get on TV?

1197
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 8: For me?

1198
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 4: But no, just wait, you'll get You'll get older, Cal,

1199
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 4: you you will get older.

1200
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 8: You know what. I don't know if I could, I

1201
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 8: don't know if I could ever do it. To be

1202
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 8: honest with you, I'd have to have somebody do it

1203
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 8: for me. I couldn't bring myself the sand in front

1204
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 8: of a mirror and put some makeup on my face.

1205
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 8: But no, the TV TV is going great. It's it's

1206
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 8: it's a lot of fun. I get to I get

1207
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 8: to watch a lot of teams coming in. I get

1208
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:02,800
Speaker 8: to watch the Islanders that get to be a part

1209
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 8: of it, interact with the fan base, trying, you know,

1210
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 8: give them a little bit of my opinion and a

1211
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 8: little bit of my my knowledge that I've accrued over

1212
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 8: the years, and and being around the game, playing the game.

1213
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:18,440
Speaker 8: So it's good, you know, I get to be at

1214
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 8: the home games, I'm on the concourse, interacting with people.

1215
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 8: It's a really nice, really nice transition for me from

1216
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:27,840
Speaker 8: from playing uh into this.

1217
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 7: I got well, Wally Shaver here, I just wanted to

1218
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 7: ask you a little bit about how the fan base

1219
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 7: is accepted and how it has grown from a marketing standpoint.

1220
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 7: Leaving the building in Brooklyn and and getting back out

1221
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 7: and out Long Island. How has that whole transition worked,

1222
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 7: and and and what's been the feeling out in Long

1223
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:47,439
Speaker 7: Island now?

1224
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 8: Well, Uh, the fan base in Brooklyn, you know, I

1225
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 8: think are our loyal fans stuck with us? Through that period.

1226
00:58:57,760 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 8: It was it was a frustrating period for everybody, even

1227
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 8: for us. I mean, we weren't able to you know,

1228
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 8: we didn't really live in Brooklyn. We still were on

1229
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 8: Long Island and our practicemings was on Long Island, and

1230
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 8: so it was a lot of traveling for US on

1231
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 8: home games didn't feel like home games for the better

1232
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 8: part of five years. What they did a really good

1233
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 8: job of was the NASA Coliseum had been renovated slightly,

1234
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 8: so for a year and a half to two years

1235
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 8: in between US going to UBS Arena and US leaving

1236
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 8: Barclays Center, we were able to go back and play

1237
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 8: at the Coliseum, which really re engaged the fan base

1238
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:34,240
Speaker 8: on Long Island. And you know, there was something special

1239
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 8: about that building, Coliseum, and it just so happens that

1240
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 8: we had pretty good teams those couple of years. We

1241
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 8: had some playoff runs in that building, obviously, most notably

1242
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:44,919
Speaker 8: the Conference final run I think in twenty twenty one

1243
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 8: in the coliseum right out of COVID, people allowed to

1244
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 8: come back into the building, just an electric atmosphere. I

1245
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 8: think that really that really ignited the fan base. And

1246
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 8: then we went to UBS a couple down years, and

1247
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 8: you know, there was a concern about crowds getting smaller

1248
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 8: and less consistent, and then they drafted Matthew Schaeffer and

1249
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 8: and that is all history. I mean, the building has

1250
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 8: an energy in it that I haven't seen. I haven't

1251
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 8: seen a long time. And you know, uh, it's a

1252
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 8: credit to the kid and what he's been able to do.

1253
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 8: It's also credit to his personality, his availability, him making

1254
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:26,800
Speaker 8: himself available to these two people, letting the fan base

1255
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 8: into who he is as a person, being open. People

1256
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 8: love it and they're they're they just they want to

1257
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 8: come to the rink every game because there he's that

1258
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 8: player that just might do something special tonight. He was

1259
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 8: the game against Toronto last Saturday night, scored two goals,

1260
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 8: including the ot winner, in a game that was kind

1261
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,320
Speaker 8: of nothing going on for the Islanders. He took put

1262
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 8: the team on his back. And this is one of

1263
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 8: those nights where you're gonna remember if you were there

1264
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:50,840
Speaker 8: or not. And that's what people are excited about.

1265
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 2: On Allowance, I got one more question for you later

1266
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 2: on in about twenty minutes, We're going to have one

1267
01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:58,880
Speaker 2: of your former head coaches on in, Jack Capolano, now

1268
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 2: working with a wild John Hines and doing some great job,

1269
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 2: some great work here in the State of Hockey. What

1270
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:06,200
Speaker 2: was it like to work with him? I'll ask him

1271
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 2: about you now I'm asking you about him.

1272
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 8: He was, he was great. I love Kathy. He's he's

1273
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 8: a great He's a great human being. He's he's hilarious, quirky, funny,

1274
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 8: fun guy to just sit down and talk talk, you know,

1275
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:27,680
Speaker 8: shop about even non hockey things. Just a fun conversation.

1276
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 8: I really enjoyed. I mean, he obviously he is going

1277
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 8: to be He's going to go down as the brainchild

1278
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 8: of me, Suzekis and Martin being a line for the

1279
01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 8: better part of nine or ten years. It was his idea,

1280
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:44,280
Speaker 8: so he'll take full credit for that. But he's a

1281
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:47,240
Speaker 8: great guy. He's a great he's a perfect assistant coach.

1282
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 8: I loved him as a head coach. I think it's

1283
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 8: just an assistant coach. Roll suits him great. He's he

1284
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 8: keeps it light, he knows the game, and he's just

1285
01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:56,880
Speaker 8: one guy to be around.

1286
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:58,840
Speaker 3: Awesome stuff. Cal, good luck tonight.

1287
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:01,080
Speaker 2: Look forward to seeing you in the State of Hockey

1288
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 2: sometime very soon, and hopefully that's coming up here shortly.

1289
01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 4: And Cal I want to leave you with this one too.

1290
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 4: My brother Joe, who you have played golf with, had

1291
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:16,200
Speaker 4: nothing about great things to say about your golf game,

1292
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 4: said you could just bound. So that's a that's a

1293
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 4: compliment for my brother Joe.

1294
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:24,960
Speaker 3: I hope. So you're on the golf course every freaking day.

1295
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 8: No, I did. I really enjoyed my time with Joe

1296
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:32,120
Speaker 8: and I actually uh got to you know, with him

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Speaker 8: and I would chat every time I would go and

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Speaker 8: play the Rangers, he'd come into the room. So yeah,

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Speaker 8: I enjoyed. I enjoyed my time being around Joe. We

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Speaker 8: had a good day at the golf course iday, for sure.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for the time, Cal, good luck, and thanks for

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01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 3: doing this.

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Speaker 8: You got it, guys, Thanks a lot.

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Speaker 2: Cal Clutterbuck now with Islanders TV, but of course one

1305
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Speaker 2: of the big names in the history of the Minnesota

1306
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:54,840
Speaker 2: Wild franchise. He's on the air later on tonight, as

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Speaker 2: is Joe, O'Donnell and Tom Reid pregame at six forty

1308
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:00,160
Speaker 2: five as the Wild take on the Islanders back on

1309
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:03,440
Speaker 2: home ice for the first time in twenty twenty six. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: you guys are back on the air tonight at four thirty,

1311
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 2: right pregame on Twin City's News Talk AM eleven thirty

1312
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Speaker 2: and one on three point five FM.

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Speaker 3: Look forward to hearing that.

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01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:16,880
Speaker 2: What are you expecting in the rematch from the Gophers

1315
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 2: trying to pick themselves up off the mat after a

1316
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Speaker 2: three zero shutout last night against the Nittany Lions.

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Speaker 4: Well, in college hockey is awfully, awfully tough to sweep.

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Speaker 4: You know, we've seen that because of the parody throughout

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Speaker 4: college hockey. So I you know, I listen. I'm hoping

1320
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Speaker 4: that you know, we see some some opt out of

1321
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 4: the Gophers tonight. And you know, I don't know Wally

1322
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Speaker 4: would go ahead.

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Speaker 7: They always respond well after a loss. Yeah, and I

1324
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:50,040
Speaker 7: think that's what we'll see tonight. Whether that'll relate to

1325
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Speaker 7: a win, we'll just have to wait and see what

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Speaker 7: on folds. But I think you'll see a much better

1327
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Speaker 7: Gopher team out here tonight.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. And it's not like they played a poor game

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Speaker 4: last night. The you know what's been there bugaboo all

1330
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 4: year is you know, creating offensive chances, and so you know,

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Speaker 4: hopefully that will that will be the case tonight.

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Speaker 2: We'll see Patrick when we next talk, at least on

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Speaker 2: the air. Most likely will be next Saturday. That's another

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Speaker 2: short show the while they're back on the road. They're

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Speaker 2: in Buffalo, and I believe they dropped the puck on

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Speaker 2: that one at eleven thirty, So we'll have just over

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Speaker 2: an hour next week on the next edition will be

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Speaker 2: on the Pond.

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Speaker 4: Well, we have to do what we have to do, keviny.

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Speaker 2: I should ask too. I failed to bring this up

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Speaker 2: earlier in the in the show. How is it being

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01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 2: back out on the road. I know you've had your

1343
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 2: your health issues, but obviously things are continuing to progress.

1344
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 2: Back on the road for the first time in a

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Speaker 2: few months, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's been great, and everybody from the staff,

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Speaker 4: the coaches, my broadcast partner who is making sure he's

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Speaker 4: taking care of me awesomely.

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Speaker 5: I'm getting tired of carrying sirs.

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Speaker 4: Yeah no, but no, it's been great. It's been fun

1351
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Speaker 4: and it's great to be back. All right.

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Speaker 2: Well, you guys have a great call later on tonight.

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Speaker 2: We'll be listening and we'll check in against him. Wally,

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Speaker 2: thanks for your contributions today.

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Speaker 5: Oh my pleasure. I enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Kevin, thanks for carrying me again.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there we go.

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Speaker 2: Wally shaver Pat mcletty out there at Pegoula Ice Arena

1359
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Speaker 2: while the Gophers taking on Penn State. As mentioned, puckle

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Speaker 2: drop just after five o'clock. Pregame starts at four thirty

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Speaker 2: on Twin Cities News Talk AM eleven thirty and FM

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Speaker 2: one oh three point five.

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Speaker 3: We still got just under a half hour to go.

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Speaker 2: We still got to get our youth hockey report from

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Speaker 2: Tony Scott. Plus we'll check in with Cal Clutterbuck's former

1366
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Speaker 2: head coach and Jack Kapuwano. That's all coming up after this,

1367
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Speaker 2: I'll be on the Pond our weekly installment and our

1368
01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 2: weekly check in with Tony Scott at Youth Hockey Hub.

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Speaker 2: It's nice enough to give us kind of an update

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Speaker 2: on what's going on. We spent a lot of time

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Speaker 2: talking college. We've taught a lot about the National Hockey

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Speaker 2: League through this point of the broadcast. So now let's

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Speaker 2: check in on the youth hockey scene. Tony, you're stuck

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Speaker 2: with just me. Kevin Falmers, welcome again to be on

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Speaker 2: the Pond.

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Speaker 11: How are you doing today, Kevin?

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Speaker 3: I'm good.

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Speaker 2: I was watching scrolling the little Twitter machine yesterday and

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Speaker 2: I see you guys doing car karaoke as you make

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Speaker 2: your way across the state of Hockey.

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Speaker 3: Where were you guys going? Where you been?

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Speaker 11: So Peter and I went up to. Every year, Peter

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Speaker 11: and I have broadcast with the help of our production team,

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Speaker 11: the Rosa World Max Foundation game. It's called the Max

1385
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Speaker 11: Rivalry Game and it's a doubleheader between Rosa and World

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01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:44,440
Speaker 11: Boys High School and Girls High School. And we're lucky

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Speaker 11: enough at the Marvin Family sends us up, some of

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Speaker 11: our staff up on an airplane and some of us

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Speaker 11: have to drive, and I was a driver this year.

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Speaker 11: But it was a fantastic game, all for a great cause.

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01:06:56,640 --> 01:06:58,760
Speaker 11: All the money went to from the proceeds in the

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Speaker 11: game go to you know, I'll you know, go to

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Speaker 11: money for the Max Foundation and Max Foundations of Wellness

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Speaker 11: mental wellness programs that go into school systems in the

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Speaker 11: in the curriculums of schools all over all over the States.

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Speaker 11: So it's a great, great initiative. Great time to be

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Speaker 11: up there. And what I like about I'm amost catching

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Speaker 11: up about my friends from Rosa and war at the

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Speaker 11: same time.

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Speaker 3: Awesome. Well now you're back, So what's going on today?

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Speaker 11: Well, I was up early today. I didn't go to

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Speaker 11: a seven o'clock hockey game, but I did watch an

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01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 11: eight o'clock hockey game. In the U eighteen Worlds, USA

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01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 11: girls team played US excuse me, Slovakia and they won

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01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 11: thirteen and nothing. Why is this important, Kevin? Nine girls

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01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:44,480
Speaker 11: from Minnesota high school teams, seven different teams are without

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Speaker 11: their best players this week, and Bill playing in Nova

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01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:50,480
Speaker 11: Scotia and they won thirteen to rip. Today. A girl

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01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 11: from Banilla Sint Margaret's Tallahanson had two goals and the sifths,

1410
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 11: six of the nine had a point today on the

1411
01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:59,320
Speaker 11: points on the score sheet, and they're big win this morning.

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Speaker 3: Wow, So what's going on back here a little closer

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Speaker 3: to home?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, so you know you mentioned these these teams, right,

1415
01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 11: you got Jill Murray, Banild, All these great teams have

1416
01:08:09,840 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 11: their best players gone. So if you see some like

1417
01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 11: weird scores over the next ten days, go, oh, that's

1418
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 11: why that happened. You know, their best players missing, like

1419
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:21,760
Speaker 11: Grand Rapids the other nay beat right, grew beat a

1420
01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:24,200
Speaker 11: midge like, Wow, that shouldn't happen. Well, they're missing their

1421
01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 11: best player, Bailey Roup. She's she's in Nova Scotia right now.

1422
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:29,639
Speaker 11: So there's a little bit going on, like the rank

1423
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Speaker 11: a real ranker out there on the girl's face to

1424
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:33,840
Speaker 11: the side, takes a little bit what's going on right

1425
01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:35,080
Speaker 11: now with a grain of salt.

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Speaker 2: All right, So on the boys high school side, I

1427
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:39,400
Speaker 2: was watching the box scores this week and it was

1428
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Speaker 2: an unbelievable week. I know you're going to touch on

1429
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:47,080
Speaker 2: the Hermantown loss. Uh, that seems like a pretty major upset.

1430
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, if you look at it, Proctor's two

1431
01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:55,320
Speaker 11: best players are freshmen, right. Uh, Yost, the kid who

1432
01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 11: had the game whining goals a freshman. That Proctor team

1433
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 11: was in the State Pebe tournament two years ago. So

1434
01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:03,960
Speaker 11: no surprise that they're doing well, but surprise that they're

1435
01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:07,479
Speaker 11: doing well so early in their career. Up there, Jackson,

1436
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Speaker 11: Hardy and Rios for Procter really put on a show

1437
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:13,240
Speaker 11: for them. Yeah, it's a major upset. And then two

1438
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Speaker 11: nights later, he Dina loses to Saint Michael Alwa Grow

1439
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:20,679
Speaker 11: for the first time in program history. Pretty amazing stuff.

1440
01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:24,800
Speaker 11: Two years ago, this group of juniors lost to minnetakat

1441
01:09:24,840 --> 01:09:28,680
Speaker 11: eighteen to nothing. Now two years later, they're kind of

1442
01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 11: on the rise, and I'm pretty proud of this group.

1443
01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:35,160
Speaker 11: I've known these kids on that Saint Michael team, Clark

1444
01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:39,599
Speaker 11: and Monahan and a bunch of great kids on that team,

1445
01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:42,559
Speaker 11: and to watch them bed Dinah must feel pretty special

1446
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:42,840
Speaker 11: to them.

1447
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:43,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt.

1448
01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:45,800
Speaker 2: So as you look at the scoreboard today, what are

1449
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:47,759
Speaker 2: some of the matchups that you're going to be watching

1450
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:50,679
Speaker 2: for today in boys state high school hockey tournament.

1451
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Speaker 11: I did there's three big games. I left out a

1452
01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:57,320
Speaker 11: girls game. You have the pass state champions Dodge County

1453
01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:59,439
Speaker 11: trails up to North State Paul and plays Hill Murray.

1454
01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 11: Should be game because that's Cabby's full but Bill Murray's

1455
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:05,760
Speaker 11: missing two of their top players, so that should be

1456
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:07,919
Speaker 11: a pretty interesting game. And then on the boys side,

1457
01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 11: you got to think about you know, Saint Thomas hosts Morehead.

1458
01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:12,679
Speaker 11: That's always gonna be a good game.

1459
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:13,280
Speaker 6: Uh.

1460
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:17,000
Speaker 11: The Spuds really took it to Saint Thomas. They chased

1461
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:19,360
Speaker 11: their top goaltender out of the game in our tournament

1462
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:21,559
Speaker 11: in Prior Lake last week, so that should be a

1463
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 11: good game. That rematching pretty good. And then probably the

1464
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:26,240
Speaker 11: game of the day and boys tip school hockey Dina

1465
01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:29,839
Speaker 11: hosts Minnetaka. So I mean it's obviously a big matchup,

1466
01:10:29,880 --> 01:10:33,080
Speaker 11: but Minnetaka's undefeated. If there were ever a time for

1467
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:35,320
Speaker 11: them to lose a game that would be a good loss.

1468
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 11: Tonight would be the time because the rest of their season,

1469
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:41,240
Speaker 11: all their tough games are at home, and I think

1470
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Speaker 11: they got a legit shot of going undefeated. I looked

1471
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Speaker 11: at their schedule this morning. They have a road game

1472
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Speaker 11: at Rogers and then the rest of their games are

1473
01:10:49,240 --> 01:10:52,320
Speaker 11: at home. So an undefeated season in high gol hockey

1474
01:10:52,439 --> 01:10:55,400
Speaker 11: is pretty difficult to manage. If if anyone can do

1475
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:57,880
Speaker 11: it, it could be the staff over Minnetaka and the teams

1476
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Speaker 11: they have.

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Speaker 3: Right now, All right, Tony, I'm up against that. I

1478
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:02,280
Speaker 3: gotta go. Thanks to your contributions. We'll talk to you

1479
01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:03,080
Speaker 3: again next week.

1480
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:04,559
Speaker 11: Thanks Kevin.

1481
01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:08,400
Speaker 2: Tony Scott Youth Hockey Hub checking in with his weekly

1482
01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 2: contributions quick Break and then we're gonna join be joined

1483
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Speaker 2: by Jack Coppolano. Get ready for the wild and Oil

1484
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:17,400
Speaker 2: Islanders coming up later on tonight. In Saint Paul, you're

1485
01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:19,080
Speaker 2: listening to be on the pond on the fan.

1486
01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:23,160
Speaker 3: Freestof charging in bright.

1487
01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:30,000
Speaker 14: Circle, waits Beck for pasts, Matt Superrello, Wait is it

1488
01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:31,880
Speaker 14: an overtime.

1489
01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 15: I don't know, that's probably only two spins sprints I

1490
01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:38,040
Speaker 15: got in his body. So if I don't score that

1491
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:42,720
Speaker 15: one hig impact checking. But no, it's a little bit

1492
01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 15: of life in his body still, So that's good to see.

1493
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 2: Matt's Zucarello after an overtime win against the Kraken in Seattle,

1494
01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:54,720
Speaker 2: finishes off a lengthy seven game road trip, gets his

1495
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:58,760
Speaker 2: seventh career overtime game winner and the Wild come home victorious.

1496
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Speaker 2: Kevin Fallas year wrapping up the final segment here of

1497
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Speaker 2: Beyond the Pond as we get ready for the Timberwolves

1498
01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:07,679
Speaker 2: in Cleveland and also later on tonight, the while taking

1499
01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:09,519
Speaker 2: on the New York Islanders to talk about that and

1500
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Speaker 2: more from the coaching staff, were bringing Jack Capolano. Jack,

1501
01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 2: thanks for joining us here on kf AN.

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01:12:16,479 --> 01:12:17,280
Speaker 9: Thanks for having me.

1503
01:12:17,479 --> 01:12:19,080
Speaker 3: Nice way to finish off that road trip.

1504
01:12:19,120 --> 01:12:20,599
Speaker 2: I know it was a grind, and we can get

1505
01:12:20,600 --> 01:12:23,600
Speaker 2: into the particulars of what a grind that was, but

1506
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Speaker 2: that was a fun hockey game against the Cracking, and

1507
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Speaker 2: of course it's always more fun and it makes the

1508
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Speaker 2: ride home a lot better when you come out with

1509
01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 2: both points.

1510
01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:36,280
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, it's like anything else. You know, it

1511
01:12:36,320 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 9: was a long trip, but our guys had dialed in.

1512
01:12:38,280 --> 01:12:42,200
Speaker 9: They and you know, we were focused, and you know,

1513
01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:44,760
Speaker 9: the last game is always the toughest one after a

1514
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:47,000
Speaker 9: long trip. And you got to give Seattle credit. You know,

1515
01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:49,120
Speaker 9: they're missing a few key guys in the lineup. They

1516
01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:51,840
Speaker 9: played extremely hard, but we found a way to to,

1517
01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:56,080
Speaker 9: you know, compete and play hard. And then obviously the

1518
01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 9: three on three with the great play by Faber and

1519
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:00,880
Speaker 9: then Caprice off to Zucarello.

1520
01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:04,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, a nice little pass, a little saucer pass from Caprice.

1521
01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:06,479
Speaker 2: I sets up Zucarello the windmill right into the back

1522
01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:08,840
Speaker 2: of the net and it's a two points a road

1523
01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:11,400
Speaker 2: trip that saw the wild grab. I think it was

1524
01:13:11,400 --> 01:13:13,920
Speaker 2: ten out of a possible fourteen points. So that's pretty good.

1525
01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:16,920
Speaker 2: Tom Reid on our broadcast says, and he's been around

1526
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:19,680
Speaker 2: this game for many, many decades. He says, that's the

1527
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 2: longest road trip he's ever been a part of. Now

1528
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:25,000
Speaker 2: he's not playing at nor are you. But how tough

1529
01:13:25,200 --> 01:13:25,400
Speaker 2: was that?

1530
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:25,680
Speaker 8: Too?

1531
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:26,280
Speaker 3: Weak grind?

1532
01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 9: Well, you know what, it's always good to get away,

1533
01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:33,439
Speaker 9: so the guys get some camaraderie, obviously, and but that

1534
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 9: was a little bit a longer trip because of the

1535
01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:39,120
Speaker 9: World Juniors obviously the tournament they had at the Grand Casino.

1536
01:13:39,200 --> 01:13:42,400
Speaker 9: But we've been on a few of these before. This

1537
01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:46,800
Speaker 9: one obviously was a little extended, and you know, it

1538
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:49,360
Speaker 9: didn't help with the weather. Like we went to La

1539
01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:51,720
Speaker 9: you know, we were in some cities and obviously the

1540
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:55,559
Speaker 9: accombinations that the organization put us up with tremendous, but

1541
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:58,400
Speaker 9: just a little bit cloudy, a little bit rainy. We

1542
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:01,960
Speaker 9: we didn't care as the weather we wanted, so you know,

1543
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:03,840
Speaker 9: maybe that had a little bit to do with it too.

1544
01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:05,519
Speaker 9: It made it a little bit longer as well.

1545
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:06,720
Speaker 3: Get back home.

1546
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 2: Now you open up a three game homestand that starts

1547
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:11,640
Speaker 2: tonight against the New York Islanders. Before we preview that,

1548
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:15,840
Speaker 2: the addition of Quinn Hughes, I know it's been now

1549
01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:18,360
Speaker 2: thirteen games. He's got thirteen points in thirteen games. I

1550
01:14:18,400 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 2: haven't had a chance to ask you about Quinn Hughes.

1551
01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:23,479
Speaker 2: You knew about him before coming here. World class player.

1552
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:25,560
Speaker 2: What's it like seeing him in a wild uniform?

1553
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:30,880
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, obviously he's a world class player. And obviously,

1554
01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:35,360
Speaker 9: you know it's as advertised. You know, he's elusive. Obviously,

1555
01:14:35,439 --> 01:14:38,840
Speaker 9: tremendous puck skills and hockey IQ and hockey sense and

1556
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:41,840
Speaker 9: moves the pucket. He's very deceptive and you know, he

1557
01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:45,400
Speaker 9: sees the game extremely well. And you know, I think

1558
01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:48,559
Speaker 9: for our guys, you know, to it gets to it's

1559
01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:50,800
Speaker 9: contagious amongst the room too when Billy brings in a

1560
01:14:50,880 --> 01:14:54,280
Speaker 9: high quality player like that. So he's been good. He's

1561
01:14:54,320 --> 01:14:56,639
Speaker 9: been good in the room, which is which is more

1562
01:14:56,680 --> 01:15:00,479
Speaker 9: important obviously than anything. He fits right in and obviously

1563
01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:04,400
Speaker 9: has helped that team and being being paid with the favors,

1564
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:07,719
Speaker 9: this help Brox game and I'm sure it helps Quinn

1565
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:10,439
Speaker 9: game as well. But you know, the points are gonna

1566
01:15:10,439 --> 01:15:13,680
Speaker 9: come obviously that's the that's the player that he is.

1567
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:16,760
Speaker 9: But you know, defensively he's playing sound force as well.

1568
01:15:16,880 --> 01:15:19,760
Speaker 2: Thirteen points in thirteen games whild eight two and three

1569
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:22,519
Speaker 2: since acquiring Quinn hughes A big piece of the blue line.

1570
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 2: A big piece in front is jul Rik Znak, injured

1571
01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:28,920
Speaker 2: against the Kraken in the finale of the road trip. Today,

1572
01:15:28,960 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 2: the Wild call up Ben Jones in case is Jule

1573
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:34,920
Speaker 2: arks Neck isn't available. I don't expect you to tell

1574
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:36,720
Speaker 2: me the status of jeuele rks Neck. I don't even

1575
01:15:36,760 --> 01:15:38,680
Speaker 2: know if you know, but how important is he to

1576
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 2: this franch I know that Hughes is important Capris, but

1577
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:45,000
Speaker 2: there's a lot of guys that are important. The MVP

1578
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:47,519
Speaker 2: of this team might be Jule erks Neck for everything

1579
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:48,920
Speaker 2: he does on both ends of the ice jack.

1580
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:53,479
Speaker 9: Yeah, this, you know, like you said, on one team,

1581
01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:56,599
Speaker 9: and like as coaches, you always talk management, you always

1582
01:15:56,640 --> 01:15:59,120
Speaker 9: talk there's always a guy on each team, right, and

1583
01:15:59,479 --> 01:16:02,760
Speaker 9: Eki is that guy for us. And it's not always

1584
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:07,479
Speaker 9: the most explosive, explosive, high profile guy, the points guy.

1585
01:16:07,560 --> 01:16:09,880
Speaker 9: But a guy that does everything right, plays a two

1586
01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:14,240
Speaker 9: hundred foot game, is utilized in all situations, powerplay, penalty kill,

1587
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:17,400
Speaker 9: you know, five D six, six D five, you name it,

1588
01:16:17,439 --> 01:16:20,679
Speaker 9: he does it. So, yeah, we don't know the status

1589
01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:24,680
Speaker 9: or where it is right now. But obviously, you know,

1590
01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:27,840
Speaker 9: since I've been in this organization for the last what

1591
01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:29,880
Speaker 9: is a year and a half now almost two, it's

1592
01:16:30,280 --> 01:16:32,920
Speaker 9: next man up mentality, We've lost a lot of guys

1593
01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:36,000
Speaker 9: and guys that stepped in, whether it's guys that are here,

1594
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 9: guys that have been called up from Iowa, and we've

1595
01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 9: kept the ball roll and so at the end of

1596
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:45,320
Speaker 9: the day. You know, we always talk about the competitivists

1597
01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:48,479
Speaker 9: and our competitive nature, and that's the one thing that

1598
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:51,800
Speaker 9: we have here. So depending on who's in or who's out,

1599
01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:53,879
Speaker 9: that's the one thing that we will do is we'll.

1600
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:56,360
Speaker 3: Compete real quick. About the New York Islanders, that's what

1601
01:16:56,400 --> 01:16:56,680
Speaker 3: you got.

1602
01:16:56,760 --> 01:16:59,200
Speaker 2: And coming back on whole night after a long road trip,

1603
01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:01,880
Speaker 2: you worry about the focus going into that first game,

1604
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:03,880
Speaker 2: but you better have it tonight to that Islanders teams

1605
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:04,920
Speaker 2: playing some pretty good hockey.

1606
01:17:05,960 --> 01:17:08,800
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's another team right like that that banged up

1607
01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:10,639
Speaker 9: a little bit. They got a couple of guys out

1608
01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:14,040
Speaker 9: in bo Horvat, you know, obviously in Olympia there too.

1609
01:17:14,160 --> 01:17:17,760
Speaker 9: So like the league's tough. It's a grind. I mean,

1610
01:17:18,240 --> 01:17:22,120
Speaker 9: they work extremely hard, they play structured. Obviously their goaltending

1611
01:17:22,160 --> 01:17:24,040
Speaker 9: has been good for him, no different than the two

1612
01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 9: guys that we have in on it as well. So

1613
01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:29,160
Speaker 9: you know, we we expect, we expect the tight game,

1614
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:31,800
Speaker 9: a hard checking game. They they had a really good

1615
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 9: game against Nashville a few nights ago, So yeah, it's

1616
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:37,920
Speaker 9: not an easy night in the league. It doesn't matter,

1617
01:17:38,160 --> 01:17:41,360
Speaker 9: you know what, what place you're in and uh, you know,

1618
01:17:41,400 --> 01:17:42,639
Speaker 9: you just go through the road trip.

1619
01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:43,360
Speaker 5: We just went on.

1620
01:17:43,439 --> 01:17:46,040
Speaker 9: I mean it's it's a grind. And like you said,

1621
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:48,720
Speaker 9: the first game back from a trip. We gave the

1622
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:51,680
Speaker 9: guys some time off though, so hopefully we uh you know,

1623
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:54,640
Speaker 9: we mentally had a good day yesterday and and and

1624
01:17:54,720 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 9: today here and be ready to go at it tonight.

1625
01:17:57,479 --> 01:17:59,400
Speaker 2: Unfortunately I got to wrap it up, but I did

1626
01:17:59,400 --> 01:18:02,479
Speaker 2: want to pass hell hello from Cal Clutterbuck had him

1627
01:18:02,479 --> 01:18:04,599
Speaker 2: on earlier in the show, a guy that you coached

1628
01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:06,479
Speaker 2: there and in your time with the New York Islanders,

1629
01:18:06,479 --> 01:18:09,000
Speaker 2: had nothing but great things to say about Cappy as

1630
01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:10,960
Speaker 2: he called you. And also Pat mccletty, he's out in

1631
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:13,479
Speaker 2: Penn State for the broadcast for the Gophers tonight.

1632
01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:15,240
Speaker 3: Wanted to pass along hello to you as well.

1633
01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:18,679
Speaker 9: Well, thank you and thanks for having me all.

1634
01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:19,240
Speaker 3: Right, very good.

1635
01:18:19,280 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 2: That is Jack Capuano, the one of the assistant coaches

1636
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:26,200
Speaker 2: associate head coach for the Minnesota Wild getting ready for

1637
01:18:26,200 --> 01:18:28,840
Speaker 2: the Wild and Islanders tonight in Saint Paul. Pregame at

1638
01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:32,240
Speaker 2: six forty five puck drops just after seven o'clock. That

1639
01:18:32,280 --> 01:18:34,160
Speaker 2: would be a worry, Brett, if they don't have their

1640
01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:36,719
Speaker 2: focus and they're not ready to go tonight. That's always

1641
01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:39,320
Speaker 2: the that's the old wives tale, the cliche coming in

1642
01:18:39,439 --> 01:18:40,479
Speaker 2: off a long road trip.

1643
01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:42,120
Speaker 3: They didn't get until yesterday.

1644
01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:45,760
Speaker 2: They landed back in Saint Paul sometime yesterday afternoon, and

1645
01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:47,559
Speaker 2: now they're right back on the ice tonight to take

1646
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:50,200
Speaker 2: on an Islanders team that's feeling it right now. Five too,

1647
01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:52,360
Speaker 2: and two I think I saw in their last nine games,

1648
01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 2: so they got the work cut out for him on

1649
01:18:54,479 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 2: that game number one.

1650
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:57,719
Speaker 12: And this is the dog days of the NHL season.

1651
01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:00,920
Speaker 12: You mentioned it. It feels like a into the Olympic break.

1652
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:03,280
Speaker 12: But then the problem is we have so many Olympians

1653
01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:05,680
Speaker 12: on this team. Not a lot of them, thankfully Caprisov

1654
01:19:05,680 --> 01:19:09,120
Speaker 12: will get a break, but a lot of Quinn Hughes Fa.

1655
01:19:09,280 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 12: We had a goal and all Team USA goal the

1656
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:14,639
Speaker 12: other night, so it's going to continue to go. It's

1657
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:17,559
Speaker 12: great from a viewer perspective, but yeah, I can imagine

1658
01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:18,640
Speaker 12: how exhausting it would be.

1659
01:19:18,760 --> 01:19:21,440
Speaker 2: And like he said, he doesn't know the status of Juelerksinek.

1660
01:19:21,560 --> 01:19:24,519
Speaker 2: They did just in case call of Ben Jones from Iowa,

1661
01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 2: but that would be a significant injury and they've dealt

1662
01:19:28,120 --> 01:19:29,839
Speaker 2: with injuries throughout the course of the season.

1663
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:32,000
Speaker 3: That's a that's an extensive one.

1664
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:34,400
Speaker 2: If they if they lose Jules nec for any length

1665
01:19:34,439 --> 01:19:36,320
Speaker 2: of time, that cuts a hole right down the middle

1666
01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:36,880
Speaker 2: of their lineup.

1667
01:19:36,960 --> 01:19:38,680
Speaker 12: Well, the second line has been one of the best

1668
01:19:38,720 --> 01:19:40,439
Speaker 12: of not the best lines on this team, and he's

1669
01:19:40,479 --> 01:19:43,320
Speaker 12: a big part of that with Johansson and Boldie. So yeah,

1670
01:19:43,400 --> 01:19:46,479
Speaker 12: that's and especially when you talk about high end guys

1671
01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:48,920
Speaker 12: and shutting them down, there's no one better on this

1672
01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:51,280
Speaker 12: Wild squad than Jewel Lyrics and X So that would

1673
01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:54,599
Speaker 12: be a huge miss, especially with a young, young gun

1674
01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:55,519
Speaker 12: and Schaefer coming in.

1675
01:19:55,720 --> 01:19:58,799
Speaker 2: We know how good the Wild have been since November

1676
01:19:58,880 --> 01:20:01,200
Speaker 2: first on home ice. They've great as well all season

1677
01:20:01,200 --> 01:20:04,919
Speaker 2: long thirteen four and five, but since November first, twelve

1678
01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:07,479
Speaker 2: one and three. Tonight back on home ice for the

1679
01:20:07,520 --> 01:20:10,479
Speaker 2: first time in twenty twenty six, after wrapping up a

1680
01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:13,519
Speaker 2: seven game road trip. Now they got three straight at home,

1681
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:16,479
Speaker 2: including tonight against the New York Islanders. Pregame at six

1682
01:20:16,600 --> 01:20:19,360
Speaker 2: forty five puck drops just after seven o'clock as the

1683
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:23,160
Speaker 2: Wild host Matthew Schaeffer and the New York Islanders up

1684
01:20:23,200 --> 01:20:25,840
Speaker 2: to dial. Of course, you've got Wally Shaver and Pat

1685
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:28,439
Speaker 2: mcalletty calling all the play by play action between the

1686
01:20:28,479 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 2: Gophers and Penn State. You can catch that one starting

1687
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:33,880
Speaker 2: at four to thirty with the pregame puck drops just

1688
01:20:33,920 --> 01:20:37,200
Speaker 2: after five o'clock from Happy Valley, Twin Cities News Talk

1689
01:20:37,240 --> 01:20:40,960
Speaker 2: AM eleven thirty and FM one O three point five. Brett,

1690
01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:44,240
Speaker 2: thank you as always, and wonderful job today on Brett

1691
01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:45,080
Speaker 2: Blakemore's Breakaway.

1692
01:20:45,160 --> 01:20:45,880
Speaker 5: Thank you very much.

1693
01:20:45,920 --> 01:20:48,320
Speaker 12: Go wild tonight and go Pack, go as well.

1694
01:20:48,200 --> 01:20:51,160
Speaker 2: No doubt about it, Go Pack, go indeed. And as

1695
01:20:51,160 --> 01:20:53,960
Speaker 2: for those Timberwolves, they're on the air right now. They're

1696
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:56,640
Speaker 2: taking on the Cavs in Cleveland. So we're going to

1697
01:20:56,680 --> 01:20:59,000
Speaker 2: turn you over to Alan Horton and company on the

1698
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:00,519
Speaker 2: Timberwolves Radio Network.

1699
01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:03,080
Speaker 3: Oh, Go Wolves, and go wild.

1700
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 10: Eight hours after we tipped off on Thursday night against

1701
01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:12,240
Speaker 10: the Cavaliers, we faced the Cavaliers again, this time in Cleveland.