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

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Speaker 1: and clearing a spot on the old Chesterfield. PWHL finals

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Speaker 1: are on tonight in Canada. Eh It's Tuesday, May twenty.

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Speaker 1: At the on Today Show, we'll be chatting with Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Frost goaltender Matti Rooney about facing off against the Ottawa

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Speaker 1: Charge in the PWHL finals, plus how she stays confident

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Speaker 1: in high pressure moments and why the Frost seemed to

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Speaker 1: relish the underdog mentality. Plus a top seed topples non

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Speaker 1: frosty relationships and a CV that sends a message. It's

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Speaker 1: all coming up right after this welcome back slices, Here's

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Speaker 1: what you need to know today. Let's start with hockey

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Speaker 1: and the PWHL. The best of five Walter Cup Finals

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Speaker 1: get underweight tonight with the number four seed Minnesota Frost

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Speaker 1: taking on the number three seed Autawa Charge at Ottawa's

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Speaker 1: TD Place a seven pm Eastern puck drop. Live coverage

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Speaker 1: in Canada is on TSN with French Length which coverage

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Speaker 1: on RDS, and in the US you can watch live

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Speaker 1: on YouTube or check your local listing to see if

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Speaker 1: regional broadcast partners are carrying the game. Ahead of the finals,

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Speaker 1: the PWHL looked ahead to next season, releasing the rules

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Speaker 1: and procedures for the upcoming expansion Draft. With two teams

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Speaker 1: joining the league next season, Vancouver and Seattle, each of

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Speaker 1: the existing six teams is set to lose four players.

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Speaker 1: The process the league is using is just a little

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Speaker 1: Both Vancouver and Seattle will be allowed to sign five

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Speaker 1: players each during this period. Then, on June ninth, the

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Speaker 1: until both teams have so elected twelve players total, either

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Speaker 1: through the initial signing window or the draft. Once one

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Speaker 1: to their protected list. Finally, all eight teams will take

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Speaker 1: part in the official PWHL Draft, which is primarily for

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Speaker 1: recent college graduates. That's on June twenty fourth. Got all that,

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Speaker 1: Even if you didn't, the good news is you don't

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Speaker 1: in the meantime you can just enjoy watching the PWHL Finals.

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Speaker 1: More on that later in the show with Matti Rooney

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Speaker 1: to softball, where for the first time in Division one

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Speaker 1: softball history, the top seed in the tournament didn't make

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Speaker 1: on Sunday six to five. Now softball's NCAA bracket uses

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Speaker 1: a double elimination format, meaning that after losing the first

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Speaker 1: victorious in their first rematch against Liberty on Sunday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: Regionals get underway this coming weekend with number two Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: for a fifth consecutive Women's College World Series title. We've

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Speaker 1: got two WNBA games tonight, both tip it off at

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Speaker 1: Indiana Fever hosts the Atlanta Dream and the Las Vegas

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Speaker 1: Ahead of their season opener, the Phoenix Mercury announced that

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Speaker 1: To soccer, Let's talk, Balloon Dior aka Ballon d'Or, the

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Speaker 1: It's Frost goalie Mattie Rooney. I caught up with her

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Speaker 1: Monday afternoon. I had a game one of the PWHL

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Speaker 1: Games in Beijing. A Minnesota Duluth grad, still the Bulldog's

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Speaker 2: Hi, Maddie, Hey, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: It is not true. Though I wish it was true,

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Speaker 2: I don't know why he just pulled that out of

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Speaker 1: But maybe he's manifesting it. Maybe Mark Andre will hear

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about this Frost team, the underdogs rising again

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Speaker 2: I don't know. We always joke we do our best

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you yourself, You've been in some pretty high stress,

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Speaker 2: You know what I would think of the gold medal game.

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Speaker 2: I would never think it would come down to a shootout,

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Speaker 2: So I love shootout. So grateful it came down to

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Speaker 1: I can't believe you just said you love shootouts as

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Speaker 1: Yeah. That game against Canada, that twenty eighteen gold medal

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Speaker 2: Yes, they're a good rush team. I think they generate

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Speaker 2: I think our focus will be speed and physicality for sure.

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Speaker 1: What did you see from them out of their semi

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Speaker 1: Any particular player on the other team you're least excited

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's it like splitting starts in time with your

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been goalie partners now for seven or eight

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Speaker 1: That's very mature. How has it been navigating a friendship,

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Speaker 1: How much notice do you usually get as to who's

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Speaker 1: So I'm so impressed, I have to admit, because there

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Speaker 1: How much of advantage do you think your team has

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Speaker 1: Take us behind the scenes last year for the celebration,

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Speaker 1: Got anybody on a wish list or any place you

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Speaker 2: That's a good question, I think, because we only had

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Speaker 1: Nice. Well, you know, the Minnesota Wild have never won

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Speaker 2: Yea.

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Speaker 1: We talked earlier about how your fiance Carson and Taylor

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Speaker 1: You did not approve of his made up story about

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Speaker 2: I think he was pretty tame in that, but I

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Speaker 2: Great announcers are great commentary.

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Speaker 1: Whatever.

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Speaker 2: I don't know where that rumor started and why he

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Speaker 2: They're funny, and it's cool to see the Frost supporting

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Speaker 1: So yeah, And it was fun to see them trying

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Speaker 1: of knew.

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Speaker 2: That was brutal.

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Speaker 1: It's like that one's called a safe, that one's a sick.

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Speaker 1: Well done. Yeah, do you have a wedding date yet?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? This September?

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Speaker 1: YEP? Amazing, so exciting. Well, it was really fun to

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Speaker 1: there anything you want to see next season in the PWHL.

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Speaker 1: Is there a wish that you've seen already year to

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Speaker 2: Well, that's a good question, I think, just because it's

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Speaker 2: Throughout the coming years, this league will continue to grow.

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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be really exciting, and it's

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Speaker 2: just overall a really exciting time for women's sports to

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Speaker 2: see this coming to fruition finally after many years of

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Speaker 2: youth generations have this one league to look up to,

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Speaker 1: Any excuse to get to Vancouver for work is good

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Speaker 1: in my book. Yeah, I love Vancouver so beautiful, and

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Speaker 1: Seattle's great to well. Thank you so much for the time,

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Speaker 1: good luck, We're excited to watch.

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Speaker 2: Yes, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much to Maddie for taking the time. We

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Speaker 1: When aliawan Yie, captain for Italian Serie A club FC Como,

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Speaker 1: We'll link to that in our show notes. Now it's

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