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Wild Injuries, NHL Star Power and Expansion Questions · Scene Projects Sports Network

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Hello, and welcome to the Kreese report on SPSN Network.
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I am the host today, Biggie, along with my cohost there, Bev.
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How are doing, bud?
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Pretty good.
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It's another good week of hockey.
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We had the Frozen Frenzy last night or two nights ago where all 32 teams played, and it
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was awesome per usual.
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So good.
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Is that something new they've started, recently?
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They've been doing it for a couple of years.
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I would...
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I mean, it'd be so cool if they could do more often, but, like, that's a logistical nightmare
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getting all 32 teams to play on the same night.
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They do it a couple times a year, I think.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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So that...
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That's that's something that's tough to do to get every team to play.
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I mean, I know NCAA tries to get their midnight madness in for basketball.
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Football, know, would be hard, but I know, like, basketball tries to do it.
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So Yeah.
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But, anyways, so, I mean, NFL's on to week five.
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Hockey's what?
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Week two, week three ish?
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Week three.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So what does...
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For here.
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So so what do you got to talk about today?
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Anything exciting off the top of your head?
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I mean, I guess if we're looking at the wild, because, of course, that's where I pay the most
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attention.
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Yep.
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We're Minnesota guys, and most of our is from Minnesota.
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I mean, the wild, they look good.
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I mean, they didn't look good in their last game two nights ago.
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They got Saint Louis coming up.
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They're actually about to start.
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Yep.
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So they're playing tonight.
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A couple nights ago, took a pretty bad loss to Winnipeg, but before that, had two pretty big
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wins over Vegas and Florida.
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So, I mean, the injuries are just really piling up for the wild way too early.
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We of course, we covered the Brock Faber thing last week where he took the puck to the skull.
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Mhmm.
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Now we had another guy, on Winnipeg against Winnipeg on Tuesday night.
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Another guy took a puck to the skull, Nico Sturm, and he's gonna be out for a little
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while.
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I don't think it's a a skull fracture, but they were after the Faber the Faber scare, they were
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pretty, I guess, safe with how they were handling that.
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But, yeah, thankfully, Wall stepped back in that tonight.
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We had Calvin Picard in that against the Winnipeg, and that didn't go too well.
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He let in, five.
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So I don't know.
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I don't know what to think about the team.
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We're not gonna see the team at full force because of all these injuries for Mhmm.
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A good little while because now we're down Jared Spurgeon as well.
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So I don't know what to think.
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Yeah.
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I mean, hockey is one of those sports...
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I mean, we always talk about next man up, and I think hockey definitely is that sport that
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needs that next man up mentality because you just never know what is gonna happen, what type
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of injuries.
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You know, it just sucks that two of the guys got hit in the head.
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I mean, you know, and just think about it.
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I mean, back in the sixties and early seventies, they didn't wear no helmets and
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stuff
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and
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No.
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You know, stuff like that.
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And how did people last?
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I mean...
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So...
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But as we look, you know, right now, let's go into the divisions here.
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You know, you got Boston and Ottawa lead the East at five and two.
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Carolina, six zero one followed by the Rangers at six and two.
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In the West, you got Utah at at five and two.
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Winnipeg at four and one.
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The wild are tied for third at four and two.
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In the Pacific Division, Vegas is six and two.
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Edmonton, five o and one.
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The last unbeaten team there.
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But, yeah, you know, hockey is one of those sports where, you know, luck happens a lot.
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You know?
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I mean, I know...
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You know, you talk about the puck bouncing and, you know, get that right bounce.
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You know, we talk about that in other sports, but hockey just seems to be the one where it's
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legit that you can lose out a bad puck bounce.
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You know? What
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What are you supposed to do?
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You know?
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Yeah.
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For for as much as it's the hardest sport to play, in my opinion, at least in American major
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sports.
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Nope.
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Like, what we're seeing out of Minnesota with the injuries, like, Dallas, is off to a really
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rough start.
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The...
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Not in the central, but, like, looking at the Kings, like, they haven't won a game yet.
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They've got three losses in regulation and and two in OT.
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They've only got two points on the season.
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So they've been a massive disappointment.
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The Flyers are a massive disappointment right now after getting a playoff series win last
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season.
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And we're still in the feeling out process because if we remember, like, last year, the
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Wild started three, six, and three.
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So...
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And they they looked horrible, like, change everything, fire everybody, but eventually,
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they turned it around.
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And you just...
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Teams are still trying to find their footing.
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Like, Carolina being good out of the gate, not a surprise.
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I don't I don't know if many people had Utah leading the central in the first seven games,
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but, Winnipeg, they're looking good as well.
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And, of course, Vancouver is terrible, two and six over in the Pacific and still awaiting.
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We're kind of...
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On Winnipeg, we're still awaiting, like, the the Conor resolution to his contract because
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he's given up money every single freaking day that he doesn't resign.
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So I don't know.
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There's there's a lot of lot of weird stuff
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going the guy that Minnesota's looking at signing or trying to get, or might think it's
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somebody else?
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I think we were in light room.
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We don't really need him because our goalie line is...
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Our goalie room is pretty goalie.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Hell of fuck.
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Been talking about trying to get somebody's brother on the team.
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Oh, that's Jack Hughes.
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Yeah.
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We're talking about Jack Hughes.
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Yeah.
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The devil the devils are bad too.
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Yeah.
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So, yeah, Philly, o one five, three losses in overtime.
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Pretty bad.
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You know?
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And that...
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And that's one thing with hockey too.
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It it it changes every year.
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I mean, yeah, you can get some teams that are dominant year in year out, but, you know, one
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year you're bad.
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Next year, you're phenomenal.
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You know?
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Just depends on that young class that you got coming in and draft prospects and stuff like
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that.
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So...
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But Yeah.
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Not just looking at the news or any...
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Anything exciting news wise.
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Not really.
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I mean, it's been...
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Honestly, it's been a pretty slow week as far as Yeah.
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Just the NHL in general goes.
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Like, Minnesota's got the injury, problems.
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I know the the Red Wings have had scouts at a bunch of wild games because we're still we're
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still waiting on that Dillon Larkin trade to go through.
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Yep.
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I mean, the Oilers the Oilers are insane.
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Connor McDavid, of course, leading the league with, 17 points already, which is insane.
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Shout out.
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He's leading the league in goals with eight, going into the night.
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But as far as I
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agree with that one guy, I think they need to definitely keep happy.
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I think he's our Jetta ant ant man type player.
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Like, you gotta keep him happy to succeed, and, you know, I know they're doing their best.
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Yeah.
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I've always...
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And we've got Kroil locked up for at least the next seven years, eight years.
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So, keeping him happy as to not force a trade is obviously definitely a a priority.
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But I've got a hot take.
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Like, in recent years, I've said...
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Because we talk about Justin Jefferson, and we talk about Anthony Edwards in Minnesota sports.
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Like, I've been making the argument, like, Karol Kaprizov is the best major sports athlete
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in Minnesota, and that might have changed when Quinn Hughes got here.
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So maybe I sound crazy.
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It's it's probably Anthony Edwards.
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But Yeah.
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Like, Quinn Hughes, I don't know.
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I think he gives...
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And it...
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It's hard to give...
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It's apples to oranges as far as the sports goes, but I don't know.
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Yeah.
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No.
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I mean, you're you're not far off from what I've seen from Kaprow Kaprizov and...
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You know?
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But it's it's just...
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You know, hockey is one of those things where, you know, not a lot of people know those guys
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outside of the fact except for Anthony because you see them.
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You know?
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It's kinda like football.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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We know who Jefferson is, but you don't know who, you know, walking down the street, you
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know, Harrison is, you know, because they wear the mask all the time.
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They'll be having the helmet.
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Yeah.
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But, yeah, because otherwise, I mean, everybody says freezos legit.
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So Oh, yeah.
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He's the best player in the league.
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Yeah.
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The thing with hockey is, like...
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I mean, in America, even people that don't watch sports, like, they know who Patrick
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Mahomes is.
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They know who LeBron James is.
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They know who Tom Brady is.
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There's a lot of people that don't even know who Conor McDavid is, and Conor McDavid has
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been the best hockey player on the planet for at least five or six years.
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So just the...
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There's gotta be a growth to the game at some point.
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And people know who, like, Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby are because they've been in the
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league for twenty years.
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So Oh, yeah.
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It's like when we get to...
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Maybe when we get to the ten year mark with McDavid, people will know who he is.
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Yeah.
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And and, again, it's, you know, just like every other sport, you know, a lot of people can't
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grasp that somebody could be better than Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, you know, all those
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guys from the past, Sidney Cosby, you know, a lot of those.
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But Yeah.
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And the Minnesota Wild have already gone down one o.
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Oh, jeez.
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The game just started.
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Less than two minutes in, Bobby Brink took a offensive interference and power play goal.
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That was kind of a filthy goal.
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Is that snuggeroo?
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No.
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No.
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Was that...
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Oh, Bergeron.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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That's not good.
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Yeah.
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Not to get the start off, you know, three minutes in or less than and...
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Or at home too.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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And that's another thing too.
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We always talk about home court, home field advantage.
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Hockey is one of those where, especially the playoffs, I think it plays a big factor that
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the home crowd is intense.
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And I don't know if it's just because the crowd is right there, you know, that close, or if it
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is just the fact that, you know, home is better.
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I mean, I don't know.
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What do you think?
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Yeah.
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I mean, I I think...
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I I guess it ties into the fact that I think it's, like, playoff hockey in itself is
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probably, in my opinion, the best sport to watch in the playoffs, like, out of the NFL.
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Like, the NFL playoffs, if we're all being honest, like, the NFL playoffs kinda suck most
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of the time.
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And that sucks because the NFL, of course, is the only American major sport that's like, win
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or go home.
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It's one game.
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You got one game to advance.
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Yeah.
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But it's not accurate.
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Too wide as football to do that one game and go home or whatever.
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I'm just like, it's just a tough sport.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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They only played 16 games, so you can't really expand the playoffs too much.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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I mean, the the home home ice definitely plays a point, plays a part.
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And just like any other sport, it's better in some cities than others.
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But...
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So, like,
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going
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to Montreal, their home ice advantage is a lot different than, like, Florida because Florida
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fans aren't...
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Yeah.
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It's not...
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We talked about that last week.
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Like, it's not really a huge hockey market.
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They don't really know what they're watching.
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They just see that there's an event nearby, and they go, no disrespect to the diehard Florida
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fans out there.
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I'm sure there are some.
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But...
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Yeah.
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Home home ice is huge.
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There's definitely a lot of, you know, bandwagon jumpers where it's like, oh, we have
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a chance to win a cup.
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I'm gonna go support them, which is good.
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Get out and support all your teams.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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You know, definitely do that.
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Yeah.
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And it goes back to the argument of, like, it's annoying that fan...
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That some fans are like that, but, like, we also want the game to grow.
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But Yeah.
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I don't know.
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You gotta...
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I kinda gotta be okay with it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I know.
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It's just...
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You know, dislocation of some of these teams, you know, it just doesn't make sense.
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I mean, we talked about that last week, but, you know, as long as they don't lose the
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original nine at any point, I mean, hockey's still gonna be hockey.
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You know?
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And, of course, there's always gonna be growth.
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There's nothing wrong with growth.
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I mean, we're seeing it now in sports.
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I think they're trying to...
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I think all leagues are trying to get to 32 ish teams, you know, maybe a little bit more.
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And, you know, and and try to grow it overseas too.
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I mean, we...
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Yeah.
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We got the Olympics and, you know, the World Cup and all that stuff.
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So I'll definitely, you know, wanna see the sports grow.
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Yeah.
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And that's the weird part because now that most most leagues are at the 32 team mark, it's a
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nice even number where you can have eight teams per divi...
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Or eight teams per conference in the NHL and, well, 16 teams and then Yeah.
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Eight.
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Eight teams per conference and then eight teams and then eight per division.
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In the NFL, it's two conferences, four per division, but it's a good even number.
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So it's like...
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It's almost like it makes no sense if you're expanding to only add one team from this point.
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It's like you have to add, like, four more and just to...
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Like, four more at one time. That's
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That's gonna do a
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good number.
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We just saw we're gonna add one.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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So, maybe we get away with two.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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And we know these leagues wanna expand.
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I mean, the NFL is all about expanding over into Europe.
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The NHL's been looking at Texas for another team, maybe put another team in Canada
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somewhere.
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Canada would make more sense than Texas.
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I mean, you know Yeah.
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I I think at least.
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I think the issue with putting another team in Canada, in my opinion, is they're set in their
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ways already.
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Like, if you added another team...
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Like, everybody up there, they're a lot of them are Toronto, a lot of them are Montreal, but
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there's Calgary, there's Winnipeg, Vancouver.
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Like, I don't know how it works if you add another team to that.
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Are people really gonna buy in?
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Because they've got their...
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For the most part, they've they've got their hardwired toward...
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Like, these are our teams.
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We don't we don't need anymore.
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Yeah.
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No.
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I I I get what you're saying.
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And, you know, it does kinda make sense that way.
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I mean, that's just like, you know, with...
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You know, oh, could Minnesota handle two teams, you know, their hockey?
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I don't think Minnesota could handle two teams.
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It'd be fun to try, but, you know, maybe go into the Dakotas or, you know, somewhere there
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that doesn't have a team and and try it out.
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You know, I think Bubba would like that in...
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Nearby him, you know, to get a hockey team.
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I think if they stayed up there to where it makes sense, like, you can make the best
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argument for it, it's probably Wisconsin.
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Like, put a team in Milwaukee or something because they're all either wild fans or red
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wing fans.
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Yep.
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So...
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But I I think
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Yeah.
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It's weird because they don't have...
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I mean, they're a big college hockey town too.
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So Oh, yeah.
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But...
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Yeah.
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You know?
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And heaven forbid, you take away fan support for the green and gold down there.
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I mean, that's like, you know Yeah.
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Abuse down there.
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So...
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Yeah.
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But Wisconsin would make sense.
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I don't know why they haven't.
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Yeah.
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I think I think the most likely is...
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I think they're gonna...
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If I had to put money on where the next team is going, it's gonna be another team in Texas,
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probably like Austin or Houston.
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And then I think they'd...
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I think they're likely to go back to Atlanta some point in the next ten, twenty years, try
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that out again.
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I've heard that Atlanta's not out of the talk.
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Phoenix, Arizona who, you know, struggled their last market.
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Mhmm.
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You know?
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But again, it's just like, would you struggle to put another team there?
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You know?
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Yeah.
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And then they struggle.
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Maybe they just need
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to,
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you know, send games over there, you know, as a special occasion, you know.
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Yeah.
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Like a
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new It's like, like, know, just...
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They did that here when Minnesota was about to get their new team.
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I just brought a couple games in, once a month.
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Played at the Target Center for, like, a year and, you know, just got us back into the hockey
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mode.
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So maybe that's something they need to think about.
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Just, you know, throw some games down there just, see what they...
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It it draws.
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Yeah.
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And that...
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That's proof right there that, like, the NHL is just...
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I mean, this was going on 30 ago.
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It's over thirty years ago now that they left, but, like, how are we losing a team from the
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state of hockey?
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So that just paints the picture to me of, like, maybe...
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And it's obvious that the NHL isn't the most in touch with their with their fan base.
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Their their marketing is terrible.
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They don't know how to market against the other leagues.
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But it's like, I don't know how high my faith is in the NHL to really execute another good
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expansion past the two that they've already done in the last eight years in Vegas and
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Seattle.
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Well, in Vegas, I mean, can we call Vegas really expansion team?
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Because, I mean, they drafted, you know, had a heck of a rookie year, I mean, with their draft
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and stuff.
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So
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Yeah.
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It wasn't like a typical expansion team because they had, I wanna say, almost every team every
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team could hold, I think, two or three players and everybody else was in the draft or
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something.
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They would
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designate a
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they would designate a handful of players that they would make available.
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So, like
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Okay.
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For Vegas, essentially, that's an...
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Another...
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And they learned their lesson because it wasn't nearly as bad as Seattle.
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But with the Vegas expansion, the...
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I guess, for lack of a better way to put it, like, it was just...
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It was overpowered the the way that the Vegas could go about it.
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So they they brought it down, I guess, nerfed it would be the term for Seattle.
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And they they took their medicine.
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They learned their lesson for the first time.
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But, yeah, Vegas was...
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That was an unfair team to to put together at first.
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And credit for them for going as far as they did.
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It's hard to put just a bunch of dudes together and go to a Stanley Cup in the first season.
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But Well, that's the whole thing is, you know, you don't you don't see too many expansion
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teams do that.
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That's why it's like, can you really call bigots an expansion team?
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Yes.
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They are.
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But, you know, you don't really see that outburst.
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And I heard a lot of people have money on Vegas and a lot of bookies are calling them back and
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trying to get that money back before they made it that far.
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So...
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But You're a definite outlier to all of that.
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Yeah.
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Because you didn't see that with the Kraken at all.
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No.
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And the Kraken have just been mediocre their entire existence.
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Yeah.
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So let's see here.
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What what kind of scores do we got going on right now?
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Like you said, the wild up are down one nothing already.
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Let's get back to
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We got Minnesota down one o.
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They're on the power play, and they're actually about to go five on three.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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You got the sabres and Maple Leafs tied at two.
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You got the Islanders up over the Senators, one nothing.
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The Kraken down two to one to the Lightning.
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Canucks up two nothing on the Panthers.
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Devils four nothing on the Rangers.
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The Flyers up one nothing at the end of one.
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The Jetson Bubba's Blackhawks are tied at zero zero, just started.
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And the sharks and panthers are just underway, one nothing.
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And then we got the mammoth and oilers tonight in about an hour.
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The flame and the golden knights a couple hours from now, so.
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The devils are kicking the crap out of the rangers.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's something that, you know, four nothing.
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That's like, oh, that's a bump whooping, but, you know, four nothing in baseball is like, oh,
21:52
that was a great pitchers matchup.
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You know, four goals they just passed halfway in the game.
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Like Yeah.
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Yeah.
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There we go.
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Wild on the board.
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There you go.
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And then Matt Boldy from Quinn Hughes, I think.
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I just missed it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Looking at the doubles, Rangers, 14 shots at goals for the doubles, eight shots for the
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Rangers.
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Everything else looks pretty even.
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I mean, block shots, you know, double...
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Or rangers are up there a little bit, but those shots are goal.
22:31
I mean, you keep peppering that goalie.
22:34
He's gonna give up one.
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Oh.
22:37
But, yeah, the wild on ESPN two, plus here.
22:43
You know, just tied it up like you said, power play goal.
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Quinn Hughes threw it across to Matt Boldy right above the face off circle, one t and n.
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Yeah.
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And the wild stuff, the power play because they were five on three, so still a man advantage.
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That...
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That's one thing you you definitely gotta...
23:03
You know, we talk about the special teams and, like, football stuff.
23:07
You know, power play is is one of those where you gotta be good at that to succeed.
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I mean, you know, power play kill and the power play itself has to be...
23:18
You know, you have to be in the top, what, five, 10 to consider yourself a Stanley Cup,
23:24
contender?
23:25
Oh, yeah.
23:25
And as of, as of a couple nights ago, I think it's changed now, but the Wild were first in
23:30
the NHL in both power play and penalty kill, which is a far cry from what we've seen out of
23:36
them the the past couple years, but power play goal definitely helps them.
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The penalty kill...
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The goal they just gave up on the kill didn't help them, but they just even did that.
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Yeah.
23:45
Yeah.
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Let's see here.
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Do they...
23:50
Let's see.
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Power play.
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So...
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Yeah.
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So right now, going into today, 36.8 on the power play.
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Let's see.
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That's number one.
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I'm just looking to see how they different this.
24:07
Looks like three goals on the power play.
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Yeah.
24:11
So I haven't given up a shorthanded goal, it looks like, this year, knock on wood.
24:17
So Yeah.
24:18
Their penalty killers have always been, like, alright, but they're...
24:23
Seeing their power play be that effective.
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That's...
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It's different.
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It's weird.
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Not used to it.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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You definitely want to be on the positive end of that side.
24:36
And, you know, and I know over the years too due to injuries, you know, they had to switch
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up their liners quite a bit.
24:45
Nobody got used to playing with each other that often.
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And, you know, that's another thing with hockey is you got to know where your left winger is.
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You gotta know where that right winger is.
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You know?
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You gotta...
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You know, I'm gonna pass it here.
24:58
I know my guy's gonna get it.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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And that's what people that's what people were theorizing other than not wanting to pay him.
25:06
Like, why the wild let Matt Zucariello walk was because him and Kuril were together for Kuril's
25:12
entire career to this point.
25:14
But they they just got so cute together and just, like, the overpassing and not not taking
25:20
a shot on that when you should.
25:23
It's almost like the wild wanted Carrill.
25:25
They, like, dared Carrill to be like, alright.
25:27
Produce without Matt Zucariello, please.
25:29
And he's been doing...
25:30
He's been...
25:30
He scored the most goals in the NHL this season.
25:33
So, looks like so far it's a gamble that paid off.
25:36
And Zucariello, to my knowledge, has done absolutely nothing with the king.
25:39
The kings haven't won a game, so can't be paying off that well.
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Yeah.
25:44
No.
25:44
That's...
25:45
Yeah.
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Yeah.
25:46
You can't be cute in hockey.
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Yep.
25:49
And with that goal from Matt Boldy, the assist from Quinn Hughes.
25:55
Quinn Hughes now has a point in all eight games this season, so eight straight games of the
25:59
point for Quinn Hughes.
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That's good.
26:04
You know?
26:05
And that...
26:05
And that's something too that, you know, you know, be...
26:09
Being in the in the stats every week or every game is gonna, know, drive you up and get you
26:19
consistent.
26:22
So Oh, yeah.
26:23
And you wanna stack these wins before we get...
26:26
And did...
26:27
Historically, I think people have always used this, like, by Thanksgiving, we kind of knew
26:34
who's gonna be in, who's gonna be out for the most part, even though that's, like, really
26:40
early in the season.
26:40
But we just play so many games, you kinda know.
26:43
And, of course, that's barring injuries.
26:44
I kind of look at at Christmas as more of that line for that.
26:47
But by I look at
26:49
Christmas, yeah, I look at Christmas, beginning of the year, just kind of, okay, we know who's
26:55
in, who's out.
26:56
You know, because right now, it's just, you know, a couple points put you in first, couple
27:00
points you lose could put you in last place.
27:03
You know?
27:03
Yeah.
27:04
There's so much shuffling going around.
27:06
And people that people that don't really watch hockey, they don't realize just, like, how long
27:12
the season is.
27:13
It goes from late September slash early October to June for the Stanley Cup finals.
27:19
And now there's two more game because there's 84 games now instead of 82.
27:24
They bump it up.
27:24
Okay.
27:25
Yeah.
27:27
Well, yeah, it is so long because there's some weeks where you're playing one game, and some
27:31
weeks you're playing two to three games.
27:34
You know?
27:34
And then, you know...
27:36
Then, of course, if you're a while in the first month, you're on the road quite a bit.
27:40
So, you know, we're watching them on TV instead of being in house.
27:44
I know they're home today, but, you know, the...
27:47
Just the travel and...
27:49
You know?
27:49
And then, of course, if it's the Olympics, then you got that two, three week break in between
27:55
that pushes everything back.
27:56
But, you know, yeah, the playoffs is what really, I think, drags out, which everybody
28:02
looks forward to the playoffs because playoff hockey is a lot different than regular season
28:07
hockey.
28:08
Yeah.
28:09
You gotta think the guys, like, the best of the best in the league.
28:13
They're playing 84 games now in the regular season.
28:17
If on an Olympic year, they're playing all their Olympics games for, like...
28:21
So The US, they went all the way, and they're...
28:24
That's an additional handful of games.
28:26
And then the playoffs, you gotta win, what, 16 games to win it all.
28:30
So you're...
28:31
They're playing well over...
28:32
The people that win the Stanley Cup either way are playing well over a 100 games a year.
28:36
It sounds cool to be a professional hockey player, but I don't really envy them
28:41
whatsoever.
28:42
No.
28:43
And then and then you get, what, a month or two off to recoup, and then you're back in the
28:48
preseason and, you know, stuff like that.
28:50
So Yeah.
28:51
If you win the cup.
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Yeah.
28:52
Hockey, almost borderline in a year long sport.
28:55
I mean, you know?
28:57
Damn near.
28:58
Because, of course, the guys train year round.
29:00
But Oh, yeah.
29:01
You...
29:01
If you if you go to the Stanley Cup, you've got about two months off before you're back in
29:07
training camp and everything.
29:08
Like, with the NFL, they'd...
29:10
You only play from the preseasons in August.
29:13
And if you go to the Super Bowl, that's only two teams.
29:16
You're going to February.
29:17
Most teams are only going to, like, early January.
29:21
So Yep.
29:22
And then we know how the end of the off season drags on.
29:26
Yeah.
29:27
Basketball is the same way.
29:28
You know, you start, you know, end of October, you try to get out with the playoffs and stuff,
29:34
what, through June, I think.
29:36
It's almost
29:36
almost the same schedule, but hockey is just so much more physical of a sport.
29:40
It's just different.
29:42
Oh, we got a good...
29:43
We got numbers here.
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Two in
29:46
There you go.
29:47
How we score the second one there?
29:48
Looks like
29:49
took
29:51
a shot from about the mid slot off a pass from, Shabanov, I believe.
29:58
Okay.
30:01
They've only allowed three shots on goal.
30:03
Minnesota's kinda peppering them.
30:05
Yeah.
30:06
Well...
30:06
And that's one thing that I've noticed with Minnesota over the last few years is they'll
30:13
they'll pepper the heck out of goalies.
30:15
They just don't get the goals.
30:16
You know?
30:17
Yeah.
30:17
And then the games that they lose, and you look at the box stores, it's like, oh, Minnesota had
30:22
20 some shots to go.
30:23
The other team had 15.
30:25
I mean, how did that...
30:26
How's that possible?
30:27
I mean
30:29
Yeah.
30:29
You know?
30:30
Well, that was a pretty place.
30:31
So Jakob Trinion, was in the middle, dished out to the left to Shabby, who immediately kinda,
30:39
like, almost tap passed it over to Yarov for the goal.
30:44
That was pretty.
30:46
Yeah.
30:48
Oh, no.
30:48
It's That's one What?
30:50
That's one thing with hockey too.
30:51
They can have some...
30:52
You know, they might not design plays that we think of like a basketball, which they do.
30:56
I mean, they design them, but some of the plays that they come up with are just a pass either
31:01
than the shot.
31:01
It's just like, oh, that is just so pretty how they do that.
31:04
And
31:05
Yeah.
31:06
And I think I think hockey is the prettiest sport on the planet a lot of the time.
31:11
I mean, there's a lot of ugly goals for sure.
31:13
But Yeah.
31:15
When a play is drawn up and done to perfection, I don't think there's much prettier.
31:20
Yeah.
31:20
Well...
31:21
And, yeah, there's ugly scores in all games.
31:23
It's just like, really?
31:24
We'll take that as a score, but they...
31:27
You know?
31:29
I know...
31:30
Oh god.
31:30
It just slipped my mind.
31:34
The Washington Capital is the guy that always killed Minnesota down to the lower the goalie's
31:41
right circle and always peppered us.
31:44
I can't think of his name now.
31:47
TJ Oshi, maybe?
31:49
No.
31:50
No.
31:50
No.
31:50
He's a big name guy.
31:52
Maybe I got the name wrong.
31:54
Maybe I got the team wrong.
31:57
It'll come to me, but it's just...
31:58
It's a blood.
31:59
It's just like, how do you not block that?
32:02
I mean, you know he's going down there to shoot, but yet we can't stop it.
32:10
Oh, it's gonna bug me now until I get the name.
32:16
God.
32:17
So, anyways
32:18
You probably think about it, like, when you're laying down to go to sleep tonight, you'll be
32:21
like, oh.
32:22
Yeah.
32:23
It will be.
32:24
Like I said, I I might even got their name wrong or the team wrong, but, yeah, every time
32:29
we watched him...
32:30
I I mean, against any team, he would always...
32:33
I would say about 80% of his goal came from the right side of the goalie into the circle there.
32:39
It was, like, almost a one timer type thing.
32:42
Well, that that that just explained...
32:44
That's Alex Ovechkin's entire Yeah.
32:48
That's what I'm thinking of.
32:51
They call it Ovi's office because you would just post up right there and just Yep.
32:54
Get fed the puck and throw it in.
32:56
Yeah.
32:57
And it's just like, how do you guys...
32:58
How does his score?
32:59
We know it's coming, but yet we can't stop it.
33:03
That's also...
33:04
That's kinda just the greatness of Ovi too.
33:06
Oh, I said CJ Oshie speaking of.
33:08
He's at the game right now.
33:11
He's a Minnesota kid.
33:12
Think he's from Warroad.
33:14
Okay.
33:15
I mean, that that...
33:16
I could probably say that for half the players in the NHL.
33:18
They're from Minnesota.
33:19
But Well, and that...
33:20
Yeah.
33:21
That's the thing too.
33:22
It's just like, you know, you know, we're in state of hockey.
33:25
Yeah.
33:25
We get a lot of kids from Minnesota in there.
33:28
You know?
33:30
But yet, we can't get anything...
33:32
We can't bring the title home.
33:34
Tails all this time.
33:36
All Minnesota sports are the same.
33:39
Yep.
33:39
Yep.
33:42
So Not
33:44
much else happening, to be honest.
33:46
I mean, just...
33:48
No thrills of I have to look at some...
33:51
See if any news dropped us worthy of talking about.
33:56
Let's see here.
34:01
Let's see.
34:01
Honestly, not really.
34:03
Like, other than
34:05
waivers to join the Maple Leafs via trade.
34:13
Sign The is a seven year deal, $91,000,000 extension with the wild.
34:19
Oh, the?
34:21
Yeah.
34:21
He's with he's with Detroit.
34:23
Yeah.
34:23
Oh, Detroit.
34:24
Yeah.
34:24
That's what I'm sorry.
34:25
Yeah.
34:26
He signed with the 90 '1 extension with the wings.
34:32
7 for '91.
34:33
That's a good deal for Detroit.
34:35
Yeah.
34:35
No kidding.
34:37
Depleted hurricanes lose halt to upper body injury, you know, went over the capitals.
34:46
Yeah.
34:46
So that's really all I see news wise.
34:49
NFL draft to debut.
34:52
Continues.
34:55
Oh, it looks like they're gonna pay a Amish to Cars, Roger McQueen, number 95.
35:04
Yeah.
35:05
I saw it.
35:06
It's awesome.
35:07
Yeah.
35:10
Yeah.
35:10
So It's not a ton.
35:13
It's just early season, some injuries and extension
35:15
here and there.
35:18
Yep.
35:22
Just cover other goal or scores like you, you know, since it's early.
35:26
MLB playoffs, Guardians take a two one lead to the...
35:30
With the Rays.
35:32
Brewers and Dodgers are tied bottom of two.
35:38
What's up there?
35:40
How's it going there?
35:43
Just talking a little hockey right before we talk some wrestling here in our next show at
35:48
the top of the 09:00 hour.
35:51
Let's go.
35:52
I do some light wrestling watching myself, not nearly as much as I used to.
35:58
But Oh, yeah.
36:00
Yeah.
36:00
No.
36:00
We...
36:01
Yeah.
36:01
We will be covering money in the bank, any newsworthy stuff.
36:08
But...
36:09
Yeah.
36:11
But...
36:12
Yeah.
36:12
With hockey, you know, the one thing about hockey is, you know, we like it, but definitely
36:18
up here in the Midwest, we know what hockey brings.
36:22
And it brings out those nice white feathery stuff sometimes or heavy white stuff.
36:28
So, you know, so driving is kinda gonna be a bear some days, but, hey, what do you do when
36:35
you live up in the Midwest?
36:37
Yeah.
36:37
I'm gonna have to get used to that.
36:39
It's gonna be a big...
36:40
Because I...
36:40
Like, I I think I told y'all last week.
36:42
I mean, even for middle of next year to move up there, that's gonna be because, like, in in
36:47
Virginia, we, we kind of get a little bit of every season.
36:51
It's just not, like, the extreme.
36:52
Like, our summers get up to a 100 degrees for, like, two weeks.
36:56
Our winters will get...
36:57
Like, last year, we got down to zero, but that's when you guys got got...
37:01
Went down to, like, negative 30, negative 40.
37:03
So it's not nearly as bad.
37:05
So that's gonna be a big change for me.
37:09
Obviously, the snow and the cold.
37:12
When I did when I did come there in September for the home opener and Skullfest and
37:16
everything, when I walked off the plane, I was like, oh my god.
37:19
It feels so much better here right now than it does down there.
37:21
It's, like, twenty twenty degrees cooler.
37:23
You got you got to come and catch a game or just travel up here, you know, within the next
37:30
couple months and just see what the weather is like.
37:32
January is a good one too to get up here and really see what the weather is like.
37:38
But no, once you get used to it, you know, just drive smart.
37:42
You know, that's all I tell everybody.
37:45
So Luckily, I do all my work from home.
37:48
So if it gets too bad, I don't have to force myself to go out and drive or anything.
37:52
Yeah.
37:53
Oh, that's definitely...
37:55
Let's see here.
37:55
What's this...
37:57
U...
37:57
UND hockey is gonna be interesting this year.
38:01
Notre Dame.
38:02
Yeah.
38:02
I wanna get I wanna get more into college hockey for sure.
38:06
Yeah.
38:06
That's something to that.
38:07
You know, that's something we might have to look into is get into more coverage of college
38:10
hockey because, I mean, the only time I see college hockey is either local news or ESPN
38:16
when the final four happens or the frozen four.
38:19
So And and that's another problem with the marketing of hockey because, like, you're in
38:23
Minnesota.
38:23
That's the only time you see that.
38:25
Like, down here, we never see anything about college...
38:30
Like, people don't know it exists.
38:31
People don't know that people play college hockey.
38:33
We have one...
38:35
We have Liberty University, down here that...
38:40
I I think it's only one that has hockey, and that's Liberty.
38:44
Not Eddy.
38:45
You and the
38:46
Oh, that must be a university I'm not familiar with.
38:51
Carolina.
38:51
Of doctor Kura Hockey?
38:53
Yeah.
38:53
Okay.
38:54
Oh, I think of that as NDSU as...
38:56
Unless that's a different school.
38:58
Yeah.
38:59
Yeah.
39:00
No.
39:00
I I get what he's saying now.
39:02
Yeah.
39:02
I forgot where Paul's at, but, yeah, he's over there near Bubba and stuff.
39:06
So Yeah.
39:08
But...
39:08
Yeah.
39:09
Yeah.
39:09
The only time I really see college hockey coverage is, you know, definitely, you know,
39:14
ESPN when the when the playoffs are kicking in.
39:17
You know?
39:17
So that's something that, like you said, marketing, you know, you gotta market those
39:21
guys and, you know, it's definitely, you know...
39:25
Even, you know, like college baseball, you don't hear nothing about college baseball until
39:31
playoff times and stuff like that.
39:33
So Yeah.
39:34
And understandably so because, like, the money's in talking about the NFL.
39:38
Like, you can
39:39
make Yeah. That's how
39:39
Yeah.
39:40
That's how college football basketball
39:42
more money talking about the NFL in the offseason than you are the MLB when it's in
39:46
season.
39:47
Just the NFL is king, and I kind of...
39:49
It stunts everything else almost.
39:52
Yeah.
39:53
And...
39:53
Yep.
39:54
Oh, I got you on that.
39:57
So And I love the NFL as much as the next guy.
40:01
But Yeah.
40:05
Yeah.
40:05
You're right there.
40:06
I've looked at a baseball guy, but I think for me, fantasy football has got me more into being
40:11
a football guy than baseball, but, you know, definitely will watch my share of sports.
40:21
That's Well, with that being said, since there's not much going on, you know, I say we
40:29
just wrap it up for another week and check you all next week.
40:33
What do you say, Bev?
40:35
That's cool with me.
40:36
Hopefully, there's more interesting stuff to talk about.
40:38
Mean, it's just...
40:38
It's early season hockey right now.
40:40
There's not much going on.
40:42
No.
40:43
There's not much going on, but thank you guys for following us, and you'll see us all next
40:49
week on the crease report with the returning Buffalo.
40:52
So have a good one.