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Dylan Strome on the Gr8 Chase: Race for the Wild Card, celebrating St. Patrick's Day and Jason fixes 3-on-3 OT. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart
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  Speaker 1: podcasts Great Tipy with us here on NHL in Scripted
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  Speaker 1: episode sixteen, Coming at You, and Dylan Stroman is our
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  Speaker 1: special guest. What a great backstery has not only going
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  Speaker 1: way back with Jason Demurz, my co host, but also.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to birds.
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  Speaker 1: I see it right now as Alexander ovench Can continues
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  Speaker 1: the Great Chase and as far as Stroman is concerned,
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  Speaker 1: he's broken up big to the last couple.
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  Speaker 2: Of seasons, going to wash and really has rejuvenated his career.
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  Speaker 1: We'll ask him about that, playing with Obie, stories of McDavid,
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  Speaker 1: back to the OHL, his brother in the Calder Cup.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of good stuff coming up from Dylan Stroman here momentarily.
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  Speaker 2: Plus we'll talk about the NHL and the stretch run.
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  Speaker 1: Right now is we're going to late March, you know,
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  Speaker 1: March madness, Weather's getting better, spring bling.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot going on here in the world of hockey,
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  Speaker 2: speaking of pucks.
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  Speaker 1: Always nice doing Amazon Prime Monday at Hockey and Jason
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  Speaker 1: Murz is chiming in as I was just back home
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  Speaker 1: in Toronto, the Leafs and the Flames critical game for
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  Speaker 1: both these teams.
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  Speaker 3: JD.
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  Speaker 2: You were locked in. Were you back home?
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  Speaker 1: How are you watching Amazon Prime Canada only broadcast here
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  Speaker 1: in America.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I keep tabs on you and make sure you're
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  Speaker 4: not cheating on me. And you were on Amazon Monday
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  Speaker 4: Night Prime. It was a good game, though I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to watch. I really it's tough when you work with
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  Speaker 4: the network and you have to you have to fall
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  Speaker 4: so many games and cover so many games, so sometimes
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  Speaker 4: you don't just get to sit and watch. And I
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  Speaker 4: kind of asked, like e. G. Erradick and guys like that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, how do you do it? Like how do
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  Speaker 4: you stay on top of all the stats? Knowing everything?
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  Speaker 4: And he's like he's honestly, He's like, it's it's overwhelming
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  Speaker 4: at times. So you just every now and again, if
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  Speaker 4: you can pick two teams you haven't watched consistently, just
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  Speaker 4: kind of go sit down. So I've watched Toronto, but
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  Speaker 4: I haven't watched a ton of Calgary this year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's like, you know what, I'm gonna sit down watch
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  Speaker 4: Obviously one of the worst games I could have watched,
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  Speaker 4: because they got absolutely shit pumped.
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  Speaker 3: They got shit pumped by Toronto.
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  Speaker 4: But it was good to see because everybody's kind of
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  Speaker 4: talking about Matthews. You know, we here, we're starting to
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  Speaker 4: hear rumors that he went you know, I think it
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  Speaker 4: was Switzerland for his back, and it was his back
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  Speaker 4: that he was getting stem cells or something or whatever
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  Speaker 4: we want to talk about for that.
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  Speaker 3: So it was good to see him.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of everybody's questioning as he's playing through an injury,
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  Speaker 4: what's going on? And he kind of shows up and
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  Speaker 4: shows out. And then obviously I get to watch your
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  Speaker 4: pre post and intermission reports and you know, fantastic work.
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  Speaker 4: But you love to throw in, you love to throw
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  Speaker 4: in a random movie cinema quote. And Blake Bolden every
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  Speaker 4: time was looking at.
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  Speaker 2: You, like look Dustin Wolf, the Wolf of Wall Streets.
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  Speaker 4: I was with you, Yeah, yeah, you went over ahead
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  Speaker 4: a few times. I'm used to it now because we're,
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  Speaker 4: you know, sixteen episodes in. But Blake Bolden's probably not
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  Speaker 4: used of all of your your endless knowledge and of
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  Speaker 4: the cinema and what do you call it, the cinema industry?
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  Speaker 4: You know all everything, I mean, your knowledge and especially
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  Speaker 4: you and Taw when you guys get talking. I told
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  Speaker 4: my wife, yeah, other day. I was like, and we
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  Speaker 4: got to talk about that a little bit. She's like,
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  Speaker 4: but did you watch The Brutalist, because tell I told you,
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  Speaker 4: Ai yam, I'm not watching The Brutis.
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  Speaker 2: Are you still getting buzzed from last up?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: But the way you guys talk about the writers and
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  Speaker 4: the screenplay, and I like went to my op and
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I know shit about movies here.
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  Speaker 3: I thought I'm sending fout.
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  Speaker 4: She's like, yeah, you rewatched the same movie seventeen hundred
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  Speaker 4: times and I'm like, yeah, a Pacific rim Uprising, great movie.
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  Speaker 1: I love its. Tu Dog Day Afternoon established your bonafly.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I need to hear.
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  Speaker 4: I like the old school Donny Brasco. Yeah, like mob movies.
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  Speaker 2: Forget about it.
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  Speaker 1: I want to go to the intermissions for a second
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  Speaker 1: because I'm glad you mentioned it. So I've bet John
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  Speaker 1: Shannon the first period, but I'm glad. It's actually why
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to start absolute legends in the game. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're a hockey fan, clearly listen to this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: You know the name is Daryl Sittler. Landy McDonald talking
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  Speaker 1: to Daryl Sittler ten point game. You know his responses
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  Speaker 1: when I said, what was going through your mind? Because
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  Speaker 1: I honestly thought it would have been broken by now.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, really, you think like a tempoint game.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't that monumental chiep And he said, no, I knew
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  Speaker 1: it was big, but I just would have thought with
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  Speaker 1: Gretzky and the way the high scoring was in the eighties,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Lemieux, McDavid, somebody would have broken it. And now
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  Speaker 1: it feels it to me in many ways as a
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  Speaker 1: hockey fan, unbreakable record ten points at Daryl Siler and
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  Speaker 1: Lanny McDonald's a team at Sittler's.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, back in the day with Toronto.
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  Speaker 3: It's as one of those records.
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  Speaker 2: Shit, did you just go? That's I see both aspects
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: One ten points in a game is maddening, But the
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  Speaker 1: other thing, I kind of understand Darryl's play.
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  Speaker 2: He would just would have expected some.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve two games and we would have broken his record,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not gonna happen today's game.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, goalies go down and butterfly now, so it's.
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  Speaker 4: You know, a little bit kicks saving a beauty a
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  Speaker 4: little different. It's a little harder to score from a
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  Speaker 4: half Clapper from the point. Nothing against that era, because
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  Speaker 4: you know, the technology wasn't there, so it was probably
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  Speaker 4: a lot harder to stand up and shoot and you know,
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  Speaker 4: swing those tree trunks that they had. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we've had a couple of what seven point games?
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  Speaker 4: Is that the most we've had. We'll have to check.
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  Speaker 4: I think seven point games. I know Nick Schmalt said
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  Speaker 4: seven points last year?
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  Speaker 1: Correct, Sam Gangye eight point game in twenty twelve, Alfredson's
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  Speaker 1: seven point game in Oh wait, Yoger said one point
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  Speaker 1: game in three thanks to tell for the could you
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  Speaker 1: believe Avice? Of all the names with respect to Sam Ganye,
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  Speaker 1: even Dave Gandhia is astounded by that.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Back to Austin Matthews, this is a guy who with
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  Speaker 1: twenty four goals going into that game, sixty nine a
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  Speaker 1: season ago, and I know he's missed fifteen games. But
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  Speaker 1: if you look at great goal scorers in the past,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't care who what it is, Gretzky, Bossy,
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  Speaker 1: let you Stephen Samcoast, if you have a sixty goal season.
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  Speaker 2: There's never been that precipitous to drop.
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  Speaker 1: Even taking to account the fact that Matthews missed fifteen games,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm with you that he kind of needed all
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  Speaker 1: those games.
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  Speaker 2: The Leafs in general needed a game like that.
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  Speaker 1: They only won one of their last six games. Matthews
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  Speaker 1: goes a couple up to twenty six. Maybe he's hurt,
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  Speaker 1: as you suggested, maybe just not having that strong a season.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a little surprising the Austin Matthews at this point,
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  Speaker 1: the only has twenty six goals after sixty nine a
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  Speaker 1: year ago. Martin, by the way, on pice for one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and one points, A guy who always gets beat
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  Speaker 1: up by the Toronto media, still having another trong season.
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  Speaker 2: The Golden Thing hasn't been as strong lately.
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  Speaker 1: But for Calgary's perspective, I love Ryan Hoska, always an
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  Speaker 1: engaging coach, Nazim Caji, my guy Gdi. They don't have
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  Speaker 1: much offensive talent. Let's be blunt. I mean they won
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  Speaker 1: the game against the Rangers last night two one. That's
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  Speaker 1: how you win games. Dustin Wolf plays right tight game,
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  Speaker 1: Catriw scores a goal and assists.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: It's got him and humor. Though, do you need more
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  Speaker 1: from Sharon Gobitz than these other players? They might make
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. But I think it's fasting as we look
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  Speaker 1: at the playoff race. Now, if I said to you
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  Speaker 1: right now, okay, that playoff race Vancouver, I would have
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  Speaker 1: argued the most talented roster, But no JT. Miller now,
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  Speaker 1: no Demco Hughes is not one hundred percent Flames Again,
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  Speaker 1: They've got the best goalie probably with Wolf Utah maybe
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  Speaker 1: still a year away, with some young talent, your boy
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  Speaker 1: Clayton Keller. And then Saint Louis. They've got the best
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  Speaker 1: scheduled down the stretch. Ten games against non playoff teams,
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  Speaker 1: three against nashvillef I'm not mistaken, So that race feels
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  Speaker 1: really wide open.
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  Speaker 4: I think it comes down to I was kind of
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  Speaker 4: looking at it today. Yes, Saint Louis has the easiest
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  Speaker 4: schedule in the league in the remaining the remaining games,
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  Speaker 4: but I think it's with Quinn Hughes back, and if
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  Speaker 4: Quinn Hughes is healthy and how much he dominates play
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  Speaker 4: and dominance offensively, they're just a different team with him
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  Speaker 4: in the lineup. They absolutely just put a shit kicking
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  Speaker 4: on the Jets last night, and a lot to do
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  Speaker 4: with Quinn Hughes. But I think it's gonna be between.
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  Speaker 4: It's really gonna end up being Vancouver or Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 4: I think Calgary just doesn't have enough. And I think
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  Speaker 4: the season Dustin Wolf has had has been incredible. And
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  Speaker 4: if they do make the playoffs, he should be the
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  Speaker 4: odds on call their favorite.
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  Speaker 3: He should win it. But Utah huge.
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  Speaker 2: If they don't make the playoffs, who wins it then celebrating.
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  Speaker 4: That's a tough one because Hudson right now, Montreal is
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  Speaker 4: lining up to make the playoffs right now, and because
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  Speaker 4: like everything you talked about, there's so many things that
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  Speaker 4: happened last night with losses like it for playoffs and
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  Speaker 4: there's still a lot of games left. But Saint Louis
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  Speaker 4: kind of getting close to Vancouver was huge. I just
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  Speaker 4: think with their schedule they can do it over Vancouver.
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  Speaker 4: But it's I think it's gonna come down to the wire.
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  Speaker 4: But I think it's those two in the West. I
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  Speaker 4: think Utah got that was a bad loss for them
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  Speaker 4: last night. They could not There was a bad loss,
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  Speaker 4: and then everybody else won. That's where it's tough when
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  Speaker 4: you lose and then everybody you're not getting any help.
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  Speaker 4: And then conversely, in the East, like, you know, Montreal
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  Speaker 4: gets that win, Rangers could not. That's one of those games.
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  Speaker 4: If they don't make the playoffs, they're kicking themselves because
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  Speaker 4: they should have won that game against Calgary and back
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  Speaker 4: to back after getting you know, just absolutely destroyed in
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  Speaker 4: Toronto and they're fresh and they just came out lifeless.
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  Speaker 4: So for me in the East, I think it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 4: I think much I want in Montreal Ottawa.
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  Speaker 1: Just to give me the perspective again, very Wednesday action
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  Speaker 1: in the West, four teams separated by four points, and
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  Speaker 1: as you said right now, you feel like Saint Louis Vancouver.
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  Speaker 3: Is the edge.
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  Speaker 2: In the East, six teams.
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  Speaker 1: Separated by four points for the final wild card Habs, yeah, Rangers,
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  Speaker 1: Red Wings, Blue Jackets, Bruins, Islanders.
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  Speaker 2: I'll discount Boston and the Islanders. It's one of and.
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  Speaker 4: Red Wings that kind of shouts themselves in the foot
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  Speaker 4: too big time.
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  Speaker 2: So Halbs, Rangers are Blue Jackets.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go Habs well, ay Abs.
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  Speaker 4: If Canada needs this, we need this nice you know
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  Speaker 4: with the tariff scarffs, we need it. There's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of shit. Do you see that Toronto maple Leafs raising
• 8:58
  Speaker 4: ticket price? This season ticket price is twenty percent. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's insanity.
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  Speaker 3: They it's even.
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  Speaker 1: After you called out the lower bowl and now they're
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  Speaker 1: raising tickets rights even more.
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  Speaker 2: We we Jason.
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  Speaker 4: We interviewed Izzy Daniel, who plays with the Toronto Scepters
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  Speaker 4: in the PDVHL, and she said that the lower She's like,
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  Speaker 4: I was just at a Toronto Mapleafs game. She goes,
• 9:20
  Speaker 4: that's a quiet lower bowl and I was like, thank you,
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  Speaker 4: you fell into the person, another person, another person, and.
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  Speaker 2: That she plays with the Toronto Steps.
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  Speaker 3: She's in the reader.
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  Speaker 4: But the PDVHL fans are when they go to Toronto
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  Speaker 4: and they scream. So all right, so your team in
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  Speaker 4: the easter're picking the habs, I think so. And then Ottawa,
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  Speaker 4: I think I have done it. But the thing with
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  Speaker 4: Ottawa is you look is they played three times against
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  Speaker 4: Columbus before the end of the season, so that's six points.
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  Speaker 4: So if you look, if either team, Columbus wins all
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  Speaker 4: three right now, they're one point back. But if all
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  Speaker 4: Autawa has to do is kind of go get a
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  Speaker 4: couple of points there and Columbus is done. So I
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  Speaker 4: think that hurts. Even though you know they had they
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  Speaker 4: should have won that game against the Devils. That was
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're gonna give some love to the Devils
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  Speaker 4: after this, but they should have won that game. They dominant.
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  Speaker 4: Jake Allen was you know, stood on his head. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: with with the Blue Jackets, I just don't know. They're
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  Speaker 4: running out of time and it's tough when you get
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  Speaker 4: a leap frog these teams, and teams can get the
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  Speaker 4: the sissy point and get the you know, the overtime
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  Speaker 4: shootout because it gets really tight and it's gonna come
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  Speaker 4: down to the wire though. But it's it's exciting. I
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  Speaker 4: just think Montreal, that fan base Bell Center, Oh my god,
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: they're so loud right now there. It's it's incredible. My
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  Speaker 4: dad's been so excited. He's say, he's never watched as
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: much hockey, you know with Harold Harold, Oh he's locked in,
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  Speaker 4: locked in, fucking loaded. He sent me last like yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Baby, he's like halfs.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, let's go all right, you're liking the halfs.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: Just let's get a little love to the Devil's just right.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: With one Porler last five, you lose Jack Hughes for
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: the season. Also, maybe the sky is falling. Their third
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: place in the Metro. But Bratt Meyer, he Shuer all
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  Speaker 1: been great looks at a first round series against the Hurricanes.
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  Speaker 1: They're analytical bent. I don't think they can make a
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  Speaker 1: run about Jack Hughes. But the fact they played so
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: well that them surprises me. And by the way, Monday
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: night's game on Prime early look ahead, we've got the
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  Speaker 1: Canucks and the Devils. We had the game we were
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: hoping it was the Huge Bowl. Unfortunately Jack will not
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: be there, but still catch the game Monday on Prime.
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: How do you feel about these Diablos of Kendanico, The.
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  Speaker 4: Diablos, I think they're gonna They're gonna make it in
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  Speaker 4: I I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I think they can they beat the Hurricanes. No, that's
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  Speaker 3: a tough one. That's it.
• 11:33
  Speaker 4: Here's the thing is people will say, oh, it's a
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: tough first round matchup for Devils, but it's kind of
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: a tough one for Carolina. It's a team that kind
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  Speaker 4: of plays a little bit loose. They kind of have
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  Speaker 4: some skill on the back end. You know, Carolina can't
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: kind of will their way through. It's gonna be if
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: they can just Outwill Jersey and beat him down. But
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: you look at the goaltending duo and Jersey, and that's
• 11:56
  Speaker 4: gonna be the difference. Jake Allen and Jacob Barksham like
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  Speaker 4: if they can steal some games, and that's that's been
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: the difference, is that they've had some. He brought these
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: goalies and Fitzgerald did to steal games and they've done
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  Speaker 4: this recently, like they a lot of these games they
• 12:10
  Speaker 4: shouldn't have won. And then conversely, also if you look
• 12:13
  Speaker 4: up front, you talk Timo Meyer, Nico Hescher, but Timo Meyer,
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  Speaker 4: everybody goes, wow, he's scoring now and he wasn't scoring before.
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  Speaker 4: Tim O myyer doesn't know how to not be the guy.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't know how to be a secondary scorer. He
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  Speaker 4: needs to be the person. And he's getting that opportunity
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  Speaker 4: with Jack out and you can see him he's kind
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  Speaker 4: of running with it because he kind of likes that
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  Speaker 4: being the guy. He was like that when San Jose,
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  Speaker 4: when it was him and he was kind of leading
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  Speaker 4: their offense was he was more engaged and more physical
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  Speaker 4: and you can see that again. So it's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: an interesting matchup. It's not my favorite matchup in the
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  Speaker 4: East in round one, but it's really going to be interesting.
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  Speaker 3: How it shakes out.
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  Speaker 4: But like if I'm right now, if you're looking at
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  Speaker 4: Washington too, like they're Washington's at the top, they're finishing.
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  Speaker 2: First Abbs Caps Rangers Caps.
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  Speaker 4: Habs would be a fantastic matchup and would be a
• 13:02
  Speaker 4: tough one for Capitals to get. I wouldn't want Montreal
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  Speaker 4: in the first round just because that fan base. It's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be. Bell Center is one of the loudest buildings
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  Speaker 4: in the best place to watch a game in hot Oh.
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  Speaker 3: It's the best, best, best place to call a game too.
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  Speaker 4: Doing radio there, it's you're right on top of the
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  Speaker 4: fans and it's just so loud.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a party there.
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: Nothingly the NHL General Managers meetings in Palm Beach, Florida,
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  Speaker 2: this week.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, EJ E.
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  Speaker 1: Raddick locked in right now. I'm feeling in forant for NHL.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: I go whyt me tonanciel type first shift and Mike
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  Speaker 1: AG's got the Florida trip, him and Dan Rosen on
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: the beach together, so hopefully that's gonna go great. But
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: as far as news is concerned, according to Elliot Friedman,
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: one of the main topics these mid season best on
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: best international tournaments. Everyone's still talking about four n agents right,
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: highest numbers in ESPN thirty years. Blah blah blah. Everyone
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: so excited obviously next year to the Olympics taking place
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: in Italy. But it doesn't interrupt the season and you
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: can speak to this. Is there anything you can do,
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: JD to help the schedule because you have the best
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: players in the world. Go go go, go go go
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: playing for their team, playing for their fans.
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: Pause.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, pause, I'm going best on best and then
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: coming right on back. Is there anything we can do
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: to help these guys out?
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: Huh oh, sorry, dozed off there to GM meetings. This
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: is what we're doing now, Okay, Oh my god. Yeah
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: they Elliott Freeman just said they went to the GM meetings.
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: They all played golf and they got nothing done.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: Something.
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: What they're in man Alapan, Florida, just swinging the club around,
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: sing at the Ritz Carlton, Yeah, lots getting down there.
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: Oh they said, Oh, we talked about three on threes,
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: We talked about gold interference. But yeah, we think everything's
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: good as is.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: Of course, hockey's the hottest thing it's been of all time.
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: Why would they want to change anything? Other than maybe
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: my three on three change that I think they should do.
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: But we'll talk about that another time, because we're talking
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: about the GM scheduling, and I think, yes, the league
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: should get back to I don't love that we're starting
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: later and later and finishing later and later, but I
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: do understand that based on TV ratings, they're trying to
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: find that sweet spot where they're not having a battle
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: with football or baseball. And that's a tough thing. But
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: I think I think that if the game keeps getting
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: built the way it's getting built, I think they can
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: throw that out and just go on their own schedule,
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: because if we bring in enough fans, it doesn't matter.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: We're not gonna lose people to football and baseball. We're
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: gonna become our own thing. So I would like to
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: see I liked when the finals finished on my birthday
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: June ninth, versus like June twenty fifth, June twenty sixth. Now,
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: I just feel like two months before training camps just
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: tough for everybody, and it's tough for the players. And
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: you know now that you have these which obviously the
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: Four Nations was a raging success, and then you have
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: the Olympics, next year, and you're gonna have the World
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: Cup of Hockey. These are crazy events that are amazing,
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: and I think the players really like them, but they
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: come at such a the only place you can put
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: them is after January or February whatever it is, in
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: the middle of the season. But then you're gonna invite
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: injuries and you're gonna invite some guys getting fatigued, and
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: I don't love that, but it is what it is,
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: and it grows the game, and that's the most important thing.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: So there's my answer. Sucking.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: So the answers are there's no answer. Essentially, we have
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: to eat these best of the best tournaments. Why I
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: was short in the league, so you just have to
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: have games being played June twenty eighth.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: One hundred percent. Why I was sleeping when you were
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: talking asking me that question. Is this scripted or unscripted?
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, so that was an unscripted answer. I was hoping
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: for something better, if I'm being honest.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: But what do you mean, what do you want me
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: to say, Oh, let's just have the season start at
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: June and finish.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Give me a sixty game season.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Do something, why too? I mean, you do what hockey.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: June twenty eighth. Insane, that's insane.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: If games ship, they should go back to training camp
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: in September and finish earlier, start earlier, finish earlier.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: There you go, there's an answer that's that's constructive advice.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Do you want my answer forget about it?
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Coming up next after this break and NHL n scripted,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Dylan Strom, what's it like having a bird's eye view
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: right now to the great Chase? Strom will tell us
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: and what has been a great season for him and
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the Capitols, And yes, Alexander Ovechkin, that's next. Our first
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: guest was drafted third overall by the Arizona Counties in
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: twenty and fifteen. After being traded to the Chicago Blackhawks
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, he signed with the Washington Capitals in
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. He is now one of the top
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: players on the best team in hockey this season. Ladies
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, Dylan Strom here in NHL unscripted, Dylan, good
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: to see you.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: Thanks for having me, boys, appreciate it.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get into the Great Chase and all that
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: into a second, but just being on this Capitols team
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: right now, a team that is hurtling towards one hundred
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: points top spot in the Eastern Conference.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: How much fun has this season been?
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's been a ton of fun. I've never
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: been on a you know, a team as good as
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: this in the NHL. You know, It's it's nice to
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: have that team confidence where you go into every game
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: expecting to win, even when we're down in the game.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: I feel like we have the you know, the confidence
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: that we're that we're gonna get you know, a couple
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: of goals, or we're going to get at least some chances.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: And our goaltending has been incredible this year.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: So I feel from top to bottom, we got a
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: you know, a really good, uh good group of guys
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: and and uh on a team that you know, we
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: we don't really take any games off, which is nice
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: to see, and and it feels like we're in every game.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: So it's been a ton of fun. And uh, I know,
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: the best part is just getting started.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Stromer.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: It's so good to have you on and watching the
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: evolution of your game from when I played with you
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: in Arizona to now is just incredible. I mean, you
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: tied your career high last night, and what's that like
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: for you, you know, because there's times in your career
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: where you did battle adversity and and being a high
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: draft pick and and going through all those struggles. But
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: now just kind of being so comfortable in your game
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: and understanding exactly who you are. How where was that
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: shift in the mindset?
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, for sure, it's it's it's tough when
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: you you know, you have these expectations that you put
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: on yourself, and you know you want to do really well,
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: and you know, a team you know, puts a lot
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: of faith in you to draft you that high, especially
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: in such a good draft, and unfortunately it just never
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: worked out out there. I mean, I'm happy they got
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: a you know, a really good player you know, out
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: of the situation and a guy that's still you know,
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: playing for that organization. Obviously they switched over to Utah now,
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: but but Schmaltz is doing really well there. So you know,
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: you definitely have doubts about yourself when things aren't going
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: well or when you're not playing, or know, whatever the
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: reason may be. But just definitely since I got to Washington,
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: definitely just feel feel more comfortable, feel you know, feel
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: like I you know, I had you know, a purpose
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: to to be on the team and where they saw
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: me fit and when you're going through free agency, it's weird,
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: like I never really expected to to go through it
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: at you know, that early, especially when you're you're still
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: a restricted free agent and then you don't get qualified,
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: so it kind of hits you pretty fast. And then
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: you know, sometimes when a team just gives you that,
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: you know, that chance, they they definitely, uh, you know,
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: had some really good things to say about me and
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: and Sabby where they you know, kind of told me
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: beforehand where they where they saw me fitting in and
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: where they kind of saw things going. So I feel
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: like when you hear that sometimes it just it kind
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: of gives you that confidence to just just be yourself
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: and and be the player that you know you can be.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: And especially when you got guys here that have won
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Stanley Cups and have been around the block, and you know,
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: the success this team's had I think I think in
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: Obie's career, I think they've missed the playoffs like maybe
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: two or three times, maybe you know, in twenty years,
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: it's pretty incredible. So you know, when you're around winners
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: and you're around you know, guys that have done it
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: for a long time. It just it kind of makes
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: you know your your transition pretty seamless. And that's what
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: it's been for me so far.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Here.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you signed that one years deal with Washington, and
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: really your career has changed. You mentioned Ov and the
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Svechkin great chase, which is captivated all of us. My
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: friend James Datie Tessen point out of years ago what
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: might have been the most remarkable Think about a Vetchkins.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: For years, his water bottle was loaded with doctor pepper.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Can you confirm or deny does he still do that?
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: I think it's coke. I don't.
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: I don't know if he used to be doctor pepper
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: or not, but yeah, that's definitely uh uh.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: He loves his coke.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: You know, during the between the periods and on the benches,
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: he doesn't drink it. I don't think all the time,
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: but you know, when he comes off and I guess
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: when he needs that little burst of energy or something,
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: uh just uh, you know, grabs a couple of swigs
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: of coke and he's right back out there.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: So, I mean, what the guy's doing is just incredible.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: And and the way he goes into each game, and
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: and the way teams defend against him, It's something that
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: I've never I've never seen before.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: I play with some pretty good players.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: And and McDavid and Kane and Taves and you know
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: guys that you know, our our elite, you know, top
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: of the league players in the NHL or whatever league
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: that they've been in. But you know, you don't see
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: too many teams defending against the guy the way that
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: teams defend against ov. I mean even five on five,
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: you know, they pretty much have a guy on him
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: the whole time. So it's definitely you know, poses his
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: challenges and I think he kind of just shows what
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: he's doing is all the more impressive. I mean, I
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: think he has like ten power play goals this year
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: and every single power player guy's just consistently staying on
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: him the whole time. So it's it's, uh, you know,
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: the way he gets open, and uh, you know, it's
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: been a lot of fun to be a part of.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: And and now I.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: Know, we got fourteen games left here to get to
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: get eight goals, but we're working towards that, and you know,
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: if it doesn't happen, we got we got eighty two
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: next year to to to figure it out.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Russian machine don't break, that's for sure.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: But I mean talk about your your guys' chemistry, because
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: do you guys have a lot of chatter and it
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: take you did it take you some time to figure
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: him out and figure out where he's gonna be because,
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: like you say, you know, there's always somebody on him,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: so you really have to find that window. And you
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: know before you was Nick Backstrom, And have you had
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: any conversations with him or did he approach you a
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: little bit to be like, hey, this is kind of
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: where over likes it because he is a particular guy,
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: like he is.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Very unique and where he needs the puck.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: But also it's like he's so elite that you can't
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: get it to him anywhere and he's gonna find the net.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: So how how has that been in like the chatter
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: between you two?
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say it definitely took a little bit
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: at first.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: I feel like it took a little bit to kind
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: of figure out, just because when I was in Chicago,
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: I was playing a lot with Kane, and you know,
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: Kane is definitely a guy who carries the puck more
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: and wants the puck on his stick, and you know,
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: kind of is the the play driver of the line,
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: and then coming to Washington, it's pretty much the puller
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: off it. Like he wants you to have it on
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: your stick. He wants to be the one to get
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: open passes, no backhand passes. He definitely, uh, you know,
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: we we've we've had lots of conversations. It was honestly
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: probably three or four games until you know, we got
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: put on a line together, and you know, you get
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: all the Ozone draws, you get all the you know.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: The the good chances to score and the power play time.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: And it was nice to get to see him in
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: back he you know, play together for a little bit.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: I know, a vacuum only played like fifty games or
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: sixty games maybe when I was here through through my time,
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: but even just seeing them together and it's kind of
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: seeing how they they work, and you know the obviously
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: we watch a lot of film here, so the you know,
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: the passes that he makes and the kind of the
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: team that he does. I don't think anyone's as good
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: as a passer as Backstrom, and I'm not sure anyone
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: ever will be, especially to Obie in that sense. But
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: they're trying to just watch them and see how they
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: work together, and especially in the power play where uh,
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: you know, it looks like there's I don't know, I'm
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: sure you guys seen some of the videos where always
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: kind of just standing there with his stick across his
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: across his waist and then next thing, you know, you know,
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: the pucks in the back of the net. And I
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: learned a lot from from Kuznetsov too, because you know,
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: the way they kind of can play together. I feel
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: like the Russians have a have a way of playing
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: their own brand of hockey, and you know, to see
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: them kind of you know, communicate on the ice and
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: the way they did it, it was fun to watch it
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: and fun to be a part of being on the
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: power play with those two guys, uh, Kouzi and Ovi.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: Was was something that I learned a law from it
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: and just try to continue on with that that kind
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: of tradition.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Dylan, you don't want to put the car before
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the horse. But as you said, hopefully this record does
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: get broken this year. Have you guys discussed any potential
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: plans of what to do? Are you gonna storm the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: ice like brave Heart?
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: Well, I know on goal eight hundred, we did, and
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: eight oh two we did, which was obviously to the
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: two most recent milestones, So I would assume something like that.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know they've talked about how Batman and uh, you.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: Know, wing Gratzky are gonna be in the bi you know,
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: when he has I think when he has five to
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: go and and and counting. So, I mean, I don't
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: really know. I've definitely thought about it a ton of
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: what's gonna happen. You know, we talked a little bit
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: about here, like you know, what's who's gonna get the puck,
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: how much security is going to be there. You know,
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: he takes pretty much everything he has after he scores,
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: especially now, and keeps it for himself or keeps it
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: in his museum or wherever he does with it. We
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: don't really know what he does with it. I'm sure
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: we'll find out one day. But he takes all his jersey.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: You gotta sign his jerseys, Uh, sign his jersey if
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: you get an assist on a goal.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: He keeps everything.
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: So no, it's I mean, it's almost hard to grasp
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: when you're kind of in it because it's like, you know,
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: obviously he's eight goals away, which is insane.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: But you know, eight goals is a lot for anyone
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: to get.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: I mean that it's still a lot, and it's not
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: a lot for him, but you know, we're hoping that
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: he gets you know, we're hoping that he has a
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: couple of you know, two goal games and it you know,
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: it gets a little bit you know, more within reach.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: But no, it's it's been incredible, and I think it's
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: only going to get crazier. I mean, you we our
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: crowd is chanting Ov with three minutes left in the game,
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: like hoping the other team pulls their goalie.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: I mean, the building is just crazy.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: We were in San Jose and I think like half
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: the arena was standing up when he scored in San
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Jose and and it's just like people want to see
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: him score. He scored at MSG a week and a
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: half ago, and the building was shanning Ov like it's
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: just you know, things that just don't happen on a
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: regular basis are happening, and it's it's it's cool to
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: be a part of.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Well, like any other player, it's like, you know, eight,
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: eight goals in fourteen games, like that's hard for anybody.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: And they're like, yeah, he's gonna get it this year,
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Like we're at the network, Yeah, what what day is
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: he getting it?
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I'm like, he's got to get eight. I'm like, that's yeah,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: I know, I know, yeah, you're playing.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: But talk about that is like as a team, like,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: because you guys have have been just so laser focused
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: and confident all year. You guys have been you know,
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: wired to wire for me, the best team in the league.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: And has it been a big large in part because
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: of the ov chas or is it just because the
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: belief in the room and and you know, seeing that
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Brian McClellan and the brain truster in Washington are just
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: kind of putting a good product down the ice for
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: you guys and trying to be competitive.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: I think it would be a combination of all the things.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: I think, you know, when when Ovi scores a goal,
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: it definitely energizes the whole building, energizes our team, and
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: we seem to get so much extra life from that.
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: And then you know, obviously with him getting hurt in
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: November there, you know, I thought our team did a
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: really good job of kind of you know, not letting it,
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: you know, hinder our season. You know, he had fifteen
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: goals in eighteen games at the time, and when when
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: when you lose a guy that has that, that's obviously
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: that's pretty basically a goal of game. And so when
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: you lose a goal a game from your lineup, you
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: you'd think things would dip a little bit. But I
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: think kind of like you said, with with McClellan and
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: Chris Patrick and the what they've done with you know,
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: adding the pieces that we've added, like you know, you
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: know Chicky pretty well obviously, and he's just been a
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: monster back on the blue line, Like he has eighteen goals,
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: and you know, he's just so good with the puck.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: He's got so much confidence. He you know, he uses
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: confidence and.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: Then he add you know, du Bois and how good
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: he's been for us and him and protests have have
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: been you know, I don't know the exact numbers, but
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: I got to think that they're they're up there with
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: with the elite of the NHL.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: I five one, five.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: And oh yeah, what is what is he doesn't have
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: a five on it doesn't have a power play goal
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: and he's got like five goals.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: It's yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he's built in a lab
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: protest for sure, he's a he's a horse. He just
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: broke the record last night for most points ever by
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: a bela Russian. I believe, I believe in one season.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: So I mean, the guy's ridiculous. We we've had some
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: great pickups, even like the the glue guys on our team,
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: like Brandon Newham is a guy we picked up from
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: Colorado and he was on Minnesota before that. He's just
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: I had no idea about this guy before, but I
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: can't imagine our team is the way we are without
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: him on our team. Just one of those guys that
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: you love to have in your room, just you know,
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: barking and you know, chirping everyone and fighting at any
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: time someone will say yes to him. So it's just
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: it brings your team to life. And you know, it's
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: it's a combination of lots of things. But it's been
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: heck of a ride and and hopefully we can you know,
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: cap it off with you know, maybe a President's Trophy
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: and and the Great Chase coming to a close.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: You you talked about chick there, and and I have
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: to touch a little bit on Jacob Chickenen and all
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: of the things, all of the things he does off
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: ice What is he on right now? Is he on
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: the steak and beef towel or is he doing a
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: kettleball circuit?
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Or is he doing cartwheels? What's he got going on?
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: God, yeah, he's beef tallow is the one thing that
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: that gets brought up a lot here.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: No, no, no oils. I don't know.
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: I honestly don't know. He's a new thing every day.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: I heard yesterday that he's no light bulbs. He's doing
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: a candle candle light in his house. Now, yeah, that's
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: what That's what his saying. Thing was yesterday, So he
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: was on he was onto a bees wax candles, is
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: what I heard.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: Is great for you. So now now we're we're all
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: talking about bees wax candles.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: No light bulbs in the rink, whatever it takes.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: That's nice to him, Like you can't you can't have
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: it one way. But I don't know. That's a topic
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: for a different day.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: But like there's lights everywhere, Like what are you talking
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: about no light bulbs?
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Speaking of lights and being in the spotlight.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Uh, Dylan, you've been used to it because you know,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: play with contract David, the erie otters, the o HL
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: what was it like having so much attention again and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: run a teammate like that as you're seeing now with
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the Vechkin.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean the situations are are are pretty similar.
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: Obviously you know a little bit greater of a stage now,
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: but you know when you're in that moment and you're
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: on a junior team and things are you know, pretty
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: crazy around the draft and you know there's talk like
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: he's the next Crosby and and things like that. So
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: it was definitely crazy back then. You know, we we
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: had a lot of fun. We had a you know,
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: an unbelievable team. We made some great pickups of the
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: deadline that year, and we had a lot of fun.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: We made a run to the finals in the OHL
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: that year, and you know it was awesome to be
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: a part of it and kind of see a whole
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: city kind of get behind a team and you know
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: how that worked. So definitely some similarities with you know,
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: the kind of the superstardom you know type type people
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: and players. But I think just you know, seeing it
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: now and seeing it at you kind of a national
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: level and seeing it, you know, people are we have
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: people that come out of you know after practice and
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: there's people from there's people from Austria, from Germany. Someone
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: had to sign last night said I'm from Korea here
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: to see OV and like it's like, you know, people
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: are coming from everywhere near and far to see this
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: guy play.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: So it's no, it's cool.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: I want to touch on you and family specifically, because
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: you know, I was watching a couple of the your
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: interviews last night and doing prep work like I never
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: did when I played hockey, but now on the interview
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: signed to do a lot of prep work. But I
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: want to just talk. I know you're a superstitious guy.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: You're very superstitious. You're very particular about what you do
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: on game day, and it has to be kind of
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: very almost the same thing every time. Has that changed
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: now having kids you have two kids now, or or
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: have you found a way to kind of create like
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: a superstition with your kids and with your family with
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: your wife, Taylor, because I know how hard you know,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: I never played when I When I played, I didn't
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: have kids. I was, you know, just with my my
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: wife now. But I always found it so impressive guys
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: getting up and playing and having energy after you know,
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: being up with kids or having to deal with with children.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: So how is that superstition for you changed?
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: Honestly, it's it's you know, you kind of just adapt
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: as you go. I definitely I am a superstitious guy
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: for sure. Like you said, I try to do the
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: same thing on most game days, you know. Now, my
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: my part of my superstition is is you know, dropping
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: my daughter off for school, on the way to the
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: rink and on the way home from morning escape picking
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: her out from school.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: So the timing kind of works pretty perfectly.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: You know, when you play so many games at the
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: same time, you kind of just fall into kind of
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: a rhythm of doing the same thing. And then when
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: things are going well, it's even easier to keep that,
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: to keep that going, I guess where that's where the
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: superstition comes into play. But yeah, I mean they try
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: to eat the same thing, try to you know, nap
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: it there around the same time. But things are gonna
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: come up. And I think that's what what having kids
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: has taught me is, you know, you know, some days
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: your kids are gonna be sick. Some days you know
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: they're they're gonna be you know, they're gonna be throwing
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: a fit, they're gonna be you know, wanted to play
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: with you. They're gonna be wanting to do different things
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: that you don't normally do. So as much as you
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: can keep the same, you try to. But I definitely
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: think with having kids has taught me a little bit
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: of you know, there's going to be curveballs thrown at
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: yet at any time, and you just got to adjust.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: I remember earlier this year, I took my took my
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: my two daughters. My wife had had a doctor's appointment
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: or something, and and I had to take my two
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: daughters to the dentist on a game day. And I
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: didn't think I would ever do that in my life,
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: but you know, just left the rink a little early,
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: picked her out from school, went to the dent went
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: to dent went to the dentist, got home, you know,
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: brought my meal home, had it at home this time,
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: and and ended up having a pretty decent game.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: So, uh, you know, sometimes you just got to adjust
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: in the fly.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is a final line hypertine, routines
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: and superstition. Like I think we're describing as a routine,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: superstition is like a rabbits foot in your locker.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Like I have.
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: That's probably one of our main conversations in our team.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: It was what's the routine and what's the superstition? So
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: that's yeah, you know, some guys I won't name names,
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: but some guys that come in and have to line
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: up their name tag that's so perfectly in line with
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: their stall, we would say that's more of a superstition.
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: But superstition okay, or like having you know, a couple
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: of cry baby gumballs before the game is a superstition.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: But routines more like warm up and and maybe what
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: time you get to the rink and things like that,
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: were probably that actually matter as opposed to you know,
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: your superstitions.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: But you know, we have a lot of fun with that.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Here I wanted to ask us, well, again, like Jad
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: was saying, as part as your family mean, it's it's amazing,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: you know, just the journey you've had and an older
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: brother and Ryan, who plays for the Ducks. But the
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: biggest goal in the family, of course, your younger brother
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Mats the game winning goal overtime game six last season
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: to win the.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Calder Cup for the Hershey Bears. Where were you when
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: he scored it?
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: I think a lot of people that talk about that
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: now forget that that was also at the same time
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: as the same day as Game seven of the Cup final,
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: so definitely got a little overshadowed there. And that moment
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: I remember, we were I was at home, went over
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: to my brother's house, older brother, Ryan's house, and he
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: had a bunch of buddies over. A few of my
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: buddies came over and there's probably ten of us in
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: the basement watching and we had the you know, the
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: NHL game on the big screen and mask game on the.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: Side, not not a smaller TV, but on this little
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: side TV.
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: We had a top on the side, and it just
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: so happened that the overtime just was just about to start,
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: and I think the the NHL game was between the
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: second and third in the intermission, so we someone made
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: a comment, one of Ryan's, one o Ryan's buddies made
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: a comment like, you know, Matt's. Matt's had a little
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: bit of a knack of scoring some big goals. He
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: scored the the Ohl Cup winning goal for the minor
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: midget tournament in his in his in his last year
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: of minor hockey, he scored a few Ohl Playoff overtime
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: winning goals, and someone made a comment like, you know, Matt, Matt,
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: Matt's got that knack to scored the big goal.
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: I'm sure enough.
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: About two minutes into overtime he gets on the ice
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: and the puck kind of just scores to him.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: And I mean we were going banana lands in the basement.
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: We were yelling at his kids.
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: Ryan's kids woke up upstairs, you know, get here, kids crying,
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: dogs were barking.
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: It was, it was, it was unbelievable.
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: So I know he couldn't couldn't be more proud of
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: him and what he's done. He's he's had a you know,
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: a tough road in in pro hockey and kind of
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: just found his way and found a little niche in
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: Hershey and he loves it there and you know, the
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: place loves them and they're they have so much fun.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: They're such a good team, such.
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: A well run organization, and you know, for him to
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: get that goal, I mean it was just like, you know,
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: you can't even you can't even dream about that stuff.
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: That's like, you know, next to winning and Stanley Cup,
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: I mean, there's there's not much, not much higher than
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: you get in hockey than that, so it's it's pretty cool.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: Did that goal help him become or get close to you?
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: And being the favorite in the family to your parents, because.
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: Well, I like to say my mom My mom says
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: that I'm the favorite because we're both middle child, middle children,
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: and I think, you know, there's there's definitely days where
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: Ryan's a favorite and we're MAT's the favorite. But you know,
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: as a middle child and there's someone that just cares
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: so much about everyone, I like to say that I'm
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: the favorite, you know, consistently three sixty five.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: Just humbly saying I care about everyone. I'm the only
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: one that cares about everyone.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: I love that. That's awesome till we know.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: The real turning point in your career is when Jason
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Burrs came to Arizona in twenty seventeen.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: I need your best JD story.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Man, I got it. I mean I was.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: I was pretty young and pretty immature at those times.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: He's remained that way, so I'm still there.
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: I I just go back to that Halloween party. I
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: know you remember that pretty well.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: I think it was at Smithy's house.
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: I want to say, I think that was my my
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: first year there.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: You had when I remember when Richie dressed up as Chick.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Do you remember that, yes, vaguely, because yes, Richie dressed
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: up as Chick.
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: Was it was like his first couple of.
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: Games in the league, and and he he was like
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: always had his shirt off.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: We always joking, and he was like a big, true ambassador.
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: And I know that some of the older guys had
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: had a good time with Chick, you know, just Richardson
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: had the spray on abs and and had everything going
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: in as such an unreal outfit. I remember Mike Smith
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: was in like a golden like dodgeball costume or something,
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: and I think I was with Fisher and Devorak and
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: we were just, you know, we were just having a
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: good time.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: We'll just we'll say that. But I remember that Halloween
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: party being being hilarious.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Well, that Arizona team.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, we may not have won a ton of games,
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: we had fun doing it, that's for damn sure.
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: Because it was a good mix of young, younger guys
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: and older guys. And like I said, I was definitely
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: definitely immature and in that time and just you know,
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: kind of playing my first couple of games in the league,
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: and I couldn't believe that this was what the lifestyle
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: was like, and you know, going to the rink and
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: shorts every day and definitely enjoying life.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: You know, probably probably a little too much at that time.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Well you had it.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: You had an affinity for Burberry at that time. I
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: don't know if you still got it, but Burberry was
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: always draped on you and every ass I was like,
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: this kid is just always in Burberry.
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: I know, I did love Burberry.
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: I'd like to think I've grown into a little bit
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: more of you know, maybe some different brands, but I
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: definitely still got the old Birdberry going on. I got
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: the belt still, I got the I got the flannel
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: still still in the closet somewhere, maybe a couple of
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: coats now.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: But I love that brand.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: It's the classic Asian outfit, Asian older man outfits.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Classic.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Uh go ahead, gitty, whathever you got to wrap up?
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Keep it rolling right now, buddy. Honestly, it's so fun
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: to watch you. I you know, I followed your career
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: very closely, had a soft spot for you after playing
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: with you, and it's fun to watch you play on
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: this team being as dominant as you are, as I
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: knew you could be just the way you move the puck,
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: so keep it going, and uh, honestly, it's it's just
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: the beginning of the run for you.
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: So yeah, hopefully I got I got a question for you.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: Are are you?
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: Are you on the Capitol's Bandwidgen, because you know sometimes
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: when they leave like jerseys out for people to sign
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: in the in the in the dressing room, and we
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: got it. We got a jersey sitting over there right now,
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: and it's a Demurse Washington Capitol's jersey, number seventeen on
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: the back that that asked to be teams signed. So
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: I didn't know if that was going straight to you.
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know. I don't number seven.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: It's my long lost or it's my father trying to
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: get in there. It's Darryl Demurs trying to get a
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: jersey I had. I had the you know, I was
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: so hard on I mean, I wasn't hard on him,
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: but on Peer Luke Dubois and I had a peer
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: Luke glue Bois shirt made because I love that shirt.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Isn't that great?
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: I'll send it to you because I have it here
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: at the at the at the house and I'll send
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: me your address and I'll mail it to you. But
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: because we're all around the network now calling him Pierre
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: Luke glue Bought. I mean, we love this team and
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: we just love all the pieces that have been put
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: together there just it's it's you guys have a little
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: bit of everything.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: So it's fun.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: And I love that you guys love Doham because he's
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: just an animal. I skated with him a little bit
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: in the summers in Florida, and I mean the guy
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: works out like six times a day.
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's he's he's unbelievable. I mean, the guy he
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: doesn't stop. Like it's like we just got here. It's
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: nine o'clock in the morning, and we get here and
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: I can hear him like in the dressing room, just
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: like the loudest guy, like smiling, laughing already, like joking
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: with guys.
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: Like he doesn't shut it off. And you need guys
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: like that.
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  Speaker 4: I love it, buddy. Well, good luck the rest of
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: the way. Big kisses to the family, and uh you'll
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: get that Curry High.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: Brother appreciate it. Thanks guys, all.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Right, Thanks Dylan, this was great, buddy, all right, Thanks
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  Speaker 1: once again at Dylan strou He was fantastic, all right,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Cinephile in sixty in honor Saint Patrick's Day. Irish theme
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  Speaker 1: movies We've Got My Left Foot, the Great Daniel day
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  Speaker 1: Lewis movie, In the Name of the Father, The Great
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  Speaker 1: Deal of day Lewis Movie, The Gangs of New York,
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  Speaker 1: The Great Deal of day Lewis Movie. I'm all about
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: ddl Okay, so of my favorite actors. Any Irish themed
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  Speaker 1: He's there for me.
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  Speaker 2: How about You?
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  Speaker 1: Belfast a great film by Kenneth Browny won the Oscar
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  Speaker 1: for Original Screenplay.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Is there an Irish theme.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Movie, JD that you specifically love when you think of
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day, um Miller's Crossing, Great Cone Brothers movie, Gangsters.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: I mean Gangs of New York. It's it's hard to
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: beat nice. Yeah, it's really it comes to them. Irish
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: Irish wish By with Lindsay Lohan is one.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: I'm not familiar with that one. I'm just kidding the
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: band She's a finish here in Yeah, I thought it
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: was a.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Really funny movie calling Farrell Brendan Gleeson great.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Brendan Gleeson is probably in a lot
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: of these because he does play a great little Irish character, Iritish.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: Would you consider The Depadded Irish?
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, The Depatt, It's definitely an Irish movie.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: Jack Dick Patt accident. Yeah, you gotta love Jack Nicholson.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: Probably one of the most unhinged performances I think in
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: that he was so good.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I love The Departed, but yeah, I got
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: this wreathing.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Rat.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: My buddy Ryan Ricillo, who spent a lot of time
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: in Boston, he said to me once The depart is
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: a great, bad movie, Like, what does that mean?
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: He goes.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's great.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: What do you mean he goes because Nicholson's two over
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: the top, he's overacting too much and the accents are bad.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: And I said, no, No, it's a great movie. It's got
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: outsized performances. Yes, it's larger than life, it's flamboyant, and
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: yes it's not scors He's best movie.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: You should have won ten Oscars before that. But still
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: a great movie.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, Damon DiCaprio, the whole cast, you're a farmiga
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: speaking of Saint Patrick's did though, I love what you
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: did on air? Brian Boyle, who I mean if I
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: said to somebody Irish Catholic. I'm like, I'm thinking of Boiler,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: who's got just just Irish as a guest like that.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: I love that, No, but I love Boilers.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Look, but I look what you did, because you do
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: not have children yet, you wore a shirt which my
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: kids would appreciate.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: And that was Patrick of SpongeBob Fame.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Saint Patrick T. Patrick, the voice of I.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Looked like somebody that has zero Irish heritage at all.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: And Boiler looked like he was part of the IRA.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, boy, Boiler looked at from The Crying Game, one
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: of my favorite movies.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: He looked like he was Iron the Eye.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: He was either in the IRA or he was on
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: a skyscraper in New York City building and was without
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: any harness with the baggiest pants of all time.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah he had one of the other His pants were
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: so baggy they called him trousers.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Like remember that that.
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: It was like he purposely wore it, and I had
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: no idea that those pants were a thing. And he's like,
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: I'm like, how comfortably are He's like, I could not
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: be more comfortable sitting down right now. He always wears
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: like a tight pant. But I said, like, there's a movie.
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: There's an Irish movie. I have to I have to
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: find that. It was about like an Irish gangster part
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: of the IRA and he was like going up against
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: the mob and stuff that I can't remember what it is,
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: but I'll figure it out.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: In GI have any memories of playing on Saint Patricks Day.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty cool. By the way, being
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: at the Leafs game, it ain't easy being green. I
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: had a green suit. Blake Bowld and Andy Patrillo All
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Force is the only guy I couldn't get in the spirit.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: There's a slight hint of green in my tig. That's
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: not Hickey wore green suit. Jody Shelley dark green suit.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: The Saint Pat's the jerseys.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: The green was phenomenal. How about you playing on Saint
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Patrick's Day? People just getting hammered on guinness after the game.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: Well, I always tried to play drunk on Saint Patrick's
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: Day in the NHL, and I did.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: That another two on one. What the hell is to
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: hers doing?
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Joining the rush again?
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: He's all over the place. We don't know what he's doing.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: This is a bold strategy by him. This is a
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: new form of playing on his ankles. Uh yeah, and
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: I you know, I always I always thought I did
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: that pretty successfully playing drunk on Saint Patty's Day.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: No, I can't.
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: I mean other than the jerseys you wear him and
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: warm up's. Like I always liked those cool commemorative jerseys,
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: like they have the military night and all that. I
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: think they're so I think there's so cool. They're always
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: a cool design. And yeah, you know you always laugh
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: at like what's your name on the back because they'll
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: put like O demurz or oh goldgask here.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: It's great. Yeah, yeah, so they kind of make you again,
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: are wee Irish?
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Lass?
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: I think that's awesome.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: I love the fact he'll get it the spirit of
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: being Irish. What are the thought here?
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: That way of drinking. Yeah, that's what it is.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: It's bass, a big booze and some dirty limericks along
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: the way.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, gotta give love to people in the media and
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: long tim Capital's played by play man Joe Benanati, who's
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: gonna be on duty for Alexander of Vashkin's record breaking goals.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: So Ben Andanti was going to get snubbed if the
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: goal came during a national sports broadcast, but the NHL
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: and Monumental Sports Network, how about that for a name.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: They've come to an agreement aligned.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: The Capital's TV home to produce their own broadcast the
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: capitals four remaining national telecasts, So to be clear, Kenny
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Albert or my buddy John Forsen with Turner, or John
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: McDonough with the ESPN or Bob was Shoes and they'll
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: be calling the game. But Joe will get to call
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: the game. He'll be produced in house there for Washington.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: It's a nice one went there for a guy who
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: really deserves it. What's some the great moments ever in
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: hockey history.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it should be him. I think it
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: should be him nationally as well. No disrespect to any
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: of the other commentators, Nash is what you're.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Just gonna tell Kenny Albert take a knee. You can't
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: do that to Kenny.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Listen.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: I fans of every single one of them. I have
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: their phone numbers, but I would tell them. I think
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: when it comes to a record, a personal record, and
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: especially a guy likes that's been there forever, Uh, it
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: has to go to the guy that called his first
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: game there, and we'll call probably his last game in
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: all of his big moments, why not have it be him.
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: That's the voice, that's that's the highlight, that's gonna He's
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: gonna show his kids, kids and Ovechkin that is And
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: you know, any guy that played on that team is
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: going to say, that's the announcer that was with us
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: all the you know, throughout the whole season. Because the
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: thing that people don't realize and I didn't realize even
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: when I played, and now being on the media side
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: of things and traveling with the San Jose Sharks and
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: working with Dan Ruzenowski, Randy Hahn, Drumenda and just amazing
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: commentators and analysts. They are part of the team and
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: they're as big a fan of the team as any
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: other person that's paying for tickets. They support the team,
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: they support the players, they hate when.
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: Guys get traded.
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: They celebrate the wins, they celebrate the losses and not
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: celebrate the losses. They more than the losses, and they
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: just do it in a way that I think those
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: are the little things that they deserve and they should
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: get because they're so passionate and nothing against the national guys,
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: you know, Sean mcdont. They're all great FORESLN, Boba Schuz
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: and they're awesome, awesome Kenny Alberts, they're amazing announcers. And
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: yes it's you know, ESPN, TNT, all those things, Turner Sports.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: They're gonna get their crack at it.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: But it should be his call.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: That's the one that that kind of lives on and
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: stands the test of time because he's the one that's
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: been with them for so long throughout his whole career.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: So well, it'll be a happy metiing because at least
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: he'll be calling the game for the Capitals, producing the game,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: and of course will have the national call as well, so.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: People will be able to listen to both calls.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Whatever a vention doesn't do you get the As we
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: close up shop, how about little jdpov?
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: What do you got?
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: POV three Because in honor of the GM meetings, they
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: talked about three on three extending the time to ten minutes,
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: and there was talk that Beban doesn't like that for injuries.
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: But my three on three change, I think it needs
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: to be adjusted a little bit. Listen, I'm a fan
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: of it. It's fun. You see best on best three
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: on three, the most skilled guys going at it. But
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: I do not like when the guys bring it out
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: of the blue line and they just keep reloading and reloading,
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: like the Soviet Union back in the day, the Iron Curtain.
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: I just don't like that. I think there needs to
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: be a change to that to make it a little
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: bit more faster paced. And I think my change and
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: my thought for it would create more offense. People might think, no,
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: it won't, Yes it will. Once you cross the blue line,
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: the offensive blue line, and you enter into the zone,
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: you are not allowed to bring the puck out of
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: the zone. You cannot wind it back, you cannot bring
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: it out, you cannot pass the puck out. You have
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: to stay inside the offensive blue line and attempt to score.
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: Because what that's gonna do is it's gonna make it
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: three on three, close ice blue line in and what's
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: gonna happen is guys can't, you know, sit back and
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: keep winding back so when there are turnovers, it'll be
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: quick to offense. It'll be two on one after two
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: on one, and it'll probably quicken up the pace of
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: three on three and make it, I think a little
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: bit even more exciting than it already is. So that's
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: my pov. Take it, digest it. If you don't like it,
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: suck it.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: She call the play dead. If they leave the zone,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: that's take a reverse off side. Just want to be clarified,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: that's what you're looking for.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: The ges, Yes, you lose possession or now you don't
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: lose possession.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: It seems a little complicated.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: What you come into the blue line and then you
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: can't pull it back out of the blue line.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: I just think that's complicated.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: I'm just telling you.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: I think guys would be like, no, I want to
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: go like that, because they're so conditioned as you say
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: to be like, no, I want to kind of reset.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: I can't reset now I'm stuck. I'm in this area.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: Sorry, you lose it.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: I'm contained.
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: It's a penalty. If you do that, it's a penalty.
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: So three you're gonna call it penalty.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: The guy goes back, Yeah, wow, course you're doing.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Just shorten that ice so much for a two hundred.
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: Fin nine right three on three, make it quick going zone.
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: Come on, not the whirling dervishes here.
• 50:18
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• 50:20
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• 50:23
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• 50:33
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