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Rodrigo Abols is Ready for Milan: Olympic Roster Breakdowns, Auston Matthews is Back and Best Films of 2025. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart
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  Speaker 1: podcasts coming up on NHL and Scripted, SEML File and
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  Speaker 1: sixty the Best Films of twenty twenty five, plus recapping.
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  Speaker 2: The Critics' Choice Awards.
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  Speaker 1: A special guest from the Philadelphia Flowers and also an Olympian,
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  Speaker 1: Rodrigo Obbols is going to join us, and a big
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  Speaker 1: week for Austin Matthews as the Jets are grounded JD.
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  Speaker 1: We kick it off though with JD doing South Beach
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  Speaker 1: Annual Winter Classic the New York Rangers. Unbelievable in outdoor
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  Speaker 1: games six and zero. You were there, a true Miami affair,
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  Speaker 1: a tribute to Mimivice, the pregame affair, the Panthers players
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  Speaker 1: rolling up the game of prey to sports cars and
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  Speaker 1: look like you had a blast.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I got worked like an absolute mule by the NHL
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  Speaker 3: and the league as I as I do consistently for
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  Speaker 3: It was a great event though, Man, what a show.
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  Speaker 3: They spared no expense. I got to call the game
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  Speaker 3: for NHL International, which is really cool. We did that
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  Speaker 3: kind of practice stream on NHL YouTube, which is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, we get to the day of
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  Speaker 3: the game and I show up to the rink and
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  Speaker 3: they said, hey, you're going to kind of help with
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  Speaker 3: the arrivals and you're going to do arrival interviews. And
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  Speaker 3: I said, yeah, I've be sure, no problem, you know,
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  Speaker 3: happy to help and I'll grab some guys. And they're saying, hey,
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  Speaker 3: the Florida Panthers is going to be pretty cool. They're
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  Speaker 3: coming in you know, ferraris or whatever. So it's like
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna have to They're announcing car by car. So
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  Speaker 3: we get closer to the game and I get to
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  Speaker 3: the rink and I do my couple of hits for
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  Speaker 3: the NHL Network and the guy, the liaison guy that's
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  Speaker 3: grabbing me to bring me to the he's bringing me
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  Speaker 3: to the arrivals. He goes, hey, he goes, are you
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  Speaker 3: comfortable MCing? And I said, oh, I said what there.
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  Speaker 3: He goes yeah, he goes, you know, we don't have
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  Speaker 3: a host. The host isn't here. You're gonna have to
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  Speaker 3: m C. And I'm like at this point too, I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: wait a minute, no, this can't be true. I said, okay,
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  Speaker 3: So I go I'm like I walk outside and they're
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  Speaker 3: like it's like a whirl when I get outside there like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: here's the names you're gonna announce, and you get a
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  Speaker 3: weight on que you gotta pump up the crowd, brutal
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, okay.
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  Speaker 2: No extra money for this, just a random Oh no.
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  Speaker 3: You best believe on the expense report this month there
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  Speaker 3: was an extra day's pay for that, because that is
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  Speaker 3: not in my contract.
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  Speaker 4: I had no idea I was doing that. And then I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Sitting there the Florida Panthers are late by like thirty minutes,
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  Speaker 3: and here's Jason Emers, former NHL player, and all my
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  Speaker 3: humbleness and everything, and I'm grinted. Teeth played in the Olympics,
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  Speaker 3: so I let's go Panthers.
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  Speaker 4: Pumping the crowd up.
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  Speaker 2: It was just reduced to being a huckster. That's what
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  Speaker 2: you want.
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  Speaker 4: Oh it was great. I mean listen.
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  Speaker 3: It was on top of that, I had to call
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  Speaker 3: all international too after, so I had to do color.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm like losing my voice out there. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: literally losing my voice as I'm screaming for NHL for
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  Speaker 3: the Florida Panthers to be frickin thirty four minutes late
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  Speaker 3: in all their glory but it was by all accounts,
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  Speaker 3: it was an amazing entrance, probably one of the better ones.
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  Speaker 3: Matthew could chuck and bark off in the first car,
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  Speaker 3: just like incredible atmosphere.
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  Speaker 4: There were so many fans.
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  Speaker 3: They're Rangers fans and Panthers fans and sorry to go
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  Speaker 3: along because it's a funny story.
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  Speaker 4: So they go, hey, you're gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Announce each car one by one, and he goes, you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna announce you know, here's the list, and I said, just,
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  Speaker 3: you know, make sure it goes quick because I also
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  Speaker 3: have to grab guys for an interview. And I know
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  Speaker 3: these NHL players they're gonna walk up here and they're
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  Speaker 3: just gonna get out of the car and leave. They're
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  Speaker 3: not gonna wait for twenty minutes. They go, no, no, they'll wait.
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  Speaker 4: They'll wait. We'll make them wait, We'll make them wait. Sure, okay,
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  Speaker 4: make sure.
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  Speaker 3: So I like a guy relaying the names to me,
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  Speaker 3: and of course, you know in like car six is
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  Speaker 3: Sergey Bbrovsky and and Sam Bennett and I'm reading the
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  Speaker 3: car too, and I see Serge Lebrovski just mow past me,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, well, this is just a fucking mess.
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  Speaker 4: Now, so I'm just trying to keep up. I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: keep yelling.
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  Speaker 3: The names, and I'm yelling names of guys that are
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  Speaker 3: like already in the building.
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  Speaker 5: Like I'm just like in.
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  Speaker 3: Car number five, right s Morovsky looking I was wearing
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  Speaker 3: a suit looking like Richard Dawson.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it was, it was.
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  Speaker 5: It was.
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  Speaker 3: It was a sight to be to behold. And it
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  Speaker 3: was a very cool event. And uh, you know, I think,
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  Speaker 3: I know it got a lot of flak for like
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  Speaker 3: the Moniker Winter Classic and it being you know, it
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  Speaker 3: being in South Florida.
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  Speaker 4: But it was really cool, man.
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  Speaker 3: And when they opened up the they open up the
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  Speaker 3: roof and the windows. I mean, it was what an
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  Speaker 3: amazing venue. It was cool, it wasn't warm, it was
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  Speaker 3: really nice in the building. And yeah, the fans were
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  Speaker 3: it was. It was well done and I think it's
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  Speaker 3: something that's going to be I see how they do Tampa.
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  Speaker 3: But for that, that was like perfectly executed.
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  Speaker 1: I was about to say Tampa hosting an outdoor game
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  Speaker 1: February first, So I'm with you, that's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more concerning. This was smart because the fact that it's
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  Speaker 1: obviously well done with the refrigeration and keeping the roof.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as you said, it was a cool atmosphere, Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how that's gonna work, but as you said,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of like execution, NHL has been a plus
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  Speaker 1: with this, and you get casual fans right that they're
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  Speaker 1: not really into hot but they love watching the Winter Classic.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a huge hit.
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  Speaker 3: It's great and the MC was pretty darn good as well.
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  Speaker 3: Outside and you're hearing, oh, is that Jason Emers, Yes
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  Speaker 3: it is, folks.
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  Speaker 4: It's me, like you said, like a.
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  Speaker 2: Richard Dawson family feud type. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: You were just channeling that kind of style, just like
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  Speaker 1: everybody fired up like a raw raw guy.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of getting fired up, rosters officially in for the
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  Speaker 1: Winter Olympics taking off February sixth.
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  Speaker 2: A lot to go over here, So let's do Canada first.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Wilson, Nick Suzuki, bohorvat In, Sam Bennett, Mark Scheifeley
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  Speaker 1: Connor out thoughts on that first five. But Dar's a
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  Speaker 1: surprise to me because I just thought put him on
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  Speaker 1: the team and then if he's hurt and can't play,
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  Speaker 1: no problem, just replace him.
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  Speaker 2: But not even named the team.
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  Speaker 4: Your thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they they gave him the injury replacement nod. I
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  Speaker 3: think they kind of I don't know if they ever
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  Speaker 3: never wanted him on the team, and this injury kind
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  Speaker 3: of provided a little bit of a shelter for them
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  Speaker 3: to say, hey, no we're not taking him. It was
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  Speaker 3: you know, and then they kind of double down saying
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  Speaker 3: like the injury wasn't a part of it, and I'm like.
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  Speaker 4: You just admit it, Yes it was. It's like it's fine.
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  Speaker 3: You kind of didn't want him and you're like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: this is you know, do I think leaving him off
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  Speaker 3: was a good idea. I think he had earned, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to at least be potentially seriously considered for an extra.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, they have such a good team and
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  Speaker 3: they have so many options in Canada, it's just going
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  Speaker 3: to come down to the fit need for John Cooper
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  Speaker 3: and that coaching staff. You know, I for sure they're
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  Speaker 3: very much big on and team can undefined roles, not
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  Speaker 3: just taking the best possible offensive players. They want to
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  Speaker 3: find roles up and down the lineup. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the biggest one for me for Canada was probably on
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  Speaker 3: the back end. I think I understand the back end
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  Speaker 3: the trust you you know, as a defenseman, you want
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  Speaker 3: guys you're comfortable with, comfortable playing with, you know. But
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of guys you know that we're having
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  Speaker 3: good campaigns. Jacob Chickrian didn't even get considered.
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  Speaker 2: You've been big on Chickrin.
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  Speaker 3: I was big and I said we'd riot. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: still setting up that date to riot.
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  Speaker 2: You said that on an NHL network. I remember we
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  Speaker 2: all yeah, but.
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  Speaker 3: We're still setting up that date. I got to get
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  Speaker 3: a few things put together for that. But uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of moving parts when you want to riot.
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  Speaker 3: Uh you know people what whatnot in flights and you
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  Speaker 3: know schedules. But sure, uh, you know, I think you
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  Speaker 3: know a lot of people, said Matthew Shaffer. But I
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  Speaker 3: think you know Matthew Shaeffer's first year. I think they're
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  Speaker 3: cognizant Team Canada of like how much hockey they want
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  Speaker 3: him to play, because this is like the most hockey
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  Speaker 3: he's played ever, and it's like he's adding the Olympics
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  Speaker 3: on top of that. I think would be a disservice
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  Speaker 3: to him and would just you know, would just kill him.
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  Speaker 4: He's a young kid, so I think he's going to be.
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  Speaker 3: In every Olympics and World Championships if he's not in
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs moving forward, But this was I think this
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  Speaker 3: was a good decision. Who knows, you know, we're still
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  Speaker 3: far away. There's still a month left, and in a month,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of injuries, and you could see with
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  Speaker 3: this condemnsed schedule and with the way the injuries have
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  Speaker 3: been mounting on a lot of teams. You know, Devon
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  Speaker 3: Taves just went down in Colorado. You could see him
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  Speaker 3: slide in potentially to this spot if there's more than
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  Speaker 3: one or two injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Canada very center heavy. They added four forward to weren't
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  Speaker 2: at four nations.
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  Speaker 1: Three of those guys are centers celebrating Suzuki and horror
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  Speaker 1: fat As far as the Americans are concerned, you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: roster construction of Canada's very cognitive, having guys playing their
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  Speaker 1: correct roles.
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  Speaker 2: Billy Garrett was clear about that. I think it's a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: He's not gonna have Jason robertson there. Cole Kawfield because,
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  Speaker 1: as he said, no, we like having structure like guys.
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  Speaker 2: I was certain to find rules.
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  Speaker 1: Adam Fox, Lane Hudson are out your thoughts of the Americans,
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  Speaker 1: particularly Robertson RoboCop not making the list.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you have Robertson to Brincat in Caufield. You got
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  Speaker 3: to take one, like, you got to take one of
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  Speaker 3: those guys because you need game breakers. And what happened
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  Speaker 3: to I know, four nations is only four teams, and
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  Speaker 3: but the US lost too in a one goal game essentially,
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  Speaker 3: so they lost in a one goal game. They needed
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  Speaker 3: that moment where it doesn't matter if Cole Coffield or
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  Speaker 3: Jason Robertson are having a bad game. They find the
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  Speaker 3: back of the net and they find a way. And
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  Speaker 3: I find it very shocking that you would leave off,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the top US board goal scorer right now
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  Speaker 3: at the moment, and Jason Robertson and the points leader,
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  Speaker 3: and it's Donning. You know, his the way he is
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  Speaker 3: on the power play, the way he can you know,
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  Speaker 3: he scores these weird goals where you're like, how did
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  Speaker 3: this go in? But he's just got a nose for
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  Speaker 3: the net. And you know, I thought he was having
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  Speaker 3: a great year. So I'm very surprised. I know they
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  Speaker 3: seem to be really leaning on his playoffs and how
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  Speaker 3: kind of at times he you know, can disappear in
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs or he's not you know, as as dominant
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  Speaker 3: when the you know, not as dominant when kind of
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  Speaker 3: the stakes are elevated. But I just think it's a
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  Speaker 3: big mistake, and I think this US team is probably
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  Speaker 3: the most pressure on them moving forward because if they
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  Speaker 3: don't win, everybody's looking to looking at Billy Garrin for
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  Speaker 3: Robertson or Cowfielder to Brincats. So to me, I think
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  Speaker 3: their decor is one of the most stout in UH
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  Speaker 3: in this tournament. I know the Adams quite huge Jakeson,
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  Speaker 3: but I think Seth Jones earned it over him, And
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  Speaker 3: after that, I think those other five is pretty set,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and I don't think after you know, it
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  Speaker 3: was either Fox or Jones and you're not bringing one
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  Speaker 3: of them as an extra. So Jones gets it, and
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  Speaker 3: then he gets injured in Florida after Matthew could Chuck
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  Speaker 3: drapes the Olympic the you know, the US flag during
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  Speaker 3: the during the anthem when they announced the team USA.
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  Speaker 3: He drapes the US flag on his shoulders with Adam
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  Speaker 3: Fox and the Bill, and then Jones proceeds to get
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  Speaker 3: injured in the game, So you know, call that karma
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  Speaker 3: or whatever it is. But I think he hopefully's okay,
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  Speaker 3: and because he's really earned it. Seth Jones the way
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  Speaker 3: he's played, and I love their decore, I like their goaltending,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just those three guys up front. I think
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  Speaker 3: they made a mistake and not bringing one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely built from the back end.
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  Speaker 1: Jones in front of NHL and scripted our friend Tony
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  Speaker 1: Luff and the NHL Network saying with the guards of
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  Speaker 1: Jason Robertson, he said, I love the Herb Brooks line
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  Speaker 1: form miracle, not looking for the best players, looking for
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  Speaker 1: the right ones. Jason Robertson is both. We'll see it ultimately.
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  Speaker 1: If that ends up harming with the.
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  Speaker 3: Guards of Bill g A, then I want to ask
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  Speaker 3: you a question. Please, you know reason five thousand of
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  Speaker 3: why we need a video element for the show. Like
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: Tal Pinchewsky has been coughing up along since we started
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  Speaker 3: the show, and if people can see this right now,
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  Speaker 3: I feel bad because he needs a lozenge or something.
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  Speaker 4: And Tal, what's going on right now?
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  Speaker 2: Because I just noticed a squinting. I didn't see the coughing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh he's been he's been hacking a lung up there.
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  Speaker 3: Tell what's going on? It's got whooping cough.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, whooping coughs, brutal geez.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know it's not it's just yeah, you
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  Speaker 4: could never use that mic again.
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  Speaker 1: But it does raise the larger issue with JD is
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  Speaker 1: saying a little hon your meeting right now? Can we
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  Speaker 1: get a video element? People have been saying a podcast
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. How do you guys don't have
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: a video element? How are you not on YouTube? I
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  Speaker 1: can just watch your show.
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  Speaker 3: We might as well be chiseling on rock and sending
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  Speaker 3: it out to people.
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  Speaker 2: We're old school here. Tell put it in some of
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  Speaker 2: the other teams.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care that much, but if you want to
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  Speaker 1: just give it a little cursory thought here j D
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  Speaker 1: Sweden highlighted by a pair of wild goalies Yes for
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  Speaker 1: Volstad and Phil Gushism, as well as the absence of
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  Speaker 1: Mattias Echo, Michael Beckland and our guy William Eckland Finland
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  Speaker 1: what we expected, Oliver Captain making the cut finish need defense.
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  Speaker 1: That's where Jason Deverz needs to be finished and just
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  Speaker 1: go listen. You guys don't even have enough defenseman.
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  Speaker 2: I can do it. I'll be six defense, no problem.
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  Speaker 3: Well they always just well it's different than four nations
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  Speaker 3: because they don't have to take NHL guys. There's a
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  Speaker 3: couple guys, you know, Miko Lettnin's in there. I think
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  Speaker 3: there's one or two guys that are playing in the
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  Speaker 3: Finnish league that are brought there. But I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 3: there's some there's some teams. You know, Team Sweden's my
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  Speaker 3: dark course to win it. Uh, I think they're stacked.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't love the Willy Eckland snub. I think we
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  Speaker 3: had him on the show fan of the show. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I was a little shocked at that. So that's my
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  Speaker 3: Team Sweden number one. The best part of that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: offer sheet by the Saint Louis Blues, is that Philip
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  Speaker 3: Robert gets the nod ahead of Mattias at home for
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  Speaker 3: the Olympics, and just more salt in the wounds that
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  Speaker 3: they kind of gave up.
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  Speaker 4: On him for eck home.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, Broberg's just having a good year, even
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  Speaker 3: though you know, Saint Louis is still kind of the hunt.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm surprised with Willy Eckland. I thought he
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  Speaker 3: did enough to earn it. But this Swedish team is
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  Speaker 3: they're sneaky man. They go and win World Juniors and
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  Speaker 3: then now can go back to back and maybe do
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  Speaker 3: the World Championsschampionship's that Jesus Christmas World Championships as well,
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  Speaker 3: and do the triple crown.
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  Speaker 2: I like to call it nice. Well, let's tako little
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  Speaker 2: World Juniors Junior mafia.
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  Speaker 1: As Sweden beats the Checks four to two in Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: win their first World Junior Hockey Championships ince twenty twelve.
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  Speaker 1: That's a back when Meeka has been a jadd scored
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  Speaker 1: the ot winer for the Swedes. You just saw Mika
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  Speaker 1: putting on a show there at the Winter Classic. Canada
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  Speaker 1: does get bronze six to three win over the Finns,
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  Speaker 1: but it was disappointing obviously for Canada. McKenna had a
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  Speaker 1: strong tournament I will say fourteen point seven games, but
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  Speaker 1: ultimately I was texting our friend A J. Raddick was
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  Speaker 1: calling the games for USA and when USA lost to
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  Speaker 1: fell and he said the door is open for Canada.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, let's go, he said, but Checkie is going
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  Speaker 1: to be tough. Ultimately, Canada falls in the semis. Sweden
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  Speaker 1: ends up winning it all I care about as long
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  Speaker 1: as Canada wins on home soil next year's Red Deer,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be setout. It's like it's been three years
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  Speaker 1: and we have a won, right USA unable to three
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  Speaker 1: people the first time ever. The Americans don't win on
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  Speaker 1: home soil for the first time, as long as Canada
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: wins and Red Deer will be happy. But I think
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: it is good news JD for the sport overall, when
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: in the past it was always Canada winning. Now it's legit,
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: like now other teams are true contenders. You will see upsets,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: and I think certainly frustrating for Americans, not only losing
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: on home soil, but not great crowds in Minnesota.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: They love their.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: College hockey, they love their high school hockey, but disappointing
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: attendants for the World Juniors in Minneapolis, Saint Paul.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is supposed to be the state of hockey, right.
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: What happened? MANI? Where were you? We're Warriors coming out?
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: You didn't want to watch the Latviaver's Denmark, particularly your
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: fancies in minus sixty degree weather?
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Whatelse?
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: Was were you doing ice fishing? Come on, get out there,
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: you know the US. You know, people were really harping
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: on that, and I'll touch on that quick is you know,
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: I just think that the World Juniors might not do
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: it for the Americans, especially in Minnesota. But I don't
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: know why they wouldn't give it. You know, you put
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: the Winter Classic in Florida. I tweeted about this. Why
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: not put the World Juniors the next time it's in
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: the US in Florida. Put it Put it in a
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: tourist area, you know, because during the holidays, a lot
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: of people are traveling, you know, and I think a
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: lot of people are getting out of this and the
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: win and everybody. They're trying to go, Hey, let's you know,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: in the US, let's put it close to north and
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: we're gonna get the Canadians that are gonna come down. No,
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: the Canadians are gonna go to Florida. They're gonna go
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: to Disney World or whatever they're gonna do. So I
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: think why not attempt maybe putting it in South Florida
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: or Tampa Bay close to Disney World. You know, you
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: get some of the Europeans. It's a closer travel day
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: for the Europeans, because you want Europeans to come in
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: also and visit and come see their their kids, their
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: their their families, all that stuff. So you know, it's interesting.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: I would wonder to see if they'd entertain that. But
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: you know, to the tournament, you know, chech Ye they
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: played it. They out Canada, Canada, and there's a lot
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: of talks since that tournament of like minor hockey is
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: in shambles in Canada, and look at what we're doing.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: We're not winning.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: We're we were once a proud nation at the World Juniors,
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: used to crush everybody.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Now we're not.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: But and I kind of jumped on that train a
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: little bit because I watched that check you game and
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: I was pulling my hair out because defensively, I think,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: you know, I just don't think they had a good tournament.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: I think they were you know, goaltending was okay, but
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: their decoor was was very, very sloppy. You know, miss
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: cues all over the ice. You know, I know Zane
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Perrek won, you know, the points score, defenseman of the tournament,
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: set records, but defensively he was porous.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: He was not helping.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: You know, they were just very much looking only for
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: offense and only for that power play. So but when
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: you look at the Canada team, they had six guys
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: that are in the NHL. And if you have those
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: six guys, you know, Maclin, Celebrady and Matthew Schaeffer both
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: qualify for.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: The World Juniors.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: If they're there, they dogwalk the whole tournament. They win
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: by six thousand goals, just because they have two of
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: arguably the best players in the NHL right now, you know,
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: not just the World Juniors. So you know, it's fun
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: to see these other teams getting up in Sweden's really
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: developing a lot better, so as Chechia. They're starting to
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: play a really good brand of hockey. So I don't
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: think Canada's in trouble necessarily, but I do think that
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: they're there is an issue that they need to start
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: looking overall in the way you know, Canada hockey's being
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: played and being taught. So that was my takeaway from
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: the tournament. You know, that was my uh what I saw,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: and I don't think listen, we're looking at the first
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: overall pick. No one really separated themselves. You know, the
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: best player of that top three was Stenberg in Sweden.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: I know, had thirteen points, but he was he was
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: he was kind of a power play merchant. Sorry fourteen points.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: He was a power play merchant in that tournament. And
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: he didn't and verahf either like Veraoff didn't start the tournament.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: He didn't play great, neither did McKenna. So I'm a
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: little it's gonna be interesting to see you could see
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: a surprise pick first overall this summer in July.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Stuke Grimson, the grim Reaper, said to me while
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: watching the game. He said, listen, I think unless mckinna
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: gets hit by a bus, he's a number an overall pick.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: He said, this guy Steenbrick is unbelievable. Like, this guy's
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: an absolute stud And I'm with you on that. He
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: had an excellent tournament.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Hit by a bus in Grimson fashion.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like this sulf doesn't happens too.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: A couple more talks, we gets to our special guest flyers,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Rodrigo Obbols. The Jets are grounded, The Sins are struggling.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: The Jets at the bottom of the NHL standings for
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: winning the President Trophy last season. General manager Kevin Schall
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: they have spoke to the media on Monday and didn't
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: have twenty answers admitting he didn't necessarily see it coming.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: We've talked with the Jets JD. They're old, they're slow,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: they only have one line, etc. How about Ottawa though
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I just got back to the nation's capital. The Sens
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: lose to Red Wings money their last Atlantic Division GM
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Steve Sales says that we have adjusted the team's expectations
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: when he said Auto will contend when we're ready. I
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: root for Travis Green, but I feel bad for him
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: because I'm watching that game.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: They're up nine to zero shots, they're all over. The
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Red Wings had a goal.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Tom McClean smartly calls time out, has the goal disallowed,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the one chance to get Bam back of the net.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Red Wings were like out shot sixteen to seven, yet
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: led three to nothing after one. That's what happens when
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: you're relying too much on Levy Marilin and as Lenis
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Olmark is out due to personal reasons.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Outawa deserved better.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: But this could be disappointing after making the playoffs last year.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Are they taking a step back? They just need gold,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: you know. And again I think this Atlantic in the
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Eastern Conference, I mean, they're four points out of a
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: playoff spot. So it's not. It's not this grave danger.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: I think the Jets are awful. I mean, put a
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: fork in them right now.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: This is this team.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: They had an opportunity last night to win, and you know,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: they gave up that goal lead, and I just think
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: they're you know, and I think, you know, for me,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: I was going sell it, sell the farm. And I
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: saw somebody who read somebody talking about it. This could
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: be like a good kind of you know, you know,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: it seems bad and it seems bleak, but they could
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: just fall themselves out of the playoffs, pick up a
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: top three pick, and then be right back to where
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: they are because they have all the piece They have
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: a lot of good, high end pieces that are locked up,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: so it's not like they need to sell the farm.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: They just maybe get a top three pick, they get
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: a Stenberg or they get a McKenna and Averrhaf and
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: they're off to the races. So and they just kind
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: of rebuild on the fly. It's not even a rebuild.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: This is a retool. But yeah, there there's no way
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: they're making the playoffs. They they We said it three
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: weeks ago, four weeks ago, we talked about it's getting
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: late early I mean it's passe do it's uh, you know,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: the alarm's not going off. They hit snooze one thousand times.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: You ain't getting up now he's dead? Are you just
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: you just watching tal Kospa.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: They're coughing up a lung right now, just like tall.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Is our last topic before we get to our special guest.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: A big week for your boy, Austin Matthews. The leaves
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: are still digging their way out of this hole, but
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: after Austin Matthews getting buried in Toronto.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: He's back. This is what Austin can do.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Seven goals, eleven points to a current five game points
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: streak at least went three to zero to two. He
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: was in the NHL's third Star of the Week. He
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: passes Matt Sundeen the franchise leittering goals.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Nice moment last day. He sees Sundeen out there honoring him.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: The city Toronto was done with this guy two years ago,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: but he scored sixty nine goals two seasons ago.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Is Austin Matthews back?
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Add Nan a very stute question and his stute observation, Yeah,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Austin's playing. Austin's playing, and uh, you know the best
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: hockey of his season and and maybe the last couple
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: of years. And you know, we've always wondered with him
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: with injuries, and I think at the end of the day,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: that might be something that hampers him long term. But yeah,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: this team's kind of really dealt with a lot of adversity,
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: a lot of injuries. I was out, you know, talking
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: about I've hedged my bets saying they were going to
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: miss the playoffs on the NHL Network and then here
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Nostra demurz and I'm saying, I think they still sneak in.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: They're built for the playoffs.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: So I like hedging all over the place because then
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: I'm never wrong and I'm always right in some format.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you abought that, because last week you're like, yeah,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I said the Leaves were going.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: To make it.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I go, I thought you said this was the Leafs
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: team that was built in Craig Bruby's image.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: They were heavy on the buck. I thought you actually
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: said this was their best chance to be successful.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: So I just, okay, I'm like, the key to this
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: business is you just convolute the waters enough.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Like the Ducks when I'm definitely no he definitely said
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Ducks plaffs.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Now, and I'm going to say the Ducks are miss
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: it now. I'm going to turn that I've been saying
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: it all year. Ducks are gonna miss too much information
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: out there. Yeah, the Ducks are struggling right now. Jesus
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: get to the mayple leafs. Yeah, they've just been man,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: they just kind of ham an egget. Troy Stetcher comes in.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: He's playing some great hockey. You know, Jake McCabe's out,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Brandon Tannem's out. They get Brandon Carlo back. You know,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Stolars is out, and you got Joseph Wole kind of
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: finding his footing, you know, the missing Willie Neelander. But
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Austin Matthews the kind of key point, the engine that
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: drives the bus here is he's been scoring, man, and
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: when he's scoring, they're a very dangerous dominant team. So
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: him and Matthew and I have been really good together,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: playing some good hockey, and hopefully they can keep it up.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: They got the one thing I noticed I was looking
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: at some stuff today is they got fifteen games until
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: the break, only one against a division opponent.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: So the rest are all out West in one sentence
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: from one Metropolitan So that's a that's a tough schedule
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: where you're you're not getting those kind of points playing
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: your division, and then after the break, it's all you're
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: it's all their division. So it's gonna be very interesting
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: to see. So you need to kind of get those
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: points because if you're too far back come the start
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: of you know, post break, now every game is a
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: four point game. You know you're losing the teams in
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: overtime where you're winning an overtime and teams are getting
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: the loser points and the kind of floating.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: So this is their moment. They got to make a
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: push here.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing worse than the loser points, like, oh we lost,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: we got the play come on like.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: At the end the day, like what we three two
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: to one. Would be nice for one season for them
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: to try it out at the NHL.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I'm with you, I think it's appalling quite frankly.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: In the Eastern Conference, the number one team is Tampa
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Bay fifty five points in Carolina and the.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Columbus Blue Jackets are worst at forty three.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Twelve points separates everybody like that's ridiculous, like that.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: How about in the Pacific not one team in the
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Pacific would be in the playoffs in the East.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: The Pacific sucks Vegas so bad. Vegas lost eight of
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: nine games and they went up the standings.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: It's stupid seat so funny.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Anyways, coming up next, this guy is an unbelievable gass
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and a great guy of roof for seventh round pick
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: way back a day but the Vancouver Canducks and right
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: now he's got a home in the Philadelphia Flywers.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Rodrigo Obbols is going to the Olympics for Latvia.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: He's got great stories of what his experience has been
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: like overseas and also now playing in Philly.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: He's coming up next right after this on NHL unscripted
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: our special Guest Draft.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: In the seventh round, one hundred and eighty fourth overall
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: by the Vancouver Canucks in the twenty sixteen NHL Draft.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: He signed as a free agent with the Florida Panthers
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, and, after years of playing in Sweden,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: made his NHL debut at the Philadelphia Flyers last season.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: He represented his native Latvia at the twenty two Winter
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Olympics in Beijing. He'll be back representing his country next month.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: In Milan, the only Rodrigo in NHL history. Rodrigo obbels
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: good to see him.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Man, How you doing good?
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Are you guys? Thanks?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Flixenf Flyers are rolling right now. Huge win against the Ducks.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Trevor Zegres was fired up last night.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: How good is it right now to be a Philadelphia
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Flyer and being a team that's playing better than I
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: think some people expected.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Sure, it's a lot of fun winning games, you know.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: I think we've done a good job this year of
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: kind of bouncing back from losses, and I think that's
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: what's keeping us up up high in the standings. And
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: you see how tight it is. You can really afford
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: to go on like a two to three game losing street,
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: otherwise you're down in the standings. So definitely a lot
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: of fun in the room once once you win the games.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: But even when we lose, I don't think we don't
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: lose the confidence and the trust in what we do,
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: so that that helps a lot as all.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Uh, Rodrigue, I'm a big fan of your story. I've been,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: you know, reading up on it the last few days
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: and just talk a little bit about that.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: A seventh round pick.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: I'm from the school of being a seventh round pick,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: you know, and I heard you know this year when
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Rick Tackett came in, you were only slated to play
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: like one game in the preseason, and then after game one,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: he's like, I need to see this guy again. I
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: need to see this guy again. You end up making
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: the team, and you know you've been a big piece
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: for this team.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: So just just.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Talk about your story and the lead up to getting
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: here and kind of a stabbing yourself in the NHL.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, obviously a journeyman type of the type of story,
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: but uh, kind of once once I was in Florida
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: and Covid hit, I felt like, uh went back to
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: Sweden and then uh as Bill Zido came in and
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: they kind of did a whole turn around there and
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: there's a bunch of stuff going on there where the
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: following season, like Tampa and Florida, we're fearing an HL team,
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: so there were any spots left to go there, so
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: we kind of parted the ways there. Uh. And then
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: the dream the dreams always obviously alive once you're while
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: you're playing. Uh, just trying to but it wasn't too
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: focused on it. And then the last summer Danny Danny
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Sens sends a texta agent and kind of I felt
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: to myself that I kind of all wait to come
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: and give it one more shot to kind of once
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: I'm done and finished, I kind of have an answer
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: to myself, could I or I couldn't. So I'm not
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: one of those guys so who tell the stories of oh,
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: you know, if that, that and that didn't happen, I
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: would be there, you know. So obviously a lot of
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: a lot of fun last year kind of having my
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: debut and boring Bowl. But then to kind of just
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: you know, you you experience the lifestyle of NHL and
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: you you want to scraw, the scratch and claw your
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: way to stay in it.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: That's the truth.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: So H got another contract, and yeah, I had a
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: good summer of training and uh had a good had
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: had a good camp and uh, I think I showed
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: the strengths I have. But you know, it's it's a grind,
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: especially this year when I'm here up up all year.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: It's it's definitely a challenge to kind of keep that
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: level every game.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's always important to have a good relationship,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: like you said, not only with the front of opposit
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: in terms of Danny bre are reaching out your agent
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: and giving you the shot, but also your head coach
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Rick talking it's his first season in Philadelphia, but he's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: a veteran coach. Clearly it seems like you're his kind
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: of player. What's your relationship like we talk, I.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: Think it's it's real good. Uh. I think I liked
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: it in the during the camp once once he got
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: to know each other, he kind of right away said
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: what he wants to see from me and what I
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: have to do to get into the lineup and to
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: stay in the lineup. And I think as a player
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: in my role, it's it's easier then because you're not
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: you're not thinking about that yourself. You're kind of just going. Now,
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: I've been doing the things that were feeing asked of you,
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: and uh, I think that helps a lot. And the
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: whole coaching staff as a as a whole has been
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: really helpful. Whenever there's a dip in the game, they
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: see it, they acknowledge it, they show a video, they
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: show you know, not only the bad, but also kind
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: of mix into good, so you can see the difference
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: of when you're playing good and when you're playing not
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: so good. So I think it's it's it's been all
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: good and you know, them coming in. I think it's
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: it's helped my case because when the new coaching staff
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: comes in, it's it's a fresh set of eyes and
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: kind of you have a new chance to through yourself maybe,
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: whereas you know, when you have a coach who's been
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: there for a couple of years here or you kind
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: of has his mind set up on where who plays.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean listen, you being a twenty nine
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: year old too, you understand kind of you know, sometimes
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: when you're younger, you're a little bit more hesitant to
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: take what the coach is saying. And you've kind of
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: explained the way you're trying to scratch and claws, so
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: you're going to do with the coach ask of you.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: But you know, being a twenty nine year old rookie,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: talk a little bit about that, like, you know, did
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: you guys have rookie party yet? And if you did
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: have rookie party where the guys like, hey, take it
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: easy on him, because you got some twenty four year
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: old veterans being like, hey look at this rookie, and
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: you got you know, you got a kid you're you're
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: twenty nine, you've been in the Olympics. Just talk a
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: little bit about that being your age and being a rookie.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: No, the rookie party is still on tap, so it's
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: still on the way here. It's such a condensed schedule
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: with the Olympics. It's honestly they've been fighting their way
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: to to kind of fit it into the schedule because
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: now I think in January we have like fifteen game
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: to thirty days. So no, it's it's it's been a
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: lot of fun.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: Obviously there's a lot of like I'm older, so I
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: kind of know the game, but there's still a lot
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: of things I don't know here that I'm still learning
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: every day myself, so just trying to do my best
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: whatever I can. So it's it's definitely been a lot
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: of fun. But there's hasn't been a lot of a
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: lot of hazing and stuff like that like back in
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: the day, so that's probably a good thing like that,
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: So I don't don't feel as a rookie that bad.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: So yeah, and you turn thirty this week, so you
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: can hold your own. If anyone tries to, he can
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: beat up. And as far as his team overall, Zecres
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: has been a great story rod Rigo, He's been a
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: point of game player, obviously rejuvenated in Philadelphia. Travis Kneky
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: has been wonderful for years. Obviously, Sean Couturier has been
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: a great leadership player. Sanahaim's going to the Olympics. Who's
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: somebody on this team that you've gravitated to. Who's somebody
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: that you have a good relationship with?
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: I mean, naturally with the sweets as I played in Sweden,
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: so lo on, so that those are the guys that
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: are kind of kind of hanging around with the most.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: But you know, there's cubbing in last year. You hear
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: about how good the room is and you're like, okay,
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: like how good could it be? But then you see,
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: like from day one you get in, it doesn't matter
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: if you're a HL guy ANHLD guy. Everybody's bonding with everyone.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: Everyone's even like the you know, just making you feel welcomed.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: Like the first day I got into Gym, obviously I
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: didn't I didn't know anyone, but right away Scott Lawden,
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: who's down in Toronto, he comes up. He's like, hey man,
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: nice to meet you, Like we talked about the Worlds
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: of the year before we played in the World else
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: He's Likeriga is my favorite city and like stuff like that.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: So I think that the you know, they don't have
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: to do it realistically, but you know, they take their
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: time to do it, and this makes every guy feel
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: welcome and feel more comfortable, which uh and obviosite. Then
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: it helps you perform better and you you know, the
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: more comfortable for you feel, the better you can play.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: So I think that's a good thing they got going
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: on here, and that's uh, you know, something I'd try
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: to keep doing now as well, whether it's here or
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: wherever I play in my career.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Who kind of keeps it, you know, the lightest in
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: the room because you know, I know Rick Talcket's a
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: little I played for him, his little gruff and can
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: at times. He likes guys to be locked and he
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: likes guys have fun too. So but like, who's kind
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: of the guy I know, do you have zegres? But
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: I know, you know, I played with Travis Connectney and
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: and Cuturia. I know these guys all have great personalities,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: But who's the guy that kind of keeps it light
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: and keeps everybody laughing in the room.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: No, I think I think Zegris is. Zegres is one
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: of a kind of I don't thin. I don't think
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: I've seen that guy have a bad day in my life.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: So you know, it's every day he comes in with
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: a smile and that kind of just affects everyone else
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: around where you just keep a positive attitude no matter
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: what happens. And they had they had some prank wars
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: going on here, so that was pretty pretty funny to
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: watch around. So it's it was getting a bit of
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: out of control. So I think it's settled down now
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: a little bit, but it was there was some good
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: stuff going off.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Oh best, let's hear it. Best prank Who's who's prank
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: and who?
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: And so far I'm not gonna name any names, but
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: there there was some you know that icy hot icy
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: one on the on the underwear.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Oh man, that's a disaster.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: I've seen that one done before.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but uh, for what it's worth, a guy who
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: got frank he was absolutely buzzing that night in the
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: game because that was done at the morning skirt. I'm
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: pretty sure he had like one or two goals. So
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: he's like dude, they have to get icy hot every
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: day now, so you know, hockey players are super surface, so.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: A little icy hot on the balls goes a long way.
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: I guess the leggs going for sure.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Just to go back to the world stage, you have
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: a couple of Lafean hockey legends, Rodrigo and your coaching
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: staff Sandus Oselnch and Archer's urbe. How big a deal
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: is it playing for two the all time greats from
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: your country.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: Yes, sand this is going to be new for me.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: I never never play for him behind a bench, but
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: you know you've heard the stories of uh, how great
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: of a captain he's been in the national team and
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: pretty much everywhere he's been, so uh, then he definitely
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: knows the time for the right word, and uh, Archers
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: have been have been really great. He's he's kind of
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: another guy who's you know, always positive, always giving you
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: motivation and kind of you know when day when they
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: speak up, everybody definitely shuts up and listens up because
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: what they you know, what they say, they mean it,
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: and that there's a reason why they're talking at that point.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Well, the Labvian program, too at the the world stage
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: is slowly improved year over year, and you guys really
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: stay in tournaments and I mean you only twenty three
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: you beat the Americans four to three and overtime at
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: the World Championships for bronze. You were on that team.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Talk a little bit about that experience and like are
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: you trying to pull from that going into the Olympics
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: this year?
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was that was a mind blowing experience. Uh,
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: you know, we start to tournament oh and two, and
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: that tournament is so short that like oh and two
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: is not really obviously ideal, and then we were outle
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: off like seven in a row, I think, or whatever
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: it was until until we lost to the Canadians and
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: the and the Semis there. But there's just another case
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: where actually their day, someone asked me like about, uh,
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: what's what's a good what's a good team? I guess
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: when you feel it. And there's like similar vibes going
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: between the Labdean team and here where everybody buys into
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: their roles and everybody's happy for each other. So it
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: doesn't matter who scores as long as the guy and
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: the you know, maroon in white jersey or in our
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: case here orange and black jersey. So as long as
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: the guy, the guy's their team. I year, you're happy
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: for him and you want to see guys do well.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: And uh, I think that's that's that's what keeps good
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: teams going, especially maybe teams were not expected to do
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: us as good. They kind of take it, take it,
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: you know, as motivation and obviously a lot different higher
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: the US team we're going to face in the first
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: game against the in the Olympics rather than the bronze game.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: But I think it's fun. I think everybody's excited. You know,
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: you watch these guys every day on YouTube pulling off
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: filight reels, and now you have four lines of them.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Who can you know, put you on Instagram? So that's
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: a big challenge for us. But like I said, for us,
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: we we love these short tournaments because it's just one game. Uh,
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: you know, anything can happen in hockey in one game.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: We're going to go out and do our best. And
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: I think that's since since the days of Bob Harley
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: and the national team, he's kind of changed that mindset
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: were before we would I remember when I started in
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: the national team, we're like playing the big teams. We're like, okay,
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: if we if we don't stay in early. It's done though,
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: you know pretty much for you we we're not even
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: like we don't even believe that we can win. But
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: since he came in, we're we definitely believe we can
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: beat every every team we're playing. And uh, that showed
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: I think in our results.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and part of that point, like you said, in
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: one game, anything can happen. You've got good goal to here.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: You've got Archer, Shee Loaves and Elvis mers liacoln So
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: how nice is having those goalies going into the Olympics.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, even even the blests. He is the
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: guy who almost pulled up Sid and so really good.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: He's still he's still kicking around. He's he's in Germany.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: I think he's two years from row. He's a goalie
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: of the year there, so I think he's just aging
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: like wine. So I think for us, it doesn't matter
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: who who who we put in that all all three
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: of them can give us a good chance to win
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: a game. And that's you know, really exciting, uh because
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: then you kind of play for the goalie. That's that's
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: kind of our our our we play with a lot
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: of hearts, so you see the guys even in the
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: in the world when we beat like Sweden, guys are
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: blocking shops with their faces and everything, the whole locker
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: rooms and ice pegs. But if you, you know, you
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: win the game, it's it makes it definitely worth it.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Uh, talk about being a dad as well, you know,
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: you try. I think it's four years old, yes, four
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: years old, like you know, seeing the you at the Olympics,
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: seen you at the World Championships, but you know it
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: was quite young.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: What jersey is he like?
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Does he like the Latvian jersey more than the Philadelphia
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: Flyers jersey?
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: Or is it just as he chosen? Yet? How's that
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: working out?
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's it's an awesome ads now. Uh, you know
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: he's he's pretty much understands what's going on after every
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: game now seeing him in the oh he does. Yeah,
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: it's it's super exciting. I remember we came back from
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: like the long road trip. Now obviously he doesn't understand
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: the road trips yet why I disappear for a week.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: But then I remember we came back late night. He
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: was already sleeping in my wife's Like he's waiting for you,
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: like you're the Santa Claus or something like he was,
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: you know, super excited for me to come back. And
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: he still sleeps in our bed, so and I remember
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: it late next to him, it's like three am, and
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: he like, I guess he felted me, like woke up sleep.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: He's a god.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: And I promised him on the off I usually take
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: him here to your training center, kind of get him
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: on the ice because you know you love to do it,
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: so I'll take him to start me.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: We're going to play hockey tomorrow. I was like, no, yes, yes,
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: but it's three Yeah, let's go back to sleep, all right,
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: and we'll pass it that. So as for New Jersey,
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: he's got the Flyers jersey right now. The national team
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: jersey has been ordered, so he'll have that in the Olympics.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: So I'm sure he he just represents whatever represents. So
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: it's it's definitely a lot of fun right now seeing
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: him go around kind of being pumped for me after games.
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: He's like even yesterday, I was kind of like feeling
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: down on myself, like I don't think I had the
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: best first period. Obviously that goal against I wish I
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: could get back, but luckily the guys pulled through and
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: we won but then even like how we were dressing
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: for for to go to bed and he's like that
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: you played really well, and I was like, oh, buddy best.
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: So it just kind of warmed her heart, you know.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: It's like you're mini me. It's fantastic. Yeah, exactly, supporting
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: in Lovey the whole way through. I have to ask you,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: how did you get the name rod Rigo? That doesn't
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: strike me as a common Laftean name.
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: No, there was a player. I think Rodrigo Lovins Uh.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: He was really good friends at the time with my dad,
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: So I think that's where the inspiration come from. And
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: there are some funny stories for sure with.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: With the name.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: I think when I wrote to my billip mom in Portland,
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: first of all, she couldn't believe that, like I was
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: writing in English so well, and she's like, no chance,
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: this is the guy writing it. And then she's like,
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: you do, Brodrigo. Is this like a Mexican or a
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: Spanish guy coming? And it's the same in Florida when
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: I order an Uber, I get into Uber and the
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: guys go right away kept Pusa. I'm like, no, no,
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: that's I got nothing in Spanish. Sorry, just nake.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Well, I was gonna ask, like, your English is fantastic,
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: and do you know did you learn playing in the
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Swedish league, because you know you don't have any lappings there,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: so she kind of got to you got to speak
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: English with the guys or how'd you kind of learn
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: because you're you're like I said, you're fantastic.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, English was pretty much so that that played in Sweden.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: So it's more like when I was a kid. First
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: of all, you know, you're watching TV and when you're
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: a kid, you're just a sponge, so you're just picking
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: up everything and in English. So English was kind of
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: the second language I learned, and it was sweetish and
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: starting school I also picked up rushing because it was
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: mandatory in our in our school and back in the day,
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: so brocking four languages. So it's a helpful.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: O Seki's guy right now, who.
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: You got Swedish? Yeah, So that's pretty much English is.
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: You know, it's even in school back home, it was
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: like starting from second grade, we have to learn it
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: in the school I was going to, So it's been
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: around my my whole life.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: I did all that, I like I said, you could
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: fool anybody, don' when we think you're laughing, they think
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: you're just some guy.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: From Russian too.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, tw what do you got for Rodrigo?
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: Just a couple of quick ones, Rodrigo.
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: I'm curious about your international experience, you know, obviously it
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: took you a little while to finally get to the NHL.
• 42:03
  Speaker 7: Between playing in Swede in COVID and your experience in Florida,
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: I mean, I gotta know, what, what's the closest you
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: came to thinking to yourself maybe I'm just not gonna
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: make it or did you never give up on that
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: dream to be in the NHL.
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: Uh? I think after like the COVID one coming back
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: and you start realized, like twenty four, twenty five, twenty six,
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: you're like, Okay, I guess, like you know, for me
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: playing like playing in the world, when I play against
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: you guys, you know, I feel like I can't play there.
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: So that's what kind of kind of like, you know,
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: it keeps the dream alive, I guess. And then just
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: stringing a couple of good years together in Sweden, you know,
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: just it's a lot a lot about like the place
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: and opportunity and I feel like for here for me,
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: this was the perfect place and opportunity to come and
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: try kind of last year in the situation flyers where
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: there were some openings in the center to try and
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: make it. And you know, I don't think last year.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: I had the best camp last season, coming in for
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: the first time, she first time, a lot of new stuff,
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: smaller ice again, getting used to all this stuff. But
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: that helped me, I think this year to prepare in
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: the summer better, knowing what I need to work on
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: and kind of working out my game in the summer.
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: So but yeah, for sure there's spotsbery you don't think
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: like okay, it's dead, but you're like, okay, the chances
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: of getting back are getting smaller and smaller every year.
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: But then you know, looking around my best friend who's
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: in in Florida, Bolinskas he he had a similar kind
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: of story where he would get b man and and
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: then uh in the Czech League signed signed a contract,
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: went over pert seriously. He didn't play that much in
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: the in the playoffs, but still was was there on
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: the team for the first Stanley Cup. In the second year,
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: he played a couple of games, scored a big goal
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: against Toronto, so he kind of like in a in
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: a way inspired. Okay, it's it's possible, like he just
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: did it, like why not me? And uh, luckily I
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: get the chance to do it, and.
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: You mentioned right place, right opportunity. I've got to get
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: your impression of Philadelphia. Ad NaN's a big Philadelphia sports guy. Eagles, Phillies, Sixers.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: The fans suck.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Look Eagles right here, ready to go big game for
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: the Eagles on Sunday.
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: All the teams are enjoying a moment right now. It
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: seems I'd love to hear your sort of welcome to
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: Philly moment and just your your impression so far the city.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's it's been great. I have no no
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: what do you say, No, no complaints at all. I've
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: loved every minute I've been here. You obviously you see
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: the you know Phillies had a good regular season. There
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: the Eagles winning the super Bowl last year, and you
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: see and how how rowdy and how rallied behind the
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: teams the fans get. I think that kind of also
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: motivates the guys like, hell, we we want to be
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: there as well. We want to be that team who
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: like gets rallied behind. So it's it's absinitely a lot
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: of fun.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: When's my first Eagles game this when we got back
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: this Sunday where I played the Commander, So that was
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: that was fun. Uh obviously discover.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: The brutal game to go to the I know, I know,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: we got.
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: Some tickets in the suite, so I think it was
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: it was it was nice to go too. So uh,
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: you know, even even like again back to my kid,
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: he kind of still understands it and he loves the
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: e A. G. L. E. S stands. So whenever he
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: got to touchdown, he was pretty pretty pumped up. So
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: it's it's it's it's it's fun. It's definitely a lot
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: of fun. So U and it kind of like makes
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: you want to perform better than uh maybe expected again
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: and you know kind of you see the crowd we
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: had we had yesterday and for it's similar in the playoffs.
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: So that's something we want to bring back to the
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: to the city of Philadelphia.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Well, it's been a fantastic here for the Philadelphia Flowers.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Watching that game last night, when Jim Jackson said the
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: Flowers officially the halfway mark of the season and on
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: pace for over one hundred points. That is eye opening.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Fifty one points right now, forty one games played you
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: guys overall or third in the metro. But you got
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: games in hand on the Islanders and on the Hurricanes,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: So congrats and having a great season in Philadelphia.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Go Birds this Sunday against the Niners. And good luck
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: of course of the Olympics.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, thank you.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: I'm going to get my lapping jersey now, so all right, perfect,
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of yours man in your story,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: so keep it going, all right, I appreciate it.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Once again, thank you to Rodrigo Obbels.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: When it comes to Rodrigo's I love Rodrigo Prieto, who
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: is a great cinematographer. Work to Martin Scorre says he
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: kills the fire moon in the Irish move But that's
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: of course where my brain goes when it comes to
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Cinephile in sixty our best films in twenty twenty five
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: will kick it off with number ten, A Little Prayer,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: a little independent film.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: It's by the Southern Family.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: David Strathairn unbelievable, one of the best roles of his career.
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  Speaker 2: Really enjoyed this film.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: A Little Prayers by Number ten movie Number nine, Sinners.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Everyone's talking about vampire's blood, gore, white people, raping black culture.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: You got it? Really yes? Ryan Coogler might win an
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: Academy Award.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: Really yeah.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Ryan Coogler might win an Academy work Best Original Screenplay.
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  Speaker 4: I hate this list already.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Number eight.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Blue Moon Ethan Hawk will get his first nomination for
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Best Actor treat Performance Lorenz Hart. He's been promoting the film,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: by the way. He was on Colbert the other night.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: He was talking about Blue Moon, which he hopes people
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: are seeing. Obviously independent film can get the word out,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: and he said his sibl his kids are being asked,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: what's it like having a famous dad? They're like, what
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: nobody cares about that? It's all but Maya Hawk. Course,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: his daughter is in Stranger Things. Finally, wrapping up on
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. Number seven, What has been number seven?
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: I uh, number differs. It is Jay Kelly, which I understand.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: It's not for everyone's taste, as tal was saying, gets
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: annoyed by Noah bomb Back a little bit, but George
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Clardy the role fits him like a glove. I think
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: it's a literate script by Bombback and Adam Sandler giving
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: perhaps the best performance of his career. Maybe you'll finally
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: get that long awaited Academy Award nomination. Number six Paul
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Thomas Anderson, The Coronation is complete, one battle after another.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: My man has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards. He's
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: never won five times. He's been nominated for screenplay, three times,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: for Director, three times for Best Picture, never won Critics'
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Choice worths.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Just happened on Sunday.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: Pete Anderson wins Best Picture, Best Director, It's Coming, Best
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Adaptive Screenplay.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: It's Coming. Get Ready for the Oscars. Number five Magazine Dreams.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Major's would have been nominated for an Academy Award
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: until his private life went sideways. This film came out
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: two years ago and finally got released. Now came out
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: at sun Dance. Had a great stir modern day taxi driver,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: but a bodybuilder trying to overcome some personal demons. I
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: thought it was a brilliant film. Number five Magazine Dreams.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Number four, Bring out the Kleenex Hamnet. Jesse Buckley just
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: won Best Actress Critics Choice Awards. I think she should
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: win the Oscar for Best Actress. It's about William Shakespeare
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: and his wife, true life story. If you love period pieces,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: if you love to cry, if you like an emotional
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: moment at the theater, go watch Hamnet from Chloe Shao
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: previously won an Oscar for No Madland Number three. We're
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: gonna get Talis thoughts on this because he just saw it.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: It's Marty Supreme, one half of the Saftie Brothers. Josh
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Saftie timitated the better one, right, the better one. Let's
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: be honest. Betty Saftie makes this magic machine. Nobody liked it.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Josh Safties's Marty Supreme. It's become a sensation.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: A twenty four is a home for independent film.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: For them to put sixty to seventy million dollars in
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: an indie movie, This was a huge bet. They put
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: in Shallow May and one half of the Safties and
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: it's coming through big time. I know Shalla May with
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: this persona can be a little bit irritating, he can
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: be a little bit arrogant. He's smashing Kylie Jenner, but
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: he gives a hell of a performance. This is back
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: to back years though he's been brilliant. He was outstanding
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: as Bob Dylan didn't win the Academy Award. I think
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: this year he wins for Marty Supreme playing in the
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifties Ping Pong champion him versus DiCaprio. A great
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: head to head race number two, another Iranian masterpiece. It
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: was just an accident. Jafar Panah. He's the director. He's
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: been jailed in his native Iran for one year because
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: the films that he's made have been critical to to
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Italian regime. This film, I think will not only get
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: nominated for Best International Film, He's got a good chance
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: of getting nominated for Best Director. It's an incredible film
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: with a with a literally haunting ending. It is so
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: powerfully done and number one a streamer for you. It's
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: on Apple TV plus a four and a half hour
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: five part documentary, mister Scorsese, the best director of all time,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Just indulging the greatness of Marty. Rebecca Miller directed at
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Daniel day Lewis's wife Intimate stories about Marty does not
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: shy away from his personal foibles.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: The man has been married.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Five times, had a serious cocaine addiction. He's also getting
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: some of the greatest films.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Of all times.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: Married five times, that's right.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Stories about raging, bold taxi driver, Goodfellas, the Wolf of
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Wall Street. The Irishman is so much more, mister Scorsese
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: my favorite film of the year.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: Tal give us your thoughts on Marty Supreme.
• 50:18
  Speaker 7: Loved Marty Cypri. I mean, I'm a big Saftie Brothers guy.
• 50:21
  Speaker 7: I loved uncut Gems. I've been in on them since
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: the Lenny Cook film. The Lenny Cook film, I saw
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: that a screening of that and thought, who are these guys?
• 50:29
  Speaker 7: And they've been crushing it since then. I think we
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: can conclusively say that Josh is the He is the
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: brains behind the operation.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: Uh typical, you know, very Saffi Brothers, exhilarating anxiety.
• 50:43
  Speaker 7: Written, very New York, breakneck pace, NonStop. Chalomey is fantastic.
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: Like you said, it's it's between him and DiCaprio for
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: the Oscar and I love they They keep doing this
• 50:55
  Speaker 7: thing where like I've never seen more non actors cast
• 50:59
  Speaker 7: in a big film, like David Mammott has a small
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: role able Forrera.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: George are unbelievable, He's up, George, George Gervin has Like
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: these guys are not actors, They're.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: Just like Paul's husband of the movie Kevin O'Leary.
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: There's another one.
• 51:16
  Speaker 7: Isaac Musrati has a small like the actors in this film.
• 51:22
  Speaker 7: I loved it, A great film. I really enjoyed it.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw an article on Kevin O'Leary is saying
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: it was the first time he's been yelled at. They
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: did like twenty takes. He's like, I think we're good, Josh.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: Josh's like, no, we're good when I fucking say we're good, yeah,
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: And Larry's like, oh shit, okay, es this out is.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: A man from a shark take. Let's get to more
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: movie talk somewhat.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: Will Ferrell. We always love seeing Will Ferrell like King's Games.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: We've seen him where checkered face paint, dress up his
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: buddy the Elf. But this time New Year's Day, j
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: D Kings and Lightning Game dressed in full referees gear.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: He's even mimicking the.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Refs when they're making calls in the ice. Sometimes I
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: think things are played out.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: I gotta be honest with that. This thought was pretty funny.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: The fact he kept what the bit the entire time.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: I think, like, I honestly think Will Ferrell is high
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: on mushrooms every day I just he's living his best life.
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: I mean that guy, he's a great advocate for the game,
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: Like he's a true fan of hockey. And it's fun
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: to see when you have these celebrities that are big
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: fans like that. I mean, it's not like he's sitting
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: up in a suite. He is on ziglass, right, So
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: it's pretty funny when he's just sitting with What I
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: think somebody's said is like where did he source all
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: that gear from? Like he had the official helmet everything,
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: so I know he's not I wonder if he skates,
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: like I wonder if he actually skates at all and
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: plays just for fun or he just loves the game.
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: So it's always interesting to see these celebrities that are
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: super fans of the game if they actually skate, because
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: some of them don't. It's like, you love hockey and
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: you don't skate at all. I feel like it kind
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: of goes hand in hand a little bit.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Now, that's a good point.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Like there's guys Dennis Larry's always playing celebrity hockeys. Will
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Or Nett a course a big hockey fan. Do you
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: have a favorite celebrity interaction you have when you play
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: in the NHL.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: I mean when I played in the NHL. I mean
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: the one I always go to. I was like my
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: first year in San Jose, my first playoffs, and we
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: were in LA at the Staples Center, believe it or not.
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: And I always waited out in the tunnel before we
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: went on the ice, and I'd kind of give knuckles
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: to everybody. And so I'm waiting there and I'm sitting
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: there and it's like two minutes before we go out,
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: and the couple kids come running by at Staples Center.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: I called Staples afore it was Crypto dot com. I
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: just Staples A better name, better name. So the two
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: kids walk by and you know, in King's jerseys, and
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: they're like high five in me, and I'm like, oh,
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: what's up, guys, And I kind of look up and
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: their dad kind of walks by and you know, very
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: you know, sheep, sorry, sorry, sorry for bothering you.
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: And I look up.
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: It's David backhum like and it's like my first year,
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm twenty two, and I'm like holy shit.
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: So I'm like I'm like whoa, and he goes, hey, man,
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: he goes like, you might have my kids, like take
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: a picture with you, and I'm like sure, and I'm
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: like looking and the coaches room is like right across
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: the hall, and the media guy who's Tom Holly is
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: the assistant gam in San Jose. Now I'm like looking
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: at him and he's kind of like, we go for
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: it if you want to, like And if if they'd
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: have caught me doing a picture, I would have been
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: fucking sent to those I'm saying that I'm like Jesus
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: Christ is so somewhere. So somewhere in the household of
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: David Beckham, there's a picture of me, and I tried
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: to get a hold of it, but there's a picture
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: of me with his kids. So maybe his kids have
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: a picture of me on the fridge. But somewhere in
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: that house there's a picture of me, or on an
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: iPhone in the iCloud. It's on the cloud somewhere I
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: have a picture of David Beckham's kids, So.
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: I love to get it.
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: I heard I heard Victoria watches the show or listens
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: to the show. Because we don't have a video element,
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: so if she's watching poshpice she.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Listen, she'd be one of the show.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: If we had a video element, we'd have a chance,
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: but no video element not happening. All right, last thought
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: here ready to bear the Seattle cracking last week wondering
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: about Mason marsh with the Blue Jackets, Jad refused to
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: take the bait.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: He said, they're right in this thing.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Eight one and won their last ten games in a
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: playoffs the Pacific Division, Vegas, Anaheim, The Kings all struggling
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: out West. The Crackner a boring team. Let's be honest,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Layne Lambertho is just gonna keep them nice and dry.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Coppocco Eli told them in heading to Italy, they're gonna
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: be rested after the Olympics.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: Can seeatt'll make a run.
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: On this Pacific Division. That's an emick. And I was
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: talking about the Olympics to somebody saying the teams that
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: I was just on the phone with Alex Goldgowski yesterday,
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: a fan of the show.
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: Uh, And I said, how worried are you?
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm like, the Wild's got ten guys going
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: or eight or ten guys. He's like, I don't love it.
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: He's like, it's a lot of hockey. It's a lot
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: of hockey. And I'm like all these teams, these top
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: teams like Dallas. You know, I looking at Dallas as
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: like a potential team to sneak. They have a lot
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: of players, but no Robertson going, so he's going to
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: be healthy. But you look at all these big teams,
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: they all get a bunch of guys on floor, and
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: that's dangerous. Like condensed schedule Olympics, if you're not in
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: a playoff spot by the time you get to the Olympics,
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: I think it's really gonna be very difficult to calaw
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: your way back in after So I really feel like
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: these fifteen games are going to decide ninety percent of
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: the playoff teams. I think it really is this last
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: push because once you come back, you know, who knows
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: it's gonna happen in the Olympics. If guys are injured,
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: guys are gonna be exhausted coming back, and you don't
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: have much time once you get back. I mean, you're
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: on this final you know what is it. They're going
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: to be probably around close to sixty games, so you
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: have twenty games stretch. I mean, it's gonna be interesting
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: to see. So I think Seattle can do it with
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: with so many guys. I mean, you look at I
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: don't get it. It makes no sense to me. They've
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: went on this run since Lane Lambert had that media
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: scrum when he only allowed the team reporter or the
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: team media guy to ask him questions and he nixt
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: anybody else from asking them questions.
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: There's one on one.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's a bad look. Come on, there's a
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: bad look. But they've been on a run since. So
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: Lane Lambert pulling all the right strings. But you got
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: Philip Grew, Philip Grubauer, resurgence, Joey Decord. Not one guy's
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: got over thirty points on this team. It's like, how
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: the fuck are they doing it? But they just pull
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: it off, And I like, personally, honestly, I've watched a
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: couple of games. I haven't watched many Seattle games because yeah,
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: they're done. I got to focus on teams that are
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs. I guys are watching these fucking guys
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: Foresling on the call.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, I'm thrilled for for he calls it America's team.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: I goes cracking.
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: But maybe the Democrats team huge thing? Who would be
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: the Republicans team?
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: Dallas Stars got me something deep in the heart of Texas.
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: It's not really the Dallas is really more.
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  Speaker 2: Of like become more cause of Paulitan.
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  Speaker 4: You're right, yeah, be Florida.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: No, yeah, Florida or Utah, one of those two Utah.
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: No, that's the more Mons, that's the more Mons theme.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: We had an idea because JD and I are doing
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: a double dip today.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: We'll just see this later, say an NHL and scripted
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: by the way, guest heavy show Christian devoorka the Flyers
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: just on a new contract. Steve Cooley is my old
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: buddy from Toronto, and we have David Panoto, so heavy
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: guest list. What Jad and I wanted to do was
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: take our show, which again featuring three great guests and
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: cleaning NHL.
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  Speaker 2: Player and put it on unscripted.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: We were nixed though, by Bob Bender, so we had
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: to do this entire episode I'll see you in a
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: couple of hours and do another episode which could have
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: been a could have been a bonus NHL in scripted.
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we were.
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  Speaker 3: We were nixed by Bob en Tal because we were
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: we would be cutting We're taking food out of Tal's mouth.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: Meanwiley said we'd cover the costs, but you know he.
• 58:43
  Speaker 7: I appreciate the effort to double dip with the NHL network,
• 58:47
  Speaker 7: But you know a for effort.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: That NHL Tonight First Shift is like a podcast style
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: show to Jad's pointment, but we're going to do the
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: exact same thing later today would have.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: Been six billion dollar company. And you're telling me you
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: don't got the funds to throw video on. Come on, now,
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: help us out, folks. Let's out a petition.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get let's get the masses going here in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, let's try to get a video element for
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: NHL and scripted.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: See how that goes?
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: Soft?
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we get, we get the We get the one
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: shout out at every Winter Classic on the Jumbo Tron
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  Speaker 3: that is ten seconds. And I was sitting there with
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: what's with us, sitting there with Josh ketzup, and I.
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: Said, well there, hey, there's our marketing. We got it.
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: I said, I know that every single fan in the
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: stadium is looking at the board being holy shit. Let
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: me go check out on script they're not having a beer,
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: enjoying their night. Let me tell you a great job.
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: I appreciate, I appreciate, appreciate the help from the league.
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: I really do.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: We did record some new promos. Hopefully they'll get the
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: word going. Thank you.
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: What's gonna be high energy promos, folks, I'm not sure
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: about that.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. We'll see you next time.
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