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Speaker 2: Sudden Welcome home, Bobby Bring his first.

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Speaker 3: Game in the wild here on home, I see rock

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Speaker 4: Second hour of the presentation, Minnesota wild About set to

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Speaker 4: On site producer Nordo, I'm Paul Allen keras Savage is

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Speaker 4: here with the KFA and Social team and the great

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Speaker 4: here at Russo Hockey Va.

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Speaker 5: Brett Brett clearly has a hang now again Brett who

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Speaker 5: Brett Blakemore, Who's hey?

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Speaker 2: You just kidding somebody that.

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Speaker 6: Would come in?

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Speaker 5: Then maybe give Chad, who's the big boss, chance to

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Speaker 2: You never talked to Brett. I'm taking the leap. You

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 6: I talked to him every now and then. How do

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Speaker 4: How do you know he's not in Arizona golfing with

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Speaker 5: But usually when I hear from Brett, it's him just

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Speaker 4: Yeah, usually when I hear from Brett, it used to

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Speaker 4: be him claiming to me kway Walker could cover the past.

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Speaker 4: So I'm glad that season's over and now we move

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Speaker 4: on to hockey. And I got seventeen to go for

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Speaker 4: Hinsey's team. These Philadelphia Flyers are here this evening, and

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Speaker 4: before we came back, I mentioned to Russo Radio that

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Speaker 4: I just I guess I had forgotten. But Michael's elite

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Speaker 4: with recall with stuff like this that the Wild have

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Speaker 4: had significant trouble against Philly for years.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I remember.

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Speaker 5: I still remember the father son trip that we go

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Speaker 5: there and the Wow got smoked like six ones.

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Speaker 2: The fourth game of the year. You called it a devastating.

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Speaker 6: And if they lose tonight, PA, it will be devastating.

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Speaker 4: So it's an inside joke inside baseball, not worth explaining, right, now,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I might have exaggerated a loss and you were

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Speaker 5: The lines lineup that the wild Ices, they always seem

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Speaker 5: to have trouble with this Flyers team. You know, I

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Speaker 5: but you know they look they still have some really

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Speaker 5: But I beat Lador and then you got problems be

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Speaker 4: No chance they're gonna kill Philadelphia to night when I

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Speaker 5: Up for Saint Louis. There's just been those games where

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Speaker 2: Eliminating human nature but that but you're right.

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is the the one thing that I

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Speaker 5: if they are healthy when Marcus Felino comes back, I

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Speaker 6: It's gonna be really, really hard. That's why when.

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Speaker 5: Wild fans keep on asking me who comes out, I

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean that's just because I've read that in

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Speaker 5: You know, the big storyline is you wait thirty eight

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Speaker 5: it's clearly like it could be brinking, could be you're off,

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Speaker 6: Which is you know, something to look forward to.

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Speaker 4: And I wasn't taking a shot at the fans saying

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I know, I get it.

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Speaker 5: But the bottom six for this team, Like I know

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Speaker 5: It's just gonna be It's gonna be based on balance,

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Speaker 8: I mean, there's so much in front of us right

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Speaker 8: this bottom six the competition is sweet? What does that

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Speaker 8: we're going to Dallas. But that bottom six could look

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it's gonna keep talk from bottom six,

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Speaker 2: That people meet, he comes out anyway ahead.

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Speaker 6: It was great, that's a great point. I agree with everything.

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Speaker 6: He just said, let's move on.

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Speaker 4: Michael Russo Russo Hockey. Are you working on any doozies

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Speaker 5: Especially with Chad Abbott Uh working the board right now?

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Speaker 5: that's true coming on here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for for the for the bountiful amount of money

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Speaker 5: So anyway, uh, to your point, any good doozies, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I spent uh. Uh, I spent some time Monday, about

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Speaker 5: be a really cool story that that's and then I

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they they have. It's funny that you said that.

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Speaker 5: I was talking to the Utah jam the other day,

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Speaker 5: but they've had a they've had their March meetings this

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Speaker 5: it'll be fun. I'll have my annual dinner with Lunani

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Speaker 5: You know, he came into camp in impeccable shape. He's

442
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Speaker 5: leading the league in hits by almost one hundred's. He's

443
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Speaker 5: just been terrific on the penalty kill, especially of late. Yeah,

444
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Speaker 5: he's starting to add offensive dimensions to his game. He's

445
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Speaker 5: skating better than I've ever seen him play. So you know,

446
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Speaker 5: I would say him, but you're off, is gonna be

447
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Speaker 5: a great, great player.

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Speaker 6: I mean he is.

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Speaker 5: You know, even just since the Olympic break where he

450
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Speaker 5: wasn't getting a lot of points, he's had scoring chances,

451
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Speaker 5: a ton of them in Vegas, a ton of them

452
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Speaker 5: in Colorado, and then he scores the beautiful goal the

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Speaker 5: other night where he undresses Mackenzie. Wiger is no shit,

454
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Speaker 5: not you know, he's not a shabby defenseman, Bunny stretch

455
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Speaker 5: of the imagination.

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Speaker 8: And he kind of held his own when he was

457
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Speaker 8: asked to do some top line work and things.

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Speaker 2: But he's kind of just met bars along the.

459
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Speaker 5: Way in the season hasn't end absolutely, and he just

460
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Speaker 5: keeps on getting better and better, and you know it it.

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Speaker 5: The only thing that sucks is that, like if I

462
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Speaker 5: was a fan, I wouldn't buy his jersey, you know, like,

463
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Speaker 5: like if the Wild are going to get in on

464
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Speaker 5: these big fish this offseason, it's not gonna be for

465
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Speaker 5: Adam Benneck and Charlie Strammel and those like. It might

466
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Speaker 5: include Streamer, but it's gonna cost you, probably Volstad and

467
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Speaker 5: you're of to get in on these guys.

468
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Speaker 6: And so I wouldn't buy his jersey.

469
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Speaker 5: Yet let me let me stop, because I think he's

470
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Speaker 5: gonna be a hell of a defense ele of It center.

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Speaker 8: Let me take a different spin, but similar vein to

472
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Speaker 8: the question Pa asked who is the most potentially underrated

473
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Speaker 8: slash maligned member of the team, and that that maybe

474
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Speaker 8: the malign's the wrong word is when we were hunting

475
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Speaker 8: for Trocheck, it's just everybody. It just and maybe this

476
00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:43,439
Speaker 8: is almost a perpetual or every season thing. We can't

477
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Speaker 8: have Hartman in the spot that we put him in

478
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Speaker 8: now personally from the outset, and you can tell me

479
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Speaker 8: if I'm dumb on this. I think Hartman is one

480
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Speaker 8: of the Wild's more consistent players, specifically in the postseason,

481
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Speaker 8: and I like Hartman's game overall, and really what he's giving.

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Speaker 7: Where he's at.

483
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Speaker 2: Is he maligned? Is he underrated?

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Speaker 8: Maybe in a different sense of the word when we're

485
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Speaker 8: out there hunting big game style for a.

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Speaker 5: Second, Like, I think fans understand that Hartman's a good player.

487
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Speaker 5: I think they just think that he's not cast to

488
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Speaker 5: be the number one center on an NHL franchise that

489
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Speaker 5: wants to go win a Cup. I think there's ways

490
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Speaker 5: to get away with it, though, and part of it's

491
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Speaker 5: having two play driving wingers in Boldi and Prisov and

492
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Speaker 5: a superstar defenseman in Quinn Hughes. I think that Bill Garran,

493
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Speaker 5: if he was right here, would agree with you that

494
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Speaker 5: Brian Hartman is not a number one center in.

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Speaker 6: The National Hockey League.

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Speaker 5: But I also don't think that that stops Bill Garran

497
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Speaker 5: from thinking that this team could be a true Cup

498
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Speaker 5: contender with Brian Hartman as their number one center. I think, yeah,

499
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Speaker 5: he plays well, he's skating really well, he digs out pucks.

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Speaker 6: For those two.

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Speaker 5: But you're right, I mean, like, I think fans understand though,

502
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Speaker 5: that you still want a center that's probably more of

503
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Speaker 5: a playmaker and more of a point producer playing with

504
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Speaker 5: those guys. So like I get where the fans come

505
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Speaker 5: off here. He was maligned in this in that. You know,

506
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Speaker 5: another one that's maligned I think too much is Marcus Flino.

507
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Speaker 5: I think people look at his contract too much when

508
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Speaker 5: this team. You know, first of all, right before he

509
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Speaker 5: got hurt, he was starting to really produce a lot.

510
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Speaker 5: You know, the hat trick in Toronto, the great game

511
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Speaker 5: he had in Buffalo, and then unfortunately he gets hurt

512
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Speaker 5: when this team turned its season.

513
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Speaker 6: Round in November.

514
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Speaker 5: Before he got hurt in Chicago, like it was him

515
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Speaker 5: playing to his identity. So you know, he is just

516
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Speaker 5: you know for the role that he's going to be in,

517
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Speaker 5: which is probably fourth line left wing on this team.

518
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Speaker 5: When he comes back, you know, he he he does

519
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Speaker 5: his job and he's a really quality defensive forward.

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Speaker 4: Last one there's using speaking of Hughesy, how has ze

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Speaker 4: Bullyam been for the Coupe. I think I know he

522
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Speaker 4: had a goal a couple of weeks ago. I don't

523
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Speaker 4: think he has a lot, but like, how's he playing?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I watched the game that they played against was

525
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Speaker 5: it uh Ottawa the other night, and I thought he

526
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Speaker 5: was really really good. He's not producing a ton of points.

527
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Speaker 5: They're not producing points on that team right now. They

528
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Speaker 5: are the worst team in the league by a million miles.

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Speaker 7: Yep.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I think he's still going to be

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Speaker 5: a really really good defense good defenseman. But you know,

532
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Speaker 5: you look at what Hughes has done here, having what

533
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Speaker 5: forty points in his twenty whatever games almost right now?

534
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Speaker 6: Crazy.

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's like double what rossi Ogrin and boy

536
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Speaker 5: him I've done for them. I mean, there's been some

537
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Speaker 5: injuries there, but I think that as long as they

538
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Speaker 5: could figure out a way to keep Quinn passed next year,

539
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Speaker 5: I think anybody years from now is going to look

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Speaker 5: at that trade as being worth it for what.

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Speaker 4: Why didn't we get a fist bump from you when

542
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Speaker 4: we're when you rolled in. We did you a favor

543
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Speaker 4: before you got here. Are you familiar with what I'm

544
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 4: talking about? We got Heinze to announce that the goalie is.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I did not hear that is it is

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Speaker 6: a wally. It's yeah.

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Speaker 2: I thought you meant that.

548
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Speaker 6: I thought you.

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Speaker 5: I was worried about the fist bump because after listening

550
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Speaker 5: to Gorg I was gonna throw my life savings on

551
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Speaker 5: the wild and win the talk. Nobody better than KG.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate your brother. I have a good Dame Russo Radio,

553
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Speaker 5: Michael Russo.

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Speaker 7: Love You.

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Speaker 4: Second half of the radio show should begin with Minnesota

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Speaker 4: Wild general manager Bill Garron joining us for the morning

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Speaker 4: skate in advance of the Philly Flyers game tonight at

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Speaker 4: Grand Casino Arena. Nordo's here and I'm Paul Allen. This

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Speaker 4: is Boxing the Box of Kafa.

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Speaker 7: Stems.

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Speaker 6: I'm a fan.

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Speaker 8: How you doing, I've been?

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Speaker 7: How you doing? Deet Hey, Paul?

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Speaker 8: How you doing?

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Speaker 7: Goop Wild Billy James.

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Speaker 4: Bill Garron watching his Minnesota Wild with a vivacious morning skate.

571
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Speaker 2: Day of a game against the Philadelphia Flyers.

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Speaker 4: Bill is a general manager for the Minnesota Wild, joins

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Speaker 4: us for Box in the Box and you know the

574
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Speaker 4: with Philadelphia in town tonight And just like I put

575
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Speaker 4: a little trivia question, a little trivia game together for

576
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Speaker 4: John Hines and Kevin Gord to start things, and I

577
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Speaker 4: represented Hines. Why did I represent the coach? Because the

578
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 4: last thing an owner or president of hockey operations or

579
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Speaker 4: general manager wants to hear is their head coach making

580
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Speaker 4: even a one dollar bet on radio. So I'm like, okay,

581
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Speaker 4: I'll represent Heinzy and and Gorg meet him to one.

582
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Speaker 4: But when I was reading up on Philadelphia, of course

583
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Speaker 4: I remember Bobby Clark, and of course I remember Bernie Parratt,

584
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Speaker 4: and of course I've heard of the broad broad Street bullies,

585
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 4: you know, from back in the seventies. But then I

586
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,679
Speaker 4: was like looking into it and stuff, and I was like, damn,

587
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Speaker 4: Billy g would have been a heck of a broad

588
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Speaker 4: that that's your kind of squad back in the day,

589
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Speaker 4: right back in the day.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I had a lot of a lot of great

591
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Speaker 7: games in Philadelphia. Yeah the Spectrum, Yeah, Spectrum played at

592
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Speaker 7: the Spectrum. Oh yeah, oh yeah. When you're when you're

593
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Speaker 7: when you're walking in the Spectrum and you got a

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Speaker 7: you know, Eric Lindross is there and John mcclar and

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Speaker 7: Michael Rembrog the Legion of doom line. Wow, then they've

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Speaker 7: got uh, you know then they've got a bunch of

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Speaker 7: a bunch of heavyweights in there, and uh, you know

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Speaker 7: the guys that just played hard. You know, always going

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Speaker 7: into Philadelphia, knew you were going to get their their

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Speaker 7: best and their their highest competitive nature, and.

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Speaker 2: There was always a really tough place to play. Okay,

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Speaker 2: now hold out now.

603
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Speaker 4: Now, Bill was doing some work today with the Make

604
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Speaker 4: a Wish Foundation And okay, so I see a kid

605
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Speaker 4: on the ice with McGovern on the back of his sweater. Yeah,

606
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 4: is that Keen McGovern that's the kid with whom you're

607
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Speaker 4: working who just just got a backhander by one of

608
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Speaker 4: your goals. He's fifteen. Yeah, he won a great experience,

609
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Speaker 4: this kid.

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Speaker 7: Coming in from Bishop, California. Wow, it's right kind of

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Speaker 7: near the Nevada line, like yeah, like near the Mommouth Mountains,

612
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Speaker 7: Mammoth Mammouth Mountain. So it sounds like a beautiful area.

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Speaker 7: But what a great kid.

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Speaker 2: And he's uh, this is spectacular he gets to do this.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's awesome. He's all charged up for Saint Patrick's Day. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: he's a mcgovernor. Yeah, he sat and he sat in

617
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Speaker 7: Krills Porsche this morning. Wow, is pretty cool. That's the

618
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Speaker 7: way we started the day.

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Speaker 4: So if he's from Bishop, California and the Make a

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Speaker 4: Wish Foundation here, I know people will work with it.

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Speaker 4: I've done some charitable work with it. It's big and

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Speaker 4: it's very very philanthropically sound. But like is his favorite

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Speaker 4: team the Wild?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Is he like an La King's Anaheim Ducks, the Vegas

626
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Speaker 2: Golden Nights.

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Speaker 7: Fan in Minnesota. Wild.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that is super sweet.

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Speaker 7: Awesome, It's awesome and he's such a great kid. And

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Speaker 7: I got to spend some time with him and his

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Speaker 7: family this morning. He signed a one day, one day

632
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Speaker 7: contract with the Wild. And yeah, now he's out here,

633
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Speaker 7: uh you.

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Speaker 4: Know, tooling around with the guys, is in the morning,

635
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Speaker 4: skate with one of the best teams in the NHL.

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Speaker 2: I mean this, see this is This is a moment, at.

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Speaker 4: Least for me and probably for you too, man, where

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Speaker 4: it's kind of a it's kind of a see the

639
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Speaker 4: forest for the trees or smell the roses type moment.

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Speaker 4: And I'm not talking about the young man's condition. I

641
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Speaker 4: mean those are things through which he and his family

642
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 4: are working. This is a great opportunity. But if you

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Speaker 4: just think.

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Speaker 5: At age fifteen, he's in corell Caprice offs Porsche. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: he's out there passing to Hughesy, you know, trying to

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Speaker 5: get a one timer.

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Speaker 2: This is this will be.

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Speaker 4: One of the greatest memories this child has in the

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Speaker 4: history of his life.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely absolutely, and that's why it's I mean, Maker Wish

651
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 7: is such a great, a great organization. We've had some

652
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Speaker 7: great uh days with them, and you know, we're we're

653
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Speaker 7: lucky to be a part a partner of theirs. And yeah,

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Speaker 7: it's just you know, good for you. This is where

655
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 7: real life takes over right now. Then we're playing the

656
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 7: Flyers tonight, yep, and that's all good and great. This

657
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 7: is real life stuff.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, good for you on the team, and we're happy

659
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Speaker 4: to be a part of it. And McGovern like, what's

660
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,479
Speaker 4: his first name, Kellen, Kellen McGovern, who's here from Bishop,

661
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 4: California at fifteen and make awaysh man, this is I

662
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 4: knew what was going on today and you know you

663
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 4: might be here ten thirty, ten thirty. I didn't realize

664
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 4: that it was going to go to this extent. So hey,

665
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 4: as we go nine to know, man, that's coming to

666
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 4: clap for you guys, because this is I mean, we're

667
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 4: deep in the season. We got seventeen You talk about

668
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 4: putting the forest for the trees. Guys, we got seventeen

669
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 4: games to go. You know, hey, Philly, you know Philly's

670
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 4: not great on back to backs, but you know the

671
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 4: goalie is decent.

672
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 2: And you know, we gotta win. We gotta win, we

673
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 2: gotta win.

674
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 4: Now, we're going to bring this kid out and make

675
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 4: the greatest memory in the history of his life with

676
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 4: some of the best players in the NHL.

677
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 2: That's awesome.

678
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 7: I think it really honestly, I think it's good for

679
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 7: our players too. It's good for all of us because

680
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 7: you know what, you take a step back, yeah, and

681
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 7: you realize, you know what what's truly important in life,

682
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 7: and you know it's your health and your family. You know,

683
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 7: his parents, your children, that that's the most important thing

684
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 7: in life.

685
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 4: Imm Bill garroon general manager for the Minnesota Wild I've

686
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 4: heard you with Barrero, So maybe Burrio see an intern. No,

687
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 4: it's Don Barrio. He's on three to six thirty. I

688
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 4: think up to the fan of sports Babe, Yeah, on

689
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 4: a station called k Fan.

690
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 7: Yeah.

691
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 4: I've heard you with Don Barrio before. Yeah, and great

692
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 4: job as usual. So maybe people have heard this answer before,

693
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,479
Speaker 4: but it's the first time I've seen you in person

694
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:33,959
Speaker 4: in a little bit now, the the Milan experience and

695
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:34,719
Speaker 4: the meat grinder.

696
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 2: Have you ever and and I mean you've.

697
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 4: Played in some of the big, biggest games in the

698
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,239
Speaker 4: last x amount of years of hockey. The speed of

699
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 4: that last game, I've never seen anything like it in

700
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 4: my life, have you No?

701
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 7: No, it was The whole experience was life changing. It

702
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 7: was incredible. But that final listen, you know what hockey

703
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 7: was the big winner. You know, Canada amazing team, United

704
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 7: States amazing team. The whole hockey the whole world wanted

705
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 7: to see that matchup. They got it. We were fortunate

706
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 7: enough to win. But what a game. Yeah, the players

707
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 7: on both sides, Canada and the US, I mean, the

708
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 7: best of the best, in the best generation of hockey players.

709
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 7: It's just it was incredible, right, So I was just

710
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 7: honored and fortunate to be a part of it. Yeah.

711
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it was one of the greater sporting events

712
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 4: to follow and watch in a little while. In dumb

713
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 4: question here, twenty thirty, So, like, you get to put

714
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 4: the team together for twenty thirty I mean, how does

715
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 4: that work.

716
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 7: I haven't even processed this one yet, so.

717
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 4: Okay, but there's a possibility you could. Why have a

718
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 4: reason it's possible. Well, it's because you got like, okay,

719
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 4: you guys killed Utah the other night. But like Utah, Detroit, Anaheim,

720
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 4: some of these other teams that have been you know

721
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 4: a little a little shoddy over the years, but they're

722
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 4: getting better and the competitor they're good. Yes, the competitive

723
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 4: balance of the league is underrated in the NHL. So

724
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 4: like Logan Cooley, Jackson Lacombe for Anaheim, well he was

725
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 4: on the team, But I mean there are so many

726
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 4: players that are just sitting on big things that and

727
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 4: then some guys will they'll retire or step away or

728
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 4: maybe decline. So like that twenty thirty roster that's going

729
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 4: to be a meek grinder making that team.

730
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 7: Yeah, will be just like it was this one. And

731
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 7: there's that's the beauty of where USA Hockey is right now.

732
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 7: Our player pool was you know, only so big back

733
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 7: in the back in the nineties, you know, the late eighties,

734
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 7: early nineties. You know, we won the World Cup of

735
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 7: Hockey in ninety six. It's sparked in, you know, a

736
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 7: jump in players in the country. Then you know, you

737
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 7: move on to you know, all the Olympic games. The

738
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 7: kids are watching and we haven't been able to win

739
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 7: at the Olympics until now, and we're expecting another spike

740
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 7: in in player participation all across the country. And but

741
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 7: you know, that's that's been happening too. And like you mentioned,

742
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 7: like kids like Coolie that are coming up, there's still

743
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 7: the you know, the the kaw Fields, Laane Hudson's and

744
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 7: then there's kids that we don't even know about right

745
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,240
Speaker 7: now who could be able to for that uh Schaeffer's Canadian.

746
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm talking about just overall overall.

747
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I mean, my.

748
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 2: God, Like there's the game is a terrific.

749
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 4: Oh, he's outside breaking news here, but I'm not going

750
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 4: on out of my way to watch Islanders games generally,

751
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 4: but like when I do fall into him, I'm like,

752
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:39,439
Speaker 4: holy cow.

753
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean he's outstanding and the way he's what

754
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,800
Speaker 7: he's done for the Islanders organization and that market, yeah,

755
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 7: that fan base that it just I mean, wow, he

756
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 7: is something special. You know.

757
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 2: Good problem is an oxymoron.

758
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 4: But I'm not gonna say with with the trade deadline

759
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 4: and everything that you kind of.

760
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:00,760
Speaker 2: Threw Heinze and a mate grinder.

761
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 4: But I mean it's it's the good problem of having

762
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 4: really really difficult bottom six decisions to make pretty much

763
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 4: every game.

764
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 2: Would you agree, Yeah, But you know what's good.

765
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 7: It is good. And I think the biggest thing is

766
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 7: and and there's there's nobody better at it than than

767
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 7: John Hines. He's also his communication. Yeah, and you know,

768
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 7: John's been very open with the guys. They all understand

769
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 7: where we are, what we're trying to do, where they

770
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 7: where they kind of stand in in the scheme of things.

771
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:37,399
Speaker 7: So be ready for anything, you know what. You might

772
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 7: have to sit out a game, you might not get

773
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 7: as much ice time as you like. You might not,

774
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 7: but you're part of it. You're we need everybody and

775
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 7: when your number is called, we need you to be ready.

776
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 7: And it's important. You are important. And I think he

777
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 7: delivers those messages to the guys black and white, plain

778
00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 7: and simple, and it's I think that's the biggest thing

779
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 7: for professional athletes is that they're communicated with.

780
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 4: Were you ever that guy? I mean, you had an

781
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 4: awesome career, but like, were you ever that guy? Either

782
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 4: be a trade or later in career where it's kind

783
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 4: of like, hey, I mean I've done this and now

784
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 4: I'm sweating to get twelve minutes. You know, Like, were

785
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 4: you ever that guy?

786
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 7: You know?

787
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 6: No, I was.

788
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 7: I was really fortunate. And you know, the one thing

789
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 7: I do remember one conversation I had when I was

790
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 7: playing my last year in Pittsburgh and Dan Bisma was

791
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 7: our coach. And this is where communication, you know, comes in,

792
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 7: so it's so important. I wasn't playing well and and Dan,

793
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 7: you know, brought me into the office said, hey, listen,

794
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 7: some we all sub in our lineups. Some people have

795
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 7: you in, some people have you out. This is the

796
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 7: reason I'm going to show you a couple of things.

797
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,760
Speaker 7: You're not looming your feet, you're not skating. Here's here's

798
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 7: two or three examples of what you're doing. Yeah, you're

799
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 7: in tonight, but you need to like kind of get going.

800
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,799
Speaker 7: So he communicated with me, he gave me the heads up.

801
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 7: I saw it, and I fixed it. Not ever like that, right,

802
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,720
Speaker 7: And that's not really how it was back when. Wow,

803
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 7: for most of my career it was, you know, and

804
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 7: I felt bad for a lot of the guys who

805
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 7: were kind of on the bubble of the lineup every

806
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 7: night because they didn't know why, they didn't know what

807
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 7: was going on, but that that wasn't the culture, like

808
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 7: you just you did what you're told and that was it.

809
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 7: Now it's a better culture in that way, and that

810
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 7: the coaches take the time to talk to the players

811
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 7: so you don't lose them and they feel respected and

812
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 7: they feel important. I think that's a great evolution of

813
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 7: that part of our game.

814
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 4: The Flyers head coaches Rick Tockett and Bill and Rick

815
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 4: were together in Pittsburgh. Tacket coaching coach, and I think

816
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 4: Bill was the assistant G You were the assistant DM

817
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 4: at the time. What job, what kind of your relationship?

818
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 4: I assume was pretty good? But what what kind of

819
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 4: a player was Rick tocking soft? Well, that means you

820
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 4: guys have a great relationship. You must be best friends.

821
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 2: You to do that. That's fan I tell.

822
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 7: You there was I don't think. I mean, listen, there

823
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 7: are there are a lot of guys back in the

824
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 7: day that could do it. But I don't know if

825
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 7: anybody blended toughness and skill. Yeah, more than define defines

826
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 7: power forward or toughness and skill more than Rick tocket

827
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 7: I mean three thousand penalty minutes, nine hundred points.

828
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: Wow.

829
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,720
Speaker 7: I know he scored forty nine one year playing with Mario,

830
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,359
Speaker 7: you know, just missed fifty. But like, and you know what,

831
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 7: I never played with him, but I worked with him.

832
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 7: And he's a very good friend, no better teammate than

833
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,839
Speaker 7: you could ask for, very smart. From what I said,

834
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 7: he's an A plus human, right I will, Hey, look

835
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 7: at I want that guy in my Foxholu and Quinn

836
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 7: Hughes would be a player that you put in your

837
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 7: fox hill.

838
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 4: And he's come through no doubt. A weird question, but

839
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 4: I've just been one in him. When do you start

840
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 4: making sure Hughes these days here forever?

841
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:04,919
Speaker 3: Uh?

842
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 7: You know what, we can we can talk this summer.

843
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,720
Speaker 7: Uh you know, it's it's kind of like the Curl

844
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,240
Speaker 7: situation where that's the timing of it and we don't

845
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 7: we don't wanna you know, well you can't for the

846
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 7: cb A oh just but just let him let him

847
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:27,240
Speaker 7: play now, we'll figure that stuff out that right. Oh yeah, yeah,

848
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 7: he's he's listening this. This kid's just so focus on

849
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 7: hockey and winning and you know, being a part of

850
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 7: the wild and making us better and he's just yeah,

851
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 7: he's been awesome.

852
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 2: That that has to excite you. You know, when the

853
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,479
Speaker 2: season is over, hopefully you're oyting a cup.

854
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 4: And then you get Russo and the rest of the

855
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 4: gang asking you every five days, what's up with Hughes?

856
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 7: What's up with? Yeah? That's there's some things that look

857
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 7: forward to and some things that don't.

858
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 4: All right, Last one ten fifty Bill Gerrans with a

859
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 4: nine to new What if? What if Bobby brink as

860
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 4: one hundred friends and family come to the game denied

861
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 4: to watch him versus his former team? What are you saying,

862
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 4: Bobby brank Man?

863
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 7: You talk about them, Well, a lot of tickets could

864
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 7: be about you, just as song as they get them

865
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 7: on their own.

866
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:17,240
Speaker 2: You knew what I was talking about.

867
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 7: Battle and you want I know exactly what you're talking about,

868
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 7: a verbal punk battle and you killed me. But listen,

869
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 7: the point to my to my comments is that I

870
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 7: know it was funny. It was, but you know what,

871
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 7: But it's but I was serious too. Why know when

872
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 7: you come home to play and I went through it

873
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 7: when I was for the Bruins, everybody comes out of

874
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 7: the woodwork. You're I know, your family and your good friends,

875
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Speaker 7: your real friends. Yeah we'll leave you alone. Yeah they'll

876
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Speaker 7: let you do your thing. Your friends that start coming

877
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Speaker 7: out of the woodwork, Hey can I get some tickets?

878
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 7: You want to hang out? If you want to do this,

879
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 7: you want to do that. Yeah, the answer is no,

880
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,720
Speaker 7: right like yay, he can do it. It could be worse,

881
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,320
Speaker 7: but you have to. You have to lay the groundwork

882
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Speaker 7: now to to put those fires out.

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Speaker 4: Well, think about when you get a new deal. People

884
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Speaker 4: coming out of the woodwork being like you, I don't

885
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 4: need twenty or thirty grand, it's all destructed. Can I

886
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Speaker 4: get two grand?

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Speaker 7: You know?

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Speaker 2: Three grand?

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Speaker 7: Listen it happens. Of course you're gonna get tickets for

890
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Speaker 7: your parents, or your brother and sister or maybe your

891
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 7: best buds or they can't you know when the other

892
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,280
Speaker 7: people can't make it. But like all the other Nataka

893
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Speaker 7: student body you have when you come and play at home,

894
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Speaker 7: you have to you have to say no. And that's

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Speaker 7: not easy for good guys like Bobby Break. It wasn't

896
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Speaker 7: easy for me. But you have to lay the groundwork early.

897
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Speaker 7: It's not that you can enjoy the experience. Nobody cheered

898
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 7: harder the other night when he scored the me. Yeah,

899
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Speaker 7: well maybe some people, maybe there was a he had

900
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Speaker 7: a full section here. That's why it was late to

901
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 7: this gate. I'm genuinely happy for guys that get to

902
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 7: come and play at home. All I want, yeah, is

903
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Speaker 7: for them to have success doing it and have a

904
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Speaker 7: great experience.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you and I are are high end acquaintance.

906
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Speaker 4: Has got to couple lectures laying around.

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Speaker 2: Tonight for me.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I do, I do. I miss you, man. I

909
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 5: just love having you on the radio show. You don't

910
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 5: ask anymore, well, sure we do. I just get shut

911
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 5: down by you.

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00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 4: I'm just for Don Burrio from three to six thirty

913
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Speaker 4: before the Fabulous Sports Bay.

914
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Speaker 7: I still can't put a name to a fix.

915
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Speaker 2: Good seeing you body. Great job to man.

916
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Speaker 4: It's fun and we'll see when we come back, all right,

917
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Speaker 4: Bill garon nine to noon, Back after this.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back nine to noon.

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Speaker 8: Com truncated edition. Before we get to the eleven o'clock

924
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Speaker 8: hour that features Alex Staylock feverishly grinding for coffee water color,

925
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 8: so with holes in them, the whole thing up here

926
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 8: in the perch at Tria. So let's hit on a

927
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Speaker 8: few topics and then pause. The Minnesota Timberwolves have lost

928
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,879
Speaker 8: three straight. It was another ugly one last night. If

929
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 8: I told you, or as a listener you told me,

930
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 8: you said, Hey, the Wolves are going to shoot nearly

931
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Speaker 8: sixty percent from the field, They're going to shoot almost

932
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Speaker 8: forty five percent from three, and they're going to go twenty.

933
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Speaker 2: Five of twenty nine from the line. I say, oh,

934
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Speaker 2: that's if that's a w it's the freaking Clippers.

935
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Speaker 8: Oh wait, Kawhi goes off for forty five last night,

936
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Speaker 8: As we anticipated, they shoot north of sixty from the field,

937
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 8: and they hit nineteen triples against the how who have

938
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Speaker 8: now lost three straight.

939
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Speaker 2: Tough time of the year to have maybe the low point.

940
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Speaker 8: As we were talking with Pa earlier in the season,

941
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Speaker 8: they're at the Dubs on Friday.

942
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Speaker 7: Needs to be better. We know.

943
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 2: Wild tonight wild with Bobby.

944
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 8: Britt facing his former team, Freeze Off and Boldy and

945
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 8: everybody flying high after the blowout over the Mammoth a

946
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Speaker 8: day or so ago. That's tonight right here on your

947
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Speaker 8: home for Wild Hockey the Fan, but to the NFL.

948
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Speaker 8: We haven't spent a ton of time on the NFL today,

949
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Speaker 8: given that it's a box in the box presentation, but

950
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Speaker 8: just some kind of news bouncing around.

951
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Speaker 2: Hopefully during the final hour we can jump into it.

952
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Speaker 8: Looking for running backs in the free agent market, I

953
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Speaker 8: personally did not see this coming, but Aaron Jones agreeing

954
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Speaker 8: to a simplified or lowered contract yesterday that will make

955
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Speaker 8: him the Sombreros coming back, Aaron Jones returning to the

956
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Speaker 8: fold to tandem, to go tandem with Jordan Mason, and

957
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Speaker 8: that saves the team about three ish three and a

958
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 8: half million dollars in cap off the original contract. The

959
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Speaker 8: key to this for me is going to be the

960
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Speaker 8: pass protection element of it. It's kind of dream weaving

961
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Speaker 8: with free agency. And you saw Keaton Mitchell, for instance,

962
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Speaker 8: Keaton Mitchell.

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Speaker 2: Who's watching every Keaton Mitchell snap in the NFL for

964
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Speaker 2: the Ravens. You probably are not.

965
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Speaker 8: I'm not watching a ton of it either, but the

966
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Speaker 8: speed and the way that he potentially fits his ability

967
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Speaker 8: to catch was intriguing to me. He signs with the

968
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Speaker 8: Chargers ask protection, the diminutive Mitchell versus the established Darren

969
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Speaker 8: Jones makes sense once we dig into that more in

970
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Speaker 8: earnest with PA, whether it's later today or during the

971
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Speaker 8: feast tomorrow, which will be fun in football centric. The

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Speaker 8: idea of still getting after a running back in the draft,

973
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Speaker 8: I think is certainly a priority for the Purple and

974
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Speaker 8: we would be efforting that via conversation tomorrow now from

975
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Speaker 8: the Kylers team. Ton's like Kyler's in town. I don't

976
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Speaker 8: know where they're hanging out at. Maybe it's just an Egan,

977
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Speaker 8: but whether it's Adam Schefter reporting and others, still is

978
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Speaker 8: believed to be the expectation that Kyler Murray will sign

979
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Speaker 8: a one year contract with the Minnesota Vikings. Schefter himself

980
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Speaker 8: reporting earlier today via paraphrasing, potentially later this afternoon we

981
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Speaker 8: could hear some finality to that, which then means tomorrow

982
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Speaker 8: during the Friday feast, Alec Lewis is gonna join us,

983
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Speaker 8: We're gonna have Pete Bursts around eleven, and we will

984
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Speaker 8: we'll have Jack Greenway five to two radio right out

985
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Speaker 8: of the gates tomorrow.

986
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Speaker 2: If the deal does take place today.

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Speaker 8: Of course, that would certainly dominate a lot of the

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Speaker 8: conversation on the Feast tomorrow. That's a truncated edition news

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Speaker 2: Paul Allen.

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Speaker 8: Final hour ahead of us Kear Savage on the Socialists

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Speaker 8: a party here at Tria Tradere.

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Speaker 7: Nine to Dude,