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- Jason Linkes: Coming up next on Back Checking the Bolts. think this is going to be a big game for the Lightning, just pure confidence wise. They went out in Seattle, they played a great game. They did what they had to do. They have to have that same mentality against Vancouver. Welcome to Back Checking the Bolts. Back Checking the Bolts is your cup of coffee to get you the latest on the Tampa Bay Lightning. Join host Jason Linkus and the managing editor of Raw Charge, Justin Godfrey, as they break down the Lightning's most recent games and go beyond the highlights, telling you what the box scores didn't. It's time to drop the puck. Hi everybody. Jason link is here. Welcome to the back checking the bolts podcast. It is Wednesday, right after a late night in Seattle where the Tampa Bay lightning were victorious by a score of six to two. As always here on the podcast, I am joined by the managing editor of raw charge. You can see him at www.rodcharge.com. He is Justin Godfrey. Justin. That was a pretty lightning esque performance last night. What were your thoughts? Yeah, I think for kind of the first time since the Olympic break, saw the lightning that we saw before the break. they know that one that went 21-1-1. They dominated pretty much from the start of the drop of the first puck all the way through the game. There was some hiccups in the second period, but again, you know, no game's perfect. No coaches ever admitted to seeing his team play a perfect game. But I thought they weathered that storm pretty well. Came back out in the third period and dominated, kind of extended their lead. And just a really nice game to see they control the pace of the play. They dictated their terms and the end of it, they had that nice 62 victory. Thanks in part to their best players being their best players. you talked about the best players being the best players, Sorelli, Hagel and Kucherov stole the show. Kucherov with a five point night, a hat trick, worked his way all the way up in the second place in the NHL scoring race. But I gotta say. Kuturov was the beneficiary. is some great passing, especially from Brandon Hagel. Yeah. I mean, they really clicked. It's an interesting mix on that line with you basically have two grinders in Sorelli and Hagel. And then you have the best playmaker in the game right now and Kuturov playing with them. When they're on it's a pretty thing to watch. The two on one that Hagel and Kutroth put together was really pretty. And then at the end, you know, I think it was the Kutroth's second goal. It was a great pass from, from, ⁓ Cirelli. And I don't think it was as easy as a goal people realize. The majority of Kutroth's body is basically behind the goal line by the time he gets the puck and he just, you know, his, his thickest dragon behind him, he's able to tuck it in. So it was really nice play. When those guys are on it's, it's, it's really poetry in motion. think that's how Cooper described him a couple of games ago, just watching the things he does. And now that his line mates are vibing with him really right now, it's just, it's hard to contain. And it's such a nice thing that he's able to go down onto that second line and be as productive as he is. Freeze up Gensel and point to do what they do. It was just a really good game where all four lines contributed, but yeah, Kuturov was, you know, a little bit of magic as usual. we looked back at the losses, Columbus, Caroline on the last home stand, the one thing that felt like the Lightning were doing were playing a 200 foot game. In this game. It was their four check that stole the show. There were three goals specifically off of the four check. They shortened the ice. They turned it into a 90 foot game instead of a 200 foot game. Tell us a little bit about that for check. But when you do, you had told me before that the Corey Perry line, even though they weren't on the score sheet was a vital part of this game. us about that. Yeah. We'll start with, ⁓ kind of the first goal, honestly. It's the brain poi lines out there. Seattle has a chance to clear the puck. Gage can call the Gonsalves and Darren Radish kind of steps up at the offensive blue line. Gonsalves comes over. create a turnover along the boards. Gensel brings it out, passes it the point who then hits Gonsalves down low. But that was kind of the way it was all night is the forecheck was in there. They were disrupting Seattle. What we've seen since the break with the Lightning is their inability to get the puck out of their own zone. And they kind of flipped the script with Seattle all night long, especially in the first period. Seattle struggled to get the puck out. And a big part of that was that Corey Perry line, that fourth line. They didn't register a point on the night, but I think if I remember correctly, their shot advantage was 11-0. The Lightning were up 11-0 when they're on the ice. So they literally gave Seattle no chances. And that kind of, that turns the ice because what it does is it wears out the defense. It keeps the Seattle pinned back. And then you can bring out the Cirelli line. You can bring out the point line and they're automatically already in the offensive, but those bottom lines really did a great job. ⁓ the Gord line did what the Gord line does. ⁓ they were in on the forward check causing turnovers, keeping the puck in cycling it down low. And then, like I said, it sets it up for those, ⁓ top scoring lines to ever really nice advantage when they jump on the ice. the last podcast, we had mentioned that the lightening group probably have to keep this game simple against Seattle. Seattle likes to clog up the neutral zone. They're not a team that takes a lot of chances in this game. The shots were 25 to 18 in favor of Tampa at the end of this game. But I want to go to a quote that Seattle coach Lane Lambert said, and he said, I thought we played a good game, except we made catastrophic mistakes. And you don't see coaches say it quite that way. He felt that they held their own with the lightning, but it was those turnovers that really changed the pace of this game. think, uh, like one of the big ones I want to say was the second goal is the, um, two trials first where. You know, Hagel, he steals the puck on a simple breakout again. This isn't rocket science that they're doing is, ⁓ you know, Hagel's in on the four check. He forces a quick pass. And then I want to say was Ben Myers with the puck and Kutrov just picks his pocket right in the center of the ice, right at the top of the slot. They work a two-on-one down low. It's that pretty back and forth passing that kind of drives us nuts when it doesn't work. We also talked last period about them passing up opportunities, right? And it's one of those, if that goes bad. That's another why Esposito is, you know, screaming at the top of the lungs. Why don't you shoot the puck? But instead, know, know, Grubauer has no chance. I think he's somewhere in Astoria by the time Kuturov puts it into the net, just with a deep back and forth. And, and, again, that, that's based off of the defense first, right? You know, it's not a transition play. It's not a breakaway play. It's a play that started with a good defensive play by both Hegel and Kuturov. So when you get back to those basics, that's when the Lightning are. what we would refer to as the lightning. They made Seattle play the entire ice all night long. And you see what happens when they play like that. other quote that lane Lambert said is he never saw so many tic tac toe passes in his life. And that was reminiscent of the lightning goals. gotta say group hour gave up five for Seattle. Really? There was not much he could do on any of them. Yeah. Maybe the hagel goal on the, on the power play, but Other than that, I'm not really sure if there's another goal he could have really stopped. that one was, you know, that was Kuturov getting the puck. He, I think they mentioned it on the broadcast. It was a TNT broadcast and it was, it was basically a Kuturov love show for most of the game. So any lightning fan that says national media doesn't like the lightning did not watch that game. Cause I mean, they loved the way Kuturov was playing, but Kuturov gets the puck. knows he's already going down to games, but Konsab is down low. And he would surpass down there and Gonsalves, you know, this is a kid who's starting to play with some confidence. He fires that plus right back to Hagel. Hagel buries a shot. Like you said, I don't think, yeah, Gruber didn't have a chance on pretty much any of those goals. It was just great, you know, kind of team win. think you build off of this. You're going to go, you know, you three more games left on this road trip. You kind of help yourself out because everyone chasing them, I think pretty much either picked up a point or one. So you keep that gap, but you burn another game off the calendar right now. And right now that's kind of just as important as winning is just getting these games off the calendar and getting to the end of the season. Justin, this segment we're going to call the back checking the bolts star of the night. think we all know who it is. It's hard to get, not give it to the guy who had the hat trick, but Justin, who is our star of the night? Yeah. I mean, you got to go into Kito Gruterov. You know, he was just all over the ice. I think he led the team in shots as well. He had the three goals. You know, third one did come on an empty net and I don't think there's anyone in this league that scores. empty netters with more disdain on his face than Nikita Kuturov. If he could have passed that to somebody, would have, he would have passed that putt 70 feet backwards just to not score that goal. But he does get it ⁓ kind of a nice hat tip, if you will, for his hat trick. Cause he had a really great game. I talked about the broadcast earlier. They, they pointed out like as good as he played, he was super frustrated in the first period. He had a couple passes, I think on the, on the back to back power plays that didn't go his way. You know, he skates over the ice and he slams his stick on the ice. Like he wasn't happy with the way he was playing early on, which is kind of amazing for a guy. Like you said, that ends up with five points. So just kind of points to the fact of how dedicated he is to this game, how much pressure he puts on himself. know, a lot of people talk about him, you know, complaining and his body language. A lot of times he's not mad at his teammates when this stuff happens. He's mad at himself. When he, when a play doesn't come off like he wants it to, you know, he thinks everything he does should be perfect. And when it doesn't happen, you know, he gets up down on himself. He's gotten a lot better about not letting it affect his game. Cause you know, maybe six, seven years ago, he has a bad first period like this and he's, takes himself mountly out for most of the night. Instead this, you know, this game, he basically ends up shrugging it off after he breaks his stick and comes out and throws up four more points. He's going to be a hall of Famer. He's got that 1,100 points already. know, God knows where he's going to end up by the time he's done. Cause his game's not going to struggle to age. I don't think he doesn't play at a high speed and it's all. pretty much mental. So as long as he stays healthy, you know, you're looking at a guy who could put up 1500 points, no problem. Justin injuries have been a storyline for the Lightning all year. After this one, it appears they came out unscathed. Is that still the case? As far as I know? Yeah. Didn't seem anybody missed any time. There was nothing after the game mentioning any injuries. Gergensen's was kind of a question mark going into the game. He had blocked a shot up high, but you know, he practiced before they jumped on the plane. He was out there. They rolled. You know, all four lines, the defense stayed healthy, looked pretty good. You know, there was a couple of changes in the mat in the pairings, but we've seen that over the last couple of days defensively, you know, with McDonough playing with this dude or something like that. Headman's play played with both Radish and Moser kind of throughout the game. It's almost like a rotation going on, but enough, everything looked pretty healthy. So that's good news for once. It looks like the guys should need to go put in a back to back lineup. You know, that continuity really helps as you try and get in a, get in shape for the playoffs. This was the first game of a four game road trip started in Seattle with the six to win on Thursday. They traveled just a little further north up interstate five to Vancouver for a 10 o'clock start on Saturday. They go over to Northern Alberta to take on the oilers for a 10 o'clock start. And then Sunday, a little further south, Justin, you and I've made the trip before drive right through red deer back to Calgary for an eight o'clock start on Sunday. So this is. The first of a chance for them to really, I want to say rectify themselves, but the lightning were struggling. They had not been great since coming off of the Olympic break. think their confidence might've been a little bit shot and this is a chance for them to get their mojo back. But Justin, let's talk about this game coming up against Vancouver. Vancouver is not just bad. They're really bad. They are 11 points shy of the team. That's 31st in the standings. Vancouver is dead last. On the penalty kill 22nd on the power play their best offensive player, Elias Pedersen went 20 games without scoring a goal. finally got off the Schneid with two the other night against Florida. Tell us a little bit about this Vancouver team and is it as bad as it looks? Usually I would try and find some silver lining here. And I guess the best thing we can say is that they've won twice since the trade deadline, but yeah, it's just. It's kind of a lost season. You know, they lost, uh, Thatcher Demko early in the year. He hasn't played for him. He's on, you know, long-term injury right now. He's not going to play the rest of regular season. Just kind of felt like they got off to that off on the wrong foot. To their credit, they decided fairly early on that this wasn't going to be their year and they were going to blow it up. So they made that big Quinn Hughes deal, brought in some young talent. Uh, then they traded off Kiefer Sherwood and then a couple more trades at the deadline. So to their credit. They, they saw how this was going and realized that it was time to capture some of the chips that they had. Yeah. They're just not a good team. I mean, you want to get into more analytics about it. And like I said, find a silver lining, but no, they're just a bad hockey team. mean, you're a lightning fan, was Lou Holtz. was back in the day with Notre Dame. Yeah. We're going to be playing the Wilford beauty Academy. Well, you know, Darlene, she's really good with the scissors and you know, I think she can make a 25 yard field goal. We're going to be lucky to win. mean, Lou Holtz was the king of that. Yeah. All that being said though, I mean, the lightning can't just go out there and expect a win. We've seen that in the past. Some lightning teams when they've played some, some other opponents that are down on their luck, you know, they kind of maybe don't focus as much. ⁓ think this is going to be a big game for the lightning. Just pure confidence wise. They went out in Seattle. They played a great game. They did what they had to do. They have to have that same mentality against Vancouver. And if they're out there, you know, and if they run up to score five, nothing, six, nothing, so be it. I mean, you can't take your foot off the gas right now. They need these two points. ⁓ the wind was nice. You know, it kept them abreast of the playoffs standing and kept them in second place. But you know, Montreal is right behind them. Detroit's right behind them. They can't afford to take any games off with them blowing this cushion after the playoffs. They put this, put themselves in this position where they have to go out and get as many points as they can until they clinch. Vancouver, you got young guys playing for next year for spots on the roster, know, a guy like Marco Rossi. This is our second line center. I he's got four goals in their last 10 games. He came over in that Quinn Hughes trade. He's a guy who's, who wants to be a number one center. That's part of the reason he's there. So these guys are, they're not going to sit back and say, Oh my God, it's the Tampa Bay Lightning. They're going to run all over us. Here's your win. You know, they're going to have to come out and play. So I'd like to see the Lightning come out. do the same thing they did against Seattle where they established that early for check. get on the board first and then just make Vancouver play the entire length of the ice. Justin, it wasn't that long ago that the Vancouver Canucks won the Pacific division. Rick Tocket was their head coach. had JT Miller there. They had Elias Pedersen playing at an elite level. What happened to this organization that it fell apart this quickly? Normally you see a team fall back a little bit. They went from being the top in the Pacific to literally being the doormat of the league. It's hard for that to happen that quickly. Yeah. I think it's just a, you know, a bunch of factors in there from reports that you read online and stuff. don't think the relationship between Miller and Elias Pettersson was that great. ⁓ and that may be underselling it a little bit. ⁓ you know, talk, goes to Philly and I don't know if Adam, if that's a good coach or not, but he seems to be more of an old school kind of guy. And maybe that's just not meshing. Yeah, injuries players not playing up to their expectations. They just not scoring a lot of goals. And I think they're just in a point now that if your best players aren't going to put the puck in the net, it's hard to win in this league. They do have the chance to kind of come back. I don't think it's going to be too hard for them to kind of rebound out in the Pacific. So we'll see how they do next year. Justin, it's your favorite part of the podcast. Yes, it is. It's the nurture marketing. Trivia question of the day. Thanks to nurture marketing, we are going to give away a Nikita Kucherov Jersey to one lucky fan. All you have to do, listen to this question, send us the answer to back checking the bolts at yahoo.com. And if your name is drawn at the end of the month, you can win that Nikita Kucherov Jersey compliments of nurture marketing. Justin, I think you'll do pretty well at this one. In Tampa Bay lightning history, who are the top five players in career short-handed goals? All right. Marty St. Louis. Easy. Number one. That is 28 shorties. Anthony. Number two, 17. This is like the Casey case in top 40 and working our way down. Here's number three. Can I get a little, is Brandon Hagel on there? Brandon Hagel is ninth. Ninth? Wow. six. Six, okay, so wow. All Here's our long distance dedication and it starts, Dear Casey. Number three. ⁓ Dabkoff didn't kill a lot of penalties though, that's, I can't put him on there. He is actually 15th. Yeah. With He just didn't kill penalties. I'm trying to think of guys that kill penalties a lot and it's, you know. I know so really, I know, um, you know, the two easy ones were the, well, the two easy ones. let's see number three, number five. What era did number three play in? he current number three was in the nineties. nineties. Yes. Think captain. Um, is it Bradley? Brian Bradley? No. Brian Bradley is not in the top 20 Rob Zamner. you go. Number 14, 14 shorties. Now you got number four has 13 shorties and number five has nine. Is Freddie Modine in there? Freddie Modine had three in his career. No, that's it. I thought he had more than that. Defensive player, three short hand and it goes, what's going on? And I'm just going to a guy that you and I've talked about in the past. Darcy Tucker also has three. could have swore he would have been much higher on that list because he a lot of penalties in the nineties. but he was also in the penalty box a lot. know, it's, that's true. Kind of hard to kill a penalty when they're killing them for you. You know, it's a tux. All right. So number, so we're looking for number four, number four, number five. One was a number one draft pick for the lightning. And the other one was an undrafted free agent. The Tyler Johnson, number five Tyler Johnson, number five with eight. then actually it is eight. think I said nine earlier, but the fact that I probably need reading glasses, probably the reason I missed that one. So Tyler Johnson with eight at number five and number four, did LaCavier get enough to see him a short time? Wow. So number four was on the list. Yeah. I, yeah, I kind of forget. He killed, he killed more penalties than I thought he did. So my boy Vinny LaCavier. So for everyone playing at home, email back checking the bolts at yahoo.com and you can give one of five names. Number one was Martin San Luis. Number two, Anthony Sorelli, number three, Rob Xaminar, number four, Vincent LeCavier and number five was Tyler Johnson. Email one of those names to back check the bolts at yahoo.com for your chance to win the Nikita Kucherov Jersey compliments of nurture marketing. Justin, it's time to take a look around the NHL and it's the Edmonton Oilers who've been making a lot of news. First of all, head coach Chris Knobloch came out in the news earlier this week and said, Tristan Jarre, you are no longer going to be our number one goaltender. It's going to be Connor Ingram. Tristan Jarre has been awful since he went to Edmonton. He's seven and six with a 4.17 goals against average. His safe percentage is just over 85%. I guess a couple things, Justin, is this long overdue for one and two general manager Stan Bowman made this trade for Tristan Jarre, despite the fact that Jarre had been sent to the miners multiple times with the Pittsburgh Penguins over the course of the last year is his job on the line. Yeah, I think if Edmonton's out. As much as you want to blame the current GM, I mean, this has been a problem since McDavid's been in the league as far as finding the right goaltender for the Oilers, someone they can rely on, someone who's a true number one. Stuart Skinner was great for him. So that's why it was kind of surprising to see him in this trade. And I think they kind of got swayed by the fact, you know, Yari had some success early in his career, but he hasn't been the same goaltender the last few years, even when he was in Pittsburgh. So I think just that overall struggle to find the right guy in that it seems like every year it's somebody else kind of coming out of nowhere to at least be good enough for them to make it to the playoffs, know, skinner for many of those years. But yeah, if you look back since, you know, what 2015 16 when McDavid started their goaltending it's a, it's a cast of characters. You might have Mike Smith, the Mike Smith of the world, you know, Miko Koiskanen. Uh, let's see who else is on a cam Talbot play 200 games for them. Anders Nilsson, I've got Anthony Stollers was there for a while. know, Laurent Purceau, Jack Campbell, Jonas Gustafsson. You know, these, they just never found the right guy for him. You know, your, top five goalies during the McDavid-Hare or Skinner in the hundred wins, know, with Camp Talbot at a hundred wins. Koskinen's third with 83, Mike Smith, 56, Calvin Pickard with 39. mean, those aren't exactly- Mike Smith is fourth? With the, yeah, he, so he played in 99 games with him. actually was really good for him. Um, so he started 94 years, 56 and 27, know, 0.913 save percentage, 2.7, no, um, goals against. yeah, he was really good. think injuries kind of ended up and then that contract he signed kind of derailed him a little bit, but yeah, Sonner Ingram coming in. Ingram, you know, he used to be part of the Lightning Organization and, Had his issues while he was here. It wasn't the greatest departure on his terms, but he, he's a kid who's gone through a lot. He's been very open about his struggles with living with OCD. He's been in the program a couple of times with the NHL, but they gave him the keys and he's, you know, he's been fairly steady for him. ⁓ since he's taken over the Nets. We'll see if he's going to be another one these guys who comes out of nowhere to help them make the playoffs. But yeah, it's just the whole goaltending cut thing in Edmonton's weird. That they've never just gone out and said, Hey, this is a number one guy. Um, we're going to make him our, know, they're, they're always trying to kind of duct tape it together a little bit. guess part of that though, too, though, is in fairness to Edmonton, they've had to invest a lot of money in McDavid, dry side, old Bouchard. They have some players, skill players who are making a lot of money. So at some point you're going to have to say, we're going to have to pinch a penny here or there to stay under the cap. Now with this many goaltenders, I agree with you. I'm surprised they haven't pulled the trigger to get a bigger name. I actually thought they might try to get Bob Rossky at the deadline. Cause you would say, Hey, it's an expiring contract. can throw them in there, especially with the. Goaltending situation that they have there right now. Edmonton is one and done in the playoffs, especially after making it the two consecutive finals, not being able to see it all the way through. think heads are going to start the role. This is going to be one of these really interesting teams. Let's say they limp into the playoffs and you know, they are leading the division right now, believe it or not. And that's probably their saving grace is that they're in the Pacific, but say they limp into the playoffs and they get steamrolled by Colorado in the first round or steamrolled by whoever they have to match up against. Then, you know, Nauvlock's probably gone. Then you start looking farther up and then it becomes a question for the next general manager is how do you rebuild this team with McDavid? This is a team that's getting older every minute. Uh, dry sidles hurt. He's not a spring chicken anymore. So if you're looking at the goaltending, do you go to somebody like, yes, for a wall stead and say, go to Minnesota and be like, here's a couple of prospects. Here's some picks, uh, to help you out. We'll take him off your hands. Cause you got Gustav Fasin. It's your number one and make wall set your number one pick. Goaltending again, to not simplify something, but they need a solid answer in net for them to get anywhere near where they want to go. And they kind of patchwork their way. to the end of the cup finals the last two years. But a lot of that is McDavid and Dry Settle just throwing the team on their back and dragging them through bad goaltending plays. So they need somebody in net that they could trust. Yari wasn't the guy. For some reason, they thought Skinner wasn't the guy. thought, you know, he had his ups and downs, but for the most part, he was fairly solid for him. yeah, we'll see. I think they're going to be the most intriguing team this off season just to see where they go at this point in their development. other news that you had mentioned Leon Dry Settle's injury. Is that injury he is out for the rest of the regular season. They're hoping to get him back for the playoffs. I'm going to ask you this question in two parts. I don't think dry cycle. If he's not back for the playoffs, I don't see them winning around. think McDavid is going to be too easily defended. He's the toughest player in the league to defend, but in the playoffs, you're going to see multiple matchups against him. That's going to really stifle the Oilers offense. So first question in your opinion, can they win around with how dry sidle and two, he's the fourth leading scorer in the league. They're replacing him with Jason Dickinson, who's now moving up to second line center. He's got 15 points and 55 games. Yeah. The oil is done. I mean, it'd be tough. I'm never going to say no. Um, again, he got the best player on the planet for a seven game series. McDavid goes off no matter how much. I mean, he's a guy you can game plan all you want against Connor McDavid. Um, and you can say, all right, we're going to shut him down and we're going to let, let Jack Russell beat us. It doesn't matter if McDavid is all one of his terrors. You can't stop him. He's one of the few players, um, kind of in that Mariela Mew kind of phase where you can do whatever you want. You're not going to slow this man down. So could he carry them through a first round win? Yeah. Is it likely? Probably not. Uh, one thing, you know, kind of did a brief look into the stats here. The third line of dry side all. uh, Casperi-Kappen and Pesilie, uh, Pudkolzin. They had a 12 to three edge in goal scored when the Edmund Oilers had a 12 to three edge in goal scored when that trio was on the ice. mean, that's a huge advantage for a second line right there. So taking him off, that was a line that they've been using a lot recently, taking him off. Like you mentioned, they moved the Dickinson line up to the second line. So it was a nice trade and I think Jason Dickinson's great as a depth piece, but is he your number two center? If that's the case. That's going be kind of tough. You're going to need someone like ⁓ Russell Bate to score. You're going to need Ryan Nugent Hopkins to score. Can they count on that in a playoffs against a good team? It's going to be tough. So are they done done? I think they're on life support, but I wouldn't say they're done done just yet. Not time to read the last rights just yet. the third story of this week is the World Cup of hockey is coming back. They announced the sites, Calgary, Edmonton, Prague. They're going to host in 2028. Calgary is going to be moving into their new arena. Is this another U S Canada final again? Uh, mean, probably. So he was always going to have that say in there. Um, but I think they're kind of core is getting a little older. The big question is, uh, you know, is Russia going to be allowed into this tournament? This is an NHL tournament, so they don't have to abide by any sanctions from the IIHF. So there is a possibility that Russia could play, you know, guys like Kuturov. And Vassalice could finally get their taste at a best on best tournament. Still to be determined who the A-teams are going to be. So we're, yeah. You know, it's the NHL, right? They get something good, they're going to bash the heck out of it and throw it down as much as they can. So we saw it with the outdoor games. The winter classic was nice. So now let's play 17 outdoor games every season. So we're going to see that with international hockey. It is going to be fun. It does set them up on a nice rotation where every two years there's going to be some sort of international tournament. So this is going to kind of be the one between the Olympics every four years. have the world cup every four years. Again, you're going to have another compressed schedule because I believe that's going to be scheduled for February of 2028. But yeah, I think you're, you're looking at the rubber match between the U S and Canada right now. So we can start thinking about rosters. The sad part is that unlike 2016 doesn't sound like they're going to have. kind of that Young Guns team that they put together for Team North America. You know, was just a treat to watch, you know, all the young kids play together, but it doesn't sound like that's going to be an option moving forward. So that's kind of a shame for the Macklin Celebrinis and some of the young kids, know, Gavin McKenna, when he comes into the league, they're not going to get that taste, but yeah, it should be fun. Fun to watch, you know. Prague's a great city. I enjoyed my time when we went over and visited there. So Justin, tell us what's going on at Raw Charge. ⁓ just kind of keep on meandering here through the end of the season. We posted a couple of things ⁓ over the last couple of days, you know, took a look at Dylan Duke as a prospect, kind of started our little college watch. We'd mentioned taking a little deeper dive into Jack Harvey and if he's ready to make that trip from college to pros. And then we actually had one of our former managing editors, Atria, for those folks that have been around a little while sat down and spoke with Julie DiCarlo from Chicago. talked about the U S men's team a little bit, ⁓ know, delved off of the normal topic with Hoppy hockey, and then went into kind of some of the reactions we saw from the U S's celebration and their, their post-gold medal antics. Just having fun over there talking about hockey and we're going to keep plowing through. We'll, we'll preview the Edmonton and Vancouver Kings coming up, how important it is for the Lightning. Checking on the crunch and just do all that stuff we do over at Raw Charge. You can find all this information and more at www.rawcharge.com. The back checking the bolts podcast will be back on Friday when we recap the game on Thursday night against the Vancouver Canucks and we'll preview the weekend back to back at Edmonton on Saturday and at Calgary on Sunday. For Justin Godfrey, the managing editor of raw charge. am Jason link is. Thank you very much for joining us today. Please hit that like and subscribe button on YouTube or whatever podcast platform you use. Go Bolts. Go Bolts. Thank you for listening to Back Checking the Bolts. We are free and available on all platforms including Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon, YouTube, and Deezer. If you enjoyed it, please be sure to subscribe and leave a review. You can follow Justin on bluesky at rawcharge.com. You can follow the show on X at Tampa. and on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube at Backchecking the Bolts. 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