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Speaker 1: In two thousand and four, the world of ice hockey

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Speaker 1: was in for a shock.

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Speaker 2: And we are live at the Danbury Ice Arena.

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Speaker 1: A sleepy city in Connecticut called Danbury was getting its

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Speaker 1: first ever professional hockey team. And the president was this guy, Hey,

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Speaker 1: how you doing, pal, seventeen year old Aj Galante. But

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Speaker 1: the real boss was AJ's dad, Jimmy, a big shot

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Speaker 1: garbage hauler loved and feared in Danburry. She was intense.

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Speaker 2: He can tell you about the weather and it looks

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Speaker 2: like he's staring into your soul.

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Speaker 1: And when Jimmy bought his son hockey team, the world

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Speaker 1: was watching.

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Speaker 3: It was a tabloid story that you're going to read

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Speaker 3: no matter what.

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Speaker 1: And it's not just the teenage team president that caught

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Speaker 1: people's attention.

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Speaker 3: He wanted to break every bone in his body. Bone

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Speaker 3: popped out, blood spurred it all over the place, throwing

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Speaker 3: him like a rag doll.

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Speaker 1: It was the violence.

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Speaker 3: It was a very ugly night head hitting the ice,

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Speaker 3: shoulder hitting the ice, the very ice.

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Speaker 2: For they can't right now, I'm Claire Crofton from the

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Speaker 2: teams at Novel and iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: This is the fighty Pucks. Join me for the story.

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Speaker 1: Of the most violent hockey team ever. It's a story

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Speaker 1: about what happens when you're prepared to win at any cost.

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Speaker 3: Everything was going great until literally one day, it's all over.

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Speaker 3: Everything's cloaking secrecy. I don't know what to say and

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Speaker 3: I don't want to get shot.

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Speaker 1: Was there any part of you that felt like the

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Speaker 1: cost of winning was too high?

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Speaker 3: Never?

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Speaker 2: That was guerrilla warfare at its highest.

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Speaker 4: There's the FBI side, there's my side, and somewhere in

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Speaker 4: the middle of the truth.

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Speaker 1: Listen to the Fighting Pucks starting on the eleventh of

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Speaker 1: May on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you

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Speaker 1: get your podcasts.

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Speaker 4: I couldn't believe this.

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Speaker 3: Believe it.

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Speaker 1: It's the end of the world.

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Speaker 3: Believe it well, I come to the Jangle