WEBVTT - Been There, Won That with Kelly Pannek 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:02.880 Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we'll be 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.960 blasting Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas and Kelly 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:09.040 Clerkson's Underneath the Tree all month. We will not be 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:13.080 taking questions or receiving judgment at this time. It's Tuesday, 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:14.960 December third, and on today's show, we'll be talking to 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:17.680 forward for the Minnesota Frost and two time Olympic medalists 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.599 with Team USA, Kelly Panic about her goals for the 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.599 second season of the PWHL, why fans should root for 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.840 the Frost being a member of the Quadruple Gold Club, 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.960 and her new beer most excellently named Ben There won that. 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.479 Plus WNBA schedule release VIDs, PWHL TV deals, and a 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:39.040 hoops legend gets Double Brud. It's all coming up right 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:47.920 after this Welcome back slices. Here's what you need to 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:52.760 know today WNBA news. On Monday, the league released its 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.400 game schedule for the twenty twenty five regular season, which 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:59.040 chips off on Friday May sixteenth and ends Thursday, September eleventh. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.480 Teams are going to play a high forty four games, 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.640 and the fifth annual WNBA Commissioner's Cup will include a 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.240 seventeen day period in June, when the league schedule will 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.920 consist entirely of Cup games. Opening night includes the Golden 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.600 State Valkyries playing their first ever game as they host 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.200 the Los Angeles Sparks. Also that night, the Wings and 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.600 their number one draft pick will welcome the runners up 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.560 in the finals, Minnesota Links to Dallas. We'll link to 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.600 the full schedule in our show notes more w news. 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.160 The Minnesota Links added two big names to coach Cheryl 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.360 Reeves staff, adding legendary Links player Lindsay Whalen as an 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:34.040 assistant coach and former Washington Mystics head coach Eric Tebow 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.800 as associate head coach. Earlier this offseason, associate head coach 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.039 Katie Smith left for Ohio State and GM Claire Dewellius 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:45.080 joined the new unrivaled league. In college Vibs Volleyball, damn 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.840 it miche vibes is catchy. I can't resist. You're making 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.640 vibes happen anyway. NCAA volleyball tournament bracket was revealed during 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.559 a selection show that aired on ESPN. Thirty one teams 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.720 got automatic qualification and thirty three were selected as at 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:02.320 larges by the Division one Women's Volleyball Committee ACC CO 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.040 champion and number one overall. Pittsburgh Big Ten CO champion, 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:09.560 Nebraska Big Ten CO Champion, Penn State, and Louisville second 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.440 in the ACC earned the number one seeds. We'll link 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.839 to the full bracket in the show notes. Matches begin 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.400 with the first and second rounds December fifth through seventh, 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.120 and this year, for the first time, you can compete 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.519 in an ESPN bracket challenge for d one women's volleyball, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.240 the ESPN Volleyball Championship Challenge. We'll link to the sites 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.240 you can sign up and play your friends, your family, 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.720 and US will be filling out a good Game bracket too. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.480 To Soccer US women's national team news, the gals are 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:38.040 back in action tomorrow, taking on the Netherlands US coming 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.760 off a nil nil draw against England Saturday at Wembley 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.919 and riding a nineteen game unbeaten streak. This will be 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.359 their twenty third and final game of the year. A 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.400 little bit of a fun storyline here a seventeen year 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.800 old Lily Johannes, who was born in the US but 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.800 has lived in the Netherlands since the age of ten 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.880 and plays for Dutch club i Ax recently committed her 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.760 international future to the US, so it'll be fun to 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.360 watch Johannes play the DEU. This will also be the 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.960 final US national team game for one of the greatest 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:08.640 keepers of all time. A listenair We're Not Okay, We're 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:13.120 really not okay kickoff two forty five pm Eastern Tuesday 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:17.200 on TNT, True TV, Universe, Omax and Peacock in Footy 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.519 and gayshit. Over the weekend, Rachel Day, former English national 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.520 team footballer and former nw selstar now playing for Aston 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.480 Villa and England's Women's Super League, announced that she got 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.280 engaged to Aston Villa teammates Sarah, mailing congrats to the 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:38.040 happy couple. Okay, Slices. The W schedules have arrived, and 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.920 so has the W as a league. This year's team 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.320 schedule release bids are so legit. This is how we 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.600 know that the W has caught up to the rest 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.160 of professional sports. Yes, there are a couple duds in 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:53.280 the mix, but the squads seriously stepped up their game, creativity, 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:59.080 originality and so much shade. We love shit talking of 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.440 women's sports. Love it to be funny, to be spicy, 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.920 to stoke the rivalries. We are so here for it, 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.080 and there were a couple particularly good ones Chicago Sky, 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.680 New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx VIDs. You definitely need 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.640 to watch. The Sky basically roast their opponents using the 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.160 suspect videos that are currently trending. The Liberty have Ellie 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.159 taking a lie detector test and the Lynx video is 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.160 a play on Spotify rapped VIDs and they take some 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.159 serious shots at opponents. They recommend Sabrina Carpenters, please please 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.599 please for the last place Wings, you know, like, don't 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.680 embarrass me mother. They also recommend that you might like 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.479 Robbery by Juice World or Stolen by Chris Brown and 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.400 Young Thug for the team that beat him for the title. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:43.239 The Liberty Damn also shout out Atlanta for the cookout 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.560 vid and the Wings for the video with food critic 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.440 Keith Lee. Those are pretty good too. All Right, we 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.400 got to take a quick break. When we come back, 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.839 we get Frosty with Kelly Panic. She and I chatted 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.560 just before the start of the PWHL season this past weekend. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:06.720 That interview is coming up next. She's a forward for 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.880 the Minnesota frost of the PWHL, A Patty Casmier Award 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.920 finalist in twenty seventeen while at University of Minnesota after 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.919 scoring sixty two points in thirty nine games in winning 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.280 the national championship for the second year in a row. 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.880 A gold medalist in the twenty eighteen Olympics and silver 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.000 medalist in the twenty twenty two Games, She's a three 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.840 time world champion and a three time World champion runner up. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.200 She once hit a hole in one, and she's got 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.840 her own beer. It's Kelly Panic. What's up? 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:32.400 Kelly? Not a whole lot? 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.880 That introduction makes me feel like sound a lot more 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:36.960 exciting than I think I might be on a day 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:37.640 to day basis. 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.160 I mean, pressure's on, yeh on for you to be exciting. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.159 We're going to get to your beer because this is 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.599 the news of the day and the name is so good. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.480 But let's start with hockey. Season one of the PWHL 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:52.440 was such a success, record breaking attendance, unprecedented support from fans. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.520 What are you hoping to see from the league in 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:55.120 season two? 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:56.920 I think just more of the same. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.599 I think for so many people, from players to also 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.640 like the people who are running the league, the owners, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.479 A lot of people in management that do a lot 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.520 of the business stuff that we don't see as players 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.440 on day to day basis. We all kind of know 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:11.640 more what to expect. So Year one was great in 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:13.840 so many ways. And I've I've heard some people talk 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.360 about like, now it's going to be I think really 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:16.880 about the hockey and continue. 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:17.840 To progress that forward. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.800 And we've always known that the product that we can 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.479 put on the ice is high quality and exciting for 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.440 people to watch, and now it's just kind of continuing 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:25.880 to build that. 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.520 Yeah, the cool thing about new leagues is there's such 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:32.279 excitement when they arrive, which helps, and then you worry 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.640 about maybe a sophomore slump or the novelty of it 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:36.919 all going away. But it's actually those extra years that 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:42.240 give nostalgia, tradition, statistics, rivalries, Like there's so much in 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.160 sport that gets added on as you add to something 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.599 that's new, like the PWHL, So you really have the 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.000 opportunity as some of the first players to create that 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:54.479 early lore about teams and about rivalries and everything else. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:58.080 Yeah, and exactly that with like brivalries specifically, so many 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.680 of us know people on other teams. There's only six 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.760 teams there's not that many players in the league yet, 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.520 So for one, it's really hard to make rosters, and 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.640 then for the second piece of it, once you're on 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.400 the roster, like you're fighting to keep your spot, and 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.000 then knowing other people on other teams, it's fun to 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.400 have those different dynamics. 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.440 And I feel like it's this year as well. You're 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:17.200 going to see more. 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.320 Of what type of team each team is, what style 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.760 they play, and it's just going to keep fostering into that. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.320 And people know that, you know, when they played in 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.120 Minnesota Frost, they play a certain team. I'm not going 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.080 to give them all their secrets, but they know they 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.239 kind of you know more what to expect playing each team. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.400 So it'll be fun to see how that continues to build. 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.360 You mentioned the players knowing each other. One of the 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.760 best rivalries in all of sport is USA Canada Hockey 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.360 and y'all are teammates. Now, how is that going back 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.640 and forth between playing some of the international games, prepping 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.000 for Olympics and World Championships with your home team, and 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.440 then going and suiting up alongside those same people you 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:55.600 just wanted to destroy. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.960 Yeah, last year we added Sophie Jake's to our roster 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.280 the first ever trade, so she had a little bit 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.840 of international experience, and then this year with Claire Thompson, 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.360 she's really like the first that I've played with that 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.600 was like that's been on the national team and you know, 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:11.520 she was at the twenty two Olympics and her Olympic 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.320 experience was we had some similarities, but then obviously in 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:15.800 that goal medal game, it was very different. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.920 So yeah, the rivalry is still pretty heated. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.080 I think that that the root of the rivalry which 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.240 has always made it so great is the respect that's there, 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.520 and I think ultimately both of our federations are trying 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.280 to progress this game and push it not just in 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.400 our own countries but across the world as well. So 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:35.960 that's at the root of it, which makes it really 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.960 easy once we step on that ice as opponents to 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.320 you know, get into that mindset, and then it makes 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.160 it also really easy when your teammates to kind of 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.480 put that other hat away and be working now on 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.040 this goal together as teammates. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.360 What are your personal goals for season two? 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:51.160 Personally? 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.440 I think I think a lot of people doubted our 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.839 team going into last season. I think a lot of 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:57.840 people doubted our team at the end of last season 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.000 when we were on a I think it was five 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.600 regular season games slump that made its way into seven 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.400 losing games streak into the playoffs, and I think a 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.360 lot of people might look at our team's like wins 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.439 and our success and winning the Walter Cup is kind of. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.360 A fluke in some ways. So I think we still 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:14.479 have a lot to prove. 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.319 Because we can because I think I think we actually 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.840 are that team that the norm was how good we 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.120 were to start the season, and so I think for 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.240 us it's just kind of going to we continue to 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.079 build on that. And as far as goals, I think 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:27.480 you just got to take it one step at a time. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:28.839 Like I said, with only six teams in. 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.240 This league, the expectation is to make playoffs, and the 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:32.960 expectation is to give ourselves a chance to win in 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:33.560 the end as well. 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.560 A lot of fans were surprised to see after you 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.520 did win the Cup the Frost parting ways with their GM. 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.320 How does the team rally around last year's success but 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.120 also figure out how to move forward with that turbulent offseason, 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:47.920 because it's not a straight line from the team that 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:49.240 got it done last year to this year. 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.600 Yeah, that was definitely I think the first, not the first, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.800 but one of those points that's like, this is pro sports, right, 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.360 and that's something that's new to a lot of people. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.040 And with the coaching change at the beginning of the season, 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.760 before even game one, and then with the GM change 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.000 over the summer, that was the welcome to pro sports moments. 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.840 So I think for as much as was made out 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.679 in the media, like our team has always kind of 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.480 known what's been going on, and our team has always 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.800 been close, and that's at the end of the day, Like, 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.520 that's what matters, is that every team I've ever been on, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:18.480 the players are the ones that have to play. The 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.600 players the ones that have to win the game. The coaches, 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.840 the staff can only do so much. It's up to 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.559 the players ultimately. And I think, like I said in 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.000 our locker room, we knew what the truth was. We 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:30.440 know what the truth is, We know who we are 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.320 as a team. We know how close knit our team was, 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.199 and that's a huge reason why we were successful. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.520 Okay, so we've got probably a bunch of PWHL newbs 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.280 listening folks who want to get involved but don't have 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.760 a rooting interest, yet maybe don't have a team near them. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.720 So sell us on the Minnesota Frost. Why should we cheer. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.040 For your Minnesota Frost. Let's start with our goaltenders. 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.760 We have two great goaltenders and they have a ton 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.320 of personality and like they're just really fun to cheer for. 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.160 They're also like two of the best in the world 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.120 in my opinion, some of the easiest to ever play 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.320 in front of. And they have great pads. So if 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:04.000 you like, you know styles, great past, we did, great helmet. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:05.920 We love looking at pads and helmets and what the 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:06.520 goalies picked. 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.760 They get to they get to show their you know, 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.760 their uniqueness and their personalities in that way. 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:11.240 So that's fine. 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:12.520 And then I think they give us their names so 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:13.079 we can follow that. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:14.800 Nicole Hensley and Mattie Rooney. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.640 Oh yeah, Maddy Rooney has sick pads. 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.720 Yeah, yeah, they both do. I mean they've both the purple. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:22.800 They've done a good job with the purple and making it, 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:24.000 making it their own. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:25.640 And then we got to check that out. 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:26.600 Yeah through do our defense. 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.640 I just think we have such a well balanced roster 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.480 that and even a moment like we have some superstars 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.280 and you know Taylor Harzy and grayce On Winkle. We 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.160 have Kendall Coin Schofield, who's a future hot gamer in 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.800 our sport, right, and then we have players like Mikaela 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.480 Cava who stepped up huge in playoffs, who's been a 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.200 pro in the past, league's least decline obviously on the 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.720 back end, Claire Thompson, like I said, Sophie Jakes, we 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.880 have all these players, and we also have again the people, 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.080 like we're gonna work hard every game, right, We're not 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:56.800 going to rely on just to kill and talent. Our 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.120 coach demands more from us out of that. But we're 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.920 gonna play hopefully a mix of skill and physicality and 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.560 hopefully have some fun doing and and uh, we're hoping 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.880 to be a little bit maybe more consistent offensively this year, 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:09.840 so hopefully that provides people to you know, jump on 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:10.480 our side. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.319 Purple Collar work Ethic, is that what we're going to 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.760 go with, Sure, Purple ethic team. 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:18.559 Yeah, great, color Wave too great. 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.480 I mean, if you like Gatherid the Frost, that kind 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:22.559 of just like fits into that. 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:23.719 So if you're a fan of. 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.400 That sponsorship waiting to happen right there, Yeah, it hasn't already. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.000 Gator, it might be a league spotsor league partner. So yeah, 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:30.439 it's good. 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.520 It's good there, and they've got Kelly Panic, who is 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.439 a winner at every single level. You are a member 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.400 of the quadruple Gold club, which is College, Olympic, World 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:45.560 and p WHL, and so that is a perfect reason 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:50.080 to name your new beer Ben there won that so good. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.200 This is so good, and the can is so sick. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.400 Ben there won that. Tell me about this partnership. 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.120 Yeah, it's something that actually started at the end of 0:12:58.200 --> 0:12:59.880 last season. There was a picture of me that went 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.600 viral from like the press conference. I was going to 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.559 get Lee and Kendall out of the past press conference, 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.200 and I had two beer cans in my hands, and 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:08.920 I was like, it's time to go celebrate, like the 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.040 Verdon We're gonna be done doing this, Like we were 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:12.720 waiting to have the moment we would bring the trophy 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:14.120 and we're waiting for the entire team. I'm like, we 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.120 got to go do that. So that's kind of how 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.600 it started. And my agent had actually he was like, 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:22.000 are there any local like breweries that you're that you like, 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.000 that you like going to that you'd want to maybe 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.240 like try to make something happen with and so it 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.360 kind of just spiraled from there, and Fulton was a 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.640 great choice. One of my favorite beers this summer was 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.280 their Lonely Shandy. It's there spin on a class, especially Sandy. 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:35.640 Yeah, and it's the. 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.960 Best one I've ever had, and I'm very confident in 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.480 saying that. It kind of just stemmed from that. And 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.800 then the marketing director is someone who used to work 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.760 for the Wild for like ten years, so she had 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.680 a lot of like she kind of knew what was 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.840 going on too. And they're a great supporter of Minnesota sports, 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.920 and obviously with the PWHL Minnesota team then now Minnesota 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.400 Frost being the first winners of the waltzter Cup, they 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.120 were super excited to get on board with whatever the 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:00.760 project looks like. And it's so happened that they were 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.200 able to make it a beer come to life. And 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.559 Ben there one that it's a great name. It's a 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.120 little bit on the edge of cockiness for me, but 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:09.720 we're gonna lie with it. And I think for me, 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.720 like it's I play a team sport and all of 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.520 the things on my resume that you've read off are 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:17.880 things that are go back to the team that I'm 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:19.720 a part of, a team that's no been able to win. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.560 So I always like to say winners win, and something 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.840 that I feel like as people hear me say a lot, 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.600 and yeah, winning is fun and celebrating those ones with 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:29.880 the beer in your hand is even better. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.640 I was gonna say it's kind of a missed opportunity 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.600 that there isn't already a beer that's like basically dedicated 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.920 to being the celebration beer. It just feels like there 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.680 should already be a brand name, big beer company that 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:47.640 rolls out a specific one that's just for celebrations. Maybe 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.120 it will be been there one that maybe this is 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.200 just the start of something really big. I read in 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:54.880 the press release that the first beer you had with 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.000 your family when you turned twenty one was Fulton Beer. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.240 We won't claim that that was the first beer you 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.240 had ever. Hey, it's not just say the first legal 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.320 beer that you had with your family was from this brewery. 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.160 Yeah. I don't know if it was the very first one, 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.600 but it's definitely one that like with my dad, he's 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:12.880 an IPA, a fan of I PAS, and I feel 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.880 like that's kind of always played a role into the 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.000 beer I like as well, and so like I very 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.280 distinctly remember the Fulton Sweet Child Divine was one of 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.120 my go to favorites from the beginning, and what a 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.880 random thing for a girl in college to like. But 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.000 it's just something too like with our old family, like 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:31.760 it's very authentic to like what we do. 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.120 It just it is what it is, and proceeds go 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.560 to the Mosaic Hockey Collective. Some of the proceeds. What 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:37.960 is that? 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.520 Yeah, so the Mosaic Hockey Collective is there a group 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.560 that me and Matty Grouney actually last year we donated 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.160 some tickets too, and DIDs some meet and greets throughout 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:50.920 the entire season. Their group basically provide hockey resources to 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.920 players and communities that might not have the easiest access. 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.280 A lot of times it's people of color, and it's 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.040 because of color that again might not have had that 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.960 quintessential Minnesota story of I g I play hockey because 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:04.800 my dad played hockey and my older brother played hockey 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:05.440 or whatever it. 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.760 Is, so hopefully now moms and sisters too. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:08.560 Yes, exactly. 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.240 So it's it's I think a great organization that just 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.600 brings more people more diversity to the game of hockey 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.280 and again just reinforcing that idea that hockey is a 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:21.760 space that everyone is welcome and just because it traditionally 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.520 hasn't maybe had the same look. Hopefully more and more 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.480 people are represented in ear league as well. 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.200 Cool. I love that. And you're actually celebrating this beer 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:35.440 with the launch party early December at the Women's Sports Bar, 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.160 a bar of their own, which I haven't made it 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.440 too yet, but I've heard a lot about if folks 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.960 are near the Twin Cities on December eleventh, then they 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:43.320 want to go. What can they expect? 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:45.760 A lot of beer and a great time. A bar 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:47.320 of their own is a really fun place to be. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.040 Every time I've ever been in there, there's it's how 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.360 it sounds right, it's women's sports bars. There's women's sports. 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.640 You know, games playing, whether they're live or replays, and 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.200 memorabilia on the wall. And I'm sure I'm trying to 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.120 make sure some of my teammates are out there, so 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.120 hopefully you just have a great time celebrating. I got 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.359 to another way to celebrate the beer, but also our 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.199 team and everything that women's sports as a whole is 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:08.680 doing now. 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.680 Yeah, and maybe maybe you can win tickets too to 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.160 a frost against the charge from Ottawa coming into town 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.560 end of December. So that's cool. You know, you're a 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.440 Minnesota native, you went to college in Minnesota. Now you're 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.080 a pro in Minnesota. Let's say you got to pack 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:25.840 up tomorrow and live somewhere else where do you go? 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.480 Oh, is this like within the league or can I 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:29.520 pick anywhere in the world? 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:30.560 Anywhere in the world. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.960 Oh gosh, I it's hard. 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.760 I do like people like Minnesota is really it's getting 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.320 kind of cold here now, And I have said I 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.080 wouldn't move. I felt like I had to. I'm not 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.520 like so tied to Minnesota that I have to stay here. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.959 But I love and this might be weird, but I 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.000