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Between The Pipes: Adrian Denny on Team USA hockey in the Olympics, Utah Mammoth's strategy for next month's trade deadline + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 2: Today's welcome back to the Sean O'Connell show. Welcome in,
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  Speaker 2: Adrian Denny.
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  Speaker 3: Between the pipes, brought to you by Aladdin Industries, your
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  Speaker 3: Utah v Lux dealer, Adrian here in our Broadway studios.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back, sir.
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm great, Sean? How are you man? I'm doing all right?
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  Speaker 3: Are you comfortable in transitioning for a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 3: from the role of Utah Mammoth insider to Olympic Hockey
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  Speaker 3: and of course Nordic skiing insider?
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  Speaker 2: All over it? Okay, all over it.
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  Speaker 4: I've got my cross country skiing report right here in
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  Speaker 4: my notes app and brush up on on the Olympic stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Just had a game today, Slovakia beat Finland for one
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  Speaker 4: first upset in the first game. Had had a couple
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  Speaker 4: of players who were in training camp with the Utah
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  Speaker 4: Hockey Club last year, Meilos Kleiman and Patrick Kach On
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  Speaker 4: that Slovakia.
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  Speaker 2: On the Slovakia spots of Finland.
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  Speaker 3: Finland coming into this tournament was kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: seen as a upper tier team, right, so how big
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  Speaker 3: of an upset is this? Gosh, Finland was picked forth
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  Speaker 3: in terms of, you know, best chances to win the
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  Speaker 3: gold medal, behind Canada, the US, Sweden, and ahead of
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  Speaker 3: ahead of czech Ya.
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  Speaker 4: So Slovakia wasn't wasn't in the other receiving votes category there,
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  Speaker 4: and then they go in and win by account of
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  Speaker 4: four to one.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 4: It was a bizarre game. Shots in the contest were
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  Speaker 4: heavily favoring Finland, but you know how it is, sometimes
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  Speaker 4: bucks or bucks are going in for you all.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Before we get to all of the Olympic stuff, I
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  Speaker 3: do want to talk about this Utah Mammoth squad and
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  Speaker 3: kind of where they're at right now on the break obviously,
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  Speaker 3: what only four or five players are active during the
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  Speaker 3: Olympic break representing their nations.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to that as well.
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  Speaker 3: But this team is I think, playing itself into a
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  Speaker 3: nice little rhythm, and maybe this break does not do
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  Speaker 3: the Utah Mammoth a huge amount of favors right now
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  Speaker 3: because of the kind of hockey they were playing. Now
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  Speaker 3: you will know better than I whether the rest is
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  Speaker 3: going to be a good thing or the interruption of
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  Speaker 3: that momentum could end up being a problematic. But this
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  Speaker 3: is a squad that you sent us some notes twelve
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  Speaker 3: five and two from Christmas to the Olympic break, So
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  Speaker 3: playing some good hockey right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, We've got one case study to look at, which
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  Speaker 4: is last year the Four Nations break, which was about
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  Speaker 4: two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: This year we have a full three weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Utah came out of the Four Nations break last year
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  Speaker 4: pretty good. They went fourteen eight and four the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the way that they lost their first game to
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  Speaker 4: LA That's that's the big difference this year is last
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  Speaker 4: year you just started on the road. This year they're
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  Speaker 4: back at home with the abs two weeks from from tonight.
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  Speaker 4: But they were able to come out and get going
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  Speaker 4: kind of kind of pick up where they left off.
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  Speaker 4: They were playing pretty good going into that Four Nations break.
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  Speaker 4: They'd won three of their last four and had a
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  Speaker 4: really nice trip before that. So that's I guess what
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  Speaker 4: we'll base it on. But coming back out of the
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  Speaker 4: Olympic break, Logan Cooley could be back. If not that
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  Speaker 4: that first game, that that first week, expecting him back
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  Speaker 4: if all goes well. Alexander Kerfoot, your your veteran presidence
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  Speaker 4: of over six hundred games, who's just a great utility
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  Speaker 4: guy to do everything and really helped. Kind of like
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  Speaker 4: a guy you'd acquire at the trade deadline to be
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  Speaker 4: part of a playoff. You're going to be getting him
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  Speaker 4: back from injury, and he's been hurt twice this year.
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  Speaker 4: He's only played nine games, which is out of character.
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  Speaker 4: Last year he had a stretch of four hundred plus
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  Speaker 4: straight games played before an illness in April kept him
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  Speaker 4: out of the first game of the year. So a
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  Speaker 4: guy you expect to be back and be in your lineup.
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  Speaker 4: So they were at a good spot four points above
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  Speaker 4: that playoff line, which is essentially five because they've got
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  Speaker 4: the tiebreaker, which is regulation wins above the LA Kings.
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  Speaker 3: When you get Logan Cooley back, I mean, what's a
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  Speaker 3: realistic expectation for how long it takes him to reintegrate
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  Speaker 3: and start feeling like he's where he was before the injury.
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  Speaker 4: This stretch where the Mammoth are essentially going to have
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  Speaker 4: another training camp because they're going to start practicing again
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  Speaker 4: early next week with of course the four Olympic guys
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  Speaker 4: still there, but they're going to have essentially, you know,
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  Speaker 4: eight days before they play again of a of a
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  Speaker 4: mini training camp, and Logan Cooley was skating with the
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  Speaker 4: team uh as they went into break and practicing, so
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  Speaker 4: that was a great sign. So if he can be
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  Speaker 4: part of some regular practices for for a week, that'll
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  Speaker 4: definitely help the transition of him coming back versus just
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  Speaker 4: dropping him right into the middle of a home stand
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  Speaker 4: against Colorado, So that practice time will definitely be big.
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  Speaker 4: He's missed almost half of the season so far for
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  Speaker 4: the Mammoth, twenty eight straight games. He's he's been out
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  Speaker 4: of the lineup over two months, so it was it
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  Speaker 4: was good to see him practicing in you know, in
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  Speaker 4: regular sessions last week. But but I think that mini
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  Speaker 4: training camp will be a big, big part of getting
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  Speaker 4: him back into the swing of it and kind of
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  Speaker 4: returning maybe at more of a regular pace with the
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  Speaker 4: team who has not going to be having played for
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  Speaker 4: three weeks either when they return in a couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks against the Ads. Of all the center.
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  Speaker 3: Adrian Denny, our guest here for some between the pipes
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  Speaker 3: talked about this last week, the benefit slash risk of
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  Speaker 3: having a guy playing Olympic hockey. Everyone has to be
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  Speaker 3: given the opportunity to represent their country. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: how much the plan is early to use Clayton Keller.
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  Speaker 3: I would hate to see him be there in Milanquartina
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  Speaker 3: and not actually be playing and contributing to this team.
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  Speaker 3: But with him specifically as the lone member of Team USA,
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  Speaker 3: how much use is he going to get? How much
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  Speaker 3: where is he going to be putting on the tires
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  Speaker 3: during this Olympic break?
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  Speaker 4: Well, as you said, it looks like he's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: the the odd man out for Team USA when they
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  Speaker 4: open up tomorrow against Latvia. They played Denmark on Saturday, Right,
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  Speaker 4: They're gonna be heavily favored in both of those games.
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  Speaker 4: So do we see him kinda put the guys in
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  Speaker 4: that that didn't play on Thursday when they play on
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  Speaker 4: Saturday against Denmark. Could see that and see if there's
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  Speaker 4: some some things they they like better than they saw
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  Speaker 4: on the the first game and then the big one
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  Speaker 4: with with Germany on Sunday, so to tune ups.
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  Speaker 2: And then you got J. J.
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  Speaker 4: Patricole on dry Siddle, Tim Stewtsill of Ottawa coming up
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  Speaker 4: on on.
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  Speaker 2: Sunday, so we'll see what it is.
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  Speaker 4: Uh. He wasn't part of the four Nations base off
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  Speaker 4: team last year, right, So that's as they assembled their lineup.
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  Speaker 4: Probably something they're they're keeping into account, like keeping the
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  Speaker 4: same guys that were there in the the opening lineups.
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  Speaker 4: But you'll have the the pool play and then if
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  Speaker 4: they're in the top four, they won't have to play
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  Speaker 4: an elimination game and then you go into an a
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  Speaker 4: team tournament. So uh, I was thinking he would probably
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  Speaker 4: be ready to go for the first game, but it's
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  Speaker 4: it's not looking like he's going to be in the lineup.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's uh, let's talk about the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the lineup for Latvia and beyond. But uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: this is a team now, it's it's been built maybe
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  Speaker 3: to beat Canada. It's kind of a you know, top
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  Speaker 3: of the podium or bust and easier said than done.
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  Speaker 3: When we're talking about the the Canadians, who are i
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  Speaker 3: mean possessed of what at least five of the best
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  Speaker 3: players in the NHL right now on that roster. So
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  Speaker 3: we'll start with Lafia. Though, how do you make sure
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  Speaker 3: you start this tournament off right? You don't go the
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  Speaker 3: way of Finland and let to an upset happen, et cetera.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they really have to worry about it.
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  Speaker 4: Is that a Is that an acceptable answer?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's dismissive of the Latvians, and all of
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  Speaker 3: our Latvian listeners are very upset right now.
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  Speaker 4: It sure is gosh like that they've all been working
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  Speaker 4: for this for for the last year and years to
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  Speaker 4: be at the Olympics. You gotta figure like kind of
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  Speaker 4: that that adrenaline is kind of gonna be like an
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  Speaker 4: opening night feel juice in the in the building, they
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  Speaker 4: feel energy, I think. I think against Latvian Denmark they're
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  Speaker 4: they're fine. Against Germany, that'll be a fun game to
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  Speaker 4: see on UH on Sunday. Team USA, you know they
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  Speaker 4: built they reconstructed. One year later, after losing to Team
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  Speaker 4: Canada and overtime at the Four Nations face Off two
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  Speaker 4: to come that the Canadians see they left off Jason Robertson,
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  Speaker 4: who's the top us board scorer in in the NHL.
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  Speaker 4: He's he's tenth in scoring, not not on the roster.
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  Speaker 4: Cole Kawfield from Montreal, another pure goal scorer USA boy
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  Speaker 4: that that's not on the roster. So they they built
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  Speaker 4: their team to to be strong, you know, third line,
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  Speaker 4: fourth line for Keller, you figure he's a top six guy.
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  Speaker 4: And and defensively to combat the Canadians goaltending. I think
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  Speaker 4: they they've got the the advantage, so uh, I think
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  Speaker 4: they feel good. But those those first two games, to me,
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  Speaker 4: are like, if you want to equate it to something
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  Speaker 4: that we see is a college basketball preseason game, just
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  Speaker 4: to be honest, all right, fair enough against you know,
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  Speaker 4: an nai A team or a bunch of all stars
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  Speaker 4: from who knows what.
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  Speaker 3: How could do you expect the lines to be over
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  Speaker 3: the kind of pool play games in this tournament. Are
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  Speaker 3: they gonna experiment a lot or should we see what
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  Speaker 3: we most of us predict.
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  Speaker 4: I think in the first two games you might see
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  Speaker 4: some mixing and matching, and then from that point on,
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  Speaker 4: you're you're going with the lineup to to win with,
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  Speaker 4: and it's to win gold to get there in the
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  Speaker 4: easiest possible path, and you know, everybody's one team, whether
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  Speaker 4: they're in the top six, not in the lineup, et cetera.
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  Speaker 4: So it's it's a different spot for for some some
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  Speaker 4: guys like Clayton Keller who are used to captaining their team,
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  Speaker 4: captaining Team USA at the World Championships, to to not
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  Speaker 4: be in the lineup. But you never know if he's
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  Speaker 4: playing that that's Saturday there against uh DENMARKI see if
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  Speaker 4: he can win a spot.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you trust more? Hella bucker out and your
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  Speaker 2: red now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, do you know what? Jeremy Swayman has the best numbers.
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  Speaker 4: That's the funny part of it. The Boston goalie hellibuk
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  Speaker 4: hasn't had a great year. His analytics are good still
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  Speaker 4: his goal saved above expected. Ottinger is on a better
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  Speaker 4: team with Dallas. So in terms of international experience, it's Hellibuck, Ottinger, Swaymen,
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  Speaker 4: But in terms of this season it's Hellibu Hellibuk. Uh
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  Speaker 4: did have his own net at practice yesterday, right the
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  Speaker 4: other two goalies were were rotating and and Mike Sullivan,
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  Speaker 4: the head coach for TMOSA, said, read into it what
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  Speaker 4: you will with kind of a tongue in cheek.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Look, so I think that kind of answered that question
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  Speaker 2: as uh is.
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  Speaker 4: You can't get anything by uh people to watch hockey
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  Speaker 4: practices every day, can you unless your team can and
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  Speaker 4: you close your practice yesterday they did, But it was
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  Speaker 4: Canada closed their practice yesterday they did. It wasn't open
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  Speaker 4: to the media, it was. It was kind of thought
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  Speaker 4: to be as kind of a copycat thing. Some other
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  Speaker 4: teams did it, one team thought another team might be watching,
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  Speaker 4: and then Canada just just did it. Canada is also
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  Speaker 4: not staying in the Olympic village. They're staying in a hotel.
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  Speaker 4: Tbosa is staying in the Olympic village because Matthew Juck says,
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  Speaker 4: we want we want the experience, well staying staying in
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  Speaker 4: the village.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, that's the right thing to do, have
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  Speaker 3: the Olympic experience. Second of all, a lot of young
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  Speaker 3: guys still on this on these Olympic hockey teams. The
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  Speaker 3: younger you are, the more likely that you're single. And
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  Speaker 3: if you're single, you should be staying in the Olympic village.
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  Speaker 3: If any of the stories we've heard about the Olympic
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  Speaker 3: Village true, sure, like, let those guys have the full experience.
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  Speaker 3: So I love that Team USA is stay in the
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  Speaker 3: Olympic village and doing it that way. I also saw
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  Speaker 3: Nathan McKinnon was asked about like, you know, enjoying the
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  Speaker 3: experience and he's on the opposin and he's like he said,
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  Speaker 3: he's not here to enjoy himself. He wants to win
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  Speaker 3: and he'll try to enjoy himself on the way to that. Canada,
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  Speaker 3: it feels like they put a lot of pressure on themselves.
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  Speaker 4: We've talked about it before, like the teams in Vancouver
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  Speaker 4: and Toronto and even Edmonton. You know there's there's there's
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  Speaker 4: a microscope on him and same thing with you know,
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  Speaker 4: team Canada. You can magnify it. It's an entire country.
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  Speaker 4: Sidney Crosby. I liked his verbiage of what they're there
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  Speaker 4: to do and he said it's our responsibility for Canada
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  Speaker 4: well win to win the gold. But yeah, they I
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  Speaker 4: mean again O see you go back to a Canadian
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  Speaker 4: team not having won a Stanley Cup championship in thirty years.
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  Speaker 4: What we're talking about, right, the microscope, the pressure the
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  Speaker 4: Canadians with NHL players at the Olympics have won all
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  Speaker 4: three times going back to ninety eight.
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  Speaker 3: Adrian Denny for a couple more minutes here on the
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  Speaker 3: Sean O'Connell show Between the Pipes, where we talk all
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  Speaker 3: things hockey. As players are over there focusing on the competition.
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  Speaker 3: GMS team presidents, personnel managers are preparing I imagine their
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  Speaker 3: deck of desires for this next month or so trade deadline.
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  Speaker 3: There's I don't know, probably fast and furious after the
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  Speaker 3: Olympic break. But what role will the Utah Mammoth play
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  Speaker 3: before the March sixth trade deadline?
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  Speaker 4: I think you will hear Utah mentioned in everything that
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  Speaker 4: you hear as a team taking a look, checking it out,
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  Speaker 4: and and we've seen it already this year. There's been
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  Speaker 4: deals that you've heard Utah mentioned in that you haven't
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  Speaker 4: heard Utah mentioned in that you know. Bill Armstrong was
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  Speaker 4: just kind of checking out, saying, is this is this
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  Speaker 4: an option? Okay, we're not we're not willing to to
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  Speaker 4: go to that level of an asking price, okay for
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  Speaker 4: this asking price? Is this possible? So I think you'll
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  Speaker 4: hear Utah mentioned and in just about everything. But will
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  Speaker 4: they find something that that strikes a chord to make
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  Speaker 4: a deal on and for me for the Mammoth to
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  Speaker 4: make a deal in terms of what they're giving up,
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  Speaker 4: if they're going to give up prospects, a first round
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  Speaker 4: or a second round pick, it's going to be a
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  Speaker 4: player returning who has term on his contract, so as
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  Speaker 4: multi years left after this season. If it's a rental,
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  Speaker 4: it's probably a player coming back. Fourth, fifth, sixth round,
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  Speaker 4: seventh round pick is what Utah's giving up, possibly a third.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's that's what they look at. If they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna invest in prospects or high round draft picks, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna be an impact player who comes here with
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  Speaker 4: term left on their deal which is multi multi years left,
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  Speaker 4: so they can come in and just become a part
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  Speaker 4: of the core. Because the team, as we've said, not
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  Speaker 4: in the championship window yet, So if they're going to
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  Speaker 4: give something up, they want somebody to come in and
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  Speaker 4: be a part of that team to grow with, be
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  Speaker 4: part of the window. Like JJ Pitterku who came in
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  Speaker 4: on the trades and a five year extension, Mikhail Sergachev
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  Speaker 4: who came over before before he's number one, who had
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  Speaker 4: seven years of an eight year contract, left on it.
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  Speaker 4: But if it's a rental, right, you could I could
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  Speaker 4: see U Tah giving up a fourth, fifth, sixth round
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  Speaker 4: pick for a player to come help help the team
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  Speaker 4: push in the playoffs, get their X by the by
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  Speaker 4: their name and the standings, and you know you're you
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  Speaker 4: got enough that you're not going to feel too bad
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  Speaker 4: about giving up that and having a having a guy
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  Speaker 4: take off after a year if he's not part of
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  Speaker 4: the long term plan.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Tanking has become another big conversation because of how the
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  Speaker 3: Utah Jazz are doing things right now, and the media
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  Speaker 3: response to that has been bizarre in my opinion. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: is there an NHL version of tanking?
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  Speaker 2: Gosh?
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  Speaker 4: I I think you see teams like Vancouver get to
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  Speaker 4: this point in the year. You know, they traded Quinn Hughes,
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  Speaker 4: They've got injuries, and they're in sell mode trying to
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  Speaker 4: pick up, you know, assets for the future if they
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  Speaker 4: are sure, right, I can't speak for the Vancouver Canucks
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  Speaker 4: in their way of doing business. I'll just say that, right,
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  Speaker 4: but that would be the typical thought, right if you
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  Speaker 4: trade a big, big time player for the second straight year.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, they traded JT.
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  Speaker 4: Miller for you know, picks and prospects and guys to
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  Speaker 4: be part of the part of the core. So that's
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  Speaker 4: what I think you see in the NHL as teams
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  Speaker 4: get to this point in here is like, Okay, let's
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  Speaker 4: see what we can get out of this guy. He's
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  Speaker 4: contract expires in the next year or two. He's not
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  Speaker 4: part of our plans. We need to go young. Let's
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  Speaker 4: let's go the route that San Jose Anaheim Utah has
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  Speaker 4: done and building from youth and the draft.
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  Speaker 3: But you're removing players from the roster rather than saying, hey,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: fake and injury or we're just not gonna let you
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: gate tonight, which is obviously the conversation and the problem
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: in the NBA right now.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: The only thing like that that you really see in
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: the NHL is say our Temmy Paneren for the for
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: the Rangers who just got traded to LA they'll put
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: out a release it says, ur Temmy Paneren will not
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: be playing tonight for roster management reasons, trade related purposes,
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: something in the language like that. So they've got a
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: guy they know they're going to trade, he knows he's
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: going to be traded, and while the agent and the
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: teams work on say an extension is part of the deal,
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: or they continue negotiating, they'll hold the guy out to
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: make sure that he doesn't doesn't get hurt. That's that's
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: one thing that you do see in terms of a
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: healthy player or not not playing a star player like that.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: I don't know if anyone out there is watching the
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Olympics while they listen. But the ice dancing, I don't
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: know where this pair is from. The guy was wearing
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: what looked like a still suit from Dune if you're
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: a fan of the Dune movies. He's on ice, but
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: he's preserving his water like he's on the planet Aracus Man.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Some great style going on there. You are our Nordic
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: skiing expert with this Olympic cycle on the Sean O'Connell show,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: So we lean on you for the updates on all
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: things cross country.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Ah, this is it's amazing. Oh see, we had a
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: tremendous race yesterday. Ben Ogden, who's from Vermont, ended a
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: fifty year US metal drought with a silver in the
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: men's cross country sprint, second US gentleman to win a
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: medal in cross country skiing since nineteen seventy six. He
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: enjoys knitting. It helps him unwind. So congratulations to Ben
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Ogden on his silver. Coming up tomorrow, we have the
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: women's ten kilometer freestyle and same thing for the men
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: on Friday. Relay and team events start this weekend. No
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: utahons as part of the US teams at the Olympics,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: and cross country skiing.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Because we don't have snow this year. I couldn't make it.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: They couldn't practice, couldn't make it.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: The uh I used to live on Eleventh Avenue and
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: whoever used to be riding by on their long rollerblades
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: practicing in the summertime.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: They didn't. They didn't qualify this year, bummer. Don't see
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: as much of that anymore, do you you still do?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Do you still see it? I assume they're associated with
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: the University of some kinds. Okay, okay, over and over
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: in that neighborhood. Okay, gotcha.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I think they probably go cross country skiing from from
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: the university, maybe down through City Creek Canyon, who knows
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: where else. But I do love the extra long roller blades.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: It's a very specific thing you're preparing for if you're
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: wearing six foot long rollerblades. All right, between the pipes.
• 23:17
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• 23:20
  Speaker 3: and Air. Adrian Denny's kind enough to join us in
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: studio every single week to break down all things hockey.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Adrian, you're the man. I appreciate you. Thanks for having
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: me in see have a great week. We'll have another
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: cross country skiing update next week as the stuff really
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: heats up over there in the Nordic track.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: That's right, he's also our Nordic skiing expert.