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Speaker 1: It's time to place your bets. Let's talk to the pros.

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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to betting pros. It's me Joey p

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Speaker 1: Joe pis Apia, and today we're taking you through some

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Speaker 1: NHL talk with one of my favorite people. He's one

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Speaker 1: of my co hosts over at Sports Grid for the

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Speaker 1: last few years.

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Speaker 2: And you may know.

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Speaker 1: Him possibly, oh, I don't know, maybe from his many

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Speaker 3: He's a fantasy maniac. He's also my good friend. He's

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Speaker 3: the Eric young e Y.

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Speaker 1: It is so good to see your beautiful bald face

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Speaker 1: and get two handsome bald guys here in the program

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Speaker 1: today and talk a little NHL with you.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: And I know you're dealing with that knee injury, so

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Speaker 1: you had some extra time and we're grateful that you

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Speaker 1: could share it with us today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, man, good to see you. Good to be talking

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Speaker 4: sports and even better to be talking hockey. I mean,

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Speaker 4: seasons wind down, playoffs are coming. I'm I'm basically a

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Speaker 4: one legged man and can't do a whole lot, so

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Speaker 4: I will not miss a game.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't. Let's be honest, Joe, I wasn't gonna miss

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Speaker 2: a game anyways, But yeah I will. I will not

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Speaker 2: miss a game in the playoffs. It looks like my

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Speaker 2: Preds could even sneak into the playoffs. So I'll be

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Speaker 2: I'll be heading down to Bridgetone.

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Speaker 4: I think we're gonna raise it to fifty per capacity

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Speaker 4: and I'll get my hit, my tickets all set up

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Speaker 4: and check out some live playoff action.

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Speaker 2: Nothing's better than the edge on playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Nothing beautiful, baby. And you know it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I remember doing the props in the beginning of the

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Speaker 1: year and some of the futures in the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the season with you over on sports Grid and we

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Speaker 1: talked about it. I can't believe now we are already

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Speaker 1: at the end of the season. It seems like just yesterday, right,

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Speaker 1: I was around the holidays. I feel like you and

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Speaker 1: I were doing that and here we are and it's

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Speaker 1: at the tail end. And yeah, I guess one of

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Speaker 1: the bonuses if you're gonna be hurt during this time,

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Speaker 1: at least during playoff hockey time where you get to

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Speaker 1: sit around and you know, EYU and I do a

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Speaker 1: lot of football together most of the time. So I

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Speaker 1: got to ask you your Tennessee Titans real quick, would

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Speaker 1: you think of their draft? Would you think of their offseason?

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Speaker 1: And Johnny Smith's gone, Gory Davis is gone. It's a

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Speaker 1: lot of open targets. It didn't feel like they really

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Speaker 1: bud Dupree. It's a great signing, great bringing him in,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the bud dupre signing, the cornerback they

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Speaker 4: took in the first round, I think those are going to.

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Speaker 2: Help bull through their defense. I mean that's what they needed.

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Speaker 4: They needed to be able to stop people on third

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Speaker 4: last year. The offense is obviously still going to run

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Speaker 4: through my man Mike King, Derrick Henry. I mean, as

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Speaker 4: you know who's on the field that much, I don't think.

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Speaker 2: It really matters. I think A. J.

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Speaker 4: Brown is going to take a big step this year,

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Speaker 4: and Tannehill is playing with supreme confidence, and you know,

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Speaker 4: running this system to prefestion. So this is is going

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Speaker 4: to be a dangerous team again this year. I think

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Speaker 4: the surprise of people last year me but I think

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Speaker 2: And I don't think it's going to happen this year either.

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Speaker 1: And anybody who's talking about the demise of Derrick Henry

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Speaker 2: It's coming this year. This year.

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Speaker 4: It's a stat last year, and you know, anything you

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Speaker 1: Man, His workout video is unbelievable, unbelievable, And uh, it's

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Speaker 3: I would think for the Titans this year. But I

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Speaker 1: Brown, I loved Henry, but I don't know, man, I'm

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll be back again talking football, have you I

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Speaker 1: on our football shows as well, But today m BP,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about hockey. So let's start with the President's Trophy,

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Speaker 1: and let's start with the odds there, because we got

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Speaker 1: the consensus betting pros tell us the Hurricanes are at

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Speaker 1: So you got the minus the Hurricanes there is the

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Speaker 4: There's you know, there's you know, five to eight games

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Speaker 4: the Hurricanes play in the Central Division where my hometown

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Speaker 4: Nashville Predators play, and they are a juggernaut right now.

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Speaker 2: They're so deep, the team speed is off the charts.

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Speaker 4: They're so aggressive on the fore check, so aggressive in

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Speaker 2: It often feels like there's six.

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Speaker 4: Guys on the ice when you know, if you follow hockey,

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Speaker 1: Look, eventually we'll get to all the Stanley Cup picks

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Speaker 4: For me, and I understand not a lot of people

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Speaker 2: I don't see that happening, But for me, I would avoid.

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Speaker 4: I would avoid batting on this because I think at

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Speaker 1: Let's move on to the Calder Trophy odds a career

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Speaker 3: What do you think about the Calder Trophy?

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Speaker 4: I mean, look at Robertson has had a great season,

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Speaker 4: and I can say as a guy that knows every

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Speaker 4: it comes to this. I watched two hundred to three

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Speaker 4: I'm sick. I can tell you that I was unaware

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Speaker 4: plays for the Toronto main PLEAEFS and he was going

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Speaker 4: heard of Jason. He's having an unbelievable year and there's

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Speaker 4: no doubt that he should be in the Rookie of

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Speaker 2: As a person that watches a.

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Speaker 4: Ton of games, Minnesota has been a team that has

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Speaker 4: been basically unwatchable for five or six years. I barely

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Speaker 4: have missed a game of Theirs this year, and it's

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Speaker 4: because of him. He is such a dynamic player, plays

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Speaker 4: crazy vision. This guy is going to be a star.

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Speaker 4: For years and years, Minnesota has been waiting for him

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Speaker 4: to come over from the KHL. And the argument with

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Speaker 2: It just says rookie. And this is rookie season playing

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Speaker 4: He's playing against mad and he's playing a professional hockey

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Speaker 4: for sure, but it is not the same. You know,

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Speaker 4: do not kid yourself. There is nothing like the speed

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Speaker 4: as ice hockey goes. And Kaprosov has been dominant all

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Speaker 4: year and he's been doing it, you know, week in

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Speaker 2: The trophy is his.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I remember it tro Suzuki coming over and I want

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Speaker 3: Doesn't matter however old you are. You're a rookie. Year

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Speaker 1: Now, speaking of the young teams and stuff, before we

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Speaker 1: get to the Vesnat Trophy, I was having a hockey

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Speaker 1: conversation yesterday with my cousin, long suffering Ranger fan, and

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Speaker 3: Excited about this team and the youth on this team.

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Speaker 1: And since we're talking about young players, I kind of

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Speaker 1: wanted to get somebody who watches as much hockey as

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Speaker 1: you your input on this team because they've had a

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Speaker 1: lot of hot draft picks lately. And do you think

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Speaker 1: that this is a team that's starting to emerge maybe

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Speaker 1: the next couple of years with some of this young

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I thought in that division, I picked

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Speaker 4: them to be fourth, and I thought that they would

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Speaker 4: make it into the playoffs this year. They started really

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Speaker 4: well and surprised a bunch of people. They're loaded with

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Speaker 4: think will right it, will right the ship. They had

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk about that. Next season with

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Speaker 1: Vesna Trophy here. Obviously no surprise, andre Vassilevski at the

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Speaker 1: You know, when it comes to awards, it's media driven

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Speaker 4: I think vashi Leski because of the amount of games played,

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Speaker 4: He has been banged up a couple times this year,

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Speaker 4: but when he's played, he's given Colorado a chance every.

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Speaker 2: Night to win. My heart wants Andre Marc Andre Fleury

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Speaker 4: He's actually, statistically off the charts the best goalie in

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Speaker 2: From March on.

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Speaker 2: Is is insane. I mean, it's absolutely insane.

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Speaker 4: He will not win the Norris, but I think he

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you, ay Man, that's something keep in

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Speaker 1: at twenty twenty two and going forward there. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's shift gears a little bit to some division winners

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Speaker 1: right now. Let's start with the East, where the Caps

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Speaker 3: If that's the case, that's not a bad line.

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Speaker 1: The minus one forty three especially, it seems pretty confident

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the West too, because that one's the

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Speaker 1: You know, most of these seem like they're kind of

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Speaker 4: I don't think they will, but I think it is possible,

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Speaker 4: they have the best the best current blue.

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Speaker 4: They're a hard team to play against because they have

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Speaker 4: I think having McKinnon, having Branton, and having Landeskog, even

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Speaker 2: I mean they could overtake them. I don't see it happening.

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Speaker 4: If I was to bet on a team to win

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Speaker 1: All right, I want to talk to you about a

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Speaker 4: I do not, And that could be my predator's bias.

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Speaker 3: Are looking pretty good right now.

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Speaker 4: They've been playing very good hockey.

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Speaker 2: They lost last night.

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Speaker 4: They if they would have won last night and Dallas

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Speaker 2: The problem with that is Saturday they're playing Carolina.

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Speaker 4: So my hope is, and I think the Predator's hope is,

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Speaker 2: Come this Saturday and Predators get a.

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Speaker 4: Win and Dallas notches another loss, and then the Predators

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Speaker 2: They've clinched that spot.

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Speaker 4: I think as of yesterday they were at seventy eight

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Speaker 4: I think it's fifteen losses in overtime.

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Speaker 2: That's a team that does not have a k or instinct.

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Speaker 4: You know, that's they left you know, that's seven to

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Speaker 4: Look again, which everyone thought, you know, and people are

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Speaker 2: Those people are wrong. The Preds are going to make

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Speaker 4: A killer instinct, They do not have the firepower, They

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Speaker 4: So yeah, they're I mean, I get that they played

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Speaker 4: not good enough to carry this team like who Dobin

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Speaker 1: you think towards the end of this year is really

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's those teams that are very hot or certain

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Speaker 1: Who do you think is kind of maybe hitting a wall.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to the favors, we'll get to the numbers

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Speaker 1: in a second. But you do watch so much hockey,

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's been doing it all year, but right

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Speaker 4: I know, you know it sounds obvious, but I don't

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Speaker 4: a fifty six game season with over one hundred points.

439
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Speaker 2: That's absolutely instandity.

440
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Speaker 1: Well, there's not even odds anywhere they pulled out all

441
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Speaker 1: the all the MVP odds are all down like.

442
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Speaker 4: Nobody without anyone's mind, he's definitely winning it. And not

443
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Speaker 4: only is he winning it, he's doing stuff that we

444
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Speaker 4: I don't think anyone thought we would see in hockey. Again,

445
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Speaker 4: this is Gretzky kind of performance where he's so dominant

446
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Speaker 4: every night.

447
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Speaker 2: It's just like he's going to have two points.

448
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Speaker 4: He's going to you know, every single night he's got

449
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Speaker 4: he has two points. We haven't seen that since Wayne

450
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Speaker 4: Gretzky because of the change of the game, because of

451
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Speaker 4: the advancement and equipment, because the advancement and goaltending. You know,

452
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Speaker 4: I don't know if Wayne Gretzky in today's game could

453
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Speaker 4: could score like he did back then it was a

454
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Speaker 4: different game. I think Gretzky is still the best player

455
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Speaker 4: to ever play the game. But Connor McDavid is making

456
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Speaker 4: a real case for himself, man, and it is it's

457
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Speaker 4: so cool to see. Is all the coverage on NBC

458
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Speaker 4: about the Capitals and the Rangers, because all the fighting

459
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Speaker 4: and stuff, it's like we're completely missing the boat on

460
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Speaker 4: this star player that everyone should be talking about. You know,

461
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Speaker 4: we might never see a dominant of the season like

462
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Speaker 4: this ever again. And it's happening in a shortened season

463
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Speaker 4: where they can't even practice. It's it's absolute miracle.

464
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Speaker 3: Actually, well it's kind of amazing.

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Speaker 1: It's cyclical too, because it felt like for a while

466
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Speaker 1: Crosby was that guy and Avekin was that guy, and

467
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Speaker 1: you know, is it just us being caught up in

468
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Speaker 1: the moment of that dominating player, or is this guy

469
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Speaker 1: even a tick above those in their best runs?

470
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he is a tick above them.

471
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Speaker 4: I mean, yes, they were, you know, Crosby and Ovechkin

472
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Speaker 4: dominant players. Crosby a more all rounded player, right, Ovechkin

473
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Speaker 4: more of a dominant scorer. But the reality is Connor

474
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Speaker 4: McDavid is doing both. You know, his defensive numbers. I

475
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Speaker 4: heard a thing on a podcast this morning that the

476
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Speaker 4: Edmonton Oilers are like, are like plus thirty eight when

477
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Speaker 4: he's on the on the ice, and they're like negative

478
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Speaker 4: one oh two when he's not on the ice.

479
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Speaker 2: That's insane, Like it's it's just insane.

480
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Speaker 4: And by any metric, any measurement any way you want

481
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Speaker 4: a word, the Heart Trophy, it's about the most valuable

482
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Speaker 4: player to their team. There is no more valuable player

483
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Speaker 4: than Connor McDavid. And he's having an absolutely historic year.

484
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Speaker 4: And because of COVID, because fans aren't in the building,

485
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Speaker 4: and you know, he's only playing in Canada and he's

486
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Speaker 4: not playing at all in the United States. They're not

487
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Speaker 4: talking about it enough and they should be. And it's

488
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Speaker 4: unfortunate for him, it's unfortunate for hockey, unfortunate for the NHL.

489
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Speaker 4: And uh yeah, he is just rolling. As far as

490
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Speaker 4: people that are sliding, you know, I think the Dallas

491
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Speaker 4: Stars are a disappointment to most people as a team.

492
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Speaker 4: You know, they played in the Stanley Cup finals. They were,

493
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Speaker 4: you know, a few goals away from being the Stanley

494
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Speaker 4: Cup champions. And this year they've been, like I said,

495
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Speaker 4: just very inconsistent, no killer instinct.

496
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Speaker 2: They've been dealing with injuries, they were dealing with COVID.

497
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Speaker 4: They started the season ten or twelve days after everyone

498
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Speaker 4: else started. Then the crazy ice storm in Texas put

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Speaker 4: them out, so they they played a very condensed schedule.

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Speaker 4: As a person that follows this and as a person

501
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Speaker 4: that gambles on hockey as well, I could have told

502
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Speaker 4: you that they weren't making the playoffs after the Christmas

503
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Speaker 4: break because they were going to have to play like forty.

504
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Speaker 2: Games in sixty five days.

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Speaker 4: That is, it's insane, Like it's just insane, and there's

506
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Speaker 4: nothing they can do about it. They can't complain because

507
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Speaker 4: it's just the way the world is right now. But

508
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Speaker 4: I think they are a massive disappointment to most people.

509
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Speaker 4: And I think I had them in the playoffs in

510
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Speaker 4: the Central so that would be a that's.

511
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Speaker 2: A big des moment for Dallas and Dallas Stars fans.

512
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Speaker 3: All right, well, let's talk about the end game here.

513
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Speaker 3: Let's talk about Stanley Cuff playoffs.

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Speaker 1: The favorites are obviously plus four twenty five, the Colorado Avalanche,

515
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Speaker 1: the Golden Knights at plus five to fifty. You've had

516
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Speaker 1: a great couple of years here, and then the Lightning

517
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Speaker 1: at plus six fifty. So those are kind of your

518
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Speaker 1: major contenders and your Leaves at plus seven to fifty.

519
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Speaker 1: I don't want to leave them out. They're still out there.

520
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Speaker 1: So taking everything into account hot streaks, players, the situations

521
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Speaker 1: in terms of who's played who and who hasn't, we've

522
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Speaker 1: got the Leaves at plus seven to fifty on betting

523
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Speaker 1: pros and the consensus we've got the Lightning plus six fifty,

524
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Speaker 1: the Golden Knights plus five to fifty, and the Avalanche

525
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Speaker 1: plus four to twenty five. Where would you lay your

526
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Speaker 1: money and how?

527
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Speaker 4: And I know this is going to sound like a

528
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Speaker 4: Homer pick, but the Toronto odds and the fact that

529
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Speaker 4: I think them playing in the North, which I think

530
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Speaker 4: is it's not a weaker division, but I think the

531
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Speaker 4: pass their path to the semifinals is the easiest out

532
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Speaker 4: of those teams. They don't really have to eat any Juggernuts,

533
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Speaker 4: and I'm going to go back to the Carolina Hurricane.

534
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Speaker 4: I don't know what their odds are, but the fact

535
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Speaker 4: that you didn't say them means that they're probably pretty good.

536
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 4: I mean, look at this team is insane, in my opinion,

537
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Speaker 4: one of the best coaches in the league, Rob Brindamore.

538
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 4: And they are so deep, and they can play you

539
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,199
Speaker 4: any way you want. You want to play fast, they

540
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Speaker 4: can play fast. You want to slow it down and

541
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Speaker 4: play defense, they can do that too. They've got three

542
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Speaker 4: unbelievable goalies, Yes, three unbelievable goalies, and the best of

543
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Speaker 4: the three, I think is the rookie Netschevik, and he

544
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Speaker 4: has just been absolutely unbelievable stopping everything this year. A

545
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Speaker 4: big reason why they're in that position. But I think

546
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Speaker 4: just because of their style of play, how aggressive they are,

547
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Speaker 4: and how they just are on you.

548
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Speaker 2: You mean it just they're going to wear people out.

549
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Speaker 2: And I believe that.

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Speaker 4: Those two And I think I would give a nod

551
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Speaker 4: towards Colorado as well.

552
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Speaker 2: It's going to be one of those you.

553
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Speaker 3: Would spread it around.

554
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Speaker 1: So in other words, you got the Cads at six fifty.

555
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Speaker 1: So let's say I gave you I gave you a

556
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars, how would you spread it out between those

557
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Speaker 1: teams in your opinion in terms of how much equit

558
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Speaker 1: do you want to where?

559
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Speaker 3: And I'll give you the odds one more time, just

560
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Speaker 3: so you have them all.

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Speaker 1: So the Avalanche at four to fifty the favorites right now,

562
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Speaker 1: but again not a heavy favorite. We're used to seeing favorites.

563
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Speaker 1: Sometimes the are more like a plus two or something

564
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Speaker 1: like that. This time of years plus four fifty, it's

565
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Speaker 1: a very different year. It feels like five hundred for

566
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Speaker 1: the Golden Knights, six fifty for the Hurricanes. This is

567
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Speaker 1: updated as of just a few minutes ago. And the

568
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Speaker 1: Lightning at plus seven hundred, so that line's actually moved

569
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Speaker 1: since before this morning when I actually put all the

570
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Speaker 1: lines together, so it's actually a little different. So, Loon,

571
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Speaker 1: you run that one more time. Lightning plus seven Hurricanes

572
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Speaker 1: plus six fifty Golden Knights plus five hundred, Avalanche plus

573
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Speaker 1: four to fifty.

574
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Speaker 3: How would you spread a grand over those?

575
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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I think right now my gut feeling is I would

577
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Speaker 4: go probably five hundred on Carolina and then two fifty

578
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Speaker 4: on Toronto and two fifty on Colorado.

579
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Speaker 2: That's how iways put one thousand dollars amongst those teams.

580
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Speaker 4: I think that is look at it's the NHL and

581
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Speaker 4: it's seven game series and all kinds of wacky stuff happens.

582
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Speaker 4: I don't think a President's Trophy winner has won the

583
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Speaker 4: Stanley Cup in over twenty years.

584
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Speaker 3: Uh truly, really well, I think it might have.

585
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Speaker 4: It might be even longer than that. It is just

586
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,159
Speaker 4: so unpredictable. You know a lot of times. You know

587
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 4: a term you hear in hockey all the time is

588
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 4: they got golid. And this happened recently with the Toronto Maypleefs.

589
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Speaker 4: They played Vancouver. Vancouver didn't know if they would even

590
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Speaker 4: finish their season. They had all these guys sick with

591
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Speaker 4: this new strand of COVID and they couldn't get out

592
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Speaker 4: of bed, and their families are sick, and the coaches

593
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Speaker 4: are sick. They couldn't even ice a full team like

594
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Speaker 4: that's how many guys were sick.

595
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Speaker 2: So they had two weeks off. They came back.

596
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Speaker 4: You know, the NHL pushed them. There was some pushback

597
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Speaker 4: from the player saying we're not going to be ready,

598
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Speaker 4: We're going to get hurt. Everyone was expecting Toronto may

599
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Speaker 4: be leiefs a roll in there and roll over them,

600
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Speaker 4: and branden Holby had one of the best goalie performances

601
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Speaker 4: of his entire life, and and the Vancouver Canucks won

602
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Speaker 4: that won the first game. So that happens in hockey.

603
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Speaker 4: It's happened before, and it could happen again. I think

604
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Speaker 4: a perfect example was last year Dallas. No one thought

605
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Speaker 4: they were going to play in the Stanley Cup, and Hudobin,

606
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Speaker 4: who has been a career backup, just got on this

607
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Speaker 4: role where.

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Speaker 2: He wrote it, scoring on them, And that happens all

609
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Speaker 2: the time.

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Speaker 4: I think Carolina's advantage is they have three goalies that

611
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Speaker 4: have played very good, and not only are they playing

612
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Speaker 4: good right now, they've been doing it all year in

613
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Speaker 4: this kind of a rotation that is unheard of in hockey.

614
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Speaker 2: Normally it's one guy and it's kind of his job.

615
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Speaker 4: But you know, they're going away from that with resting

616
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 4: players more and guys, you know, load management and stuff

617
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 4: that is pretty heavy in basketball and stuff right now.

618
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Speaker 4: So it's happening in hockey now. And the truth is

619
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Speaker 4: is with three goalies like that, I think you know,

620
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Speaker 4: you ride the hot hand until he's not and then

621
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Speaker 4: you switch out and now you've got another hot hand.

622
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Speaker 4: So if I'm betting, I'm betting Carolina to win the

623
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Speaker 4: Stanley Cup.

624
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Speaker 2: I can't wait for.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, have you only got one wager? That's the one

626
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Speaker 1: for you. If you want to spurt it around. Ey

627
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Speaker 1: helped you with that as well. You can follow on

628
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Speaker 1: the Twitter machine at the Eric Young and of course

629
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Speaker 1: check them out on Access TV on Impact.

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Speaker 3: He's hurt right now, but he's still a maniac.

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Speaker 1: He's still one of my favorite people, one of my

632
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: favorite performers, and one of the best sports fans. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you a lot, do you why you know?

634
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm a football guy at heart. I do

635
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: love the baseball, but there is nothing better than playoff hockey.

636
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Speaker 1: Like that's sorry, there's just nothing better than it. And

637
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: it's and if you don't watch, you should And hopefully

638
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Speaker 1: we gave you some ways to watch with a little

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Speaker 1: bit of wagering on the side for you here at

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Speaker 1: Petting Pros today.

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Speaker 3: So that'll do it for you, know that, always, baby, always?

642
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 3: Why I love you, man, It's so good to see

643
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Speaker 3: you and talk to you a little hockey. Hopefully we'll

644
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 3: get you on the summer for some football too. I

645
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Speaker 3: want to thank you again for your time, and that'll

646
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Speaker 3: do it for us today. But the story of the

647
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Speaker 3: game goes on for the Eric Young. I'm Joe Pisapia.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you next time. Kids,