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Speaker 3: Heinzy about thirty minutes from now from Trio Trio Rank

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Speaker 3: advance of the final game this season against the Chicago Blackhawks.

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Speaker 3: And who better to talk about that much more than

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Speaker 3: Michael Russo at Russo Hockey via x and he covers

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Speaker 3: the wild, writes about the NHL, and much more at

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Speaker 3: the Athletic Intheathletic dot com. Now nine has been of

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Speaker 3: the of the breaking news oak today, including right out

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Speaker 3: And we reported that Marcus Felino was going to skate

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Speaker 3: do is break news. Well, sources inform us that very

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Speaker 3: recently you and television play by play voice Anthony la

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well we always get into arguments. But this one man,

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Speaker 5: This guy, it's three, three or four months from now

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Speaker 3: In fairness since we are gravy, we're gravy training low

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Speaker 5: Find word seats in the house on Talk North network?

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Speaker 5: It's uh, you can get on an Apple, Spotify wherever

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Speaker 5: and how and how him and Gary Bettman are like

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Speaker 3: And and in fairness, Michael is just back from Florida

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was back and forth with me, and he

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Speaker 5: like essentially it's a balance schedule, right. You're playing some

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Speaker 5: So it's absurd to have a playoff format where it's

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Speaker 5: You shouldn't get to play Anaheim, who the wild by

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Speaker 5: I don't understand how La Panta can't see it that way. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: But okay, you know, I'm not going to ask you

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Speaker 5: One hundred and twenty four by the nineteenth.

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Speaker 3: Well, this story, this general manager's gathering in Florida, RUSSO

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Speaker 2: You can read it, argue, you can read all about it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Subscriptions for the Athletic Orthathletic dot com. Okay, maybe the

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Speaker 5: It definitely wasn't an argument.

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Speaker 2: I portray that how much moving forward? How much? How

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Speaker 5: I love him.

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Speaker 5: Austin Matthews leaving or Maddy NY's to your point, or

436
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Speaker 5: things like that. Ottawa with Brady could chuck if they

437
00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,200
Speaker 5: don't make the playoffs. So you know the point is,

438
00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,000
Speaker 5: is that not not that he's got deals in the

439
00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:36,719
Speaker 5: works and things like that, they still have to have

440
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,520
Speaker 5: the assets, Like I still have my doubts on what

441
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,640
Speaker 5: the Wild will be able to do, just because they've

442
00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:43,560
Speaker 5: traded so many assets away in the last couple of

443
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Speaker 5: years with from you know, basically throwing away who's a

444
00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:48,800
Speaker 5: d enof to the picks that they gave up in

445
00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,679
Speaker 5: the Eurocheck deal, to obviously what they had to give

446
00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,359
Speaker 5: up in the Quinn Hughes deal. So it's let I mean,

447
00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,720
Speaker 5: we just did a thing in the Athletic yesterday where

448
00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,199
Speaker 5: they're their number two prospect pool. So yeah, yeah, have

449
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,720
Speaker 5: all your albums plummeted down to twenty three And it's

450
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:04,959
Speaker 5: because they don't have a ton of things here and

451
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,200
Speaker 5: so I you know, if if you were going to

452
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,760
Speaker 5: trade a Brady could Chuck or Robert Thomas or Austin

453
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Speaker 5: Matthews and you're a GM and you're looking at the

454
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Speaker 5: template of the Quinn Hughes trade, you're gonna want that

455
00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:19,080
Speaker 5: same type of package back for those guys. Well, did

456
00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:21,320
Speaker 5: the Wild have that package anymore? No, they don't have

457
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 5: a Rossie Boyam or Ogrinto trade anymore. Plus the first

458
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,359
Speaker 5: they have the first you know, is Stramm move the

459
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Speaker 5: needle of the ear of move the needle. I mean,

460
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Speaker 5: you know, I gotta think we're looking at from justin

461
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Speaker 5: Minnesota point of view, but other teams are gonna be

462
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 5: able to look at that template and say this is

463
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Speaker 5: what we can come up with. So I don't even

464
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 5: know if he's gonna be able to do it, but

465
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Speaker 5: I definitely know that he's gonna try to do it.

466
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Speaker 3: Two hour right as we see it on radio with

467
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Speaker 3: the scratch players like Hunter, Hayt and stuff.

468
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Speaker 2: Is that Valstet?

469
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Speaker 3: That is.

470
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Speaker 2: Valstat He's having a rough run of it, totally cow.

471
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Speaker 2: I mean Hunter hate just wow.

472
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Speaker 5: So hate. Yeah, I hate fabric Petrie and Felino or

473
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,320
Speaker 5: the scratches and hunts or the scratch I ask you

474
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Speaker 5: this too, by the way, that's not well said.

475
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Speaker 2: That's guss Co. Yeah, what is the dish on Petrie?

476
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:16,199
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. I wanted to say Petri dish? All right,

477
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Speaker 2: I'll see I needed that to end with because you

478
00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 2: came in.

479
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,199
Speaker 5: We're here all of a sudden, all of a sudden,

480
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Speaker 5: like put your thumb up the social pictures.

481
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 3: But yeah, the social media piece thing, It's like I

482
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Speaker 3: go from hearing one person say I'm not doing this

483
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Speaker 3: person's work, and then the person decides to do the work,

484
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Speaker 3: and then somebody rejects them and says no picturelieving.

485
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Speaker 5: I'm like, holy cane, Yeah, sorry, that was a like

486
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Speaker 5: does Anthony will be here at eleven o'clock?

487
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Speaker 2: So I can't trust me?

488
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Speaker 5: He will be as pissed as I was, and I

489
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Speaker 5: will get him there. Yeah, I don't think you will.

490
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Speaker 3: We'll get his food on Sunday night on x SOX. Yeah,

491
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Speaker 3: I'll start there, all right, see you. But Michael Russo

492
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Speaker 3: at Russo Hockey be X ten thirty nine, z next

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Speaker 3: manson out Center, Sukarillo.

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Speaker 7: Staress Matsukill wins in it overtime. Then I sent up

495
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Speaker 7: by Johansson and with a buck fifty one to go

496
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Speaker 7: on the extra session in the Wild, prevailing this one

497
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Speaker 7: four three from United Center.

498
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Speaker 2: The Sounds of Hockey in Wild parsonal foul Fag.

499
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Speaker 3: John Hines, coach of the Minnesota Wild, joins us for

500
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Speaker 3: boxing the box at ten thirty five from TREA ranking

501
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Speaker 3: Saint Paul, The Seasons winding down thirteen to go. Bodies

502
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Speaker 3: you know, probably tired with some minds tied with a

503
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Speaker 3: lot reason I bring that up. There have just been

504
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,440
Speaker 3: it's just weird here today. There are like arguments all

505
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Speaker 3: over the place. And here's what I mean. So Michael

506
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,880
Speaker 3: Russo preceded you from like ten o'clock to like ten

507
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 3: twenty five. We comes in here hot as bleep. I'm like,

508
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:15,400
Speaker 3: what's going on?

509
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 2: Well?

510
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 3: Him and Anthony Lapanta got in an argument like down

511
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Speaker 3: down these stairs about yes, and it was I mean,

512
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 3: not like a friendship ending argument. It was on a podcast,

513
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 3: but it was about the playoff format. And Russo Radio

514
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 3: gets back from Florida and that GM thing and he

515
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 3: and Betman are going back and forth on the playoff format.

516
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Speaker 3: So I'm immediately thinking, all right, how can we poke Michael.

517
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Speaker 3: He's vulnerable here even if we don't believe it. How

518
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Speaker 3: can we keep this going? He was hot about the

519
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Speaker 3: playoff format, you guys, you know, with the great season

520
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 3: you've had, hooking Colorado or Dallas in the first round,

521
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Speaker 3: probably without home ice with respect.

522
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Speaker 2: And we'll talk about that in a little bit.

523
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Speaker 6: You know.

524
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Speaker 2: And he thinks it's dumb. So do I.

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Speaker 3: Lapant is here with us at the left and o'clock,

526
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Speaker 3: so I can't wait to get his side.

527
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Speaker 6: Boy, you got a full day going.

528
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Speaker 3: How great is this when other people are arguing and

529
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 3: it doesn't like involve you, isn't it the best?

530
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Speaker 6: I'll just sit back and observe.

531
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Speaker 3: So do I mean with with the the the playoff format,

532
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Speaker 3: the way it is?

533
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Speaker 2: I mean, do you think about it? Does it bug you?

534
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 2: Do you think it's wrong?

535
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:18,159
Speaker 5: Do you?

536
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 6: Do?

537
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Speaker 2: You just play who's in front of you?

538
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Speaker 4: Like?

539
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Speaker 2: How do you handle it?

540
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Speaker 4: You know what it's it's for? For For me, it's

541
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Speaker 4: we have to play who's in front of us. I

542
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Speaker 4: think debating that and thinking about it here there is

543
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Speaker 4: maybe for the off season, you know, but for our mindset.

544
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 4: You know, we're involved, we're competing, and we need to

545
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Speaker 4: make sure that we're ready to play whoever we play.

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Speaker 6: And no doubt that's how I'm gonna do.

547
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Speaker 3: Good to see good to see Moose out there today.

548
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Speaker 3: In fact, he's still out there Marcus Felino with the

549
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Speaker 3: Felino Face off with him and his brother Nick and

550
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Speaker 3: Hockey Uh raising money and hiding awareness for to be cancer.

551
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Speaker 3: Moose will be on the radio show about forty minutes

552
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Speaker 3: from now, so with Marcus conditioning just getting him back

553
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Speaker 3: out there.

554
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Speaker 2: Now, it's just a step that has to be taken, right.

555
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, he's at stating a couple of days ago.

556
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,159
Speaker 4: So now this is you just start to ramp it

557
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Speaker 4: up and increase the time, the intensity, the frequency of it.

558
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Speaker 4: And uh, you know, he's he's done a very good

559
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Speaker 4: job on his recovery.

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Speaker 6: There's been no issues.

561
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Speaker 4: But now it's that next step of all those things

562
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Speaker 4: you talked about of getting back on the ice and

563
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Speaker 4: and seeing where he goes from there.

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Speaker 2: It you know, it's an art. I would imagine.

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Speaker 3: I'm not you know, you're you're not the certified athletic trainer,

566
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 3: but I mean you work closely with that staff and everything,

567
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Speaker 3: so like getting into the medicine and the science and

568
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Speaker 3: things like that.

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Speaker 2: You're a coach, but it's it, they're there. It's an

570
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Speaker 2: art to.

571
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Speaker 3: Bringing people back, right, is to like when you push

572
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 3: when you don't, when you push harder and the player

573
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Speaker 3: doesn't necessarily think he's going to get pushed harder.

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Speaker 2: It's like, like, what goes into that art?

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Speaker 6: Well, there's a lot.

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Speaker 4: I think there's a there's the it's almost like coaching, right,

577
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Speaker 4: there's an art and science to it and Uh. I

578
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Speaker 4: think when you're bringing a player back, there is a

579
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Speaker 4: science part of it of just a medical getting back

580
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Speaker 4: of what his progression should be. And then it's it's

581
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Speaker 4: you know, put knowing and planning out when you're gonna

582
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Speaker 4: work them hard, when you're gonna test him, when he

583
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 4: needs recovery, how he and the art part of it

584
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Speaker 4: is how does he recover?

585
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Speaker 6: Can you push more?

586
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 2: Yeah?

587
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 4: And then it the later the rehab goes, the closer

588
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 4: it becomes to playing, it's really becomes more of an

589
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 4: are particularly with the I think, with the player and

590
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Speaker 4: how they feel and how spawn the things.

591
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, the honesty of the player.

592
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Speaker 6: Right.

593
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Speaker 3: And it sounds like I think it was last year

594
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Speaker 3: with Caprisov when everybody was asking you about a million things,

595
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Speaker 3: and then it kind of comes down to they want

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Speaker 3: to play? Are they ready to play? And you got

597
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Speaker 3: to read between the lines to make sure they're being

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Speaker 3: square with you.

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00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,959
Speaker 4: Correct, And that's that's where you have to rely. You

600
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 4: do have to rely on the player. But also I

601
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Speaker 4: think you.

602
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Speaker 6: Know the doctors and and and the trainers.

603
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Speaker 4: You know, sometimes you have to save a player from

604
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Speaker 4: himself as well, where they may they may want to

605
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Speaker 4: play because they want to get in there, but they

606
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Speaker 4: might need another week or a few more days or

607
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 4: a certain style of practice before. So it's always it's

608
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 4: always touch and go, you know, when you're bringing players back.

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Speaker 6: But that is the process we usually.

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Speaker 3: Go through, coach Tonight against the Blackhawks, six thirty Grand

611
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Speaker 3: Casino Arena, Uh, four to three or time win sounds good, right,

612
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 3: I mean just might as well well just like have

613
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 3: a fourth four to three overtime win against these guys.

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Speaker 2: Holy cow.

615
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been Uh, it's been a lot of a

616
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,199
Speaker 4: lot of tight games against them, and uh, you know

617
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 4: we we're obviously playing in the back to back, so

618
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 4: it was nice to get to win and and get

619
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Speaker 4: back in the win column for us. Yes, so you

620
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 4: know we're looking to uh to to to to play

621
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Speaker 4: a complete game tonight and get get in get a

622
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Speaker 4: win a home mites.

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Speaker 6: We haven't had one in three games.

624
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Speaker 3: When when Gus had to go to the room late

625
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 3: during that victory at Chicago, Uh, watching it on TV,

626
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 3: you look perplexed.

627
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 2: What you just look confused? What was on your mind?

628
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 6: Yeah?

629
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Speaker 4: I was a little I I just he didn't say

630
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Speaker 4: anything when he came off, you know, and usually I

631
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 4: just was I was first and foremost was just is

632
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 4: he okay. I didn't know what was going on with him,

633
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 4: whether it was equipment or or or something physical or bathroom?

634
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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah.

635
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 4: And then but thank thankfully it was something, uh, you know,

636
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 4: with his equipment. And then it was just the refs

637
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 4: are like, we we got to get going, and I'm like, well, listen,

638
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 4: I got to figure out what's going on with the

639
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 4: player first.

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Speaker 6: Can he give me another minute?

641
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 2: Hundred percent?

642
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,239
Speaker 6: And Wally comes trotting out and I said, well, this

643
00:28:58,280 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 6: is what we're doing.

644
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 4: And then, uh, I'm glad that Gus got to fixed

645
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 4: and came back in and while he did a heck

646
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 4: of a job, he went.

647
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 6: In to meet two big stays for us.

648
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 3: I mean, it's you guys have had such a good season,

649
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 3: you know, and you shipped in for Hughes and just

650
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 3: some of the deals you made. It's it's clearly there

651
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 3: is a central focus of winning in the postseason, trying

652
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 3: to hoist the Stanley Cup for the state of Minnesota.

653
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of.

654
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 3: Teams may have that approach or they may want to

655
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 3: do it, but I mean, you guys have done things

656
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 3: to do it, and you're one of the what three,

657
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 3: four or five best teams in the NHL. Why I

658
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 3: bring all that up is from a coaching standpoint, is

659
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 3: this range right now? Is it just different right now?

660
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 3: Because human nature in sports, life and everything gets to

661
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 3: win two occasionally, and if you've got players or maybe

662
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 3: you and the coaches kind of know, hey, it's a

663
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 3: super high percentage we're gonna play one of these two

664
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 3: teams in round one. We got thirteen to go, we're

665
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 3: six behind one of them. Hey, if we beat them

666
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 3: twice in regulation, we get four points. That could kill things.

667
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 3: But the percentages sway the way of certain and things.

668
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,719
Speaker 3: So when it comes to the preaches before games, practice

669
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,479
Speaker 3: stuff like that, making sure everybody's dialed into every single

670
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 3: thing every game despite knowing the carrot that's kind of

671
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 3: dangling in front of everybody, Is that challenging?

672
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 6: Yeah?

673
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 4: You know, I think it's challenging all the time as

674
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 4: a coach, whether you're in the situation we're in now,

675
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 4: or you know, whether you're in training camp or the

676
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 4: regular season.

677
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 6: You know, you we use the phrase a lot.

678
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 4: You have to be where your feet are and you know,

679
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 4: you know in the future that you know the playoffs

680
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:32,959
Speaker 4: are going to be there, but right now, it's you

681
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 4: have to win the game that's in front of you,

682
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 4: and you have to you have to have a present

683
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 4: focus no.

684
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 6: Matter what you're doing.

685
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 4: You know, when you're thinking about into the future or

686
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 4: you're anticipating different things and you're not in the now,

687
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 4: then you're not taking care of business. And that's, you know,

688
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 4: that's our message. That's that's our approach as coaches. It's

689
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 4: always been my approach as a coach. Uh and it's

690
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 4: it's it's it's leading that way. But I think it's

691
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,479
Speaker 4: also you know, the players understanding the constant themes that

692
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 4: you have all year, starting in training camp. So when

693
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 4: you get to these environments, it's not all over the map.

694
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,479
Speaker 4: You just come back to what your trains of thoughts are,

695
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 4: your messaging is, your mindsets are, and you're just you know,

696
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 4: preaching those or reminding of it and making sure that

697
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 4: we're we're in the present, where we're our feet are,

698
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 4: and that today is you know, getting ourselves ready to

699
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 4: play Chicago and.

700
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 5: Move on from there.

701
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 3: But okay, now say you move forward, you play some games,

702
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 3: you win, you win an overtime, losing overtime whatever, and

703
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 3: there gets to be a point where it's like ninety

704
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 3: seven percent, it looks like it's going to be this

705
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 3: and Homer Road or whatever. Does that give you the

706
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 3: opportunity to tinker? Does that give you an opportunity to

707
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 3: try some people with some people that maybe you wouldn't

708
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 3: in higher leverage situations.

709
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do think that that's you know, that that

710
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 4: is part of it when you're in the position we're in. Yes,

711
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 4: it does give you gives you gives you the luxury

712
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 4: to to try some different combos that you may think

713
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 4: could work or you might use in the playoffs. But

714
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 4: I think that's kind of natural, you know anyways, where

715
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 4: you know, we we do want to see some different guys.

716
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 4: You might get in injury, you might get different combinations.

717
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 4: Maybe align's hot early in the series. It goes a

718
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 4: little bit dry as a series goes on. So uh, yeah,

719
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 4: there's certainly some of those things that enter our mind

720
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 4: and some things that we'll do down the stretch here.

721
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 3: And see John, what I'm getting out with the human

722
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 3: nature aspect of it. I mean, from a coaches standpoint,

723
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 3: it it's serendipity. I mean, there are positives that can

724
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 3: transpire from potential negatives in that if you're watching it

725
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 3: back or in skates and you see somebody not moving

726
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 3: their feet because they kind of know what my role

727
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 3: is going to be against Tom and when we start well,

728
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 3: that gives the person behind them an opportunity not necessarily

729
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 3: to jump them, but to get out there and play

730
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 3: more minutes and make life better for the team and

731
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 3: maybe difficult for people where human nature is winning.

732
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. And you're always cognizant of that. I

733
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 4: think is that you know, as a coach, you're always

734
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 4: looking for those things. I mean, you know, complacency is

735
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 4: something that you know you always have to be on

736
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 4: guard for everybody. Yeah, And but I think with the

737
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 4: team that we have now, and I think the situation

738
00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 4: and we have, you know, a really good group of guys,

739
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 4: We have deep team. We have players that are that

740
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 4: are competing for ice time to in and out of

741
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 4: the lineup, and if you're in the lineup, what that

742
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 4: ice time is going to be. So you know, there's

743
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 4: there's a lot of things that always go into.

744
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 3: It with with with Quinn Hughes and the dazzling nature

745
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 3: of the offensive side of his game and just how

746
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 3: he sees the next thing so beautifully while he has

747
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 3: the pop. I've never asked you about his defense, like

748
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 3: team defense, individual defense, being on the smaller side, more

749
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 3: diminutive side. Knowing how playoff hockey is played, you know,

750
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 3: I mean, they'll probably chip it down to where he

751
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 3: is and try to beat him up. I mean, it's

752
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 3: age old in the playoffs. How is he with all

753
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 3: of that? Is he just is his defense?

754
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 6: What do you think he's good?

755
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I've had had the opportunity to

756
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 4: have him now for what thirty games, and and plus

757
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 4: the Olympics and seeing him play on that stage. You know,

758
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 4: Quinn's a great skating great skating player, cares about defense,

759
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 4: He cares about keeping the puck out of his net.

760
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 4: I think he understands how we want to play. You know,

761
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 4: he's not a one dimensional player. I think the things

762
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 4: obviously that stand out a lot of times with offensive

763
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 4: players is their ability to make plays and all those

764
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,719
Speaker 4: things that you said. But on the other side of it,

765
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 4: you might take a guy like Jonas Brodein who doesn't

766
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 4: jump off the screen in a game like Quinn does,

767
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 4: but he's an unbelievably hard player to play against, and

768
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 4: I think Quinn has that defensive element to his game.

769
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 4: It's just probably not as recognized as much because you

770
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 4: always see the offensive side jumps off the you know,

771
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 4: jumps off the ice or or to the to the

772
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:24,879
Speaker 4: to the eyes watching the game.

773
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 3: Are you a fan of three on three to settle

774
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 3: things before the shootout?

775
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 4: I think for the I'm not a huge tree on

776
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 4: three fan. I think for the regular season, I understand

777
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 4: why why it happens. You know, the games do have

778
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 4: to end. I think I'm glad that it doesn't happen

779
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 4: in the playoffs. Having the experience in the Olympics, you know,

780
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 4: we were fortunate to be on the on the right

781
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 4: side of a three on three to win the gold medal.

782
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 4: But I think if you lose that you probably feel differently.

783
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 4: I think I think at high stakes environments for a

784
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 4: championship or playoffs or things like that, where the schedule

785
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 4: lends itself that you could play two to three overtimes

786
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,959
Speaker 4: if needed, because there's no back to backs, there's different

787
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 4: types of travel, you know, I think it's better settled

788
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 4: that way at times.

789
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 3: Well, the reason I ask is it was different for

790
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 3: the gold when I mean Wrensky hits, hits, Jack Hughes

791
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 3: and there were go and it is the best ever,

792
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 3: you know. But I'm looking at your bench there and

793
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 3: everybody's a plus a or a minus. Now regular season

794
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 3: with every team's different. But when you get into a

795
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 3: three on three and you got no checking and stuff

796
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 3: like that, it's just it's a speed thing.

797
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 2: How much does it limit.

798
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 3: A coach's ability to use certain members of personnel that

799
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 3: you like and they're fresh and everything, but you know,

800
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 3: it's three on three man, it's a speed thing.

801
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, it does limit. You know, it's a speed thing.

802
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 4: It's more there's a lot of you know, defensively, it's

803
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 4: a lot of one on one. So that's where skating

804
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 4: is is a big I think skating and smarts is

805
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 4: a big factor in three on three. Like there's some

806
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 4: guys that are really good five on five, but when

807
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 4: it gets into that wide open ice and things like that,

808
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,439
Speaker 4: just their skill set doesn't lends it lend itself, uh,

809
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 4: to be a three on three guy.

810
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:02,760
Speaker 6: So it does limit your bench.

811
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 4: You know, the Olympics, you could probably play everybody on

812
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 4: the team, but when you get in the NHL, there's

813
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 4: there's there's different makeups of the team, and it does limit,

814
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 4: you know, the the amount of guys you can use

815
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 4: and the types of players that.

816
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 3: You and like you I mean here, you know, Quinn

817
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 3: Hughes is like high end three on three type guy

818
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,879
Speaker 3: if he was playing somewhere else and you were watching it,

819
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 3: high end three on like Cole Kawfield from Montreal, Like

820
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 3: he's a high end three on three.

821
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 4: Guy, right, correct, Yeah, Quinn's high end like that call

822
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 4: Field is on that. I think, you know, I think

823
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,399
Speaker 4: we have some really good you know, Carills very good,

824
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 4: Papers Holds is good, Faves is good, Spursy's good yea.

825
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 4: You know, fortunately for us we do have you know,

826
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 4: some depth three on three that that does benefit us

827
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 4: when we're healthy.

828
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,959
Speaker 2: And here is Johansson to Zuki winning it.

829
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 4: Yeah and Jojo Ecky you know, Vlatti's been good on

830
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 4: the three on three. So you know, you have like

831
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 4: I said, I mean and and the other part is

832
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 4: you have to have guys that that can defend when

833
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 4: called upon on three on three, But you also need

834
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 4: some guys that can put the puck in the net

835
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 4: when they get a chance.

836
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 3: And all of those guys can last one. What makes

837
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 3: for a good player in shootouts. I mean, I'm not

838
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 3: asking you how you pick whatever player and put him where. Yeah,

839
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 3: but like not ever. And this is this is kind

840
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 3: of tie in football and hockey together. You can have

841
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 3: really good dbs and really good linebackers. Not everybody blitz

842
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 3: as well. They they either show it and then people

843
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 3: know what's coming or they just don't handle it the

844
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 3: right way. But they're pro bowlers in hockey. Not everybody's

845
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 3: good a shootout.

846
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, no it's not.

847
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 4: I mean there's there's guys that you know, for example,

848
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 4: though when you do pick them, a lot of it

849
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 4: as you go on track record, Like you might think

850
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,320
Speaker 4: the guy's a good goal scorer, but then he's er

851
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 4: for ten in the shootout career wise, you know. So

852
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 4: for us it's it's not on a whim. It's not

853
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 4: just the best players. It's the guys that have the

854
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 4: best statistics and track record that can score. Sometimes they

855
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 4: get hot, sometimes they don't. Yeah, what makes a good

856
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 4: shootout player is obviously they have to have the ability

857
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 4: to score, but it's really do what they do best.

858
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 4: If you're a shooter, it's that you want to shoot,

859
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 4: not deek. If you're a guy that has If you're

860
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 4: a deeker and you're gonna fake the goalie out, usually

861
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 4: you need to have two good moves. You gotta have one,

862
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 4: you know, because they usually scout each other. So I

863
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 4: think if you're gonna have two good moves for that,

864
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 4: that's important.

865
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 6: But I think it's do what you're best at.

866
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, that that reminds me. I mean Patrick Kine

867
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 3: now good, but I mean when he was with the

868
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 3: Blackhawks with tabs and Duncan Keith and that whole thing,

869
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 3: you know, when he was super high end him and

870
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 3: the shootout that when you were explaining that, that reminded

871
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 3: me of him where he would slow roll it up there,

872
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 3: back and forth. He had two moves, yeah, and it

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Speaker 3: almost worked every single time. It was the coolest thing

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Speaker 3: in the world to watch. That's how he played, right.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. And like you said, he had two moves.

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Speaker 4: He could also shoot, so there's a little bit of

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Speaker 4: unpredictability to the shooter, which is important. But you know,

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Speaker 4: as you said, I think he was money when he

879
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Speaker 4: was when he was when he was back in Chicago,

880
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Speaker 4: and at times he was almost unstoppable.

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Speaker 3: Tear it up tonight, keep everybody healthy. All right, thanks

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Speaker 3: for the time. My brother Russo and La Panther are

883
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,399
Speaker 3: down there still arguing. Okay, so all right, I'll go referee. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: please do be lane the Mills lane of Pria today

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Speaker 3: right with John Hines, Anthony and Lapanta joins us. Coming

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Speaker 3: up about fifteen minutes from now, and an update from

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Speaker 3: the world of sports being useder Norda's.

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Speaker 8: Next Welcome Back nine to Noon live Box in the

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Speaker 8: Box presentation.

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Speaker 7: We are here at Tria for Morning Skate. Morning Skate

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Speaker 7: has concluded. My goodness this things start to quiet down

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Speaker 7: here in the arena.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if.

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Speaker 7: Damon Hunt and Jeff Petrie did something wrong, but they

895
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Speaker 7: have been sent through the freaking ringer one.

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Speaker 2: Heck, I'm getting tired watching it.

897
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Speaker 7: This conditioning that they're putting out there on the ice

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Speaker 7: right now, looks like Valstat's going to be a net

899
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Speaker 7: and Marcus Felino, he was back on the ice. He's

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Speaker 7: going to join nine to Noon final hour. Probably unlikely

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Speaker 7: to play this evening, but it's good to see that

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Speaker 7: Fellino back on the ice and skating, and Anthony Lapanta

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Speaker 7: is going to join us throughout the final hour as well,

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Speaker 7: some more Minnesota wild conversation. But this is indeed news

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Speaker 7: Ohio State and TCU around eleven fifteen. Why don't you

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Speaker 2: I don't have the times for tomorrow.

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Speaker 7: I know Max Buller and Zach Halverson are going to

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Speaker 7: be down there in Shacktown as well, but at the

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Speaker 7: hot House starting at eleven. He's probably on site right now,

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Speaker 7: justin Gard from eleven to one, and then Saucy Sausse

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Speaker 7: the Bracket Bash on KFA N and so many ways

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Speaker 7: to sink your teeth into that. Now I am the

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Speaker 7: foremost and all knowing authority on the NCAA tournament and games,

924
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Speaker 7: picking brackets and all that. So I'm just gonna tell

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Speaker 7: you it's eleven fifteen. I think Ohio State's gonna win. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: breaking news nine to noon and we broke the news

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Speaker 7: that Marcus Felino would skate. I think Ohios dates gonna

928
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Speaker 7: take that one out of the pro hoops side. The

929
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Speaker 7: Wolves on the back to back against Utah last night,

930
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Speaker 7: just and non playoff team as Utah is. I mean,

931
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Speaker 7: when they're rolling out sense of ball, they're rolling out

932
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Speaker 7: Ace Bailey and trying to get trying to get some

933
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Speaker 7: opportunities and experience for these youngins. You should expect to

934
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Speaker 7: win whether or not you have Anthony Edwards in the lineup,

935
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Speaker 7: Dusumu and Bones Highland two nights in a row for

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Speaker 7: only for two nights have been absolutely terrific. As part

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Speaker 7: of this this Anthony Edwards lists Wolves lineup Dusumo twenty

938
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Speaker 7: three to nine and six. Beautiful game last night for

939
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Speaker 7: him three takes as well Bones Highland eighteen off the bench,

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Speaker 7: and as I mentioned, it was an absolute throttling one

941
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Speaker 7: one to eleven p and I talking about this earlier

942
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Speaker 7: and just kind of the recency of things, and you know,

943
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Speaker 7: a lot of heavy opinions being laced were placed on

944
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Speaker 7: the shoulders, you know with Anthony Edwards. Hey, look at

945
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Speaker 7: how the defense where it's look at how to sum

946
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Speaker 7: who operates, Look at how this thing.

947
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Speaker 2: Works without Anthony in the lineup.

948
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Speaker 7: I just think that's more recency related to the consistency

949
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Speaker 7: conversation related to you know, his coach's message getting.

950
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Speaker 2: Through all of those things that play into it.

951
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Speaker 7: And we just need Anthony to get healthy and get

952
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 7: this thing back in the mix, and we need to

953
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 7: stay out of the freaking play in so beating non

954
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Speaker 7: playoff teams is the story. And next up, I believe

955
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Speaker 7: tomorrow night at Target Center, Portland's in town and might

956
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Speaker 7: as well just make it three and zero for the Howl.

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Speaker 2: One thing we might get into final hour.

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Speaker 7: I can guarantee you it'll be discussed during Tomorrow's Friday

959
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Speaker 7: football feast. Is the Vikings have added Carson Wentz back

960
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Speaker 7: to the mix. Carson Wentz remember him, signed them late

961
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Speaker 7: stages a training camp, put in some We ended up

962
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Speaker 7: needing him with the ankle injury to JJ McCarthy week

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Speaker 7: two in primetime against the Falcons, and then his shoulder

964
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Speaker 7: looked like it was going to fall off, and it

965
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Speaker 7: may have been a man physically dying on the yield

966
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Speaker 7: in that Chargers game. It ended ugly and uh, and

967
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Speaker 7: then his season was over. He had surgery, but he's

968
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Speaker 7: coming back, So Kyler, JJ McCarthy, Carson Wentz and Max

969
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Speaker 7: Brosmer So kind of the idea behind it, maybe the

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Speaker 7: the you know, I saw liber posting about this on

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Speaker 7: X Maybe the concept that this this could be more

972
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Speaker 7: of a true competition than we believe it to be.

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Speaker 2: I'm really not sure if I personally am ready to

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Speaker 2: go there yet.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 7: The deal that you get, the risk free nature of

977
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Speaker 7: signing to Kyler Murray, that's one thing. Financially, certainly it's

978
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Speaker 7: infinitely more palatable, of course than having take on what

979
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Speaker 7: Arizona's going to pay for him not to play for them.

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Speaker 7: But in the end, from an equity standpoint and and

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Speaker 7: from from.

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Speaker 2: A quality standpoint, it still.

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Speaker 7: Feels like it's confirm it's it's competition in air quotes

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Speaker 7: and the way that I'm looking at it, and it

985
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Speaker 7: sparks some interesting talkers is Wentz potentially the QB two.

986
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Speaker 2: What does it mean for the future of JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 7: Uh, I'm just I'll admit I'm not ready to go

988
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Speaker 7: to the idea that Carson Wentz is back, and therefore

989
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 7: the Vikings are currently scurrying behind the scenes and egan

990
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Speaker 7: to figure out how to trade JJ McCarthy. I don't

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Speaker 7: believe that's necessarily the case, but it is intriguing and

992
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Speaker 7: it is now a situation that only continues to cement

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Speaker 7: what Kevin O'Connell was talking about, raising the level of

994
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Speaker 7: the QB room and the marriage of a guy in

995
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Speaker 7: a Kyler Murray that is trying to find that next

996
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 7: big payday. This is a career resurgence spot for him.

997
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Speaker 7: That urgency there, it's marrying it with the urgency the

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Speaker 7: coach who's entering year five without a playoff win, and

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Speaker 7: the quarterback spot has to be so much better and

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Speaker 7: so much more stable than it was just a year ago.

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Speaker 7: So entering Carson Wentz into the mix, when he's healthy,

1002
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Speaker 7: he's stable when he's healthy. The offense appeared to run

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Speaker 7: much more closely to what you would have anticipated or

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Speaker 7: asked from the head coach than it did from JJ

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Speaker 7: McCarthy at various times. And and they know him, they

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Speaker 7: know him, and I think he's got a lot of

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Speaker 7: fans in the building Carson Wentz does, so you don't

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Speaker 7: have to throw out.

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Speaker 2: The number eleven purple jerseys quite yet. You're gonna get

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Speaker 2: an opportunity.

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Speaker 7: It sounds like to see some of him at least

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Speaker 7: in off season and training camp, preseason related activities as

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Speaker 7: this thing unfolds into twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: So there's some bits to chew on.

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Speaker 7: and when we return, the host of nine to Noon

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Speaker 7: and Anthony Lapante, Anthony Lapanta, the hair TV play by

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Speaker 7: joining me here in the GM box at Tria and

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