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Between The Pipes: Adrian Denny on Team USA vs Sweden in the Olympic quarterfinals, Clayton Keller joining the lineup + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 2: Alf Am, Welcome back to the Shan O'Connell Show on
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  Speaker 2: a snowy Wednesday here in Salt Lake City.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome in our good friend, Utah Mammoth and now Olympic
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  Speaker 3: Hockey insider Adrian Denny between the pipes, brought to you
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  Speaker 4: Adrian, Welcome, How are you, hey, Sean. Great to be
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  Speaker 4: with you again. Great to be with you.
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  Speaker 3: We got a little tbusa sve Then elimination game coming
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  Speaker 3: puck dropping momentarily here, so we'll be both be somewhat distracted,
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  Speaker 3: I suppose while we're trying to have a little conversation
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  Speaker 3: on radio. Finland advances with win over Switzerland. Canada with
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  Speaker 3: the come from behind overtime victory against Checkia. Is that
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  Speaker 3: game a lot closer than you thought it was gonna be?
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  Speaker 5: They beat him five nothing last week? That's right right,
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  Speaker 5: and it's two to one check Ya. After one. Canada
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  Speaker 5: tied it up and I had Checkia was out playing
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  Speaker 5: him and you could feel that they were gonna get
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  Speaker 5: the lead back in that game. And then they get
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  Speaker 5: the lead with seven minutes or so left, and like,
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  Speaker 5: all right, well Canada is gonna get one late and
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  Speaker 5: probably get another one twenty seconds after that. It went
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  Speaker 5: to the three on three Jordan Pinnington and had to
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  Speaker 5: make a couple big staves there before that ridiculous move
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  Speaker 5: by Mitch marn Or skating through three guys and backhanding
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  Speaker 5: one that found the back of the that it was.
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  Speaker 5: It was a fun game, right If you're an American
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  Speaker 5: rooting for Team USA, you're rooting for Canada to lose,
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  Speaker 5: right because it's what we do. But I thought, if
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  Speaker 5: Canada isn't gonna lose, at least it was a fun game.
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  Speaker 4: It was a really fun game.
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  Speaker 3: And I do that sentiment we were talking about it, right,
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  Speaker 3: like it'd be nice to just have Canada out of
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  Speaker 3: the way, but also you want to win this gold
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  Speaker 3: medal by beating Canada. There is that element to it, right,
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  Speaker 3: best on best. This is why we watch Olympic hockey.
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  Speaker 3: This is what we want to see. Why the Four
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  Speaker 3: Nations was so fun, That's why you love the Stanley
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  Speaker 3: Cup playoffs. You want it to be best on best
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  Speaker 3: for the highest stakes, and so the hope is obviously
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  Speaker 3: that you can get past a really good Sweden team
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  Speaker 3: to take on Canada later on in this tournament. Hopefully,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you end up winning a gold medal because
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  Speaker 3: you're able to beat Canada.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's the story, right, that's what's expected to happen.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, you're thinking, oh, we were talking about
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  Speaker 5: it last week. Oh, there's so much pressure on them.
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  Speaker 5: There's so much internal pressure if they bow out and
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  Speaker 5: don't even play for a medal and they're done in
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  Speaker 5: the quarters.
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  Speaker 4: It was close.
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  Speaker 5: You knew they were gonna come back and do it.
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  Speaker 5: And Sydney Crosby got hurt in the second period and
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  Speaker 5: they didn't want his Olympic career to end like that.
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  Speaker 5: So you always kind of had a feeling that Canada
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  Speaker 5: was gonna win that game. But for the US today, boy,
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  Speaker 5: if that doesn't say watch out for Sweden, a team
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  Speaker 5: that they've never beaten in the Olympics with NHL players.
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  Speaker 5: United States is zero to two against Sweden with NHLers
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  Speaker 5: and they lost to them the last time they played
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  Speaker 5: with NHL ers in the Four Nations base off by
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  Speaker 5: account of two to one. So Sweden, who entered the
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  Speaker 5: quarterfinals the play in as a seventh seed, was the
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  Speaker 5: third highest favorite to win goal behind Canada and the
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  Speaker 5: United States. So this could be a good one too.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be Hella bucking gold today for the for Team USA, right, yep,
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna get the art, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Jordan Bennington for Canada, he's kind of that guy that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: He wins big games right Game seven of the Stanley
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  Speaker 5: Cup with Saint Louis overtime of the Four Nations face
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  Speaker 5: off last year. But he's eight seventeen and six with
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  Speaker 5: the Saint Louis Blues this year. And John Cooper, the
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  Speaker 5: head coach for Team Canada, said that he decided about
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  Speaker 5: three hundred and sixty days ago that Jordan Bennington would
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  Speaker 5: be their starter and take him in the Olympics. Connor Hellibuk,
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  Speaker 5: on the other hand, has been named the best goalie
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  Speaker 5: in the NHL multiple times, but he's got the reputation
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  Speaker 5: for not being able to win the big game. The
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  Speaker 5: Jets have never really advanced in the playoffs. You look
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  Speaker 5: at four Nations last year, so This is kind of
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  Speaker 5: his chance here to win a big game. Wins some
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  Speaker 5: big games in between the pipes, because he's got that
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  Speaker 5: great record, that great reputation, but not in big games.
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  Speaker 3: He's giving up a goal of game. So far in
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  Speaker 3: the Olympics, he's ninety five percent saves. He's played well
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  Speaker 3: in this Olympic tournament so far. Of course, if you're
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  Speaker 3: listening in Salt Lake City and you're gearing up to
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  Speaker 3: watch Team USA play hockey, the number one question you
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  Speaker 3: have is will Clayton Keller be involved in this game
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  Speaker 3: against Sweden.
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  Speaker 5: Looks like he's going to be there on that third
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  Speaker 5: line replacing Kyle Connor for Winnipeg, Who's a guy that
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  Speaker 5: you'd know who he was if he didn't play for
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  Speaker 5: the Winnipeg Jets. He's their leading score over a point
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  Speaker 5: a game, just about a point of game every season.
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  Speaker 5: He's been in the NHL for about a decade. So
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  Speaker 5: that's the spot that Clayton Keller is taking on the
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  Speaker 5: third line. And we talked about how this Team USA
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  Speaker 5: team has been arranged. Right, it's not just an all
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  Speaker 5: star team. It's not just skill guys. They have their
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  Speaker 5: top six forwards, their skill guys. They've got some meat
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  Speaker 5: and potatoes. They're strong defensively. So they were put together
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  Speaker 5: as you'd put together a hockey team, not necessarily a
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  Speaker 5: dream team, a fantasy team. And so Keller not playing
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  Speaker 5: the first couple of games, right, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 5: skilled players for tv USA, of which he is one,
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  Speaker 5: but to crack that top six with the game he
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  Speaker 5: plays didn't happen. Initially, we thought it might happen for
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  Speaker 5: game two. It happened for Game three and the United
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  Speaker 5: States a convincing win against Germany. So he's going to
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  Speaker 5: stay in today, play on that third line with Tage
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  Speaker 5: Thompson we won that World championship with last summer, and
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  Speaker 5: playing with Dylan Larkin, who's another guy he's played internationally with.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what the third line is going to consist
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  Speaker 5: of there for Clayton Keller, who hey, you're in this
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  Speaker 5: right now, it's win and you keep going basically, So
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  Speaker 5: looks like Keller will be in the lineup the rest
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  Speaker 5: of the way for Team USA.
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  Speaker 3: The puck has dropped, Jack I called one the opening
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  Speaker 3: face off, and we're underway, twenty seconds down and counting
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  Speaker 3: as Team USA takes on Sweden. In an elimination game
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  Speaker 3: Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, and as Adrian just mentioned, we'll
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  Speaker 3: see Clayton Killer on the third line. You got some
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  Speaker 3: Kachucks with Kling Company on that opening line. How much
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  Speaker 3: do you expect if you can make it past today,
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  Speaker 3: how much you expect those those lines to continue to
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  Speaker 3: be like reshuffled. We talked about this at the beginning
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  Speaker 3: of the tournament. How consistent you're gonna keep a lineup
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  Speaker 3: when it's effectively all star teams playing all star teams
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  Speaker 3: and figuring out ways to get the most out of
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  Speaker 3: each person is sometimes who they're skating with. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: three games in, this is the fourth or are we
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  Speaker 3: gonna see Team USA kind of settle into a regular rotation.
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  Speaker 4: I think this is it.
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  Speaker 5: I think this is what they're they're going with, unless,
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  Speaker 5: oh see, they're able to dress an extra forward and
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  Speaker 5: an offensement in the Olympics. Right in the NHL, if
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  Speaker 5: a player gets hurt in the middle of the game,
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  Speaker 5: you play, sure, you're short a defenseman, you're short of forward.
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  Speaker 5: You're playing eleven forwards, seven, five, six defenseman, whatever whatever
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  Speaker 5: it is. But here each team has an extra forward
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  Speaker 5: or defenseman. So the only way that you'd think that
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  Speaker 5: would change is if Tbosa falls behind two nothing, three
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  Speaker 5: nothing and Mike Sullivan's like to shake up the lines here,
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  Speaker 5: does something that clicks and you take that into the
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  Speaker 5: next game with you. But but outside of that, you're
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  Speaker 5: you're gonna be rolling the what you have here going
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  Speaker 5: in the pool play?
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  Speaker 4: Was your chance? All right?
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  Speaker 5: Three games in four days, keep everybody fresh. See if
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  Speaker 5: there's something else that we have that we didn't know,
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  Speaker 5: like Clayton Keller coming in who wasn't part of the
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  Speaker 5: four Nations team last year. But unless something goes south
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  Speaker 5: and then gets right, I don't think he'll change anything.
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  Speaker 3: As I mean, in pool play, won all three games,
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  Speaker 3: Maximize your points, et cetera, et cetera. Did the team
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  Speaker 3: play up to your expectation? Did we get out of
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  Speaker 3: the team USA from a goal scoring perspective, from a
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  Speaker 3: defensive perspective, from a goaltending perspective, did they play up
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  Speaker 3: to the level you thought is necessary in order for
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  Speaker 3: them to come away with the gold?
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  Speaker 5: Well, they got some changes made in Milano with Jeremy
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  Speaker 5: Swayman having that puck go in from center ice, and
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  Speaker 5: they had the blackboards that or the blackboards that matched
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  Speaker 5: the color of the puck, So they got that handled.
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  Speaker 5: That was the first situation, right because the goalie can
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  Speaker 5: see the puck because the boards were black. Outside of that,
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  Speaker 5: you're playing Latvia, you're playing Denmark. As we talked about,
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  Speaker 5: you know, kind of a kind of a scrimmage situation
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  Speaker 5: for me. And then then you see Germany and that's
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  Speaker 5: when they really kind of turned it on and pulled
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  Speaker 5: away for me. We saw it in the Canada Chechia.
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  Speaker 4: Game. Hockey is a.
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  Speaker 5: Game I think where if you're playing a team from
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  Speaker 5: the same league, if you get good goaltending, if you
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  Speaker 5: play hard, if you have a good game plan, you're
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  Speaker 5: gonna have a chance to win the game. In the NHL,
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  Speaker 5: if you're just an okay team, I think you can
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  Speaker 5: be a five hundred team if you've got those three things.
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  Speaker 5: Good goaltending, you play hard every night, and you've got
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  Speaker 5: good coaching. I think we saw that in Canada Chechia
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  Speaker 5: against Latvia and Denmark. For the US, as we said,
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was a really overmatching situation where how
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  Speaker 5: good are they gonna feel regardless of what happens in
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  Speaker 5: those two games? Just with the disparity that I mean,
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  Speaker 5: both those teams had NHL players, but then you see Germany, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: Lean Drysidel, that's the real deal. JJ Peterca was out
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  Speaker 5: there and I think they felt good about that game
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  Speaker 5: coming into now elimination games after today, they'll be playing
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  Speaker 5: for a medal.
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  Speaker 3: TM USA now twenty seconds into a power play, slashing
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  Speaker 3: right next to the crease by foresling on Sweden to
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  Speaker 3: give Team USA a power play. So first big opportunity
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  Speaker 3: here with only four minutes gone in the first period.
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  Speaker 3: We'll keep you abreast of what's going on with Olympic
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  Speaker 3: hockey from an individual standpoint and seeing guys that we
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  Speaker 3: already know are really excellent hockey players end up even
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  Speaker 3: on the Olympic stage, maybe excelling more than we thought.
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  Speaker 3: Maclin Celabrini has nine points so far in the Olympics.
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  Speaker 3: He's freaking teenager, and it's just at the very, very
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  Speaker 3: highest level of the game, and we knew this. The
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  Speaker 3: San Jose Sharks are ahead of pace, I think in
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  Speaker 3: their rebuild, and a large part of that is because
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  Speaker 3: they got back to back number one picks and him
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  Speaker 3: being the player that they expected him to be has
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  Speaker 3: gone along way to support those efforts. But here he
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  Speaker 3: is on the international stage showing, you know, really no nerves,
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  Speaker 3: no jitters, no anything. He belongs on any ice sheets
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  Speaker 3: there is in the world.
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  Speaker 5: And two months ago, I think there's a discussion is
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  Speaker 5: he on the team? Do they include him in the
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  Speaker 5: Olympic roster?
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  Speaker 3: Because Ken has got so many guys that you could
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  Speaker 3: say are deserving, and he's young.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to have three more cracks at the Olympics
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  Speaker 4: at least.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And now all of a sudden, it's one of
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  Speaker 5: those things. How could they live without him? Like literally,
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  Speaker 5: I don't think they would have won the game today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: without maclin Celabrini, he picked up a huge assist. And
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  Speaker 5: if he doesn't, they don't, they don't win. I but
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  Speaker 5: and I was talking about it last week with a
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  Speaker 5: friend in the NHL, like, do you realize too much?
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  Speaker 5: Months ago he wasn't even a sure thing and was
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  Speaker 5: kinda as you said, he'll have he'll have three more
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  Speaker 5: cracks at it.
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  Speaker 4: There's there's lots of other guys.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen some chippiness in Olympic hockey, which it's reduced
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  Speaker 3: in an Olympic tournament because you know, friendly also more
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  Speaker 3: heavily penalized if you do get into fights. France has
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  Speaker 3: a non NHL player who got into the fight with
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  Speaker 3: Tom Wilson and he is now out, he's banned, he's done.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously adjudicating the that portion of the game in the Olympics,
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  Speaker 3: do we do it correctly? Is the game misconduct the
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  Speaker 3: right level of enforcement on anti fighting on this international
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  Speaker 3: stage because it's it's a big part of NHL hockey,
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  Speaker 3: not as big as it used to be.
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  Speaker 5: Where do you stand on it in the international game?
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  Speaker 5: I'm fine with it, I guess. I don't think the
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  Speaker 5: NHL is. When they were negotiating to to be part
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  Speaker 5: of this and to send their players over there, I
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  Speaker 5: don't think it was a huge sticking point. I don't
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  Speaker 5: think one way or another they had a strong feeling
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  Speaker 5: about it, because you don't see a lot of fights
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  Speaker 5: in the NHL to the level that that we saw
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  Speaker 5: decades ago. But boy did France take that the wrong way. Well,
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  Speaker 5: they were there, what two at that point, yeah, and
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  Speaker 5: they were only going to have one more game left
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  Speaker 5: in the Olympics, So it was it was kind of
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  Speaker 5: like Mick cronin Last Night for UCLA A checking his
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  Speaker 5: own player.
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  Speaker 4: I would I kind of respect it.
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  Speaker 3: If you're this this cat again, you're you're a non
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  Speaker 3: NHL or you're you're supposed to be just happy to
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  Speaker 3: be there.
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  Speaker 4: I guess, and you.
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  Speaker 3: You decide, you know what, if I'm going to get
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  Speaker 3: embarrassed at a loss, I'm at least going to get
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  Speaker 3: some licks in here.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he went after the toughest guy on Team
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  Speaker 5: Canada after he laid down a hit on Nathan McKinnon. Right,
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  Speaker 5: Canada is one of their top players, so that's what
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  Speaker 5: started it. And then he slammed Tom Wilson's face into
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  Speaker 5: the ice. Like if you're watching that, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I think if you're watching that as a coach in
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  Speaker 5: a pro league, I mean, EHL, I can tell you
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  Speaker 5: about the guy's skill level completely, but to be that's
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  Speaker 5: kind of a guy you're you're thinking, oh, let's go get.
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  Speaker 3: Him Keller on the ice now for a Team USA
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  Speaker 3: or he was I think we just had a line
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  Speaker 3: change actually, so he's now off. But ninety one, if
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  Speaker 3: you're watching at home or you're heading home to watch
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  Speaker 3: the rest of this game, twelve minutes remain twelve and
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  Speaker 3: a half, almost remaining in the first period, still zero zero.
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  Speaker 3: USA was six shots on goal, Sweden so far with three.
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  Speaker 3: If you're looking for Clayton Keller, he's ninety one in
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  Speaker 3: the team USA roster.
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  Speaker 4: Do you like the Do you like the kit? I do?
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  Speaker 4: I think it looks I think it looks. I've good.
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  Speaker 3: I've enjoyed the tournament, like I like Germany's uniforms. Latvia,
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  Speaker 3: you don't see enough maroon on flags, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 5: As I've watched a couple of games here Canada included,
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  Speaker 5: I've thought to myself, you know, you turn on the
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  Speaker 5: game and you're like, you want to make sure you
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  Speaker 5: know who's who. For USA, you know who it is,
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  Speaker 5: the red, White, and blue. There's been several games you
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  Speaker 5: turn it on. One team's red, one team's white. You
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  Speaker 5: don't not really sure what's who's who. So I like
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  Speaker 5: I like that identity. I think that that bleeds pretty
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  Speaker 5: pretty strong for the Americans.
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  Speaker 3: Adrian Denny our guest here. He's our Utah Mammoth insider,
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  Speaker 3: our hockey insiders. We're watching live right now, USA versus
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  Speaker 3: Sweden at the Milano Corte Olympics, Sidney Crosby with an injury,
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  Speaker 3: exited the game today ruled out.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to have an MRI.
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  Speaker 3: Hockey does the thing where they tell you upper body,
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  Speaker 3: lower body, and not much else. He is no longer
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  Speaker 3: the engine that drives Canadian hockey, but he's still the
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  Speaker 3: heck of a player. What kind of an issue is
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  Speaker 3: this going to be for Canada if he's limited or
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  Speaker 3: completely unavailable.
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  Speaker 5: He's just such an emotional leader. I think that's the
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  Speaker 5: biggest thing, is the captain. But today they were able
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  Speaker 5: to use that as motivation, like, let's go win this
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  Speaker 5: for sid. If you're the Pittsburgh Penguins right now, I
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  Speaker 5: think you're pretty freaked out about it because they're currently
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  Speaker 5: second in the Metropolitan Division, in a decent spot, but
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  Speaker 5: only five points above the playoff line. He'd be the
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  Speaker 5: second player in this Olympics that got seriously hurt. Kevin
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  Speaker 5: Fiala of l A Was was the other one. But
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  Speaker 5: they're they're fine without Sydney. You'd like to have him,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it's gonna it's his last Olympics. He's you know,
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  Speaker 5: he's I root for the Pittsburgh Penguins because I like him.
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  Speaker 5: I just think he's a nice guy. He's been doing
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  Speaker 5: it for for two decades and he's still got it.
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  Speaker 5: We saw him score an overtime goal against Utah last
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  Speaker 5: year here in Salt Lake.
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  Speaker 4: So that'll be fine.
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  Speaker 5: But it's uh, it's too bad because he's he's he's
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  Speaker 5: such an ideal captain.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a PFL event in Pittsburgh at the end
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  Speaker 3: of March, by the way, so we'll still be in
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  Speaker 3: Penguins hockey season. I might have to go heckle some
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  Speaker 3: Penguins if I have the free time on there.
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  Speaker 5: That'd be fun. That's that's gonna be a good game
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  Speaker 5: too when when you're there, because they're gonna be in
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: the middle of that playoff. So that in the NHL,
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: every team that's fighting for a playoff spot just gets
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: better in March and April. That's why you never gain
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: any ground. It's why you never get any help. That's
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: why you want to be in the position now because
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: everybody wins and you get no help. So look forward
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: to that if you can make it out there.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: From the NHL perspective, we talked about this at the
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: beginning of the show today. The fact that you know
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: the way these calendars line up, and we've been talking
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: sports calendars with you know how the NFL playoffs kind
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: of interfering with college football. Then college football having to
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: figure out if they want a month off after the
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: regular season's over before they start a college football playoff. Well,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: I feel like, I mean, if this were an NBA problem,
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: it would be a massive, massive problem where the league
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: would just be like, now we're not pausing our season
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: and sending our best players over to play for in
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: what are ultimately amateur contest exhibitions in an Olympics where
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: they can get hurt. And you know, Sidney Crosby getting
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: hurt he is whether you think he's still one of
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: the best, you know, top twenty five players in the NHL,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: he is one of the top twenty five stars of
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: the NHL, undoubtedly, right. So from a league perspective, having
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: a guy like that hurt if he misses any kind
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: of serious time is disastrous result for the Olympics. But
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: in hockey, there's not even a conversation necessarily, not a
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: loud one, not an extensive one about hey, is this
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: something we all want to do? I mean, when it
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: was put forward again, hey, should we bring NHL ers
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: back to the Olympics. All of them were just like, yes,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I want to play in the Olympics. And maybe behind
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: closed doors there's some guys who are a little bit
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: more hesitant. But the calendar thing is really it's it's
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: a fascinating, I think, narrative about the difference between hockey
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: players and every other professional athlete.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: It's revolutionized the All Star Game in the NHL. The
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Four Nations face off they did last year. This year is,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: you know, kind of the All Star break like the Olympics.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: Without NHL ers playing hockey, it would just it would
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: feel off like you've.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Got to be a super super hardcore hockey fan to
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: care about that, because you're gonna get some college guys
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: that will soon be playing for your NHL team. But
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: nobody here, certainly not in Utah's watching a lot of
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: college hockey.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: I think they would do the schedule differently. I think
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: they would start it earlier, which is gonna happen starting
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: next year when the league adds a couple of games.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: I think everybody realizes the first half of this season,
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: and for some teams, the second half after the Olympic break,
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: has been a little too crazy in terms of the
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: amount of games, the amount of wear and tear, the
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: amount of injuries that have happened. I think they would
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: adjust that, but I think the NHL likes this mid
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: season showcase that they're able to to have to display hockey.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: In a different way.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: That's not everybody converging on Long Island for an All
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Star game, which is what we were going to have.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: How much fun is that, Sean? Do you guys want
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: to carry the game? Yes? Okay, yes, okay, they'll take it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Actually, the four Nations thing inspired the NBA to change
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: their All Star format too great success. This All Star weekend,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: just this last weekend was NBA All Star Weekend. I
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: don't know how much of it you caught, because I
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: know you were all the way dialed in on this
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Olympic stuff and hockey stuff, but it it inspired I
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: think the NBA and they did a little copycatting, not direct.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: It worked though. It was great to see.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: And how long have they been looking for something to
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: make the NBA All Star Weekend click?
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Yes? A while?
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: So yeah, NBA and one from the NHL.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: I like it. What else can we what else can
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: we share with them?
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Still zero zero, just under nine minutes left to play
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: in the first period. Physical game so far between Team
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: USA and Sweden. Is there any how many guys on
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Sweden's roster are non NHLers.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: I would say, let's see eight D So all the
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: d I think they all are. They all are, right,
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: I think they all are.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Okay, yeah, and all three goalies. Yeah, they all are.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: From a Mammoth standpoint, cool to see Clayton Keller obviously
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: in this game and in this Olympic tournament. What have
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: you heard about the rest of the guys and how
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: they're taking advantage of this Olympic brick.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: They got back to practice yesterday. As we talked about
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: kind of the training camp that you get to start
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: the second half of the season, they're gonna be practicing
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: over a week before the Mammoth get back to work
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: a week from tonight against the Colorado Avalanche. But head
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: coach Andreturney telling us after practice yesterday, you know during
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: the season you get better by watching video. Right, Yet
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: you've got it. You play so many games or just
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: isn't time. You don't have the energy to spend an
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: hour and a half working on special teams. You work
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: on stuff in you know, incriminal periods of time that
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: you can, but you don't have an hour and a
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: half to spend on special teams like the Mammoth did
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: yesterday and in portions working on their five on three,
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: working on some neutral zone stuff. So they were excited
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: to get back when you when you come back. I
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: can't speak for other sports, but in hockey, when you
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: get back from like Christmas vacation or the All Star
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: break and it's been like three or four days and
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: you the guys haven't seen their teammates, it's like, holy cow,
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: first day of school. Haven't seen half the friends in
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: three months, right, So that's always exciting. We heard that
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: there was that, but just the opportunity to be able
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: to actually work on stuff. We've heard the noise on
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: the Mammoth power play, how you'd like it to get
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: a little better in terms of percentage penalty kill was
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: kind of struggling going down the stretch. So to be
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: able to have that training camp. But here's the biggest
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: thing Sean for Utah is to have Logan Cooley and
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Alexander Kerfoot skating with the regular group for a week
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: before you return to action. With Kooley having not played
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: since December fifth and Kerfoot having only played nine games,
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: and then you come out of the break and it's
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: going to take two three games for teams to get
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: back to that mid season level, which is another thing
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: that I think will help Logan Cooley when the Mammoth
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: get back at it against Colorado a week from tonight,
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: and that same thing with Curfoot kind of easing him
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: back in. When Sean Dursey came back last year after
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: missing forty plus games, he felt like he was in
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: preseason and in training camp playing against guys in mid
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: season form and never felt like he got back at it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: So for Kooley missing the twenty eight games, this could
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: be something that could really help him and help the
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: Mammoth and eight days of working on that power play with.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: That in mind, knowing that you've got a little bit
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: of an extended camp for him to get back from
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: an actual minutes on ice standpoint, what does reintegrating Cooley
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: look like? Will they put him on a bit of
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: a minute's restriction a pitch count or are they just
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: gonna let him run.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: I haven't heard that that would be part of the plan.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: I think the hope is Gosh three weeks between games.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: He was skating before in a non contact jersey kind
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: of a week here of extended practice time, and then
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: you go out. You know, the teams aren't quite where
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: they were when they went into the Olympic break. I
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: would say that the hope as you put him out
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: there and he's ready to go, eases his way back
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: into it and he's he's he's flying with the group.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Adrian, So I was great picking your brain about everything
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: going on in the NHL and outside of the NHL
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: right now because we've got Olympic hockey, including right now
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: live in front of US team USA versus Sweden. Now,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: I assume you've made a plan on how you're going
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: to get back to your residence without missing too much
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: of this thing.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: I guess we'll see.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: From the time that I parked my car, responded to
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: an email, and took a phone call to getting out
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: of my car, I think like four inches of snow
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: had fallen in a ten minute stretch. So we'll see
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: what we have to get out there, and worst case scenario,
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: I'll just come back up here and watch.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: It with you.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Perfect Well, You're always welcome again, appreciate your time and uh,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: everyone out there, not just aging, everyone out there. Travel safe,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: take a little extra time, drive slow, Remember your Utahns.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: You know how to drive in the snow.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: You've just forgotten because we haven't had a real winter yet.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: This is our first big like road snow day. I
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: think I will say this.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: On my way down here from holiday, I was pretty impressed.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: Everybody was keeping their distance, driving at a slow speed.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: But as my dad always used to say, it just
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: takes one. So knocking on wood as I head out
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: of here,