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Between the Pipes: Adrian Denny on the Utah Mammoth, Hot stretch of play, Daniil But starting to break out + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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Speaker 1: Hundred and ninety one.
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Speaker 2: Half am.
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Speaker 1: We go between the pipes, Adrian Dennys.
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Speaker 2: Here in our Broadway studios are Utah Mammoth Insider, brought
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Speaker 1: Adrian, Welcome, How are you sir?
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Speaker 2: What's up man? It's yeah, it's really good to see you.
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Speaker 2: It's always great catch it up with you in person.
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Speaker 2: I know you were well. I guess I don't know this,
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Speaker 2: but I would assume you were in attendance last night
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Speaker 2: for the absolute drubbing of the leafs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was there.
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Speaker 3: I was in our radio broadcast booth and enjoying it all.
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Speaker 3: Mike or Sean. I used did Mammoth Daily with with
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Speaker 3: Mike Fulta, my radio partner. So we've been together for
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Speaker 3: the last couple hours. So I apologize. That's totally seems
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Speaker 3: like seems like we're together twenty four to seven, so
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of Mike Mike Mike but Ocococ. It
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Speaker 3: was a six to one score, but it was one
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Speaker 3: nothing for over twenty minutes in the game. Crell Amalca
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Speaker 3: had to stop a breakaway from John Tavares in the
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Speaker 3: second period to keep it one nothing before two quick
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Speaker 3: goals by Dylan Gun the fastest two goals by a
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Speaker 3: Mammoth skater back to back one minute and eighteen seconds apart,
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Speaker 3: took us from one nothing to three nothing. In Utah
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Speaker 3: was off there, but as we've seen so many times,
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Speaker 3: especially on this homestand Mammoth get a one goal lead,
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Speaker 3: that stays a one goal game for a while. And
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Speaker 3: you're getting some big stays from from Corellamalca, who leads
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Speaker 3: the NHL now with twenty one wins, and it's it's
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Speaker 3: been so huge to have him rolling, especially in the
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Speaker 3: first periods where he's allowed just three first period goals
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Speaker 3: in the last nine games. It's just just gotten the
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Speaker 3: team settled in and set them up for success.
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Speaker 2: I give you some credit for your your clairev Williams here,
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Speaker 2: because we had a conversation not so long ago and
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Speaker 2: you were like, we were talking about this home stand,
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Speaker 2: how many points you wanted to see the mammoth get
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Speaker 2: they're on pace to meet or exceed your target. And
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Speaker 2: also you said, look, Daniel Boot has been so close.
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Speaker 2: We're going to see a stretch here pretty soon where
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Speaker 2: he has like five goals in five games.
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Speaker 1: We're going to see a stretch where he starts.
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Speaker 2: To be productive here and lo and behold, Daniel Bot
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Speaker 2: has been awesome. Another goal last night, the first game
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Speaker 2: of the home standing goal. So it's like, you know
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Speaker 2: what you're doing, you.
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Speaker 3: Know what this This kid just puts himself in positions
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Speaker 3: to succeed. And head coach Andre Turney said after the
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Speaker 3: game last night he thought he should have had two
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Speaker 3: goals because he knocked home a puck on the power
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Speaker 3: play that was under the padding the equipment the body
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Speaker 3: of Dennis Hill to be the Toronto goaltender, and there
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Speaker 3: was a quick whistle zact McBay and threw it into
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Speaker 3: the crease. It was lost sight of for a split
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Speaker 3: second by the official blew the play dead and Boot
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Speaker 3: knocked it in. And Bear said, I think he should
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Speaker 3: have had two goals in that game, which oc would
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Speaker 3: have kept me trending on my promise that he's going
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Speaker 3: to have a five goal in five game stretch. But
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Speaker 3: on the fourth goal that that Utah had, he manufactured
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Speaker 3: that from his knees. As Toronto had the puck, he
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Speaker 3: slid down, slid it away, kept him from getting the
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Speaker 3: puck out of the zone, forced the turnover, got it
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Speaker 3: to Ian Cole and then boot went behind the net,
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Speaker 3: got the puck to Paterca, went in front of the net,
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Speaker 3: JJ fired it in and Big Daniel boots there blocking
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Speaker 3: the vision and the eyes in the sight of the
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Speaker 3: goalie and the puck went in.
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Speaker 1: So he's he's been doing some some good stuff.
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Speaker 3: It's it's been over a month since he's been in
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Speaker 3: in the NHL, and he's you know, has he been perfect.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 3: He took a penalty late in the third period on
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Speaker 3: Sunday that you know, ultimately led to Columbus's game winning
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Speaker 3: power play goal. But he's he's been pretty solid. Have
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Speaker 3: really liked what I've seen from number nineteen.
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Speaker 2: Jack McBain had a single goal to assist night as well. Uh,
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Speaker 2: Jack McBain is Jack McBain just better when you let
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Speaker 2: him be violent, when you let him fight a little bit,
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Speaker 2: and you're just like, hey, that's the guy who hurt
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Speaker 2: Cooley We're just gonna off the opening face off.
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Speaker 1: We're just gonna let you take care of this business.
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Speaker 2: It feels like, and maybe I'm just manufacturing this in
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Speaker 2: my own mind because I like the idea of it,
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Speaker 2: But it feels like he's one of those guys if
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Speaker 2: you just let him be a little bit nasty and
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Speaker 2: let him fight, then he's gonna play better when it's
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Speaker 2: run to play on ice stuff.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Bear says that he plays grumpy, he plays cranky,
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Speaker 3: and it's it's he's a nice guy.
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Speaker 1: He's a great guy.
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Speaker 3: But the way that he that he plays out there is,
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Speaker 3: you know, is you're kind of I had to say
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Speaker 3: in a little little violent when when he's rolling. And
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Speaker 3: last night he got put back with Dylan Gunther, his
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Speaker 3: roommate from last year. Remember the Cribs tour that they
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Speaker 3: gave their house on the Mammoth YouTube page and and
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Speaker 3: their membership to Costco where they bought a hot tub
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Speaker 3: as an impulse side of them. And last year they
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Speaker 3: did have their stretches where they played on the same
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Speaker 3: line with Logan Cooley and we called it the Kid
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Speaker 3: line and they.
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Speaker 1: Had some success.
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Speaker 3: And that was in December when when Utah was was
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Speaker 3: on one of their better stretches of a year, unbeaten
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Speaker 3: and in seventh straight, so he gets to go back
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Speaker 3: with with Gunther and then Carconi joined that that line too.
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Speaker 3: Those three had twenty shots on goal last night out
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Speaker 3: of Utah's forty one, so it was it was an
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Speaker 3: impactful performance as Bear kind of shook up lines two
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Speaker 3: and three a bit. He swapped Boot and Gunther and
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Speaker 3: saw immediate results. Those two lines, the middle six, he
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Speaker 3: called them combined for all six for the mammothon in
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Speaker 3: that game.
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Speaker 2: And against I mean, not a bad team, a Maple
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Speaker 2: Leafs team that's in kind of a similar situation that
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Speaker 2: they're in.
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Speaker 3: They were the second hottest team in the NHL coming
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Speaker 3: into the game on Tuesday night. They had just beaten
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Speaker 3: the Colorado Avalanche four to three in overtime on Monday,
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Speaker 3: so they were coming in on a back to back.
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Speaker 3: But they were eight zero to two in their last
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Speaker 3: ten After being in last place in the Eastern Conference
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Speaker 3: less than a month ago, they got things going as
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Speaker 3: they always do. It seems like they got off to
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Speaker 3: an okay start and then in November they really struggle
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Speaker 3: and everybody's like, oh, the leafs. What are they gonna
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Speaker 3: do now? The runs over. They got to start selling guys,
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Speaker 3: and they fired an assistant coach who ran their power play,
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Speaker 3: and they brought up an assistant coach from the AHL
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Speaker 3: who actually was an executive in Arizona, an assistant general
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Speaker 3: manager that was in in you know, signing, drafting and
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Speaker 3: acquiring some of the players on this Utah roster now
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Speaker 3: and it's Steve Sullivan. But power Play got going. They
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Speaker 3: went on a nice run. They came into Utah hot,
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Speaker 3: but oc as we know, with schedules, we've talked surely
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Speaker 3: enough about it with the Mammoth this year, their road
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Speaker 3: heavy schedule and all their back to backs. Toronto was
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Speaker 3: in a spot last night, the sandwich game in between
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Speaker 3: a Colorado on Monday night, a Vegas on Thursday night
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Speaker 3: where they're gonna play Mitch Marnin, their leading scorer from
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Speaker 3: last year and from five to the last nine years.
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Speaker 3: One of the biggest acquisitions in the NHL last summer
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Speaker 3: by Vegas in the trade with Toronto and the signing
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Speaker 3: trade because Marner wasn't gonna resign there, so an emotional
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Speaker 3: game there, big winning Colorado in Utah on to back
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Speaker 3: to back, but got a credit to Mammoth. They just
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Speaker 3: came out and took it to them and they didn't stop.
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Speaker 3: They scored just over three minutes in and as we said,
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Speaker 3: it was one nothing for over twenty minutes and big
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Speaker 3: stays from Vimeilca, but they just kept going and Toronto
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Speaker 3: made it four to one in the third and Utah
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Speaker 3: I think shifted it into a another gear there to
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Speaker 3: add a couple of late ones and make it six
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Speaker 3: to one.
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Speaker 2: When you talk about the complimentary hockey that needs to
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Speaker 2: be played, like are you highlighted very well?
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Speaker 1: How you know there's a tight game?
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Speaker 2: And then Vimelka needed to make these big saves in
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Speaker 2: one big save in particular, in order to let that
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Speaker 2: damn break. Are they doing that enough? Are they playing
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Speaker 2: complimentary hockey enough? I mean, obviously these most recent games
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Speaker 2: it looks like they're on the right trend, But when
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Speaker 2: you look at the bulk of the last couple of weeks,
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Speaker 2: you look at the bulk of the season, is the
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Speaker 2: hockey complimentary enough.
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Speaker 3: Going into this homestand the emphasis was gay management as
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Speaker 3: we talked about last week, is the analytics, the underlying
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Speaker 3: numbers for the Mammoth are really good offensively and defensively,
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Speaker 3: and it's it's been all season long.
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Speaker 1: When they don't win.
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Speaker 3: It's been And how they managed the situation, how a
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Speaker 3: one goal lead turned into a one goal deficit in
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Speaker 3: two minutes, how a two to one lead in the
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Speaker 3: second turn into a tie game going to the third
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Speaker 3: because you took a late penalty like you did on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: The Mammoth were really.
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Speaker 3: Unhappy with how they played on Sunday and really kind
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Speaker 3: of happy to get a point in that game because
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Speaker 3: I think they felt they didn't deserve anything with just
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Speaker 3: the overall scope of the game. The way that they
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Speaker 3: managed to Columbus was on a back to back, but
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Speaker 3: they had thirty six shots in the game, did the
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Speaker 3: Blue Jackets, But they just got some easy stuff kind
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Speaker 3: of They scored on their second shot of the game
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Speaker 3: off the rush just over two minutes in, they got
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Speaker 3: a late power play goal on the second They won
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Speaker 3: it in overtime, And that's just kind of how you
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Speaker 3: let a game get away against the team on a
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Speaker 3: back to back you should probably beat by just letting
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Speaker 3: them have opportunities like that, which is what Utah has
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Speaker 3: not done in the three of the four home games
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Speaker 3: that they've won so far on the start of this
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Speaker 3: three to zero one home stand, which guarantees them a
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Speaker 3: winning homestand they obviously want more than that, but seven
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Speaker 3: of the possible eight points through four games is a
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Speaker 3: pretty decent start.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to what they need to do coming up.
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Speaker 2: It's the Dallas Stars tomorrow night, Sean O'Connell's show between
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Speaker 2: the Pipes Adrian Denny here in our Broadway studios, brought
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Speaker 2: to you by Aladdin Industries and the truck with the
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Speaker 2: Duck Valley Plumbing. So let's talk about Dallas. Let's talk
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Speaker 2: about how you continue this strong play, continue the positive
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Speaker 2: momentum of the home stand. It's obviously, you know, very
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Speaker 2: pleasing to the fans that started the year with all
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Speaker 2: this crazy optimism and then came back down to earth
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Speaker 2: a little bit and then, let's be honest, now starting
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Speaker 2: to drink the kool aid again. How do you stay
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Speaker 2: strong against Dallas Star's team.
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Speaker 3: It's another good box to check for the Mammoth. They've
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Speaker 3: never beaten them at home before, but they've never beaten
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Speaker 3: Toronto before last night. They've never beaten Ottawa before Wednesday night.
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Speaker 3: If you look at the games against Dallas so far
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Speaker 3: over the last two seasons, there's been five games Dallas
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Speaker 3: is won four of them. One of them came overtime
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Speaker 3: last January. But of all four games that Dallas has won,
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Speaker 3: they've all been within a goal in the third period.
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Speaker 1: So Utah's been in those games.
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Speaker 3: I think last year we're looking at games that Utah
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Speaker 3: didn't win, like okay, young team, learning a lesson. They're
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Speaker 3: in the games, a chance to win. Now they have
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Speaker 3: to win those games. This year, it's kind of been
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Speaker 3: the game management situations that we talked about. And in
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Speaker 3: Dallas the Friday after Thanksgiving starting that emotional trip and
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Speaker 3: that was the emotional day that the Clayton Keller's father
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Speaker 3: had just passed away the day before. They jumped up
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Speaker 3: to nothing and then they take a late penalty in
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Speaker 3: the first period. Dallas cash is in on it. It's
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Speaker 3: two to one. Dallas tied it early in the second,
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Speaker 3: took the lead, Mamma tied it back quickly and then
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Speaker 3: immediately went back to the penalty box, power play goal
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Speaker 3: four to three late in the second, no scoring in
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Speaker 3: the third.
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Speaker 1: You lose the game for to three.
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Speaker 3: Looking at like we outscored them five on five, and
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Speaker 3: then we gave them two powerplay goals off of bad penalties,
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Speaker 3: one coming late in the period, one after we just
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Speaker 3: tied the game up. So I think the test for
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Speaker 3: the Mammoth is, Okay, we've played this team good. Now
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Speaker 3: we've got to beat them. And if we keep managing
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Speaker 3: games like we did Toronto, like we did Saint Louis
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Speaker 3: despite not playing their best game on Friday night, Famelica
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Speaker 3: a big part of that, and like they did against Ottawa,
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Speaker 3: I think they'll like it. Oh see, Dallas is wrapping
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Speaker 3: up a six game trip that's taken him from Carolina
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Speaker 3: to DC, to San Jose, to La to Anaheim and
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Speaker 3: now to Salt Lake. So they've been on the road
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Speaker 3: for a while. It's their third game and fourth nights.
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Speaker 3: We've seen how Utah has been at the end of
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Speaker 3: these trips. You just you just don't have the legs.
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Speaker 3: So another opportunistic situation that they can go in and
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Speaker 3: take advantage of.
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Speaker 2: You and James were talking about this before we came
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Speaker 2: on air during the break. Dallas second in the division.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people probably know they've got sixty three
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Speaker 2: points so far on the year, which.
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Speaker 1: The division right now.
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Speaker 2: Is just disgusting because even as Utah is playing better
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Speaker 2: and piling up some points fifty on the year so far,
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Speaker 2: Minnesota's got sixty one, Dallas, as I mentioned, is sixty three,
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Speaker 2: and at the top of the division the Colorado Avalanche thirty.
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Speaker 1: Three four and eight seventy four points.
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Speaker 2: So the gap even between Colorado and Dallas is pretty big.
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Speaker 2: This Central Division is well, I guess it's not a
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Speaker 2: nightmare per se, because you're right where you wanted to
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Speaker 2: be or needed to be in this rebuild kind of situation.
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Speaker 2: But it just hammers home the point for Utah, even
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Speaker 2: playing really good hockey right now, how much work there
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Speaker 2: is left to be done.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and Minnesota's got Quinn Hughes. They just made that
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Speaker 3: huge trade with Vancouver. They're two points in back of
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Speaker 3: Dallas and OC. The way the playoffs work right, Central
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Speaker 3: Division is going to be two versus three like it
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Speaker 3: was last year with Dallas in Colorado went to Game seven.
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Speaker 1: Usually expect that to be a.
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Speaker 3: Conference finals matchup, but it's divisional in the NHL two
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Speaker 3: versus three, So they're playing for home ice advantage for
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Speaker 3: the next thirty five games or so here and for
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Speaker 3: the Mammoth. You look at that and like, okay, let's
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Speaker 3: get that first wild card. Let's play the Pacific Division champion,
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Speaker 3: and avoid the Ads with that second wild card. Right now,
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Speaker 3: in the Pacific you got Vegas and Edmonton with fifty
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Speaker 3: four points. Seattle's playing good, they got fifty points. But
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Speaker 3: Colorado seventy four, Dallas sixty three, Minnesota sixty one. I
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Speaker 3: think everybody would agree those are probably the top three
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Speaker 3: teams in the NHL right there, third all in your division.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Colorado.
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Speaker 2: By the way, when you look right now, if you're
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Speaker 2: just kind of like perusing reading up the latest things
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Speaker 2: in the NHL and whatnot, and you're just like, let
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Speaker 2: me see, let me just check up on the stats
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Speaker 2: breakdown right now, you look at plus minus top five,
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Speaker 2: they do the top five right the sun ESPN top
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Speaker 2: five and goal scoring, top five in goaltender wins by
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Speaker 2: the way of Melcon number one right now, top five
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Speaker 2: in plus minus, it's four Colorado Avalanche players and one
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Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Lightning guy. And then you expand the full
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Speaker 2: list and it's like ten of the top fifteen are
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Speaker 2: all abs. That team is not just good, unbelievably hot
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Speaker 2: and unbelievably consistent.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, over four goals a game, they allow about two.
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Speaker 3: Their goal differential is plus seventy nine.
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Speaker 1: Is that good?
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Speaker 3: They still haven't lost in regulation at home thirty three,
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Speaker 3: four and eight. They added Brent Burns, who we saw
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Speaker 3: for a number of years with San Jose as part
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Speaker 3: of a contending team. He went to Carolina, so they
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Speaker 3: add him as a defenseman. They get their captain back
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Speaker 3: this year who had missed almost three years with an injury,
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Speaker 3: Gabe Laniskog. So a couple of the X factors there
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Speaker 3: for Colorado. But you know you mentioned the stars Nathan
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Speaker 3: kinn and Cale mccarr, Martin Nchius there. They've got pretty
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Speaker 3: core pieces too. And then you you add the captain
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Speaker 3: back and Brent Burns and holy cow, two goalies that
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Speaker 3: man like Scott Wedgwood and Mackenzie Blackwood like okay goalies,
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Speaker 3: but you they're they're elite playing in Colorado with with
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Speaker 3: that team.
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Speaker 2: You and I have talked about this several times. The
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Speaker 2: Olympic break is coming, The Olympics are coming, and the
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Speaker 2: Olympic Hockey Arena in Milan. Cortino was a big time question.
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Speaker 2: They did an ice test and apparently came out positive. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's it's it's coming along.
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Speaker 3: Ryan Smith said late last week he was on thirty
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Speaker 3: two Thoughts, the podcast the Sportsnet does, and he said,
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Speaker 3: you know some of the projects that we've done here,
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Speaker 3: the practice facility, turning around the Delta Center in a
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Speaker 3: summer with a brand.
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Speaker 1: New lower bowl.
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Speaker 3: He's like, that's that situation in Italy is not something
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Speaker 3: that I'm too concerned about, just because I see how
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Speaker 3: you can get stuff up overnight. One concern. Oh see
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Speaker 3: the Jumbo Tron. I saw somebody say that it's not
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Speaker 3: a Jumbo tron. It's just a tron. It's just a
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Speaker 3: trunk like an iPad. The Jumbo tron. If you look
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Speaker 3: at the photos, the Jumbo Tron is tiny. I actually
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Speaker 3: don't hate this because it's a little bit old school
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Speaker 3: and it makes you watch the actual ice instead of
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Speaker 3: we fall into this. I especially last year we had
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Speaker 3: because it was, you know, an arena situation thrown together
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Speaker 3: like you're alluding to. The corners were short, right, and
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Speaker 3: the season ticket package we got was on a short corner,
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Speaker 3: so you couldn't see the near dots right, So anytime
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Speaker 3: the puck went into that near corner you face face
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Speaker 3: off circle to the boards. You couldn't see right.
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Speaker 2: And so that's no problem because the Delta Center, you
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Speaker 2: just looked, Okay, there it's on the jumbo tron and
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Speaker 2: now I'm gonna go back to the ice. But those mega,
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Speaker 2: mega huge screens, they keep your eye and so you
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Speaker 2: find yourself getting lazy with it and you look at
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Speaker 2: the screen instead of at the ice itself. And that's
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Speaker 2: something that we've all been guilty of. With the video
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Speaker 2: boards at Rice Cycle Stadium. Somebody who was it the
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Speaker 2: University of Illinois just announced that they're putting in the
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Speaker 2: largest video board in all of college athletics. They're doing
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Speaker 2: this like this Jerry World thing. There's no one's gonna
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Speaker 2: be why.
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Speaker 1: In the actual field.
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Speaker 2: So I'm actually okay with a small jumbo tron because
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Speaker 2: it won't be pulling your eye away from the actual
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Speaker 2: Olympic hockey.
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Speaker 1: On the ice.
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Speaker 3: I am the absolute worst with screens. I'll go into
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Speaker 3: a sports bar and I just can't handle it. I
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Speaker 3: don't know what's going on anywhere because I'm so all
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Speaker 3: over the maps. Remembering when we'd go into a restaurant
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Speaker 3: they would have one tube TV that we would watch
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Speaker 3: and you could, you could enjoy yourself. But I'm just like, uh, look,
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Speaker 3: look it everywhere. So totally like that.
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Speaker 2: So Olympic hockey will include Clayton Keller. What do you
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Speaker 2: think of the way he's playing right now? I think
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Speaker 2: he's been really good. He started this homestand with three
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Speaker 2: straight multiple point games.
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Speaker 1: We've seen him shooting the puck.
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Speaker 3: He's such a talent, but he's so patient, he's so intricate,
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Speaker 3: he's so meticulous. But I think we've seen him firing
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Speaker 3: puck more. But he's he's a great playmaker. Adding Lost
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Speaker 3: and Kraus to that line with with him and Nick Schmaltz,
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Speaker 3: I think has added another element to it. But I
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Speaker 3: think I think Keller's at the level that you know
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Speaker 3: he's been at every year in his career, which is
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Speaker 3: maybe a little better than the year before in terms of,
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Speaker 3: you know, being a captain, managing the offensive zone, managing
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Speaker 3: the power play. I've definitely seen him take some some
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Speaker 3: more steps this year in terms of looking for that shot,
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Speaker 3: finding that that pass. I think he's been really good
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Speaker 3: first time in his career, by the way, to assists
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Speaker 3: in three straight games, which I thought was interesting because
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Speaker 3: he's a guy that leads you to with as many
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Speaker 3: multiple point games as he has single point games, with fourteen.
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Speaker 3: The first time in his career he's had two assists
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Speaker 3: in three straight games, first three games of the homestand
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Speaker 3: but the interesting part of that he had seven assists
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Speaker 3: in those three games. Six of them were primary assists,
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Speaker 3: which means he was the last pass before the goal.
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Speaker 1: Before I let you go.
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Speaker 2: What are we hearing about Cooley's recovery and the pace's on.
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Speaker 3: I think it stays where it's been right around the
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Speaker 3: Olympic break, Bill Armstrong saying it could be maybe a
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Speaker 3: little before, maybe right after, but it's something to look
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Speaker 3: forward to. And now you're without Alexander Kerfoot, who's week
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Speaker 3: to week with an upper body injury, so you're losing
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Speaker 3: a centerman, a penalty killer from the lineup.
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Speaker 1: The Mammoth have depth and.
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Speaker 3: They've been able to roll through with Koley, but when
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Speaker 3: you get a guy back, it's like you just made
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Speaker 3: a trade for a star player like that. So excited, excited.
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Speaker 3: We have to feel like we're past the halfway point
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Speaker 3: of the Koolie injury here.
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Speaker 1: That is Adrian Denny.
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Speaker 2: You can hear him on Mammoth daily, right here on
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Speaker 2: between the pipes, and of course on the Utah Mammoth
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Speaker 2: Radio broadcasts.