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Speaker 1: center Ben Kindall, Ben, congratulations onto your success in Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: Specifically, what's the hardest thing. Everybody says the speed. I'm

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think obviously the speed is definitely increased, But

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Speaker 2: I'd say I'd say just overall time and space to

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Speaker 1: Faster now for a teenager playing center. You have a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just taking always taking a lot of

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Speaker 1: It's a clicheed question, Ben, but who's like your favorite

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Speaker 3: Who do you try to take after?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, say, for me out of a habstunger and up

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Speaker 1: But yeah, what do the coaches here want from you, Ben?

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Speaker 1: What do they stress and how do they feed you confidence?

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Speaker 1: Because obviously that's real important for a guy your age

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they obviously it's early, but they just

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Speaker 1: Are you a kid that needs your tires pump to

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Speaker 1: A bunch of other young guys are here with you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely nice to go to go through it

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Speaker 1: What's it like in the locker room and in practice,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's quite surreal to be in a locker room

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Speaker 3: Is it easy to get starstruck in that locker room?

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Speaker 1: And and yeah, unreal which veterans have helped you the most?

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Speaker 1: He's certainly a hands on leader, but just watching him

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Ben Kendall of the peng was this

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Speaker 1: This has gotta be fun, right, I mean, you're eighteen

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Speaker 1: What's the one bit of luxury that you've en connor

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Speaker 1: For Now, what was last night's game? Like, give hate

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Speaker 2: Yes, obviously you knew the rivalry coming into that night,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's really exciting for me and my dad especially,

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Speaker 3: How come you're not playing soccer?

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Speaker 1: Who's your favorite soccer team? And this is a more

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Speaker 2: I never I never really watched soft growing up, but

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's not a team I hate, so I can

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Speaker 1: I saw you also said this is a great quote

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Speaker 1: by you, Ben. If it weren't for hockey, it might

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Speaker 2: I think that might be a quote for my dad.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, I don't know if if I, if I,

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Speaker 3: So you're not a music guy.

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Speaker 3: You seemed a little nervous to come on the show?

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Speaker 4: Are you?

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Speaker 1: Good because you're on You're on friendly ground here to

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 3: That's Ben Kendall, Penguins rookie forward. He is onto something.

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Speaker 1: That's a real player, okay, Harrison Brunnick a real player.

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Speaker 3: Very happy to have Ben Kendall on the show. I

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Speaker 1: I saw Mario at eighteen, I saw sit at eighteen,

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Speaker 3: Let's go to Dawn don You're on with Double M.

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Speaker 4: What up man? What up? Mine? Hey?

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Speaker 7: Just wanted to highlight tomlinson aptitude. When they talk about

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Speaker 7: but he took the ball out of Jordan's hands and

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Speaker 7: And Tomlin doesn't do that. He doesn't adjust like TJ.

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Speaker 4: Watts.

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Speaker 7: They throw over his head right off the they snap

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Speaker 4: Why doesn't he switch TJ. Watts to the other side,

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Speaker 4: I mean try anything.

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Speaker 3: I mean, well, TJ. Want doesn't want to switch to

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Speaker 4: TJ.

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Speaker 1: Want is comfortable doing what he does by rote in

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Speaker 3: TJ.

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Speaker 1: Watt would rather be comfortable in his routine than successful

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Speaker 7: Right, But Jordan didn't want the ball taken out of

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Speaker 1: And yeah, let's let's let's let's forget about that fiction.

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Speaker 1: It's not like Phil Jackson told Michael Jordan.

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Speaker 3: What to do, and if so, minimally, Yeah, I just

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Speaker 3: think there in there, oh Tom, let.

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Speaker 1: Me terrible, But there ain't no Michael Jordan's on the

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Speaker 1: Steelers anyway. Let's go to our good friend Bob the

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Speaker 1: Egyptian magician. How are my friends?

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Speaker 5: Hey? How are you? Last time I talked to you,

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Speaker 5: I told you that the formula for Steelers is, in

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Speaker 5: my opinion, the winning the time of position and having

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Speaker 5: rogers to manage the game, which she said, manage the

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Speaker 5: game well, if you look at the game's last two games,

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Speaker 5: basically they were up by two two scores, and they

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Speaker 5: We know this defense is like you said, uh, they

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Speaker 5: are very very bob.

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Speaker 1: Don't you think for a long time in the green

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Speaker 1: the green Bay was behind and didn't deserve to be,

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Speaker 1: I just green Bay dominated most of that game, and

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Speaker 5: Well, I disagree with you. Yeah, green Bay is better

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Speaker 5: football team, Okay, but in both losses they were up

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Speaker 5: run the ball in the same Oh no, no.

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Speaker 1: Them abandoning the run against green Bay was was criminally stupid.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that's that was their only way to

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Speaker 5: same way with the Samsey they were up by ten

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Speaker 5: and what does he do. He goes for the seven

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Speaker 5: and our defense is not. They're old. They can't stay

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Speaker 5: which means ground game. And when I say manager, no, Bob,

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Speaker 5: I disagree.

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Speaker 1: That's not the way the league is now. Time and possession.

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Speaker 1: You know, time and possession isn't as meaningful as you think.

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Speaker 1: It's about scoring a lot fast.

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Speaker 5: Well, uh, I'm sorry, but the Steelers are gonna lose

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Speaker 5: if we're gonna use that formula because the defense is

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Speaker 1: To disagree disagree, Mike, of course, he just said the Steelers'

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Speaker 1: best bet is to win games like they beat Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: the first meeting against the Bengals last year, which is

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Speaker 3: You got to approach it like it's basketball. Thank you

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Speaker 3: for the call, Bob. Let's go to Nick.

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Speaker 8: Hey, Mark, I really really like Roethlisberger's idea, just like

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Speaker 8: you do with Ramsey taking over the slot corner. I mean,

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Speaker 8: we obviously have a problem covering tight ends in our career,

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Speaker 8: but also now that helps with our inside run. You know,

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Speaker 8: So in all aspects, I really like that idea.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not gonna do it, you know that right.

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Speaker 8: I do know that, but I love putting it on

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Speaker 5: No, no.

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Speaker 1: You know what the funny part is, you know the

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Speaker 1: Ben's idea.

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Speaker 8: Well, because he doesn't come up with it. That's why

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Speaker 8: he don't.

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Speaker 3: No, no, even more so because it's Ben's idea.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 8: That and we also have an issue with him always

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Speaker 4: A better coach.

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Speaker 8: Not saying he's a good coach, but he definitely doesn't

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Speaker 1: You know, you're right, He's got no coaching tree whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: And every coach who knew more than him and wanted

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Speaker 3: He ran them both off. See, he did a favor

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Speaker 1: Because he was involved in a lawsuit with the NFL

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Speaker 1: and and couldn't get a job, so he did Flor

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Speaker 3: Thank you for the call up.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Mark, Welcome show one.

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Speaker 1: Bundy Ptating, Dusty Road, Tomican Dream So be it Baby

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Speaker 1: the ex at one oh five nine. Interesting game for

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Speaker 1: the Penguins last night at Philadelphia. They stand seven to

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Speaker 1: and two after eleven games. Joining me out to talk

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Speaker 1: about it. A Stanley Cup win in two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 1: Always a pleasure to talk to Tyler Kennedy TK. I'm

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Speaker 1: not normally of this ILK, but I like how the

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Speaker 1: Penguins responded at that scrum at the end of the game.

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Speaker 1: I thought they acquitted themselves well when the Flyers got.

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Speaker 3: Out of hand.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I love the little bit of sandpaper that's sticking

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Speaker 4: Like that's the first time I think I've seen hatred

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Speaker 4: I again, I actually like what Zegris did because it

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Speaker 4: you know, they started playing better and they can't. I

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Speaker 4: think scrums make teams come together a lot more too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I think the much responded, but I didn't

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Speaker 1: like what did I get you You're citing it as

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Speaker 1: Anaheim you couldn't melt him down and pour him into

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Speaker 4: Well one, it's because when you look at his lineup,

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Speaker 3: It didn't for number of games exactly.

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Speaker 4: That's exactly what I'm saying. And now with that happening,

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Speaker 4: through all my years, that was the best rivalry, that

443
00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,479
Speaker 4: was what I Those are the games that I had

444
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,480
Speaker 4: a hard time sleeping the night before because I knew

445
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:51,960
Speaker 4: something was going to happen in that game.

446
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:53,720
Speaker 3: Oh you hate him, right, I mean it's in the

447
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:57,240
Speaker 3: Penguins DNA oh oh yeah, like.

448
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:04,200
Speaker 4: And it's weird because as soon as we become a Penguin,

449
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 4: they're when you play in that barn, you don't under

450
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:14,639
Speaker 4: you realize why they hate each other because one the

451
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Penguins have someone that Philadelphia would have dream to

452
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 4: have in Sydney Crosby. They hate Sid so much because

453
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 4: how much how good Sid plays against them, what he's

454
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,119
Speaker 4: done to that team. So when Sid goes there and

455
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 4: you're on his team and you look around and they're

456
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,879
Speaker 4: they got every sign you could think of around the

457
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,280
Speaker 4: glass and warm ups call and said every name in

458
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 4: the book. And then Sid plays and he scores goals

459
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 4: and he pretty much dominates the team. Then they get

460
00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,760
Speaker 4: it out of hand, then you get, you know, drawn

461
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 4: into the fight, and then you start hating them. So

462
00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 4: that that is what makes play in Philadelphia the best,

463
00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 4: because you're on the Pittsburgh Penguins and we just do

464
00:22:58,280 --> 00:22:59,119
Speaker 4: not like Philly.

465
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,680
Speaker 3: No, I'm in your corner, as you're well aware.

466
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:03,879
Speaker 1: I mean, I grew up hating the Flyers when they

467
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:05,640
Speaker 1: used to beat the crap out of us in every

468
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,120
Speaker 1: way you can beat the crap out of us back when,

469
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: and as much as the cups I've seen TK, I

470
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: loved when you guys eliminated Philadelphia in the Eastern Conference

471
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 1: Final in two thousand and eight, six nil at home

472
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:19,679
Speaker 1: in Game six to wrap it up.

473
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 3: I waited my whole life.

474
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: For that.

475
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 4: Mark. That was probably the best game, Like when I

476
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 4: look back in my career, that was one game that

477
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 4: I always remember. Not so much the game, but when

478
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,119
Speaker 4: we left the rink. It was an afternoon game. So

479
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 4: we left the rink and the bus was where like

480
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 4: all the players load, but the fans were able to

481
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 4: like walk on this walkway above the bus. Obviously there

482
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 4: was like a lot of fencing and stuff, but these

483
00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 4: fans they didn't even say anything because we were all

484
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 4: outside the bus enjoying the sun. They literally walked by

485
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 4: us with their heads between their legs, and it was

486
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 4: the best feeling I've ever seen. And then at that

487
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 4: stadium there's the football and the MLB. I think it's

488
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 4: the MLB. They're all in a big like circle. Yeah,

489
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 4: and they have this outdoor bar bar. It's called the

490
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 4: Extinity Center whatever, and it's just like huge bar our

491
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 4: bus drove by there. I bet you our bus got

492
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 4: pelted with about forty beer bottles and it was again

493
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 4: just like awesome because you knew how mad they were,

494
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 4: You knew how much losing in front of their home

495
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,440
Speaker 4: fans to the Pittsburgh Penguins meant. And they had a

496
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 4: whole summer of thinking about how we just beat them

497
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 4: six nothing or six to one, sorry.

498
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Speaker 1: You're thinking about nine eliminated them there in OH nine.

499
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 1: That was when Max shushed them oh eight with six

500
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: nil with Bugsy scoring twice.

501
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, great though.

502
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 4: Both were great, but the one from oh nine was

503
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 4: that that was just a different level just because of

504
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 4: what happened after the game, no question, and seeing the

505
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 4: response and their attitude after it was it was unbelievable,

506
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 4: Like that whole thing. Even you know, there's cities that

507
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 4: you go to mark and you you get there early,

508
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 4: you get on the road. You know, we fly in

509
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 4: around two, we get to the hotel around three thirty.

510
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 4: You can walk around the city usually, you know, especially

511
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 4: in New York. You go to Philadelphia, you literally go

512
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 4: to you go to the restaurant and you come home.

513
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 4: There's no going to a bar for a beer, just

514
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 4: because the hatred. You know, again, it's Sid's gotta watch

515
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 4: himself because it people know what he you know, what

516
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 4: he's done, who he is, and what he's done to

517
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 4: that team. Like Sid goes for dinner and he comes

518
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 4: right back to the hotel. It's pretty funny.

519
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: We're talking to Tyler Kennedy here on one five to

520
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 1: nine the x TK. How crazy was that overtime with

521
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: two disallowed goals and both calls were correct?

522
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, like it was. I I like one.

523
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 4: I wish the Goali would have saved a little faster

524
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 4: because you know, you know, but that was a great

525
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 4: game going to ot Obviously we like to win. But

526
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 4: both goals I thought they were, you know, definitely not

527
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 4: goals like Gino jumped on way too early. Their goal

528
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 4: was definitely shouldn't have been allowed. But again, Mark, you

529
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 4: must have enjoyed seeing that scrum, seeing that energy in

530
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 4: that rink during that game, and when it went to overtime,

531
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 4: it just made it that much better, no, no question.

532
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: And uh and it was great seeing the Flyers think

533
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,119
Speaker 1: they won but didn't win. But unfortunately at the end

534
00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,160
Speaker 1: they finally did win. The Penguins have been in eight

535
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,919
Speaker 1: of eleven games and again last night.

536
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 3: TK. Is that a problem.

537
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do think it's a problem, just because eventually,

538
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 4: you know, you play the odds, the more you shoot,

539
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 4: the more chance you are that you're gonna score. And

540
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 4: obviously the goalies are playing pretty good, but they have

541
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 4: to cut down on the shots. I think they got

542
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 4: to front more shots. I think, you know, some of

543
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,199
Speaker 4: the guys like I think Carlson struggled a little bit

544
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 4: last night and some other guys. But I do think

545
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 4: that will eventually start changing the outcome of the game

546
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 4: if they keep getting out shot. And I think it

547
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 4: all comes down to having cleaner breakouts, getting the puck

548
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 4: deep when they can, and just playing a smarter game,

549
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 4: Like they're playing really smart right now. It's how long

550
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 4: can they last? Like, how long can they stay on

551
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,160
Speaker 4: track playing this kind of structure, because I haven't seen

552
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 4: them play this well, this structured in a long time.

553
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: My paint about last night for that matter, Saturday and

554
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 1: the he lost to Columbus another shootout. You can't lose

555
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: every shootout TK, and the Penguins just don't have a

556
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: good shootout goalie like Flower the shootout maybe the best

557
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: ever money in the bank, but but shilloffs has been

558
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: in two shootouts, still have five goals on six shots.

559
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Mark, I swear you you've we've we've

560
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:28,640
Speaker 4: talked about this last year too and the year an issue. Yeah,

561
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 4: this has been an issue for years, you know. And

562
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 4: I don't think you can take up a roster spot

563
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 4: just having a shootout. Guy, I think, you know, back

564
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 4: in the day when we were good at shootouts, like

565
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 4: Crystala Tang was like almost like a guarantee to score,

566
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 4: like Crystal Tang from like oh eight to eleven, like

567
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 4: he was goalies couldn't read him like he was very

568
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 4: good at shootouts. I think they don't. I think, guy,

569
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 4: they haven't found their guys that have their go to moves.

570
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 4: And I'm not sure if it's they don't know who's

571
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 4: going the shootout where it's that you know, the coaches

572
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 4: isn't communicating like, hey, if we go to a shootout,

573
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 4: it's chrys Latang of Guinny Malkin, Sidney Crosby or whoever

574
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 4: it is. Because I think the more information you can

575
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 4: give a player on who's going in the lineup of

576
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 4: who's going. I agree, the better you are because you

577
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 4: you know, like I would think, and I know guys

578
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 4: would be practicing in practice their shootout move because hey, yeah,

579
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 4: if we do go shoot, I'm going second, so I

580
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 4: better know what I'm doing. I think there's a little

581
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 4: miscommunication there because sometimes we I don't even know as

582
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 4: a fan who's gonna shoot. But you know, when I

583
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 4: was playing for dan Baalisma, we would do shootouts. I

584
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 4: would say every second game, every second practice, sorry, and

585
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 4: and it was and we had a great record because

586
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 4: that's we've practiced so much. And chrys Latang was again

587
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 4: he was so good on his back and throw in

588
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 4: the fakes. I don't know if he's something's changed in

589
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 4: his curve or whatever, but he's not as effective in shootouts.

590
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,479
Speaker 4: They're not giving him him as much opportunity. But they

591
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 4: definitely need to work on that because those single points

592
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 4: can cost you at the end of the year, and

593
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 4: they have cost it in the year. So again, I

594
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 4: don't know the solution, but I think what would help

595
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 4: is again giving players more of a heads up of

596
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 4: the lineup of who's going in the shootout. So they

597
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 4: can prepare better.

598
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: Now, sid couldn't go in the shootout because he got

599
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: a game of conduct because he left the bench doin

600
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: the altercation. Technically, TK he could get a ten game

601
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: suspension for that. I don't think the NHL is dumb

602
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: enough to do it. Then again, the NHL is pretty dumb.

603
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would be very shocked if they give him

604
00:30:55,120 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 4: a ten games spence for leaving the bench for that. Yeah,

605
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 4: Like he's honestly, he's one of the guys that, you know,

606
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 4: like you don't screw around with doing that kind of

607
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 4: stuff with like, you know, just throwing them suspensions to

608
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 4: prove a point. You know, my first year, I I

609
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 4: jumped off the bench and I thought Luke shen and

610
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 4: actually Luke shn like pumbled me. But I got a

611
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 4: game for it, you know. And I literally jumped off

612
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 4: the bench to fight someone, you know, and Sidney Cross

613
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 4: he didn't end up actually fighting him, And there's a

614
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 4: big difference. But I don't think I think this will

615
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 4: be kind of swiped under the rug and kind of

616
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 4: moved on, because again it's Sidney Crosby. You look at

617
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 4: his track record, Like, I don't know if there's a

618
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 4: better face for the NHL still than Sidney Crosby.

619
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: Uh would you keep Bruneck and Kindle or send him

620
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: back to junior? What are the pros and cons?

621
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 4: Kendle, he's up for sure, he's showing me enough and

622
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 4: he's made enough, and he's bringing enough energy and he

623
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 4: skates well like he deserves to stay up. I think

624
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 4: even if he struggles a little bit, I think it's

625
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 4: better staying up here in practicing and being around team.

626
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 4: And he's earned a spot in the lineup so far,

627
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 4: and he's and he's produced. I think he's definitely a

628
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 4: guy that can stay up and and help develop. He's

629
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 4: better better to develop up here than going back and

630
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 4: riding the bus. That's I think, that's like it's the worst.

631
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 4: Bruni's a different story. I think he struggled a lot,

632
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 4: a little bit more than Kindle. And obviously it's because

633
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 4: he plays defense, and I think defense mistakes get emphasized

634
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 4: because you're the last defense before you know goals and

635
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 4: all that stuff. But it's it's it's when you when

636
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 4: I when I think of brunic then I start thinking of, well,

637
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 4: where is the team going? Like what what what is

638
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 4: this team? Is it a team that we're trying to

639
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 4: get more young guys in and willing to like maybe

640
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 4: not make playoffs to give these guys experience. Or are

641
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 4: these twelve games give us almost like a false hope

642
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 4: that we have a team that can make a deep run.

643
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 4: And do I think we might make playoffs? I do.

644
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 4: I just think we're scoring from a lot of different place.

645
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 3: It's a bad to TK. I think that's what makes

646
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 3: me think there's a chance.

647
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 4: But for Bruneck, it's it's like he's like a fifty

648
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 4: to fifty for me because I can see both where

649
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 4: he goes down and he's the guy, and I think

650
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 4: confidence as a defenseman, you need that confidence. And we

651
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 4: go down like he's gonna come, He's gonna go down.

652
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 4: He's gonna go back and be the stud and have

653
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 4: confidence and hopefully it oozes all year and then next

654
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 4: training camp. He is the guy and he he has

655
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 4: that like I've been here, done that. But is it

656
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 4: gonna hurt his development? Sure? I don't think it ever

657
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Speaker 4: hurts when a guy goes back and he is relied

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Speaker 4: on in every situation and you learn and he gets

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Speaker 4: called up. When Wilkes makes playoffs and his junior team's done.

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Speaker 4: I think that gives him enough experience. So I think

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Speaker 4: Kendall will stay. Brunick might be sent back.

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Speaker 5: In my opinion, yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's tough because if you think Brunick's one of your

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Speaker 1: best three right side of defensemen, I mean I think

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Speaker 1: he is.

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Speaker 3: But then again, Dumba is not too terrible either.

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Speaker 1: I agree that Kendall should stay, but honestly, Tee Kat

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Speaker 1: keep them both because I think the energy they bring,

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Speaker 1: an enthusiasm, and the way they've transformed the room and

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Speaker 1: just the routine is big.

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Speaker 4: Even like when you see pitchers on the ice and

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Speaker 4: then practice in the room, those two are always smiling. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's like and when you're a guy going

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Speaker 4: to work and sometimes we've all you know, when you're

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Speaker 4: in work and you're a veteran guy, you know you're

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Speaker 4: a little bit grumpier the more the years go on.

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Speaker 4: And when you see a young I'll come in in

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Speaker 4: and enjoying every second and makes you take a step

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Speaker 4: back and be like, wow, this this kid is like

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Speaker 4: maybe I'm taking it for granted. And another reason why

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Speaker 4: I think that young energy is good. They push the

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Speaker 4: pace in practice right, they're always full of energy. Like

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Speaker 4: young guys are the guys that when when you're tired,

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Speaker 4: the young guys are still full of energy. They're the

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Speaker 4: ones that make the speed of practice move up. You know,

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Speaker 4: Dan balim woant to say, TK, part of your job

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Speaker 4: is to make sure our team plays really well in practice,

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Speaker 4: and you push the pace and you push these guys,

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Speaker 4: you know, out of their elements sometimes in practice. And

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Speaker 4: then another thing I always noticed more at the end

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Speaker 4: of my career mark was when I saw a young

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Speaker 4: guy and I saw him doing well, it made me

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Speaker 4: pick up my socks as a veteran guy because I

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Speaker 4: knew he wasn't he was there to steal my spot,

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Speaker 4: like he was in the weeds, poking his head out

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Speaker 4: going if you if you take a night off because

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Speaker 4: you're being a baby, or you're being tired and feeling

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Speaker 4: sorry for yourself, this kid is going to take it.

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Speaker 4: And I think that kind of stuff means a lot

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Speaker 4: when you're building a team because it makes sure everyone's

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Speaker 4: on their toes and it's a good environment. It's one

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Speaker 4: thing to lose your spot to a player that's been

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Speaker 4: in the league, but it's another thing to lose your

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Speaker 4: spot to a young guy who's hungry and is ready

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Speaker 4: for the moment.

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Speaker 1: Finally, TK, how much do you buy into the seven

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Speaker 1: to two and two start? How legit is this team

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Speaker 1: as a playoff contender? Like, like we agreed a moment

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Speaker 1: ago in an Eastern Conference that's.

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Speaker 3: Not real good?

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Speaker 4: Well, one like what I really like about this team,

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Speaker 4: there's a different feel in a different attitude and it

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Speaker 4: just feels different. And I think it starts with having

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Speaker 4: a new coach. You can see there's a different mojo

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Speaker 4: with these guys. Do I think they'll make playoffs? Yes?

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Speaker 4: And why I think they make playoffs? I have a

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Speaker 4: lot They have a lot of similarities to the Washington

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Speaker 4: Capitals when they were aging and they made you know,

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Speaker 4: they've been playing well for the last two years. And

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Speaker 4: what I really like is one another one is where

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Speaker 4: they're getting their scoring from the biggest problem, one of

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Speaker 4: the bigger problems we had last year was depth scoring.

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Speaker 4: We only had two lines scoring right and now when

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Speaker 4: you look at the lineup, different guys are scoring. Young

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Speaker 4: guys are scoring. They have a third line, They have

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Speaker 4: a fourth line that plays a grinder fourth line like

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Speaker 4: they enjoy wearing teams like they know what they're doing.

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Speaker 4: They enjoy wearing teams down. So I like the dynamic

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Speaker 4: of the team. And again I I'm pleasantly surprised of

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Speaker 4: how well they've played. Do I think they're gonna make

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Speaker 4: a deep, deep run? Probably not? But are they gonna

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Speaker 4: make playoffs? And maybe someone maybe? But again we've only

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Speaker 4: played twelve games, and the teams we've played haven't been

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Speaker 4: all star teams like like San Jose, like teams Saint

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Speaker 4: Louis like those. I want to see them play. You know,

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Speaker 4: some teams like when Florida is healthy, you know the

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Speaker 4: Carolina Hurricanes. Teams that are like that, have New Jersey.

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Speaker 4: New Jersey, a team that are looking to be more

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Speaker 4: than just make the playoffs. They're they're looking to go

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Speaker 4: for deep runs. That's where you're gonna see the test

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Speaker 4: for the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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Speaker 1: But so far, so so good for me, TK, great stuff,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for taking the time.

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Speaker 3: We'll do it again real soon.

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Speaker 4: All right, thanks for having me, Mark.

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Speaker 1: That's the great Toddler Kennedy, always a pleasure to have

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Speaker 1: three three four one two w xdx. Liverpool trailing two

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Speaker 1: nil in the second half. Basically a lineup of a

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Speaker 1: lot of our substitutes against Crystal Palace in the League Cup.

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Speaker 1: But that's no excuse. Is just isn't a great season

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Speaker 1: after having won the league last year.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: If you want to watch the River Hans, they have

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Speaker 1: their playoff game first run in the USL Championship against

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Speaker 1: Hartford on Saturday night at high Mark Stadium. So check

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Speaker 1: out the River Hunts website get your tickets. It's what

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Speaker 1: is it like now, eight or nine straight salots for

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Speaker 1: the river Hunts this year and it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a big crowd and a big events.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to a talkback.

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Speaker 13: Hey Newman here, I was wondering what you think about

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Speaker 13: Arnie Slot starting a bunch of junior players today. I

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Speaker 13: get that it's an inferior tournament and I get, you know,

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Speaker 13: the load management, especially with a number of games they

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Speaker 13: have coming up, but I just feel like today was

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Speaker 13: a good opportunity for the first team to get something

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Speaker 13: going finally, and it's not looking good.

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Speaker 1: There's certainly an argument to be made, like you just did,

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Speaker 1: I don't have a problem either way. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: never want to see them lose, but I've also seen

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Speaker 1: lineups of substitutes win in the League Cup for Liverpool

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Speaker 1: and get them deep into the tournament until the starters

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Speaker 1: came in and took over, like in the quarters, semis

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Speaker 1: and finals. So I'm just disappointed to be trailing because

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Speaker 1: it's been a rough season after a great start.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to a talkback.

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Speaker 12: Answer your question Mark, this game feels like we're gonna

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Speaker 12: play the Patriots with Brady, We're gonna get it's gonna

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Speaker 12: be a slaughter. We don't intimidate anyone anymore. We make mistakes,

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Speaker 12: so we can't out play anyone. And with the way

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Speaker 12: the CBA is and about limiting contact practice, I don't

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Speaker 12: see how we're gonna correct this this season.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the problem is that they can't have

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Speaker 1: contacted practice. I think they have a lot of older

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Speaker 1: players on defense that are overpaid and wanted to get

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Speaker 1: the bag more than win, and now they stink. That's

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Speaker 1: what I think is happening. And I think the problem

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Speaker 1: is compounded by the Steelers stink. Their defense stink, They're

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Speaker 1: coaching stinks, and they're playing the best offense in football

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, I mean Sunday.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know what it would be so.

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Speaker 1: Steelers to go against the grain and make a game

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Speaker 1: of it and maybe even win that A're not totally

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Speaker 1: dismissing that possibility, but I'm calling it very unlikely because

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Speaker 1: Indy's a juggernaut and this could be like a twenty

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Speaker 1: or thirty point margin of defeat for the Steelers.

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Speaker 11: Let's go to a talkback, Hey, Mark do you think

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Speaker 11: there's the chance the Steelers could lose nine of their

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Speaker 11: last ten games of the season in finish five and twelve,

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Speaker 11: Because I look at that schedule.

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Speaker 3: It's brutal.

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Speaker 11: And the only win I see as a definite is

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Speaker 11: the Monday night game December fifteenth against Miami.

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Speaker 4: What do you think.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure that's a definite win.

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Speaker 1: I think Miami had a good game this past week,

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Speaker 1: and I think they're capable of scoring points and the

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Speaker 1: Steelers could be outscored, no question about that. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: Pete Prisco from CBS said they could lose eight or

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Speaker 1: nine in a row, and that was before they lost

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Speaker 1: to Green Bay. I think it's a bad football team.

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Speaker 1: And I still think they're gonna finish around five hundred

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Speaker 1: because that's what they do. But it's a bad football

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Speaker 1: team and right now it's playing really bad. And if

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Speaker 1: they could won, not by Indy, I think things could

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Speaker 1: go from bad to worse and stay worse. I think

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Speaker 1: if they lose to Indy by I don't know twenty

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Speaker 1: or even you know, seventeen or whatever, that things could

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Speaker 1: could could really snowball in a bad direction. That that

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Speaker 1: excrement could could trickle not trickle, but just flow freely

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Speaker 1: down hill.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to a talkback.

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Speaker 10: Hey, Marcus is Dan. I just want to comment regarding

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Speaker 10: your Steelers comments about them losing this week, probably pretty

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Speaker 10: embarrassing fashion. Their defense is trash averaging, allowing thirty plus

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Speaker 10: points like it's it's not a good look at all.

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Speaker 10: I would bet the house on the Colts at least

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Speaker 10: minus ten point five.

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Speaker 1: Well, the culturally favored by three, which strikes me as

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Speaker 1: a narrow spread. So get to bed Parks, the sportsbook

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Speaker 1: app and lay your money down. Yeah, I think the

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Speaker 1: culture is certainly going to cover three points. Then again,

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Speaker 1: like all these Steeler diehard is saying, Vegas knows it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be real close. Could go either way. What good

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Speaker 1: to a talkback? Okay, we lost that one, Okay, get

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Speaker 1: your calls in now though. Anyway, eight three three four

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Speaker 1: one two w xd x. That's eight three three four

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