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3-25-26 Hour 1 - Nuggets sneak past the Suns/Avs smash the Penguins/Jared Bednar · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Keane on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 1: every weekday morning from seven to ten on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio ninety two five and on the Altitude Sports Radio app.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight, we've got a double Deberu out in front.
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  Speaker 3: They score again, go ahead and Sally Parker Kelly his
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  Speaker 3: first point in his last five, his first goal in
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  Speaker 3: his last eight.
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  Speaker 2: Parker Kelly says, play me some Taylor swift. It's four
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  Speaker 2: to one Avalanche with two forty one ago in the first. Tonight,
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  Speaker 2: we have a doup with deb Tonight, we have a
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  Speaker 2: double dipurno.
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  Speaker 4: Ury hasard left side of the midport circle, guarded by
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  Speaker 4: Jalen Green.
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  Speaker 5: Twelve on the shot clock, gets a pit from Yokitch ten, goes.
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  Speaker 4: To the right hand, throws it off over at choker
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  Speaker 4: from eight jumpers good Deedver leads it by two one
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  Speaker 4: twenty five to one twenty three. O'Dell hands it off
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  Speaker 4: over to Booker. Booker for the win, missed it rebound O'Neal, and.
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  Speaker 5: There's the Horde.
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  Speaker 4: The Denver Nuggets sweep away the Phoenix Suns. Final tonight
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  Speaker 4: for the Valley one twenty five detfordh one twenty three Phoenix.
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  Speaker 2: Oh baby, So I have to say this for the
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  Speaker 2: principle of the matter, it will not be the final
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  Speaker 2: time I say this today. No more of those, No
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  Speaker 2: more trying to hang on for dear life at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the game, Try not to sleep. You're trying
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  Speaker 2: not to do a whole bunch of things. But we
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  Speaker 2: do find and Vick, were you the one who told us?
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  Speaker 2: Was it like the last five times these teams played
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  Speaker 2: on the same night they got the same result or
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  Speaker 2: something like that, where you yes, ye, Now six in
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  Speaker 2: a row, six straight times we've had the double dipper ruse.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, just a sort of a team poll here,
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  Speaker 2: how do we feel about Nelly using double dipperoux quotes
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  Speaker 2: from guys who are no longer on the team.
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  Speaker 5: I have no problem as long as they're funny, and
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  Speaker 5: I thought.
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  Speaker 6: Now we have a.
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  Speaker 2: That's Russell Westbrook. The first one was Jonathan Drew.
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  Speaker 7: Tonight we've got a double deperou Yeah good.
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  Speaker 5: The best was the goalie who's the goalie against useless?
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  Speaker 2: That is a crazy voice. Sounds like the sweetest chef.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure where moser is is mosuer joining uh?
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to express how asleep I am right now?
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  Speaker 3: And if I'm asleep, because all I had to do
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  Speaker 3: was drive from our appahole road back home.
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  Speaker 5: Last night.
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  Speaker 3: I told Katie Wenjy document for me the exact time
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  Speaker 3: you depart and get home.
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  Speaker 5: I want to know the schedule.
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  Speaker 2: Dmac texted me with Scottie. He did the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: So they took off at one Denver time. According to Katie,
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  Speaker 3: Ye landed in Denver three h seven. She got home.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see home at four am. Probably got to bed
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  Speaker 3: at four thirty. They have a basketball game tonight, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: four thirty arrival. They have a basketball game tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Now before all of you. And I know I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: get these. I'm gonna get these. Ah work a real
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  Speaker 5: job and you make millions. You know you get those right.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody is contending that they're not well paid, well compensated.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's making that contention. The contention is in the theater
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  Speaker 3: of competition for the integrity of the game.
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  Speaker 5: That's it. What are we doing?
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  Speaker 3: The Dallas Mavericks were in Denver last night, sleeping nicely.
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  Speaker 3: During our postgame show, The Nuggets, for the fourth time
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  Speaker 3: this season, more than any team in the league, play
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  Speaker 3: a late game, have to fly east, lose an hour
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  Speaker 3: or two, and then play the following night. If you're
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  Speaker 3: going to schedule a nine pm tip off and it
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  Speaker 3: tipped off at nine thirteen, mind you, if.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to schedule that, my god, don't give them
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  Speaker 5: a back to back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how stupid is that? And look, we can we
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  Speaker 2: can talk about the game and stuff like that in
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  Speaker 2: a second, But I do think what Vick's talking about
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  Speaker 2: is important. It's been like this for a while. But
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  Speaker 2: if you have teams that reside in either the state
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  Speaker 2: of Colorado or the state of Utah, they just don't
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  Speaker 2: seem to care about what your schedules are and competitively,
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  Speaker 2: and this is the important thing. It's not about, oh
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  Speaker 2: did they get enough beauty sleep these millionaires, or it's
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  Speaker 2: about when you're at the end of a season and
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  Speaker 2: games matter and you're trying to make up ground and
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  Speaker 2: you put one team at a severe disadvantage because you've
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  Speaker 2: ignored the difficulty of scheduling. That stuff is important.
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  Speaker 5: I totally lose to teams like Memphis.
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  Speaker 3: That's how you're going to be tired tonight, Like they're
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  Speaker 3: going to sleepwalk tonight. They're going to if I'm the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm the Nuggets and they're better than I am,
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  Speaker 3: the people that run the ship, I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: I do tonight. I play the end of the bench.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean, here's the issue is that you
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  Speaker 2: can't you can't prove a point when you need wins.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that, and you're playing Here's what's funny.
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  Speaker 2: You're playing against the Dallas team that's won two games
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  Speaker 2: in the last month. Okay, so they've been terrible, They've
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  Speaker 2: they've packed it in, they've given up. But in situations
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  Speaker 2: like this, this is where teams like that can creep
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  Speaker 2: up and get you and again, at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, you're gonna have to figure it out. I understand,
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  Speaker 2: but it's ridiculous that they forced them to do this.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to appease a national television audience, which
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  Speaker 3: is a joke, because nobody nationally is watching that game
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  Speaker 3: when it tips off at eleven thirteen pm East Coast time,
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  Speaker 3: all right, the only people watching.
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  Speaker 5: Are the people in Denver and Phoenix and anybody on
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  Speaker 5: the West coast.
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  Speaker 3: So if you want to appease your television partner who
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  Speaker 3: gave you billions, fine, fine, appease a piece away. Just
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  Speaker 3: don't schedule it back to back, right, it's not easy,
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  Speaker 3: it's that simple.
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  Speaker 5: Let them sleep. Then here, listen to this. We're not
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  Speaker 5: done yet.
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  Speaker 3: Then the Nuggets thought they were going to have plane
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  Speaker 3: issues because the plane had some problems. They did get
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  Speaker 3: off relatively in time, but they did appeal to the NBA. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: what are the chances we just stay in Phoenix, stay
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  Speaker 3: the night in Phoenix and actually fly in in game day.
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  Speaker 3: NBA said, no, can't do that. Why too risky. What's
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  Speaker 3: risky to fly in the.
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  Speaker 5: Day of a game? Too risky? Don't allow it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, technically they did fly in the day of the game.
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  Speaker 5: They did. It was yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the difference.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they don't care. They don't care.
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  Speaker 3: Again four times this season, more than any team in
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  Speaker 3: the league by far. There are some teams who didn't
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  Speaker 3: do this once, not once. They've done it four times.
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  Speaker 3: Playing one night, flying east, losing time and having to
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  Speaker 3: play the second game of a back to back in
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  Speaker 3: a city where you lost sleep.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, stupid. Now, the good news is the Nuggets win
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  Speaker 2: last night, a close game, clutch at the end. That helps. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when you're up eight with three minutes left. Vic, That's
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  Speaker 2: another one of those things, like I I wish the
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  Speaker 2: game didn't come down to tie game under a minute,
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  Speaker 2: but they did find a way to win. So a
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  Speaker 2: couple of clutch buckets from both Yokitch and Murray at
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  Speaker 2: the end of that game, and found a way to
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  Speaker 2: get a stop on Devin Booker's three. Now to that point,
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  Speaker 2: you were shaking your head when I said that. What
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  Speaker 2: was that a shaking head of disagreement or agreement?
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  Speaker 4: There?
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I mean, I think you've discovered the problem
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  Speaker 3: that the Nuggets. They're embroiled in the situation and they've
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  Speaker 3: been so all season long. And we've had the data
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  Speaker 3: before Dan Hyatt sent us the data about their defense,
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  Speaker 3: latent games, these clutch games. They want a clutch game.
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  Speaker 5: So it's good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you always, you always celebrate a clutch win.
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  Speaker 3: They were up eight with three minutes to play. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and Phoenix went on a twelve to four run. Stop
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  Speaker 3: me if you've heard this one before. When And it's
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  Speaker 3: been a problem all season just defense. The defense has
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  Speaker 3: been a problem. Defensively, they can't make clutch stops like
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  Speaker 3: they haven years past.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, did Adamman I have a question when he started
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  Speaker 2: fouling the guy whose last name I can't pronounce. Ever, uh,
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  Speaker 2: when he started fouling him, I get it that he's
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  Speaker 2: like a fifty percent free throw shooter, and so it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is strategy. It's been employed for years
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  Speaker 2: in the NBA, getting back to shack fall a bad
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  Speaker 2: free throw shooter late in the game. But that I
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  Speaker 2: think kind of speaks to the mistrust he has in
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  Speaker 2: his defense late in games.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I thought Bill Ansek said the best last night
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  Speaker 3: on the broadcast, Bill was half a sleep. It just
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  Speaker 3: goes to show if you're fouling a guy like that
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  Speaker 3: and you're up, it doesn't give you much trust in
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  Speaker 3: your own defense abilities.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You're basically saying out loud, I don't trust this to
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  Speaker 2: get a stop. This is our best chance to hold
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  Speaker 2: teams to like one point.
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  Speaker 3: People may say, hey, we're just going to play the
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  Speaker 3: numbers game, the analytics game. What it did is it
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  Speaker 3: gave them free points at the at the free throw line,
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  Speaker 3: and it puts you in the bonus very early. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they shot a ton of free throws and it gave
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  Speaker 3: them slowed.
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  Speaker 5: The game down for them.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it gave them more and more opportunities and possessions
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  Speaker 2: on offense.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't a fan of the move. I mean, they
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  Speaker 3: tried it, and you know, listen, they won the game
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  Speaker 3: and the game, but just play defense. You're you're up
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  Speaker 3: eight with three minutes to play. Yeah, play d and
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  Speaker 3: I again, I don't understand why this team is struggling
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  Speaker 3: on the defensive end.
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  Speaker 5: Late, What do you see? I'm gonna ask you, what
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  Speaker 5: do you see? I don't know. It's weird to what
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  Speaker 5: I see.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 5: For here's what I see when they go small.
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  Speaker 3: When they go small, everybody's playing with their hair on fire. Defensively,
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  Speaker 3: they're switching everything. Yeah, they were plus nine last night
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  Speaker 3: in non Jokic minutes. That's pretty good. Yeah remember the
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  Speaker 3: days where they'd be like minus twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Well, is that are you saying then that Jokich has
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  Speaker 2: become a hindrance liating games on defense?
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying that they there. Their defensive rotations are not
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  Speaker 3: very good.
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  Speaker 5: They're not very good.
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  Speaker 3: If there's somebody to slow to rotate, something happens, they're
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  Speaker 3: not very good. They're not as good as they used
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  Speaker 3: to be, not as sharp as they used to be.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if this again, you didn't. They're they're playing
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  Speaker 3: the slow game here with Peyton Watson, and they should
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  Speaker 3: and that's smart. Uh how I think he can be
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  Speaker 3: a difference late in the game though, like he could
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  Speaker 3: be when you trot that line up out there and
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  Speaker 3: you're looking to get stops, Peyton Watson can be a huge.
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  Speaker 5: It'll be a difference.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, bottom line is they've been a sieve
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  Speaker 3: in some of these clutch games defensively.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna read these textas morning.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna try my darnness to be sane when I
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  Speaker 3: read these, because you know my my approach to sports.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm not a field day, you know, earn it adversity.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm hard. I'm not soft.
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  Speaker 5: I'm hard, Okay, you know me.
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  Speaker 3: But when it comes to this schedule stuff, what people
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  Speaker 3: are misinterpreting. I don't feel sorry for the quote millionaire
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  Speaker 3: athlete having to wake up. You know, I woke up
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  Speaker 3: this morning, many of you woke up, many of you
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  Speaker 3: woke the overnight shift. Stop comparing these guys to our jobs,
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  Speaker 3: would you stop doing that? It has nothing to do
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  Speaker 3: with jobs and finances and compensation. I'm talking about the
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  Speaker 3: competitive nature of the game, comparing yourself to other teams.
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  Speaker 3: Competitive balance. When one team has to do it more
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  Speaker 3: often than other teams, that's not right, that's not fair.
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  Speaker 3: That's the integrity of the game. That's all I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: The Nuggets have had to do it four times more
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  Speaker 3: than any other team they now have played tonight, we'll
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  Speaker 3: be there seventeenth back to back, by far most.
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  Speaker 5: In the league. That's not fair to the integrity of
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  Speaker 5: the game. So enough for the texts like this, how
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  Speaker 5: soft are these athletes? Now? If I was as soft
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  Speaker 5: as you're treating millionaire athletes, then I wouldn't have a job.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't this just get over year.
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  Speaker 5: It's not about you. It's not about it's about the game,
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  Speaker 5: the balance of the game.
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  Speaker 3: If you can't comprehend that, I don't know why you're
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  Speaker 3: listening right now.
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  Speaker 2: Can I put this another way? It's you know, think
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  Speaker 2: of this like Week fifteen of the NFL season. The
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  Speaker 2: Broncos play I don't know, the Chiefs, and then they
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  Speaker 2: play them on a Sunday and the NFL goes, hey,
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  Speaker 2: guess what, just sorry, a little cork to the schedule.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have to play in two days. It's not
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  Speaker 2: about I personally feel bad for the players. It's about
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  Speaker 2: how the hell can you justify the competitive disadvantage you're
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  Speaker 2: putting that team in as opposed to others who are
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  Speaker 2: all competing for the same thing. It's it's what you said, Vic,
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  Speaker 2: it's the competitive part. Forget how Jokic feels this morning.
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  Speaker 2: It's about how much of a disadvantage you've put one
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  Speaker 2: team pit against another.
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  Speaker 5: That's all.
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  Speaker 2: So get back to this in a bit. Three oh three,
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  Speaker 2: five oh four nine two five. Jared Bednar joining us
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  Speaker 2: a little early this morning at seven forty. Stick around. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: Jared Beddnar is gonna join us at seven forty, so
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  Speaker 2: a little bit earlier than his usually scheduled times. They
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  Speaker 2: got to hit the road in the middle of this
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  Speaker 2: road trip, and they get the win last night. Now
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  Speaker 2: Bender said, it was a little sloppy yesterday, but you
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  Speaker 2: got those early goals that kind of put the game
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  Speaker 2: out of reach early. Here's him post game, he was outstanding.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, sloppy game from us. I just like we capitalized
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  Speaker 7: on some like made some nice places to score some goals,
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  Speaker 7: but we also beat up the puck quite a bit
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  Speaker 7: and had some turnovers, and you know when we did that,
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  Speaker 7: when you made some big saves. It's just that simple.
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  Speaker 7: He was I think he was our best player tonight,
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  Speaker 7: you know, so we'll take it. It certainly wasn't the
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  Speaker 7: game or the performance that we were looking for, but
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  Speaker 7: it's certainly the result we're looking for.
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  Speaker 2: Wichwood was great last night. Bailed them out multiple times.
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  Speaker 5: So did the p K. Yeah, several locations, my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: But again, when you have a first period VIC where
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  Speaker 2: you score first and then you give up, you give
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  Speaker 2: up a goald, have a tied one to one, and
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  Speaker 2: then he put three goals together in the span of
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  Speaker 2: like two minutes, you know, the game's got that feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's kind of over already, as long as we
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  Speaker 2: don't royally mess things up. You did get billed out
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  Speaker 2: a little bit with how about this a goalie interference
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  Speaker 2: call working in your favor that wiped one off the
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  Speaker 2: board for Pittsburgh. But I want to point something out here,
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  Speaker 2: just for perspective's sake, do you know what Martin Nachius
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  Speaker 2: has done since the Olympic break.
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  Speaker 5: He's been unreal, otherworldly.
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  Speaker 2: He has played twelve games. In those twelve games, he
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  Speaker 2: has scored I'm sorry, next twelve how many games has
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  Speaker 2: it been for?
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  Speaker 5: Eight?
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  Speaker 2: Well, fifteen? Sorry, fifteen games. In fifteen games since the
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  Speaker 2: Olympic break, he has scored twelve goals, fourteen assists, twenty
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  Speaker 2: six points. Fantastic, get another two last night. He has
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  Speaker 2: been as good as you could hope, especially Vic. He
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  Speaker 2: has five power play goals since then. And I remember,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was talking about this when I was
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  Speaker 2: watching the Olympics. I asked mos. I was like, so
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  Speaker 2: Nature's for uh? He was with check ya, right? Was
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  Speaker 2: that his team?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: So Nachu's kind of sits at that dot that McKinnon
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  Speaker 2: sits at and starts firing off these one timers, and
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  Speaker 2: he's really good at that for Checki's power play, do
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  Speaker 2: you consider trying to give him a look there and
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  Speaker 2: having sort of McKinnon be the rover in that power play?
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  Speaker 2: And they've done that a little bit since then.
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  Speaker 5: Just like last night.
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  Speaker 3: Now they set five seconds they that power play last
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  Speaker 3: night it took him five seconds.
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  Speaker 2: He has been so damn good. He's already got a
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  Speaker 2: career high in goals, assists, in points with you know what,
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  Speaker 2: thirteen games left, twelve games left in the season, but
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  Speaker 2: playing at a high level.
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  Speaker 5: So the Avs take care of business.
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  Speaker 3: Albeit coach Bed's Bednarz he'll tell us later, wasn't happy
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  Speaker 3: with their overall performance, but they won the game going.
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  Speaker 5: Away and Dallas lost again. Dallas has lost three in
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  Speaker 5: a row. That's a thing.
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  Speaker 3: Dallas has lost again, and now you look at the standings,
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  Speaker 3: then the Avs still have a game in hand and
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  Speaker 3: they're up by seven points.
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  Speaker 2: In some ways, I think Dallas losing is bigger than
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  Speaker 2: the Avs winning, because you're just my whole thing has
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  Speaker 2: been you can't have a season where they've played at
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  Speaker 2: this high of a level, they have led the league
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: in points wired to wire and then at the very
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: end of the year get jumped by somebody that can't
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: would be a mental letdown. And so with Dallas now
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: losing three straight, as Vic just said, it's seven points
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: ahead with a game in hand. The only way you
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: truly give this up is if you really stumble at
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: the end of the season and lose that game on
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: the fourth to Dallas. But I said, the goal for
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: the Avs should be said this last week. Have yourself
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: built in a big enough lead to wear the final
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: stretch of the year. Because here's what sucks for the Aves.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: We're just talking about the Nuggets schedule, how crazy it is.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: On April fourth, they play Dallas, the night after they
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: play Saint Louis. And here's what it looks like. In
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: the span of twelve days to close out the year,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: VIC the Avs will play eight games. They play the fourth,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: the fifth, the seventh, the ninth, the eleventh, the thirteenth,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: the fourteenth, and the sixteenth, eight games in twelve days
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: to close out the year. What you hope for is
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: you have such a comfortable lead that on April thirteenth,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: where you have a back to back, you travel to
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Edmonton and Calgary. You look at McKinnon and you look
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: at the Carr, and you look at Natchus and you
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: look at Landiskag and you say, you, guys, don't come
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: on the trip. We're fine, you guys stay home.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: If you can get to that spot, that would be
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: ideal when you get toy with the schedule a little
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: bit at the end of his season, because you've secured
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: everything you need to secure.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the best situation to be in.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: And I think that's sort of the goal here moving
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: forward is to do that. And again we'll talk more
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: about this with Bednar as we get along.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: That p K last night again, the double minor, the
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: five on three, Logan O'Connor already makes them better, I know,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: first game back.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Good to see him and Ross Colton get back in
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: the lineup. It's good to see guys sort of being
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: in the spots they're supposed to. Cantry finally moves back
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: to that center spot on that third line.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: I'm also happy for Wedgwood because the last time they
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: played Pittsburgh he got yanked really early in the game
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: if you remember, Yeah, and last night bailed him out.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: I mean he bailed him out on several occasions.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: By the way, Moser is not here today because Moser
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: has to be on that flight that Bednar's on there.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: I couldn't I couldn't tell Bennar is joining.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Us at seven forty because that flight is leaving I
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: think at eight o'clock or or something like that. So
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: getting that all out of the way early now, you're
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: so right about this though. The PK was money last night,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Logan O'Connor, a huge boost to that. On top of that,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: the power play has been a lot better, and they
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: have gone from thirty second in the NHL in power
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: play percentage dead last to I believe they're at twenty
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: seventh now. So you climbed up a few spots, but
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: you can just tell it's a lot more dangerous than
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: it has been before. They're finding a lot more opportunities.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: They look like they're getting set up a little bit
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: easier if they can continue the power play with the
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: way that it's looked over, I would say the last
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: three four weeks since that break, I think that's good enough.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Like I look at that the same way we looked
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: at goaltending back. You know, four years ago, you knew
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: it didn't have to be elite level with Darcy Kemper,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: just had to be okay. I think if you get
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: the power play to just be okay, you're fine. As
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: long as you aren't giving up shorty, you weren't worried
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: about giving up a goal on your power play. You're
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: just in good shape.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Just get better.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: It's not gonna happen overnight where they go from bottom
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: of the pack to the power play. We saw the
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: year that they won the Cup. Man they had a
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: power play for a couple of years running there where
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: they it was ridiculous. It was a guaranteed bucket. Yeah,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: every time they got out there. So not making that leap,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: but at least make it more confident they have. They
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: have a lot to talk to coach Bedsey about. It's
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: funny watching his postgame interview for a team that won
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: six to two.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: He was, uh, he was off. I thought it was ticked.
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: Well.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Good for him, Like, look, when you're a team that's
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: as good as the Avalanche is, are I think that winning, yes,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: that's the most important thing, but you you have a
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: certain standard of how you think you should play. And
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: this goes back to I guess the style points discussion. Yes,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: the win is the thing that matters most, but if
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: you want to be a team that's playing its best
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: hockey at this time in the calendar, which you need
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: to be, then you have to be on your p's
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: and q's with kind of every aspect of your game.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: And I like the fact that he was a little
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: bit miffed in that post game despite winning by four goals.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: He's like, we need to play better.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Okay, good.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: That should be the mentality moving forward. And I'm sure
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: he's got a lot more to say with that in
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: about ten minutes from now. By the way, Nelly, I
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: sent you a DM of a video Paneren's shootout goal.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: I want to show this to you, Vick, because the
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: tweak that I saw said, Wow, what a goal. And
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I don't claim to be the most knowledgeable hockey fan
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: that's ever existed, but I feel like there's a rule
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: in a shootout that the puck has to move forward
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: at all times. It cannot stop. It's ford momentum. You
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: tell me on this goal from Paneren in the shootout,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: which is cool. He does a little the muffin flip
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: over the top for a goal, but that's his momentum,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: not stop moving forward there. Well, shouldn't that be disallowed?
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Is it the puck moving forward? Or are you not
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: allowed to move backward?
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: No, the puck's got to be always moving forward. But
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: the puck wasn't moving forward. That looks straight side to
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: side to me. Do this that that puck ain't moving
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: towards the net?
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Ah?
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I mean technically if you looked at it from the angle,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: it could have been moving I mean toward the net
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: or forward different definition there forward, not necessarily toward the net.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Ye, what I'm saying that ain't moving forward.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I will die on this hill, all right? Disallowed no
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: goal for our tim.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: No go then how would you how would you classify
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: those goals where they actually grab the puck with with
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: the stick and do that that Michigan goal.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: What you cup the puck? Mo the cup there's still moving.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Well, the puck stops moving because you're actually cupping the
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: puck with your stick.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: By the way, trying to try and say cup the
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: puck five times in a row without saying the F word.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Let's see if we're doing rough? All right, careful, there
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: a lot more to discuss here with Jared Bednar is
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: going to join us in five minutes. Stick around, all right,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Jared Bednar is going to join us in just a
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: few minutes. The Avs win last night. The Nuggets win
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: last night. As Vick has pointed out, the last six
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: times the Nuggets and Aves have had a double Dipperoux,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: they haven't gotten the same result on those nights double dip.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Before those have been the win result.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Which is always the preference.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: One of the things I want to ask Betsy in
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: a few minutes is you know, it's great that you're
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: winning games. You want to be winning games, especially at
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: this point in the calendar, at this time of the year.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Does it feel equally as good when you get Dallas losing?
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: I mean I wonder how much watching, yeah, how much
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: scoreboard watching are they doing? And will he admit that
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: they're scoreboard watching?
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I mean's human nature, of course, you have to be well,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: remember Vic, was it a couple of weeks ago. I
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: asked him, do you kind of like that Dallas is
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: creeping at your you know, nipping at your heels, and
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: maybe it keeps you sharp, keeps you focused. And his
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: response was, uh, it was like no, no, not really.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I would rather just be rewarded for playing good hockey
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: all season long and get the one seed.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: But here we are. I'd rather coast downhill than struggle uphill. Well,
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: and that is like that.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: The rest of their schedule is just it's it's jam
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: packed with games. And I don't know how it got
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: to this point to where they've I told you, Vic.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Because they've played the fewest amount of games before the
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Olympic break and how like why.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: I have no idea. I mean, we just spent an
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: entire segment on the Nuggets schedule do you want to
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: go down to the Avalanche schedule. I have no idea.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: I don't know this stuff happens. I'm so not sure
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: what they use.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I told you earlier. It's eight games in the final
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: twelve days of the season, which is insane. So you're
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: hoping that you get to a point in which you
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: can rest guys once you get to that portion of
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: your schedule and not have it be like must win
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: situations every single night. You know, multiple back to backs
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: in that final week and a half is just crazy.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: Oh, they have two back to backs. From what I'm
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: looking at right now, they have a back to back.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: Oh wait, do they have how many how many days
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: in the month of March?
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: How many days are in March?
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, thirty or thirty one?
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Thirty one?
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: Okay, so that's not a back there. They have two
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: back to backs left.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: They have one on April fourth to the fifth at Dallas,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: followed by Saint Louis at home, and then they have
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: another one April thirteenth and fourteenth at Edmonton at Calgary.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, though both of those are in
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: the span of twelve days. Yeah, I mean, you get
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: to that point it's like you're just trying to hang
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: on for dear life. Hopefully, when you get to the
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Edmonton Calgary stretch you can tell a lot of guys
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: to stay home.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I'm hoping that the games are meaningless once you get
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: to the Vegas game on April eleventh.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Four games to play Vegas, Edmonton, Calgary, Seattle.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: You hope that four game stretch is all about just
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: fine tuning guys and making sure you're ready for the
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Stanley Cup run because that's not fun.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: But you know at this rate they will be there.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: Well that is right? Why not?
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you get I think the next like five games
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: especially are pretty crucial because you're playing against a terrible
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Winnipeg team twice, you're playing against a terrible Calgary team,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: and you're playing this a terrible Vancouver team. Like those
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: are four games in which you should get wins. And
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: then you play Dallas on April fourth. If you're able
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: to go and win, I know they're already at three
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: on a three game winning streak. If you can push
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: that to eight, and I know it's asking for a lot,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: you can kind of coast it out. It feels like
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: for the rest of the year, you get the next
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: four games Dubs, and then you finish it off with
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: a win in Dallas on Saturday, April fourth. You got
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: a handful of games left, but it doesn't feel like
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: they're going to be you know, incredibly important at that point.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: If you do take care of this for the next
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: week or so.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: This this Winnipeg matchup, you're gonna see a lot of
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Winnipeg here in the next couple of days. Yeah, because
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: you're at their place and then they come to your
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: place on Saturday.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: Right, It's a little too much Winnipeg. There's only so
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: much Winnipeg I can tolerate.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Especially remember those games in Winnipeg. What was the number
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: that Moser gave.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Us the last time they scored a goal.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: This is hellibuk or in Winnipeg, in Winlipeg against in
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Winnipeg against Hellabuck, Hellibuck Jack Johnson until Marty Nachus got
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: the extra attacker goal in the game that they lost,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: you know, whenever. That was a couple of weeks ago,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: which is insane. Jack Johnson before Nachus a couple of
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: weeks ago, was the last guy to score in Winnipeg
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: against Hellabuck. Really, so you have in those two games.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: It's it's a home and home. Which order is it?
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: They play first?
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, first at Winnipeg, at Winnipeg, then they come back
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: home and play with again.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Which is why they're traveling out today. Yes, weren't you
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: the one who asked me where's Winnipeg? And I told
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: you it's in South America. I did ask me that question,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: did ask You'll just own it? You said, where is it?
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: No?
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I didn't know which part of Canada Winnipeg was in. Yes, No,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: you had no ideas in the North American.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: You thought it was. It could have been anywhere in
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: your mind.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Certainly didn't think it was the Caribbean. I didn't, but
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: it was somewhere in Canada.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Like if I gave you thirty tries at a map,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: just point your finger at Winnipeg.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure you could have. I would.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: I would have pointed somewhere west of Michigan, above the border.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know where. See, this is my problem, Like
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I know where Toronto is. Anywhere else in Canada? You
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: name a city with this is a blind guess. I'm
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: chucking a dark Vancouver.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: Come on, that's easy.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: That's above Washington, isn't it.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's up on the Great Northwest.
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Is Montreal by Toronto?
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: Yes, not too far. Ottawa that's a stone's throw from Montreal.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Bro okay, so that's the same area. Yeah, and these
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: ones I don't know, man, I don't Edmonton, VIC.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: How about Nova Scotia?
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: No idea, no clue at all, which I would assume
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: above Montana?
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: No?
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, yeah, no idea could be No, I don't
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: What do you want from me? I don't know Canadian provinces.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: I didn't learn that, not once in school. They're like,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: let's learn the provinces of Canada.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: That brings up a question.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Last night at the Nuggets game, it was Serbian Heritage
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Night and everywhere Joker goes, whatever city they play in,
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: How coincidental is it they hold a Serbian Heritage Night?
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah? How come there's never a Canadian Heritage Night ever?
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: I've never seen Canadian Heritage Night.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: You know, here's what I kind of think if there
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: was a major sport.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: I've seen Hispanic Heritage Night, I've seen German Heritage Night.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: I've seen, of course, Serbian. How they've had Italian Heritage Nights?
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Why is there never a Canadian Heritage to night?
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: But do they have Like if you're at a what's
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: the Japanese baseball league called the Oh god, I can't
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: remember it. But if you're playing professional baseball in Japan,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: do you think there's American Heritage Night?
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: Do they do that? Question? They do.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: For everybody else.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: I've never once heard of an American Heritage Night? Can
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: you hold an American Heritage Night in America? Like?
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: If I was the star player for Tokyo's baseball team,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: would they make an American Knight for me?
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: Hey, let's cut to the chase. Let's cut to the chase.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: All right, let's stop with what the real purpose of
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: these Serbian Heritage Nights are?
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: Money?
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Why do you think NBA teams are holding Serbian HAIRDA nights?
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: When Nikola Joki shows up to play basketball cash? Do
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: you think they're really sitting there going we got to
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: celebrate the Serbs.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing, though, I if I was an opposing
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: fan or the opposing team of the Nuggets, I think
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I kind of hate it. You're inviting the other team's
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: fans to come in right when you're putting Serbian in them.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: But most of them are pulling for Joker.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: No, that's what I'm saying, Like, you're opening, you're building
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: to people that will actively root against your team.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I was in Chicago for a Nuggets Bulls games a
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: couple of years ago when they had Serbian Heritage Night,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: and I felt like I was in Denver.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, Okay, you're making some cash off it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah you are.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Nobody's going to Serbian Heritage Night to see Joker play
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: and root for the team that Joker's not on.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: What is our biggest cry?
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Every time an opposing team comes in here and fills
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: our arena, we.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: Get mad, at least I do. Yeah.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: My brother went to that game in Phoenix last night.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: He said it felt like an its home game. Really yeah,
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: he said, it's unreal how many Nuggets fans were there.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Well, Phoenix is like, look, they're in the play in.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: They've been a transplant. I mean, that's a transplant town. Yeah,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: even more so than Denver. Yeah, Snowbird Down.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: I do love Arizona.
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: I do.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Phoenix.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: It's it's I want to get something with Joker later.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: By the way, we're still awaiting Jared Bednar to join
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: us there. Jumping on the plane. It looks like right now,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: I want to get to something with Joker a little
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: bit later and do a subject that we haven't done
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: in a long time. But I think you're gonna like it.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: Vic.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Something we haven't done with Joker in a long time
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: is have the MVP discussion with him, but I want
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: to put some things in perspective for the kind of
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: player that he is and where he's at right now
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: in the MVP standings, because it's insanity.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: But we wait.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Jared Bednar joining us here in just a few minutes. Again,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: the Avs and the Nuggets both win last night. It
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: was good to see guys re enter the lineup. Logan
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: O'Connor finally back in the lineup for the Avs along
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: with Ross Colton who jumped in there as well. And
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: it looks like Lecanin is not too far from being
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: on the ice either. So you're looking at the ideal
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: situation end of the year, right before the playoffs are approaching,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: with a few weeks to get these guys on ramp,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: to get the chemistry going, get their feet under him.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Looks like you're getting healthy at the perfectly right time
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: with who said Nick Nicholas wa sat right, Nick wah did, Yeah,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: but he was there was something interrelated with him. We'll
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: talk to Bednar about it, but I don't think it was.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: It's a serious thing, but we'll ask him and he'll
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: join us. He's calling right now, so we'll get to
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: him in just a couple of minutes. As we head
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• 35:02
  Speaker 2: that head coach the f Zer. Bednar joins us. Now, hey, coach, Hey,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: how you doing good? So congrats on the win last night?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: And I know you guys got some craziness going on
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: jump on the flight and everything. It sounded like tone wise,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: despite a six or two win, you weren't very happy
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: with the game last night. Am I assessing that right?
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's hard to not be happy with your carving
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: out points at this time of the year. But it
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: was a sloppy game from our Germans, you know, Like,
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: I think we made some nice plays and score some
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: nice goals. I think we finished off our chances really well,
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: which you know, sometimes we've played good hockey games and
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: just haven't been able to capitalize on our chances. I
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: thought last night when we got a good champions in
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: the back of the match, but we were sloppy on
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: the defens I like moving the park out of our
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: zone through the neutral zone. Execution just wasn't great. You know,
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: it didn't seem like we had a ton of energy
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: at times in the game, and then at other times,
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: you know, we we did some good things.
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: So not a.
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: Complete game that I think we can look at and
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: be super proud of. But it's a it's a very
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: good hockey team. It's a team that's sitting in the
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: top ten in the league and for a reason. And
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: and they're difficult to play a games, so we've got
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: to give them a little bit of credit.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Well, you gotta be happy with your PK. I mean
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: double nine five on three, My goodness, you guys. Every
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: time I looked up here on the PK, it seems
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: and it worked.
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and that and that's like I did feel like
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: there was a couple of those where we would play it.
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: It's pretty good at that point in the game. And
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: then next thing, you know, you're killing for four minutes
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: and it can kind of ruin the flow of the
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: game for you. We're not we're not going to make
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: any excuses there, but we did like try to build
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: some momentum off the penalty kill, and you know, they
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: came out of the break a little bit sloppy, a
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: little bit casual, some of the details were slipped, and
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: I thought no one's had been a nice job of
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: getting the group together, identifying where the problems were starting,
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: how we can correct, and guys have responded. Since then,
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: we've been on a little bit of goodall with that
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: penalty killed, never quick player with a ton of confidence,
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: and now we're even adding guys back, and the guys
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: that go see it's.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Choky. As Jared bedmar with us, all conversations with the
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: coach are brought to by mister Ruter Plumbing, probably rooting
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: for Colorado's hockey team. Speaking of getting guys back in
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: the lineup, it's important, obviously to get guys back at
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: this point in the schedule, but isn't also nice to
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: get guys slotted in the right spots. Putting Candre back
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: at center and doing that I'm sure that with liking
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: kind of on the horizon here, you can't wait to
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: work with a full deck.
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's exactly like we add cold and we had
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: o see. You know, guys, they're getting back the lineup.
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: We're going to be without miss Wall for a little bit. Uh,
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: he suffered an injury. We're going to get in some
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: time off to get deals. We want to be healthy,
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: we want to be feeling good, you know, as individuals
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: and as a team going into the playoffs. I think
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: it's very important. But we've got some work to do here,
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: like sorting out what our lines look like, the chemistry,
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: how we want to deploy these guys. We know we
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: want to be a deep five our four line team,
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: and being able to rule our guys and what situations
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: we can sort of use their guys and trust their
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: guys in, and just how we're going to deploy them
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: the games. You know, different line match throughout the league,
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: and we have to make sure we find the chemistry
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: so it's not just one line going or two lines going,
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: but we got everybody going. From playoff time and moving
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: naz Is back into the middle of the ice and
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: finding in some winers and I think it's it's it's
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: really important step for our team. So we get everyone firing.
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: I'm all still in this year, and you can't do
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: that until you get everyone back in the lineup and
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: sid spreading all a little bit. See that what looks like?
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: DOESI?
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: I find the power play to be more effective when
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: you score five seconds into a power play, that's always nice.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, how do you explain why? Why is it looking better?
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: It's looked so much better since the Olympic break?
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: What what?
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: What changes have you made?
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: It's it's a little bit the same as the penalty kill.
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: Like I talked about, it's I don't know, I can't.
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: I can't answer exactly why. It would just go over something,
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: you know, and you feel like you have a solid
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: plan that all of a sudden it just doesn't click.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: And then you kind of give them time to work
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: on it, and you work through it and it still
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: doesn't click, and then you bring them back in from
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: me and may not click again. And then but like
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: when we came out of the break, we said, now
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: went over like again. It wasn't the first time, like
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: in depth of what we wanted our plan to be.
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: What we wanted it to look like what were the
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: key points to a position of every guy in different
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: situations and then but then you're still going to use
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: your instincts and make plays after that. For some reason,
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: like that meeting, I think just like a fresh start
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: to break not carrying over any frustrations from the first
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: part of the year, like just kind of starting fresh
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: and starting over. For whatever reason, it cooked a little
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: bit for us, you know, And and it's been it's
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: been doing a great job. It's been impactful on a
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: nightly basis. We're still throwing away power plays that are
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: don't look dangerous and aren't any good, but we're finding
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: a way in a night the basis going to like
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: create a bunch of scoring chances or get on the board,
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: and you know, like it makes a different scores last
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: night quickly der the power play. It's a great space
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: off play, gets a look that we want and it's
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: well executed in the back of the net, and you know,
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: it has to be a difference major for us down
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: destretch in the playoffs. And they've been doing a good
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: job for now, what's what's a longer time you know,
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: coming out of the break.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Head coach, they as Jared Bednar with us. You know,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you, as as great as winning
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: is and racking up points, and I'm sure that feels great,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: does it feel equally as great when you look at
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: the box scores from the night and you see Dallas
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: has lost their third consecutive game. How much scoreboard watching
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: is going on with you guys?
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: I think very varying degree depending on who you are.
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: You know, like I don't watch it a lot, just
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: because my mentality is, like we take care of our
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: own business, like prepare for our game, go out and
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: play a game that we can be proud of, Like
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: it's it's not it's not just about the results for
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: me either, like we'll finish where we finish. Results are
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: obviously really important because it's you know, some goals that
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: we have set and that we want to achieve to
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: the regular season. And but like when you're going out
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: and if you're winning hockey games like we are now,
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: and some of them you love the way we play,
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: some of them you don't. You're still finding ways to
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: win with some guys, you know, on any night not
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: at their best, they're just having an off night. And
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: sometimes we've had more guys like that than not. We're
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: still finding ways to win. When you're taking care of
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: your own business, you don't have to do a lot
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: of scoreboard watching with nowhere in first, and we just
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: keep winning, our games will remain in first, you know.
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: So but begin of that, you know, they wake up
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: this morning and see it and see that Mindy loss
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: and Dallas loss. It's it's it's a good feeling. You know,
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: it was getting tight there for a couple of games
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: after we lost to him, and then at home the
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: other night and just got one point at But but
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: since then, we've done a nice job after the Pittsburgh
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: game and kind of getting back to where what we
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: focused on, what we need to focus on.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: How do you like this sort of mini series you
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: got going Winnipeg at their place, Winnipeg at your place,
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: almost like a pre playoff series.
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: I actually, I actually kind of like that this time
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: of year. It's it's because we can go in with
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: our game plan, you know, make adjustments from period to
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: period on what we're seeing. Your guys can be super
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: clear on what we need to do to win, and
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: then it's about executing that plan and playing well and
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: in these situations, and then you know, we can review
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: it in the morning of the game on Saturday and
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: and go again, you know, where you really kind of
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: dig into what's working and what's not working. Adjustments. He
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: got to make an offensive sider to set decide it
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: and then let the players go do their thing. I
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: have a lot of confidence and the players to be
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: able to do that. So I kind of like it.
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: And I think we've got another one against Kaint Lewis
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: coming up where at home at home, and so they're
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: good little tests, you know, especially vote and win the
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: first one. It's it's always difficult to win them. Boat,
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: but it's a good challenge for a team at the
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: time of the year. The tennis stay them and they're
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: giggering and stray and care off.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Head coach to the f Jared Bednar coach. I just
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: felt like in the background, I could hear mos you're talking.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Can you tell him to pipe down for me?
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: Boss? Already? Let's see that look back here, he's he's
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: not I was gonna say, he's crub already napping, but
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: he's got headphones on, he's looks and he's watching him
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: up on his iPad.
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: There you go, all right?
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Coach, congratulations on the win last night.
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: We'll talk to you next week, all right, appreciated.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Thanks head go to the f Jared bednar joins us
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: every single Wednesdays they are on the plane to head
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: towards Winnipeg. You know, maybe most is finally taking our advice.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Vic He said, he's got headphones on, looks like he's
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: watching something. Maybe he's finally watching one of these movies
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: or shows we've been telling him to always says that
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: he doesn't have time now. He's easy, you're on a flight,
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: watch it, but interesting here if you guys missed it.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: So he said that Nick wah is gonna miss some time.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Didn't sound like it was anything too serious. But give
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: him a little bit of rest here before the the
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: end of the season wraps up, get him ready for
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: the postseason. But the Avs three game win streak the
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Dallas Stars three game losing streak can't ask for much
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: better in the AVS apartment right now. We'll get back
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: to this in just a little bit. Stick around