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Between The Pipes: Adrian Denny - Utah Mammoth Analyst on Sean O'Connell Show · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Sean O'Connell Show.
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  Speaker 3: Time for Between the Pipes.
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  Speaker 2: Adrian Denny Utah Mammoth Insider, brought to you by Valley Plumbing,
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  Speaker 2: Playoff Utah Mammoth Gear excellent fresh threads, because that's exactly
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  Speaker 2: what we're in right now, the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: How are you good? Buddy?
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  Speaker 4: Had a fun Tuesday night watching the game, I know
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  Speaker 4: everybody did. Coming back home with the split. That's all
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  Speaker 4: we ever wanted. Right when you're the road team, it's
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  Speaker 4: so easy. You go in and you lose the first game,
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  Speaker 4: you're like, well, we just want to split anyway. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so that's right, mammath able to We're okay with the split,
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  Speaker 4: pull it through and then and then if you come
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  Speaker 4: back down to oh, it's like, well it's not a
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  Speaker 4: series until somebody loses the game at home, gotcha, But
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  Speaker 4: Mammoth much happier that the series is is one to one.
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  Speaker 4: Gotta win three or five now instead of four or five.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I tried to articulate this when we started the show today,
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  Speaker 2: the response from the Mammoth after quite frankly being dominated
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  Speaker 2: physically in period three of game one, I was asking
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  Speaker 2: the question, how do you dial back that like playing
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  Speaker 2: Vegas' game? How do you avoid them playing so aggressively
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  Speaker 2: to their strengths? And the easiest answer was, well, lean
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  Speaker 2: into your own speed a little bit, try to get
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  Speaker 2: some more spacing. Easier said than done, and it felt
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  Speaker 2: like the Mammoth did a much better job of that
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  Speaker 2: in game two, not just in the first and second period,
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  Speaker 2: but obviously throughout. And then when you've got Dylan gun
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  Speaker 2: third going one hundred and ninety four feet or whatever
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  Speaker 2: it was, and you get Coolly putting it away on
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  Speaker 2: a rebound, that was awesome to salt this game away.
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  Speaker 2: But rewinding to the response from the Mammoth, what'd you think?
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  Speaker 3: What'd you like in the first period?
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  Speaker 4: I was a little concerned Vegas scores on the first
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  Speaker 4: power play, just like they did on Sunday to tie
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  Speaker 4: up the game. They do three of the four power
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  Speaker 4: plays in the period. They had the puck in the
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  Speaker 4: Utah offensive or in the Utah defensive zone for almost
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  Speaker 4: three more minutes in the first period, and head coach
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  Speaker 4: Andre Turney was talking to our own Sarah Marrifield at
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  Speaker 4: the under ten time out in the first He's like,
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  Speaker 4: we just got to calm down. We just have to
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  Speaker 4: relax here. We have to stop worrying about them wanting
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  Speaker 4: to impose a physical presence. And Utah was able to
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  Speaker 4: somehow as they were you know, pinned into their zone
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  Speaker 4: and taken penalties, got some staves from Curve and Milk
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  Speaker 4: and they were able to keep it a one nothing game.
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  Speaker 4: And then they were able to tie it in a
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  Speaker 4: period where they didn't generate any offense. Eleven shot attempts
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  Speaker 4: in the first period tied for the fewest in a
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  Speaker 4: period this year. And Mackenzie Wieger threw one of the
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  Speaker 4: net bounced off of Carter Hart, which is another story.
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  Speaker 4: Stuff shouldn't be bouncing off of the goalies in the NHL.
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  Speaker 4: Right He's had two bucks bounce off of him, off
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  Speaker 4: of his d and into the net. And that's how
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  Speaker 4: the Mammoth of scored, which brings up the point. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: now if we could get a few more bodies in front,
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  Speaker 4: we could get a few more goals like that. But
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  Speaker 4: oh see, the Mammoth were able to keep that game
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  Speaker 4: one nothing, and that was the biggest part of the game,
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  Speaker 4: because it felt like it was two nothing or more
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  Speaker 4: the way the penalties were coming in, the way Vegas
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  Speaker 4: was was heavy in the Utah zone, and coming out
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  Speaker 4: to start the second Mammath able to kind of start
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  Speaker 4: from scratch and they took over the game. They took
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  Speaker 4: the lead, lasted for sixty two seconds, but they they
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  Speaker 4: stayed in control. And I'm watching that game in the
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  Speaker 4: third period, I'm like, they're doing everything right. Just got
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  Speaker 4: to get a goal. You need, you need something to
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  Speaker 4: happen to push this game by the top. You're gonna
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  Speaker 4: have a good second and third period in game two,
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  Speaker 4: a good first and second period in game one, and
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna be down two to oh out playing him
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  Speaker 4: in for the sixth periods. So they were able to
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  Speaker 4: exploit that speed on Vegas. They out hit Vegas. That
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  Speaker 4: was kind of the narrative around hockey after the game.
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  Speaker 4: On Sunday. Everybody's talking about the physicality in the Vegas
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  Speaker 4: Utah series, but the series didn't have any more hits
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  Speaker 4: than really any other game in the playoffs outside of
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  Speaker 4: Edmonton Anaheim. Well, yeah, yeah, it It had plus twenty
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  Speaker 4: for Vegas, which Utah was ten above their season average
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday. But you know, it's just kind of the emotion,
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  Speaker 4: the the passion kind of kind of spilled over, and
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  Speaker 4: the Mammoth in the first period on Tuesday might have
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  Speaker 4: still been thinking about that, but you know, Bear had
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  Speaker 4: a plan to get his guys calmed down, get him
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  Speaker 4: back on their game. And I really feel that Utah
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  Speaker 4: is the better team here and just about every category.
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  Speaker 4: Goaltending defensemen are solid. You've got more speed and skilled
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  Speaker 4: than them. They've got a good top line that they've
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  Speaker 4: been mixing around Mark Stone, Jack eichel Ms, Martin. But
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  Speaker 4: I really believe Utah's got a better constructed roster. It
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  Speaker 4: just comes down to can you win those little key
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  Speaker 4: moment battles, and the Mammoth were close to winning two
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  Speaker 4: of the three periods in the first two games and
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  Speaker 4: coming home down two to oh, but they just kept
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  Speaker 4: going and when they took that lead in the third period.
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  Speaker 4: They kept playing the same game. They kept pressure on
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  Speaker 4: the final ninety seconds. They did great job Kevin Stealin
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  Speaker 4: on Jack Eichel keeping Vegas the outside. Nick Smaltz and
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  Speaker 4: Logan Cooley were huge in the in the d zone
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  Speaker 4: as well. Big say from Vimalca to seal it, but
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  Speaker 4: coming back one to one and I think I think
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  Speaker 4: feeling pretty good. Oh see, my question was after game one,
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  Speaker 4: Vegas is the fourth oldest team in the league. They
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  Speaker 4: do that against Utah for a complete series.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and a.
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  Speaker 2: Fair question to ask, And then you know you already
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  Speaker 2: highlighted the question that was a major part of the conversation, like,
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  Speaker 2: are are the Mammoth going to get stuck in this
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  Speaker 2: Vegas type game?
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  Speaker 3: This is playoff hockey.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be this physical and you're gonna get pinned
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  Speaker 2: against the boards and you're gonna get checked everywhere you go.
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  Speaker 2: And they they just were better in this game, and
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  Speaker 2: you didn't. If a game's gonna be physical, great. I
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  Speaker 2: think the Mammoth can play a physical brand. Maybe they
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  Speaker 2: don't have the same size as some of these other
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  Speaker 2: Western Conference playoff teams, but you can't you can't let
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  Speaker 2: it be so one sided as it was late in
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  Speaker 2: Game one, and clearly they took that into account. And
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  Speaker 2: I think what you just mentioned with Coach Bear saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you got to relax, not overthinking it easier
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  Speaker 2: said than done in that situation.
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  Speaker 3: My favorite I had a couple. I had some favorites and.
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  Speaker 2: Some least favorites in this game the end of the
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  Speaker 2: first period, beginning of the second period, penalty kill where
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  Speaker 2: the Mammoth needed to get better in that area.
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  Speaker 3: It's been inconsistent as of late.
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  Speaker 2: Not only did they not give up a goal that
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  Speaker 2: they weren't giving up shots in that penalty killed.
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  Speaker 3: That was massive.
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  Speaker 2: And then the least favorite is And it's happened too
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  Speaker 2: many times this year, and maybe there's an answer for it.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's just what we've talked about in the past.
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  Speaker 2: It's just, you know, letting your foot off the gas pedal.
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  Speaker 2: But you already mentioned this. You take a lead and
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  Speaker 2: it lasts for sixty two seconds, you give up the
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  Speaker 2: responding goal so quickly, and that's happened a dozen times
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  Speaker 2: throughout the course of the season. You don't want to
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  Speaker 2: see it happening in playoff hockey.
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  Speaker 4: Especially how that happened. You're in your D zone, Kel Sergachev,
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  Speaker 4: John Marino, like I can describe it on the radio.
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  Speaker 4: What you want to do, D to D out, not
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  Speaker 4: D to D to D to D to D to
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  Speaker 4: D to D. Flip it to the neutral zone, sure right,
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  Speaker 4: put put some put some spin on the pass, get
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  Speaker 4: it out like and they turned it over. Vegas picked
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  Speaker 4: it up and walked right in and tied it up.
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  Speaker 5: The walks right in was the most saggravating part for me.
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  Speaker 5: Barbarashev's an awesome player. Yeah, but you don't let Barbershev
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  Speaker 5: weave through two. This is not Sidney Crosby, This not
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  Speaker 5: Connor McDavid. When we saw that happen against the Edmonton
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  Speaker 5: Oilers a couple of times, you're just like, all right,
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  Speaker 5: best player in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Barbaschev, good for you. Don't let him do that to you.
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  Speaker 3: When it's three on one.
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  Speaker 2: You should be taking the puck away and sending it
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  Speaker 2: back up ice.
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  Speaker 4: For me, it's not like Vegas had a great response.
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  Speaker 4: Shift Utah had the puck and didn't get it out
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  Speaker 4: of trouble. So you look at that, but they were
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  Speaker 4: able to get it back and roll and you talk
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  Speaker 4: about special teams. They lost the special teams battle in
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  Speaker 4: the game because the power play goal they gave up.
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  Speaker 4: They went oh for four and the power play, but
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  Speaker 4: that had a franchise record twelve shots on the power play.
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  Speaker 4: I think we could see okay, body of work, power
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  Speaker 4: plays back and click and like it was at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the regular season when they set a franchise
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  Speaker 4: record in consecutive games with the power play goal PK.
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  Speaker 4: I know nobody remembers this. PK November December had some
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  Speaker 4: stretches where they're top five, top ten, that's what it
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  Speaker 4: looked like. They kind of got that back, and.
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  Speaker 2: We've grown to accept the peaks and valleys to that.
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  Speaker 2: We had Nicole Chick on and we talked about some
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  Speaker 2: of the stretches that they've been through with that right
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  Speaker 2: in both power play and in penalty kill, they've kind
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  Speaker 2: of gone up and down. And the cliche is always
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  Speaker 2: will make sure you're playing your best when it matters most.
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  Speaker 2: And if you have a bad final couple weeks of
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  Speaker 2: penalty kill of the regular season, fine, if you're getting
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  Speaker 2: it figured out now in Game two of the Stanley
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  Speaker 2: Cup playoffs, yes, I will accept that wholeheartedly, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what it looked like, especially in that second period.
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  Speaker 4: Which is huge because that's one way Vegas can beat Utah.
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  Speaker 4: They were the only team in the NHL in the
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  Speaker 4: regular season that are top seven power play a top
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  Speaker 4: seven penalty kill. And while they got that early one
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  Speaker 4: Utah when it was you know, it was still a
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  Speaker 4: little physical, emotional chippy in the first period. They haven't
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  Speaker 4: took one penalty the rest of the game in periods
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  Speaker 4: two and three and drew three power plays, so another
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  Speaker 4: way that they were just kind of able to tilt
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  Speaker 4: the ice and take control of the contest. They allowed
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  Speaker 4: eleven shots final two periods of the game. There's just
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  Speaker 4: really nothing outside of the gosh I can. I can
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  Speaker 4: just hear coaches throughout my career watching that and.
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  Speaker 3: What Utah did to give d to d it out.
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  Speaker 4: I could. I could hear that stuff in my sleep
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  Speaker 4: on what you wanted to do with that puck and
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  Speaker 4: two veterans d didn't do it, but they pushed forward
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  Speaker 4: and were able to get that next goal from Coolia.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'm thinking. In the third period, they just
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  Speaker 4: needed needed a goal. They're in so smooth control of
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  Speaker 4: this game. They just need a goal. So they got
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  Speaker 4: it and they used their speed to get it. And
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  Speaker 4: there wasn't a Golden Knight in sight when Logan Cooley
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  Speaker 4: hammered in that third chance that Dylan Gunther got the
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  Speaker 4: first two on that and that speed burst up ahead
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  Speaker 4: with Yamamoto on a perfect tape to tape pass.
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  Speaker 2: The The decision to take McBain out and put Tuna
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  Speaker 2: back in was that heal thing for McBain. Was that
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  Speaker 2: strategic to try to see if you could get Liam
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  Speaker 2: O'Brien to get under the skin of some of the
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  Speaker 2: Vegas Knights.
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  Speaker 3: So where did that decision come from?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think Jack McBain was quite one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 4: He went on Sunday that was that was a huge surprise.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't skate in morning skate, he hadn't been at practice,
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  Speaker 4: and then he shows up in warm ups and he's
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  Speaker 4: not taken line rushes with the regular forwards. He's he's
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  Speaker 4: he's out there. He looks like an extra, just kind of,
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  Speaker 4: you know, going out for a twirl just just to
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  Speaker 4: test it a little bit. So he plays. He he
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  Speaker 4: played about nine minutes, which is below his average, and
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  Speaker 4: didn't look quite like like he does when he when
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  Speaker 4: he's feeling good. So that's that's what I believe that
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  Speaker 4: wasn't in Game two. So they pop in O'Brien, who
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  Speaker 4: led the way with five hits, block two shots, added
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  Speaker 4: that usual energy that that that he did during the
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  Speaker 4: regular season at one point during the year. It was
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  Speaker 4: late in the season. The updated numbers is probably one
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  Speaker 4: more win than this, but Utah was six two one
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  Speaker 4: when he had that inserted into the lneup after not
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  Speaker 4: playing the game before, so he was he was a
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  Speaker 4: big insertion. And uh they so wanted Jack McVay to
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  Speaker 4: be uh be on the ice, but but didn't look
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  Speaker 4: like it's quite one hundred percent Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Plenty left, plenty left to play in this series, and
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  Speaker 2: you got to anticipate all possibilities. But Logan Cooley right
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  Speaker 2: now looks like he's a dude ready for playoff hockey.
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  Speaker 4: I look at Logan Cooley and I think you could
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  Speaker 4: stereotype him because he's clean cut, he's got a nice smile.
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  Speaker 3: Voluntarily or not. By the way.
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  Speaker 2: He might not be able to do anything, but he
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  Speaker 2: might Yes, he might not be capable.
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  Speaker 3: Of being anything but clean cut. With the facial hair.
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  Speaker 4: You see how he skates, and you could type cast him.
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  Speaker 4: He's a skilly guy that doesn't like to get hit.
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  Speaker 4: And Nick Daoud from Vegas to you see it after
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  Speaker 4: the game start some some some threats and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Big Dad relaxed. You're almost old enough to be his bath.
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  Speaker 2: Don't talk to him that way, all right.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was I thought it was hilarious. So
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  Speaker 4: he threatens Logan Cooley's life after the game on Sunday
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  Speaker 4: on the ice. Yeah, And and then he tripped up
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  Speaker 4: tripped up Cooley in the second period, the Mamboth got
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  Speaker 4: a power play. I'm thinking that's not gonna do it, buddy,
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  Speaker 4: gotta gotta do something more than that. But Logan Cooley
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  Speaker 4: is a pit bull like he he doesn't care, he's
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  Speaker 4: not afraid to get hit like he he will do
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  Speaker 4: whatever it takes. So if you watch him and you
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  Speaker 4: see how fast he is and how skilled he is,
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  Speaker 4: and he's clean cut and he looks nice, he's he's
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  Speaker 4: a dog, and he's been maybe Utah's best player in
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  Speaker 4: the postseason so far. How about this? So see this, this,
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  Speaker 4: This took some research. I didn't do this. This is
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  Speaker 4: hard to believe. Youngest American in NHL history to score
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  Speaker 4: a playoff goal in his first two games. Clayton Keller
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  Speaker 4: and the Edmonton Bubble in twenty twenty was the previous
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  Speaker 4: youngest at twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: Keller's been quiet in the first two games. What do
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  Speaker 3: they need from him? Do you know what?
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  Speaker 4: Vegas has done a great job of zeroing in on
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  Speaker 4: that line of Keller, Schmaltz and Krause, And it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: help our conversation today. Oh see, but this afternoon, I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna I'm gonna watch their shifts and just because because
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  Speaker 4: that clearly right top ten line in the NHL, of
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  Speaker 4: course Vegas is gonna go into the series. Well, we've
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  Speaker 4: got to shut them down. We've got to take away,
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  Speaker 4: you know, their space. We we gotta keep them to
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  Speaker 4: the outside. We don't want them to possess the puck.
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  Speaker 4: So for me, that is going into a playoff series
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  Speaker 4: and saying, those guys are our number one thing that
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  Speaker 4: we have to make sure doesn't beat us. And so
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  Speaker 4: now you've got two games to go back and try
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  Speaker 4: and counter punch that. But Vegas is a really good
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  Speaker 4: team defensively, of just kind of clogging up space because
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  Speaker 4: because they're bigger, they do a great job on their goalie,
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  Speaker 4: who I think is extremely compromised the rebounds that he
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  Speaker 4: lets up, but it doesn't matter because they're right there
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  Speaker 4: to clear the pucks away. And Utah in only a
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  Speaker 4: few instances has had bodies in front to knock a
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  Speaker 4: puck home. Yesterday on one puck that he covered up
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  Speaker 4: and didn't give up a bounty rebound on Carconi and Kurfoot,
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  Speaker 4: we're out in front, right. So if I think going
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  Speaker 4: into games three and four, that's that's gonna be one
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  Speaker 4: thing that Utah continues to work on, and that's penetrating
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  Speaker 4: the Vegas zones, get you know, for more of those
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  Speaker 4: second chance situations. Because the rebounds have been very plentiful
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  Speaker 4: and they're not bad bounces. Goalies can't give up rebounds
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  Speaker 4: that go off the head of their defenseman and embarrass him.
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  Speaker 3: The poor kid.
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  Speaker 4: Cayden Corsak's second career playoff game. He's worked with John
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  Speaker 4: Torriorella for three weeks. Like, can you imagine puck bounces
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  Speaker 4: off of your face and goes into the back of
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  Speaker 4: the net.
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  Speaker 3: Their defenseman, Well, not just defenseman.
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  Speaker 2: They're there's a lot of guys in Vegas night sweaters
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  Speaker 2: that are just they're taking pucks to the shin, trying
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  Speaker 2: to glove it themselves to the chest. Hannafin had to leave,
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  Speaker 2: had to go to the dressing room in the game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean Nick doubt in the it was in the
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  Speaker 2: four on three that then became the five on four
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  Speaker 2: power play.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he he ate one that would have been
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  Speaker 3: a goal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're doing a great job in front of their
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  Speaker 2: their goaltender.
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  Speaker 4: They do a phenomenal job and going into the series,
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: that was one of my one of my things. Vegas
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: is so good defensively. Can they make it not matter?
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Can he ma He'll make every goalie in the NHL
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: makes the first save and then they take care of it.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Can they make it not matter? And in the first
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: two games they've done a pretty good job of it.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: His numbers look pretty decent, But if you watch the
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: body of work, I think you're like, Okay, if we
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: can get to him for a second chance or two,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: that's gonna be another goal or two.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: All right, Now, let's turn the page to Friday, the
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: first ever home playoff game. I we started the show today.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I think this is gonna be one of the best
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: sports moments we've ever had in the state of Utah. Obviously,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: we all want to win, and the most important thing
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: in this series is to try to advance to the
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: next series. I think, you know, the team has always
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: believed it. I think what we saw from Game two
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: probably has more fans thinking.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: That that that's a.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Possible outcome or a more likely outcome, and sold out
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: show on Friday first ever. I've already asked you what
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: you think it's going to be like. Now it's the
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: next game. What's it going to be like on a
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Friday night. Ah, It's gonna be bananas.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, we know what Vegas does at the Team
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Obile Arena, right. I think if if we're going to
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: separate ourselves and take Utah out of the equation, are
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: you talking about anybody other than Vegas when you talk
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: about a playoff atmosphere in the NHL and in an
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: entertainment capital world that's buzzing and electric. And I think
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: the Utah fans did a great job of going down
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: there and be allowed and it's it's pretty cool. You
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: got your closest regional rival that you're playing in playoffs
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: for the first round Salt Lake and Vegas especially. You know,
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: it's it seems like those of us in Utah like
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: soccer tournaments, like there's there's always something in Vegas that
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: we're in Vegas or Saint George, or if we're in
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Saint George, we go to Vegas for for a day.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: But the Saint George Mesquite Vegas tea that everyone's done
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: one hundred times.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: So you've got you've got that. So Utah the first
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: two games did a great job in Mountain Blue. You
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: could hear you hear some chance. You know, you kind
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: of got under the skin of the Vegas fans. And
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: now you know you're gonna have some Vegas fans here
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: because that's just gonna be how it is. So that's
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: the that's challenge for the Mammoth fans, cause you know
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be electric, you know it's gonna be nuts.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: There's gonna be a party pre game on the ce Plaza.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: So when you come inside, take it to another level
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: and welcome your your Vegas counterparts and uh be a
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: lot louder than them. Don't let them get on National
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: TV and your building.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: What are we gonna end up calling this rivalry because
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I'm calling it now. This is going to develop naturally.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: We're not going to force feed it, but we are
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: kind of and this is a rivalry developing. And when
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Utah wins this series over a team that already has
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: a Cup and has been kind of the gold standard
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: of expansion franchises and new franchises, not only in the
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: NHL but in professional sports, the geographic proximity meaning all
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: of it can create a nice little rivalry here.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: What are we going to call this thing?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Gosh, Saints and Sinners is very obvious, but it's you know,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: you lean into the culture in both places. It's not
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: the most creative thing. We got cut, we got a brainstorm.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: We got to come up with something. Mike on the
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: radio has been calling it. The fifteen series is a placeholder. Yeah, okay,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: it's a good placeholder. Yeah yeah.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: These two teams are just the exact opposite too. You
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: got one team that's old, you got one team that's
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: young and really fast. The other team old, physical, fast, spunky, clean, cut.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Don't care.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, we'll come up with something. Eight seven seven
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: three five three zero seven hundred. If you have a
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: good name. We might have to run an official contest
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: where we give something away for this.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Even John Tworderellen Bear two exact opposites the two head coaches.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Did you see Bear got on Twitter after the game
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: last night? That was the coolest I too late, he
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: tweets once a year. Yeah, he's the best. Uh.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: The the home ice at the end of the season,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: they played better away than they did on home ice.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Any thoughts on that.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: I think winning in the playoffs, you're going back to
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: some of the lessons that you learned in the first
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: half of this season last year in terms of, you know,
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: playing with the lead, winning at home, and we'll see
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: if they've kind of shaken one in a playoff atmosphere,
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: winning at home and not letting the moment overtake them
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: because they want to take that show that's already there
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: and kick it to another level. I think that that
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: they're at a point as a group where they've learned, Okay,
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Delta Center's crazy, and we want it to get crazier,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: but we still have to stay within ourselves, right because
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: that's why they've been so successful on the road, because
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: they've been simple. They've they've just got out and done it.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: They've not had that in the back of their heads. Oh,
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: this town is nuts. They love us and this is
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: the best atmosphere in the NHL. We have to really
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: impress him now. But I think I think they, I
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: think they could be beyond that.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: The puck drops at seven point thirty on Friday at
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: the Delta Center, the first ever NHL playoff game in
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: the state of Utah, and your Utah Mammoth comeback tied
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: in the series one one real quick before I let
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: you go anything around the entire NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: surprising you so far in the early goings, do you
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: know what OC?
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: So you have Buffalo and Boston in the East. You
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: got the Atlantic Division champions and the second wild card,
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: and Buffalo came out of nowhere, first playoff appearance since
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: twenty eleven. Boston kind of retooled, Jeremy swam and their
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: goalie had a great year. That's been my okay. Boston's
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: winning that series from game one and they've led in
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: both games. Buffalo came back four goals six minute Sunday,
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: but Boston another kind of tape to tape performance. That
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: would be one upset series that I've got. I can't
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: get enough of Minnesota Dallas in the Central Division. Minnesota
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: won the first game six to one, Dallas countered, so
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: they're won one. That's that's gotta be Game seven, triple
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: overtime for that series. Two teams one hundred plus points
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: meeting in the first round. How about Colorado LA two
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: two one games? Yeah, that they've played so far.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: I lied.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I do have one more thing. Utah's own homegrown Stanley
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Cup champion, Trevor Lewis made his retirement official. He did
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: not play this season in the NHL, but he's a
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: you know, before it was cool, before hockey was cool
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: in Utah. He was the guy who battled his way
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: onto a King's roster for two Stanley Cup championships. Massively
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: impactful as a grassroots beginning of hockey here.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: He's done Cottwood Heights went Brighton High before he left
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: UH to play in the us HL first round draft pick.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Two times Stanley Cup champion, but for Trevor Lewis, he's
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: always come back. He brought the Stanley Cup to the
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Mavericks Center in twenty twelve. He brought it to the
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: state capitol in twenty fourteen. He's he's he's always had
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Utah front of mind, and he's he's been around this year.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: We've had him on on our on our broadcast on
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Hockey Night Utah, on the nascast, UH several times this year.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: But he's he's just your home, your your hometown boy.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: He's the hometown guy.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he couldn't be he couldn't meet be anymore
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: all in on Utah.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: So we're gonna we're gonna have more homegrown Stanley Cup
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: champs as the years progress.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: But he's the guy who kind of starts it.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Love Trevor, Love Trevor.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Congrats to him on a great career.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Do you wanna do you want a small town Utah
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: hockey story? Yeah, So we were having Trevor on the
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: NASH cast UH in October one of our one of
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: our Hockey Night in Utah, you know podcasts, and our
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: boss sends in the group text does anyone have Trevor
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Lewis's dad's phone number? And I said, oh, yeah, I've
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: got his his dad, his dad, Randy, I've got his
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: phone number right here. I texted it like It's like,
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: how cool?
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Is that?
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: That?
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Pretty cool? NHL in Utah.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: We've we've got the Mammoth second year, and we're we're
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: getting Trevor on the Nashcast and my boss is like,
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: he's like, does anyone have to have Trevor's dad's phone numbers? Like,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: oh yeah, Randy got it right here on my phone.
• 27:43
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• 27:49
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