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5-19-26 Hour 3 - Biggest advantage & weakness for Avs/OKC hasn't faced adversity/Avs need to test Carter Hart · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Kane on demand.
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  Speaker 1: Natures Far Circle, Natures Good time for two.
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  Speaker 3: These go.
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  Speaker 4: And you don't him to go home, but you can't
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  Speaker 4: stay here because of this series is over.
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  Speaker 1: Quick, too late.
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  Speaker 4: With a bomb his first overtime winner in his career
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  Speaker 4: in the Colorado Avalanche our stamen right in to the
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  Speaker 4: Western Conference Final for the first time six twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 5: All right, word day away from the Western Conference Finals
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  Speaker 5: starting this weight has been rudal.
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  Speaker 1: I hate it, really hate it.
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't imagine being a Hurricanes fan right now where
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  Speaker 5: you got like two weeks in between games. The hell
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  Speaker 5: are you gonna do over there? Just sitting there being like,
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  Speaker 5: get these series over with.
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  Speaker 1: But most all of these different things that you've written.
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  Speaker 6: I've got something for you.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, hey, Vic.
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  Speaker 3: The Hurricanes wait time for this series is the longest
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  Speaker 3: since when.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, since the advent of the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 6: Since World War two, I have since nineteen nineteen World
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  Speaker 6: War one, right after World War One. It's World War
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  Speaker 6: One ended in nineteen eighteen.
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  Speaker 3: Brett, God, you don't know anything about world history nineteen nineteen.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean, it's basically World War I don't
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  Speaker 6: know nothing.
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  Speaker 7: That's the Black Sox scandal that happened in nineteen nineteen.
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  Speaker 7: You know what else happened in nineteen nineteen before Aaron
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  Speaker 7: Raye won the PGA Championship.
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  Speaker 1: The last time an English call for won the.
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  Speaker 8: PGA was eighteen nineteen.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting, big talk to me again, Ooo, say something big,
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  Speaker 3: say something.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I'm okay, you need to reset your thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got a little little robotics going on there, but.
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  Speaker 3: That's insane. Yeah, over one hundred years ago. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: they've been waiting for quite a long time. But can
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  Speaker 3: you feel it coming?
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  Speaker 6: Boys?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, come on, man, it's tomorrow night. Is Game
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  Speaker 3: one of the Western Conference Final. Early start time, six
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  Speaker 3: o'clock start time tomorrow. But this is gonna be This
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  Speaker 3: is gonna be good. Regular season, the Avs were two
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  Speaker 3: zero to one against Vegas. Two of the games went
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  Speaker 3: beyond regulation. The AVS won one in regulation. That was
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  Speaker 3: Halloween when Ryker and I remember we Rker and I
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  Speaker 3: dressed up and he looked like Tommy Lee and all
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  Speaker 3: that crap in Vegas. Kyle War remember Kyle War the
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  Speaker 3: at the Dragon into the stands.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: Game two, just after Christmas, Alves win in Vegas in
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  Speaker 3: a shootout, and then Vegas wins in overtime in the
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  Speaker 3: season final.
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  Speaker 8: Every game has been tight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I expect nothing less.
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  Speaker 8: I mean I think it's gonna be tight to.
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  Speaker 6: Him, tight, tight, tight. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Where do the Aps have the biggest advantage? Where's their
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  Speaker 5: biggest weakness in this series?
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  Speaker 6: Uh, that's a great question.
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  Speaker 3: One thing that Vegas has done, not more than anybody
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  Speaker 3: this postseason, but right up there with the with the tops.
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  Speaker 6: Is they hit.
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  Speaker 3: So in twelve games they've got four hundred and eighteen hits,
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  Speaker 3: the average over thirty five hits per game. The Avs
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  Speaker 3: face that in the first run. Remember the Kings they
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  Speaker 3: had north of fifty remember that, Yes, you're like.
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  Speaker 6: Fifty two hits. What the hell are you talking?
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  Speaker 3: So the Abs have faced at the Abs are averaging
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  Speaker 3: twenty eight hits per game. I look at the Vegas
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  Speaker 3: lineup if you just want to go by centers, top
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  Speaker 3: line center is Jack Eikel a terrific players?
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  Speaker 6: A great player? Is McKinnon better?
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  Speaker 8: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, second line center William Carlson and missed a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time.
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  Speaker 8: He's back.
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  Speaker 6: Wild Bill's back.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I know brock Nelson only has two goals in the postseason.
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  Speaker 3: Is Nelson better than Carlson?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, yes, I'll give them.
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  Speaker 6: I'll give the edge to Broun.
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  Speaker 5: Now Brock needs to figure it out. Brock's got to
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  Speaker 5: get on the Tallas sheet here. A little too quiet
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  Speaker 5: for Brock Nelson in the first couple of rounds.
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  Speaker 6: That that line itself.
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  Speaker 3: Val is affecting the game in different ways, and Brock
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  Speaker 3: is as well.
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  Speaker 6: Don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Defensively he's been fine, great in the face off circle
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  Speaker 3: and so on. You'd like to see the offense crank up.
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  Speaker 3: Kadri Is he better than Tomash Hurtle? I think right
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  Speaker 3: now it's probably a wash. But okay, I could see that.
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  Speaker 3: And then Drury better than Dowd. Yeah, I can see
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  Speaker 3: I can see that. Although that fourth line for the
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  Speaker 3: Vegas Golden Knights, they will they're they're gonna be on
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  Speaker 3: your jock all series long. Now, if you're talking about
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  Speaker 3: top heavy, that's where Vegas is this postseason.
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  Speaker 6: They've been top heavy. A lot of guys have gotten points.
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  Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong, but the vast majority of their
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  Speaker 3: points are coming from just a couple three guys.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, four guys.
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  Speaker 7: You didn't mention Mark Stone? Where does he stand in
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  Speaker 7: all this? Did not practice yesterday. I don't believe that
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  Speaker 7: Vegas is practicing today. I think they just have media
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  Speaker 7: availability at their hotel.
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  Speaker 6: Here in Denver, so Vic.
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  Speaker 3: He's not going to play Game one, and neither's Jeremy
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  Speaker 3: los On.
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  Speaker 6: They're they're both gonna be out.
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  Speaker 7: My biggest worry and obviously you worry. There's a big
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  Speaker 7: difference between worry and all out doom. I worry about
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  Speaker 7: things like this is how effective will Kal be able
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  Speaker 7: to be? He's not going to be one hundred percent?
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  Speaker 7: We know this, all right, let's not pretend that he is.
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  Speaker 7: We know this, But what percentage will we play? And
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  Speaker 7: will he be able to do? Kale like things?
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  Speaker 6: I love you?
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  Speaker 7: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Hang on motion. Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 5: The Kale question is of the utmost importance. If you listen, man,
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  Speaker 5: you have one of the what would you put him in?
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  Speaker 5: Top four best players in the world? I mean, depending
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  Speaker 5: on who you ask, where would you put him?
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  Speaker 1: Pop?
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  Speaker 3: What he's up there? I mean you got mcpickles, you
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  Speaker 3: got McKinnon. I mean, but but kill mccallr with what
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  Speaker 3: he does. Yeah, dude, he's he's he's right there.
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  Speaker 1: So you have that and listen.
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  Speaker 5: The Kale question about his health is one that it
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  Speaker 5: quite honestly terrifies me because this isn't somebody who's just
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  Speaker 5: a good player. He affect every second of the game.
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  Speaker 5: He's on five on five, he's on four on four,
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  Speaker 5: he's on penalty kill, he's on power play. He is
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  Speaker 5: a huge part of your offense. He's a huge part
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  Speaker 5: of your defense. But if he can't go out there
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  Speaker 5: and play his full game, which is go out, take hits,
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  Speaker 5: deliver hits, do all that stuff without having in the
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  Speaker 5: back of his head if I taken Nick on my shoulder,
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  Speaker 5: am I gonna drop my stick and run back to
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  Speaker 5: the bench again, how effective can you be?
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  Speaker 1: You can't.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm not saying he would play scared, but he
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  Speaker 5: would play cautiously about well.
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  Speaker 7: He got to the point that last game where he
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  Speaker 7: wouldn't even shoot because that hurt too much. Yeah, am
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  Speaker 7: I still robotic.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on.
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  Speaker 8: It's on your end.
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  Speaker 7: Then clearly, try different things. It's clearly, and so get
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  Speaker 7: your guys to fix it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we'll do our best.
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  Speaker 6: But he has to know something.
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  Speaker 8: You know something.
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  Speaker 3: This this would be if I was in Winnipeg right now,
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  Speaker 3: there would be a fight.
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  Speaker 7: You understand that most How often does my end cause trouble?
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  Speaker 7: I've got the finest equipment in the world, with unlimited internet,
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  Speaker 7: the ability.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe your wife is downloading some giant file or something.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know what.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, okay, whatever it takes good.
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  Speaker 5: All I was gonna say was Kale has to be
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  Speaker 5: at you know, sort of peak form.
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  Speaker 1: If not, then I don't know what you like. At
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  Speaker 1: what point mode? Would you consider.
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  Speaker 5: If he was in the same shape, which he's not
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  Speaker 5: going to be, but just hypothetically, if.
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  Speaker 1: He was in the shape, same shape that he was
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  Speaker 1: when he came back.
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  Speaker 5: From the locker room at the end of game five,
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  Speaker 5: would you play him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that does you any good.
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  Speaker 6: So what you're saying these are wasted minutes.
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  Speaker 8: If he's.
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  Speaker 3: To take a hit or to take a shot, let
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  Speaker 3: me rephrase that. Are you worried about him blowing up further?
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  Speaker 3: Or are you worried about these are wasted minutes effective
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  Speaker 3: because he can't be effected.
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  Speaker 5: It's effectiveness, it's it's the same way I felt. And
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  Speaker 5: I'll repeat this again about Aaron Gordon when he was
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  Speaker 5: trying to play through his calf injury. I give him
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  Speaker 5: full credit for doing as much and putting his body
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  Speaker 5: on the line. When you have a calf injury, you're
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  Speaker 5: risking an achilles. Everybody knows it, and I give him
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  Speaker 5: full credit for being a warrior trying to play through it.
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  Speaker 5: But when you see or how about Christian Brown, same story,
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  Speaker 5: it is affecting your game to the point to where
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  Speaker 5: you are becoming detrimental to our success. I can't have that,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't know what point that would take for
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  Speaker 5: Cale to get there. And I'm not suggesting that you
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  Speaker 5: don't play him, don't get me wrong, simple hypothetical, But
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  Speaker 5: if he was in the position that he was at
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  Speaker 5: the end of game five, that's not helping you anymore.
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  Speaker 6: It's not well, we'll find out more today.
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  Speaker 3: I truly do not no, because he hasn't been on
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  Speaker 3: the ice since Game six, Yeah, last Wednesday. I mean
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  Speaker 3: he's been Vicky's been off the ice a full week.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure he's been bike riding and doing whatever he does.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know even know that we're gonna get an
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  Speaker 3: update from coach bed Nor today, but we'll see it practice.
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  Speaker 6: Who is and who's not on the ice.
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  Speaker 7: The unfortunate situation is this could be one of those
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  Speaker 7: long term either we sit you long term and you
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  Speaker 7: don't play for a while, or you just deal with
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  Speaker 7: the pain.
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  Speaker 5: Could be you know what, you were very popu r
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  Speaker 5: R two D two.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you chill out for a second. Okay, just
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  Speaker 3: chill out, do your thing. I guess it would be.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like Vic's version of an alien.
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  Speaker 6: An.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I would be a little less nervous if
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  Speaker 3: his whatever percentage he's at is mitigated by Sam Malinsky
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  Speaker 3: doing Sam Malinski. Sure, but I still don't know about Malinsky.
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  Speaker 3: Now he has been practicing, but again, hopefully he's okay.
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  Speaker 3: And then part of me is intrigued. And I'll tell
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  Speaker 3: you why. In the end of the game of game six,
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  Speaker 3: when you came back and tied it, and then in overtime,
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  Speaker 3: but especially at the end of regulation when the puck
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  Speaker 3: went up top, what.
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  Speaker 6: Did you see.
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  Speaker 3: For which which one the apps? When the puck goes
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  Speaker 3: up to the blue line on that six on five.
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  Speaker 1: What were you seeing people crashing at the net and.
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  Speaker 6: Who was banging that puck toward the net? Brent Burns?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, because Burns. If he gets it on the stake,
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  Speaker 5: it's gonna go at the next How.
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  Speaker 3: Many shot I don't know this guy. I gotta go
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  Speaker 3: back and look at it. Maybe somebody can do this.
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  Speaker 1: While we're at our break for you.
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  Speaker 3: How many shot attempts did Brent Burns have in the final.
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  Speaker 6: Three minutes three and a half minutes of regulation?
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm just talking shot attempts, Okay, Yeah, because he
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  Speaker 3: was bombing the puck. Part of he is intrigued to
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: watch the Biggins go. I mean, I almost want to
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: put a Vowel and Nelly a Gabe down there, right lecky.
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  Speaker 3: I almost want to put four guys who love to
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  Speaker 3: eat blue paint and let eighty four just bomb it
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  Speaker 3: to the front of the net and let God sort
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  Speaker 3: it out, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 6: Part of me is just intrigued by that, just to
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  Speaker 6: full on like a herd of rhinoceros at the front
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  Speaker 6: of the cage.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he is.
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  Speaker 5: He is not afraid to let one fly and here's
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  Speaker 5: what I love. If you need a shot of somebody
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  Speaker 5: getting a deflection, somebody getting their body in the way,
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  Speaker 5: getting a screen, getting a whatever. Brent Burns is gonna
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  Speaker 5: give you a chance at something, a rebound, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: He is not afraid to let it fly. But you
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  Speaker 3: know what, Koulik isn't either. I mean, all these guys
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  Speaker 3: will fire the puck. Manson Anson's got the hardest shot
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  Speaker 3: on the team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm watching beatbop boo.
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  Speaker 8: By the way, is this okay?
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  Speaker 7: No, I'm watching the replay of the Kulak goal, and
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing it from the vantage point of Connor McGahee
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  Speaker 7: and Mark Ryecroft in the broadcast booth.
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  Speaker 1: And I noticed something.
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  Speaker 7: So here comes Nietzschus around the goal, and as he
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  Speaker 7: makes his way around the goal, Ryecroft just to show
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  Speaker 7: you how a former player knows these things, and say,
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  Speaker 7: he already raised his hands in celebration.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like two seconds.
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  Speaker 8: Before the pass arrived.
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  Speaker 1: He saw it coming way before we all did. What's
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  Speaker 1: he looking at. He's looking like coming free on the
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  Speaker 1: other side.
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  Speaker 3: The best part about it is vic over time. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure fans in the stance can see that too.
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  Speaker 3: It's harder on television because you don't get the full ice,
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  Speaker 3: you don't get the full picture. But over time you'll
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  Speaker 3: you'll know that this is an unbelievably good chance because
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  Speaker 3: he sees one guy chasing Martin Nachiz, he sees Zucarella
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  Speaker 3: starting to slide over through the slot to pick up natures.
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  Speaker 3: He sees Drury blowing his guy up through the crease,
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  Speaker 3: and he sees Kulak he's opening his hips, and you
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  Speaker 3: know you're gonna get a great opportunity. I mean, this
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  Speaker 3: is setting up perfectly, but you can feel vic when
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: the most dangerous times are coming. You see it building
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  Speaker 3: seconds and seconds before as.
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  Speaker 7: We're being at the game, and having the vantage point
• 14:27
  Speaker 7: of the entire ice surface helps you. How dumb would
• 14:30
  Speaker 7: you have to be to leave that game early?
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  Speaker 6: Me, Mom, I leave game early.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Kyle texting me Vic sounds like a damn drunk robot.
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  Speaker 3: And then he sent me C three po, then two
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  Speaker 3: hell's that guy?
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea, and oh that's and that's I robot,
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  Speaker 1: I robot. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: keyword is rock. We'll announce our winner at nine to
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  Speaker 5: fifty five victors.
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  Speaker 3: Tad is cal mccarface, hey Nelly real quick, and this
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  Speaker 3: is gonna make Vic mad. They'll turn that up for
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: a second. Back in high school, like all the new
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  Speaker 3: wave chicks, like like the B fifty two is they
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  Speaker 3: all they all knew this stuff?
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  Speaker 6: Right you? Like, did you ever get into this.
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  Speaker 1: Nah? Do I get into the B fifty twos?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah like this?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Not really?
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  Speaker 6: No, No, So I got on.
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  Speaker 5: I know, I know, you do a killer impression of
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  Speaker 6: I do one. And my wife he hates it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like my Michael McDonald and my wife.
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  Speaker 6: My lovely wife hates it.
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  Speaker 1: I have to ask a question, please. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: it already.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you sound good.
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  Speaker 8: I want to ask this question.
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  Speaker 7: So last night, after regulation, the camera went straight to
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  Speaker 7: the Oklahoma City bench and Alex Caruso, who had himself
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  Speaker 7: a career game. The guy was spectacular, he really was.
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  Speaker 7: He saved Oklahoma City's bacon until he couldn't save it anymore.
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  Speaker 7: The camera goes to the bench, as it does every
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  Speaker 7: game you ever watch. Cameraman knows exactly what doing, follow
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  Speaker 7: the guys to the bench, get a shot of the
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  Speaker 7: circle on the bench, and then.
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  Speaker 8: Just pull out of there.
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: Caruso, for some reason, decided it was his role to
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: push the camera out of the little player circle, even
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: though not all the players had arrived yet. He said,
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: he sat down, a couple of other guys sat down,
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: and he pushed the camera out, and for some reason
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: and you tell me if I'm that bothered the hell
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: out of me.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: It really bothers me? What why? Why does it? Does
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: it bother you as much as it bothers me? And
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: why does he do that? Uh?
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: It feels like somebody, honestly that hasn't had to handle
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: a lot of adversity over the last couple of years.
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: So it wasn't even in adverse situation. I mean, they
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: were tied, they weren't losing.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: You know, I thought about this because I was watching
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: the game and it felt a lot like Nuggets playoff
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: series that I've watched over the past couple of years.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: But did you see that portion live?
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Did you see?
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, I saw. What was your immediate reaction.
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: When you do?
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: On professional?
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: I don't I don't think you're allowed to touch a
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: camera man, I don't know.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: But he pushed it back, not violently, but he just
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: like forcefully.
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: And I'm like, dude, I mean you every game, these
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: cameras are there every game.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: This is nothing new, dude, But this is nothing new.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: The reason I say that is because I've watched series
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: and I'm sure you guys have felt the same thing.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: You know, even maybe in the OKAC series from last year.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: The Nuggets would be in a game, they might even
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: have a couple of point lead, two, three point lead, whatever,
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: and it felt really difficult, like it felt not quite believable,
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: like frustrating almost, And I think that's what OKAC was.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: OKAC was never down big in the game. They had
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: leads at times, they had lead late, they had leads
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: in overtime, but it just felt like it was coming
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: easier towards the Spurs wrong there, Do you know what
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: I'm talking about? A team can have a lead and
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: still feel like they aren't in control of a game,
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: because it felt like san Antonio wasn't struggling with that,
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: even at times when they were trailing in it. And
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: I felt that way with the Nuggets over and over again.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: And I don't know if if what I'm saying makes sense,
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: but it's the best way I can describe it.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Most.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: It would be like a game in which the aves
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: are up to two to one or something, but.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: You just you feel like something bad's gonna happen.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: You have the lead, you're in control by the scoreboard,
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: but you know that the game just it doesn't have
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: the right feel to it. And maybe that's what Minnesota
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: felt against when playing the Aves in Game five. Yeah,
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: we got a lead, but but that sort of thing,
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: I don't know, And I think that's the frustration that
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: you see from Oklahoma City. And again, the hardest trek
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: that they had towards winning their championship last year was
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: the Nuggets, and that was against the team that had
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: three guys you can barely move. I just don't think
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: that they're a team that's faced adversity a lot. Yeah,
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: you know in San Antonio has their number.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: But yeah, that's true.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: But I'm talking about that specific act.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: Why do that?
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Well, Vic, I'm done telling you. I think he's frustrated. Vic,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: I need your help with who I need your help
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: on this in the NHL.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: So he takes it out on a photographer.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Mm hmm, yeah, I mean Jamal Murray was frustrating through
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: a towel in the middle of the court.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Y'all get yells at a ref go ahead motion.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: In the NHL, it's hard to if you can't get
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: a camera on the bench like that. You're not in guy,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you're not on the bench with
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: a guy doing this and all that kind of thing.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: In the NBA cameras during timeouts and whatnot are pretty
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: much allowed to roam all over the court. I now,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know what the official policy is.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: VIC Are you allowed to run up to a huddle?
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: Are you allowed to do it all the time?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, the camera's right in the middle of the bottle.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, then there should be there should be a fine,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: or there should be a talking to a reiteration.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: Now, here's what I want.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: Don't you don't put your hands on other people. You
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: don't do that. Here's what I want to see you
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: you don't put your hands.
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: On the answer. I got the answer. Here's what I
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: want to see.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: The next time somebody is interviewed after an Oklahoma City win,
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: and you know how they have those group interviews. They
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: can never do them alone. They have this group interview
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: thing because yeah, the next time that happens, and let's
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: say it's SGA, I want the photographer if he sees
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: Caruso push more physically push his hand and head out
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: of the way.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: Why not. I don't know. You can't put your hands
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: on people.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: You can't do that. It may be hands on a camera,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: but it wasn't just him. Because after Caruso did it.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Somebody else then put the backhand to the camera.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: You see that.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know who the I don't know who the
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: person the next watch it again. I don't know who
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: the next person was. But after he put his palm
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: and pushed the camera away, somebody else put the back
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: of their hand on the camera and pushed it away.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: So I don't know.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: I just I don't like to put your hands on people.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know what the policy is. I don't know
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: what the policy is. But if the thunder, hey, if
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: the thunder are getting handsy with a camera person, that's
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: a problem, big time problem.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: I think I don't like it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: No, I think you're totally right. You cannot push camera people.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: I think he should be fine. You can't do that
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: for what doing his job? And let me tell you
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: this much. And this is how I know this is
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: the truth. If OKC was up five points and that
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: was the time out, is he doing the same thing. No, No, anyway,
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: I'll say this, I'm legit scared now. I've been scared,
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: but I've been scared at the future. I've been scared
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: of what's to come. I didn't think it would be
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: now I'm terrified of women, Yama. I thought this would
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: take a minute. That minutes come, it's already here for
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: him to do that in that situation as a twenty
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: two year old, think about this, twenty two defending champs
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: who have just run through everybody in.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: The league, with the exception of his team, to.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Play that first Western Conference Final game of his career
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: on the road in I don't care what you say
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: about OKAC. That's a crazy crowd, that's a crazy environment.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: To play it and barry a logo three down three
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: with thirty seconds left in overtime is one of the
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: most shocking displays of athletic arrogance I've ever seen.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: You know what's more athletic arrogance, And it's not even
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: it's just genetic arrogance. This is not athletic, it's genetic.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: When he receives a pass at the free throw line
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: and then in one motion herns and dunks it.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like, who does that?
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: Let me while we're glazing him, let me let me
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: get a little bit of that.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Who can just receive a pass turn dunk.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: Nobody vic It's not even it's not even that.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: And by the way, if he was in the middle
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: and he's making skyhooks or he's turning and dunking on people.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Vic I see him get a pass above the elbow. Okay,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: you ready for this.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: It's a pass above the elbow.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: He turns and faces his defender, does a fake move,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: then drives through the free throw a line down the
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: key in dunks.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, a guy that looks like a guy
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: that tall, that big, can't do that. That's where it's
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: It's the handles. It feels like maybe the ball takes
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: twenty minutes to hit the floor and get back to
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: his hand. But you how do you stop that?
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: Brett?
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: He turns and faces the defender and then pivots and
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: goes to the hoop and dunks. And I'm like, man,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: that's just I don't know what you do.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: I don't know what you do.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: But but I want to Can we just go through
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: a list? Here, give me the list of players in
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: the NBA that would take a three from the logo
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: with three seconds left in overtime, down three? How many
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: players in the league would do it? Steph would do it,
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Hardened Dame Dame would do it, Harden, who else Harden
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: wouldn't take that shot. You don't think so hard, Donovan.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's from the logo. I don't
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: know about that. There is maybe.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Three four, if you really want to stretch it, five
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: guys that would even think to attempt that shot.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: And if you haven't noticed, they're all about six foot three.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: They aren't seven foot five. This dude crossed half court
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: was like, seems good to me.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: Boom, Who the hell does I don't know?
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: You know, I think I know why my brain is
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: so taxed.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Today people were saying Jabal would not take that shot.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Jamal would not go from the logo in.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Thirty seconds, he would set up a two man game.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: There.
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: Things are happening so quickly, the evolution of basketball, the
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: changing of the guard.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: It's happening so fast, Like first, you know, three years ago.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: Oh my, the Nuggets have a dynasty. Oh that didn't
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: work out. Here comes Boston. Nope, that didn't work out.
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: Oh god, okayc is built for a decade of dominance.
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: Oh, this comes Wemby.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: They still might be okay, here.
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: Comes Wemby, Here comes Wemby. All right, now, what who's next?
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: What's next?
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: It's crazy over the last decade. It's crazy how quickly
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: teams have redefined themselves. Listen, and let's let's be clear
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the amount of luck the San Antonio.
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: Spurs have had over the course of their history.
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: First of all, to get Tim Duncan and David Robinson,
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: and now in these like four straight lottery picks that
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: give you Wimby, they give you Castle, Castle, they give you.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: And all the other.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's crazy.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: Dylan Harper, Dylan Harper's a rookie last night, and he
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: gave you twenty four and ten fellas and he had
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: seven steals, seven or eight steals from a rookie.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: If you've got a guy named Castle, and you've got
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: a guy named Vassal, what's the common denominator about their names.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: I've said that once. I'm not going to make that
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: mistake again. I really will tell you. This is oh man,
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: this is so true. His Spurs will never have a
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: five second side out violation.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: That is so true.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Whenever they were inbounding the ball, especially late in that
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: game and crunch time situations, it was Wemby posted up and.
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: They literally threw the ball feet in the air.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: Why is it so hard to get in the ball
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: when when Caruso is guarding him on the post on
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: several occasions.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Up all stolen. I don't know, but I'm telling you
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: there is something.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: To I don't.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: I pray that he stays healthy, just because we've seen
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: so many guys at that size that they just they
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: we think he's gonna play till he's thirty eight, and
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: it's like that's a lot of stress on a body
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: that big.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: So I hope he stays healthy.
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: You know, watching this series, though, is almost a helpless
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: feeling for a lot of other NBA teams. When you're
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: watching Okac and the Spurs. Okac is young and deep,
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: and they're only going to get deeper because they got
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: first round picks galore.
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: Come in their way.
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: San Antonio last night trotted out the youngest starting lineup
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: ever for a conference finals game, and they're only gonna get.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Better and more experienced. What the hell are you gonna do?
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Is this you then starting to have sort of a
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: come to Jesus meeting with yourself about the future of
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: the division and the Western Conference?
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: Is that what this is all about? Well?
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I just I'm just trying to clear fire
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: because you've had some things going on.
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: I'm asking you.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I'm asking you though, as a fellow morning talk show host.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: You saw those two teams last night, the depth.
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: I mean, san Antonio won that game with out their
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: starting point guard, an All Star.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: If if there's any consolation to it, Jokic still matches
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: up with when Wemby just fine, Like that's not He's
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: not some Jokic stopper. I mean the numbers that he
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: puts up. He puts up like what thirty six, thirty
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: seven a game against him?
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: In fact, Jokic.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: If there's someone in the league that is a Jokic
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: that owns him, it's Nicola Jokic.
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: Nikolovich owns Wemby.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I should say, yeah, he averages thirty eight a game
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: against him. Yep, So it's okay.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: See has a big problem with that because chet Chet's
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: not big enough. Like he's first, he's tall, but we've
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: talked about his ankles and his shins looking like you
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: can break them with the paper airplane.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Jokic ain't getting pushed around by what You're.
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: Looking at the wrong thing. It's not just Jokic for Wimby.
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: That's not what concerned I'm not worried about anybody against Jokich.
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: Joki is fine.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: It's the backcourt.
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: It's San Antonio's backcourt.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: Those guys are ridiculous.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Again. The Nuggets handled themselves fine.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: Against the Spurs this year, though they did it was
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: one of the rare teams actually that they did that with,
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: and they beat them.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: They beat them with their beat team in San Antonio
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: to close the season.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, So, I don't know, it's the Spurs are a
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: weird team because they very obviously have something that Okac
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: just can't get over. They've struggled with them all year well,
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: and it's like the only team that Okay struggles with.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: It it's because SGA can't do SGA things with Stefan
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: Castle Vassel and all those guys just all over him,
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: Dylan Harper all over him. And then if he gets
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: by them, guess what he's got the leaning tower of
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: piece a waiting.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: Reminder to you guys, Well now it's a winner here
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: in about ten minutes. But your last chance to get
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: in on these keywords and a chance to get in
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: the building for Game one of the Western.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Count It's Finals.
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: The keyword is rock.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: So text that in your first and last name to
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: three zero, three, five, four nine two five will announce
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: a winter next.
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: Got a little bit more coming up here, Bretton.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: After we get to the keyword, I got a little
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: bit more coming up about this series.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Well you can do it now. We're just gonna announce
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: a winner. We don't need a keyword.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: Oh we don't know.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Oh that's right, we don't needn more keywords. I was
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: looking through this. No, you take a lap, Let me
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: kick a lap. Let me throw some names out here.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: When you get to the Western Conference final. When you
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: get to a conference final, you're halfway there.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're bon Jovi?
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: Right, Okay, what do you say for bon Jovi?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Halfway there?
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: We're halfway there.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: But this is why you get so close and it
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: only gets harder. But now you start to see vic.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: It's like you riding up lookout man. You it may
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: be hard, you know it's going to be even harder,
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: but you can start to see the end of lookout right.
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: You're like, mom, the last part hurts. Yeah, that's the
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: Stanley Cup playoffs.
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: It hurts.
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: It hurts every time every level you hit, it hurts more.
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: And it looks like the avs are at that mid
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: point level windy saddle yep, where you're like, I got
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: another half of hurt.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and your windy saddle and your own saddle's probably
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: doing some chafing on you, Like your butt's not feeling
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: so good right about now?
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: Right Victor that area.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Worry more about my quads and lungs, not your butt. Okay,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: how's your keyster?
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: Do them?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: How's that cute little toushy years vic? All right? So,
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: but I'm looking.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: This is why Nick was here, This is why Cadri's here.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: This is why Parker Kelly re signs, right, h this
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: is why Brenton Burns chose the Colorado Avalanche, is it
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: not sure?
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: It's why you go and get Kulak.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: It's why all these guys they're here for a reason.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: It's why brock Nelson elected Teresa. Minnesota wanted him bad.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: They wanted the home state hero to come to Minnesota.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: I don't know how much they offered him. I really
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: have no idea.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: But he was free, free, and he says, you know what,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: I want to go back to the Colorado Avalanche.
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: This is why you do that.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: This is why it all happens to put yourself in
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: this position.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: Well, you need guys like brock Nelson to do something.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: I need production out of brock Nelson, and you mentioned it.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: Val is part of that discussion too. But I do
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: think if I had a grade VAL's playoff performance so far,
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: I think he's been really good.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: He just hasn't gotten on the score sheet all that.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's had a couple not great games, i'd say,
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: but he affects the game in so many more ways
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: than just putting the puck in the net. I mean,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: his defensive play is back checking, his ability to disrupt
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: a play on the fore check.
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: I mean, he's affects the games in a lot of
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: different ways.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, he does.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: But this is why Victor all here, this is why
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: you've built this team for just such a situation. You're
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: halfway there and now it only gets harder. And it's
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: the same story for the guys on the other side.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: That's why they did the deals they went and did, right,
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: That's why they went and got a Marner. That's why
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: they got a Howden, That's why they you know, they
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: they picked up that's why they traded for Hanna Finn
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: or picked him up. Most of the time is why
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: they traded for aunt.
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  Speaker 6: Rasmus Anderson twelve noon.
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  Speaker 8: I'm gonna go.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: Do you want to meet me there?
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: Okay, I need to figure out and I think one
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: of the bigger questions heading into this series. Vegas has
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: turned things around late in the year. They did so
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: because they think they.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Found something and maybe they did. I'm not even saying
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: that they didn't.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: I want to see Carter Hart tested in a way
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: that he's not tested against Anaheim and not tested in
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: the first round against Why.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Am I blinking on this? Help me? First round opponent
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: for Vegas was Utah Utah. I want to see Utah
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: give me two.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: After an entire regular season where they cycled through what
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: was it three four different goalies, gave everybody sort of
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: a shot, nobody took the reins.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: They give it to Carter Hart.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: He gets to go in the postseason, and to his credit,
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: he's been really good for him, but he ain't faced
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: in onslought like what the Avs have to offer here.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: And it's funny most I was gonna mention this earlier,
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: but I'm watching Game seven last night between Montreal and
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: them getting the big win and Alex Newhook walking off Buffalo.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: And I noticed something.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: Those are two good teams, both have a chance to
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: be part of the final four of the NHL Playoffs.
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: Their speed is nothing like what I watch with the Avs.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Nothing.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: There is a different gear that the Avs can get
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: to that just most teams in this playoff can't.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: And it's your biggest advantage.
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: It's been that way for years, that you can you
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: can out athlete a lot of different guys that you're
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: going to go up against. But when that speed hits
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: a guy like Carter Hart, how does he respond?
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Brett?
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: The only thing that worries me about this series, let
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: me be let me be clearer. The Abs are the
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: better team and the aff should win this series. The
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: only thing that concerns me is that Vegas, given its experience,
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: it's veterans, it's adaptability, is going to be one of
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: those teams where you can dominate the style of play,
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: you could dominate the pace of play, you can dominate
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: all the stats. You can have the ice tilted in
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: your direction for most of the game, and all it
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: takes is one turnover, one breakdown, and they in the
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: puckets of the back of your net.
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: And it's a time game.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: The only thing that scares me about this particular series well.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: VIC, and they're also I guarantee you there are more
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: than a handful of guys I'd say a handful of guys,
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: but more than a handful probably who are going to
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: try to put you through the boards, not just check you,
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: or they're gonna try to put you.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: Into the fifth row constantly.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Now you've played US hockey than them, You've played, in
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: my opinion, tough for opponents than them, but they are
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: going to try and hit and hit and keep on hitting.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: That same thing I think applies to the opposite though, VIC.
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: Even if Vegas has a lead, we just watched it,
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: Minnesota jumps out three to nothing in the first period
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: and they end up losing the game because the Avs
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: have the ability to do that.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Now the Avs.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: Conversely, in Game one, the same kind of thing happen.
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: You jump out to a big lead, you allow them
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: to come back, but you're able to stabilize and regrab
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: that lead.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: There's just there's a lot of firepower.
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: And out of all the teams that are left in
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: the postseason, a lot of really good teams, four really
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: good teams left. I love the Avs depth. I just
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: think it's a giant separating factor. I think it is
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: one of the most key things you can have in
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: really any sport. I mean, when we talk about Okay,
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: see in the Spurs, A huge aspect of why those
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: teams are in the positions they're in is because they
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: can go nine to ten deep off the bench and
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: not feel that big of a drop off.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: You weren't begging, I mean the most that you had most.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: The biggest problem that the Avs have faced from that
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: perspective this postseason is what that when Manson and Malenski
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: are out of the lineup, It's like, gosh, can Blankenberg
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: do this? Not really, Sean E not really, Let's call
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: up Ganye just in case we need them. It's one
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: spot on your blue line. But that's after multiple injuries.
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: You have a gigantic thing that's in your favor that
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: the other three teams I don't think can match.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: And that's the truth. Well, you know, and not to
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: say that they don't have any, but the Avs have that.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: Again, when you're talking about the guys who have scored
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: goals for you this postseason, it's been everybody who has played,
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: except for Burns, who, by God give.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Him fifteen more rockets from the blue line. I'm sure
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: one's gonna sneak in at some point. Another thing too,
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Your goals against average is just a tiny bit better
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: this postseason than Vegas, buts goals against your goals four
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: is about half a goal a game. Yeah, so that's good.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: That's in your favor both ways. Your save percentage is
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: not as good, although I still have total confidence in
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: the goalies. You're point nine below what Vegas has had.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: But they've also given up more shots than you. They've
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: given up and I'm talking about per game. I'm talking
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: about overall total, because they've played three more games than you,
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: so obviously, but per game they're giving up more than you.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: You've got, You've done some really good things. You're eight
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: and one. Vegas is eight and four. They've lost four games.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: You've lost one game, game three and many.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Yep, didn't they lose both games to open their series?
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: They lost to Utah?
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Did they lose the open They won the opener, they
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: lost their next.
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: Two, that's correct.
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: Then they won three straight.
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: Correct, and then it was win loss, win loss in
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: the series against Anaheim, right, correct, but yeah, buckle up.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: It all starts tomorrow and it's right here on Altitude
• 40:39
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• 40:42
  Speaker 6: No, it was win loss win, win loss win.
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: And yeah, speaking of that game or win win, Let's
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: tell somebody that they're going to be in the building, Kelly.
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: The winner of the pair of tickets to game one
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: is Penhail Penale, penhale.
• 41:07
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• 41:12
  Speaker 1: No penhale.
• 41:14
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• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Spearing up for Jack.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: He's gonna be in the building of free Game one.
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