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OHL Playoffs Game Recap - Second Round Game 5: Soo 1 vs Kitchener 5 - OHL Overtime · The Armchair GM's Sports Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into another episode of VHL Overtime right here on
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  Speaker 1: the Armcure GM Sports Network. Postgame after Game five of
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  Speaker 1: the second round Western Conference playoff matchup between the Sue
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  Speaker 1: Greyhounds and the Kitchener Ranger, with the Rangers moving on
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  Speaker 1: to the West Final to take on the Windsor Spitfires
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  Speaker 1: after a five to one victory in Game five and
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium. We're gonna hear from
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  Speaker 1: Rangers head coach you see a hocus on the postgame,
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  Speaker 1: get his postgame thoughts as they move on. We'll go
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  Speaker 1: over the scoring summary, the game stats, everything like that,
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  Speaker 1: and a please to welcome on special guest co host
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  Speaker 1: for tonight called the game tonight as the color commentator
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  Speaker 1: on Rogers TV.
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  Speaker 3: That would be Dan Paula Schuck.
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  Speaker 1: Dan, appreciate you taking the time and staying a little
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  Speaker 1: bit after the game to discuss the Rangers moving on.
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy to do, especially after this series victory too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be a fun one.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll start with the lineup, because obviously we saw
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  Speaker 1: last night with the Sue Greyhounds being able to have
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  Speaker 1: a big third period to even force this game five
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  Speaker 1: back here tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Both teams flew back after.
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  Speaker 1: The quick turnaround, and did you notice a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of fatigue as the game started there, you know, with
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  Speaker 1: both teams on the short rest there and maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: the jet leg and things like that, like, what did
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  Speaker 1: you think of the start of this game.
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  Speaker 4: I thought both teams came out flying right at the gate.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it played a factor whatsoever, and I
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  Speaker 4: think that's a lot of that it is owed to
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  Speaker 4: the fact that both flew back and didn't have to
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  Speaker 4: deal with that eight hour bus ride too. So it's
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  Speaker 4: good foresight by both teams with the Rangers flying up
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  Speaker 4: there to begin with, and it paid off in the end.
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  Speaker 4: I think too, is that you saw you know, the
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  Speaker 4: proof is in the putting two goals within the first
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  Speaker 4: five minutes, the seuo'scoring first, and the Rangers spawning and
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  Speaker 4: away we went in this pivotal elimination game that the
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  Speaker 4: Rangers were able to close out this time around, second
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  Speaker 4: time around, if you well, if you're looking at the
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  Speaker 4: last couple of games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and again they're going to get the winsor spitfires,
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  Speaker 1: which we'll talk about a little bit later on, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll get things started here with the game stats. Sue
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  Speaker 1: only sixteen shots in this game, nine in the first,
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  Speaker 1: three in the second four and the third. Kitchener had
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  Speaker 1: thirty four total in the game eleven, seventeen and six.
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  Speaker 1: I know Sue hit a couple of posts a crossbar,
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  Speaker 1: so it could have been a little bit different. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, for most most of this game, and even
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  Speaker 1: you see Hocus, we'll talk about it in the post game,
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  Speaker 1: you thought that that they were just a better team
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  Speaker 1: all around the series.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you mentioned the one cross bar and during
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  Speaker 4: a tie hockey game, and then another one that they
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  Speaker 4: had in the third period that could have really changed
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  Speaker 4: the course of the result Tonight's results. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 4: one where Sue Sue had their chances. But like I
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  Speaker 4: mentioned to my play by play man to my left
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  Speaker 4: side during the broadcast, Jason Hagholme, it was very reminiscent
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  Speaker 4: to me as of the series quinch against Sagan in
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  Speaker 4: the first round, low shot total against at sixteen tonight
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  Speaker 4: at fourteen. In that victory, Christian Kurz was not busy whatsoever.
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  Speaker 4: He had make a couple of big says. Again like tonight,
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  Speaker 4: Dylan Edwards came and came to play in a big
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  Speaker 4: way with an important goal in this one too. So
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  Speaker 4: the Rangers again final way to close it out and
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  Speaker 4: play the kind of that brand of hockey you've been
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  Speaker 4: used to them doing in a third period.
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  Speaker 1: And then The power play for Sue continues to struggle
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  Speaker 1: in the series. They were zero for three tonight again
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  Speaker 1: came in the series. I believe they went to for seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: I believe coming into this game, and the Rangers got one.
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  Speaker 1: But the Sue power play obviously was a big disappointment
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  Speaker 1: because when they have a five man unit that they
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  Speaker 1: can put out there for John Dean's Club, you expected more.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, just the one power play goal by my
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  Speaker 4: Italia all this series long for the Susley Murray Graham.
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  Speaker 4: So that PK for the Rangers was certain, definitely sharp.
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  Speaker 4: The power play had moments. I think Games two and
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  Speaker 4: three really is where they came to shine. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's a credit to the Rangers. The special teams
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  Speaker 4: continue to be special, Like you know, the adage goes.
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  Speaker 1: And then face offs thirty one twenty nine in favor
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  Speaker 1: of Kitchener pretty much a wash their Dan.
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  Speaker 4: Most of the most of who doing the work there,
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  Speaker 4: I think is mister Samuel rally.
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  Speaker 3: To nineteen to twenty nine for samuel' riiley.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just doing samuel'reiley things at the faceoff. Dodd
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  Speaker 4: and you talk about the contributions he makes from just
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  Speaker 4: a presence perspective. Goal scoring obviously tonight with the two
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  Speaker 4: empty enters, but those draws are so important. A lot
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  Speaker 4: of those. I'd be curious to know how many of
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  Speaker 4: those wins came in the defensive zone too, and the
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  Speaker 4: Super Greyhounds hand lot those and the Rangers zone in
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  Speaker 4: that third period as they were trying a mount to comeback.
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  Speaker 1: And one player I want to just talk talk about
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  Speaker 1: real quick dan is Brady Martin in the series because
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  Speaker 1: obviously it was a point of emphasis for UC hocus
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  Speaker 1: this team to be able to you know, isolate him,
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  Speaker 1: shut him down. He's, you know, a top five pick
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  Speaker 1: by Nashville for a reason, he's played NHL game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he was pretty quiet in the series, only a goal
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  Speaker 1: and two assists, and one of them was a secondary
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  Speaker 1: assist in five games, which is very uncharacteristic of Brady Martin.
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  Speaker 1: And he was only six of seventeen on the dot tonight,
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  Speaker 1: so you can tell that the Rangers really did a
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  Speaker 1: good job of trying to take him away and have
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  Speaker 1: some success.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that you know, he's a pugilist, right, He
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  Speaker 4: likes to get in under the skin of his opponents
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  Speaker 4: and I saw that from him for the first two games,
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  Speaker 4: but then it kind of tapered off, and I'm not
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  Speaker 4: exactly sure what happened there. Did he at some point
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  Speaker 4: maybe get dinged up a little bit too? Was there
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  Speaker 4: an potential injury factor that we just don't know about.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, his game kind of changed through the remaining
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  Speaker 4: three games of this series too, So I truly wonder
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  Speaker 4: if that maybe was a factor in this one.
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  Speaker 1: We know we missed some time earlier in the season,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it's just it just seemed like we
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  Speaker 1: didn't see the Brady Martin that we would usually see.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that was more so Kitchener taking
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  Speaker 1: him away or if that was just him not playing
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent, But he's never going to make the excuses.
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  Speaker 1: The type of player Brady Martin is. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a warrior, and he's there their captain for a.
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  Speaker 4: And you got a thirty plus goalscorer Minosa who you know,
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  Speaker 4: got a couple talies in the series too, But he
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  Speaker 4: wasn't I don't think as consistently dangerous as most SIU
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  Speaker 4: fans have expected it, or I saw him as being
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  Speaker 4: through the regular season too, and through the first round
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  Speaker 4: of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and him Mignosa and Jack Pridam were the two
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  Speaker 1: guys I felt like, we're going to be over ager
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  Speaker 1: of the year and ends up getting it right.
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  Speaker 4: And is it crazy to think that, Priam, we're still
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  Speaker 4: looking at a zero in the goal star column for
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  Speaker 4: the Rangers leading goal scorer in the regular season and
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  Speaker 4: just just wild.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, So we'll move forward with the scoring summary tonight.
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  Speaker 1: As you mentioned there off the top fifty four seconds
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  Speaker 1: in the Sue Greyhounds get their first and only goal
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  Speaker 1: of this contest and it was as a cross grease
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  Speaker 1: pass there from Laos over to McKenzie and just like that,
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  Speaker 1: the Greyhounds kind of stunned the odd crowd right away.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for goals and four straight for McKenzie and who
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  Speaker 4: would have thought that he would have been the team's
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  Speaker 4: goal scoring leader by the end of the series. But
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  Speaker 4: credit him for really getting the team goal and in
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  Speaker 4: a big way. Fans were rocking here at the Odd
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  Speaker 4: open to put this one to bed early, but they
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  Speaker 4: had other plans and you could have asked for a
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  Speaker 4: better start for the Sue. Unfortunately for them, it only
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  Speaker 4: lasted for about three minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it did, and the Rangers got that game tied
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  Speaker 1: at the four fifty five mark. It was the third
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  Speaker 1: line once again for the fourth time this series, coming
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  Speaker 1: through with the first goal for the Rangers. Cam Reid
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  Speaker 1: finds Ellis, who finds Cam Marquette, who's able to shovel
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  Speaker 1: that puck past Carter George and that was a big
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  Speaker 1: momentum shift for the Rangers and that third line once again.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've seen our cat bounce around all over the place.
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  Speaker 4: He's been as high as the first line, but now
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  Speaker 4: in the third line. And that was some good chemistry
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  Speaker 4: we saw with Alice finding our cat on a nice
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  Speaker 4: backhand feed and then our ketches rifling at home. So
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  Speaker 4: goals them back to back games for him. And he's
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  Speaker 4: been a little snake bitten through these playoffs so far.
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  Speaker 4: But if he can get really rolling, especially heading into
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  Speaker 4: this tough matchup against the Spitfires, having that extra support
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  Speaker 4: from the scoring department from number eleven, it will be huge.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then so it was one to one after the
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  Speaker 1: first period going into the second. Jared Woolly, you know
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  Speaker 1: the London Night's connection there with Sam O'Reilly, and he's
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  Speaker 1: able to cut down the right wing, make a nice
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  Speaker 1: little little pass to Jared Wooley who was jumped in
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  Speaker 1: on the rush and look like Eric Carlson on that
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  Speaker 1: playoff most and he went forehand for his first goal
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  Speaker 1: of the playoffs. And you can tell that those two,
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  Speaker 1: with the chemistry and playing together with London, that was
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  Speaker 1: just a really nice lit setup totally.
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  Speaker 4: We were talking about during the second mission actually as
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  Speaker 4: they were thinking that it might have been off side
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  Speaker 4: at the blue line. Obviously they would have taken a
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  Speaker 4: look at it. The officials would have won the iPad.
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  Speaker 4: It was close, but you know, it speaks to that
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  Speaker 4: timing you're talking about, that chemistry those two have in
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  Speaker 4: familiarity and being able to find Wooly in stride like that,
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  Speaker 4: And of all the states Carter George made tonight, that
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  Speaker 4: was the one I was kind of surprised he didn't make.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you don't want to take a credit away
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  Speaker 4: from Wooly for being able to create an opportunity for himself.
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  Speaker 4: But we've seen George make tougher saves for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And Carter George, he was doing all he could in
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  Speaker 1: this game, right, But there was a few great a
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  Speaker 1: scoring chances. Another one here Dylan Edwards is able to
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  Speaker 1: take the pass from Biliki and go in there and
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  Speaker 1: make a really nice inside out move on Carter George
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  Speaker 1: and go over top of him.
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  Speaker 3: And what can you say?
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  Speaker 1: Abou Dylan Edwards eighth goal of the playoffs and he
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  Speaker 1: continues to be such a great find for Mike McKenzie
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  Speaker 1: coming over from the Erie Otters.
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  Speaker 4: Forty goals scorer. As I mentioned off the top of
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  Speaker 4: the broadcast, the fact that he said, you take away
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  Speaker 4: the games that he had at the start of the
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  Speaker 4: season with Eerie, he still set what would have been
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  Speaker 4: a career high with twenty five goals in the time
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  Speaker 4: with the Rangers, which he's never done before. But just
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  Speaker 4: impress the stuff for Dylan Edwards. So what he's done
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  Speaker 4: since joining the Blue Shirt. So he's just been a
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  Speaker 4: joy to watch and for an undersized player, he's the
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  Speaker 4: easy guy to root for too. He goes to the
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  Speaker 4: dirty areas and he just has flashes of brilliance for
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  Speaker 4: a kid his age too. And I know he's, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a veteran in this league and maybe you don't call
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  Speaker 4: him a kid, but who knows where you know pro
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  Speaker 4: hockey will take him at this point. But for right now. Anyways,
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  Speaker 4: he's proven and really be a stall war here.
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  Speaker 1: Dan, You've you've watched more games obviously the Ranger that
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  Speaker 1: I have this season. But it seems like Dylan Edwards
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  Speaker 1: from every time I hear his name called, he has
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  Speaker 1: a massive reception here. He's almost a fan favorite from
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  Speaker 1: this auditorium crowd. And even though he's not from Kitchener,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like he's becoming a Kitchener native.
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  Speaker 4: We've heard dang Dylan a few times Jason Oil on
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  Speaker 4: the call, and I think it started at kind of
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  Speaker 4: gain some traction around he used to have here too,
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  Speaker 4: whenever he's able to put one them back in the neck,
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  Speaker 4: which wine, which has happened with a lot of frequency.
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  Speaker 4: But I think it's just a comfort level too. Like
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  Speaker 4: he got his opportunities in Eerie, but the surrounding cast
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  Speaker 4: just made him a better player in the end. And
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  Speaker 4: what a time in his career to get that opportunity too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely. That was his eighth goal of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: That was technically a power play goal even though it
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  Speaker 1: was right near the end of the power play for
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  Speaker 1: the Rangers. That was their lone power play tally of
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  Speaker 1: the game. They're up three to one going to the third.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have anything on that. I guess many, Donnie Brook.
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  Speaker 1: We saw at the end of the period where Sue
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  Speaker 1: got three penalties in one sequence, none to the Rangers,
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  Speaker 1: two ten minute misconducts that were handed out to Crosskery
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  Speaker 1: and Hayes, and Clutech got a minor penalty out of that.
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  Speaker 4: If I'm John Dean, it's hard not to be livid
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  Speaker 4: after taking those penalties. After the whistle no less too right,
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  Speaker 4: So that to me was a bit of a momentum killer,
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  Speaker 4: if you will, for the Greyhounds and trying to mount
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  Speaker 4: any sort of comeback and you lose your top line winger,
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  Speaker 4: granted your third pairing d but it's that Hayes ten
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  Speaker 4: and misconduct that really I think took a slight window
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  Speaker 4: of their sales.
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  Speaker 1: And then early in the third period, Brady Martin ripped
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  Speaker 1: the crossbar. I think he had another. I think he
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  Speaker 1: hit the post in the first period as well, so
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  Speaker 1: he could have had a few goals in this game,
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  Speaker 1: but that one doesn't go the Rangers way that they
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  Speaker 1: were down three to one. If that goal would have
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  Speaker 1: winn early in the third period, maybe we were looking
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  Speaker 1: at different hockey.
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  Speaker 4: Well, exactly right. It was a tight game up and
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  Speaker 4: like the score line is not indicative to how close
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  Speaker 4: this game probably was or was period. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: you credit them for the push that pushback that they
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  Speaker 4: provided it. Unfortunately for the Grehunds again it was a
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  Speaker 4: little it wasn't enough pushback, No it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: But they pulled the goaltender with fifty left. Through the
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  Speaker 1: Sue Greyhounds down two, we saw them have some I
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  Speaker 1: guess issues with pulling the goalie back in game two.
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  Speaker 1: That was where they weren't sure if they were gonna
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  Speaker 1: pull the goalie. They they called the time out with
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  Speaker 1: two fifty left. They left Georgie at the blue line.
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  Speaker 1: Then he ended up coming off and o'reiley scored an
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  Speaker 1: empty net goal. At least they got the goalie pulled
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  Speaker 1: a little bit earlier this time, knowing they needed the
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  Speaker 1: two goals. But it was deja vu again, as Sam O'Reilly.
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  Speaker 1: Not the prettiest goal you're going to score. But he
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  Speaker 1: goes hard to the net and it goes off of
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  Speaker 1: his leg and in and he goes hard into the
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  Speaker 1: into the net and you're wondering, oh cool, he's okay,
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  Speaker 1: But he was able to get up, but he steals
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  Speaker 1: it with that empty netter.
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  Speaker 4: Well yeah, and it's the second home game in a
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  Speaker 4: row that he's potted a pair of empty netters too,
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  Speaker 4: which is a little fun fact there. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: think they were the Rangers fans were holding them. We
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  Speaker 4: were kind of collecting our holding our collective brats there
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  Speaker 4: as he took that post hard falling down too. So
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  Speaker 4: being the offensive and just team leader overall that he is,
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  Speaker 4: you just hope, like, oh my gosh, you hope he's okay.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, that was a good thing. Like he's skating around.
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  Speaker 4: He gave the salute, raising a stick to the crowds,
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  Speaker 4: you know, indicating as such. So that was I think
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  Speaker 4: a relief for ranging nation.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was, And as you mentioned, he got his
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  Speaker 1: tenth goal of the playoffs, fourth empty netter of the
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  Speaker 1: series to seal it there five to one with the
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  Speaker 1: twenty seconds left. And again Sam O'Reilly, full disclosure, he's
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  Speaker 1: my nominee for the Red tolst in this season. I
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  Speaker 1: think what he's brought to the Rangers since he's come over,
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  Speaker 1: as you guys would know on the broadcast, since he's
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  Speaker 1: come over from London has just added just such a
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  Speaker 1: different piece and a dynamic to this club that maybe
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  Speaker 1: they were missing. And you know, with a forty six
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  Speaker 1: goals sort like Jack Pridham could have easily been the
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  Speaker 1: nominee for the Rangers. But you can only have one.
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  Speaker 1: And I think samu ol' riiley proved in the series
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  Speaker 1: why he's sort of taken the lead of this Rangers team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and every London Night fan is basically saying, you're
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: a welcome kitchener for both Sam O'Reilly and probably Jared Willey.
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: But hey, you know what, credit you have to credit
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: the Rangers organization and specifically Mike McKenzie for pulling trigger
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: on these moves. It starts with Dylan Edwards, Gabe Trod
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: earlier in the season as well, who's proved to be
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: a nice depth piece. And then the picktu're sending over
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: Lendon's way to get Jared Willard, to get Sam O'Reilly.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: If again, I've mentioned it on air and I'll say
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: it again, I'll be on my pedestal if he isn't
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: the winner of this year's General Manager of the Year award.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: I think that that's a travesty.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: It would definitely, he's definitely in the conversation. I think
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: for the top three at least.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: At least Yeah, we'll.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Be humble on that one.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: But as you mentioned, three guys, they acquired three stars tonight,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Sam o'reiley two goals to assist plus three Dylan Edwards
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: goal and to assist was the second star, Jared Wooley
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: third star one goal, one assist.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: So there, you can't go wrong with that. That's probably
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: the easiest pickings we've had in a little while.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: I do want to say Christian kersh On, I believe
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: it was one of the Sue power plays. Came up
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: with a few big saves. I know he's not going
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: to be talked about a whole lot in the series.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: He came up with four breakaways in that second period
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: back in Game two. That really was able the secure
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Kitchener that victory. But how did you think that he
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: played going up against you know, an elite prospect in
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Carter George Oh.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: I think he held his own very well. And you know,
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: two nineteen year old goaltenders to NHL prospects who we
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: might very well see square off again at the next level,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: if not the HL, the NHL Perraps down the road
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: and two Western Conference opponents in mind, you with George
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: being the King's prospect and Kersh with the Sharks. So yeah,
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: to answer your question, I think Kersh has settled in
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: nicely into his first foray into ohl playoff hockey, this
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: being his first year with the Rangers, and you can't
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: sniff at that. And you know, eight wins to just
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: the one loss in this postseason, and yeah, you get
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: credit a lot of the team and in front of you,
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: but he's come out with a lot of big time
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: saved in big moments, and that's the thing he's He's
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: been that calm presence in the blue eye so the
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Rangers all season, and I think that goes un heralded
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: a lot of time.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Has anything caught your eye from the handshake line? I
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: know cam Reeve and Brady Marton have a strong relationship,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: not only because they're both Nashville first round prospects, but
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: they've played together in the summer leagues and things like that.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Anything catcher either.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: I think that's the biggest thing, you know, the side,
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: the look of respect those two have towards each other,
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: and obviously they've talked about their mutual friendship and how
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: deep that bond goes, and it's only going to get
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: stronger here as they progress in their professional careers and
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: what as they work towards both the putting on that
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: predator's jersey in the near future relatively in your future,
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: you hope. So yeah, just you know, two good friends
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: going to battle here and that mutual respect for school
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: to see.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Lastly, before we hit the break, what are your I
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: guess closing thoughts for the Greyhounds, because you know that's
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: a tough end, right They go and acchoire Carter George,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: they go and acquire Lucas Fisher from Sarnia, You get
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Brady Martin back. You were hoping that you were at
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: least going to get to the Western Conference final, but
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: you end up facing the one seed in the second
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: round and it doesn't go your way. You almost get swept.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: To have a big third period and pourth force at
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: the game five. But if you're the Greyhounds, what are
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: you thinking right now?
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you did definitely didn't think you'd be you'd
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: be the victim of a gentleman's sweep. If you will,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: you know, winning with the Rangers winning in here, in
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: five games, and they definitely gave up a lot of
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: draft assets to acquire Carter George. So yeah, absolutely the
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: mission was not accomplished here this season. They've yet to
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: pass the second round under a head coach John Dean,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: and I'm sure there'll be some questions there and in
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: terms of, you know, the leadership of the team too,
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: what will it take to get them over the hump?
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Now the attention terms of what kind of year they'll
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: have next year obviously, is it's gonna be a maybe
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: a bit of a younger team or what's the ross
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: going to look like?
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Kyle Raftis has his work cutout for him.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: If Brady Martin is going to be up at least
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: in the American Hockey League, if not with the Nashville
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Pretator's next season. But the Rangers moving on, the Greyhounds
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: are out Kitchener and Winsor coming up in the Western
• 18:52
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• 18:53
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• 18:55
  Speaker 1: see Hocus's postgame thoughts. We'll quickly touch on what to
• 18:59
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• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to part two of today's OHL overtime postgame
• 21:20
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• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Paul Schuck from the Kitchener Rangers, Rogers TV broadcast color
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: commentator for the Rangers, alongside Jason Hagholm.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Does a great job here.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: And you do a great job, sir. That shouldn't go
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: on heralded. So well done and getting this going off
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: the ground.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I do my best.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: But we're in a great setup here from live from
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the odd one of my favorite rinks in all of
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: junior hockey. And I'm not just saying that because you're
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: standing here state sitting here beside me.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: It's hard to debate that, right it is.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: It's hard to debate it. Don't necessarily like walking up
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: all the stairs. But hey, you know what, I didn't
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: get to go to the gym today, so that was
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: my work here. So again we're continuing to break down
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: this the Rangers clinching game here in game five, they
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: probably should have closed it out last night a bat
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: third period they were up to nothing, who scored four goals,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And here we were with both teams flying back for
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: this quick turnaround and the Rangers closing it out there
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: by a I forget the score of the five to
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: one was the end up final with O'Reilly getting the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: two empty netters, they win the series for to one
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and they will go and play the Windsor Spitfires. So
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: before we get to Rangers head coach, you see a
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: hocus on the postgame, Dan, anything else you want to
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: mention sort of about what you're thinking of this Rangers
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: team now going up against Windsor. You know, it's a
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: rematch from last season in the playoffs, and we know
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Windsor is sort of out for blood, so to speak,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: with the way that that series ended with the reverse sweep.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: So what do you think in early prediction from this one?
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Well early before I get into the prediction, I'm just
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: I think the Rangers are grateful for the fact that
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: they've played essentially the same amount of games to get
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: to where they're at to face the spit as the
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Spitfires to the Western Conference Final, because they'll be essentially
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: equally as fresh as the spitz are too, and I
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: think both teams essentially came away unscathed the injury wise too.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: With with out of that series for Windsor against Flint
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: and here against the Sue Greyhounds. Knock on wood, the
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Rangers didn't have anyone dinged up, Jason, and maybe correct
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: me on that one as you kind of listen listening
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: from the left side of here. But prediction wise, I
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: legit think this is going six games Rangers, and six
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: is my pick. And again it'll be very similar I
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: think to what we expected of the Sioux series and
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: saw spurts of where you're gonna have a lot of
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: close finishes. We didn't have. You know, I have four
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: goals spread here a ton eight in the end, but
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: I think it's a lot more games right to the wire,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: right to the final horror one goal decisions. We got
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: great goal taming on both sides, you know, offense, for sure,
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: I think the Rangers have an advantage from a defensive
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: side of things. But yeah, is the Rangers certainly were
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: one of the few teams that seemed to be able
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: to solve Joy Costanzo and the Spitfires this year. It's
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: whether they can carry that over now into the playoffs.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Game one three to one in favor of Kitchener eight
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: five in game two. Game three was four to three.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Game four as we mentioned last night, so who came
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: back to make it four too, and then tonight a
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: five to one convincing victory for the Kitchener Rangers to
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: close this thing out. From the winsors perspective, Dan, I'm
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: curious because of how easy Flint had it in round
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: one against that just a disaster of the own sound
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: attack that had no offense to them.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: But it was it was.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: It was a free fall and the biggest goal differential
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: in OHL playoff history for a series matchup.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: That's a black mark on the organization, unfortunately, I think.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: And that's just a bad look, isn't it.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: And I feel like that might have almost hurt Flint
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: because they had it too easy.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: We saw how many goals.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: They put up and sort of just cruise through that
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: series against Owen Sound and then they go up against
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Windsor and they get absolutely just train wreck right like
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: freight train. They lost four nothing, they got swept after that,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: swept the Owen Sound attacks. So I almost felt like,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: you know, this Windsor team is very strong, and I
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: don't want to say that Flint, you know, came into
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the series riding too high and knowing that what they
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: were going to get from this Windsor Spitfires team. But
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: if you're the Rangers, you got to look at that
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: and say, we got to be on the top of
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: our game here for sure.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: And the Ranges are quick studies they and we saw
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: an example of that tonight where they had that ten
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: bad minutes really in the fifteen bad minutes in the
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: third period last night, and then all of a sudden,
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: they're playing a brand of hockey that we're more familiar
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: with from you know, a Rangers perspective, and they come
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: out with it on with the victory. So you don't
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: see much regrets when it comes to the Rangers. They
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: make mistakes, yes, like any other team, but being such
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: a veteran Leyden squad, they don't take much time to
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: learn from their errors. And I think that's another reason
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: why we saw another one hundred points season four Kitchener
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: and going up against the Windsors Pitfires, who maybe make
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: the argument, well, did they have it easy against the
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Flint Firebirds and coming into the series against the Rangers,
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: who didn't necessarily have it easy against the Sue Greyhounds,
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: you know, the top on an eight five game five
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: to one here, which was essentially a three to one game.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Without those two empty matters, You've got a couple other
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: close finals, so certainly the Rangers were challenging the series.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: It's the score lines weren't in neecessarily indicative of how
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: this head to head went.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get a one verse two matchup in the
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Western Conference. This one's going to be a really good one.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I look forward to covering it. But let's get fun. Yeah,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a lot of fun too.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Again, historic franchises with fan bases right yep.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Two great buildings WFCU Center in the odd both can
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: get rocking and expect to have sold out Western Conference Final.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be gonna be a great one.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: So let's get to Rangers head coach you see a
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: hocus on the post game and get his thoughts on
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: his team advancing to the Western Conference Final.
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: Like we're here ringside the Rangers head coach. You see
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: a hocus. You see you guys got over the line.
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: Here in game five, how much of the preparation came
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: to fruition out there on the ice in a in
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: a game after where they came back in that sad Game.
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: Four, I thought we did a good job, like to
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: this the game. We were a better team the whole time.
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: We defended well, we got the goals what we needed
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: the whole series. When we look our penalty, Gill was
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: rodeto great job.
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: We played.
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: Maybe I would say first or second, one bad period
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: in the one ten bad ten minutes, but we were
• 27:51
  Speaker 9: the better team in this series. We played better and
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: pretty much every game we won the expected goals, even
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: even yesterday even though we lost.
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: So it's uh, they have a great goalie.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: We knew it.
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: We still we could score score goals on them. So
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: really pleased how the boys played. And today there was
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: no question the boys showed up and we did what
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: we We didn't want to go back to back to
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: Sue anymore.
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: You spent a lot of this game switching around lineups
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: and trying different forward lines.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Did you like what you saw out there from the changes?
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: To me, oh, they look good. Well, it'll be like playoffs.
• 28:26
  Speaker 9: Everybody plays where it it doesn't matter we have like
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: we've been changing a little bit in the first I
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: think Humphreys played really well in the first line there,
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: and we'll see how we how we advanced. All the
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: lines played today good, But then I'm gonna have to
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: say we changed after two wins. We changed a little
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: bit lines. So it's good. We have a lot of
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: a lot of options.
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: I know that you would have wanted the one day
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: of extra rest, but coming back here and clinching this
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: series in front of these fans in the way that
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: they were responding to you guys tonight, it's got to
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: feel pretty good.
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: Of course we got from home games, think of the
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: organization and get some money for the team.
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: For you guys now after a series where you know
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: it was a four to one series win, but the
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: Sue Greyhounds they played your hard.
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: How much does that help you now going into the
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: Western Conference finals.
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: No, we're tight. They played hard, for sure, They're a
• 29:16
  Speaker 9: good team. Hell of our first line and.
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: All and all. So it was a.
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: Good series and I think again it was a harder
• 29:27
  Speaker 9: series than Saginaw, and and that's how it will go.
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: Next series again will be a little bit harder, and
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: we just have to keep getting better.
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: Plenty of history between those two teams, your Rangers and
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: the winsor spitfires. How much preparation this week or what
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: will you be focusing on this week in preparation for
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: those finals.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: Let's have a couple of days off and let's start then.
• 29:48
  Speaker 9: But yeah, we'll practice and see but normal way how
• 29:50
  Speaker 9: we always do, and look how they play, go through
• 29:54
  Speaker 9: their special teams and just go. We have a set,
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: normal set like we go one game at a time
• 30:01
  Speaker 9: and we just get prepared and yeah, and then we'll
• 30:04
  Speaker 9: see when the next Friday when it starts here at
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: the odd Thank you two years in a row to.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: The conference final having been there?
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: Does that help you guys going back?
• 30:17
  Speaker 9: Of course it does, like lay up the experience you
• 30:19
  Speaker 9: can't buy. And uh, that was huge for us last
• 30:23
  Speaker 9: year that we were there. Even though we played we
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: lost to London, but still the experience.
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: Of those games, it's big. How is it different this time? Now?
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  Speaker 7: We're ready for it. Now we're ready for it, and
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  Speaker 7: I think we.
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  Speaker 9: Believe we can also there's a belief, we really believe
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  Speaker 9: that we can win.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think about windsor as a fault?
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  Speaker 7: No, they're they're a good team.
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: Of course, they're a good team, and they defend will Uh, there'll.
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: Be a tough series. You guys gonna fly to windsor
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  Speaker 7: maybe so.
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  Speaker 1: Coach, what did you learn from last night and that
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: third period and being able to dial it back and
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: get the guys ready and refocused for finishing the job
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  Speaker 1: at hand tonight?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I thought like we just didn't play like you
• 31:02
  Speaker 9: have to play like you have to play. You can't
• 31:04
  Speaker 9: be any here heels, you have to be on your tolls,
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  Speaker 9: and that's I thought we were.
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: We did that.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: How did you feel about the third line? They've scored
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: the first goal in four games in this series. What
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: can you say about those guys being able to be
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: energy for your top six and being able to get
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: you guys momentum like that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's huge.
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  Speaker 7: We always think it.
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  Speaker 9: Even our fourth line scored two goals, so it's uh,
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  Speaker 9: as we always say we need everybody, man, we're fore
• 31:27
  Speaker 9: long where we need everybody who's involved, and that just
• 31:30
  Speaker 9: shows we have depth in our lineup.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Lastly, why has Samuel Riley's presence been so big for
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: this team? Your Red Tail sosnominee for Most Valuable Player
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: what has he brought to this group and really helped
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: you elevate since he got here.
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: No, he's all right.
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  Speaker 9: He's a warrior, he's a compit earner, he wants to win,
• 31:45
  Speaker 9: and he plays a great two way game, and he's
• 31:48
  Speaker 9: a leader, leader on the eyes and off the ice.
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: So yeah, he's a great player.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: There was U see Hocus Kitchener Rangers head coach post
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: game following the Rangers clinching this second round series and
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: moving on to face the windsor Spitfires in the West Final.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Dan, did you have any takeaways from what UC said tonight?
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  Speaker 4: Well, obviously he always has a respect for his opponents
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  Speaker 4: and every good coach does, so he's not you know,
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: he's always wanted to keep it, keep it even keeled,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: I think in his celebrations. But at the same time,
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: he's always wanted to shout out as players when they
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: deserve it. But I think he likes keeping them in
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: check and keep their feet where where they're at right
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: so until they kind of ultimately reach that goal, which
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: is again this year, you made that very clear Ohl Final.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: They got to take that next step having lost out
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: in the Western Conference final a year ago. So I
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: don't think we'll see get a true sense of how
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: he's feeling until we get to that stage.
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  Speaker 3: I just love his quotes sometimes, just the.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Very finish of him, isn't it.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I like the It was good. We got
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: more money for the team by coming back for a
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: game five.
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  Speaker 4: That's it. We got to get that gate.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll fly to winsor you know, stuff like that.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know, he's just I just love listening to
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: him talks.
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  Speaker 7: Well.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: Also with those charter bills, right, they don't come cheap.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess so. And then the playoff experience you
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: can't buy.
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  Speaker 1: And we're ready for it this time around when asked
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: about what what you're thinking about winsor.
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  Speaker 4: Well, especially when you got the returning players who experienced
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: that kind of bitter, bitter defeat last year, the sweep.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: You got both ends of the spectrum. You got O'Reilly
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: and and Woolley who were here at the odd when
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: they clinched that Western Conference final. They know what it
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: takes to win it in hostile territory, no less. And
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: he got the returning Rangers who felt the pain of
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: that defeat too. So this is a unique blend, right
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: now that you know, it's hard to remember the last
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: time we've seen that kind of combination with the Rangers.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: And he shouted out the fourth line as well for
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: being able to contribute in the series.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, lechar Anstis and then guys like Gallis picking up
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: a goal in the series two, and then Cameron Arkad
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: who dropped down a little bit, Tannelan getting to bump
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: up to the second line. And you know vermil And
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: we haven't mentioned his name a lot, but just a
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: veteran presence at the end of the day too. It's
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: kind of unheralded what he does. You know, the fact
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: that you can trust a player and to throw it
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: as a regular shift. Granted it might be short shifts,
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: but you're rolling four lines at the stage of the playoffs.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: I think that speaks a lot to the quality of
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: your players.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Before we get to your Player of the game, just
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: talk about Cam Reid's leadership and what you think that
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: he's really elevated this year. You know what he was
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: last year, and he's had such great leadership here. The
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Rangers have won over Age Player of the Year the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: last three seasons, so we know that that room continues
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: to pass on the baton in a positive way.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: What have you seen from number eighteen?
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: I think he's just come to realize he's gotten that
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: little taste of what it takes to be a pro
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: at the nice level, and it comes across in just
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: the simple things as his post game or pregame interviews.
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: If you are intermission of interviews for that matter, I
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: can't even speak at this point. He's just very thoughtful,
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: very mature for his age, and I think that transition
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: or it shows on the ice too. He doesn't get
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: fake very easily, and he's happy to put the team
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: on his back. The amount of and rush as we've
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: seen this year just shows is an example of his
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: confidence when he's out there, and even if he's leading
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: the offense and one opportunity, he's getting back and playing
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: sound defensively in his own ends. So just a skating ability,
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: it's just taken another We've seen that go to another level.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: And I think his assertiveness when it comes to his
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: offensive game too. He doesn't shy away from just taking
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: the putt and going with it. Is trusting his instincts.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think even though he might have not
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: put up the most points in this series. He definitely
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: made his presence felt on that back end for sure.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: He created some opportunities, created some turnovers, came up with
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: some big defensive plays. He had that one play shop
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: blocks two and all that stuff that, unfortunately is not
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: going to show up for us on the Bucks score
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: I wish we.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Could see all that stuff, but it's all secreted this.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Place the scouts. The scouts are watching and they know,
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: and that's the important thing at the end of the day.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, So, Dan, let's let's get your player of the game.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's gonna be one of the three guys
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: that's I guess the three stars in this game.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: So give me your favorite player of the game, and then.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Maybe an unsung hero that might not show up on
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: the score sheet tonight.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: Sure, so my player of the game is Dylan Edwards.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: You know, as big as that what stood out to
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: be the or stood up at the be the game
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: winning goal by Jared Woolly. That insurance marker by Edwards,
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: I think really was the exclamation mark on this one.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: It really put I used that as before, but put
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: the win in the Ranger sales too. I think any
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: sort of nervous energy that there could have been had
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: that game stayed to one, and with the super Greyhound
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: still hanging around. That insurance marker was big, especially in
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: this elimination game, and just just the energy he brought
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: shift after a shift, it just contagious and for that consistency,
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: I think Dylan Edwards was our player of the game.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: And unsung hero. Somebody thought it a great great game.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: For me, it's again Christian Kirsch. Again, just sixteen shots
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: that he faced, but he made a lot of importance
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: in moments where as expected, the Sue Greyhounds showed some pushback,
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: whether it came after a goal or just in certain
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: moments too where the Rangers are caught kind of scrambling
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: in their own zone. Again, he's showing talk about maturity.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: He showed that in the crease and again it's not
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: always about the workload, but it's about the quality, and
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: he certainly showed some quality in between the pipes. For
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: Kitchener here tonight, well, Dan.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: We're going to look forward to a fun games one
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: and two here at the Auditorium against Windsor before heading
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: down to the WSCU Center. This is going to be
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: a really good Western Conference final, I think for the
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: first time in a few seasons we could really see
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: this one go the distance.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: This is to me.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I know Branford and how great they are in the
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: East with going up against either Barry or Ottawa, but
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: this to me is going to be such a fun
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: series as one.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Well to play off with UC Hocus was just saying
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: there's gonna be some good gates for both teams throughout
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: this series.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Absolutely so, Dan, appreciate you taking the time to do this.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun and anytime.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Obviously we're going to have more opportunities later on in
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: the West Finals.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: So thanks for the time time, happy to do it,
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: and a great job again on the show.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Oh thank you. I appreciate that, even though maybe I
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: don't deserve the credit all the time.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: Oh absolutely you do. You do a heck of a
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: job man.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: All right, appreciate it.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: So that's going to wrap up today's OHL overtime episode
• 38:14
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• 38:16
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• 38:31
  Speaker 3: I guess top five lists that have been coming out.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: But that was a lot of fun. I definitely child
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: myself and embarrassingly so, but that was a lot of fun.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Still one more to comment. Maybe we'll get some more
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: as we go forward in the playoffs. So for my
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: guest co host, Dan Paul Schuck, the color commentator for
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: the Kitchen Rangers on Rogers TV, my name is Brandon Kmudo.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: That's going to be it.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: The Kitchen Rangers five and the Sue Greyhounds one closing
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: out this second round Western Conference matchup, and we'll await
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: the Western Conference Final between the Kitchener Rangers and Windor
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Spitfires Game one right here from the Kitchener Memorialaudatorium. Have
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: yourself a great rest of your Friday or Saturday morning
• 39:07
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• 39:09
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