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Who's Hot and Who's Not in the NHL · Sports Exchange

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Speaker 1: Good eating. Everybody. Welcome to another edition of the Sports
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Speaker 1: of Saying Hockey Night in America and North America, all
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Speaker 1: over the world walk in this show. Mike Santo's not
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Speaker 1: here tonight because he's out there with the NCAA Wrestling champions.
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Speaker 1: Tis problem, Mike Ford, see you next Thursday night. Well
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Speaker 1: Mark may Day hopefully will be in here, and he's
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Speaker 1: out with his son's youth activity. More power to them,
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Speaker 1: great father in foll of his kids. I'm really delighted
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Speaker 1: to have the group that I have on to night.
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Speaker 1: To the new guys, Tody Speaking, Mike Whitaker, and of
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Speaker 1: course my longtime colleague George Iiicord. First of all, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna turn over to Cody to my right. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: be talking hockey. The title says it all Who's who's hot,
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Speaker 1: who's not in the National Hockey League. First of all,
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Speaker 1: Cody wants to introduce herself to the audience and give
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Speaker 1: him an overview what you're all about.
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, my name's Cody. I'm one half of Royly Quacked.
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Speaker 2: I'm the Quacked version of it. I've been a Ducks
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Speaker 2: fan pretty much my whole life. I was actually a
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Speaker 2: baby at the Ducks first ever practice at the Honda
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Speaker 2: Center or the Pond back then. But yeah, so me
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Speaker 2: and my dad started this podcast about a a little
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Speaker 2: over a year ago, and you know, he's the Kings
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Speaker 2: fan and and everything. So we've just we do live
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Speaker 2: streams every Saturday. We just have so much fun. And
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Speaker 2: who else gets to say they get to do a
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Speaker 2: weekly podcast with their father every every week.
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Speaker 1: Great, So we made great Father's Day story for sure,
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Speaker 1: of your son. I had a lot of great times
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Speaker 1: with my dad playing ball and it was just unbelievable. Okay,
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Speaker 1: the next new member of our group is Mike Whittaker,
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Speaker 1: who came by a George Eikorn. Mike, hear a little
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Speaker 1: bit more about you.
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Speaker 3: Well, I've been diehard Red Wings fan for the last
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Speaker 3: almost twenty five years now. I was even telling George
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Speaker 3: last night when we got together that Red Wings won
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Speaker 3: the Stanley Cup in nineteen ninety eight. That was the
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Speaker 3: year that Vladimir Costantinov was injured giving him the Stanley
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Speaker 3: Cup in his wheelchair. That was actually all on my
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Speaker 3: ninth birthday, and so that pretty much got me hooked
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Speaker 3: from that point on. And I've been fortunate enough to
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Speaker 3: be covering the Red Wings live in person since the
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Speaker 3: start of twenty eighteen various organizations, starting with the Detroit
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Speaker 3: Sports Media, then followed by FanDuel Sports and currently now
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Speaker 3: with the Detroit Monitor, dot selford A Tribune, Motor City Tribune,
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Speaker 3: and I am just count myself to be extremely fortunate
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Speaker 3: to be able to actually live out what I've always
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Speaker 3: wanted to do and looking forward to hopefully hopefully seeing
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Speaker 3: some playoff games here sooner than later. Right now, that's
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Speaker 3: kind of up in the air, but it really depends
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Speaker 3: on how they kind of finish out the season there
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Speaker 3: so well.
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Speaker 1: As a publisher of the platform, I'm so glad Tody
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Speaker 1: and Mike I have both seed on my team. George
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Speaker 1: has been on my team forever. Yeah, I'm really glad
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Speaker 1: that you are part of the team and look forward
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Speaker 1: to you guys being on it for as long as
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Speaker 1: you want to be. Our goal is just simply entertain
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Speaker 1: and have fun and keep it real, and that's what
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Speaker 1: we're going to do. With that said, I don't have
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Speaker 1: to introduce George Iycorn. We're going to get right to it.
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Speaker 1: We know the NA Tournament is going on right now,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter people are talking hockey, and this
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Speaker 1: is meaningful hockey that we're talking about. That's why the
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Speaker 1: title is who's hot and who's not in the National
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Speaker 1: Hockey League. So I'm going to go down the list
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Speaker 1: of all these teams in their records. You don't have
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Speaker 1: to respond to the records. I'll have a question at
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Speaker 1: the end of each one, and basically going to the
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Speaker 1: ten games. Carolina Panthers are eight and two they won
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Speaker 1: seventh three, Montreal seven one and two, they won one.
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Speaker 1: Ottawa Senator seven to two and one one six in
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Speaker 1: a row, Colorado Avalanche seven to two and one, they've
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Speaker 1: won one. Saint Louis seven to and one won a game.
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Speaker 1: Dallas Stars seven and three won a game, or no,
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Speaker 1: actually they lost one. Excuse me, Dallas Stars seven and
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Speaker 1: three lost one. Florida Panthers seven and three, they lost one.
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Speaker 1: They played the Columbus Blue Jackets tonight out in Ohio.
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Speaker 1: The Vegas Golden Knights, as everybody knows, they're six two
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Speaker 1: and two. They of course were set up by the
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Speaker 1: Red Wings on Sunday and they've lost one. Winnipeg Jet
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Speaker 1: sixty three and one one two in a row, and
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Speaker 1: of course the Tampa Bay Lightning are six three and one.
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Speaker 1: I'll get to the not in the moment. But what's
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Speaker 1: so all you guys, I'm gonna ask, and which team
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Speaker 1: do you like the best of this group? Cody, I'll
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Speaker 1: leave it off with you.
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Speaker 2: Well, since the Ducks got completely slacked by Saint Louis
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Speaker 2: the other night, I mean they looked good, but the
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Speaker 2: Ducks never played good in Saint Louis against them. But
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Speaker 2: I mean the way Bennington's looked since the Four Nations
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Speaker 2: and everything like that, Like you just told, he's like
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Speaker 2: a third defender out there sometimes the way he could
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Speaker 2: play the puck. So I like the way Saint Louis
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Speaker 2: is playing right now?
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Speaker 3: What about you, Mike, I mean, right now, I'd still
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Speaker 3: say right now, the hottest of the bunch is probably Colorado.
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Speaker 3: I know that they lost last night, but I know
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Speaker 3: that that also broke nine straight games with at least
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Speaker 3: a point. I think it was something like eight to
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Speaker 3: oh when one they were It was a game against
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Speaker 3: the Maple Leafs last night, and they actually lost on
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Speaker 3: a pretty fluky play in which Leaf's defenseman tried to
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Speaker 3: clear the puck down the ice and it actually bounced
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Speaker 3: right off of a referee right onder the stick of
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Speaker 3: a Leaf forward.
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Speaker 4: Who was just happened to be going down the ice.
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Speaker 3: He goes and he snipes a short handed goal directly
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Speaker 3: as a result of the puck going off of the referee.
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Speaker 1: There.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I've been there.
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Speaker 3: My team has been burned like that before, and I
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Speaker 3: think it kind of happens to everybody at least once
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Speaker 3: and so but yeah, like I said, I believe that
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Speaker 3: was their first regulation loss in at least the last
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Speaker 3: ten games.
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Speaker 4: So, I mean Colorado is going to be right there.
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Speaker 3: I think when everything is said and done, I know
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Speaker 3: that despite the trade of Miko Ranton and they've gotten
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Speaker 3: some good pieces in return, and any team that has
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Speaker 3: Nathan McKinnon and Cale mccarr and their team.
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Speaker 4: They're always going to be dangerous.
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Speaker 5: So all right, George, Well from the East, I'm really
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Speaker 5: impressed with Carolina. Their wings have been struggling against Kelera
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Speaker 5: Carolina whenever they played the Hurricanes, and they're at what
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Speaker 5: thirty three nineteen and four. They got seventy points right
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Speaker 5: now in the Metropolitan and they're in second place. Obviously,
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Speaker 5: it goes without saying that Flora to me again, it's
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Speaker 5: showing how deep they are. And uh, they've been playing
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Speaker 5: very good hockey lately. Ottawa was another one. You know,
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Speaker 5: I didn't, I didn't, you know, never counted out Ottawa,
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Speaker 5: but they've really played well this year, especially you know,
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Speaker 5: in in the last month or so. And I really
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Speaker 5: think that Ottawa is uh is getting itself primed for
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Speaker 5: a nice run here. There are so many good teams
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Speaker 5: in the in the East right now that makes it
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Speaker 5: so difficult, like for the Red Wigs after controlling that
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Speaker 5: playoff wildcut spot. We'll get to them a little bit later,
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Speaker 5: but to see all these other teams go above them
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Speaker 5: or right at their heels makes it for really interesting hockey.
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Speaker 5: Needless to say, the Red Wicks we'll talk more about
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Speaker 5: that later.
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Speaker 1: I only go to the chat remal quick, choco door.
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Speaker 1: Who are these people? Tody Steak, he's royally quacked Okay,
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Speaker 1: good click, and he's actually works with the Anaheim Ducks
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Speaker 1: and the La Kings, bother and Son and Mike Whitaker,
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Speaker 1: the Detroit Revelings after Mike Santos, he's actually Smith. The
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Speaker 1: NCAA Wrestling Championships will be back next Thursday night, so
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Speaker 1: Joshon's gonna ask. It's only appropriate. I guess, can you
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Speaker 1: give him a good quack?
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Speaker 2: He's to go ahead, quack quack quack.
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Speaker 1: I love that this guy's a josh was funny. He's
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Speaker 1: a character in the shadroom. So there you go. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: might be back next week, Josh. But there's a new guard.
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Speaker 1: This hockey show is gonna come on and we're going
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Speaker 1: to continue to make it better than ever. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to bring in a lot of new faces with the shopplement,
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Speaker 1: a lot of the old guards. As for my take
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Speaker 1: on this whole thing, Caroline is playing awfully good. They
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Speaker 1: really are. And as far as I could turn on
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Speaker 1: the wall as well, So I would go with both
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Speaker 1: of these two. I really would. Radosha, you're driving me.
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Speaker 1: We're trying to get I'll get to the topics. But
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Speaker 1: I'll give you that much because it is all right. Well, Joshua,
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Speaker 1: if you want to do a quick quack, I'm not
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Speaker 1: doing it. But we got a duck here. It's okay.
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Speaker 1: So the standpoint, I like Ottawa and Carolina. They're looking
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Speaker 1: awfully gut. Now on the other side, let's talk about
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Speaker 1: the coldest teams. Yes, the Detroit Redlings of three and
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Speaker 1: seven in their last ten, Minnesota three six and one,
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Speaker 1: they've lost a couple. Buffalo three six and one, Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: three six and one. John Tortorella, he's gonna do a
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Speaker 1: decent job over there, an eight doing it. Santos A
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Speaker 1: three to five and two. Unfortunately for the red Wings
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Speaker 1: they lost a pair of their game, so the Sharks
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Speaker 1: Chicago three five and two, Anaheid four and six. Not
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Speaker 1: such a good quack there, though, right Cody and Seattle
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Speaker 1: crack in four five and one, four four and two
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Speaker 1: for the Rangers, and the Columbus Blue Jackets are five
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Speaker 1: and five. They've lost three and Chicago's lost four. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Cody VCTI won this one. But for John Torto a
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Speaker 1: great court, I really really do.
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Speaker 6: I would say the coldest team.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, I would probably give you a better quack if
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Speaker 2: my Ducks were playing better and everything. But like the
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Speaker 2: last ten, they've looked bad. But the worst team I
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Speaker 2: think that's cold is just Chicago. They just that locker
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Speaker 2: room just looks really bad right now. But Darda got
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Speaker 2: two straight games of ten ten minute misconducts. Something's going
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Speaker 2: on there in Chicago and it's not looking good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Cash, you're asking, George, and I do I think
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Speaker 1: the Reveland are going to make the playoffs. I still
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Speaker 1: believe they can't, but they've got a lot of work
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Speaker 1: to do. George, what do you think?
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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I mean, obviously they're still in the thick
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Speaker 5: of things, and Michael talked more about them too this show.
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Speaker 5: But the schedule is just horrendous. I mean, it is
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Speaker 5: the toughest schedule you could imagine were it just the
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Speaker 5: comfort that we had or people had in Detroit is gone,
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Speaker 5: which was sitting in one of the wild card spots
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Speaker 5: for a good.
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Speaker 1: Part of the season.
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Speaker 5: But anyways, if they're gonna do it, they're gonna have
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Speaker 5: to play some damn good hockey. Let me just away
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Speaker 5: by that bad enough far.
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Speaker 1: Well with that, let's transition over to Mike Whittaker and
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Speaker 1: maybe you can add a little bit more definitive information
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Speaker 1: for Joshua Doors. Curious, however, I think the Remmis had
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Speaker 1: a lot of work to do. You cover the team
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Speaker 1: on a more consistent basis, Mike than we do. What's
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Speaker 1: your take on it?
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Speaker 3: It's very very reminiscent, unfortunately, of exactly what took place
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Speaker 3: at this time of year last year. Last year, the
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Speaker 3: Red Wings had a nine point lead from the cutoff
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Speaker 3: point going into the month of March, and then they
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Speaker 3: lost seven straight games to erase that they didn't have
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Speaker 3: quite they had maybe a three or four point lead
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Speaker 3: from the cutoff point heading into March of this year.
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Speaker 3: That unfortunately, they lost those back to back games against
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Speaker 3: the Columbus Blue Jackets. I'm still not too happy about
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Speaker 3: that missed high sticking call in the Stadium series game,
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Speaker 3: but you know, that's that's part of the game. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 3: bad breaks happened. But then unfortunately they proceeded to lose
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Speaker 3: several more in a row, and also at this exact
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Speaker 3: same time, unfortunately for Detroit, teams like Ottawa Montreal are
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Speaker 3: winning and they've passed them in the standings. Unfortunately, I
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Speaker 3: guess the only good news is that for the Red
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Speaker 3: Wings is that in so many of these losses, like
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Speaker 3: about a little over a week ago, they're two to
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Speaker 3: one loss to the Senators, they completely outplayed them, they
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Speaker 3: outshot them over a two to one margin, just unfortunately
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Speaker 3: could not cracklenis Almark as opposed to so many games
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Speaker 3: in their seven game losing streak last year where they
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Speaker 3: just they looked like they weren't even interested in being
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Speaker 3: on the ice. Unfortunately, thankfully that's not the case this time,
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Speaker 3: and a lot of these games they just simply lost
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Speaker 3: despite playing well. But yeah, kind of like George said,
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Speaker 3: they literally do have the toughest schedule in the NHL
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Speaker 3: based on their opposition winning percentage. They did manage to
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Speaker 3: get the job done against Vegas the other night, albeit
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Speaker 3: at Vegas was on the second of a back to back,
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Speaker 3: but you got to take advantage of those breaks when
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Speaker 3: you get them, and thankfully they did that.
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Speaker 4: But then they played.
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Speaker 3: Washington pretty well through the first two periods and then
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Speaker 3: in the third period, Washington just managed to pull away. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: these losses are coming at a probably the worst possible time.
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Speaker 3: It's not impossible for them to go back on another
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Speaker 3: run like we saw them do under coach Todd McClellan
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Speaker 3: when the coaching change was made today Christmas, but it's certainly.
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Speaker 4: Gonna be a challenge.
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Speaker 3: Right now, it looks like Elmer Sodderblum might not be
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Speaker 3: available for Detroit's next game. Obviously, Andrew Copps' presence is
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Speaker 3: missed right now. Unfortunately, he's done for the rest of
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Speaker 3: the season, and it's like kind of kind of the
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Speaker 3: bottom line is that it's not impossible, but it's going
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Speaker 3: to be a very very steep challenge for them to
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Speaker 3: make it into one of the final two wild card spots.
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Speaker 1: So let me add a couple of things. So at
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Speaker 1: great points all the way around Mike. First of all,
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Speaker 1: Todd mccolan was a great in season. Higher he's gonna
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Speaker 1: be fine. I really know. Steve Heiserman is gonna have
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Speaker 1: to at some point, he's going to be held accountable.
14:18
Speaker 1: I understand patients, but taking patients to a certain extreme
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Speaker 1: with Chris Ellis, who recently was voted as the twenty
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Speaker 1: seventh worst owner in the NHL, to me, is like
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a backstad when you look at it.
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Speaker 1: Father Mike was always an elite owner. The window was
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Speaker 1: closing on Patrick cane elis the brink at as well
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Speaker 1: as another guy who I think will be on the
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Speaker 1: firing block if they don't figure it out too is
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Speaker 1: Peter lobby Alette of the Rangers. This team is looking very,
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Speaker 1: very lifeless, and of course you have mentioned Andrew cubb
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Speaker 1: so there's a lot of moving parts of the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: The Red Wings need to get it together, and they
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Speaker 1: need to get it figured out. So I guess I'm
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Speaker 1: going to ask you guys the same type of question,
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Speaker 1: only in a different way. Lee, off of you, Cody,
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Speaker 1: what's one of these teams if any of them figures
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Speaker 1: it out, just.
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Speaker 6: Give me one for the cold that going too hot?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Who figures it out?
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Speaker 2: I mean, I kind of hope Detroit because it would
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Speaker 2: be nice to see Detroit back in the playoffs. But
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Speaker 2: I want to I want to see Columbus though, but
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Speaker 2: it would be just a great story what they've gone
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Speaker 2: through this year and everything like that.
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Speaker 6: I feel like they would be the ones to get
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Speaker 6: hot next.
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Speaker 3: What about you, Mike, Uh, it is kind of hard
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Speaker 3: to argue with the Blue Jackets pick. I know that
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Speaker 3: for a while they were pretty hot, including those back
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Speaker 3: to back wins over the Red Wings. I mean, I
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Speaker 3: guess I can kind of just submit my Homer vote
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Speaker 3: for that. I certainly hope that it's Detroit because I
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Speaker 3: think that even hockey fans who don't like the Red
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Speaker 3: Wings agree that the NHL is better when the Red
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Speaker 3: Wings are good. I mean, I'm not I'm not a
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Speaker 3: Chicago Blackhawks fan at all, but I felt the NHL
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Speaker 3: was much better when during their recent glory years when
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Speaker 3: they kind of resurrected themselves from the dead essentially, and
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Speaker 3: we're one of the most dominant teams in the league.
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Speaker 3: It's it's great to see an American Original six team
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Speaker 3: enjoying success. And you know, the fans of Detroit, most
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Speaker 3: of them who are old enough at least remember the
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Speaker 3: great years with all those teams in the late nineties
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Speaker 3: and early two thousands, and it's, uh, it's it's well
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Speaker 3: past time to get playoff hockey back in Detroit here.
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Speaker 4: So hopefully they're able to uh shift.
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Speaker 3: It into another gear here and just overcome running the
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Speaker 3: gauntlet here, even though it's it is the toughest schedule,
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Speaker 3: but uh, you know finger scross that they can overcome that.
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Speaker 1: Hey, let's put the chat. Josh pants cold left his games.
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Speaker 1: What they went to this real pass last season looking
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Speaker 1: much better than of course, they're playing Redleys need them actually,
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Speaker 1: the Panthers to beat the Columbus Blue jacket. So you
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Speaker 1: have a lot of Redley fans pulling for the Panthers
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Speaker 1: tonight for sure, or Home of Hockey. Well, right now,
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Speaker 1: they're defending Stanley Cup champions, So they are pretty hard
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Speaker 1: to argue. At Jacko's point, as far as George, go
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Speaker 1: ahead and answer, and then I have a follow up
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Speaker 1: and it will proceed well.
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Speaker 5: If it's not the Red Wings, I guess the team
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Speaker 5: that I would hope is Montreal. But there it's gonna
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Speaker 5: be really hard for them. But you know, we're getting
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Speaker 5: back to this whole thing about what you guys talked
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Speaker 5: about earlier. You talked about Chicago, talk about Detroit, talk
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Speaker 5: about Montreal. We're talking about proud franchises, the Bruins and
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Speaker 5: the Rangers. What's going on? There are so many of
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Speaker 5: them that are wagging their tail between their legs or
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Speaker 5: whatever that's saying. Is I really really think though that
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Speaker 5: out of all those teams, if it can't be Detroit, heck,
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Speaker 5: i'd rather I'd like to see Montreal in there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but Montreal is the team that's not George. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about who's not who's bigger than that. I know
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Speaker 1: that my hearing by the way, I know that my
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Speaker 1: hearing ages. I was just came in today. Get them
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Speaker 1: back to Detroit and put them in yours. All right, Well,
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Speaker 1: go ahead, figure it out. I corn answers that question,
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Speaker 1: and it was stated to you. Really, they're everyone here
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Speaker 1: on cor.
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Speaker 5: Okay, the New York Rangers.
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Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. I'll go with the Red Wings,
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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go with Columbus only because once upon
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Speaker 1: a time Mike Babtock was hired and fired as quick
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Speaker 1: as he could get. So there's a Mike babtot that
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Speaker 1: I worried, Josh. So as I get it, you know
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Speaker 1: not gonna leave up and you'll get yours. I'm waiting
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Speaker 1: for mine. How you're gonna get erris, I don't have mine,
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Speaker 1: So there you go, you'll get your hat. Just keep chatting, Josh,
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Speaker 1: what you're doing. You're on fire tonight. Nobody's ignoring you.
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Speaker 1: You're making too much sense for anybody to ignore you tonight.
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Speaker 1: So you're technically the unofficial fifth person out here in
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Speaker 1: the big House. You'll go to one more topic. So
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Speaker 1: I'll go with the Wing, but I have to go
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Speaker 1: with of course. I think Matthew Goudro right pass the way,
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Speaker 1: so I think that's another Matthew Gudro and Johnny Goudrow
19:04
Speaker 1: both died, So for the.
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Speaker 5: Gods, it's a big motivating factor. Obviously with the emotions involved.
19:10
Speaker 1: Sure, yes, the Dudro factor, but there as well as
19:14
Speaker 1: before we go to a station Brain and while you're
19:17
Speaker 1: on josh O, Michael comment on this one too. The
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Speaker 1: Florida Panthers and Ryan Hart has won goal in his
19:22
Speaker 1: last seventeen games, at thirty one goals in the first
19:25
Speaker 1: fifty four games a season. Can he bounce back for
19:28
Speaker 1: the playoffs? Mister?
19:32
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean the guy that scored the Stanley
19:35
Speaker 2: Cluck clinching goal last season. I think he can easily
19:38
Speaker 2: come back from that. I mean, you got could chuck out,
19:41
Speaker 2: you got marshand out. I mean yeah, I think he's
19:44
Speaker 2: in the bounce back once. I think once everyone's healthy
19:47
Speaker 2: and when Xby comes back from his suspension, I think
19:51
Speaker 2: they're going to be up and coming to be the
19:53
Speaker 2: team to be out of the East.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, I think he'll definitely bounce back.
19:57
Speaker 1: You know, I got to go to this one at
19:58
Speaker 1: Joshua Doro hay Tayl. My question for the panel, when
20:01
Speaker 1: you order wings, do you prefer flat drum sets or cabo.
20:05
Speaker 1: I don't like answering these questions after I've had dinner,
20:08
Speaker 1: but I'm going to allow this one tonight me personally,
20:11
Speaker 1: I like the drumsticks. Yes, well do you guys?
20:18
Speaker 5: I like drumsticks too.
20:21
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. Yeah, as your one
20:24
Speaker 1: good question that you slipped in here, Josh, No big deal,
20:27
Speaker 1: All right, Mike, you can proceed with the Ryan Hard
20:29
Speaker 1: question if you'd like, does he bump back?
20:34
Speaker 3: It's well kind of building on your point, it's pretty
20:38
Speaker 3: hard to not only kind of a guy who scored
20:41
Speaker 3: the Stanley Cup clinching goal, but also scored over fifty
20:44
Speaker 3: goals last year, And so I think once the playoffs begin,
20:50
Speaker 3: obviously the Panthers have been to the finals two years
20:53
Speaker 3: in a row. Now they know what it takes to
20:56
Speaker 3: to reach the mountaintop, and so obviously they going to
21:00
Speaker 3: be counting on their top players to carry them, especially
21:02
Speaker 3: in the absences of guys like Matthew Chuck and Brad
21:05
Speaker 3: marsha On. Ryan Hart would be my pick for the
21:09
Speaker 3: next best player on their team. And there's really no
21:11
Speaker 3: reason to believe why you can't just kind of shift
21:14
Speaker 3: in the playoff mode as soon as they start here.
21:17
Speaker 1: What about you, George? And by the way, Joshua, I
21:19
Speaker 1: could go with the Conlo tool. I wouldn't mind being
21:21
Speaker 1: able to have them both. But I'll put George great point,
21:25
Speaker 1: But I'm done talking through the night in Joshua, I
21:27
Speaker 1: really am. But I'll let you get this one in there.
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Speaker 7: Well.
21:31
Speaker 1: And he's watching this well the Panthers have played, so
21:33
Speaker 1: I got to give him this too.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
21:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Ryan Hart leads them in scoring. He's
21:38
Speaker 5: got seventy two points, he's got thirty three goals, thirty
21:42
Speaker 5: nine assists.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
21:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean even if he if he's in a
21:46
Speaker 5: slump right now, he's been there before. He's got the experience,
21:50
Speaker 5: he's got the playoff down pat the playoff pressure, whatever
21:55
Speaker 5: you want to say. So yeah, I think he'll come back.
21:58
Speaker 5: And Ryan Hart, and like I said, Florida is one
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Speaker 5: of the favorites to go back to the finals again.
22:04
Speaker 5: As far as I'm no, as far as I'm concerned,
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Speaker 5: they got a great chance.
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Speaker 1: I don't have to stick up for Ryan for I
22:10
Speaker 1: don't want to say that. He played a lot of
22:11
Speaker 1: hockey the last year when he had the four nations.
22:13
Speaker 1: The four Nations both like an NBA Alfware game. These
22:16
Speaker 1: guys played basical. These guys don't mess around when they
22:19
Speaker 1: play these alta games. The NBA Walter Games, you want
22:22
Speaker 1: to play Paindacake, Pettycake Baker's Man, there you go, you
22:25
Speaker 1: can do it. They don't do that in the NHL.
22:28
Speaker 1: They actually play hard. There's no such thing as load management.
22:31
Speaker 1: These guys gets set up and they get underpaid to
22:34
Speaker 1: do it. So he played a lot of hockeys who
22:36
Speaker 1: believe they'll bounce back and just like I'm going to
22:38
Speaker 1: bounce over to a station break with candy Like, go ahead.
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Speaker 1: Back to you, Scott, Thank you very much, Candy. And
24:06
Speaker 1: you know, Joshua dor NBA is a pathetic what's that
24:08
Speaker 1: one up there? He's right, All you have to do
24:10
Speaker 1: is look at the numbers. One. He can be also
24:12
Speaker 1: a game paired up against the four nations. But they
24:15
Speaker 1: have like four million people watching I think compared to
24:17
Speaker 1: what ten eleven million for that weekend. I don't know that.
24:21
Speaker 1: I would say two and a half times in a
24:22
Speaker 1: mileth compared, So josh was point twelve taking the numbers
24:25
Speaker 1: pare of that situation out. Three more topics I want
24:28
Speaker 1: to get too are actually four, but we're moving along
24:31
Speaker 1: at a really, really, really nice face there. Let's talk
24:34
Speaker 1: about Joe Blano vilenosu May being traded to Chicago for Craigsmith,
24:38
Speaker 1: Peter Mouradac. So is that enough of a return to
24:42
Speaker 1: get them over to the playoffs? Mis or what we're
24:44
Speaker 1: going to lead off with you, my friend? Or did
24:48
Speaker 1: themen do enough.
24:51
Speaker 4: That that trade is still a little confusing? I think too.
24:55
Speaker 3: I mean not only myself, but to a lot of
24:57
Speaker 3: people that I know and have spoken with, and uh,
25:01
Speaker 3: not only analysts and fellow writers, but just fans in general,
25:06
Speaker 3: especially with the fact that he's under contract for next
25:09
Speaker 3: year too, when the Red Wings already have a pretty
25:13
Speaker 3: highly regarded goaltending prospect by the name of Sebastian Cosa
25:16
Speaker 3: playing the Grand Rapids Griffins. I know that there was
25:20
Speaker 3: a lot of fans who were hoping that he would
25:23
Speaker 3: get some more playing time up here at the NHL level.
25:28
Speaker 3: The acquisition of Craig Smith. I didn't I really didn't
25:31
Speaker 3: feel too much about it either way. He's not going
25:34
Speaker 3: to be a player that moves the meter as far
25:37
Speaker 3: as offense goes, typically have been a fourth.
25:39
Speaker 4: Line player, penalty killing, kind of a good character guy, but.
25:46
Speaker 3: There were there was a pretty big segment of the
25:48
Speaker 3: fan base that was disappointed that more was not done
25:51
Speaker 3: at the trade deadline. But then there's another segment of
25:55
Speaker 3: the fan base that will argue that the prices to
25:58
Speaker 3: acquire rental pieces were way too high. And then maybe
26:03
Speaker 3: Steve Eiserman did the right thing by not sacrificing a
26:06
Speaker 3: draft capital for players that you don't even know are
26:09
Speaker 3: going to be on the team in a couple of months.
26:10
Speaker 3: And you look at some of the returns that teams
26:15
Speaker 3: like the New York Islanders got for trading Brock Nelson
26:18
Speaker 3: to the Colorado Avalanche. I believe they got a pair
26:21
Speaker 3: of first rounders in return and as well as another prospect.
26:24
Speaker 5: And so.
26:27
Speaker 3: The acquisition of Marazik that that's still, like I said,
26:31
Speaker 3: was a bit confusing, especially considering his stats for this season.
26:36
Speaker 4: I believe he was actually one of the lowest.
26:40
Speaker 3: Statistical goaltenders who had played at least ten games this
26:43
Speaker 3: season in the NHL. People would say that, well, okay,
26:47
Speaker 3: you played on a poor Blackhawks team, but now former
26:53
Speaker 3: teammate Arvid Soderblom, who was actually the brother of Red
26:56
Speaker 3: Wings forward Elmer Soderblom. His numbers are much bet better,
27:01
Speaker 3: not great by any means, but much better than Marazaks.
27:04
Speaker 3: And so Marazak has played decently well in his return
27:09
Speaker 3: to the Red Wings. Obviously, he shut out the Golden Knights,
27:12
Speaker 3: but then he had in every other single game that
27:15
Speaker 3: he's played so far, there's been at least one goal
27:17
Speaker 3: that he would like back that the game winning goal
27:20
Speaker 3: from Pierre Luke Dubois the other night with the Capitals.
27:24
Speaker 4: I think he would be the first to tell you
27:26
Speaker 4: you should have had that one.
27:29
Speaker 7: It.
27:29
Speaker 3: As far as getting them over the playoff hump, I
27:33
Speaker 3: guess that remains to be seen. We're all certainly hoping
27:36
Speaker 3: that Marazak can kind of rekindle some of the magic
27:39
Speaker 3: that he had early in his Red Wings career when
27:41
Speaker 3: he nearly helped them upset the Tampa Bay Lightning in
27:44
Speaker 3: the first round.
27:46
Speaker 4: That was actually ten years ago now, because that was
27:48
Speaker 4: twenty fifteen. But as far as.
27:53
Speaker 3: As far as the goaltending plan going forward, it looks
27:55
Speaker 3: like probably Alex Lyon is going to be the odd
27:57
Speaker 3: man out because he is not under conference season, but
28:00
Speaker 3: Cam Talbot and marezk Are. We'll see what Steve Eiseman
28:05
Speaker 3: decides to do and if Kosa can potentially challenge for
28:08
Speaker 3: for a a roster spot in training camp in September. Overall, though,
28:15
Speaker 3: I guess my bottom line as far as the Mourazac
28:17
Speaker 3: tray goes that that one is still kind of up
28:19
Speaker 3: in the air for me and not entirely sure what
28:21
Speaker 3: the rationale was behind that.
28:23
Speaker 1: So well, you know what I'm gonna say, Mike, thanks
28:26
Speaker 1: for saving me so that I don't lose my voice
28:28
Speaker 1: in that because you fell into the GMT ain't category
28:31
Speaker 1: called great minds. Take a light on that one. I'm
28:34
Speaker 1: not going to come anymore because you did it for me.
28:36
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Mishal Winker. All right, George, you're
28:38
Speaker 1: up there. What do you think about what transpired? Then?
28:42
Speaker 5: Well, clearly, if you listen to the Sports Talk Network
28:46
Speaker 5: of anyone any number of stations up here in Detroit,
28:49
Speaker 5: you're gonna get his thumbs down. I don't feel I
28:52
Speaker 5: don't know there's something there that I think guys been
28:54
Speaker 5: I'm not trying to say Chris Kilic wouldn't have allowed
28:57
Speaker 5: him to pull the string on a big train. But
29:00
Speaker 5: I don't think Stevie saw it as like Mike explained
29:04
Speaker 5: that the capital that they wanted so much money in return,
29:08
Speaker 5: so many good players you don't want to give up
29:11
Speaker 5: on at this stage of the season. I think that
29:15
Speaker 5: he did the best he could. But Joe Velino just
29:18
Speaker 5: has not done it. I mean he's been in this league,
29:21
Speaker 5: what Mike five years or whatever now, I mean, he's
29:24
Speaker 5: never ever scored enough goals for my liking. But look
29:29
Speaker 5: at this Craig they got in the returning Craig Smith, right, yeah,
29:33
Speaker 5: zero zero points so far, no goals, no assistant he tried.
29:38
Speaker 5: Marazik has played well, I'll give you that. I think
29:41
Speaker 5: he has. But like you were alluding to Mike, he's
29:44
Speaker 5: got a three point three to five goals against with
29:47
Speaker 5: Chicago mostly and that's that's higher than Cam Telbert and
29:52
Speaker 5: Alex Lyon and and and yet, uh, Stevie wanted to
29:56
Speaker 5: shake things up a little bit in that I believe
29:58
Speaker 5: he did, and and he pulled that trade. And as
30:03
Speaker 5: far as Smith goes, I mean, you know they had
30:05
Speaker 5: injuries at center. They needed to get another center in here.
30:08
Speaker 5: Copp is out for the rest of the season, and
30:10
Speaker 5: Rasmussen was heard for several games, so I think that's
30:13
Speaker 5: why they wanted to do it.
30:15
Speaker 4: But I don't know.
30:16
Speaker 5: It's not the kind of trade that's going to put
30:18
Speaker 5: you over the top as far as making the playoffs go.
30:20
Speaker 1: I don't believe. What do you think, Cody Well?
30:25
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't follow the Red Wings as much
30:27
Speaker 2: and everything, but I was very confused about that trade.
30:30
Speaker 2: I was like, why would they trade for another goalie
30:33
Speaker 2: when they already had two that were already signed through
30:35
Speaker 2: or I know. Lion was probably the best goalie that
30:38
Speaker 2: I think they've had in the last couple of years
30:42
Speaker 2: and most consistent in my opinion. I mean him was
30:44
Speaker 2: took Florida. You know, he took Florida to the playoffs
30:47
Speaker 2: that one year when they made that miraculous Stanley Cup run.
30:50
Speaker 2: He was the only reason I think why they even
30:52
Speaker 2: made it in But to bring in Maraaac you know what,
30:56
Speaker 2: a thirty three was? I believe he's thirty three, You
30:58
Speaker 2: believe three?
31:01
Speaker 4: You know what?
31:02
Speaker 2: Why bring in another over thirty goalie like that when
31:05
Speaker 2: you got Sebastian kosa uh right there on the wings.
31:09
Speaker 6: So no pun intended on that one that's okay.
31:12
Speaker 1: The is this won't be the first time that's happened.
31:14
Speaker 1: It won't be the last. Gillian here, Mike Ratseyson has
31:18
Speaker 1: been banged up with the concussion. Get Jeff Petrie back
31:21
Speaker 1: on the blue line. Hopefully he'll help the blue line
31:23
Speaker 1: a little bit. And I think that Maraziic was brought
31:26
Speaker 1: in for insurance as really was. It kind of reminds
31:27
Speaker 1: me a little bit of Kyle Allen right with the
31:31
Speaker 1: lines when they just picked him up as a backup
31:33
Speaker 1: to Yeah, just I think Mrazek was brought in for insurance.
31:37
Speaker 1: Fewing that lions and block and ideally you'll hope and
31:40
Speaker 1: pray that Cos is ready to be the number one
31:42
Speaker 1: guy next year. So each and every one you guys
31:45
Speaker 1: covered it well, on go, just filling in this one
31:48
Speaker 1: is strict Next topic strictly for Mike Waker. Okay, you
31:51
Speaker 1: wrote a story for us about the Rudglings when they
31:53
Speaker 1: snapped their six game losing string against Buffalo. Then they
31:55
Speaker 1: went against against the Vegas. What was the attitude around
31:59
Speaker 1: there when they finally got that losing streak done. They
32:02
Speaker 1: followed it up with they went against Vegas, and I
32:06
Speaker 1: know we talked about it, but I'm gonna leave the
32:08
Speaker 1: floor with you because this is a solo topic. We'll
32:10
Speaker 1: do these once in a while, especially since Mike writes
32:13
Speaker 1: for us, and what I'm gonna do every time he
32:15
Speaker 1: comes on the show, He's going to have a solo
32:17
Speaker 1: topic of his own, so can he can actually go
32:19
Speaker 1: ahead and explain what he wrote about. So go ahead, Mike,
32:23
Speaker 1: the floor is yours. Does the rugby still have a
32:25
Speaker 1: little bit of hope knowing the at least they got
32:27
Speaker 1: that losing strick out of the way. They do get
32:29
Speaker 1: the nights on Saturday night and they'll get me a
32:32
Speaker 1: rested club.
32:35
Speaker 3: Well, they did finally break that losing streak against Buffalo
32:40
Speaker 3: and unfortunately follow that up with a loss their next game.
32:42
Speaker 3: That was against the Carolina Hurricanes. I think we've all
32:47
Speaker 3: watched Hurricane games in the last couple of years and
32:50
Speaker 3: their style of plays that they get the lead and
32:52
Speaker 3: then they just.
32:53
Speaker 4: Completely suffocate the life out of you.
32:56
Speaker 3: The Red Wings could not get anything going as far
32:58
Speaker 3: as offensive pressure, had a hard time getting the puck
33:02
Speaker 3: out of their own zone and even maintain control of
33:04
Speaker 3: the puck. And that's just how Carolina plays against their opposition.
33:09
Speaker 3: Detroit then returned home and then did pick up that
33:12
Speaker 3: win against Vegas. They I mean, they certainly looks good
33:16
Speaker 3: against the Golden Knights and that was encouraging, even though
33:20
Speaker 3: Vegas was it's certainly a little fatigued. I believe that
33:24
Speaker 3: was their third game in the last four nights and
33:26
Speaker 3: second of a.
33:27
Speaker 4: Back to back.
33:27
Speaker 3: But you know, that's just the NHL schedule. You got
33:30
Speaker 3: to take advantage of it when when you catch a
33:33
Speaker 3: team on the second of a back to back, and
33:35
Speaker 3: so yeah, this time, kind of, like you mentioned, Vegas
33:38
Speaker 3: is going to be much more ready for them when
33:40
Speaker 3: they hit the ice on Saturday. Unfortunately, the kind of
33:46
Speaker 3: like we mentioned before, it is the Red Wings do
33:48
Speaker 3: have to run the gauntlet here in terms of the
33:52
Speaker 3: strength of schedule.
33:53
Speaker 4: It is the toughest in the league.
33:57
Speaker 3: There's a lot of people who say that the winning
33:59
Speaker 3: and Buffalo that really doesn't mean much because they're one
34:02
Speaker 3: of the worst teams in the Eastern Conference.
34:04
Speaker 4: Obviously, it was.
34:05
Speaker 3: Very good for their confidence just to kind of get
34:07
Speaker 3: the monkey off their back, basically to finally get two
34:11
Speaker 3: points in the standings, and they had been stuck on
34:14
Speaker 3: sixty six points. I believe it was for at least
34:16
Speaker 3: two weeks. It was good to finally kind of move
34:19
Speaker 3: off that number and put gain some more ground in
34:23
Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference standings. But yeah, they need to find
34:28
Speaker 3: a way to string together more consistent wins, kind of
34:30
Speaker 3: like they did in the early days under Todd McClelland
34:33
Speaker 3: when they had two separate seven game winning streaks and
34:36
Speaker 3: they beat some of the top teams in the league
34:38
Speaker 3: during that time. They weren't all just soft opponents. I
34:42
Speaker 3: mean they beat teams like the Oilers they beat. I mean,
34:46
Speaker 3: like I said, you had top teams in both the
34:50
Speaker 3: West and the East, and so they've shown that they
34:51
Speaker 3: can play with anybody if they bring their proper a game.
34:55
Speaker 3: And so it's all really all about just putting together
34:57
Speaker 3: consistent efforts. If they can manage to do that, then
35:00
Speaker 3: they can be right there at the end of the season.
35:03
Speaker 3: But with their current health situation, it's it's going to
35:08
Speaker 3: be a challenge. So I guess we'll have to see
35:10
Speaker 3: what happens.
35:12
Speaker 1: Great points, so the way around goaltending, they need that,
35:15
Speaker 1: they need to get healthy, but they need a next
35:17
Speaker 1: man up is what they always say. Two more tops
35:20
Speaker 1: that go We're on a rural ad role. My name
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Speaker 1: is Stott Morgar, MotorCity Man Mouse, but he's been joined
35:25
Speaker 1: by Cody Speak who resides in southern California, Mike Whittaker
35:28
Speaker 1: back in Motown, George corn Mark Mary unable to make
35:32
Speaker 1: it tonight because with the family commitment, Mike Santos is
35:35
Speaker 1: out it with the NCAA Wrestling Championships before having him
35:39
Speaker 1: back on next week. While we're going to keep it
35:42
Speaker 1: rolling here and enjoying the effort that everybody's had. Everybody
35:45
Speaker 1: has an excellent opinion tonight that have an opportunity to
35:48
Speaker 1: come up with a couple more talking about a money goaltender.
35:51
Speaker 1: About Jordan Bellington Game seventh Family Cup Finals in Four
35:56
Speaker 1: Nations Faith Off Champion. They ended up. It looks like
35:59
Speaker 1: Boston was this home away from home with the TV garden.
36:02
Speaker 1: What do you think, Gody, this guy, Jordan Billington knows
36:06
Speaker 1: how to play well at Beantown?
36:09
Speaker 6: Yeah, Bidnington.
36:11
Speaker 2: I was surprised when Canada announced them as him as
36:14
Speaker 2: the starter in the first place, and in each of
36:18
Speaker 2: the three games he gave up that one soft goal
36:21
Speaker 2: and everything and he wasn't looking good. But Canada's stuck
36:25
Speaker 2: with him and he I guess he just loves playing
36:27
Speaker 2: and winner take all games in Boston apparently, you know he.
36:32
Speaker 2: I mean, he stopped probably the two biggest shots out
36:35
Speaker 2: of his life in that against Matthews and Kachuk and
36:38
Speaker 2: that ot which I think both those shots that should
36:41
Speaker 2: have won the game for USA, but he came up
36:44
Speaker 2: big and sure enough, you leave you can't leave McDavid
36:47
Speaker 2: open in the middle to let him score the winner
36:50
Speaker 2: like that. But yeah, like I said, he's like a
36:52
Speaker 2: goalie and a third defender out there the way he
36:54
Speaker 2: handles the puck and he can pass and move it.
36:57
Speaker 6: So he's.
37:00
Speaker 2: You either love him or you hate him, and he's
37:04
Speaker 2: one of those goalies. But I guess I give respect
37:06
Speaker 2: to him. Like he he makes the big saves when
37:09
Speaker 2: you need him to.
37:11
Speaker 1: You're gonna stop Austin, Matthews and David. That's pretty good work,
37:16
Speaker 1: Mike it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, certainly, it was a frustrating night for myself
37:23
Speaker 3: rooting for team USA there. I certainly felt a little
37:27
Speaker 3: strange rooting for both Matthew and Brady Kuchuck because they
37:30
Speaker 3: play in the Red Wings Division and they are just
37:33
Speaker 3: absolute pain. And then you know what to play against,
37:36
Speaker 3: but they're the kind of players that you would love
37:37
Speaker 3: to have on your team. And so, yeah, Bennington, it
37:41
Speaker 3: really seemed like goaltending was going to be the weakest
37:43
Speaker 3: link for Canada and ultimately it turned out to be
37:46
Speaker 3: probably their biggest strength ultimately in the end.
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Speaker 4: And so speaking of playing in TV Garden, though.
37:56
Speaker 3: Both Austin Matthews and Mitch Marner I saw a stat
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Speaker 3: I believe they were a combined zero to eight as
38:05
Speaker 3: teammates with the Maple Leafs in winner take all games
38:08
Speaker 3: in TV Garden, one of those streaks had to break,
38:12
Speaker 3: and so now it's Austin Matthews that still has the
38:14
Speaker 3: goose egg next to him playing in Game seven style
38:18
Speaker 3: situations in Boston, all those Game seven losses to the
38:22
Speaker 3: Bruins with the Maple Leafs and then obviously the disappointing
38:25
Speaker 3: loss to Canada with Team USA in the Four Nations,
38:29
Speaker 3: and so something about playing in certain buildings that really
38:32
Speaker 3: seems to agree with some players and like Jordan Mintington,
38:36
Speaker 3: and seems to not agree with other players, like players
38:39
Speaker 3: with the Maple Leafs unfortunately for them.
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Speaker 5: So what about you, George, Well, yeah, I mean you
38:47
Speaker 5: look at his stats, Okay, this year he's twenty one
38:49
Speaker 5: and twenty one, so he ranks twenty first among goalies
38:53
Speaker 5: with the win loss, his goals against ranks thirty first,
38:57
Speaker 5: and his save percentage ranks thirty fourth the league.
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Speaker 7: But the thing is is that when you put this
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Speaker 7: in front of somebody and a player, and these hockey guys,
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Speaker 7: they mean it. They want to win on the world stage.
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Speaker 7: I give them credit for that.
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Speaker 5: Like you said, Scott, I put them right at the
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Speaker 5: top of the list as far as the desire to
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Speaker 5: win for their country, or the desire to win in
39:18
Speaker 5: the All Star Game or whatever the challenge is out there.
39:21
Speaker 5: And here's a perfect example. Bennington, thirty one years old
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Speaker 5: from Richmond Hill, Ontario.
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Speaker 7: And I just gave you the stats.
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Speaker 5: He's not among lee leaders in goaltending. Don't get me wrong.
39:34
Speaker 5: He's steady, and he is playing for a week or
39:36
Speaker 5: team Saint Louis this year. But look at what he
39:39
Speaker 5: did in the postseason. Aye, sorry, four nations. I mean
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Speaker 5: it's just incredible. I mean, you know, guys like him
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Speaker 5: rise up because there's something inside here. There's something inside
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Speaker 5: here that says I want my country to win. And god,
39:54
Speaker 5: I love that stuff. When these hockey players do that.
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Speaker 1: I really do.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I wanted USA to win, but hell if they
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Speaker 5: could do it, my neighbor to the south Windsor Ontario
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Speaker 5: did it.
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Speaker 1: Err, yeah, it's really worth from Detroit.
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Speaker 6: I think the word you're looking for George is he
40:12
Speaker 6: has that dog in him. That's what he has, that dog,
40:14
Speaker 6: that dog.
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Speaker 5: Thanks Cody.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll say is the two words or money goaltender?
40:22
Speaker 5: And yeah that'sid Scott.
40:24
Speaker 1: So we'll get this show done. On a quick note
40:27
Speaker 1: that I'm talking about, Jonathan Quick was extended by the
40:29
Speaker 1: New York Rangers one year, one point five to five
40:32
Speaker 1: million dollars. Talking about money goaltender with the Kings, Cody,
40:35
Speaker 1: you know, more bond. What do you think about Jonathan's
40:38
Speaker 1: Quick's career is going to end it with New York,
40:41
Speaker 1: but he had to find run up and with the
40:43
Speaker 1: LA Kings.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think he's easily probably the best
40:47
Speaker 2: goaltender ever in La King's history. Two Stanley Cups, a
40:51
Speaker 2: con smythe what three All Star Game appearances? I believe too.
40:56
Speaker 2: I mean, what else can you say about Jonathan and
41:00
Speaker 2: Quick in La? And you know his quick little uh
41:03
Speaker 2: stint in Columbus and then win's another Stanley Cup with
41:07
Speaker 2: Vegas and now he's backing up Igorn. But I mean
41:11
Speaker 2: when Igor was struggling, he took over and he was
41:14
Speaker 2: helping the Rangers, I believe last season for that they're
41:19
Speaker 2: a President Trophy run that they had. You know, and
41:23
Speaker 2: he's from Connecticut, so he's pretty much home so and
41:27
Speaker 2: I believe the Rangers was his hometown team too growing up,
41:30
Speaker 2: So I don't blame it for wanting to stay East
41:33
Speaker 2: Coast and especially on a team like the Rangers. And
41:36
Speaker 2: he doesn't have to be the guy there either, So
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Speaker 2: and in my opinion, he's probably easily a first ballot
41:41
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer.
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Speaker 1: By J D. Whiteheld beyond fire Up which Dustin will
41:47
Speaker 1: follow us here on the Sports Exchange. Some thoughts about
41:50
Speaker 1: Jonathan Quick, mister Whitaker, Excuse me, I.
41:53
Speaker 3: Would say he's gonna go down as the greatest American
41:56
Speaker 3: born goaltender to play, right, I know that. But he
42:01
Speaker 3: certainly played probably the biggest role in helping the Kings
42:04
Speaker 3: win their first Stanley Cup back in twenty twelve and
42:07
Speaker 3: has been a very good goaltender ever since. Really helped
42:11
Speaker 3: to kind of keep the King's kind of afloat in
42:14
Speaker 3: recent years. Then they decided that it was time to
42:19
Speaker 3: move on. Obviously, he went to Vegas and won another Cup,
42:22
Speaker 3: but really seemed like he wanted to close out his
42:25
Speaker 3: career with his hometown team. May I believe the team
42:29
Speaker 3: that he even grew up rooting for, kind of like
42:31
Speaker 3: you mentioned, did not anticipate him signing another contract for
42:35
Speaker 3: beyond this season. But apparently the Rangers have liked what
42:39
Speaker 3: they've seen from him, and he's got good chemistry with
42:42
Speaker 3: U or Schusterkin obviously very comfortable playing the backup role now.
42:46
Speaker 3: And yeah, I guess I would say that next season
42:51
Speaker 3: is almost certainly going to be as last in the NHL,
42:53
Speaker 3: But I want to see what happened.
42:54
Speaker 5: I guess George thirty nine years old, quick as and
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Speaker 5: no question about it, he's going to make the Hall
43:02
Speaker 5: of Fame. A fantastic career, like you guys have stated,
43:05
Speaker 5: four hundred and two wins and two hundred and eighty
43:08
Speaker 5: nine losses in his career, two point four to nine
43:11
Speaker 5: goals against in his illustrious career, sixty three shutouts, I mean, what, yeah,
43:16
Speaker 5: it is.
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Speaker 1: It is good.
43:18
Speaker 5: It is unusual though, because he's thirty nine, But you
43:22
Speaker 5: know there's something to be said about that leadership and
43:25
Speaker 5: that leadership that he is going to demonstrate there with
43:28
Speaker 5: the Rangers. They're big disappointment this year, as we know,
43:31
Speaker 5: the Rangers are, but quick as he's a good man,
43:35
Speaker 5: he's a good goaltender and obviously has all the awards
43:39
Speaker 5: and accolades that he rightfully deserves. Whether he could pull
43:42
Speaker 5: off another miracle or help them pull off a miracle
43:45
Speaker 5: and kep the Rangers back into contention, I kind of
43:48
Speaker 5: doubt it, but hey, all the more power to him.
43:52
Speaker 5: He's a good guy, all star and obviously a Hall
43:55
Speaker 5: of Famer.
43:56
Speaker 1: Anybody want to answer any praiser better than Mike Richter,
44:02
Speaker 1: anybody can answer. I don't care one or all of you.
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Speaker 5: That's a tough one.
44:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is kind of a tougher one, but I
44:12
Speaker 3: mean he's got more hardware than Richter does. Obviously, Richter
44:15
Speaker 3: only had the one cup in his career. But you know,
44:20
Speaker 3: people would put people ask if Mike Richter is better
44:23
Speaker 3: than you know, Henrik Lundquist, and obviously it all goes
44:26
Speaker 3: back to, you know, one as the Stanley Cup and
44:29
Speaker 3: one does not. But you know, Johnathan Quick has two
44:33
Speaker 3: as a starter and one as a backup, and kind of,
44:36
Speaker 3: like George mentioned, well over four hundred wins, I would ultimately,
44:41
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously Richter was one of the great American goaltenders,
44:44
Speaker 3: but ultimately, if I had to pick, I would go
44:46
Speaker 3: with Quicks.
44:46
Speaker 4: Overall body of work.
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Speaker 1: The only thing I'm gonna say about it is Jonathan
44:51
Speaker 1: Quick in LA. I don't think a lot of people
44:53
Speaker 1: in the East Coast know about him a lot, albeit
44:56
Speaker 1: he's got the hard where when you talk about him
44:59
Speaker 1: compared to Martin bro Door, for example, more people know
45:02
Speaker 1: about broad Door because they eat Coat Present or the Roberto,
45:05
Speaker 1: the Longos and people like that. But John took together
45:08
Speaker 1: a really good career. But he's on the West coast.
45:11
Speaker 1: You go to the West coast, they don't know about you.
45:13
Speaker 1: They don't see as many of your game because you're
45:15
Speaker 1: on the West coast. Martin brodeuor worda Longo, the lynch
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Speaker 1: goes on and on. Anybody that gets over four hundred
45:21
Speaker 1: ones in the NHL at some place to me, he
45:23
Speaker 1: hit that an excellent career, great stuff all the way around.
45:26
Speaker 1: And if the Rangers are able to sign up for
45:28
Speaker 1: one point five to five million dollars evorships or something
45:30
Speaker 1: like them, and you have a great one, two bunchs,
45:32
Speaker 1: more power zone, great show to night Glint once again
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Speaker 1: then in Love with Mike Santo's and I'm always looking
45:53
Speaker 1: for more and more guests to complement what we currently have,
45:57
Speaker 1: So look at the goalies that were was in Rick
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Speaker 1: or there. You can come up with a list, Eddie
46:02
Speaker 1: next week we'll be more' happy to run up. But
46:03
Speaker 1: you're definitely right about that, George. So when I show
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48:02
Speaker 1: All right. You know, George and I went out there
48:04
Speaker 1: and gave our prediction. So I'm we'll get to go
48:05
Speaker 1: to Cody and Mike. I want to know is your
48:08
Speaker 1: final four? Who's gonna win it?
48:09
Speaker 6: Lead out tod final four for the basketball?
48:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, Man'll let you go.
48:15
Speaker 6: Man, I didn't follow anything with NC.
48:19
Speaker 1: Give me the winner. I don't care to give me
48:21
Speaker 1: a win.
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Speaker 6: Let's go Duke.
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Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, what about you, Mike?
48:27
Speaker 3: Honestly, I I not watched more than ten minutes of
48:30
Speaker 3: college basketball in the last calendar year, honestly, and so
48:34
Speaker 3: I'll just uh, I know that Duke has historically been good,
48:37
Speaker 3: and so I'll just I'll just go ahead and say that.
48:40
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I know you're busy covering the Red Bugs.
48:43
Speaker 1: You're okay, all right, go ahead and give up your
48:46
Speaker 1: winner and I'll get mine for the audience.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's gonna sound like a setup, but that's who
48:52
Speaker 5: I picked. I picked Duke to win it all, and
48:55
Speaker 5: we'll see. I don't have Michigan State in the final four.
48:58
Speaker 5: I do have one big ten team in the final
48:59
Speaker 5: four is one of a surprise, Maryland. But anyways, Duke
49:04
Speaker 5: is gonna get it off.
49:06
Speaker 1: Kind of going with the Florida Gators.
49:08
Speaker 5: That's right, I remember that.
49:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, we kind of go to Gators, So the number
49:12
Speaker 1: one team in the country. I read the book media
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49:16
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Speaker 1: Some of those names are the easiest come out. We'll
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Speaker 5: But I had a laugh because I remember a broadcaster
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Speaker 5: I faced what you said, Cody about your dad?
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Speaker 1: All right, Mike, Well everybody now they get hold of you.
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Speaker 1: Excellent effort tonight by both. Yeah, George and I are
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Speaker 1: guys than you guys to me have unbelievable potential. We're
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