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Roxy Bernstein on the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Hope for Utah Mammoth going forward, Proposed calendar changes for CFB + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Sean O'Connell Show from a Murdoch
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Speaker 1: Hyundai studio of ESPN seven hundred and ninety two.
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Speaker 2: To one half m Don O'Connell show.
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Speaker 3: Here on a Friday, we're lucky enough to welcome in
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Speaker 3: our guy Roxy Bernstein, talking a little NHL playoff, maybe
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Speaker 3: some potential changes in the college world.
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Speaker 2: Who knows.
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Speaker 3: The Utah Mammoth season is over, as you're hyper aware,
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Speaker 3: and you know, I wonder if you have any thoughts
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Speaker 3: now that we're in the post mortem. We're all digesting
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Speaker 3: kind of how it went on pace with what we
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Speaker 3: think the growth of this franchise is supposed to be.
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Speaker 3: But you get to look at it from the you know,
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Speaker 3: the outsiders view to some extent.
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Speaker 4: Look, it was a huge step forward for this organization
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Speaker 4: to get to the postseason, to get to the Stanley
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Speaker 4: Cup playoffs. Here in your two they did it. They
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Speaker 4: were close last year and fell shy, but they were
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Speaker 4: able to break through this year and this promising young
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Speaker 4: corps was able to get a taste of what the
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Speaker 4: Stanley Cup playoffs are like. But at the same time,
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Speaker 4: when you're sitting there knowing you had three you know,
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Speaker 4: a lead in an opportunity there in Game four, right
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Speaker 4: that you're right there. You tied it, then you took
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Speaker 4: the lead late in the third period, only to see
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Speaker 4: Vegas tie it and win the game at overtime, and
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Speaker 4: the heartbreak of losing Game five and double overtime, but
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Speaker 4: it shows you how close this team is and this
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Speaker 4: was a significant step in their building process. And now
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Speaker 4: the chore for Bill Armstrong and Chris Armstrong the front
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Speaker 4: office and for Andre Turney is okay, what do they
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Speaker 4: need to do to take that next step? A lot
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Speaker 4: of talents coming and you have to determine, all right,
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Speaker 4: his teach again, they're going to be ready. Where is simyshev,
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Speaker 4: spot In, etc. De noyer. But it's clear that this
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Speaker 4: organization is headed in the right direction. And this year,
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Speaker 4: even though it's the frustration of losing to Vegas and six,
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Speaker 4: was a significant step forward.
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Speaker 3: Those forward steps are fascinating, right because you talk to
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Speaker 3: people in you know, high level sport, no matter what
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Speaker 3: the sport is, and getting there is one thing. Staying
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Speaker 3: there is tougher. Getting to the top and staying at
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Speaker 3: the top are two different things. Getting to the playoffs
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Speaker 3: and winning series in the playoffs and becoming a real
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Speaker 3: championship contender. I mean, there's actually a pretty significant gap
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Speaker 3: between those milestones and you've got your core locked in, right,
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Speaker 3: So this team is the roster is going to remain
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Speaker 3: relatively constant from its like top two lines in a
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Speaker 3: lot of situations, your most important defensive pairings, all these
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Speaker 3: people are under contract and figured out.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot of accessory pieces.
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Speaker 3: But we've seen the importance of those accessory pieces again
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Speaker 3: in every sport, but especially as we're learning hockey. Man,
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Speaker 3: sometimes you need like ten good minutes out of spicy tune.
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Speaker 3: Are you need Kerfoot or tanneb or some of these guys,
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Speaker 3: And that seems to be where a lot of the
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Speaker 3: roster questions are for this team. When you look at
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Speaker 3: the contenders right now and the Stanley Cup playoffs, how
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Speaker 3: many of them are driven kind of in a sneaky
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Speaker 3: way by those non mainline guys.
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Speaker 4: You need to have those depth pieces, and you're going
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Speaker 4: to have injuries during the course of a season. It's
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Speaker 4: just the nature of the beast in the NHL, and
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Speaker 4: a lot of times in the playoffs, it's a war
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Speaker 4: of attrition. Who's healthy enough, who is ready to go,
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Speaker 4: and then your depth comes into question, and that's I
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Speaker 4: think something that needs to be addressed in terms of
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Speaker 4: that second level scoring. It's not just okay, getting goals
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Speaker 4: and points from guys like Keller and Gunther and Schmaltz,
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Speaker 4: and we know how critical they are to the team's success,
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Speaker 4: but it's the depth pieces. You've signed Logan Cooley to
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Speaker 4: a long term contract. Okay, now what's going to happen
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Speaker 4: as far as these young players. Will they be able
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Speaker 4: to break the lineup? Can they provide that depth or
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Speaker 4: do you need to go out and add to it.
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Speaker 4: One thing, I do think they need it. I don't
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Speaker 4: think I'm telling anybody that doesn't follow the Mammoth that
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Speaker 4: they don't know is they need to I think they
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Speaker 4: need to get a little sandpaper. I think they need
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Speaker 4: to get a little bigger physically, maybe on the third
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Speaker 4: fourth line, and add some pieces that will compliment what
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Speaker 4: you already have. You have a solid decore. Maybe you
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Speaker 4: could use another defenseman coming in. For example, Ian Cole
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Speaker 4: is an unrestricted free agent, but you're locked in with
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Speaker 4: guys like Sergachevin Wieger, Jersey, John Marino, who I thought
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Speaker 4: played very well in the playoffs, Nate Schmidt, who is
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Speaker 4: a veteran piece as well. If Simachev ready to make
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Speaker 4: that jump, and if you determine he is not okay,
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Speaker 4: then what are you going to add to the decor?
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Speaker 4: And then how confident you are in a backup goalie,
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Speaker 4: for example, with Vimeilka playing more minutes and more games
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Speaker 4: than anybody in the league, do you need to add
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Speaker 4: a second goaltender Because you know Vanachik I thought had
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Speaker 4: his inconsistencies this year. But now you're at the point,
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Speaker 4: Sean where you have your core in place. It's just
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Speaker 4: what are you going to add to it? And what
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Speaker 4: are those pieces? How can they compliment what you already have.
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Speaker 3: There is some conversation about Bear Turney and he in
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Speaker 3: the mid season when you're slumping a little bit, there
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Speaker 3: was apparently, you know, a lot of real push to
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Speaker 3: maybe make a change there, and then the team got
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Speaker 3: the ship righted and made the playoffs and played well
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Speaker 3: at least for some of the moments in the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: But good is the enemy of great in professional sports,
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Speaker 3: and if he is just good, then you're going to
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Speaker 3: have to make a change eventually. Your thoughts on coach
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Speaker 3: Bear and if he's the right guy to get them
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Speaker 3: over the hump they need to get over.
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Speaker 4: I've certainly been impressed with Andre does and the way
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Speaker 4: he has had patience with this young group, and every
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Speaker 4: year they've improved under his tutelage. Right, you look at
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Speaker 4: a succession rate. He's been the head coach of the
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Speaker 4: Mammoth and previously in Arizona for five years. Each season
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Speaker 4: they have improved, and that's I don't think you can
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Speaker 4: overlook that and take it for granted. But we also
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Speaker 4: know that I don't know how comfortable coaches will feel
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Speaker 4: in the NHL. For example, look what happened late in
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Speaker 4: the season, right, Vegas all of a sudden gets rid
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Speaker 4: of Bruce Cassidy, They bring in Torts and John Tortorella
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Speaker 4: leaves us to go to the Vegas School of Knights
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Speaker 4: and takes over for the last nine games and has
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Speaker 4: him in the playoffs. And you saw it also with
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Speaker 4: the Islanders, where with even less time left in the season,
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Speaker 4: they hired Pete de Boorr. It's unfortunately the life cycle
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Speaker 4: of coaches can be very challenging and it could be
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Speaker 4: a harsh reality at times. And Andre Turney for the
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Speaker 4: struggles that they had, and look, they had some key injuries, right,
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Speaker 4: Logan Cooley missed a good chunk of time, and he
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Speaker 4: wasn't the only one that was playing or trying to
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Speaker 4: play banged up. They had a number of guys in
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Speaker 4: an out of the lineup, which also you have to
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Speaker 4: take into consideration. And I guarantee you that's what the
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Speaker 4: front office looked at. But they also fell confident in
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Speaker 4: the direction Andre Turney had this thing going in and
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Speaker 4: then those final few weeks they started to hit their stride.
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Speaker 4: They made their push, they locked up the number one
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Speaker 4: wildcard spot and they were head to one in this series.
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Speaker 4: I think it was a tremendous growth and learning season.
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Speaker 4: Now you're looking for that next step and can you
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Speaker 4: get into the top three of the Central which is
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Speaker 4: going to be difficult considering how loaded Dallas is, what
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Speaker 4: Minnesota has. Certainly with Colorado, Saint Louis made it push
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Speaker 4: with a strong post Olympic break run that they made.
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Speaker 4: Winnipeg made a step forward after they got that off
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Speaker 4: to that horrific start. You get the sense the Blackhawks
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Speaker 4: are going to make a jump as well next year.
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Speaker 4: It's they're in the toughest division in hockey. I don't
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Speaker 4: think anybody can debate that, but are they ready to
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Speaker 4: make that next jump? And I think that's what they
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Speaker 4: have to determine.
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Speaker 3: Roxy Bernstein here on the seoan of Connell Show, talking
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Speaker 3: a little hockey Here on a Friday, Connor McDavid was
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Speaker 3: talking about how Edmonton has to stay ahead of the pace.
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Speaker 3: And obviously that's a franchise that's had a lot of
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Speaker 3: success as of late. But you know, he mentioned Utah,
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Speaker 3: he talked about Anaheim. He mentioned the San Jose Sharks,
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Speaker 3: and they get the number two pick this week. They
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Speaker 3: won their draft lottery. They had a five percent chance
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Speaker 3: and going number two, and they capitalized on the five
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Speaker 3: percent chance.
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Speaker 2: They will select two, which you know better than I.
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Speaker 3: That's now four years in a row they've drafted in
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Speaker 3: the top four, and more importantly, they've selected well. And
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Speaker 3: it seems like that is going to translate into on
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Speaker 3: ice results sooner than later with San Jose. So I
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Speaker 3: love where Utah is at, but staying with the curve
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Speaker 3: or ahead of the curve easier said than done.
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Speaker 4: And that's the thing is. Look, Anaheim was out of
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Speaker 4: the playoffs for eight years and they made back and
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Speaker 4: here they are one one with Vegas in round two,
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Speaker 4: and they bring in a coach like Joel Quinnville, they
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Speaker 4: shuffle their roster, bring in some key veterans who have
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Speaker 4: been contributors for them, and there's a rebirth in that franchise.
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Speaker 4: And luckily the Pacific Division right now is really down right.
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Speaker 4: Vegas doesn't seem to be as dominant as they were
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Speaker 4: in years past. Yes, they won a series, but right
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Speaker 4: now you're seeing, I think some holes in what Vegas
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Speaker 4: has and Anaheim is exposive of the first couple of
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Speaker 4: games of the series, even though that's one to one
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Speaker 4: going to Anaheim. To me, the Ducks have been the
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Speaker 4: better team in each of the two games, but Carter
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Speaker 4: hartstole Game one of that series. But Anaheim's a team
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Speaker 4: on the come, and the Pacific Division is there for
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Speaker 4: the taking. And that's what San Jose looked as you
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Speaker 4: talked about. They luck into the second pick, and they
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Speaker 4: certainly have hit on the picks that they have made
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Speaker 4: so far. And that's an organization right now that was
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Speaker 4: in desperate need and here they are. And the biggest
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Speaker 4: blessing for them, Sean is crazy to found, was them
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Speaker 4: not making the playoffs, because if they had made it,
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Speaker 4: they were going to be wild Card two. And we
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Speaker 4: saw what happened to the La Kings who were swept
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Speaker 4: by the Abs in Round one. More than likely that
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Speaker 4: would have happened in San Jose. Maybe the Sharks would
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Speaker 4: have gotten a game and as a five game series.
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Speaker 4: But it benefited the organization by missing the playoffs, getting
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Speaker 4: into the lottery, and now they're going to pick second
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Speaker 4: and they need some defense help. It's clear will that
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Speaker 4: direction they go. I think my career has opened to options,
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Speaker 4: whether it's trade the pick, but there are teams in
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Speaker 4: there making the move now in the Western Conference San Jose, Anaheim,
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Speaker 4: I have put them right there with Utah's terms that
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Speaker 4: are as teams that are ascending.
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Speaker 2: What's going to happen in Toronto with Austin Matthews?
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Speaker 3: Does the leaves getting the number one pick kind of
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Speaker 3: calm his concerns if he doesn't have the help that
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Speaker 3: he needs.
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Speaker 4: Well, they've certainly lost a large lot by Mitch Marner
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Speaker 4: leaving right and they just weren't able to replace it.
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Speaker 4: The injuries to Matthews this year Kneelander clearly didn't help.
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Speaker 4: But with Toronto it's such a tough market and a
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Speaker 4: tough read. Now they have a change in management and
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Speaker 4: John Chayca comes in as a GM and Matt Sundeen,
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Speaker 4: the leaf Great, will be his advisor. I just don't
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Speaker 4: know how you can move Matthew's forget the contract, right,
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Speaker 4: but here is your franchise, this is your captain. And yeah,
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Speaker 4: there's some disgruntlement right now, I think from both sides.
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Speaker 4: But getting the number one pick, and if you do
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Speaker 4: happen to add Gavin McKenna or do you take somebody
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Speaker 4: else like Stenberg for example, with the number one pick,
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Speaker 4: how does that change a dynamic there? With the Leafs.
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Speaker 4: It's just a hard player to move. It's easier said
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Speaker 4: than done. And the same thing like, okay is McDavid
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Speaker 4: has one more year right in that deal. If you
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Speaker 4: were going to move him to if you are the Oilers,
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Speaker 4: how do you do it? How do you trade the
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Speaker 4: best player in the game. We've seen it done, but
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Speaker 4: it's easier said than done, and it's very challenging to
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Speaker 4: navigate that. And that's what the Leafs have to do with. Look,
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Speaker 4: Matthews the best player in the game. He is one
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Speaker 4: of the elite players though, and that's what Edmonton has
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Speaker 4: to do with now, with the frustration of losing in
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Speaker 4: the first round. But the Oilers were just so beat up.
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Speaker 4: I think going into that series with Anaheim.
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Speaker 2: We've seen the best player in the game moved in
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Speaker 2: the past, and it was Edmonton who did it.
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Speaker 4: Now, that's true.
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Speaker 2: It worked out nicely.
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Speaker 3: For them, winning a Cup a couple of seasons later,
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Speaker 3: But I don't know that you'd be able to convince
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Speaker 3: a modern day sports fan that that's the right move
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Speaker 3: in any situation.
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Speaker 4: You know what, looking back on the trade from the
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Speaker 4: late eighties, sean it changed the complexion of the entire game, right, Okay, yes,
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Speaker 4: it's stunk for the Oilers, as you alluded to, they
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Speaker 4: did win another Cup when you trade the great one.
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Speaker 4: But when Gretzky going to LA opened up so many
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Speaker 4: new franchises I think, including Utah, that eventually, you know,
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Speaker 4: the snowball kept going because he have the birth not
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Speaker 4: shortly thereafter of Anaheim San Jose the West Coast. All
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Speaker 4: of a sudden, the Winnipeg Jets moved to Phoenix, and
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Speaker 4: of course the Coyotes then moved to Utah. But now
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Speaker 4: you have Vegas you have Seattle, all these teams, even Dallas,
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Speaker 4: I think the Stars coming from Minnesota. It was all
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Speaker 4: opened by that deal and opened up more eyes to
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Speaker 4: the NHL. And with Greene Gretzky's trade to the LA Kings,
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Speaker 4: it's wild.
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Speaker 2: The butterfly effect, that's something like that.
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Speaker 3: K Yeah, have you seen anything through these Stanley Cup
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Speaker 3: Playoffs so far that convinces you anyone can take out
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Speaker 3: a red hot Colorado Avalanche team.
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Speaker 4: I'm curious to see the response from the Wild now
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Speaker 4: that they're going home and Colorado. They put up nine
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Speaker 4: goals in Game one and now they're up to going
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Speaker 4: to Saint Paul. That's been interesting to watch and I'm
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Speaker 4: anxious to see how though the Wild respond on home
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Speaker 4: ice because they've got to win Game three. If you
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Speaker 4: get down three to zero, there's no chance you're coming
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Speaker 4: back against the Colorado Avalanche, I'm sorry. And then you
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Speaker 4: look at the rest of the Stanley Cup playoffs. What
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Speaker 4: a scene it was in Buffalo last night with the
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Speaker 4: Sabers back in the postseason and beating Montreal. Carolina has
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Speaker 4: been dominant, which has been a bit surprising, to be honest,
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Speaker 4: I thought they'd get tested somewhat, and they haven't yet.
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Speaker 4: At some point they're going to have to deal some
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Speaker 4: adversity in the playoffs, and when the Canes do, let's
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Speaker 4: see it. But I just don't see anybody in the
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Speaker 4: Western Conference knocking off Colorado, and to me, I think
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Speaker 4: we're headed for a Carolina Colorado Stanley Cup final.
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Speaker 2: Switching gears slightly.
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Speaker 3: The AFCA, the American Football Coaches Association, made some proposals.
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Speaker 3: They want to schedule change, they want to get rid
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Speaker 3: of conference championship games and do some other things. We'll
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Speaker 3: start there, though. Are you in favor of letting conference
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Speaker 3: championship games go back by the wayside?
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Speaker 4: I'm okay with it, Sean, because I hate seeing it's happened.
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Speaker 4: We're teams that don't make the conference championship benefit from
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Speaker 4: not playing in it, and teams that play in it
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Speaker 4: have to suffer the consequences if they lose that championship game,
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Speaker 4: and I don't feel that's fair. And look, we all
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Speaker 4: know why they play these conference championship games, Seawn. It's
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Speaker 4: a moneygrap right, That's what it is. And it's like
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Speaker 4: the conference tournaments in basketball. To me, I've always valued
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Speaker 4: the regular season championship more than the conference tournament championship.
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Speaker 4: And if you win the regular season of a college
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Speaker 4: football conference, I think that's better than just winning one
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Speaker 4: game because you've been the more consistent team over the
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Speaker 4: course of two and a half three months. I'm okay
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Speaker 4: with it. Especially Look, we know playoff expansion will be coming,
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Speaker 4: and to have these kids play one less game with it,
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Speaker 4: so we want to dial back these conference championship games,
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Speaker 4: I'm with it.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if the Roxy Bernstein baseball schedule allows
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Speaker 3: for a Week one to move into Week zero or whatever,
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Speaker 3: but that's what the coaches want. Start the season a
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Speaker 3: little bit earlier, end it by the second Monday in January.
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Speaker 3: I think it's a move in the right direction. What
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Speaker 3: are your thoughts?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think like more time for the players' bodies
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Speaker 4: to recover. And if you put in a second bye week,
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Speaker 4: for example in the regular season, which we've seen from
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Speaker 4: time to times, I think it works. Where Week zero
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Speaker 4: previously right to his teams that essentially played the University
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Speaker 4: of Hawaii, they were able to play in Week zero
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Speaker 4: and then get the exemption to play that week. I'm
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Speaker 4: all for it. Look, we just stay with the twelve
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Speaker 4: game regular season and then the playoff expansion which is coming.
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Speaker 4: Whether we go to sixteen or twenty four, we will see.
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Speaker 4: But I think it's critical that we get the best teams,
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Speaker 4: and you find the best matchups and the intrigue and
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Speaker 4: not penalized teams, for example playing in that conference championship game,
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Speaker 4: and if they have an extra bye week to rest
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Speaker 4: and get players healthy, that means they might be fresher
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Speaker 4: come the end of the season. I'm good with that.
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Speaker 3: The transfer portal seems to be a thing that these coaches,
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Speaker 3: and I know we went down to the single window
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Speaker 3: this year, but these coaches want to get a lot
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Speaker 3: of other stuff out of the way so that they
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Speaker 3: can rebuild their roster there. And I'm all four again
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Speaker 3: ending the season a couple weeks earlier, letting college football
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Speaker 3: be done even on New Year's Day, would be fine
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Speaker 3: with me. The fact that the transfer portal, which wasn't
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Speaker 3: even a thing six years ago, seven years ago, now
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Speaker 3: is so influential in everything in college football.
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Speaker 2: Do we know if this is good or bad for
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Speaker 2: the sport yet?
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Speaker 4: I don't think we know. We're all just sticking our
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Speaker 4: toe in the water right now, and trying to figure out, Okay,
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Speaker 4: is this a way we can get this cleaned up?
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Speaker 4: And is this the best path forward for us? And look,
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Speaker 4: I do think that the transfer portal window is right now.
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Speaker 4: The abbreviated model that we have which you just alluded to,
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Speaker 4: is better. Is it the best step forward? I think
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Speaker 4: time will only tell because clearly what was happening before
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Speaker 4: was not the best method for everybody involved. Now you
18:30
Speaker 4: have more concise guidelines and that's the only way this
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Speaker 4: thing is going to get back to where it should be.
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Speaker 4: The government says, oh, we're going to chime in and
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Speaker 4: try to do this and try to you know, this
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Speaker 4: is what we want to do. We want to try
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Speaker 4: to clean this up here. We'll see if that actually happens.
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Speaker 4: For years, the schools, the coaches, they were in control.
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Speaker 4: Now the players seem to have all the control. And
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Speaker 4: that's a significant way. The pendulum has swung to the
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Speaker 4: other side somehow. We got to try to get in
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Speaker 4: the middle where it benefits both sides and not just
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Speaker 4: one over the other.
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Speaker 3: Our last thing, I promise, do you the jack of
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Speaker 3: all trades and master of every single one, do you
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Speaker 3: have the bandwidth to pay attention to the NBA Draft
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Speaker 3: lottery coming this weekend as well.
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Speaker 4: I only pay attention to it, Sean, because I see
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Speaker 4: a lot of the players in the regular season covering
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Speaker 4: as much college basketball as I do, so like, for example,
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Speaker 4: getting to see the standouts from Arizona. I had Michigan
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Speaker 4: this year, so I got to see these players that
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Speaker 4: go high in the draft. So that's the only reason
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Speaker 4: why I pay attention to it. There is you know,
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Speaker 4: there's the bandwidth I have. I really don't follow the
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Speaker 4: NBA as closely as I used to, just because I
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Speaker 4: can't between Right now. I'm dialed in in Major League Baseball,
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Speaker 4: the Stanley Cup Playoffs, College baseball, which I'm getting ready
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Speaker 4: for conference championships, and then in two rounds of the postseason,
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Speaker 4: the Regionals and Supers. So I have to be dialed
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Speaker 4: in there Major League Baseball, which my first two MLB
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Speaker 4: games coming up this weekend. So at some point, and
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Speaker 4: I do have a family, I do have a life, Sean,
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Speaker 4: which people may not know, how dare you. My daughter's
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Speaker 4: coming home from school, finishing her freshman year at TCUs,
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Speaker 4: so she's home tomorrow, you know, So I do have
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Speaker 4: to try to find some way have some semblance of balance,
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Speaker 4: So the NBA kind of goes by the wayside for me. Like,
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Speaker 4: if you ask me right now what's going on in
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Speaker 4: the NBA playoff series, I really couldn't tell you, especially
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Speaker 4: living here in the Bay Area once the Golden State
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Speaker 4: Warriors were limited to play in.
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Speaker 2: I think it's fair.
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Speaker 3: I think it's all right for you to have like
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Speaker 3: one tidy blind spots, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: We'll let you off the hook on that one. Roxy.
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Speaker 3: I love talking to you, man, love picking your brain.
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Speaker 3: Thanks so much for giving us some time. Enjoy the weekend,
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Speaker 3: keep having the great calls, and will chat again soon.
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Speaker 4: All right, anytime, brother, talk to you soon. O.
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Speaker 2: See, that's Roxy Bernstein.
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Speaker 3: You will not find anyone in the business more knowledgeable
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Speaker 3: or better at the gig than him. He is an asset,
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Speaker 3: he is an absolute dream and he's a good friend.
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Speaker 3: Lots more to get to here on the Sean O'Connell Show.
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