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The off-season has officially begun, and it's time to start talking about the 2026-27 season. · Inside Cyclones Hockey

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome into season 5, episode 33 of the Inside Cyclones Hockey Podcast.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: The NE3HL season is over, but there is plenty of stuff to talk about now that the off-season is officially begun as hockey will resume faster than people think.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_01: We're talking tender signings, we're talking age out players and where they're headed next, and so much more.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: We got plenty of stuff to cover, and it's all in this week's episode.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: So get ready.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's time to enter the storm.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: After a brief hiatus, a well-needed hiatus, after a crazy end to the season and an even crazier snowstorm, we are back.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_01: And even though it's the offseason, we have got so much to talk about and so much to get into.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_01: Here on the Inside Cyclones Hockey Podcast, my name is Mark Robinson, your host of the Inside Cyclones Hockey Podcast.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_01: And for the first offseason episode, as if you can even believe it, we are now officially in prep mode for the 2026-2027 season.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: I've got our awesome director of business operations, Zach Surway, joining us on this week's episode of The Pod.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: Zach, thank you for joining me and welcome to another off-season where we get to gear up for another awesome season of Cyclones hockey.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_02: It's always a weird transition when that season comes to an end, but uh excited to get to work to uh to build things for the upcoming year.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_02: And I think uh fans will be excited to see all the things that we have in store coming up for the 26-27 uh camp campaign uh later on this fall.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, very exciting.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: I I would imagine that the off-season goes just as fast as the season, and the season flew by, and so I'm sure we're gonna blink, and all of a sudden it's gonna be September again, and the guys are gonna be gearing up, excuse me, gearing up for another season.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: Uh obviously, our age outs won't be joining us again next year, but we'll have plenty of new guys coming in.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: We'll be talking a little bit about some signings and stuff like that later on in the episode, and of course, the rooks this year will no longer be rooks, they'll be showing the ropes to the new guys.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh really quickly, before we get into some of the housekeeping stuff that uh we're gonna touch on during this week's episode.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_01: I just wanted to not spend too much time on this because I'm sure everybody's in the loop, but really quickly wanted to recap how the season ended for the Wasta Cyclones and just how the Frasier Cup ended up panning out uh both in the Central Division and just in the league in general.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_01: So, as most people probably know, the Cyclones were matched up against the Rochester Grizzlies in the first round of the Frasier Cup divisional round of the playoffs.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_01: So you have to play two divisional rounds within your division before you move on to the national tournament, where one team from each division competes for the entire league title, which is the Fraser Cup.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: First game was up in Rochester, Minnesota.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: Nice easy three-hour bus ride.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and the Cyclones, although put up putting up a strong fight, both goaltending and offensively, uh, it was a it was a very special teams heavy game.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: Both teams did very well on the man advantage.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_01: Unfortunately, the Cyclones unable to pull that first game out.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: They went three for four on the power play.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: Rochester went four for five, but a few even strength goals for Rochester gave them the edge at home in front of a home crowd.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: That game would go down to seven to four, the final score.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: And then down in Wassa, a winner-go-home scenario the next night at Marathon Park.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: The game that was supposed to be played Sunday, if it were to happen, ended up being rescheduled to, I think, Monday or Tuesday.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, for those that probably also know this, we got hit with a gnarly snowstorm that that night was when the snow started.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: And I would guess that Rochester had some motivation behind them to not have to deal with the snowstorm the next day and get to just be stuck in Rochester for the week and recover for a series the next week because they came into Marathon Park with the series on the line, with with the ability to sweep, and they did it in very dominant fashion.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_01: No goals for the Cyclones, six unanswered goals throughout the game for the Grizzlies, and they would go down to end the Cyclones season for the second straight year, six to nothing.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_01: And then I think to a lot of people's surprise, the following weekend, Rochester would go on to play the West Bend Power, who only had three regulation losses, and they eliminated the power.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's an upset in my head.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_01: Zach, I don't know if you have any comments on that or if you want to say anything about Rochester getting on a little bit of a heater to get themselves out of the divisional rounds and into the actual Frasier Cup championship, which was pretty impressive in my eyes.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was really impressive.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I mean, like you said, to only lose three times going into that playoff series, and then you got three game series, and they dropped both games on their home ice in West Bend, which I believe it um, believe it or not, I think uh Rochester was the one other game that they had lost.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I know they beat him at least once in West Bend to sort of to beat that West Bend team, including the regular season and playoffs, three times on their home ice.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, they certainly had a good matchup and performed really, really well, obviously, that weekend in West Bend to take the the uh division championship and uh move on to uh St.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_02: Louis for sure.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and they they started out pretty pretty solid in St.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: Louis.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: They won their first two games.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: Uh they were in pool A out of the two pools, but they unfortunately ended up losing a big one after advancing into the kind of final rounds of the tournament.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: They only lost by one to the Granite City Lumberjacks, who would go on to win the tournament.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: It was the Granite City Lumberjacks and the Louisiana Drillers, who played in the the final championship game from pool A and pool B.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: And the Louisiana Drillers, top of their division as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Only one regulation loss during the regular season, if you can even believe that, over 40 wins, only team in the NA3 to do so.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: But a little bit of an upset in that regard as well.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_01: Granite City screamed through that tournament in pool B, and they would go on to take home the 2025-26 Frasier Cup Championship.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_01: So just a cool way to see the season pan out.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, we would have loved it to be Wassa in that final round against West Bend, or even more so if they were to have made it to playing in the Frasier Championship.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: Would have been cool to see them compete on a more national level, but that's what next year's for.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's now two straight years that the Cyclones have had their season end against Rochester.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: So I can only imagine that there's going to be some revenge that they're going to want to get next year if that matchup is any sort of similar.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: But like I said, didn't want to spend too much time on that.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_01: Just wanted to quickly recap how the season ended for the Cyclones and how things panned out both from a divisional and a national standpoint.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: But Zach, speaking of thinking about the players next year and the potential for revenge, we've got a lot to talk about in terms of what's to come for next season.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: And there's a few different categories of discussions that are going on in terms of what we're looking forward to.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: But I'd say the biggest, the biggest topic for the offseason is obviously the players.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: And and there's a few different ways to look at it.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: There's the the new players that are going to come in to the team and play for the Cyclones.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: And there's also the age outs of the guys that we know and love and have played here for a while.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: We have to keep an eye on what they're going to do because a lot of them are going to move on to bigger and better things and probably play, you know, at the NCAA level, which is awesome.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: So we've got some we've got some player stuff to talk about.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: I I think let's start with uh guys that are gonna come in.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: How can how can fans and listeners look out for tender signings and just what's that whole process look like as the team looks to bolster their depth and get some new guys out on the ice?
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so for fans that are listening and you know trying to understand you know how the the cyclones we go about getting players, um, really there's there's there's two avenues that are the the main sources, one being the tenders, and then the other being um the NA3HL draft.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_02: I would say um the the most important thing really um for our organization to be successful are tenders.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_02: Um those are essentially agreements um for players that if they're gonna play at the tier three junior hockey level, uh the falling uh fall and into the winter, they're gonna play in it in a wassaul cyclones uniform.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_02: So um obviously with with tenders, the thing that I'll say too is there is always a a chance that a kid that signs a tender doesn't necessarily play for your organization.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_02: There could be a situation where, you know, hey, they maybe have a really good summer and they end up going to a tier two uh NAHL camp um or another tier two junior league um across the United States and they go play there instead.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but if I had to put a number on it for fans to kind of conceptualize what it looks like, I would say of the tenders that we signed, you're probably gonna get in the neighborhood of 75 to 80 percent of those players will be in a cyclones uniform um that coming fall, whereas the draft is more of a thing that um is a little bit less reliable, I'll put it that way, in terms of if you're gonna have that player uh be in a cyclones uniform.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_02: So over the next next month here is really um, if you want to put it as a in a phrase, it really is tender season.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_02: April is a very busy month as all those tenders need to be signed by the time the draft occurs on April um 29th is that deadline here this year when the draft occurs.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_02: So um it's a busy time of year for the coaches, obviously trying to to fill all those tenders and to to get those executed over the next month, uh for sure.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_02: So as uh fans listening, they too, they can also we'll have several announcements over the next couple weeks of players that will be tendering uh with the team so they can stay tuned to that and uh see how that uh the roster for the upcoming year is gonna play out.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_02: It's always exciting when you see those names come across the board.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_02: You obviously can dig into uh I know you can probably speak on this a little bit more, Mark, is look at their their high school numbers and see maybe where they played.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_02: You know, hey, they maybe played in a pretty competitive um high school in Minnesota or Michigan where or wherever they're coming from.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_02: Um it's always interesting to see how they perform at high school and how that can translate, obviously, to the step up of uh the junior level here in Wassau.
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• 14:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: Definitely agree with you.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's super fun to look at the talent that's coming in.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, I I briefly mentioned it a few minutes ago, but a lot of the rookies are returning.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: We got a lot of really strong talent that has started the early process of junior hockey development.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: And now they get to come in and they get to be kind of a role model for these younger guys.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, a lot of the times too, some of the younger guys will be, you know, the top, the top talent, the best players that we're gonna see.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, to your point as well, Zach, so easy and and quite frankly, very fun to look at their stats, look at some of their look at some of their past hockey experience.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: I just have a really quick example of that and just some of the cool stuff that you can find.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Elijah Von Gunton playing in his uh first year with the Cyclones last year.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: He played high school hockey the year prior.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: He had 74 points in 26 games in his last year of high school hockey.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: Also was the captain, might I add 26 games.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: He had 44 goals, 30 assists, and 74 points.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: So that's just one very small example of some of the cool stuff that you can find out about these awesome new guys.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: So give it a look, give it a give it some research.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's super easy to look it up.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever the person's name is, you just look it up and then put elite prospects next to it, and it'll take you right where you need to go.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_01: And pretty, pretty cool stuff.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and then Zach, in terms of talking about you know, some players, I keep saying this over and over again.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_01: We've got some guys that played their rookie years that are returning, but we've also got some guys that aged out.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_01: And it's likely that a lot of them are going to be committing to go do some awesome things in their hockey career, whether it's ACHA or NCAA D3, or we've even got somebody that's already tendered with an NAHL team, which is the tier two league of the North American League.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, where can fans look out for news regarding some of our age out players committing to bigger organizations as their hockey career progresses?
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so I would say um, you know, the the best way that I can put it for fans is stay tuned to our our social media accounts and also um subscribe to our Inside Cyclones uh or I should say our newsletter or digital newsletter that we send out.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_02: Any tender or signing that occurs, we'll send that out.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so fans can obviously stay in touch with those details.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_02: One other thing I wanted to mention regarding um tenders, um just go back real quick is as of right now the team has 15 um tenders that will be filled.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_02: Um obviously those can be traded, um, so that's not uh end all of we're gonna have 15 new players coming in, but that's just a guideline for people to know going into it of of where we're we're at on the tender front.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_02: And then on college commitments, that's always really exciting.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_02: Obviously, we're hoping um for the best in terms of you know division three uh commitments.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_02: Uh obviously uh there'll be a number of different ACH ACHA uh division one commitments uh as well.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_02: So that's always cool to to see.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, obviously at the end of the day for our players when they come and play junior hockey, their goal is to go on and play college hockey somewhere, whether at division at the division three level or at an ACHA program um in the United States as well.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_02: So that's always always really cool, and then obviously we continue to follow them along our career.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_02: And actually we just had uh this past month here and earlier on in March, um one of our former players, Matthew Witt, ended up winning um the ACHA Division I uh national championship.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_02: So we always like to uh obviously see those players go into future success.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_02: That's the whole goal um of the of the Cyclones in developing those kids to the to higher levels.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, definitely super exciting to see where these guys will go.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, I'm I I think it's awesome to go play NCA83, but you know, ACHA too, such a cool way to continue your hockey development and continue the the level of play that you can, you know, play you can just you can play really high-level hockey at the ACHA level.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: And what's cool to me about it is, you know, I don't want to I don't want this to come off as a knock towards NCAA D3 because the hockey is extremely high level, probably higher level than ACHA.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: And with that in mind, you there's a lot of cool places you can go, but if you're playing ACHA, you can go to big time, you know, huge football schools in the SEC or in the Big Ten, Big 12, all around the world.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: And most of them have very, very highly talented ACHA teams.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: You know, for example, I'm from Colorado, right up the street from me, University of Colorado Boulder.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: They've got an awesome ACHA team.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: Right here in Colorado as well, Colorado State has an ACHA team.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: A good buddy of mine goes to UMass Amherst.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: He plays on their ACHA team.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: They scrimmage against the D1 team who have had countless NHL players come out of their program and go play in the national.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's just obviously, once again, a small example of all the different places and all the super cool stuff that you can go and do in the world of ACHA hockey.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: So with that in mind, we're keeping an eye on how what are what's going to happen with all these age out players and where they're all going to go.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: And uh can't make any promises, obviously, but uh I'm hoping that anybody that does commit to a respective college or, you know, a plan for the future, I should hopefully be able to get them on for an interview on the pod.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: So whatever whatever commits we see, we'll hopefully be able to hear from them firsthand and get some perspective on you know what the what the next chapter looks like for them.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: And like I said, likely it's going to be somebody that we have grown familiar with and that we know and love as one of our age out players.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but anyways, uh Zach, I know you mentioned it briefly, but uh was there anything you wanted to say more in addition to the NA3HL draft and just how that compares to the tender signings and kind of what the difference is of the cyclones drafting a player versus getting somebody on a tender?
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_02: Um yeah, I mean the only other thing that I'll I'll say too uh regarding that is as uh I had mentioned, you know, that tender deadline um that comes in you know when the NA3HL draft uh begins or starts on April 29th.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_02: The other thing for fans to know too is after that tender deadline, then essentially any player that is out there that is left as unsigned or hasn't been drafted, or um, the easiest way to put it is if their rights are not owned by another uh tier three um team in in the NA3, then essentially they become a free agent where they're free to sign with whoever they want.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_02: So after that period, you'll see some additional announcements as obviously we get into June and July, where those players will then essentially if you want to put the best way uh that I can put it is they then sign a formal contract, uh committee them to play in Wallace.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_02: So when you see those um players signing um contracts that will be announced, you know, as you get into July and early August.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_02: That is um a hard commitment then with the team that uh that player is obviously going to be committing to play for the cyclones um for the upcoming season.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_02: So just want to be uh transparent with that so that people that are you know are new to uh the cyclones and trying to understand the player acquisition that's the the best way that I can put it is uh that's more of a solid contract where that player will be joining us um for uh that upcoming year.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_02: Um the one other thing I'll touch on that you had mentioned too is that's really cool um that you brought up about ACHA is just looking at some of our past players that you'd mentioned that we got players from have as you mentioned gone to some high level um programs whether it's the University of of Oregon or former forward Dylan Chapman um and then some other players as well Tanner Chapman has um unrelated but going to Grand Canyon University in Arizona I no I've heard really good things about uh that place as well we've had a number of different players go um obviously two at the D3 level whether it's uh right here in our our backyard at um Stevens Point one of the premier players of our program Gabe Randall um just completed his first year at D3 so it's always really cool to uh to see those players advance and uh move on to that next level there's uh a real long list of players that have gone on to play college hockey which is obviously uh like I said something that the organization um is very proud of to see those players have success at that next level.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah absolutely uh we got a lot of awesome stuff coming out regarding both newly committed players for the Cyclones on tender signings as well as age out players who are moving on to bigger and better things now that they've aged out of junior hockey.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: So keep an eye on our website at wastacyclones.com or any of our social media platforms WASTAClones and you can find all the information you need on the new players coming in and where the old guys are heading out.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_01: Zach, let's talk about next season.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_01: And I know that this season is freshly over but we mentioned it a few times the time flies by and we can already start talking about when we're gonna see the season schedule released, when we're gonna see the promotional stuff released.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: So do you want to let listeners know when they can keep an eye out for you know when the home schedule is going to release and when they can start gearing up and scheduling when they're gonna come to Marathon Park for our awesome promotional giveaways and such yeah so every single year the uh the schedule that drops normally about the week after the 4th of July holiday um we get our 22 game regular season schedule and then the promotions will follow that so normally in that time frame of uh mid to to late July then obviously into August and in early September we'll round out those different game promotions um and then two the other thing that'll come uh is uh we get that scheduling finalized will be the report date for the players and that's historically normally around uh that August uh 20th time frame uh obviously dependent on when our first game is we kind of line that up to be about three to four weeks ahead of that um and then two in terms of our potential first um home games at Marathon Park in the fall I know that's always a a date that people like to get excited about and some to mark on their calendar um the inside information that I have I can provide fans listening is it's looking likely in terms of the dates that we submit to the league is that that final weekend in September will likely be our home opener.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_02: So the dates on that for this year is going to be September uh 25th and uh 26th that weekend will likely be if I had to put an odds on this mark if uh I'm not a huge betting man I do uh occasionally bet but if I had to put the odds on that if I had to go to our friends at Lake of the Torches Resort Casino and go to their sports book I would put it on a pretty good high likely that it's gonna be that weekend um in late September that the Cyclones will be back at Marathon Park um for our first home games of the 26-27 season.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_01: It'd be a minus 500 line on DraftKings if it was a something you could sports bet on.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: But uh that was how it was last year.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: I remember uh it's crazy to say already say that we're saying last year but it was the 26th and the 27th our home openers uh on September in late September of this last season so I'm sure it's gonna be right around that similar right around that similar date time frame and I mean I I know I keep saying this and I know it might sound corny but it is going to absolutely fly by.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: I mean tomorrow's April 1st we're recording this Zach on Tuesday uh you guys will be listening to this on April 1st just crazy stuff.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we got uh we've got the free version of Zoom and our timer is slowly winding down so we got some other stuff that we gotta that we gotta breeze through.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Zach did you have anything else you wanted to touch on promotional wise in terms of when that schedule comes out no um the only other thing I want to uh touch on today would just be um for fans to stay engaged with us here in the offseason um mentioned a little bit uh early on but um to subscribe to our our digital newsletter that's again is the best way to stay and inform we you get your news sent right to your inbox um with all the different tender signs draft we'll have a full write-up obviously all the the draft picks that take place um any of the college commitments promotion news uh that takes place as well um any big um news otherwise that fans need to be informed on and then two um by listening to the podcast obviously that's gonna be one of the best ways that people can stay informed throughout the off season I want to lay out for fans so that they know two what that schedule looks like for the offseason um for us and how those episodes will will come out um the next episode after this episode on April 1st is gonna be April 29th and then after that um the month of May and June we'll have one episode each um and then as we get back into July we'll go back on the bi-weekly schedule of uh that's beginning on July 8th which will be a main episode talking about the the schedule lease so stay tuned uh for all the the offseason news it's uh believe it or not it is a very busy time of year for us as we uh plan everything for the upcoming year to make it uh run smoothly and then one other summer note I want to just mention too is we'll this year we'll again be at the Wisconsin Valley Fair.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_02: Um that year or this year that booth will run from August 4th through the 9th at Marathon Park.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_01: We'll have uh concert tickets to give away um from some different social media contests as well so stay tuned for that information as well thanks for listening um everyone here in the offseason version and uh we're excited to uh to get back uh back to work and uh gear up to uh have another successful season of cyclones hockey in the fall yep obviously very exciting and uh yeah sorry we had to kind of cram those last few things into the into the final final seconds of this episode here but uh keep an eye out for all that stuff that we talked about today on our website wasyclones.com as well as our social media platforms you can find us on Instagram Facebook X TikTok YouTube all that stuff at Wascacyclones hockey and you'll see Stelly the Cyclone and the profile picture on all of the different platforms and on all those platforms you'll find the tender signings college commits season release for the games and the promotions and then our digital newsletter as well keep an eye out for the podcast releasing it'll come out obviously tomorrow and then that next episode later on in the month and as time progresses closer and closer towards the start of the season more and more episodes will come out come out at a more frequent basis and then check out that Wisconsin Valley Fair booth as well from August 4th through the ninth.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_01: Zach thank you so much for joining me here on the Inside Cyclones hockey podcast and we're excited to keep chatting with you this is obviously the first of many awesome conversations here in the offseason as we slowly but surely get dialed in for another season of Cyclones hockey.
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