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Final Week Tune-Up for OHL Playoff Bound Teams in the West - OHL Overtime · The Armchair GM's Sports Network

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Speaker 1: as always, going to look ahead to what should be
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Speaker 1: a fun final Friday Night face off here gearing up
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Speaker 1: for the OSHL Playoffs between the Windsor Spitfires and the
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Speaker 1: London Knights in a bitter Western Conference battle. Canada Life
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Speaker 1: Place is going to be the sight of it tomorrow night,
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Speaker 1: one of the best buildings in all of junior hockey.
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Speaker 1: Spitfires coming into town. They're going to be the looking
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Speaker 1: to hold the West Division title, currently holding the second
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Speaker 1: seed in the West, the Nights fighting with the Sue
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Speaker 1: Greyhounds for whole ice in the first round, and they're
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Speaker 1: gonna be tough four or five matchup. At the moment
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Speaker 1: of recording this, obviously, the Spitfires are one point up
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Speaker 1: on the Flint Firebirds for the West Division title. Whatever
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Speaker 1: team does not win is gonna most likely be the
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Speaker 1: three seed, with the Kitchener Rangers taking the number one
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Speaker 1: seed overall in the Western Conference. So this game for
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Speaker 1: Windsor is gonna be big obviously, with them trying to
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Speaker 1: make sure they're the number two seed with home iice
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Speaker 1: advantage over anybody not named Kitchener for the upcoming playoff run,
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Speaker 1: and then London right now currently one point up on
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Speaker 1: the Sue Greyhounds. Those two to two teams are gonna
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Speaker 1: face each other, but again it's just gonna be based
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Speaker 1: off of the seeding there with what team's gonna get
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Speaker 1: home ice between Sue and London. So big one coming
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Speaker 1: tomorrow night from Canada Life Places. I mentioned we'll have
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Speaker 1: a postgame X Spaces as well, so make sure you
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Speaker 1: tune into that on the Armshare GM Sports Networks X Feed.
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Speaker 1: You can join us then. But as far as today's
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Speaker 1: episode goes, we're gonna hear from a representative from both
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Speaker 1: teams within Friday Night Faceoff. First, we're gonna hear from
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Speaker 1: Jack Nesbit of the Windsor Spitfires the Philadelphia Flyers first
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Speaker 1: round is obviously an assistant captain now taking a bigger
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Speaker 1: role with this team in his third OHL season, talked
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Speaker 1: about at the OHL Draft that he wanted to come
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Speaker 1: back to Windsor to win an OHL championship, and a
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Speaker 1: guy that you know is very motivated here to do
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Speaker 1: big things with the Spitfires even though they're minus their star.
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Speaker 1: A draft eligible forward Ethan Belchetz gonna talk to Jack,
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Speaker 1: talk to him back at the OHL combine, so it'll
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Speaker 1: be good for me to catch up with them as well.
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Speaker 1: A great chat with him, and then we're going to
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Speaker 1: go across the bench to the London Night Side with
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Speaker 1: one of the best stories since the OHL trade deadline.
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Speaker 1: That's Ryan Brown acquired from the Sarnia Sting in a
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Speaker 1: big one for one trade there for Logan Howery again,
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Speaker 1: two highly drafted players from their respective teams from Sarnia
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Speaker 1: and London that are switched teams here, with Ryan Brown
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Speaker 1: looking to get his first taste of OHL playoff experience
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Speaker 1: in his career as well. So gonna be interesting to
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Speaker 1: chat with him about going over to London, how he's
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Speaker 1: felt there, how is games elevated to another level and
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Speaker 1: one of the best stories, like I mentioned since the
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Speaker 1: trade deadline, He's an incredible run here with the London
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Speaker 1: Knights and fitting in like a glove there with Dale
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Speaker 1: Hunter's club again, a team coming off two straight OHL Championships,
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Speaker 1: three straight OHL Championship appearances. So a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a retool on the fly here for Mark Hunter, Rob
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Speaker 1: Simpson and the group, but they're doing a great job
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Speaker 1: here having the London Nights almost in a rebuilding year
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Speaker 1: for them. Still is the fourth seed in the Western Conference.
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Speaker 1: Pretty incredible to think about that London still could possibly
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Speaker 1: have homelice advantage in a season where a lot of
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Speaker 1: people didn't expect big things from them as far as
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Speaker 1: Windsor got reverse swept by the Kitchener Rangers. They went
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Speaker 1: to the second round last year and almost made the
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Speaker 1: Western Conference. Finally they are up three to nothing on
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Speaker 1: Kitchener and then things kind of just took a turn
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Speaker 1: for the worst, Rangers winning four straight and in game
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Speaker 1: seven to knock out the Spitfires. So they're coming in
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Speaker 1: with a lot of motivation and wanting to get back
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Speaker 1: to that spot that they thought they should have been
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Speaker 1: in last season going up against the London Knights in
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Speaker 1: the Western Conference Final. But as far as tomorrow night's
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Speaker 1: matchup goes from Canada to Life Place will wrap up
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Speaker 1: the regular seasons and London Knights hosts the Windsor Spitfires.
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Speaker 1: With the regular season entering the final weekend, both teams
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Speaker 1: have plenty on the line as they push towards the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: The pregame show begins at six thirty with puck drop
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Speaker 1: schedule at four to seven o'clock. Windsor enters the battle
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Speaker 1: in the West Division as the Spitfires continue a strong
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Speaker 1: second half push. The offense is led by Liam green Tree,
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Speaker 1: the new York Rangers prospect, who tops the team with
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Speaker 1: thirty six goals and sixty nine points this season. The
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Speaker 1: Spitfires also received significant production from the blue line. Carson
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Speaker 1: Woodall and Anthony Kristaforo have been key members offensively, with
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Speaker 1: Christaphour reaching the twenty goal mark while seeing time both
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Speaker 1: at defense and at right wing in goal. Over ager
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Speaker 1: Joey Costanzo remains a steady presence four Windsor. The veteran
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Speaker 1: net miner recently reached one hundred wins for the Spitfires
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Speaker 1: and continues to anchor the Spitfires crease as a team
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Speaker 1: that looks to secure the division. London enters the matchup
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Speaker 1: fighting for home ice advantage in the first round. As
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Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, fresh off the Memorial Cup Championship back
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Speaker 1: to back OHL titles, the Knights have continued to retool
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Speaker 1: their lineup while remaining among the league's contenders. Los Angeles
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Speaker 1: Kings prospect Henry Bristevich leads the London Knights defensive corp Offensively.
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Speaker 1: The Memorial Cup champion has produced eighteen goals and fifty
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Speaker 1: two points from the blue line this season. Ford Ryan Brown,
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Speaker 1: Who's going to be a guest a little bit later
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Speaker 1: has been one of London's most productive editions since coming
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Speaker 1: over from Sarnia. Brown has twenty one goals and leads
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Speaker 1: the Knights with fifty nine points, including fifteen goals and
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Speaker 1: thirty points in joining the club, Draft eligible forwards Jackson
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Speaker 1: Cover and Brady Wastlin have also played key roles for London,
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Speaker 1: each surpassing fifteen goals and forty points this season. In
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Speaker 1: the net, the Knights continue to rely on a strong
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Speaker 1: tana Vancouver Canucks prospect Deleuxi Medvedev shares the crease with
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Speaker 1: Sebastian Gatto, who remains third in the OHL with a
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Speaker 1: two point three to one goals against average, while also
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Speaker 1: being fourth in the league with a nine to seventeen
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Speaker 1: save percentage. With the winsor Spitfire chasing a division title
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Speaker 1: in London looking to secure home ice plenty at stake
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Speaker 1: Windsor comes into the matchup with a four to zero
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Speaker 1: to one record against London this season, including a win
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Speaker 1: just a few nights. Will go with an a to
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Speaker 1: two victory over the Nights that one back at THEWFCU
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Speaker 1: Center and Windsor, so the Knights will look to have
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Speaker 1: better results than they've shown this season against Windsor. In
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Speaker 1: what could possibly be a playoff preview down the road
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Speaker 1: in the Western Conference playoffs. Let's get you to both
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Speaker 1: interview right now with Jack Nesbit of the Windsor Spitfires
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Speaker 1: and then Ryan Brown of the London Nights. Hopefully you
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Speaker 1: guys enjoyed this episode, and hopefully you guys have enjoyed
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Speaker 1: Friday Night Faceoff all season long on behalf of the
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Speaker 1: Ontario Hockey League I've really enjoyed doing this project and
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Speaker 1: one more, as I mentioned here, tomorrow night following this game,
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Speaker 1: guys have enjoyed this and going forward, appreciate the Friday
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Speaker 1: once the playoffs start. So here are the interviews with
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Speaker 1: both representatives from Friday Night face off between the Windsor
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Speaker 1: Spitfires and the London Nights. Friday Night Faceoff goes tomorrow
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Speaker 1: nights Windsor Spitfires London Nights to close out the OHL
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Speaker 1: regular season. Going across the bench this time to the
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Speaker 1: Spitfire side of things, and we've got Philadelphia Flyers prospect
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Speaker 1: Jack Nesbit. Jack, really appreciate you joining us today. Obviously
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Speaker 1: exciting times for Windsor trying to lock up a top
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Speaker 1: two seed there within the Western Conference going into the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: getting drafted by Philadelphia, it's been it's been quite the
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Speaker 1: ride for you. I remember when I first talked to
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Speaker 1: you at the OHL Combine as a young sixteen year
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Speaker 1: old coming into the league. How does it feel now,
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Speaker 1: almost three years into your OHL career?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that that was a long time ago,
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Speaker 3: but it feels like it was yesterday. Last three years
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Speaker 3: gone by real fast, and it's been the best years
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Speaker 3: of my life so far. So I'm I'm very happy
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Speaker 3: I took this route and Windsor took me in that draft.
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Speaker 3: And no, I've met a lot of great people along
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Speaker 3: the way, and and like I said, it's.
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Speaker 4: It's been real short, but I've loved it so far.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, absolutely. I know you grew up as a
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Speaker 1: Sarnia junior sting and so now going over to Windsor,
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Speaker 1: are you now officially a Windsor guy after spending almost
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Speaker 1: three years of your life there.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm always going to have those start in
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Speaker 3: your roots in me, but Windsor's definitely been a second
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Speaker 3: home for me, so I can I can say I'm
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Speaker 3: a Windsor guy for an.
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Speaker 1: Are you a fan of Windsor Pizza? Your goaltender Joey
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Speaker 1: Costanzo said when he leaves after being after his ow
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Speaker 1: WA season, He's definitely gonna miss an Antonino's pizza one.
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Speaker 1: Are you a fan of it. And two what's your
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Speaker 1: favorite spot?
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Speaker 4: I I do love Antoninos. That's that's a great one.
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Speaker 3: I personally don't don't get a lot of Windsor pizza.
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Speaker 3: But a spot you might not have heard of, it's
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Speaker 3: professor z Oaz. It's one that Anthony Christo Faro and
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Speaker 3: Andrew Robinson his billets, uh, his bills took them there
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Speaker 3: and then and then I went with them as well,
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Speaker 3: and they make them on real pizza there, great cross
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Speaker 3: and and it's just it's very good.
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Speaker 4: It's very it's awesome, it's awesome.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you can't eat a lot of pizza as
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Speaker 1: a being a professional athlete as yourself, but when you
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Speaker 1: when you can indulge, that's that sounds like a good
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Speaker 1: spot to recommend it there. So I guess you know
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Speaker 1: going forward here, Jack, like you guys obviously have a
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Speaker 1: lot of playoff aspirations. You you talked to the draft,
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Speaker 1: somebody asked you, you know, do you have any any
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Speaker 1: NC aspirations and you quickly shot that down and say, nope,
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Speaker 1: I'm coming back to Windsor to try to win a
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Speaker 1: championship with the Spitfires. And you know, it seems like
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Speaker 1: you guys are on track to achieve some of those
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Speaker 1: goals going into the playoffs as either the two or
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Speaker 1: the three seed. Just you know, you really didn't bock
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Speaker 1: at that, and it seemed like a Windsor was always
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Speaker 1: going to be the option for you this season.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred percent.
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Speaker 3: I knew since last year that we were even going
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Speaker 3: to try to make a run last year, and we
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Speaker 3: had most of those guys coming back, so I was
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Speaker 3: I knew we were gonna have a good team this
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Speaker 3: year and we were definitely gonna add some guys like
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Speaker 3: we did, and no, I knew we were going to
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Speaker 3: try to make a great run and that's what we're
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Speaker 3: on pace to do right now. So I'm pretty happy
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Speaker 3: the spot we're in. If we went out here, we'll
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Speaker 3: take first place in the division and that I'll be
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Speaker 3: huge here.
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Speaker 4: So hopefully we.
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Speaker 1: Can do that absolutely, And just talk about yourself and
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Speaker 1: the progression and going through this league. You know, you
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Speaker 1: come in as a sixteen year old, which is not
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Speaker 1: an easy thing to do. You guys go through a
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Speaker 1: lot of adversity as a team that first year in Windsor.
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Speaker 1: You know, you guys are are near the bottom of
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Speaker 1: the standings, and then the last two seasons have really
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Speaker 1: been an elevation for yourself and for the team. What
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Speaker 1: do you think you guys learned going through that experience
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Speaker 1: a few years ago to make the last two seasons,
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Speaker 1: you know, really special for you on and off the ice.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that first year was definitely a little bit different.
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Speaker 3: It was tough for all of us during that season.
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Speaker 3: But after that season, I just took it as going
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Speaker 3: to the offseason as do whatever I can to help
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Speaker 3: myself get better for the next year. And and we
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Speaker 3: didn't know how good we were going to be the
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Speaker 3: next year, but it turned out pretty well. So I'm
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Speaker 3: glad we had added some pieces that year and and
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Speaker 3: got a lot better. We got a great head coach,
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Speaker 3: Greg Walters, and that helped us a lot. And then
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Speaker 3: coming into this year, we knew we were just gonna
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Speaker 3: add even more and and Walter's really helped all of us.
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Speaker 3: He's a great coach. He he has great practices, he
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Speaker 3: shows us video, all that kind of stuff. So that
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Speaker 3: helped us a lot, and and we appreciate him. And yeah,
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Speaker 3: we have we have a great team this year, so
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Speaker 3: hopefully we can go far.
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Speaker 1: What is it about Wally. That makes him such a
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Speaker 1: great coach.
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Speaker 4: He's always making us work hard.
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Speaker 3: Every time we make a mistake in practice or something
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Speaker 3: like that, he's slamming his stick and yelling at us,
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Speaker 3: we need to get better at this, we need to
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Speaker 3: get better at that. And and that's one thing that's
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Speaker 3: that's great for us. If we have a little mistake
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Speaker 3: like that, he's on us and and next time we
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Speaker 3: do it right.
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Speaker 4: So just little stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: And even off the ice, he's always around us, uh,
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Speaker 3: being friendly, making jokes and and everyone loves them off
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Speaker 3: the ice, so it's it's fun to be wrong.
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Speaker 1: Probably some good, good road trips that you guys. You
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Speaker 1: guys in the West, you guys travel a lot comparatively
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Speaker 1: to some teams in the East. So do you sort
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Speaker 1: of enjoy that camaraderie with the guys and those long
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Speaker 1: bus trips to Sue and even some of those eastern
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Speaker 1: trips you gotta make once a year to Ottawa and
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Speaker 1: things like that, Like, do you really is that something
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Speaker 1: you're probably gonna miss when you graduate onto the pros?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred percent. That AUTI what trip that we take,
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Speaker 4: It's probably one of my favorites.
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Speaker 3: It's about five days and we get to spend a
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Speaker 3: day off in Ottawa and that's that's really fun. This
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Speaker 3: year it was at Christmas time, so we went to
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Speaker 3: like a Christmas market or whatever you call that kind
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Speaker 3: of stuff.
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Speaker 4: So that was pretty fun.
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Speaker 3: But no, I'm definitely gonna miss those long bus trips
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Speaker 3: and and playing NHL on the bus with the with
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Speaker 3: the boys and stuff like that. So it's it's been
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Speaker 3: an unreal time and and yeah, I'm definitely gonna miss
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Speaker 3: some of those road trips.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you have a good Steve bell story? I
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Speaker 1: know Beller's a beloved guy in Windsor, and yeah, he's uh,
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Speaker 1: he's sort of is one of you guys. He would
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Speaker 1: he would go to go to bat or go to
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Speaker 1: war for for any of those players. And he's very
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Speaker 1: animated up there calling the games as well. Is there
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Speaker 1: something you can tell us about the Beller?
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Speaker 3: Well, there's a lot of things that that go on
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Speaker 3: with him, but uh, I don't have any real good stories,
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Speaker 3: but I know some guys do. On the bus, he's
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Speaker 3: always chatting up the guys behind him. I never sat
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Speaker 3: too close to him, but I know some guys that have.
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Speaker 3: And no, He's great to be around. He's always energetic
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Speaker 3: and he's always getting on the mic on the bus
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Speaker 3: telling some jokes stuff like that.
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Speaker 4: So he's got some good jokes as well.
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Speaker 1: Somehow that hair is still perfect. I don't know how
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Speaker 1: how wakes up and it's just it's just right off
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Speaker 1: season activities for you, Jack, Obviously, it's a it's very
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Speaker 1: stressful for you going through, you know, the last two seasons,
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Speaker 1: your draft year and then your your draft plus one year.
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Speaker 1: What are some of the things you like to do
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Speaker 1: away from the ice in the summertime. I know you're
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Speaker 1: you're you're training a lot obviously during the off season
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Speaker 1: as well, but what do you like to do to
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Speaker 1: to kind of get your mind off of things for
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Speaker 1: a bit?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, mostly golf.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure a lot of guys say that, but it's
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Speaker 3: one thing I love and and uh, yeah, you try
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Speaker 3: to get out a lot and with the buddies and
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Speaker 3: stuff that I don't see often and and get a
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Speaker 3: few rounds in. But I also go up to Muskoka
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Speaker 3: for for about a week with my girlfriend and her family,
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Speaker 3: so that's, uh, that's a good time up there. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's mostly just training stuff like that try to get
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Speaker 3: on the course once in a while, but other than that,
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Speaker 3: there's not.
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Speaker 4: Much to do.
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Speaker 1: So is there a favorite course and what's your favorite
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Speaker 1: club to use?
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Speaker 3: In sarn Ya, there's a private course and it's called
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Speaker 3: the surn Your golf and curly club. That's that's a
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Speaker 3: great course, go out there quite a bit. My favorite
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Speaker 3: club probably be my sixty degree. I like my short
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Speaker 3: game and stuff like that, so it's fun to use.
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Speaker 1: Hey, that's that's that's the hard stuff, right that in
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Speaker 1: the putter. I mean, everybody drives for show, but it's
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Speaker 1: that stuff around the green that that makes the difference.
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Speaker 4: So exactly, that's that's why you got to work on.
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Speaker 1: And that's why it didn't become a pro golfer. Not
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Speaker 1: good at the short game, regardless of that. Jack talking
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Speaker 1: about a teammate yours and and Ethan Belchiz obviously what
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Speaker 1: he's gone through at the end of the season and
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Speaker 1: things like that, and hopefully you know, might have him
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Speaker 1: back for some point in the playoffs. But how have
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Speaker 1: you guys sort of tried to help him through what's
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Speaker 1: a you know, very stressful time for him. Possibly being
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Speaker 1: a top ten pick in the NHL draft. You and
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Speaker 1: Liam green Tree have gone through you know, draft processes
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Speaker 1: as well, Like, how have you guys tried to help
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Speaker 1: him out? And and obviously you know that that he's got,
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Speaker 1: you know, high hopes and high goals and things like that.
16:55
Speaker 1: So right now while he can't be on the ice,
16:57
Speaker 1: how are you guys helping him as well?
16:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean this year definitely got a lot tighter
17:01
Speaker 3: with him. We were on a line quite a line
17:04
Speaker 3: quite a bit with Christopherol when he was up playing
17:06
Speaker 3: forward and and we got pretty tight there. But I
17:10
Speaker 3: try to talk to him a little bit, and I mean,
17:13
Speaker 3: he seems pretty comfortable playing this year and and and
17:16
Speaker 3: doing all that kinds of stuff like those questionnaires, the interviews.
17:18
Speaker 3: He seems pretty comfortable doing that. It's very unfortunate he
17:22
Speaker 3: got injured again right before playoffs, but hopefully we can
17:26
Speaker 3: get him get him back in playoffs or even at
17:29
Speaker 3: the end of it, that that'll help.
17:30
Speaker 4: Us a lot. But no, I think he's he's been
17:35
Speaker 4: great this year.
17:36
Speaker 3: He's been dialed in, and uh, I think from now
17:39
Speaker 3: on he just gotta just go work on rehabit and uh,
17:44
Speaker 3: just keep those interviews going and let's do what he
17:47
Speaker 3: can to to get higher up in there.
17:49
Speaker 1: What is it about those wonder spiffairs. I feel like
17:51
Speaker 1: you guys prerequisite You guys have to be like at
17:53
Speaker 1: least six foot three all of your forwards, I mean,
17:55
Speaker 1: like yourself, Bethan Belchet's, Liam Green Treele you have protus last year.
18:00
Speaker 1: Like you guys just have a certain identity that the
18:02
Speaker 1: winder spitfires type of like to play. So for a
18:06
Speaker 1: guy like Belchiez, he's kind of fit into fit into
18:08
Speaker 1: that culture with you guys.
18:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred.
18:11
Speaker 3: I think Bill Buller did a great job and his
18:13
Speaker 3: last last few draft classes and drafting big guys, So
18:17
Speaker 3: props to him. But uh no, I mean we're we're
18:19
Speaker 3: a big team and we want to play like that.
18:23
Speaker 4: I think I think we do do that.
18:24
Speaker 3: We may make a lot of big hits and and
18:26
Speaker 3: with aj Spellacy as well, I think you got number
18:29
Speaker 3: one best body checker and hardest workers stuff like that.
18:32
Speaker 4: So that that's what that's what works for us.
18:35
Speaker 3: And if we keep doing that, then teams might back
18:38
Speaker 3: down a little bit and we'll get more scoring chances
18:40
Speaker 3: and stuff like that.
18:40
Speaker 4: So that helps a lot.
18:42
Speaker 1: Getting home Mikes advantage is obviously going to be huge
18:44
Speaker 1: for you guys if you can secure that over Flint
18:46
Speaker 1: there for the West Division title. But talk about the
18:50
Speaker 1: WFCU Center when it gets rocking in the playoffs and
18:52
Speaker 1: just how much you enjoy that atmosphere, you know, the
18:55
Speaker 1: the whole don't stop a leaving thing coming out for
18:57
Speaker 1: the third period, like you guys as a team, like
18:59
Speaker 1: just kind of get get goosebumps and get you guys
19:02
Speaker 1: pumped up when you've got you know, one of the
19:04
Speaker 1: best home iice advantages in the league.
19:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's unreal.
19:07
Speaker 3: I know, Uh, I know if you guys on other
19:10
Speaker 3: teams that come in and and they don't like playing
19:12
Speaker 3: our rank because of the fans and stuff like that.
19:14
Speaker 4: So, uh, that's that's pretty sweet to hear.
19:16
Speaker 3: But especially in playoffs, they get they get real loud,
19:19
Speaker 3: and and uh, it's unbelievable to play in. Every goal
19:23
Speaker 3: is like the game winning goal, and and you just
19:26
Speaker 3: get goosebumps every time you come out into that third
19:28
Speaker 3: period and it's awesome. It's awesome to play. I'm sure
19:31
Speaker 3: anyone you talk to a place for winsor says they
19:33
Speaker 3: love it there.
19:34
Speaker 1: So and then obviously you know down the road Kitchener
19:38
Speaker 1: is going to be a team you're probably gonna have
19:39
Speaker 1: to go through. You know, you guys licked your wounds
19:42
Speaker 1: from last year. How much are you looking forward to
19:44
Speaker 1: maybe getting another crack at them and hopefully having things
19:47
Speaker 1: that turn out differently this time.
19:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know they've had our number of the past
19:51
Speaker 3: few years in the playoffs, but uh no, I think
19:54
Speaker 3: I think we got a good team to uh to
19:56
Speaker 3: beat them down this year. Obviously it's gonna be pretty hard.
19:59
Speaker 3: It'll it'll be it'll be tough, for sure, But they
20:03
Speaker 3: got they got a great team, and so do we.
20:05
Speaker 3: So it's gonna it's gonna come down to that and
20:07
Speaker 3: who works harder and who puts more bucks in than that.
20:09
Speaker 1: So and talking about another another good environment that you'll
20:13
Speaker 1: go into tomorrow night in London. You guys have had
20:15
Speaker 1: great success against London this year four h to one
20:17
Speaker 1: and you beat them eight two, and your last head
20:19
Speaker 1: to head matchup this last weekend. So I guess what
20:21
Speaker 1: is the mindset going up there and trying to I
20:24
Speaker 1: guess just use that game as playoff preparation, a team
20:27
Speaker 1: that you could face, you know, in the playoffs and
20:29
Speaker 1: things like that, and just using this final week at
20:31
Speaker 1: weekend of the regular season to get you guys ready
20:34
Speaker 1: ready for playoff shape.
20:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think these past few games, that's all we've
20:39
Speaker 3: been doing is getting ready for playoffs and and having
20:41
Speaker 3: four guys out right now is a little tough, but
20:44
Speaker 3: that just gives the younger guys more chances to show
20:47
Speaker 3: what they can do and and get them even prepared
20:50
Speaker 3: for playoffs and what they can do there. But yeah,
20:53
Speaker 3: we just got to take these next couple of games
20:56
Speaker 3: like their playoff games and and get ready for that
20:58
Speaker 3: and uh hopefully like we've been talking about getting first
21:02
Speaker 3: place and getting home and advantage there, so that'll be huge.
21:05
Speaker 1: And then lastly for you, Jack, is like at the
21:08
Speaker 1: the NH post NHL Draft interview, you talked about, you know,
21:11
Speaker 1: two or three years of development for you wanting to
21:13
Speaker 1: go back to winsord to win a championship. So I guess,
21:16
Speaker 1: what are the Flyers sort of looking from you and
21:17
Speaker 1: what are you expecting from yourself here as you've gone
21:20
Speaker 1: through your third year and going into playoffs, Like what
21:22
Speaker 1: is your I guess if you can describe at your
21:24
Speaker 1: your personal goals that you're trying to maintain and take
21:28
Speaker 1: another step in your development as a player on and
21:30
Speaker 1: off the ice. Here.
21:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say throughout this year is just it's just
21:35
Speaker 3: be being all around good player in the D zone
21:38
Speaker 3: and the O zone, neutral zone, everywhere and lay some hits,
21:43
Speaker 3: put some bucks in the that do everything right. And
21:46
Speaker 3: one of the biggest things is face offs and I've
21:49
Speaker 3: tried to work on that the most I can this year,
21:52
Speaker 3: and I think our coaches have done a great job
21:54
Speaker 3: and helping us in practice after practice, drop and tuck
21:56
Speaker 3: stuff like that. So it's been huge. And I think
22:00
Speaker 3: think the Flyers just just want me to keep working.
22:04
Speaker 3: Put on some more weight stuff like that, and and
22:06
Speaker 3: that'll that'll come for sure. That'll that'll even help my skating,
22:09
Speaker 3: my shot, everything. So once I do that and everything
22:13
Speaker 3: should come together.
22:14
Speaker 1: So last question, lighthearted question. I don't want to put
22:17
Speaker 1: you on the spot if you don't want to flow
22:19
Speaker 1: to teammate, you don't have to. But best and worst
22:21
Speaker 1: sewer players on the Winter Spitfires.
22:28
Speaker 3: I don't want to point him out, but I'd say
22:29
Speaker 3: the worst might be Belchez. He's got a real heavy
22:34
Speaker 3: foot and he uses his knee a lot. He's got
22:36
Speaker 3: this one move that he uses and he's he's gotten
22:39
Speaker 3: better throughout the year, but he might be.
22:42
Speaker 4: He might be the worst. And the best top three
22:47
Speaker 4: usually is me, Kennedy and Costanzo.
22:50
Speaker 3: They got those two lives, so that helps him a lot,
22:54
Speaker 3: but no, those are the top three.
22:57
Speaker 4: It comes down to those three a lot.
22:58
Speaker 1: So those goalies, I know something different. Hey, he's in
23:03
Speaker 1: his overage, yer, he better be good at he's been
23:04
Speaker 1: playing it for five years.
23:05
Speaker 4: Exactly, exactly.
23:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's Jack nesbit forward to the windsor Spitfires first
23:10
Speaker 1: round prospect of the Philadelphia Flyers. Jack, Really appreciate you
23:12
Speaker 1: taking the time again. Great to chat with you, Like
23:14
Speaker 1: I said, full circle from the Ohl Combine days that
23:17
Speaker 1: we spoke there and best of luck down the stretch
23:20
Speaker 1: going into the playoffs with with the Spitfires and look
23:22
Speaker 1: forward to to continue to see you guys maybe win
23:25
Speaker 1: a championship this year.
23:26
Speaker 4: Thank you appreciate it.
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24:09
Speaker 2: Hi, this is Mike Stubbs Radio Voice of the London Knights.
24:12
Speaker 2: You are listening to Brandon Kapudle on OHL overtime.
24:42
Speaker 1: Friday Night face Off goes tomorrow night London Nights windsor
24:45
Speaker 1: Spitfires in the final week of the OHL regular season.
24:48
Speaker 1: We're here going across the benches to look at the
24:51
Speaker 1: upcoming matchup with London Night's forward Ryan Brown. Ryan really
24:54
Speaker 1: appreciate you taking the time to join us today. First off,
24:57
Speaker 1: you know, getting getting repped up for playoff, getting excited
25:01
Speaker 1: for what's to come, for your first experience in the
25:04
Speaker 1: Ontario Hockey League playoffs. Just how has that whole transition
25:07
Speaker 1: been going to London and how do you feel now,
25:10
Speaker 1: you know, as you guys are reach an important time
25:12
Speaker 1: in the season.
25:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you for having me on here, and I
25:15
Speaker 5: think me and our team were super excited to get
25:17
Speaker 5: started with playoffs and get into the postseason some meaningful games,
25:21
Speaker 5: and thank for me. Like you said, it's my first
25:23
Speaker 5: time in playoffs, so I'm super pumped, super excited to
25:25
Speaker 5: be in the atmosphere being playoff hockey.
25:27
Speaker 1: Did you have any familiarity with any of the guys
25:28
Speaker 1: when you got over over to London there and maybe
25:31
Speaker 1: some of the leadership that helped to bring you in
25:33
Speaker 1: and get you engraved into in the Knight's Kingdom there
25:36
Speaker 1: and has obviously led to your success, Like, were there
25:38
Speaker 1: any any guys that you knew or that helped you
25:41
Speaker 1: make that easier?
25:42
Speaker 6: Yeah?
25:43
Speaker 5: I think I think being on Sorny, I played against
25:45
Speaker 5: London a ton, so I've been playing against some of
25:47
Speaker 5: these guys for two and a half years, so I.
25:49
Speaker 6: Familiar with them on the ice. By off the ice.
25:51
Speaker 5: I went to school with Cover for a bit, so
25:53
Speaker 5: I knew Cover before, but other than that, everyone else
25:56
Speaker 5: was pretty brand new other than playing against them. So
25:58
Speaker 5: it's good to have some meat, some new guys, and
26:00
Speaker 5: they welcome me pretty well.
26:01
Speaker 1: So Cover also being another draft eligible guy. How exciting
26:05
Speaker 1: is that to go through a process with somebody that
26:07
Speaker 1: you're familiar with and and and the guy that you're
26:10
Speaker 1: sort of close with.
26:11
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty cool, especially Cover a pretty cool story
26:13
Speaker 5: and some other guys like Glocelyn and Max and and Mitch.
26:16
Speaker 5: You it's a lot of us that are in our
26:18
Speaker 5: draft here, so it's pretty cool to watch all of
26:19
Speaker 5: us grow in a big important year for all of us.
26:23
Speaker 1: Talk about I guess your success since going to London,
26:26
Speaker 1: you know, over thirty points and in thirty games, over
26:29
Speaker 1: a point of game. You know, it seems like that
26:31
Speaker 1: change of scenery really helped you, and and you were
26:34
Speaker 1: one of the I guess, one of the better stories
26:36
Speaker 1: in Antario Hockey League coming out of that trade deadline,
26:39
Speaker 1: one of the players that's you know, succeeded the most
26:41
Speaker 1: in changing teams. What do you think has been the
26:44
Speaker 1: biggest impact in your game taking another step here?
26:47
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, like you said, it's it's been a
26:49
Speaker 5: great fresh start for me, and I think the guys
26:51
Speaker 5: around me have really helped me out a ton of
26:52
Speaker 5: I give credits. A lot of my credit to them,
26:54
Speaker 5: like come here and play with some mature players and
26:57
Speaker 5: guys who've gone to wach Old Championships a couple of times.
27:00
Speaker 5: So it's been really helpful to play with some experienced
27:02
Speaker 5: guys and they've helped me out a ton.
27:04
Speaker 1: A little bit about your your older brother Aiden, he
27:06
Speaker 1: now plays professionally in Germany, a couple of years older
27:08
Speaker 1: than you, So I'm sure you were the little brother
27:11
Speaker 1: that had to take those battles growing up playing mini
27:15
Speaker 1: sticks or things like that. What has he meant to
27:17
Speaker 1: you and how has he sort of helped you during
27:19
Speaker 1: his four or five year career in the OHL with Barry,
27:23
Speaker 1: maybe when you were a little bit younger.
27:25
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's been everything for me.
27:27
Speaker 5: He's my look up to him since I was a kid,
27:30
Speaker 5: my role model, and like like you said, going to
27:32
Speaker 5: his games all growing up playing tripley hockey, and Barry's
27:34
Speaker 5: just thirty minutes from where I live, so I got
27:37
Speaker 5: out to every home game go watch him.
27:38
Speaker 6: It's pretty cool. Go down to the room with you
27:40
Speaker 6: with the guys.
27:41
Speaker 5: Kind of have like a little bit of a foot
27:43
Speaker 5: in the door and see what it's like at such
27:44
Speaker 5: a young age helped me out a ton, and having
27:46
Speaker 5: him by my side help me out and teach me
27:48
Speaker 5: pretty much everything I knew and growing up playing hockey like,
27:50
Speaker 5: he's been huge for me.
27:52
Speaker 1: How much do you sort of stay in contact with him,
27:53
Speaker 1: he's obviously in another continent playing hockey professionally. How often
27:57
Speaker 1: do you are you able to get to call him
27:58
Speaker 1: or maybe see him in the off seas?
28:00
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think if you check my phone log, it's
28:02
Speaker 5: my parents and then he's definitely first. I probably talked
28:04
Speaker 5: to him ten twenty times a day and talk to
28:07
Speaker 5: him all day after my games. He stays up the
28:09
Speaker 5: time difference in Germany is like five hours and stays
28:12
Speaker 5: up to watch all my.
28:13
Speaker 6: Games and call him after the game. So it's pretty cool.
28:16
Speaker 1: Was there a moment when you were growing up that
28:18
Speaker 1: stands out to you, maybe a hockey memory of watching
28:21
Speaker 1: him playing in the OHL, or a certain game or
28:23
Speaker 1: just a certain thing that sticks up to you.
28:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, like I said, like after a big
28:28
Speaker 5: win or a playoffs or something. It's kind of different
28:31
Speaker 5: having a younger brother. You can kind of bring him
28:33
Speaker 5: down to the room. So I have his jersey on,
28:35
Speaker 5: go down to the room and be with all the guys,
28:36
Speaker 5: and I think just like in the summer, the guys
28:38
Speaker 5: have always come to our house or being like I
28:41
Speaker 5: said thirty minutes, like I'd have a triple A game
28:43
Speaker 5: with York Simco and I'd have like ten of the
28:45
Speaker 5: players come to my game to come watch me. And
28:47
Speaker 5: I think it was pretty special to be so close
28:50
Speaker 5: with all those guys.
28:51
Speaker 1: Absolutely talk about yourself. I went back and watched your
28:55
Speaker 1: OHL draft interview that you did. You know, you're a
28:58
Speaker 1: lot older looking now and then you were back then,
29:01
Speaker 1: but you you describe yourself as a competitive two way forward,
29:04
Speaker 1: hard working playmaking high IQ hockey and make everyone around
29:08
Speaker 1: you better. Do you still have that same feeling? Is
29:10
Speaker 1: there anything that you've maybe added to your game? Uh?
29:13
Speaker 1: When when you came in the OHL and had that
29:15
Speaker 1: that first initial I guess self describe of yourself.
29:20
Speaker 5: No, I think I think it's kind of say the same,
29:22
Speaker 5: like that's what that was my game going into the OHL,
29:24
Speaker 5: and I think it's sayed the same, but gone up
29:26
Speaker 5: a couple of notches, I think, and getting a little
29:28
Speaker 5: bit older, heavier, a little bit taller.
29:30
Speaker 6: I think I've been able to add a little bit.
29:32
Speaker 5: More physicality being a little bit older in the OHL,
29:34
Speaker 5: and I think it's really helped me.
29:35
Speaker 6: Out of time.
29:37
Speaker 1: How has I guess?
29:38
Speaker 5: Uh?
29:38
Speaker 1: I don't know how often players look at this in
29:41
Speaker 1: their draft year, the Central Scouting list and things like that.
29:43
Speaker 1: I know, coming into the year you were a C grade,
29:45
Speaker 1: which is sort of like a fourth to fifth round
29:47
Speaker 1: pick one. Do you look at that and too, how
29:49
Speaker 1: do you sort of motivate yourself to say, you know what,
29:51
Speaker 1: you know when my name's called in next June's draft,
29:55
Speaker 1: that I want to be higher than what these people
29:57
Speaker 1: may you know, value me as.
30:00
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's hard to not look at some
30:02
Speaker 5: of the stuff when it's already on your phone, But
30:04
Speaker 5: I think it's a good test and a little bit
30:06
Speaker 5: of a chip on your shoulder when you see to
30:09
Speaker 5: start the air and then not on the midterm, and
30:10
Speaker 5: then I think the only thing that matters is playing
30:14
Speaker 5: hockey and going far in the playoffs, and then that
30:16
Speaker 5: stuff off ice will sort itself out. And just control
30:19
Speaker 5: what I can control, and then at the end of
30:20
Speaker 5: the year in June, if I hear my name called,
30:22
Speaker 5: it's from putting my head down and just working.
30:24
Speaker 1: Talking about the coaching staff Deal Hunter and everybody there.
30:28
Speaker 1: You know, they've developed so many great players to become
30:31
Speaker 1: pro hockey players. How has getting into that coaching staff
30:34
Speaker 1: helped you and and what do you think that that
30:37
Speaker 1: Dale really wants to see from you? Continue to develop
30:39
Speaker 1: so that that you do make yourself more available when
30:42
Speaker 1: it comes to the draft, and just you know, just
30:45
Speaker 1: being the best player you can be by the end
30:47
Speaker 1: of the year.
30:47
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think coming here is super grateful
30:49
Speaker 5: to come and play for Dale and Mark and all
30:51
Speaker 5: the coaches here, Steady and Dilly, And I think the
30:55
Speaker 5: numbers and stuff don't why I came here, and they
30:57
Speaker 5: were at World Junior so when I showed up, they
30:58
Speaker 5: weren't here yet. But throughout World Juniors for a reason,
31:01
Speaker 5: and they're been there a couple of times in championships
31:04
Speaker 5: and mem Cups, And I think it goes to show
31:06
Speaker 5: and you come here and you see it first hand
31:08
Speaker 5: why and it pays off for sure, and you see
31:12
Speaker 5: how they are every day at the rink and stuff,
31:14
Speaker 5: and you see why they're so successful and why they're
31:17
Speaker 5: such a high level coach.
31:19
Speaker 1: Is there something that you enjoy doing away from the rink,
31:22
Speaker 1: maybe during the season or in the off season just
31:24
Speaker 1: to kind of clear your mind from hockey because this
31:26
Speaker 1: is your full time, full time job right now, and
31:29
Speaker 1: trying to just make sure you have some downtime and
31:33
Speaker 1: just I guess refresh for you know, the the pressures
31:37
Speaker 1: of what can be of a draft season.
31:39
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think during the are you're always
31:41
Speaker 5: it's go, go, go. There's sixty eight games, and it's
31:43
Speaker 5: tough to have a ton of free time. You're always
31:46
Speaker 5: practicing in games and stuff. But I think the bigess
31:48
Speaker 5: is just like hanging out with the guys on the
31:49
Speaker 5: team and getting together after practice or on a day off,
31:52
Speaker 5: hanging out during the day getting food or getting up
31:54
Speaker 5: to something, but just hanging out away from the rink
31:58
Speaker 5: and building that chemistry away from the rink really really
32:00
Speaker 5: adds and really pays off on the ice.
32:02
Speaker 1: Were you always a hockey guy? Was it? Was there
32:04
Speaker 1: anything else that you enjoyed playing multi sport athlete? I
32:07
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of lacrosse players that play hockey
32:09
Speaker 1: and things like that, but for Ryan Brown, what was
32:11
Speaker 1: was there any other sports that you enjoyed playing growing up?
32:14
Speaker 6: Yeah?
32:14
Speaker 5: I played I played hockey and lacrosse growing up, So
32:16
Speaker 5: I played hockey at from five years old when I
32:19
Speaker 5: started lacrosse at the same time, and played lacrosse the
32:21
Speaker 5: whole way up until grade.
32:22
Speaker 6: Nine and ten.
32:23
Speaker 5: I played at San Andrews with Kolver was there with
32:25
Speaker 5: me and played there and won two championships there. But yeah,
32:28
Speaker 5: just lacrosse and hockey hockey in the winter the whole year,
32:31
Speaker 5: and then when hockey season's over, lace up the cleats
32:35
Speaker 5: and play play lacrosse for a couple months during the summer.
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Speaker 1: Why do you think lacrosse sort of helps hockey players?
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Speaker 1: I know it's a lot of a lot of crossover
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Speaker 1: without those two sports there. Why do you think it
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Speaker 1: sort of helps you for hockey as well? Maybe the
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Speaker 1: physicality or just the just the way the game's played.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think box lacrosse is it's on
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Speaker 5: a it's on a hockey rank on the concrete, and
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Speaker 5: it's pretty much the same stuff, same these own stuff,
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Speaker 5: same ozone stuff. And I think the contact at socially
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Speaker 5: young age there's a cross chet and then you can
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Speaker 5: fully hit when you're like eight years old playing lacrosse,
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Speaker 5: So I think being in that environment in such a
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Speaker 5: young age, and then like the hand eye stuff has
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Speaker 5: been huge in lacrosse, and just like everything, staying active
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Speaker 5: during the summer, running all the time, playing lacrosse is
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Speaker 5: is really huge.
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Speaker 1: Talk about what it's been like to be the home
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Speaker 1: team at Canada Life Place. You talked about, you know,
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Speaker 1: going to battle these guys for a few seasons in
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Speaker 1: the Sarnia Yellow and now going back to Sarnia as
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Speaker 1: an away player. So how have those two buildings sort
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Speaker 1: of changed for you, one being now your home arena
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Speaker 1: and one being the away Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I think it's my first time getting traded and it's
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Speaker 5: it's weird going back to your old rink.
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Speaker 6: My first two games were in Sarnia, so it's pretty weird.
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Speaker 5: But yeah, being here, scoring against London on Sarnia is
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Speaker 5: all booze and silent, But then when you score here
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Speaker 5: in front of ten thousand people cheering and stuff, it's
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Speaker 5: pretty special. And it's obviously one of the coolest rangs
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Speaker 5: to play at in the cochl And I think every
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Speaker 5: night coming out here and our fans are always here
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Speaker 5: supporting us, it's really really special.
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Speaker 1: Talk about you got the windsor coming up tomorrow night.
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Speaker 1: I know, you know, the two times you've played with them,
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Speaker 1: with London haven't necessarily gone your way? What do you
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Speaker 1: guys have to do to kind of have success tomorrow
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Speaker 1: night and kind of use this as a good lead
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Speaker 1: up for the playoffs because it's the team you could
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Speaker 1: meet down the road in a second or third round
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Speaker 1: playoff matchup. So how are you guys sort of approaching
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Speaker 1: a big game like that in the final week of
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Speaker 1: the regular season.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think the last game against Winsor
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Speaker 5: didn't go how we planed and how we wanted. So
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Speaker 5: let's put it behind us, put in the past and
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Speaker 5: focus on this Friday against Winds. Are really focus on
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Speaker 5: playing the right way and stuff like last game didn't
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Speaker 5: go as well, So I think I think it's how
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Speaker 5: we respond to last game and how we bring it
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Speaker 5: on Friday. And I think, yeah, like you said, they're
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Speaker 5: a really good team and we could face them deeper
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Speaker 5: in the run. And I think going into playoffs, teams
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Speaker 5: want to get hot, So I think it's it's big
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Speaker 5: for us to get some wins going into playoffs and
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Speaker 5: feel good.
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Speaker 1: You guys are in an interesting spot right now in
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Speaker 1: that four or five matchup. It looks like with London
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Speaker 1: and Sue trying to battle for that whole ice position
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Speaker 1: in that in that matchup. So I guess what is
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Speaker 1: the mindset of yourself and just the team in this
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Speaker 1: final week of the reg their season in the gear
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Speaker 1: up for obviously what's to come next week, but trying
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Speaker 1: to get a hole ice in that that always exciting
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Speaker 1: four or five matchup.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Like getting home ice here in London would be huge.
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Speaker 5: I think, like you said, it's a pretty big home
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Speaker 5: miice advantage playing here in front of all these fans,
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Speaker 5: and it's tough building to come in and play I
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Speaker 5: know first hand playing on Sorry, it's tough to come
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Speaker 5: in here and play here and play the right way
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Speaker 5: when you're getting cheered on by.
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Speaker 6: Ten thousand people and stuff.
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Speaker 5: But I think for us to just focus on us
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Speaker 5: and focus on the next couple of games to end
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Speaker 5: the year and pull ahead of them and.
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Speaker 6: Go into playoffs having that homelice advantage.
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Speaker 1: A quick final few questions for you personally here, Ryan,
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Speaker 1: who's your sort of favorite player growing up that you've
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Speaker 1: sort of tried to model your game after and maybe
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Speaker 1: somebody that you really look up to in the next level.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the next level, like I think, and
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Speaker 5: watching my brother play at being around all those guys.
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Speaker 5: There was a lot of amazing players he played with,
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Speaker 5: like Specchnikoff, Mangy, Pawnie Morgan, Frost, Tyler Tucker.
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Speaker 6: So looking up those guys.
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Speaker 5: Being off ice with them, seeing their their character and
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Speaker 5: stuff off the ice, and what it takes to get
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Speaker 5: to the next level. I think looking up to them
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Speaker 5: was was really big to see firsthand what it takes
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Speaker 5: to get to the next level.
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Speaker 1: And you don't have to give me the worst if
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Speaker 1: you don't want to call it one of your teammates,
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Speaker 1: but the best and worst sewer players on London.
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Speaker 5: Oh, I'd say there's a couple of good players. I
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Speaker 5: think Henry is pretty good, Funk is good. I think
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Speaker 5: I think the worst has gotta be Van gor Up
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Speaker 5: for sure.
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Speaker 1: How was Max Cree?
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Speaker 6: He's good, He's pretty good.
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Speaker 1: He's a scrappy bulldog type guy, isn't he?
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, he's not a liability in the sewer circle.
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Speaker 6: He's good.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. There's Ryan Brown in London Nights. Ryan, really appreciate
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Speaker 1: you taking the time to join us. Best of luck
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Speaker 1: tomorrow night against Windsor and best of luck and gonna
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Speaker 1: be your first OHL Playoffs this season and all the
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Speaker 1: best obviously with your draft year as well. Really appreciate it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Arel, thanks for thanks for having me.
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