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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're rewatching

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Speaker 1: Sarah Nurse of the Toronto scepters shorthanded jail break goal.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, December tewod. On today's show, we'll be talking

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Speaker 1: to captain for the US national hockey team and the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Frost of the Professional Women's Hockey League, Kendall Coin

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Speaker 1: Schofield about getting back out on the ice with Team

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Speaker 1: USA year two of the PWHL, her role in getting

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Speaker 1: the league up and running and trying to repeat as

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Speaker 1: Walter Cup Champs. Plus more college hoops upsets, Boss Nation

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Speaker 1: has Regrets and plum Dog Out. It's all coming up

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Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back slices. Hope you had a

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Speaker 1: wonderful holiday weekend. Here's what you need to know today.

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Speaker 1: The puck dropped on season two of the Professional Women's

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Speaker 1: Hockey League with a pair of games. On Saturday, the

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Speaker 1: Torontoceptors defeated the Boston Fleet three to one behind the

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Speaker 1: first jail break goal the season from Sarah Nurse, a

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Speaker 1: late power play goal from Hannah Miller, and an empty

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Speaker 1: netter from Ma Malta. Then the Montreal Victoire defeated the

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Speaker 1: Ottawa charge four to three, with Canadian superstar Marie Philipouhlen

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Speaker 1: scoring the shootout winner for Montreal. Then on Sunday, the

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Speaker 1: final two teams in the league faced off Minnesota Frost

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Speaker 1: versus New York Sirens. They played to a three to

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Speaker 1: three tie in regulation before Alex Carpenter buried her second

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Speaker 1: the Sirens a four to three win. Kendell Cooinscofield had

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Speaker 1: a goal in the loss for the Frost. Much more

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Speaker 1: on the start of this PWHL season with Kendall later

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Speaker 1: in the show more Hockey News. Tickets are on sale

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Speaker 1: now for the twenty twenty five Women's bean Pot at

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Speaker 1: ted Garden on January twenty first. Last year's champs, Northeastern

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Speaker 1: will look to defend their title against Boston College, Boston University,

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Speaker 1: and Harvard. Last year was the first time in the

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Speaker 1: forty five year history of the Women's bean Pot that

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Speaker 1: the championship was held at t D Garden, and over

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Speaker 1: ten thousand, six hundred fans attended. The men's tournament has

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Speaker 1: been played at Boston Garden or its replacement, TED Garden

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Speaker 1: since nineteen fifty four. In Soccer News, Seventy eight three

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty six fans showed up to watch USA

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Speaker 1: VERSUS England at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, the fourth largest

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Speaker 1: crowd ever in US women's national team history and most

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Speaker 1: ever for a friendly. They got a tactical and strategic

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Speaker 1: match i e. No goals, Both sides settled for a

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Speaker 1: nil nil tie. Ali Sentner of the Utah Royals, who

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Speaker 1: won the bronze ball at this year's Under twenty FIFA

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Speaker 1: Women's World Cup, made her senior US women's national team

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Speaker 1: debut in the game, while keeper a Lissenayor, who announced

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Speaker 1: that she'll retire from international play next week, secured a

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Speaker 1: tenth clean sheet for twenty twenty four, the most in

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Speaker 1: a single year in her US women's national team career.

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Speaker 1: Former Chelsea boss Emma Hayes, now head coach for the US,

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Speaker 1: was denied a victory in her return to England. Next up,

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Speaker 1: the US travel to the Netherlands for another friendly on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: More Soccer. After a poorly received name and brand reveal

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Speaker 1: that involved the inarguably terrible tagline too Many Balls, the

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Speaker 1: folks at Boss Nation, the Boston and WSL expansion side

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Speaker 1: have announced that they're going back to the drawing board.

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Speaker 1: Per their release quote, we want to assure you that

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Speaker 1: we have heard your feedback and are actively listening. We

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Speaker 1: share your high expectations, and together we will build a

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Speaker 1: storied club that reflects the essence of the beautiful game

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Speaker 1: and the character of our dynamic city. To that end,

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Speaker 1: we have launched a deliberate process through which we will

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Speaker 1: seek out, listen to, and reflect on input about our

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Speaker 1: team name from fans, supporters, and a group of advisors

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Speaker 1: assembled to reflect a diverse range of voices and perspectives.

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Speaker 1: In college soccer, the semi finals for the NCAA Tournament

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Speaker 1: aka the College Cup are set and the ACC has

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Speaker 1: become the first league in the tournament's forty three year

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Speaker 1: history to send four teams to the national semifinals. Number

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Speaker 1: three Stanford will face number two Wake Forest Friday at

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Speaker 1: two North Carolina versus number one Duke will follow at

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Speaker 1: seven thirty Eastern that day, Both matches on ESPNU. Women's

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Speaker 1: college basketball chaos continued this weekend as number three Notre

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Speaker 1: On Friday, they fell to number seventeen TCU seventy six

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Speaker 1: snapping an eighteen game losing streak. TCU center Sedona Prince

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Speaker 1: basketball news, Las Vegas Aces star Kelsey Plumb has announced

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Speaker 1: she's pulling out of the Unrivaled Basketball League, posting on

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Speaker 1: Instagram quote, I've decided to not take part in the

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Speaker 1: inaugural season of Unrivaled in order to take some more

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Speaker 1: time for myself this offseason. I appreciate the league understanding

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Speaker 1: Finally skiing, Mikayla Schiffrin's bid for a one hundredth World

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Speaker 1: she avoided major injury, suffering an abrasion on her left

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Speaker 3: So thank you for the support and concern, and congratulations

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Speaker 2: First World Cup points I can take as amazing. I'm

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Speaker 2: Very happy for you guys. Loveya.

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Speaker 1: we come back. Kendall coin Schofield joined us just a

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Speaker 2: You'll hear that interview next.

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Speaker 1: She's a captain for the Minnesota Frost of the PWHL

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Speaker 1: an Olympic gold medalist, and two time Olympic silver medalist.

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Speaker 1: While at Northeastern University, she was the winner of the

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Speaker 1: Patti Cosmier Memorial Award for the top college hockey player

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Speaker 1: in the Nation. Mother of Drew, co founder of the

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Speaker 1: Kendall and Michael Scofield Family Foundation. Viral sensation for her

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Speaker 2: It's Kendall Coinscofield.

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Speaker 5: What's up.

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Speaker 4: Kendall, Hey, Sarah, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: I always love chatting with you and there's so much

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Speaker 1: USA, because not long ago you wrapped up the first

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Speaker 5: Anytime you have the opportunity to put that sweater on

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Speaker 5: And I think our roster was very fifty to fifty

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Speaker 1: I just love what the vibes must feel like for you,

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Speaker 1: immediately gets retriggered into that mode of like kill kill kill,

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Speaker 2: We're gonna be okay.

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Speaker 4: I think there was.

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Speaker 5: A different energy this year that I felt in different

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Speaker 5: Take like you're trying to make a team, You're trying

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Speaker 5: so you've got to you got to earn it every

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Speaker 5: But so no matter what it's, the games are still

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Speaker 4: I got to make the team.

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Speaker 1: You played a massive role in helping make this league happen.

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Speaker 6: I think what was missing, ultimately was the proper investment,

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Speaker 5: Little bit of here, a little bit of there, a

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Speaker 1: I mean, it feels like anytime you start by going

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Speaker 1: And you know, you and I survived what I would

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, I learned a lot, you know, I think I

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we get it.

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Speaker 4: And so for them it was it was standard.

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Speaker 2: Now we're doing that.

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Speaker 1: But you know what's very smart of you is to say, Okay,

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Speaker 2: So it's really smart.

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Speaker 1: I remember talking to a WNBA executive committee member who said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: But I love hearing that the other side shows up

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Speaker 1: which is what you are You know you mentioned the CBA.

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Speaker 1: I recently interviewed Amy she Er. She's the senior VP

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Speaker 1: ensure stability. That is great news, especially considering previous iterations

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Speaker 2: But eight years is a really long CBA deal.

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Speaker 5: It's a long CBA, And I think in conversation throughout

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Speaker 4: Can I sit here and say I wish that was higher, of.

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Speaker 4: You know, there's there's benefits that come. The benefit package

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Speaker 5: You know, we receive a housing stipend in market, we

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Speaker 4: Just hit the floor. Okay, let's go. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I actually interviewed h that was my panel that she

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Speaker 2: So I just wanted you to know that I've already

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Speaker 4: You knew the news before us.

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Speaker 2: I did, I did. I should have texted you.

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Speaker 4: So it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: It is pretty cool, and we love to see that

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Speaker 2: You've even started season two?

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Speaker 1: What was the biggest and I want to move forward,

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Speaker 4: The difficulty was the timeline.

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Speaker 5: The difficulty was asking players to continue to remain patient,

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Speaker 5: But all of those players are part of the success

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Speaker 5: of this league.

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Speaker 4: They are the fabric of this league.

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Speaker 5: Regardless if they've played in it or not, they know

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Speaker 5: they were a part of it and we are successful

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Speaker 5: because of them. And so I think that's that's the

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Speaker 5: difficult part, knowing, like the four years of grind and

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Speaker 5: build and hard and Sarah, I mean, I mean every day,

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Speaker 5: it was every day. I remember talking to people on Christmas, Thanksgiving,

447
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Speaker 5: Canadian Thanksgiving right just every day for four and a

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Speaker 5: half years to get to this point.

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Speaker 4: And it was hard.

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Speaker 2: It was hard.

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Speaker 5: But there's a lot of people who deserve credit for

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Speaker 5: getting us to this point and getting the sport to

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Speaker 5: this point. And regardless if they put a p WHL

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Speaker 5: jersey on or not, where they work in the league

455
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Speaker 5: or not, there's there's years and years of players who

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Speaker 5: deserve credit for being a part of this.

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Speaker 1: I think knowing how much work went into it and

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Speaker 1: knowing how big of a role you played, it felt

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Speaker 1: right that you got to lift the first trophy that

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Speaker 1: you got to put baby Drew in the trophy. We

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Speaker 1: got to watch all of those celebrations and it was

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Speaker 1: really cool to see the immediate response from fans. The

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Speaker 1: attendance records broken across the difference basis, I would say

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Speaker 1: other than winning it all, which was obviously, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: guess the biggest highlight, what was maybe one of your

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Speaker 1: biggest highlights from your.

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Speaker 5: One need to give you this answer, but everything, Like

468
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Speaker 5: obviously you know the in pro sports goals to bring

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Speaker 5: that championship back to your city, and we accomplished that.

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Speaker 5: But I honestly don't think anyone lost last year, like

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Speaker 5: we all won. Everyone won, the game won, every team won,

472
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Speaker 5: every player one that future generations won. Like it's it

473
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Speaker 5: was such an iconic year, and you know, it's gonna

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Speaker 5: be fun to thirty years for now to look back, like, remember.

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Speaker 4: When we are the first Walter Cup.

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Speaker 2: Champions, you'll still be playing. I'm gonna look.

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Speaker 4: At us like we're crazy.

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Speaker 5: The kids, you know playing that, they're gonna be like,

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Speaker 5: oh my gosh, you're so old. But I just think,

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Speaker 5: like the challenges it took us to get to this point,

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Speaker 5: to to put.

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Speaker 4: Those jerseys over our head.

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Speaker 5: To hoist a trophy over our head was always the

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Speaker 5: last thing in the back of our heads, right, Like

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Speaker 5: the hockey was the easy part is getting to play hockey,

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Speaker 5: But we were always doing everything but that. You know,

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Speaker 5: We're on phone calls and AirPods and locker rooms and

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Speaker 5: you know, sometimes even on the ice with an AirPod

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Speaker 5: and trying to just keep up and emails and so,

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Speaker 5: you know, I think the hockey is the reward given

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Speaker 5: the fight over these years. But gosh, I hate to

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Speaker 5: say everything, but it honestly was like, yeah.

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Speaker 6: I love.

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Speaker 1: We were at the Women's Sports Foundation Galon. I was

495
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Speaker 1: talking to about like, oh, how many years do you

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Speaker 1: have left? And know after you're done, you'll just get

497
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Speaker 1: into the leadership side running things, and You're like, I've

498
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Speaker 1: already been doing that.

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Speaker 2: Sarah for years. And I'm like, oh, you're right, you have.

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Speaker 1: You basically had to do all the things all the

501
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Speaker 1: same time, which brings us to this second season, which

502
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Speaker 1: is so exciting. I loved hearing Amy talk about some

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Speaker 1: of the cool events that are going to be across

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Speaker 1: some different cities, so that there are new cities that

505
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Speaker 1: are going to get to experience it. I love the

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Speaker 1: idea of the expansion squads and maybe trying out some

507
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Speaker 1: games of different places to see which fan bases really respond,

508
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Speaker 1: which is so cool. You have the job of trying

509
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,879
Speaker 1: to repeat now with a name Minnesota Frost instead of

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Speaker 1: just PWHL Minnesota. So we've got the jersey drop, the logos,

511
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Speaker 1: the colors, all the other exciting stuff that helps people

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Speaker 1: align with the team and get excited about it. You'll

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Speaker 1: probably have a lot of big fans for Minnesota after

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Speaker 1: winning it the first time, but you've had a lot

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Speaker 1: of changes too from that first season so much success

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Speaker 1: and then GM Natalie Darwitz and the team parted ways.

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Speaker 1: The Athletic reported that there was like a rift between

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Speaker 1: Darwitz and your head coach Ken Klee, that you were

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Speaker 1: having an allegiance to Clee over Darwitz as a contributing

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Speaker 1: factor to that as well. What can you tell us

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Speaker 1: about that, because it's pretty unusual for a well regarded

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Speaker 1: GM with the kind of history that Natalie had in

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Speaker 1: the sport to be ousted right after winning a title.

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Speaker 1: That's usually when you'd expect everyone to run it back

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Speaker 1: and try to win again.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's important to make it very clear

527
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Speaker 5: that that was a league decision and that I had

528
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Speaker 5: no part in that decision and regardless of what was reported,

529
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Speaker 5: and I can tell you one hundred percent that that's false,

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Speaker 5: and I had absolutely nothing to do with the decisions

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Speaker 5: that were made from above. I'm a player and my

532
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 5: job is to play, and that's what I did. That's

533
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Speaker 5: what my teammates did. And you know, I think one

534
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Speaker 5: thing I'm super proud of was, regardless of what was

535
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Speaker 5: reported and the false narratives that are out there, our

536
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 5: team was such a tight knit group and I don't

537
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Speaker 5: know a group that that can be fractured like one

538
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Speaker 5: that has been depicted in the media and be so

539
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 5: successful in the way that we were. And so it

540
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 5: was a special group, a group that you know, I

541
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Speaker 5: think when you when you win your championship with the group,

542
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Speaker 5: it's one that will remain united forever. And you know,

543
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 5: five years, ten years, fifteen years, you know, talking about

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Speaker 5: that championship, hopefully getting together and celebrating it. But you know,

545
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Speaker 5: it was a special group to be part of. And

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Speaker 5: I had absolutely no say in any decisions that were

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Speaker 5: made from above and from a league standpoint.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And for those who don't know.

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Speaker 1: So it's a single entity owner league, meaning, unlike a

550
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 1: lot of other professional leagues that we might know, there

551
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 1: isn't an owner of each team. There's an ownership group

552
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: that runs the league from their position. So ultimately, when

553
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: you say it's a league decision, they get to decide

554
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Speaker 1: the kind of thing that potentially, like a single owner

555
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 1: would decide for a team. It's going to be one

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Speaker 1: storyline of many, many, many for season two of the PWHL.

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Speaker 1: It's kicking off very soon November thirtieth. What are you

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Speaker 1: most looking forward to having a full season under your

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Speaker 1: belt and getting to start this new season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think just looking forward to defending our title and.

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Speaker 1: Also with a logo and Cresten name and colors and

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Speaker 1: all the other exciting merchant like stuff like that. I

563
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Speaker 1: think that's going to be a really cool addition this

564
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Speaker 1: season for fans who want to give themselves that identity

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Speaker 1: of a fan of a team, which is awesome. Well,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for giving us time. I know you're

567
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Speaker 1: so busy and we're so looking forward to the start

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Speaker 1: of the season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you.

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