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4-14-26 Hour 1 - Avs beat Oilers in a shootout/DU Head Coach David Carle/Nugs vs T-Wolves in Round 1 · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Kane on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 1: every weekday morning from seven to ten on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 2: Bumbs up from the off Ie and here we go
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  Speaker 2: get it or Dave with speed right down the slot.
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  Speaker 2: Brits watching the Stars night Man Kidd rips it past
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  Speaker 2: the blocker of Ingram who breaks his stick and throws
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  Speaker 2: it to the half boards and the Abs have pulled
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  Speaker 2: out the extra point.
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  Speaker 3: They win three two in a shootout in Edmonton. All right,
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  Speaker 3: big show.
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  Speaker 4: Today, we got David carl Head, coach of the national
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  Speaker 4: champion d you Pioneers, joining us in twenty minutes, so
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  Speaker 4: stay tuned for that. It's so funny, mode. I'm watching
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  Speaker 4: this Avs game last night and one team with nothing
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  Speaker 4: to play for is playing against the team with a
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  Speaker 4: ton to play for, and the team with nothing to
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  Speaker 4: play for wins. It's it's so funny to put that
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  Speaker 4: side by side merge with what we've watched the last
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  Speaker 4: three weeks in the NBA season, where if an NBA
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  Speaker 4: team had nothing to play for, everyone in the arena
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  Speaker 4: knew that.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone Yep, in fact, what was that game where the
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  Speaker 5: Nuggets finally pulled it out, but it was just street
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  Speaker 5: ball the entire time. It was just they're just hoisting
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  Speaker 5: from from Memphis.
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  Speaker 4: When thirteen guys out, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they'd step outside the locker room and dude would
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  Speaker 5: just throw up an eighty eight foot or you know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's just that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 5: It's cool to get to the end of the regular
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  Speaker 5: season like this and to play these teams when you've
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  Speaker 5: got nothing to play for if you're the Avalanche, and
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  Speaker 5: to have me talk to other people around the league
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  Speaker 5: and other people who follow the Oilers closely, and the
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  Speaker 5: thought last night was a little bit along the lines of,
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  Speaker 5: you know what, I'm not sure the Oilers can play
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  Speaker 5: better than that defensively. Yeah, no, I'm not sure that.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure that they can be better than they were.
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  Speaker 5: And they're like, that's still not even gonna be nearly
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  Speaker 5: good enough against this club, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: So it kind of puts perspective on where the Avs
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  Speaker 5: are and what people who see their playoff bound team
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  Speaker 5: and a team that can win their own division still,
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  Speaker 5: you know, people who follow that team all the time,
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  Speaker 5: to look at your squad that you work with and
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  Speaker 5: give honest assessments. And it wasn't just one, it was
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  Speaker 5: multiple that sort of came to the conclusion that this
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  Speaker 5: Avis club is pretty damn good, dude, well most even
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  Speaker 5: without all the guys I know, I know the Oilers
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  Speaker 5: missing Hymen and Drycidle, the Evs are missing a boatload
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  Speaker 5: of guys, and everybody recognizes that.
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  Speaker 4: So here's what's really interesting. You see the reaction from
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  Speaker 4: Ingram after McKinnon's scores ends the game. He snaps his
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  Speaker 4: stick in half and he chucks it.
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  Speaker 3: What he's chucking for? Man, what's that?
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  Speaker 1: So?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know why he's chucking his stick. Absent five
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  Speaker 5: posts in overtime he got lucky.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he probably is chucking his stick. And I think
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people think of it because, hey, if
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  Speaker 4: they got the extra point out of that, they'd still
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  Speaker 4: be competing with Vegas for the number one seed in
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  Speaker 4: the Pacific. Could I argue it's the opposite. Look at
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  Speaker 4: the standings real quick, because here's what is possible. Nashville
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  Speaker 4: loses yesterday, they're now eliminated from playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody, Yeah, every team that's gonna be in the postseason
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  Speaker 5: has secured a spot. Now the only question is where
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  Speaker 5: are they going to stack up?
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  Speaker 4: You have now a weird combo of moj You could
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  Speaker 4: play the Kings, who have now won five straight. You
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  Speaker 4: could play the Mammoth who are at ninety points. You
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  Speaker 4: could play the Ducks who are at ninety points. And
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  Speaker 4: guess what you could play Edmonton could Maybe that's why
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  Speaker 4: he was snapping the stick. It's as much about not
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  Speaker 4: competing for the number one seed in the Pacific as
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  Speaker 4: much as it's we're now in contention for the last
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  Speaker 4: seed in the wild Card, which would be playing these
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  Speaker 4: guys at least four times in a series.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Edmonton's got vancouvered around out this season at home, okay.
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  Speaker 4: So they should be good in that category.
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  Speaker 3: So think about it.
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  Speaker 5: So they'll get to ninety three points, the Ducks can
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  Speaker 5: get to ninety three and by the way, you know
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  Speaker 5: Vegas loses and Edmonton wins, they'll be tied with Vegas
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  Speaker 5: at ninety three, but they'll have the tiebreaker, will the Oilers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: So it's just yeah, I mean, Edmonton can go to
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  Speaker 5: number one in the division. They could drop down to
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  Speaker 5: the second wild card. It's I mean, it's it's pretty nuts.
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  Speaker 4: Soo yeah, and so I was just I watched him
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  Speaker 4: snap the stick him like is part of it that too,
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  Speaker 4: is that it's not just about not getting the one
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  Speaker 4: you could drop into a wild garden the new nose
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  Speaker 4: after that. But the Avs once again find a way
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  Speaker 4: to how about this?
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  Speaker 5: How about this, Keanner, how would you like to look
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  Speaker 5: forward to it if you're Edmonton in.
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  Speaker 3: LA to play each other?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Again?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, in the first round of the play It's like,
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  Speaker 5: come on, man, right this format is just wearing on
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  Speaker 5: me every single day.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the good news is we don't have to worry
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  Speaker 4: about that in the first round. We'll get something new
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  Speaker 4: that's nice. But here's what I think is really funny.
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  Speaker 4: Like the Avs go out and they had a whole
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  Speaker 4: bunch of guys that they were resting. And I remember
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  Speaker 4: Keith Yandal talked about this once. Who was is he
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  Speaker 4: third now behind Burnsey for the longest consecutive game streak.
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  Speaker 4: Yandall was asked a question between the mentalities between them
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  Speaker 4: and NBA players, and I can't remember what the context was.
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  Speaker 4: I'd have been the four nations and how hard guys
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  Speaker 4: are playing, And he said we're company men in the NHL.
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  Speaker 4: We just do what we're asked. We don't have there's
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  Speaker 4: no like what's in it for me thing. It's just
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna go out there and play. And I just
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  Speaker 4: can't get over that. I'm watching the Avs, who have
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  Speaker 4: nothing to play for go out there and put together
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  Speaker 4: an effort like that last night. Like was it perfect? No,
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  Speaker 4: but you could tell motion. It's hard in hockey, like
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  Speaker 4: if you aren't going one hundred percent, you're gonna get
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  Speaker 4: yourself hurt, which is another issue that you would have
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  Speaker 4: to do with totally. It's like Nathan McKinnon, Gabe Landiskog,
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  Speaker 4: Brock Nelson, all these guys are like, Nope, we're just
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  Speaker 4: we got to go full bore. Why because we have
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  Speaker 4: a game tonight. There you go, NBA Uh But if
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  Speaker 4: I play tonight, is there something in it for me?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Kind of. That's the way it is.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that the league is the league has
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  Speaker 5: encouraged that over the years, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: I think one league encourages one thing and one league
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  Speaker 5: encourages the other thing. Because when you started paying guys,
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  Speaker 5: you know, thirty million, forty million dollars per year and
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  Speaker 5: more than that. Now obviously that you stop looking at
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  Speaker 5: him as a player in a person. It's just a commodity.
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  Speaker 5: It's an asset and you're trying, Yeah, you're trying to
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  Speaker 5: protect protect your asset as much as possible. And that's
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  Speaker 5: what baseball does with these top starters. When the guy's
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  Speaker 5: got a two hundred and thirty million dollar contract and
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  Speaker 5: you know, you put him on a pitch count because
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  Speaker 5: you don't want to even risk an elble, I mean whatever.
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  Speaker 5: You just become an asset of commodity. And that's how
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  Speaker 5: teams deal with it. That's how they think about it.
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  Speaker 5: Whereas the hockey maybe if the money gets there someday,
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  Speaker 5: you know, like that, maybe it'll be the same kind
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  Speaker 5: of story.
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  Speaker 3: But it ain't there yet.
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  Speaker 4: I know that this guy his name is like Voldemort
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  Speaker 4: in these parts. But I got to make an admission.
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  Speaker 4: Let's that starting to turn the corner on Nick right
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  Speaker 4: a bit? Why? Because he's saying things I agree with.
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  Speaker 4: It's a different it's.
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  Speaker 3: Just saying stuff you like, and you're like, oh, that's
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  Speaker 3: so bad. It made a good point.
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  Speaker 4: Well he was talking about this.
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  Speaker 3: I heard him.
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  Speaker 4: It was actually like, it's a really interesting story, he said.
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  Speaker 3: What made him?
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  Speaker 4: He said basketball, the NBA is his favorite sport. He
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  Speaker 4: was and we know how much he loves the Chiefs
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  Speaker 4: Writy parties with Travis Kelcey or whatever. He said, the
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  Speaker 4: NBA is his favorite sport, and he goes it's because
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  Speaker 4: when I was eight years old, his mom took him
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  Speaker 4: to a game in New York City to watch the
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  Speaker 4: Bulls play the Knicks. And this was Michael Jordan's Bulls
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  Speaker 4: and he it was the last game of the year.
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  Speaker 5: And he said, his mom, that's kind of that's quite
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  Speaker 5: the gift.
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  Speaker 4: That is quite the gift.
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  Speaker 5: Can you ever imagine your parents, Hey, son, pack up,
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  Speaker 5: We're going to New York City this weekend to watch
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  Speaker 5: no the Bulls in the Knicks play at the Garden.
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  Speaker 4: We go to Chili's. Right, if you're lucky, if you're lucky,
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  Speaker 4: if I'm lucky, Yes, but he said, took him to
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  Speaker 4: a game in New York City to watch the Bulls play.
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  Speaker 4: The next he goes, in my head, I always remembered
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  Speaker 4: that game. As that game was going to settle who
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  Speaker 4: was first place in the East. He went back and
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  Speaker 4: looked both teams were locked in The Knicks were the
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  Speaker 4: one seed, the Bulls were the two seed. They weren't
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  Speaker 4: going anywhere, and he goes Michael Jordan played thirty eight
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  Speaker 4: minutes and Patrick Ewing played forty minutes. And it's that
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  Speaker 4: that will never happen again in the NBA. And I
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  Speaker 4: just think about this in the NHL. How much time
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  Speaker 4: did McKinnon spend on the ice last night? Off the
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  Speaker 4: top of your head, do you remember.
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  Speaker 3: A lot? Twenty eight minutes? Yeah? Look at Davontave's numbers.
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  Speaker 3: How many did he play?
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  Speaker 4: Brett Davontaves played thirty one minutes and twenty one seconds,
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  Speaker 4: thirty one twenty one in a game that didn't maname,
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  Speaker 4: that didn't mean Jack squat And by the way he
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  Speaker 4: played well, man, I thought, I thought Davon Taves had.
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  Speaker 3: A really good game last night. It's so hard to
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  Speaker 3: stick with pickles, it just and he was.
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  Speaker 5: I just thought he was brilliant last night. He and
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  Speaker 5: Wedgwood with the ABS two best players.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, really good. I mean Wedgwood, what did God send
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  Speaker 4: That guy's been? I mean, he's been so incredible since
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  Speaker 4: coming here. I mean, moj you have I don't even
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  Speaker 4: want to say statistically anymore because I don't think it matters.
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  Speaker 4: It feels like you got the best goalie in the league.
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  Speaker 4: This guy doesn't have a bad game. Knock on wood,
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  Speaker 4: he just doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Though they ain't got any wood.
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  Speaker 4: Thirty one, thirty one shots Yeah, yeah, go find go
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  Speaker 4: find something, go find something.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I got it, I got it, I got it.
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  Speaker 3: I got you.
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  Speaker 4: Thirty one shots on goal last night, thirty saves, shuts
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  Speaker 4: it down, ot shuts it down in the shootout, like
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  Speaker 4: he's just he's been remarkable. And it's just another sort
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  Speaker 4: of tick in the box of like why do you
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  Speaker 4: think the Abs are going to be the Stanley Cup champion?
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  Speaker 4: Well you have this and this and this and this
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  Speaker 4: and now you have not just okay goaltending like they
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  Speaker 4: had with Darcy Kemper and in Darcy was good. You
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  Speaker 4: have great goaltending now gat Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Uh did you watch the game last night?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Did you have the sound on with us?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I thought that. I thought we were a little
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  Speaker 5: up and down last night us. And I don't know
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  Speaker 5: if I articulated it very well because when you take
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I hate this week off between games now
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  Speaker 5: for us, You know what I mean, It's it sticks
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  Speaker 5: National TV, National TV take it the game while run.
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  Speaker 5: But I hope I articulated it well enough that people
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  Speaker 5: could understand. On mcpickle's goal, you see what happens. How
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  Speaker 5: does this happen to the best players on the planet.
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  Speaker 5: How does it happen? He fires it toward the slot
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  Speaker 5: and he's looking.
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  Speaker 3: For a for a you know, ah, but the bumper
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  Speaker 3: to bang it in.
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  Speaker 5: Two guys collide, the puck bounces up in the air
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  Speaker 5: and skips right back to hit.
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  Speaker 3: He does even move.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the puck goes right back to his tap and
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  Speaker 5: he one times from an impossible angle upstairs. You're like,
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  Speaker 5: that puck is like I want to go home to you.
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  Speaker 5: Connor McDavid, please shoot me. You know that. That's what
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  Speaker 5: it feels like.
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  Speaker 3: That puck just just it finds the best players on
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  Speaker 3: the planet. It's amazing always.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, because Bensi is not in Canada with
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  Speaker 4: you guys, he's still recovering and we don't we do
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  Speaker 4: not know if he's joining us tomorrow. We hope that
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  Speaker 4: he does, but if not, then I think we all
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  Speaker 4: kind of understand took a puck to the face and
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  Speaker 4: your face got broken. Whatever. But because he wasn't there.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody had to read the starting lineup last night to
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  Speaker 4: the locker room, and it was Parker Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: Starting up front.
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  Speaker 5: That Jesus.
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  Speaker 7: In the middle stick stick playing.
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 4: Just to give that sheet to somebody else. You go
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  Speaker 4: ahead and read it.
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  Speaker 5: You like bruck Nelson's nickname there, stick Stick Yeah, number eleven,
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  Speaker 5: I like it.
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  Speaker 8: And if you heard those pauses in the audio, a
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  Speaker 8: couple of times that was av social cutting out some
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  Speaker 8: no no words. So if you heard Brent Burns, I'll
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  Speaker 8: let you guess what word came before Burns.
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  Speaker 4: Naughty, col You're naughty, naughty Parker naughty? Uh three oh
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  Speaker 4: three five four nine two five. Let's make way.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, I hope everybody's sleeping in this joint
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  Speaker 5: rolled in late bro Bro This is a late role
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  Speaker 5: in vic out today.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And so so I'm behind my television trying to figure
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  Speaker 5: out how to with this the brand new hotel I
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  Speaker 5: never stayed here before, trying to figure out how to
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  Speaker 5: connect it. About one in the morning, trying to figure
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  Speaker 5: out how to get on the air.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you sound great, well you look you look like
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  Speaker 4: a moron? Are you a compliment? This is what I
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  Speaker 4: get in return.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk. Let's talk to coach Carl. How's that say,
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  Speaker 3: you want to talk to a national champion? Damn right
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 4: David Carl joins us next for the.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty first time.
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  Speaker 2: Ken Berg is gonna go to the frozen board, fourth
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  Speaker 2: time in the last five years, seven times in the
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  Speaker 2: last ten.
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  Speaker 8: They are the standard of Cola hockey.
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  Speaker 9: The standard is the standard and the standard. And again
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  Speaker 9: Tod Bugger, Pile Chazov, Steve the freshman with the biggest
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  Speaker 9: tip up here, life after Boston Buckberger with the rocket
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  Speaker 9: on through. Look at all the traffic around the net.
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  Speaker 6: But once again.
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  Speaker 3: National champ.
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  Speaker 4: Another year, another national title for du It's it's almost
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  Speaker 4: unfair to put it that way, because you know what
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  Speaker 4: it takes to get to a level where you're winning
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  Speaker 4: this consistently and above all of it, especially in college,
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  Speaker 4: you got to have a man in charge that knows
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  Speaker 4: what he's doing. And with that, we head out to
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  Speaker 4: the ramos Law hotline or accident you need ramos Law
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  Speaker 4: Medical doctor and attorney ramos Law dot com. We got
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  Speaker 4: him elling is he good to go?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe? Maybe?
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  Speaker 4: So we'll see, uh maybe in a couple of minutes, here,
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  Speaker 4: but head coach David Carl of the du Pioneers is
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  Speaker 4: going to join us in just a moment.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I believe he's gonna be in the zoom room, Brett.
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  Speaker 5: So when you see him come up in zoomer, let
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  Speaker 5: me let me help you out a little bit, because
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  Speaker 5: this is where you tend to get sideways when zoom room. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: when you see him in the zoom room, that means, hey,
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  Speaker 5: we're ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: Baby.
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  Speaker 4: Well he is there. That's why I was asking. He's
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  Speaker 4: he's hanging out there. So I'm just you know, we're waiting.
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  Speaker 4: We're waiting, that's all. So we'll talk to him in
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  Speaker 4: just a couple of minutes. But mog again, when you
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  Speaker 4: talk about a team that's won three titles in six years, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: we got him. Okay, he's ready to go. Uh, let's
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  Speaker 4: talk to him right now then, Head coach of the
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  Speaker 4: deal Pioneers, David Carl, coach, how are you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing great? Guys, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Awesome? And we're just talking about the the level of
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  Speaker 4: winning this consistently. I mean, what goes into it? What
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  Speaker 4: do you think the overall secret sauce to three national
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  Speaker 4: titles in six years.
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  Speaker 10: Is well, first it's five years, but five years, I'm sorry, five,
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  Speaker 10: It's all good.
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  Speaker 3: But coach, I'm trying. I'm trying to get him.
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  Speaker 6: On board here, you know, come on, I know, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I would tell you.
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  Speaker 10: I mean there's a lot that goes into it, obviously,
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  Speaker 10: as you guys know, and I think it really does
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  Speaker 10: not to be cliche, but it really does start at
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  Speaker 10: the top with you know, how our school views our
• 17:18
  Speaker 10: hockey program, what their expectations and standards are of us,
• 17:23
  Speaker 10: and from Dan Ritchie to John Miller to our chancellor
• 17:28
  Speaker 10: to Josh Burlow, you know, it's just it's everybody and
• 17:32
  Speaker 10: what is expected of us. And then our staff is
• 17:36
  Speaker 10: our staff's been together since twenty eighteen, and there's a
• 17:39
  Speaker 10: lot of continuity. And that's not only coaches, but our
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: athletic trainer, our equipment manager or shrink coach, so Matt Shaw,
• 17:46
  Speaker 10: Nick Melger, Marion Lou you know, Ron Knabenbauer. I mean,
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: everybody has a role on our staff. And the continuity
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: around that, I think to our players and families who
• 18:02
  Speaker 10: are like gosh, where should I send my son? And
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: I think it just makes it really easy for families
• 18:07
  Speaker 10: to say I'm comfortable with my son going to Denver,
• 18:10
  Speaker 10: and once they get here, they know the standard and
• 18:13
  Speaker 10: the expectation and it just kind of passed.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: Down from generation a generation.
• 18:19
  Speaker 10: Now it's been really fun to watch and see build
• 18:21
  Speaker 10: and we're just so proud to be a.
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: Part of it.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: Coach, when you got into the conference tournament, I was
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: just so impressed with your school and your guys and
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: it just the way everybody sort of focused on the
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: immediate task at hand, and obviously that carried over into
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: the tourney. Can you talk about, I guess, the maturation
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: of your team over the course of this year and
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: what lock these guys in when it mattered the most.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it certainly wasn't you know.
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: I would say are other years we had bumps in
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: the road, but not like this year. And so there
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: was a lot of growing and you know, adversity that
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: we face, you know, some of it out of our control,
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: but a lot in our control that was self inflicted,
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: and you know, I think our guys did a great
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: job of kind of acknowledging that, recognizing it and changing.
• 19:15
  Speaker 10: You know, we went on a seven game winless streak
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: in December and January and we had to look in
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: the mirror and change some things about how we were
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: doing stuff. And the guys were fully bought into that.
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: And it's pretty crazy that we went on the run
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: that we did.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: We didn't lose.
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: You know, from the end of January on we were
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: thirteen and eleven in some must swing games to keep
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: ourselves alive into the in the playoff picture, and we
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: ended twenty nine and eleven. It's pretty remarkable. Our other teams,
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: you know, did not go on runs like that, but
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: they also didn't maybe hit the bottom of adversity that
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: this group did and have to feel that level of
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: urgency to get out of it.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Well, a big reason for that. Coach and head coach
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: of the DEU Pioneers, David carl with us Johnny Hicks
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: doesn't lose. That's always nice to have. I mean, what
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: was it about him when you put him into the
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: game that you realize, oh my gosh, this guy's incredible.
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, he was amazing, certainly, and you know
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: when he went in, you know, you got to look back.
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: We were in the we're toward the tail end of
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: that seven game windless streak and Quintin Miller stood on
• 20:22
  Speaker 10: his head up at North Dakota to snap the windless streak.
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: We won three to two or four to two. We
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: really had no business winning the game. And then we're
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: coming home. We're playing Saint Cloud. You know, the guys
• 20:31
  Speaker 10: are feeling good. We're like, gosh, hope we're out of
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: this funk. We get up to nothing, we're playing well,
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: it's parents weekends, everyone's parents are in town, and we
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: blow it to nothing lead, we're down, we lose four
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: to two, and then Saturday it becomes gosh, are we
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: back to maybe this is what we're gonna be. And
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: you know, Quinton goes down three minutes into that game,
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: and now we're looking at Johnny, who hasn't started a
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: game all year. He played a period up in North Dakota,
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: and we're like, where's this gonna go. You know, we
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: didn't know Johnny was going to do what he was
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: dead right, and and Johnny goes in. The team plays great,
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: Johnny plays great, We win six nothing against Saint Cloud.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: He comes back, we.
• 21:09
  Speaker 10: Sweeped the Louth the following weekend, and you know, then
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: it just felt like the legend continued to build and
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: grow from there. So he came into a really precarious
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: situation for a group, obviously hit all marks with flying
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: colors and and then just continue to crush it as
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: we went. And what can you say about him? They
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: only gave up three goals twice, once to the luth
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: in the NCHC Final and once to Michigan in the
• 21:37
  Speaker 10: Frozen four. Everything else was two or less and a
• 21:40
  Speaker 10: lot of times it was one or less. He set
• 21:43
  Speaker 10: save percentage record that was held by Jimmy Howard for
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: a number of years, and the goals against.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: Record as well.
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: Just an incredible, incredible story and run for the freshman goaltender.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Kocha, he's obviously terrific young goalie. That's great, But
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: how much of this too is you got to young guy.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: He's kind of throwing it into the mix, but he
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: doesn't know what he doesn't know, and he just goes
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: on out there and just plays.
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: Yeah, certainly, I mean he's not affected by the noise
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: or really anything on the external, which is which is
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: a wonderful, you know, skill to have. Mentally, he's very
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: sharp and able to block out the noise. And again,
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: I think you saw a lot of that in the
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: Michigan game, you know, when he gets totally run over
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: by Jamison and Spence, he just kind of laid there
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: for twenty thirty seconds, composed himself and then and then
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: got back up and dusted himself off and went back
• 22:39
  Speaker 10: to work. And so again we saw him in moments,
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: whether it be the Dluth weekend when he was cramping
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: and had to get pulled and put back in on Saturday,
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: or how he came in against Saint Cloud, how he
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: did against Michigan, he just or even against the Luth
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: in the championship game, we're up three to nothing, we
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: give up three and like, gosh, how's this guy gonna respond?
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: And he just shut the door and and we won
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: an overtime again. And I was really proud of him
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: and what he was able to accomplish.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: And it can't be said enough.
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: Ryan Massa as well, the work he's done with our goaltenders,
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: with Corona, with Davis and now with Hicks and Miller
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: this year, you know, deserves all the credit in the
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: world for how he builds.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: A relationship with these guys. But he really does a
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: lot of work with.
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: The mindset and the mental teaching and the blocking out
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: of the noise. And you know, Ryan, Ryan was amazing
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: first staff this year and helping Johnny out coach.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: This is a compliment to you, to you and your club.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: It wasn't like you guys were coming on out and
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: punching teams in the mouth and taking it to nothing
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: lead that sort of thing.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: But but what you did do is you showed just
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: a tremendous amount of resiliency. And I know that every
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: team of yours has its own identity, you know, that
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: something that you can you can look at.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: But I was just so impressed with your guys' abilities
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: to just put their heads down and fight back and
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: get even and then you know, get the job done
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: on it mattered the most. I mean, what's that say
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: about this particular group of guys and just the amount
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: of fortitude they showed game in and game out through
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: this entire run.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I thought we were you know, we
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: were doing that what you're like?
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: I thought our starts were excellent up until the Frozen
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: four for for a number of these games. How we
• 24:21
  Speaker 10: jumped Western and Cornell.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: Well you know what, yeah, I don't think I apologize, Yeah, yeah,
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: you apologize.
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: Yeah, but getting into the Frozen four. You know, you're
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: you're playing the best of the best. Everybody's feeling good,
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: and you know, I actually liked how we started the
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: Michigan game. That game was very back and forth, but
• 24:39
  Speaker 10: certainly they had their runs, and you know, the shop perspective,
• 24:42
  Speaker 10: it looks to me, it looks worse than it is.
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: We I thought we did a great job defending the
• 24:46
  Speaker 10: inside and keeping a lot to the outside. And again
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: we're a little banged up as well, not that anybody
• 24:51
  Speaker 10: else isn't, but sometimes you have to play a certain
• 24:54
  Speaker 10: way based on your personnel and and and where the
• 24:58
  Speaker 10: healthier team is. And I thought we did that certainly
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: in the championship game, coming off the double overtime, the
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: late night, the injuries we were dealing with, and ultimately,
• 25:07
  Speaker 10: like you said, the resiliency. It's like, you know, they
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: had us on the mat and they didn't kill us, and.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: That's on them.
• 25:15
  Speaker 10: And we were able to stick around, hang around and
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: survive and finally break through and find a chink in
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: the armor and play our best period in the third
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: and capitalize on the chances that we had. So that
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: to me is, like you said, so impressive that you know,
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: we were never phasing that game. Would we have loved
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: to have been playing better and getting more chances, Yes,
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: But I don't think we were playing awful.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: By any stretch.
• 25:43
  Speaker 10: We were doing what we needed to do to hang
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: around and very similar to twenty two And you know,
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: ultimately it's hard to play that way for sixty minutes
• 25:52
  Speaker 10: if you're the other team, and we just kind of
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: believed and trusted that there would be a chink in
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: the armor at some point and we'd be able to
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: break through and make our kill shot.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: National champion head coach David Carl of the d Pioneers
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: with us. You know, when you have this level of
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: consistent success over a longer time frame, it feels like
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: now in college at the athletics it's harder now than
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: ever with nil transfer era. How much has that affected
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: the way you go about roster construction.
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean somewhat, not a ton.
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: I think we like to We've always tried to be
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: different than the marketplace and what we kind of are
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: selling or trying to, you know, messaging to recruits and
• 26:36
  Speaker 10: things of that nature. So again, I think we're in
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: a world where everybody wants to talk about the portal
• 26:42
  Speaker 10: and money. You know, we try to keep the main things,
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: the main things, which is our relationships, the academic experience,
• 26:50
  Speaker 10: of social experience, and truthfully the opportunity to develop and win.
• 26:54
  Speaker 10: I mean, no better story than Boston buck Berger, you know,
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: to win two championships, sign NHL contract.
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: You know, our guys aren't not.
• 27:03
  Speaker 10: One of our guys came here with this huge promise
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: of getting a bunch of nil money. We don't have
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: an nil collective. Our guys, if they're doing nil, it's
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: genuine via a business. It's nothing that we're you know,
• 27:16
  Speaker 10: setting up a twenty five thousand dollars appearance or any
• 27:19
  Speaker 10: of that type of stuff.
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: So I don't know, I just I said it after
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: the game. But you know, the.
• 27:24
  Speaker 10: Success we're having in the way we're doing it, you know,
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: to me really should be celebrated in this world where
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: so much is being put on the superficial in the
• 27:34
  Speaker 10: outside types.
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: Of things, and you know, I think we're doing it
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: the right way.
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: And again, just really proud of our program that we're
• 27:42
  Speaker 10: able to be the constant, you know, kind of in
• 27:44
  Speaker 10: the storm of college athletics, and to do it at
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: a place like Denver. You know, no big football, six
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: thousand undergrad you know, it really is. That's where I
• 27:53
  Speaker 10: said at the top. You know, it does start with
• 27:57
  Speaker 10: you know, Dan Ritchie, John Miller, Jeremy Josh Burlow. You know,
• 28:01
  Speaker 10: you need great leadership that buys into that vision and yes,
• 28:05
  Speaker 10: still supports us in a big time way and invest
• 28:07
  Speaker 10: into our program. But we're gonna do it and it's
• 28:09
  Speaker 10: gonna look a little bit different than other places that
• 28:11
  Speaker 10: are maybe trying to just buy their way into things,
• 28:15
  Speaker 10: you know, And that's what I love about being in
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: this market. We're very well supported by this community. But
• 28:20
  Speaker 10: I think people can rely on us that we're gonna
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: put out a winning product and we're gonna put out
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: a product that people can be proud of because of
• 28:28
  Speaker 10: how we're doing it year in and year out.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, take that Big Ten, take that Hockey East. Yeah,
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: that's what I's That's why I say with coach Carl Hey, coach.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: But what I also recognize that the way things are
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: going now, I don't know the college hockey's ever been
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: better than it is right this second. And you see
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: that the different rules have changed and so on and
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: so forth, and obviously you're getting some terrific players still
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: coming into the program. Here in the future, how much
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: more difficult is it going to be, I think for
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: everybody navigating the college hockey landscape as teams get better,
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: conferences get better, and and it's going to be that
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: much more competitive for sure.
• 29:07
  Speaker 10: Yeah, And I think winning at this time was you know,
• 29:10
  Speaker 10: as great as twenty two and twenty four were. You know,
• 29:14
  Speaker 10: the last championship is always the most important because you
• 29:17
  Speaker 10: want to be forefront of minds and when it comes
• 29:18
  Speaker 10: to the recruiting, and you know, with this rule change,
• 29:21
  Speaker 10: cochl you know, I'm talking to a lot of kids
• 29:24
  Speaker 10: and families this year. We're having to educate them on
• 29:27
  Speaker 10: you know, what Denver hockey is because they just they
• 29:30
  Speaker 10: don't know. They truthfully, they're like, we don't we wouldn't
• 29:33
  Speaker 10: understand the difference between Denver and Michigan Tech or Clarkson
• 29:38
  Speaker 10: or Penn State. Like they don't know the difference is
• 29:41
  Speaker 10: because they don't grow up in the world or think
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: about it as they've had to in the last twelve months.
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: And so to be able to win this one and
• 29:48
  Speaker 10: kind of be on the forefront of yeah, this is
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: this is what we do at Denver, we win, and
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: we do it the right way, and we move.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: Guys on and guys develop.
• 29:57
  Speaker 10: I think is just so important. And obviously we're very
• 30:02
  Speaker 10: bullish on what we have coming in, what players we're
• 30:05
  Speaker 10: going to be able to get access to because of
• 30:07
  Speaker 10: how we do things. You know, I think our fans
• 30:10
  Speaker 10: and everybody's going to be really excited to see the
• 30:12
  Speaker 10: group that we have coming back and the players that
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: we are adding and continuing to work on here in
• 30:19
  Speaker 10: the next.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: Couple of months to finalize our roster for next year.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: Do you head coach David carl with us and coach
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: before we let you go. I do want to ask
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: one thing about you know, when you have success at
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: the level that you've had, it that breeds attention, and
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: have you given thought short term, long term kind of
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: what your plans are as a coach. You're still really
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: really young, but we know you've gotten phone calls from
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: up top before. I mean, how do you handle all that?
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah? I would tell you the same way I always have.
• 30:46
  Speaker 10: Nothing's really changed for me to that end, and you know,
• 30:51
  Speaker 10: I'm just obviously very grateful and focus on again what
• 30:55
  Speaker 10: we're doing here and trying to make sure that we
• 30:57
  Speaker 10: can have a chance to be in DC year. We
• 31:00
  Speaker 10: got a lot of players coming back, a lot of
• 31:01
  Speaker 10: great players coming in, a few things to finalize, but
• 31:05
  Speaker 10: we're really looking forward to and we failed uh the
• 31:09
  Speaker 10: last two times. It's time to win in an audio.
• 31:11
  Speaker 10: So we're in this weird time now where we get
• 31:14
  Speaker 10: to celebrate, but we also have to live in the
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: reality of the world keeps turning and we have some
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: things and decisions to make. So there's parts of our
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: days where it's like, yep, we're on to the next one.
• 31:25
  Speaker 10: And then there's certainly other moments where we get to
• 31:28
  Speaker 10: celebrate and enjoy and.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: I'm happy to be. I'm happy to be.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: But as you know, coach, I'm surrounded by pios all
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: the time.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Yes you are, and yeah, I can't. I can't tell
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: you how proud they all are of the program.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: And did you talk to l Emos.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: I know I have not talked to him yet.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: No, but obviously rych right, I saw Paul Stasney in
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: Saint Louis last week and he was pumped big time
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: getting ready for for the Frozen four. It was it
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: was just great coaching. They're also proud of you as
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: you know, but it's just it's just awesome to have
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: that kind of that kind of support around. And of
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: course I've been a Payo guy for over thirty years
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: now since I got to town. So it's just it's
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: kick gass and really really happy for you.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: No, I appreciate it.
• 32:15
  Speaker 10: We uh, we have a great alumni group, certainly, and
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: we love representing them. And I think that's what makes
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: Denver so special. You're part of something bigger than yourself,
• 32:24
  Speaker 10: and you know, stazzled by a steak dinner for the boys,
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: and you know, the guys just they get so excited.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: And now we're to a point where, you know, boom and.
• 32:33
  Speaker 10: Divine and you know, we got a younger group of
• 32:35
  Speaker 10: guys that are splitting dinners for the guys, and you know,
• 32:39
  Speaker 10: that's what it's all about, is giving back and being
• 32:41
  Speaker 10: a part of the thing and keeping it moving. So
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: it was great to see many of them in Vegas.
• 32:45
  Speaker 10: A lot of them came out for it. And as
• 32:49
  Speaker 10: I told Drew Shore, we have a we have a
• 32:51
  Speaker 10: high we have a very demanding alumni base. That'd be
• 32:53
  Speaker 10: another reason why we keep winning. They don't they don't
• 32:56
  Speaker 10: like losing, so the pressure is always on a Denver
• 32:59
  Speaker 10: to win.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: You know, we're gonna have a hell of an alumni
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: game again this year ABS alumni versus the U alumni,
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: so uh, watch out.
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: I don't know that was a great event last year.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: Well, coach, congratulations, appreciate the time this morning and.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Go enjoy it.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: Thank you guys, have a great day.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: Head coach, National champion head coach at the Dego Pioneers
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: David Carl with us.
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  Speaker 5: Cater I told you, you know, and that's just the
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: way that I understand it. Look, coach is in a
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: very enviable position. He's you know, from from Guas and
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: then to to Manty and then what coach Carl has
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: been able to do, He's built this program into something
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: really kill her, you know it. It's not something necessarily
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: you just want to fly away from. Even if you
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: know some big team comes call and it's a it's
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: really good stuff. I mean, they've they've done a great
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: job in all the entire unit.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: That mos like. I wanted to ask that delicately because
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: I don't want to be the guy it's like, hey,
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: you won the national time, where are you going now?
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: You know, I didn't want to do that, but I
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: know that, like Chicago was all over him recently, and
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: it's like, when you have this level of success, it's
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: always something that's going to be sort of floating out there,
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: But you know what, Yeah, but his aspirations, he's fulfilling
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: him right now, you know, with what he you know,
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: with what he wants right now. I think it's awesome.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: I me too, so so happy for the Pios and
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: the entire Pioneer family.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: It's great.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: So if you missed any of that, it should be
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: on the podcast shortly, iTunes, Spotify, Mos Lombardi and came
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: back after this big thanks to National Champion du head
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: coach David carl joining us. Will be on the podcast
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: shortly if you missed any of that now, Mos, I
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: know it's still a ways away, but we're creeping closer
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: and closer to the NBA playoffs and this matchup with Minnesota,
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: which is intriguing. Why because they're basically at a dead heat.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: I was trying to find this from Dan Hyatt, but
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: I think I have this right. I believe they're fourteen
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: and fourteen in the last twenty eight games. Ag it's
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: each other.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, Vick said that one hundred and fifty seven
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: times yesterday.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't get much more even than that type
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: of matchup. But I will say that this, if you
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: look at playoffs series, it's more than I think any
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: other sport just straight up about players, Like it's just
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: who has the best lineup and the advantage distinct advantage
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: that you have. If you were to tier out players
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: in this series, like here's the top, then there's the
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: next group and the next group. In the next group,
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: you have a player that's in a tier of his own,
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: which is Jokic, and as good as Anthony Edwards is,
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: he is not in Jokich's tier. Jokic in for the
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: rest of the league is still to me, in a
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: tier on his own. I think that Jamal is in
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: the Anthony Edwards tier, by the way, Yeah, I do too.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: I think he's there. I think if if Jamal had
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: the opportunity to be the main guy on a team,
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: he'd put up twenty eight to night. I think he would.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: In fact, he did do that in the month that
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: Jokic was out. So you have two of the top
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: three guys in this series, and then there's a pretty
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: big drop off between you, who you discuss is the fourth, fifth,
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: sixth best guys in this series, which I think if
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: I could make a argument for a healthy Aaron Gordon,
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: I feel like that's pretty close to a Julius Randall,
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: or pretty close to a Rudy Gobert or whoever you
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: want to put next in that discussion. Jaden McDaniels, you
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: got better guys than what Minnesota has. And I think
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Vic said something yesterday that is really smart and it
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: attacks sort of the mentality of players. If you force
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards to play a Joki troll in the sense
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: of I'm gonna double this guy and make him make
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: the right play, he.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Can do it.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: Anthony Ewards will do it. I don't think he's gonna
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: do it for seven straight game.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: His mentality wants to it's I don't think he wants
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: to do it for seven straight games. I just think
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: at some point most he's gonna snap and like, I'm
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: the alpha on this team. I'm gonna take shots, and
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: you can't have somebody passing that up over and over
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: and over again. I think his brain will eat itself,
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: you know what. I think that's an excellent point. Caterer,
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: because while it can work for a game, it can
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: work for a couple of games. Eventually his brain just
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: will not allow him to defer. You know what I mean,
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: it's it's i've, I've and you know what part of
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: that too is And I know it drives as crazy.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: I know he does. And I used to really like
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: the guy.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: That's that's sort of sloughed off over the last couple
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: three two and a half years. But I know he
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: has a strong desire to win. He's got a strong
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: desire to be great. I mean, he really wants to
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: for whatever reason, whether it's ego or.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: I have no idea, Yeah, but I think he truly
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: wants to win.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: And I think he feels like, you know what, if
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: I don't get mine and I don't go off, then
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: we can't win, we can't achieve the ultimate goal. And
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: so I think that that pressure, if you're forcing him,
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: if you're double teaming him and forcing him to give
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: it up, eventually, that's going to grind the tea, wolves
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: it down a little bit. That's my opinion. So I
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: think VIC was one thousand percent on the money with that.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: I think it's a great idea. You know that you
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: start the series that way and maybe you bust him
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: up early, right before they start to figure things out
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: on their own. But I completely agree with you. That's
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: that's how it's probably going to go. Now, the question
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: is on the other side, with the highest scoring team
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: in the league, what do you need to do? And
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: I'm here to tell you that Jamal.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Murray is there. He is absolutely there.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: And while they have other good players on the t
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: pops that can put the ball in the bucket and
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: so on, if you take away one of these options
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: for the Nuggets, the other option is going to get off. Yeah,
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: I'm convinced of that. And because you have that, you've
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: got the edge big time.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Let me give you some numbers about Jamal and what
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: he's done this year. Jamal has averaged his best shooting
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: percentage of his career at forty eight point three, his
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: best three point percentage at forty three and a half,
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: his most points per game by four full points at
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: twenty five and a half, his most rebounds per game
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: at four point four, his most assists per game at
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: seven point one. Every single significant category you talk about
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: about a basketball player, Jamal has been better than ever before.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: At that, which means we always have counted on And
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: he hates when people say this, but it's been the
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: truth over the last five, six, seven years. Playoff Jamal
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: is different than regular season Jamal. It's always been that way.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: I don't think it has to be this year. He's
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: playing at such a high level. He doesn't have to
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: make some sort of seismic jump for the Nuggets to
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: be at their best.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Brett, If playoff Jamal is like regular season Jamal, you
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: are going to win basketball games.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: That's it. I'm telling you.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: If playoff Jamal is anywhere near what he has been
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: this regular season, you know. I don't know that people
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: take Jamal Murray for granted and his ability, you know,
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: to elevate his game. Maybe maybe maybe even I do
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: at times. But he's been consistently good this year, consistently good.
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: His off games have really been few and far between.
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: That boat, dude. That bodes well. And not only that, Listen,
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: we're a couple three years removed from their title that
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: hunger starts to build again. I could definitely feel it
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: with the Abs, and I love that Nathan McKinnon was
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: so honest about things with me before the season.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: Began.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: He's like, look, in twenty three, we knew we weren't
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: gonna win. Twenty four, we knew we weren't gonna win,
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: you know, I mean, just you could feel what is
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: a club? Right, He's like, last year we thought we
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: could win and we gave up a two goal lead
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: in the third in Game seven in Dallas. They came
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: in with a hunger this year, Brett, and it's shown
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: in the record, and it's shown from day one. I mean,
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: the Avs have been the number one team in the league.
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: They've held first place for one hundred and forty four
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: game days. I mean since like November one, they've been
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: the number one team in the entire league and never
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: looked back. And so for the Denver Nuggets, that hunger
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: you can see it's in there now. It's just a
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: matter of now that you have that depth and you
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: know guys are back healthy and they haven't played a
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: ton of minutes together, how does that work and how
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: do you work it out.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: Quickly in order to take advantage of it? Right, That's
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: what it is.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: By the way, if you're counting this as part of
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: the NBA playoffs, the NBA playoffs do start tonight they.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: Have Can you see that Embeid's gone right? You saw that?
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: Well he had appendicitis or something?
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Right, how does appendix out?
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: But they don't play until tomorrow tonight it's Miami and
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: Charlotte Importland in Phoenix.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: He's not gonna play in the play in I mean
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: at all.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: No, No, I know that I'm saying, but Philly doesn't play
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: until tomorrow.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: My point is this, Well, who.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: Cares about Philly?
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: What?
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: No, But what I'm saying is that this is what
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: I'm getting at. I apologize, Brett, this is what I'm
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: getting at.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Who told you?
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: I don't think that I think these teams that are
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: in the play in right now, I think that they
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: think it's just a waste of time because they're gonna
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: get smoked anyway.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: We really don't tell it to this guy.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: What a part of people?
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: I got a question.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: You're ready to show up and show out.
• 42:59
  Speaker 11: For your horns as they enter the play in tournament?
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: Oh my god.
• 43:03
  Speaker 11: No, So, wherever you are in the world, I need
• 43:05
  Speaker 11: you gonna take your phone, take it off, shoot friend,
• 43:08
  Speaker 11: the volume pretty loud, and show us to the person
• 43:10
  Speaker 11: next year. Come on, let's go spend one hundred minty
• 43:12
  Speaker 11: doubts on a fetball team. Wait a minute, that's not
• 43:15
  Speaker 11: enough to buy a team. Spend one hundred minty thouts
• 43:17
  Speaker 11: on a trick out, Sue, get myself something good that
• 43:20
  Speaker 11: heat done the basketball court outside of my house. But
• 43:22
  Speaker 11: then he Joey's gonna make me tear every down. I
• 43:25
  Speaker 11: might get me a horn has found this week. I
• 43:27
  Speaker 11: mean all access I.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Want, pis.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: I gets a retro air j.
• 43:30
  Speaker 11: Or in one load so I can tell the basketball
• 43:32
  Speaker 11: in the air for show. I might get you go
• 43:34
  Speaker 11: and the honey beat so they could do this dance
• 43:37
  Speaker 11: right here with me. I'm gonna get that high mentality
• 43:40
  Speaker 11: straight button into Queens City, celt Come on, horn into
• 43:43
  Speaker 11: time to get downstands up starting in persisted Joe Town.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: He changed the lyrics. That's how much she cares about this.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: He actually changed the lyrics. He put in Hornets related
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: lyrics to his song. It doesn't do that for anybody,
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: all right.
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: Nobody wants to win. Nobody thinks it's worth their time
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: at all, except maybe the Hornets their ownership group, because
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: they're gonna get some home game revenue if they get in.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: And that guy. Everybody else thinks it's a waste of time.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Not him. What is this guy's name, Nelly, it's Carolina
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: m C. I think no, his actual now just you
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: don't say the actual name.
• 44:32
  Speaker 8: No, his user name on Twitter is just Carolina mic I.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: Believe all right, got you? I'll tell you what mos.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: That guy cares. That guy cares a lot.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: Outside of that guy, he wants to get the player.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: He wants to get a vipte sweet so he can
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: get something good to eat.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I'm not sure you need a luxury suite
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: to do that. But it can't hurt. It can't hurt.
• 44:58
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• 45:01
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• 45:13
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