Latest / Predators Official Podcast / Luke Evangelista: The Dishin' Magician

Transcript

Luke Evangelista: The Dishin' Magician · Predators Official Podcast

0:10
It's the Predators official podcast here on ESPN1O25, the
0:14
game streaming on YouTube and wherever you find your favorite
0:18
podcasts. Brooks Bratton on Nashville
0:20
predators.com, joined by my friends Max Hurst from Prez
0:23
Radio and Kara Hammer from Prez TV coming to you for the final
0:27
episode of January. We're almost into February.
0:30
We're almost at the Olympic break, but not yet.
0:32
Still some important hockey to be played.
0:34
The Preds in the midst of this road trip out east, are getting
0:37
points in overtime as they try to win the week.
0:40
Here we'll look back at Roman Yossi's one thousandth NHL game
0:44
and the celebration that followed.
0:46
We'll have an interview with Luke Evangelista, fan favorite
0:49
to talk about his game and some of his favorite teammates this
0:52
season. Fedor's Fetchkov sent down to
0:54
Milwaukee. What does all that mean?
0:55
Plus our big awesome person of the week and a couple of mailbag
0:58
questions to get to 1st. But Max here we are on this
1:01
current road trip as we record this on Friday, January 30th on
1:05
Long Island. The Press have already played
1:08
two games and the same result, an overtime loss in Boston and
1:12
overtime loss in New Jersey, both 32 finals.
1:16
The Press battled back to get a point in Boston, couldn't finish
1:19
things off in New Jersey. Some good hockey, some so so
1:23
hockey. But the Preds are still right in
1:25
the thick of things right now. Max, what say you through these
1:28
two games on this road trip thus far?
1:30
Well, the first thing on my mind this week, Brooks, is everybody
1:33
back in Nashville with all the snow and the ice storm in the
1:37
winter weather and we feel bad that we're not there to help you
1:40
guys out. It's probably for the best that
1:42
the Preds are on the road since home games.
1:44
Probably not a good idea this week.
1:47
We are really thinking of everybody.
1:48
A lot of folks in our team, travelling, party players, our
1:51
fellow broadcasters are all trying to get their families
1:54
situated back home, dealing with the same things that you guys
1:57
are. So we hope that folks have been
1:59
able to watch or listen to the Preds games this week to get a
2:02
little bit of normal in their lives during what's been a
2:05
really, really tough time. And I don't know, I almost feel
2:08
guilty that we're away, but our friends back at Bridstone are
2:11
helping out all weekend, opening up the arena to fans to get some
2:15
food to warm up. And it's, it's really a terrible
2:19
situation. And I, I wish we were there to
2:22
be able to help out. But like I said, it's probably
2:24
for the best that we're not there.
2:26
I know that's not what you asked me, but.
2:28
That's. Not more than anything.
2:30
Yeah, no. Well, so that's a good point.
2:32
Yeah. It's been a tough week from that
2:34
standpoint to see some of the images back home.
2:36
And yeah, you said it, a lot of people and our travelling party
2:40
who have to be here for work away from their families and and
2:44
dealing with that sort of thing. So, yeah, like Max said, we hope
2:47
that you've been able to watch listen to the games.
2:51
Hopefully you're able to hear this podcast at some point as
2:53
well and give you a little reprieve to to what's been going
2:57
on here. So yeah, Max, on the hockey side
3:00
of things, what do you think what what have been some of your
3:03
observations as we've gone through Boston and New Jersey so
3:06
far and getting ready to play the Islanders on Saturday?
3:09
Yeah, two different games with the same result that got there
3:12
in very different ways. Both 32 overtime losses for the
3:15
Preds in Boston on Tuesday. They never LED.
3:19
They came back to tie the game twice.
3:21
Roman Yossi scored a power play goal to cut it to two, one at
3:25
the end of the second and then Nick Blankenberg tied the game
3:28
in the third. Preds got to overtime, didn't
3:30
touch the puck in OT, David Poster Knox scored 15 seconds
3:34
in, lost 3, two and overtime. Then Thursday night against the
3:37
Devils, they led 1. Nothing early on.
3:40
They led 2:00 to 1:00, Devils tied up, forced OT and again in
3:45
the first minute of overtime they give up a goal.
3:46
So I think most solid efforts from the Preds like the the
3:50
overtime games have been so good for the Preds recently.
3:53
They started the season O and four in overtime.
3:56
Then they won four, three on three overtime games in a row
3:59
and now they've lost 2 back-to-back.
4:01
So it I don't know, can you gripe about the way the overtime
4:05
has gone? I'd never like to be the one to
4:07
do that, but I think it was 2 solid showings on the road.
4:12
You really felt like those were winnable games as well.
4:16
But with the Preds fighting for every point, those overtime loss
4:19
points do mean something. Kara.
4:22
Definitely Max. And right now with four games
4:25
before the Olympic break, they are trying as hard as they can
4:29
to string something together so they have a little bit of
4:32
confidence going into the break. And we're going to hear from
4:34
Luke Evangelista coming up in the show.
4:36
But he talked about the importance of this stretch of
4:38
hockey, especially with the trade deadline looming.
4:42
So Brooks, I think we know that going back to Pred's Wish, there
4:46
was one or two games where, hey, they might need those extra
4:48
points because now the question remains, are they buying?
4:51
Are they telling what's happening and are people going
4:55
to be able to enjoy their vacation with the trade deadline
4:58
right around the corner? No, 100%, yeah.
5:04
So there's, you know, you talk about wanting to collect as many
5:07
points as possible and they've gotten 2 on this trip so far,
5:10
both in overtime. I mean, there's no consolation
5:12
prizes and obviously you want wins, but I don't know, I, I've
5:16
always looked at it as if you can go on the road and get half
5:19
of the available points. Like that's still not a bad
5:22
deal. And Michael McCarron said
5:24
essentially that is much on Thursday night after the loss in
5:28
New Jersey, that we're still essentially 500 on the trip.
5:31
You've gotten 2 points and the win the week mantra is still
5:34
very much alive. That's what the predators we've
5:37
we've heard it for that it feels like months now talk about
5:39
winning the week right? And if they can get two games,
5:43
three games, depending on how the week goes, then they're
5:46
going to put themselves in a pretty good position.
5:47
So that win the week mantra is still very much in play as they
5:52
head on to Long Island on Saturday night to face Matthew
5:55
Schaefer and the Islanders. But you mentioned it, Kara, as
5:57
well as only four games to go before the Olympic break.
6:01
There's a little, you mention the trade deadline there.
6:03
So there is a roster freeze during the Olympic break and I
6:07
there's been some talk around the league like is, is that
6:10
February 4th when the roster free starts leading into the
6:13
Olympic break? Will that be kind of like a
6:14
miniature trade deadline? And you know, we've heard Barry
6:17
Trotz say on one O 2 five the game recently that you know,
6:21
there's obviously some tough decisions to make, but maybe not
6:25
so much before the Olympic break.
6:26
I think it's going to be very interesting.
6:27
A lot of teams in different positions coming out of the
6:30
Olympic break. What do they do, Max, in those
6:33
few games where all of a sudden you've only got a few games to
6:37
make a decision? Which direction is your club
6:39
going? And and for the Predators again,
6:42
playing some good hockey still like Andrew Burnett said it
6:44
Thursday night. He said that was a pretty good
6:46
Rd. game and you get to overtime and it can go either way.
6:48
I don't know what anybody is supposed to do about Niko
6:51
Heesher streaking down the wing and a perfectly placed shot to
6:54
be Eustis on and then on Thursday night in New Jersey.
6:57
But yeah, a lot of a lot of interesting hockey coming up.
7:00
And again, it's it feels like a long way away.
7:03
The trade deadline, it's not till March.
7:05
We're still in January right now.
7:06
But considering the amount of actual NHL games until we get to
7:10
that point, certainly some interesting decisions to come
7:13
all around the NHL. Yeah, just because there are
7:16
three weeks without a game doesn't mean the trade deadline
7:20
isn't still on the 1st Friday of March.
7:22
It is. It's still on Friday March 6th.
7:24
So the Preds really don't play a ton between now and then.
7:30
They've got the four remaining games before the trade deadline
7:33
and then five games in eight days coming out of it between
7:37
the end of the Olympics and the start of or the the time of the
7:41
deadline on Friday, March 6th. So Kara, it's, it's a long
7:45
spread of time with not a lot of games and every team is fighting
7:50
for the same thing. We see it every night, no matter
7:52
who the Preds are playing. Yeah, and I'm surprised neither
7:55
of you hit the only 28 days in February.
7:58
So we already know how fast that month is going to fly by.
8:01
But Brooks, I have to go back to to your mantra of what Bruno has
8:04
expressed all year. It's when the week and as we
8:08
record here on January 30th, let's go back to last week
8:12
because the Preds were winning that week.
8:15
The captain, Roman Yossi playing in his one thousandth career
8:20
game. They come back for a major win
8:23
against Ottawa after being down three goals.
8:27
Brooks, you've been with the team for I think one or two
8:30
seasons longer than I. So Max and I talked about this
8:33
on Smash Bill Live. Mccarran and Cole Smith are the
8:36
4th and 5th longest 10 year preds.
8:38
Roman yosi #1 so you've been with him the longest.
8:41
What was it like for you watching the captain #59 play in
8:45
one play in his one thousandth game?
8:51
Special I you know, looking back, we had some cool photos of
8:55
game one and then every 100, so, so on and so forth.
8:59
And just looking at the photos, I think I've been here since at
9:02
least 300, maybe a little bit earlier than that.
9:06
But yeah, like, you know, it was really great.
9:09
Not only the game itself. And Cara, I want to ask you
9:11
about what you did during that game in a minute, but the
9:14
Thursday game. And then he's honored before the
9:16
game on Saturday against Utah, where they played the tribute
9:19
video. And he receives his silver stick
9:22
for the 1000 game mark. And he was getting a little
9:26
emotional watching that video. I was getting a little emotional
9:28
watching that video, honestly, because it's.
9:30
Yeah. You know, you, you mention it
9:32
like you're around these guys pretty much every day during the
9:35
hockey season and you know, the games go by and there's 82 a
9:40
year and you're in the grind and you're in the midst of it.
9:43
And all of a sudden 1000 games and you look back on it and you
9:47
think, wow, there have been some amazing moments and some of the
9:51
coolest moments selfishly of my career and for Roman's career as
9:55
well. It's just been such a pleasure
9:57
to cover him. I think one of the my favorite
10:00
things I've ever been able to do is to write a story on him when
10:03
he won the Norris Trophy in 2020.
10:06
And I didn't talk to him for it, but I talked to everybody else,
10:09
his wife, his parents, his brother, former coaches,
10:12
teammates. That was so cool to be a part of
10:16
that. And then just leading up to this
10:17
as well, I, I mentioned it last week again, but the chance to
10:21
talk to guys like Shay Weber and Dante Fabbro and Ryan Ellis,
10:25
guys that have played a lot of minutes over those 1000 games
10:28
with Roman Yosi. And just to get a sense of, you
10:31
know, what he meant to them on the ice.
10:33
And we see that, right? Everybody sees him on the ice
10:35
and they know what he means to the franchise.
10:38
But off the ice, it's just as important.
10:41
And it was just such a pleasure to be able to chronicle that a
10:45
little bit and play such a small role in it.
10:48
But really a special weekend. And I know Kara, you got a
10:51
chance to to speak with his dad, Peter Yossi, who we've gotten to
10:55
know over the years from the father's trips.
10:57
And what was that like? Just to be able to spend a
10:59
little bit of time with his family on an occasion like that.
11:02
Yeah, it was so special to to go up in the into the suite and be
11:06
there with Luca and Ivy Romans to two kids.
11:10
His wife Ellie was there, but his his family was there, his
11:13
mom and his dad. And I did have a chance to talk
11:15
to Peter. And one thing that's always been
11:17
known is Peter sets the alarm and wakes up first thing in the
11:20
morning to watch Roman's games, being back home in Switzerland.
11:24
And I said, do you still wake up first thing in the morning?
11:27
And he goes maybe not all 1000, but I probably watched 900.
11:31
And but it was really neat to to go back and ask about, you know,
11:35
Roman being 16 years old playing in Bern, Switzerland.
11:38
What was it like now watching him playing his one thousandth
11:41
game and you could just see how proud his dad was.
11:43
And Brooks, you mentioned it catching up with some of his
11:46
former teammates. I just hearing from all the guys
11:49
he used to play with. I mean, Hal Gill was one of his
11:52
first D partners. And Hal said he remembered Roman
11:55
drinking chocolate milk after the game.
11:57
And that's something that stuck with the fans because before
12:00
that night, we saw people holding up signs in the arena
12:03
asking Roman if he wanted a chocolate milk.
12:05
So just to see his his transformation, but Max, you
12:10
know, he is, he is such a good guy.
12:13
And I think it goes back to this quote from Scott Hartnell that
12:15
says he's an NHL player, but he's also a sweetheart.
12:19
And I think that just exactly encapsulates who who the captain
12:24
is. Yeah, it was a celebration of
12:29
epic Smashville proportions, and honestly, I think it was one of
12:32
the best regular season games in Pred's history.
12:34
Guys. Like with all of the pageantry,
12:37
my favorite moment was warmups, everybody coming out and #59
12:41
with their captain's patches on, even the goalies have the
12:44
captain's matches on and Yossi on their name plates.
12:47
So that was awesome. Like an incredible way to start
12:49
the game. And then from there, it's kind
12:52
of a normal game until it's not. And it's a special comeback
12:56
night for Steven Stamkos. The game-winning goal for the
12:58
hat trick with a minute 13 left. I mean, Brooks, that's got to be
13:02
up there. Best Preds games of Yossi's
13:04
tenure regular season, right? Yeah, no, it was up there and I,
13:09
you know, we we talked about that after the game Thursday and
13:11
the next day as well. Like, yes, it would have been
13:14
great all the pomp and circumstance of everything that
13:17
comes with a milestone like that.
13:19
But if you lose the game, there's just a little, it's not
13:22
as good, right? Like you've got to win that game
13:24
and to not only win it, but to do it scoring 5 unanswered after
13:28
you went down in a three nothing hole.
13:31
The hat trick from Steven Stamkos, you could tell how much
13:34
the guys wanted to win it for him.
13:36
That was what Andrew Brunette said in the post game that he's
13:39
like, I've been a lot of a part of a lot of these and this one
13:42
is up there is probably the most special one thousandth game
13:45
milestone that he's been a part of.
13:47
I loved what Brunette said in the morning too.
13:49
He got asked about, you know, what do you remember about his
13:52
one thousandth game as a player? He did that, obviously, when he
13:54
was a player in the NHL. And he said it kind of felt like
13:57
an obituary because all these people are saying all these nice
14:00
things about you and you kind of just want to get the day over
14:03
with. And so Roman that morning kind
14:06
of made it a point he's like, yeah, I'm really trying to take
14:09
it all in. And I think he was able to do
14:11
that. And again, the win just makes it
14:15
everything even better than it already is.
14:18
And I wanted to play this clip of Roman about what he'll
14:21
remember most about that night. Good question.
14:29
I don't know, I think just the whole day, you know, just the
14:34
whole day is pretty special. Obviously having my family, my
14:37
kids in here before the game was, was really cool.
14:40
And then and just, you know, being around the teammates and,
14:43
and I think, I think just all the, you know, all the love you
14:46
get all day, It's it's, it's pretty special.
14:47
And, and like I said, I'm so grateful, Yeah, to be able to
14:51
play here for so long. And yeah, I'll remember a lot of
14:55
things. There's a lot of cool moments
14:56
today. So there you hear the captain.
15:00
It was a fantastic moment. And you know, in the grand
15:02
scheme of things, maybe it's something you look back on even
15:05
more so when you're done playing and and appreciate it even more.
15:08
But I I think he was able to really take it in to have his
15:12
kids there in the room with him reading the line up before the
15:14
game. That's always such a special
15:16
moment. And and then just the way that
15:18
Thursday night played out and into the celebration on Saturday
15:21
pre game, it was great. And you know, I I selfishly want
15:25
to give a shout out to the rest of our content team as well with
15:28
the videos and then the things that appeared on social and we
15:32
did a lot and it was it was really cool to see it all get
15:36
out into the open and to have the guys just be a part of
15:40
everything that that comes with a moment like this.
15:42
So we hope you, the fans, appreciated everything that came
15:46
along with that and we're able to celebrate Roman in your own
15:49
way. But yeah, what a what a moment
15:52
for the Captain, What a moment for the franchise.
15:54
And certainly very well deserved for #59 who again, as Scott
15:59
Hartnell said, he's he's a sweetheart.
16:01
I think he's, he ranks very highly on any of us that get the
16:04
chance to cover the team. We all love talking to Roman.
16:07
So hats off to the Captain. Definitely.
16:11
And like Stephen Stamko said afterwards, those milestones are
16:14
always a little bit sweeter when you get 2 points with it.
16:18
The first Pred ever, 1000 games all for us.
16:23
Next in line, Philip Forsberg 167 away.
16:27
So get ready in a couple years for that.
16:29
But for now, Roman Yossi skates alone.
16:33
That he does and he's still just so good looking too, right?
16:38
That doesn't that doesn't hurt either, I think.
16:40
I think we're all a little bit jealous.
16:42
But again, Congrats to #59 Speaking of good looking.
16:46
Up next, we'll chat with Luke evangelista #77 in your
16:50
programs. Number one in your heart.
16:52
That is coming up next on the Predators Official Podcast here
16:55
on ESPN1O25, The Game. Welcome back to the Predators
16:59
Official Podcast here on ESPN1O25.
17:02
The game streaming on YouTube and your favorite platforms.
17:05
I'm Brooks Bratton alongside my friends Max, hers and Kara
17:08
Hammer. We are pleased to be joined now
17:09
by number 77 Predators forward Luke Evangelista.
17:13
We've all got similar backgrounds except for Kara, but
17:16
the other three of us are on Long Island as the Preds prepare
17:20
to play the Islanders on Saturday night.
17:21
But Luke, thanks for joining us. Welcome to the pod.
17:25
Thanks for having me guys. Of course it's a pleasure and
17:28
we've all got some questions for you, hard hitting stuff here.
17:31
So I want to ask you, First off, we're over halfway through the
17:35
season, 52 games so far for you, 38 points including 31 assists.
17:41
How are you feeling about your game to this juncture?
17:45
Yeah, I felt pretty good. I mean, yeah, it's, it's been a
17:49
good, it's been a good start to the season.
17:51
I think obviously this was kind of a big year for me coming off
17:56
of last year. I kind of want to have a bounce
17:58
back here personally. And I think just as it as the
18:00
whole squad, you know, we had something to prove this year,
18:04
you know, personally had something to prove this year.
18:06
So it's been nice to kind of have that start obviously
18:09
feeling a little more confidence and kind of finding my stride
18:12
and being able to take that next step in terms of, you know, the
18:15
production and the opportunity's been great.
18:18
I mean, I get to play with some great players.
18:19
You know, I'm playing with Phil Factor, Stammer, you know, those
18:24
kind of guys. So they they make it easy out
18:26
there for you. They're great line mates and you
18:28
know, it's been great playing with them.
18:30
I think we've found a little chemistry and like I said, I've
18:33
just been able to take that next step production wise.
18:36
So yeah, it's been good. But you just, you know, when
18:39
that confidence comes, you got it.
18:41
You got to stick with it and keep rolling with it.
18:43
So yeah, just looking to do that.
18:46
Luke, what is it meant for you to claim and solidify your spot
18:49
in the top 6 this season? Yeah, I mean, that was
18:53
definitely one of my, you know, personal goals coming in this
18:55
season just to be a guy that, you know, is relied upon it in
19:01
that top 6 and, you know, offensively.
19:03
But it also comes with that, you know, the defensive
19:05
responsibilities. I think that's a big part of,
19:08
you know, when you're playing with Factor and Phil and
19:10
Stammer, like I said, you're going to be line matched against
19:13
the other teams. You know, top end guys, whether
19:17
it's the demon or or the forward lines are going to be matched
19:20
against some pre elite players. So you got to make sure, you
19:23
know, you're taking care of your defensive responsibilities as
19:27
well as, you know, try and provide that offensive spark for
19:29
the team. So I think that's been a good
19:31
learning curve for me, you know, just making sure I'm solid in
19:35
all three zones and you know, the staff can rely on me late in
19:38
games and against top players. So that's all part of play in
19:42
the top six. It's not, you know, just the
19:44
offensive production. It's kind of being responsible
19:47
in, in, in ever since of the game.
19:49
So that's been a good learning curve for me and I've had a ton
19:52
of fun with it so far this year. Speaking of Samcos, he he called
19:56
you the the Dish and Magician. I mean, what are your thoughts
20:00
on that moniker as you just talked about getting the chance
20:02
to play with him? Yeah, that's pretty funny.
20:06
That's pretty special. That's one of those ones where
20:10
it's like in the moment you just have a laugh about it and then
20:13
you go home that night and you're like, holy crap.
20:16
Like Steven Stamkos just said that to me.
20:18
Like, you know, I, I watched him growing up.
20:20
He's a legend. Like the guy's got 600 goals,
20:23
1200 points, like, and he's like coming up with those nicknames
20:26
for me. Like it's one of those things
20:27
where you go home a night and kind of try and soak that in.
20:30
Because if you told, you know, 6 year old Luke that he'd be line
20:33
mates with Steven Stamkos through that Steven Stamkos
20:36
would be calling him the dish magician.
20:37
Like I would have a field day with that.
20:39
So yeah, it's those are the kind of memories that you know, that
20:43
last long time you just try and soak that stuff in so you're
20:46
playing for. Luke, for you especially as
20:51
well, you've got a ton of assists, but your goal against
20:54
Toronto earlier this season, Hockey Night in Canada, Saturday
20:58
night at Bridgestone, what do you remember about that moment?
21:01
And then what were some of the reactions you got afterward?
21:04
And you got another Hockey Night towel after that, right?
21:07
That's right. I got 2.
21:08
I got 2 now. Yeah, that's right.
21:10
That's right. That was, I mean, that's a
21:13
pretty special goal just in terms of, you know, being a
21:16
Toronto kid. I grew up watching the Leafs.
21:18
I was going to games. I, you know, I, you know, it's
21:22
Hockey Night in Canada that Saturday night.
21:24
And I had a bunch of buddies and family, you know, texted me
21:27
after the game telling me that they're watching.
21:29
And yeah, I think you could just tell from that goal, you know,
21:33
the celebration What what a rush that was.
21:36
And I kind of blacked out there and was losing my mind for a
21:38
second. But yeah, I mean, that's the
21:41
kind of stuff that you treat of as a kid.
21:42
You know, you're playing your hometown team, like you said,
21:44
Hockey Night in Canada. You know, your your friends and
21:48
family back home are going to be tuning in.
21:49
So yeah, those ones are special for sure.
21:52
That was that was a really cool memory.
21:54
Probably one of my favorite goals my career.
21:58
Well Speaking of growing up in in Toronto, I think 6 year old
22:00
Luke was wearing a Luke Shen jersey back in the day.
22:04
What did you like about him so much as a player?
22:09
Yeah, so the reason I got his jersey actually had nothing to
22:13
do with him as a player. It was more just a Toronto Maple
22:15
Leaf with the name Luke. I was like, yeah, that's that'll
22:18
do it for me. So yeah, 1 Christmas, my parents
22:22
got me a Luke Shen jersey and yeah, kind of like what I
22:26
suggested was stammer. Like I think being able to play
22:30
with him like that was my first IHL jersey.
22:32
And you know, years later we end up being teammates.
22:35
Like that's one of those things, you know, you try and soak in.
22:37
And I remember telling my mom that, you know, he he was having
22:41
me over for dinner and we ended up playing mini 6 me, him and it
22:45
and his two boys for a couple hours after dinner.
22:48
And it's like same kind of thing.
22:50
Like what I said. It's like, you know, you, if you
22:52
told the seven-year old Luke that he was going to be playing
22:54
mini 6 with Luke Shannon, you'd be like, get out of here.
22:57
You know, I was just like, so it's like that's that's what the
23:00
hockey world brings. It's those kind of memories,
23:02
those connections. I've been super grateful to play
23:05
with some guys like that, like, you know, so much into the game.
23:07
Stammer You know, Shannon, my first jersey.
23:11
So yeah, super cool memories. I'm super grateful to to have
23:14
those guys as team mates. Luke, you're also another guy
23:20
kind of along those lines. Ryan O'Reilly you're often one
23:24
of the last guys off the ice after practice and so was factor
23:28
what 1 I guess what are you guys working on when you're out there
23:33
that long and what is your relationship with him been like
23:36
as as you've seen it evolve over the last couple of years?
23:39
Yeah, I, I mean, every time I get asked about Factor, I always
23:43
say I could, I could sit here and talk, you know, for hours
23:46
about Factor, what a great person and teammate he is in
23:49
terms of what we're working on after practice.
23:51
He, he's literally like having another coach out there on the
23:54
ice. Like he's got so much knowledge.
23:56
He's got so many drills. Like it's not one specific thing
23:59
we're working on. Like sometimes we're working on,
24:02
you know, different puck touches.
24:04
Sometimes we're working on our releases deflections.
24:06
Like it's, it's a whole mixed bag sort of stuff that he's got
24:09
drills for after practice for us.
24:12
And I think early on, like when your team mates with him, you
24:16
kind of realize like, OK, like this is a guy like you want to
24:19
follow like, like he's, he's a good leader.
24:22
He's he's a good role model, like, you know, following his
24:25
footsteps and, you know, you're going to your game's going to
24:28
transition. And yeah, I just think our
24:32
relationship, like, like I said, he's just got so much knowledge
24:36
and experience and he's been so good to, you know, as a, as a
24:41
teammate for all of us. I think for us young guys, like
24:43
you see after practice, like it's 56 young guys and, and him
24:47
just, you know, doing his drills, like we all kind of, you
24:49
know, look up to him in that sense.
24:51
And you know, he, he's all playing with him now too.
24:55
Like he's always talk to me on the bench.
24:57
We're always talking about the game.
24:58
Like, you know, he, he, he's always got, you know, those
25:01
little tips and tricks, you know, for us to work off of.
25:05
So he's been, he's been a fantastic teammate, great line
25:08
mate. I mean, you can't ask for much
25:10
more a teammate. So it's it's been a pleasure to
25:12
play with him. Luke, we talk about you coming
25:15
up through and seeing all these veterans, so many of the guys
25:18
that you played with as a teenager or in the NHL now too.
25:21
What's it like seeing them and matching up against some of your
25:24
closest friends from junior like Connor McMichael on the Caps,
25:27
Alec Regula on the Oilers, who we've all seen recently?
25:31
Yeah, it's funny. It's it's definitely funny.
25:33
You know, when you're looking at the lineup sheet pregame and you
25:36
see, you know, old teammates, you know, I've had, you know,
25:41
there's, there have been guys have been playing against since
25:43
I was like 7-8 years old. Now that we're all playing
25:47
together in the NHL. So it's it's been a cool, it's
25:52
been a cool road to this point. I guess you could say, you know,
25:55
there's guys that like you said, I played in junior with, I
25:58
played minor hockey against or with, you know, I train with in
26:01
the summer. It's it's kind of cool like, you
26:04
know, building those connections and those relationships are in
26:06
the league and, you know, just following those guys in their
26:09
own path. You know, everyone's kind of
26:12
everyone's rooting for each other.
26:13
You know, it's you meet so many great people in hockey, as I've
26:17
said, you know, a bunch of easy guys to root for.
26:20
And like you said, like McMichael, I lived with in
26:23
junior for three years. He was, he was great to me, You
26:25
know, when we were living together and, you know, early on
26:28
in junior, I was going through a hard time and he had kind of
26:31
been in my in my shoes the the year before.
26:33
And so, you know, it's that kind of stuff that you remember, you
26:37
always want to cheer for those guys.
26:38
And even, you know, former teammates in the NHL like
26:40
Stasney on when we play Edmonton, like another great
26:43
human being, you know, you're always cheering for those guys.
26:46
So, so yeah, it's it's it's been fun to follow along in their
26:49
careers and their past. And, you know, you always want
26:52
to cheer for good people. So you're always happy for them.
26:59
So Luke, what has impressed you most about your team this
27:03
season? Obviously it didn't start off
27:06
the way you wanted to, but you guys are in the hunt what I
27:10
guess kind of collectively has allowed your group to be able to
27:13
find their game and and obviously still very much in it
27:17
here as we approach the Olympic break.
27:20
Yeah, I think, I think the first thing that comes to mind for me
27:24
is, is just the resiliency of the group.
27:27
Like you said, it wasn't it wasn't an ideal start again.
27:30
And you know, it kind of, you know, it creeps into the back of
27:33
your mind like, oh boy, like this.
27:35
Maybe it's just starting to feel like last year a little bit.
27:37
But I think for us to like kind of bounce back from that and not
27:41
give in to that and, and get the train back on the tracks, you
27:45
know, get, get the boat back in the water and, you know, just
27:48
start paddling the right way. I think, you know, we've we've
27:50
made tremendous ground and you know, like you know, like I
27:55
said, they're still we're still not at our goal yet.
27:57
We're not quite in that playoff spot that we're we're gunning
28:00
for. So we got, we still got some
28:01
room to go, but I think just the claw back into this, to be in
28:06
this situation right now, be in the fight.
28:09
I think you see it in games too. I think numerous times, you
28:12
know, we, we've gone down early, which is not ideal.
28:15
It's something we're, we're definitely trying to work on.
28:16
But I think just the ability to, to battle back and, you know,
28:21
find ways to scrap up points, get 2 points.
28:23
You know, that Ottawa game at home a couple weeks ago comes to
28:26
mind. Just that feeling you have from
28:29
clawing back as a group and getting those points, like I
28:32
think that's something to really build off of.
28:34
So I think that resiliency is kind of the first thing that
28:36
comes to mind. I know the team is trying to end
28:41
on a strong note before you guys head into the Olympic break, but
28:45
what are your plans for the break?
28:47
And you know, what are you guys talking about as you as you hit
28:51
the stretch of the season? Yeah, I think we talked, we've
28:58
talked about a few times, I think these last handful of
29:01
games are really important for us going in the break cuz you
29:04
know, you come back from the break and it's, I think it's
29:06
like only two or three games until the trade deadline when,
29:09
you know, stuff really starts going down.
29:11
So our, our job is to and our goal is to put ourselves in the
29:16
best position possible is going into that, you know, be as close
29:20
in the fight as possible, you know, be, be right in the
29:23
gunning for that spot. So it is a crucial time of the
29:27
year for us. I think we all understand that
29:29
we we're trying to scrap our points as best as we can.
29:32
And like I said, stay in that fight so that, you know, when we
29:36
come out on the other side of that break, we're, you know,
29:38
we're in a spot where we're still battling.
29:39
We're not out of it. And yeah, we leave ourselves in
29:42
a spot where we we can still make the playoffs and have that
29:45
belief. Luke, thanks for doing this.
29:49
Keep working hard these last few games.
29:51
My pleasure. Thank you guys.
29:53
That's Pred swinger Luke Evangelista back with more after
29:56
this on the Predators Official Podcast.
29:58
Welcome back to the Predators Official Podcast here on
30:01
ESPN1O25, The game, Nashville Predators, YouTube and your
30:05
preferred podcast platforms. My name is Max hers from Preds
30:09
Radio along with my two best friends in the universe.
30:12
Except no substitutes. Tara Hammer from Predators DV
30:16
and Brooks Bratton from nashvillepredators.com.
30:19
Thanks to the pretty boy Luke Evangelista for joining us in
30:22
the last segment. Always fun to talk to him about
30:25
everything going on in his hockey universe.
30:28
And like I, I just love the way that he understands his place.
30:33
Like he, he loves being around these veterans.
30:35
He knows he's the young guy. He knows that every day is a
30:38
blessing. And the reverse side of it is he
30:40
takes a lot of crap from his veteran teammates too.
30:43
And boy does he take it all in stride.
30:45
Like an absolute champ. I think the only thing we missed
30:51
there, Max, was after we hosted Smashville Live, you asked about
30:55
the Preds best duos and your number one choice was Cole
30:59
Smith, Michael McCarron. But you had Bange and
31:01
Blankenberg a close second. So we may have to do a little
31:04
follow up here and see if he thinks they're in second place
31:07
here or if him and blinks are actually #1.
31:10
Yeah, I really should have asked because to be honest with you,
31:13
they are my number one. But I wasn't going to say that
31:16
while Cole Smith and Michael McCarron were around.
31:20
They're a little taller, a little bigger than you.
31:23
Yeah. Well, we'll have to save it for
31:28
next time. Always leaving you guys hanging
31:30
here on the POP. We have a couple of Milwaukee
31:33
Admirals related topics to talk about here in this segment.
31:37
First up, the Predators made a transaction on Thursday morning.
31:40
Feder Svechkov, who had been in the NHL the entire season until
31:44
then, sent back down to AHL Milwaukee.
31:47
We had the chance to ask head coach Andrew Brunette in our in
31:50
our pregame interview on Preds Radio about the reasoning and
31:53
the timing of Svechkov going down.
31:56
Well, I think it's just a good opportunity for him to get some
31:58
games in before the Olympic break, play some big minutes,
32:01
get get some confidence back in his game, have the puck a lot
32:03
more, feel better about it. You know, he's and inconsistent
32:07
for us this year. He's had some really flash, good
32:09
flashes of of play and then he just had trouble sustaining it.
32:13
So I think it's a great opportunity as a young player,
32:15
go play big minutes, get on the power play, touch the puck, feel
32:17
good and we'll see him again here this year.
32:21
Brooks it it seems fair. What do you think about
32:25
Brunette's explanation and the timing?
32:27
First fetch gob to go back. Yeah, I don't I don't know that
32:31
anybody was overly surprised. It it hasn't been an easy season
32:34
for Fetchy. He made the team out of training
32:37
camp, but it's been a struggle. I mean, 9 points and 47 games,
32:41
you obviously hope for more. And you know, from a personal
32:44
perspective, like he's such a good kid.
32:46
You don't want to see anybody, you know, not doing well on the
32:50
ice, But he's he needs to go down and get his game back.
32:53
I mean, you heard brunette say it.
32:55
Go down, play some big minutes, get some confidence, get on the
32:58
power play, because obviously he's a great player.
33:00
We know that. We've seen flashes of that.
33:03
But it just has not gelled this season so far in the end at the
33:07
NHL level. So I think this will be good for
33:10
him. You know, we've seen it with
33:11
other guys too. They'll go down, come back up
33:14
and they're a whole new player, right.
33:15
And so I, you know, this wasn't ideal is wasn't part of the plan
33:19
at the beginning of the season. But at this juncture, I think
33:23
it's the right move. And again, you know, we talked
33:25
about in the first segment with the Olympic break coming up.
33:27
And we've mentioned as well, like there are certain guys
33:30
that, you know, if you want them to play in the AHL, you need to
33:32
assign them beforehand. So perhaps they can spend the
33:35
breakdown. They're playing What remains to
33:37
be seen what will happen with Fetch Cow.
33:40
But I do think obviously it was good that Brunette said at the
33:43
end there as well. We'll see him again here this
33:45
year. This is not something where we
33:47
expect to to be banished for the rest of the season in Milwaukee.
33:51
We certainly expect to see Fedor's fetch cop at some point
33:55
this season. And, and we'll be excited to see
33:58
him back because we know that what he can do with this NHL
34:00
level and he's he's certainly got that in his game.
34:03
So all the best dispatch as he heads back down there and we'll
34:06
look forward to seeing him back here and and putting the puck in
34:08
the net again sometime soon. Well the the Olympic break piece
34:12
of this brooks is that Svechkov will still get his NHL mandated
34:18
Olympic break. So that means if he is still
34:20
with the Admirals by that time, he will not be able to play in
34:23
three games on February 7th, February 14th and February 15th.
34:28
All three of those games are against Rockford, but he will
34:33
still get his NHLCBA mandated by week, which is the 1st 9 days of
34:39
the Olympic break. If he is still in the AHL by
34:41
then, he will be able to play in the AHL in the games starting
34:45
February 18th and onward if my understanding of the CBA is
34:49
correct. But based on how long he had
34:51
been in the NHL, which was as long as possible because he'd
34:54
been in the league the entire season, the CBA guarantees him
34:57
that NHL player time off. Which, as we had talked about on
35:01
last week's show, talk about Reed Schaefer, you can't just
35:04
send everyone who is eligible to go to the AHL back to the AHL
35:08
the day before the Olympic break.
35:10
And nobody ever gets a break. So that's why those rules exist.
35:14
And guys have vacations planned too.
35:15
You can't just wipe everybody out and say no beach for you,
35:19
which regardless of how your NHL season's been going, if you've
35:22
played 47 games in the NHL, you deserve a little bit of a break.
35:25
So yeah, good call out there. And and we'll see how that plays
35:28
out. First fetch.
35:30
Sticking with our friends up in Milwaukee, they played their
35:33
first ever outdoor game in Milwaukee Admirals franchise
35:37
history last week. And it wasn't just the first
35:41
outdoor game for the Admirals ever, it was also the coldest
35:45
professional outdoor hockey game in the history of America.
35:51
So Congrats to the Milwaukee Admirals, who won the coldest
35:55
outdoor hockey game in the history of America, three to two
35:59
in overtime against the Iowa wild -8°F breaking the previous
36:06
record of -6 at the Winter Classic in Minnesota a few years
36:10
ago, which was crazy cold. This game was in Hastings, MN at
36:15
the Hockey Day and Minnesota rink.
36:17
So is the Iowa Wild, the Wilds affiliate against the Milwaukee
36:21
Admirals. And the Admirals came back to
36:24
win three to two. Zach LaRue scored the walk off
36:27
winner in overtime on a memorable day.
36:30
And our friend Aaron Sims, Admirals broadcaster, called the
36:34
entire game outdoors. The Athletic did a cool profile
36:38
on the event, but Aaron was saying that the setup and they
36:42
had kind of like a makeshift tent.
36:44
The the broadcast booth was taken up by TV folks.
36:48
He's on the radio and the tent that they had set up, he's like,
36:51
I can't be in here. I can't even see out the window.
36:54
It was so fogged up and it was blurry and couldn't see the
36:57
numbers. So he had to step outside and
36:59
then it was so cold. There were generators failing
37:01
that were running his equipment. He actually called it, called
37:04
the game on his cell phone for a period of time in the second
37:07
period. But he's a champ.
37:10
He got it in. He said he would do it again
37:12
100%. But I think you'll learn a few
37:14
things of what works, what doesn't work.
37:17
But the electric parka seem to be doing wonders because I don't
37:20
know, Max, like you call games. I don't know, would you want to
37:22
be out there and -8° I feel like your your jaw and your lips
37:26
might freeze up a little bit. Yeah, I've been outside before
37:30
for some cold football games and some cold early season college
37:36
baseball games with the windows open out of the press box.
37:39
Definitely not -8 that's for sure.
37:41
Maybe 20 or 30 was as low as I got.
37:45
Yeah, that was I was listening to Aaron Sims called the game on
37:48
on Fox Sports Radio in Milwaukee for portions of it.
37:51
First of all, if he was using his phone, it didn't sound like
37:54
it. The audio quality was great.
37:56
So props to all of our producers up there at the Admirals Radio
37:59
team for making that sound good in what was a crazy situation.
38:03
He did a great job calling the game sounded the same as he
38:06
would inside, which is a major credit to Aaron.
38:09
And then at the end of the game I was listening to the post game
38:11
show and it comes back and says time for your out of town scores
38:15
on the Milwaukee Admirals post game show.
38:17
And the music is going and Aaron just comes back and says, well
38:20
my computer is frozen so no scores today.
38:22
I'm like yes, I love that so much.
38:26
It was so cold. So the perfect way to sum it up.
38:29
Hey, Congrats to the ads on the win.
38:31
Ryder Ralston, Oasis Wiseblatt and Zach LaRue with the goals.
38:35
Matt Murray and Net go ads go. Well done to the ads, well done
38:40
to Aaron Simms and best of luck to fetch in Milwaukee.
38:44
We will certainly see him back up here soon.
38:46
We will be back in just a moment to wrap things up, bring you the
38:49
biggie awesome person or persons of the week and get to a couple
38:53
of your questions. That's next year on the Pres
38:55
Official Podcast on ESPN 1025 The Game.
39:00
Welcome back into the Predators official podcast.
39:02
I'm Carrie Hammer along with Max, hers and Brooks Bratton.
39:05
And guys, we talked about it, Roman Yosi, his one thousandth
39:09
game. And what a special moment it
39:10
was. So our Big E awesome person of
39:13
the week is going out to not only Roman, but the entire Yosi
39:17
family because how cute were Luke and Ivy and sitting on
39:22
their mom Ellie's lap saying go #59 So shout out to Roman's
39:26
parents who flew all the way over from Switzerland.
39:28
His brother was here, this was it takes a whole family.
39:32
It takes a whole village to get to 1000 games.
39:34
So our biggie, awesome person of the week, Roman Yossi and family
39:39
Max. My addendum to that award, Kara,
39:43
is the day of his one thousandth game.
39:46
Thursday afternoon I went on the Chasing Big Joe Show radio show
39:51
and Big Joe and Nick Frazier. We're doing the show in the Omni
39:55
at bar lines, great friends of Bridgestone Arena and of one O 2
39:59
five the game. So I go on, I'm on the show for
40:02
I think half an hour, 45 minutes, talking about Roman
40:05
Yosi the entire time. I take my headset off at the end
40:08
of the segment, I look to the right and here comes Roman's dad
40:11
walking right by, and his dad, brother and sister-in-law are
40:15
eating. In bar lines right around the
40:18
corner from where we were and presumably heard the entire
40:20
segment. But don't worry, I was very
40:22
complimentary as usual, especially on such a special
40:26
day. But yeah, hey, the Yossi's are
40:27
everywhere is the moral of the story.
40:32
You're never sure. You better look over your
40:34
shoulder when you're thinking of saying something bad about
40:36
Roman. But who says anything bad about
40:37
Roman? Come on.
40:39
That's a good way to wrap up the UOC love.
40:43
Which again, what a moment it was, what a pleasure it was to
40:46
be around and just to be a part of that.
40:49
So Max, I want to ask you, we got a couple questions in the
40:52
mailbag, which maybe you can shed a little light on this or
40:55
if not, we can do some more research.
40:56
But Rick's Rick mentioned that Max talked about what gifts the
41:01
Preds players were getting Roman for his one thousandth game.
41:05
He was wondering who on the team decides what they are getting.
41:07
Is it a committee? Is it players who reached that
41:09
milestone? I again, I know you mentioned it
41:13
last week, some of the gifts, but do you have any more
41:15
insights in that regard or do we need to do some research?
41:18
Well, Ryan O'Reilly was kind enough to share on the morning
41:21
of that the first two gifts that the team got together and bought
41:25
for Roman Yossi were a limited edition custom watch by Swiss
41:30
watchmaker Nor Kane, which Roman Yossi endorses.
41:33
And they got them to Commission a special watch for him for 1000
41:37
games. So that was a very fitting one.
41:40
And then also, since Roman is a huge tennis fan, they got him
41:43
and his family VIP tickets for the US Open coming up at the end
41:47
of this summer. So those were the first two
41:50
gifts. Ryan O'Reilly says there will be
41:53
more that are coming at a more formal team get together, which
41:56
I don't believe has happened yet.
41:59
It maybe was scheduled for last weekend.
42:01
But if it was scheduled for last weekend, it didn't happen
42:04
because of the snow. So I, I think the leadership
42:07
group minus COC, of course, who is the recipient probably
42:11
organizes that. And I don't know who's in charge
42:14
of collecting money now. It was always Colton Sissons
42:16
running the kangaroo court forever and obviously Colton
42:20
Sissons no longer on the Preds. So Rick, that is the best answer
42:23
I can give you. And we'll see if we find out
42:26
what the rest of the gifts are at some point down the road.
42:28
But 1000 games you're in yourself, some good presents.
42:32
We do know that he got a silver stick from the presentation and
42:35
Ivy and Luca also got little miniature silver sticks.
42:39
So don't forget the kids. You can't you can't be given dad
42:43
all the presents. The kids have to get something.
42:45
So good for them to get involved in in the gift giving there, Tia
42:50
said. While watching the game against
42:52
Boston. I thought of a conversation my
42:54
dad and I had recently about why when players leave the game due
42:58
to injury, the team cannot then dress one of their healthy
43:01
scratches to take their place. And I was curious about your
43:04
overall take on the topic. It's, it's honestly a good
43:07
question. I I think, correct me if I'm
43:10
wrong. So football, someone gets hurt,
43:12
someone else can come in. Baseball, someone else comes in
43:15
basketball is someone I can people, people can come off the
43:18
bench, right. So I, you know, I, I think in
43:22
that regard, it's with hockey, obviously there's people coming
43:25
off the bench, but you're not dressing one of your healthy
43:28
scratches. I don't know.
43:29
I, I'm, I guess I'm kind of indifferent to it.
43:32
I think the tough thing about that is often times, especially
43:36
if like somebody were to get hurt later in the game, the
43:39
healthy scratches are often already showered and dressed and
43:43
they're up in the press box watching the game.
43:46
So you can't just immediately have a guy jump on the ice.
43:49
They're not sitting there ready to come in even if that was an
43:53
option. So I don't know.
43:55
Do you guys have any thoughts on that?
43:56
I like, I think that that's, it makes for some cool stories
44:00
sometimes. Like if a if a guy does get hurt
44:03
during a game, like, oh, you were down to 11 forwards or 10
44:06
forwards or five defensemen, How did you rally and push through
44:10
that? It kind of makes for a cool
44:12
story sometimes in that regard. But I don't know.
44:14
What do you guys think? Should players be allowed to be
44:18
dressed if they're a healthy scratch after the fact?
44:23
I think it's an interesting topic, especially when we're
44:26
talking about forwards and defenseman.
44:27
And then you look at the E bug situation.
44:30
I mean, you already only have one backup goalie it it who has
44:34
not warmed up, not played, sometimes just thrown right into
44:38
the situation. He may have even played the
44:39
night before back on the ice. But then you have Joe Schmo down
44:44
the street who's playing and it's the boys league hockey
44:48
hockey game who might be the E bug who comes in.
44:51
But I think they have made some adjustments there, right?
44:54
I believe now teams can travel an E bug.
44:58
Is that am I correct here or am I just making something up that
45:01
I maybe read online? Next season.
45:07
Next season. See, I know a little bit about
45:10
what I'm talking. About here, No, you're right.
45:14
That'll be a thing next season. And that's kind of to eliminate
45:17
kind of that, which again makes for some great stories.
45:21
The E bugs. We all remember David Ayers with
45:23
the Maple Leafs, who is the Maple Leafs E bug came in for
45:26
the Hurricanes. He's essentially A Zamboni
45:27
driver a few years ago, came in, won the game.
45:31
I'm thinking of another gentleman in Chicago, I think
45:33
was an accountant by day, ended up being the E bug by night.
45:37
Another guy actually went to high school with Parker Milner,
45:40
who was a national champion at Boston College, flew out to
45:45
Anaheim just this season to be the backup for the Washington
45:49
Capitals for a game and and got that rookie lap and everything
45:52
that comes with that. Didn't get into the game, but
45:54
still got that experience regardless.
45:56
The league is kind of trying to eliminate that.
45:58
So yes, they are going to start letting someone essentially be a
46:02
full time E bug, but practice with the team, travel with the
46:05
team. So you especially on the the
46:07
road, you eliminate the opportunity for someone who, you
46:12
know, for example, somebody who lives here on Long Island, all
46:16
of a sudden comes in, you don't know the guy who's coming in
46:19
cold, that sort of thing. You can have a guy with your
46:22
club and and that's kind of the reasoning behind that is just
46:26
just to have someone who's around all the time.
46:28
But yeah, I'm going to kind of miss the E bug stories because I
46:31
don't think we're going to really get them anymore.
46:33
But no, that's that's a good point.
46:35
And that's something else that the league has has definitely
46:38
thought of. But I don't know, I feel like
46:40
you dressed 20 guys a game, 18 skaters, 12 forward, 6
46:43
defencemen. That's kind of what you get.
46:46
And and Tia has as a follow up, she said while listening to
46:49
Willie and Mace, they they briefly mentioned one of the
46:52
defencemen possibly filling in as a forward is a louder.
46:56
Is it a situational based scenario?
46:58
So you can for sure. We've seen it rarely, but I
47:01
think years ago we saw Tony Bitetto play wing a little bit.
47:05
We've seen Kelly yarn Croke, former Preds forward, go back as
47:09
a defenseman just because he's such a smart player and is
47:12
capable of doing that. Not all guys are capable of
47:15
that. I think that's another thing is
47:17
that, sure, I mean, in a pinch, surely somebody could fill in,
47:22
but you know, no offense to most of the forwards, but I don't
47:25
think you want to throw them back there as a defenseman.
47:27
It's it's a little bit different if you're not doing it every
47:30
night. So yes, that is allowed, but
47:32
it's not ideal. Well, we've seen Nick
47:36
Blankenberg do it this year. He played it a little bit of
47:39
even strength forward early in the season and he's played a ton
47:43
of penalty kill forward. The Preds have killed a lot of
47:45
penalties with three defensemen and one forward on the ice and
47:49
it's been fun to watch. It's kind of like this little
47:51
oddity and Blankenberg is great at it because he can use the
47:55
best pieces of his defenceman game and also some of the
47:58
forward game. He was a forward for the 1st
48:00
1819 years of his life before he got to college hockey and was
48:03
moved to defenceman so anyone can play wherever they want.
48:06
It's always fun to see guys come out of the penalty box and try
48:09
and fit in at the opposite position.
48:11
So I think there are actually probably more guys who could do
48:15
it then get a chance to do it. But I mean, you're not probably
48:19
not NHL level at the other position, but not anybody can go
48:23
wherever they want as long as they're not offside.
48:27
Exactly. Yes, stay on side Nick
48:29
Blankenberg. And with that, we thank you for
48:32
listening to another edition of the Preds official podcast and
48:35
watching us on YouTube. Of course, for Kara Hammer and
48:39
Max hers, I am Brooks Bratton. Four more games to go before the
48:42
Olympic break. We will be there to bring you
48:44
all of the happenings from this podcast and all over Preds
48:48
channels. You can watch us, you can listen
48:50
to us and enjoy the hockey. We'll be back next week with one
48:53
final episode before the Olympic break.
48:55
Until then, stay safe, stay warm, and we will talk to you
48:59
soon.