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Speaker 1: Tom We got a SoundBite the Penguins coach Dan Muse.

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Speaker 1: He was mad about the way the team performed Saturday

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Speaker 2: Here's some sound secreted out of the locker room.

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Speaker 1: Dan Muse addressing the Penguins after that lost to Seattle.

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Speaker 3: And for those of you who think you've got no practice,

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Speaker 3: tomorrow six am, dogscape, I want to see every single

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Speaker 3: wann yet work hitasses off until you if you.

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Speaker 4: Can, got sound.

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Speaker 2: This is not baseball. Do you want to make the

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Speaker 2: playoffs or not?

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Speaker 1: That's well put and this is not effing baseball. Penguins

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Speaker 1: at home tomorrow night, Buffalo visits. You know what's a

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Speaker 1: big hit on the jumbo tronic Penns games. We were

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Speaker 1: just talking about maybe putting Cutch in a Perogi suit

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Speaker 1: as a mystery parogi for races this coming year at

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Speaker 1: PNC Park. But at Penguins games, they do an animated

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Speaker 1: Duncan Donuts race on the JumboTron like the Parogi race

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Speaker 2: I forget.

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Speaker 1: It's like a donut, a cup of coffee. I forget

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Speaker 1: what else is racing, but the crowd really loves it,

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Speaker 1: like when they got beat five nil by Minnesota Friday,

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Speaker 1: Pablo torri Is is great in sports media because he

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Speaker 1: actually makes sense. I'm a big fan, and he said

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Speaker 1: something I believe for years, The saturation of sports by

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Speaker 1: gambling will ruin how we look at sports, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's already happening. The saturation of sports by gambling

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Speaker 1: is diluting what Tory calls the cultural supremacy of sports

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Speaker 1: in America because fans up till now rooted for their

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Speaker 1: team uber atus, but now fans are gonna root for

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Speaker 1: payouts and not teams. And when gambling was kind of

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Speaker 1: that wasn't as prevalent. But now rooting for payouts and

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Speaker 1: not teams is everywhere. And I think we've seen that

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Speaker 1: already with fantasy leagues. Fantasy leagues and gambling just have

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Speaker 1: making about me and not us. That's why I stopped

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Speaker 1: doing fantasy hockey. I didn't want to root for guys

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Speaker 1: to score against the Penguins. So get your calls in

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Speaker 1: now for calls on the fifteens UH eight three three

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Speaker 1: is almost mandatory. They had a very interesting conversation on

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Speaker 1: get Up about Philadelphia's offense. They said the Eagles offense

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Speaker 1: is too simple, to elementary and rudimentary the.

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Speaker 2: Words they used.

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Speaker 1: Now, if that's true about Philadelphia's offense, which just won

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Speaker 1: their offense is prehistoric, which the Steelers offense is is prehistoric,

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Speaker 1: worse than rudimentary. Get Up talked about the Steelers offense too,

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Speaker 1: called it limited.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say it's limited now.

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Speaker 1: As we've discussed on the show all week, George Pickens's

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Speaker 1: to be clear, Pickens would not be having the season

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Speaker 1: a very good season not in that Steelers offense just

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Speaker 1: wouldn't happen. So all y'all who think things would be

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Speaker 1: better if they kept George Pickens, Nah, not for the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: certainly not for George Pickts. He'd just be mad and

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Speaker 1: statless and targetless and pissed off.

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Speaker 2: We've been debating.

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Speaker 1: How do you fix the Steelers because a lot of

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Speaker 1: other people doing what I do, were trying to figure

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Speaker 1: talk to the FABO about that. At four point thirty.

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Speaker 1: I had somebody last night remark how did they beat

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Speaker 2: It was lock.

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Speaker 1: You got eleven turnovers combined in those games, and maybe

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Speaker 1: Eddie Johnston's ninetieth birthday party last night, which I was

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Speaker 1: all the Johnstons. Every couple should be like EJ and Diane.

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Speaker 1: EJ's young grandson said, they listened to this show, so

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Speaker 1: Who's who Craig Patrick, all the current guys in management,

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Speaker 1: my pys therapist, Jim Kittelberger who's worked with the Penguins

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Speaker 1: Sidney Crosby was there with his lovely girlfriend Kathy. Just

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Speaker 1: And a lot of people had kids and grandkids there,

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Speaker 1: and that's great because Eddie Johnston needs to be remembered always.

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Speaker 1: He is a thoroughly good man. He taught me so much.

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Speaker 1: He defines hockey, not least in Pittsburgh. And I love EJ.

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Speaker 1: And last night was absolutely terrific. I found myself wondering

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Speaker 3: You know it's good.

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Speaker 2: Mace is always a component of any nice date.

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Speaker 7: Thank you for making my day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah what you said?

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Speaker 1: Time for calls on the fifteens, which is apparently gonna

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're done, but you can flip them over.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just they're just not a very good team

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Speaker 1: You can't overachieve in that circumstance. Their roster's not very good,

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Speaker 1: And I would love to know what Aaron Rodgers really

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Speaker 1: thinks of this, wouldn't you. I don't think this is

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Speaker 9: M hey, Mark loving the calls on the fifteen segment.

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Speaker 10: I think it is so fetch. Wanted to get rid

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Speaker 10: of a little bit of hockey talk. Yes, yeah, I'd

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Speaker 10: be glad to the Penguins. Yes, they're three four and

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Speaker 10: three in their last ten, which I don't need to

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Speaker 10: tell you that's not good. But wanted to get your

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Speaker 5: Going to well, I don't.

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Speaker 1: Think you get your perception changed on the season, even

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Speaker 1: bad conference. You know there's ground to be made up.

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Speaker 1: The loser point keeps teams in it. But I think

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow night's a game they need to win. It's certainly

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Speaker 10: Absolutely, fill up the gravy boats and let's get ready

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Jackie Jackie and Jefferson Hills. Jackie're on

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Speaker 9: M hey mark for all of the Steeler fans who

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Speaker 9: never do no wrong. Do you feel like that the

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Speaker 1: I felt, and I've said that younger fans, younger people,

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Speaker 5: And I could tell.

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Speaker 9: You from what I've seen in the last ten twelve

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Steve.

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Speaker 1: Steve, you're on with double M.

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Speaker 8: did you fall for this? And expect better coming up?

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Speaker 11: Hey, Mark, I'm not sure if you know or Tommy

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Speaker 2: No, it could have been.

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Speaker 2: They don't know how to get anybody the ball.

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Speaker 1: What would make you think the different personnel, why that

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Speaker 11: Because I think when Rogers is then Arthur smith is

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Speaker 2: Okay, then Rogers is calling pretty bad place too.

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Speaker 2: You just don't know what you're talking about. Goodbye, You

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Speaker 1: There you go acting like things could be better if this,

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Eric. Hi, Eric.

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Speaker 5: Double am, good day.

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Speaker 2: I said, good day.

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Speaker 12: I just wanted I wanted to mention, Uh, whenever you

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Speaker 2: No, I didn't. I didn't compare, but.

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Speaker 1: Get up called it rudimentary. They called the Steelers offense limited.

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Speaker 11: Right, But that reminds me of Chuck Noll's quote.

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Speaker 12: Champions are champions not because they do things extraordinary, but

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Speaker 2: For some reason. He's in Ireland again. Always great to

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Speaker 1: In Ireland for the second time within the last what

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Speaker 5: In the last three weeks, Mark, and it's great to

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Speaker 1: Sounds terrific. The Penguins right now not so terrific. They've

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Speaker 5: I don't think it's as bad as everybody thinks.

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Speaker 5: I've been watching all their games and I understand what's

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Speaker 5: You correctly said me being here in Ireland again for

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Speaker 5: I know how hard it is. And I think the

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Speaker 2: They're zero and five in overtime and shootouts. That ain't good.

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Speaker 1: You ain't gonna make the playoffs giving away all those points.

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Speaker 1: How do I improve with that? Because those are two

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Speaker 5: No, it does not. That's so smart. It's such a

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Speaker 5: a at all. You're one hundred percent right. It's hard,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that loser point kind of skews the standings, and

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Speaker 1: The Stars are still producing Pierre Sidons. You know, each

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Speaker 5: And so the truth is that I still think there's

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Speaker 5: play percentage and the penalty of percentage. As you want

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Speaker 5: to compete to the Cup, you need to be one

436
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:27,119
Speaker 5: oh five or better. And so no, that's absolutely true,

437
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 5: that's one hundred percent correct. Again, this is a team

438
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,880
Speaker 5: that most fans I think, if they're being fair with, say, Mark,

439
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 5: we've got a chance to be competitive this year. Let's

440
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Speaker 5: hope you can get the extra points a little bit

441
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Speaker 5: like Montreal and Ottawa last year, so that we can

442
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Speaker 5: get into the playoffs. I think most fans before the

443
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 5: season started in Pittsburgh thought that this was not a

444
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 5: playoff team. I think now people think, you know what,

445
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 5: let's let's kind of get gree a little bit. Let's

446
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,120
Speaker 5: hope that we can make the playoffs.

447
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Speaker 1: We're talking to ber Maguire's brought to us by always

448
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: say flagging and traffic control. Pierre Raquel's out for a

449
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 1: little bit longer. How good has mcgrorty been. What do

450
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: you hear about his performance since returning from injury in Wilkes.

451
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: I heard he's been dynamite. At what point is he

452
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 1: ready to be called up after having come back, like

453
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Speaker 1: like I said, from surgery.

454
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Speaker 5: Well, I watch all their games. I watched a lot

455
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Speaker 5: of games in the American Hockey League. I watched a

456
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Speaker 5: lot of games in the East Coast Hockey League. That's

457
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Speaker 5: we knew about Murshaw last year. I think you and

458
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 5: I talked about him, right, and so the truth is

459
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 5: that he's getting really close all the time. The one

460
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Speaker 5: thing I caution, just because I've been through it a lot,

461
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Speaker 5: is an evaluate and also as a coach, as a

462
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Speaker 5: management person, you can't just rush guys out of injury

463
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,120
Speaker 5: situations from thinking, oh, yeah they're dominating the American League

464
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Speaker 5: and come up and play in the NHL. Yes, they

465
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Speaker 5: have this. This player definitely has a chance and will

466
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Speaker 5: be an NHL player on an everyday BASI. I think

467
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 5: they're being smart, just being careful with his development. I

468
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,880
Speaker 5: think that's probably the best word, careful with his development

469
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Speaker 5: right now.

470
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Speaker 1: You know I agree with that, But again, you know,

471
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Speaker 1: with Raquel out, I mean it's mattered a lot. I mean,

472
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Speaker 1: any injury with this team is going to have drastic effect.

473
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Speaker 2: Now.

474
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Speaker 1: Dan mus was mad after Saturday's loss and said, so

475
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Speaker 1: is that good? Does that push a team? Because Sully

476
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:28,400
Speaker 1: kinda he kind of walked lightly even when things were bad.

477
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Speaker 1: You had to read his expression. Dan Mwes made things

478
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Speaker 1: perfectly clear, didn't he?

479
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Speaker 5: It did, And I like that again. I've walked in

480
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 5: his shoes before. I've taken an underachievement team and made

481
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Speaker 5: them very close to being a playoff team. So at

482
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 5: one point you have to decide as a staff are

483
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Speaker 5: we gonna push or are we gonna sit back? And

484
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Speaker 5: I think he's done the right thing because he does

485
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Speaker 5: have Crosby, because he does have Malcolm, because he does

486
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Speaker 5: have Carlton, because he does have with dang, and because

487
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Speaker 5: he's got a pretty good tanem and goal right now

488
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Speaker 5: where he feels, you know what, we have a chance

489
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Speaker 5: to do this and he's in a very I think

490
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 5: the best word is fluid fluid division in the metro

491
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Speaker 5: right now where they have a legitimate chance to make

492
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Speaker 5: the playoffs. So I'm glad that he actually did that.

493
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Speaker 5: At the beginning, he was kind of a nice guy, surpy, nice, polite,

494
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 5: and all of a sudden he showed his players. You

495
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 5: know what, I'm determined on hard, I'm on it, I'm

496
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 5: gonna lean on it. And I think players appreciate that.

497
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Speaker 5: The players don't want to sit at home watch the

498
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Speaker 5: playoffs at home. They want to be on the road

499
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Speaker 5: and they want to compete and win in the playoffs,

500
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Speaker 5: and the coaches setment good tone for it. I like,

501
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Speaker 5: what Dan, did I really do?

502
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Speaker 1: Buffalo is in town tomorrow. The Sabers have won four

503
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Speaker 1: out of five. Page Thompson scored in six straight game,

504
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Speaker 1: which is very impressive. I like the goal of UPL.

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Speaker 1: I can't pronounce his name, I use his initials. I'm

506
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Speaker 1: gonna stick with UPL Pierre. But are the Sabers legitimately

507
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Speaker 1: a team on the rise because we've been waiting a

508
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Speaker 1: long time, So Sabers fans, you know what.

509
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Speaker 5: I know. There's a big robbery of Pittsburgh and Buffalo.

510
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 5: I coached in it, so I get it. And there

511
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 5: was also a huge one with Hartford and Buffalo, by

512
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 5: the way, and I coached that too. I think the

513
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 5: biggest thing is that with Buffalo they have enough skill,

514
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Speaker 5: they have enough talent, and they've got to coach. It's

515
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 5: way undervalue Lindy ruffs way undervalued. All that being said,

516
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Speaker 5: I don't know if they're deep enough. I really don't,

517
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Speaker 5: But I also think they got all legitimate chances because

518
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 5: of the turmoil that's been involved in it. With all

519
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Speaker 5: the injuries this year in both the Metro in the

520
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 5: Atlantic mark you look at all the injuries, it's just

521
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 5: mind chattering. So the fact that you know, Toronto in

522
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 5: particular has had a terrible start to the year, Montreal's

523
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 5: kind of taking a step back a little bit, Detroit's

524
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 5: been up and down, Ottawa has been one of the

525
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Speaker 5: more consistent, Boston has been surprising. I think that, yeah,

526
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Speaker 5: Buffalo's got a chance to be a playoff team for sure. Pierre.

527
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Speaker 1: It seems to talk about Logan Cooley every week, the

528
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: local kid from West Smithlin and last goals for you

529
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Speaker 1: to talk four goals and helper, Pierre, I'm so worried

530
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Speaker 1: Logan won't make the US Olympic team, and I'm on

531
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Speaker 1: record as saying if he doesn't, I will storm the capitol.

532
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Speaker 5: You have every right to. I don't know what side

533
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Speaker 5: of the political aisle that you lean on, but it doesn't.

534
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Speaker 2: Matter, no, no, no, either side. I just want Logan

535
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Speaker 2: on the US Olympic team.

536
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this this I was just gonna say. This has

537
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 5: nothing to do with politics. But all I'll say is this,

538
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 5: he belongs on that team. I think we talked about

539
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 5: this a couple of weeks ago. Look, Clayton Keller's on

540
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 5: his team. He's on that team. There are a lot

541
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 5: of really skilled American players. Austin Matthews is hurt right now.

542
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 5: The injury situation where Timos is really dire. But I

543
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Speaker 5: would say one thing. One of the most consistent guys

544
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 5: has been Logan Cooley. Logan Cooley, and you know what,

545
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 5: I'm going to tell you this. My late and best friend,

546
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 5: ray Erroll, the former general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins,

547
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 5: used to tell me all the time, Pierre, there's a

548
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 5: kid coming up. I used to babysit him and ray

549
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 5: did Logan Cooley? I know, ray Baby said him. And

550
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 5: Ray used to tell me all the time, Pierre, I'm

551
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 5: telling you right now, this guy's really good. And he

552
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 5: was right. He was one hundred percent right. So I

553
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 5: would hope that Logan would have a legitimate opportunity on Timusa.

554
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Speaker 2: Who's he remind you of.

555
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: I've tried to draw parallels between him and players we've

556
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Speaker 1: seen it in the past.

557
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 2: I see a little bit of sit in him. Maybe

558
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 2: that's unfair. Who does he remind.

559
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Speaker 5: You of Patty laugh on Taine's I say, I see

560
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 5: a lot of Patty laugh on Tanna, and there's some

561
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 5: sit in him, for sure, there's some cite. It's hard

562
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Speaker 5: not to if you're a kid that grew up in

563
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 5: Pittsford and you watched it over the last twenty years.

564
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 5: It's hard enough to think that you're going to be

565
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 5: sitting in Crosby. You know, I grew up in Montreal.

566
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Speaker 5: I was a defenseman. I wanted to be Larry Rottinson.

567
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 5: I nineteen all the time. I was never as tall

568
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 5: as him. I thought there were similarities in our game,

569
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Speaker 5: but he was just way better than me.

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Speaker 4: You know.

571
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Speaker 5: So I always say that, you know, Sid would be

572
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 5: one guy, But athletically speaking, I think he and Pat

573
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 5: Lafon team are very very similar, very similar.

574
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Speaker 1: Pierre Eddie Johnston turned ninety yesterday. I was at his

575
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Speaker 1: birthday party last night. I know you're a big fan.

576
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Speaker 1: EJ built the game. I mean, in some ways he

577
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Speaker 1: defines his era of hockey, doesn't.

578
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Speaker 5: He he does, and man, oh man, what a job

579
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 5: he did for the Pittsburgh Penguins. And you know, Mark,

580
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Speaker 5: I just got to tell you this what one of

581
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Speaker 5: the most emotional times I ever had. And this is

582
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 5: probably off color, but it's great for your listeners. I

583
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 5: coached against Eddie's team. I was coaching Hartford, Eddie was

584
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 5: coaching Pittsburgh and I caught Yarmoy yarder with an illegal

585
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 5: stick and was Yarmou was really mad at me. We

586
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 5: tied the game late, and eventually they won because Yarmers

587
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 5: scored coming out of the penalty box after I called

588
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 5: that illegal stick. We couldn't score on the power play,

589
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 5: and Eddie wanted to get after it with me, and

590
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 5: I was picked off, and I had so much respect

591
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 5: for him, but I was not going to back down.

592
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 5: And James Patrick, my former defenseman, grabbed me and said,

593
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Speaker 5: You're not going over there, are you nuts? And so

594
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 5: it was pretty amazing. But what I can tell you

595
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 5: is I've been friends with him forever. My late great

596
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 5: friend Ray Schiero adored him to the max. Eddie was

597
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 5: a huge part of those Pittsburgh Penguin runs in the

598
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 5: final you know eight nine. He definitely played a role

599
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Speaker 5: even though what wasn't with us in ninety one and

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Speaker 5: ninety two, And I know he's a very proud member

601
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 5: of the sixteen and seventeen teams that won the Cup.

602
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 5: Eddie's a phenomenal, phenomenal hockey man, a great human being,

603
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Speaker 5: and he's done so much for the growth of the game.

604
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 5: I can tell you that. And again as too, probably

605
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Speaker 5: a big raised Irish people. As I say that from Delpha, Ireland.

606
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 5: We almost went at it one year and I'm sixty

607
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Speaker 5: four and he's ninety, and he still wanted to get

608
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Speaker 5: after it, which I have so much respect for. So

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Speaker 5: I will never ever ever doubt his determination as professionalism

610
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Speaker 5: and one thing.

611
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Speaker 2: I want people to remember it. And I'm old enough

612
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 2: and so were you to have seen this. He was

613
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Speaker 2: a great goalie.

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Speaker 1: I mean he won two Cups and the one he

615
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,959
Speaker 1: went on in the seventy two playoffs when the Bruins

616
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: beat New York in the final. I mean that's one

617
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Speaker 1: of the better playoff goaltending performances I've seen.

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Speaker 5: I don't think people understand that, like they don't honestly,

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Speaker 5: they don't. Like Eddie was an elite goal He and

620
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Speaker 5: Jared Cheevers were phenomenal forever with the Boston Bruins. Great

621
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Speaker 5: Teddy was a great player, Great Tanem the great Scottie

622
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Speaker 5: Bowman obviously my mentor, an amazing friend and dear friend

623
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Speaker 5: of Pittsburgh Penglin hockey. He and Eddie are unbelievably tight.

624
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 5: You know, Scotty's ninety two right now. He used to

625
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 5: tell me all the time just how great a goalie

626
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 5: Eddie was as a junior, as an American League goalie,

627
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Speaker 5: as an NHL goalie. I know where all the bodies

628
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 5: are buried on this one, and I'm telling you right now,

629
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 5: they're not making any of that stuff up. Eddie was

630
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Speaker 5: phenomenal in so many different facets of the game.

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Speaker 1: Pierre has always great stuff and joy Ireland will do

632
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Speaker 1: it again next week.

633
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Speaker 5: I can't wait. I'll be back. I'll be back in

634
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Speaker 5: North America looking forward to it. Take care of Mark,

635
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 5: thank you.

636
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: That's Pierre McGuire brought to was always say flagging and

637
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Speaker 1: traffic control, making traffic safe again. Called four one two

638
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Speaker 1: three oh one twenty three hundred, or visit online at

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Speaker 1: awsafe dot net for a quote today.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I.

641
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: Misspoke talking about Rockger McGroarty. They do not have surgery,

642
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: but it'd been at a long term with a upper

643
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: body injury. Recently returned to play for Wilkes in the AHL,

644
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: the Penguins farm team, and is ripping it up. So

645
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: maybe we'll see him in Pittsburgh sooner or not later.

646
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: Tristan bros Is it his NHL debut or just season debut.

647
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: I think it's his first NHL game tomorrow night for

648
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Speaker 1: the Penguins when Buffalo visits, assuming he dresses, which, boy,

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Speaker 1: you know, we used to do that all the time

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Speaker 1: with Sully.

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Speaker 2: Call a guy up and scratch him. That sucked. Hope, Dan,

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Speaker 2: don't do it.

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Speaker 1: One oh five nine, It's The Woody Show, weekday morning

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Speaker 1: six to ten one.

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Speaker 2: This hour, The Mark Maddon Show is brought to you.

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Speaker 2: Bye bye. Blight probably served a palmer