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William Eklund is Having Fun: Quinn Hughes to the Wild, Tristan Jarry to the Oilers and Jacob Fowler's Big Week. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: Coming Up NHL Unscripted Episode sixty We made it. What
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  Speaker 1: a benchmark, Jacob's Ladder, What a week for Jacob Fowler,
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  Speaker 1: cinefal In sixty courting Oscar Glory, is hamnet worthy of
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  Speaker 1: all the hype. Our special guest is William Ecklin of
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  Speaker 1: the upstart Santose Sharks and mister Skin is out in Edmonton.
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  Speaker 1: I'm back from Winnipeg Winter Peg as it is known.
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  Speaker 1: Great game though sends and the Jets, but we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about some major moves off the ice right now, JD.
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  Speaker 2: Next to you win Chuck can Chuck ot winner.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, unbelievable. It was definitely an exciting game. And Connor
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  Speaker 1: Helbuck is now back for Winnipeg, which is great. But
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  Speaker 1: you're right on what nice road victory for them. But
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  Speaker 1: everyone's still talking about the next of Quinn Quinn Hugh
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  Speaker 1: and I think you nailed the Jenny last wee year
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  Speaker 1: kind said, listen where the smoke through fire.
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  Speaker 3: It's getting worse.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting on a Friday night the work coming
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  Speaker 1: out the Captain dealt the Minnesota Wild Ze Bulliam forwards,
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  Speaker 1: Marco Rossi, Liam Ogrin to Vancouver.
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  Speaker 3: Along with the first round pick this summer.
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  Speaker 1: So we were talking with Wild captain George Spurgeon just
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  Speaker 1: two weeks ago how tough it's been for.
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  Speaker 3: The Wild keeping PAGs with Colorado and Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of Billy Garon putting all his
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  Speaker 1: chips to the table, basically trading four first.
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  Speaker 4: Round picks for the great Quinn Hughes. Amazing move by them.
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  Speaker 4: It's I don't think there's anybody that could have matched
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  Speaker 4: that offer, and I think it's a good trade for both.
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  Speaker 4: I listened to him on the game call that literally
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  Speaker 4: the game first game Quinn Hughes was playing, and he
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  Speaker 4: was talking for about twenty minutes and he just said, listen,
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  Speaker 4: it's one of those trades where he thinks that you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's going to be good for both teams, and that's
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  Speaker 4: what you hope to get. I think if it's only
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  Speaker 4: going to be really good for Vancouver if they get
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  Speaker 4: that first overall pick, so then you know tanking from
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  Speaker 4: now is going to be important. But I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: get it's hard to quantify how much you spend on
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  Speaker 4: a guy like Quinn Hughes, but you've seen the impact
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  Speaker 4: that he's had the last two games. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 4: brock favors three points in two games. They look like
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  Speaker 4: an absolute wagon right now. So and without Matt Sukerrello
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  Speaker 4: and Jonas Brodean. So to me, I'm like, this team
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  Speaker 4: has in one move become one of the teams to
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  Speaker 4: beat in the NHL.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just sad.
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  Speaker 4: It goes back to the thing I keep saying that
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  Speaker 4: I think it has to go back to one to
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  Speaker 4: eight in the playoffs. I think the NHL needs to
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  Speaker 4: kind of get it together a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: On that side.
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  Speaker 4: I understand it's it's it's worked for this amount of time,
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  Speaker 4: you know, playing rivalries early in the playoffs when it's
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  Speaker 4: the you know the divisions, the three, the one two three,
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  Speaker 4: win two three, But on one versus eight just provides
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  Speaker 4: so much more because in the first round we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: lose possibly we're gonna lose one of those top three
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  Speaker 4: of Colorado, Dallas and Minnesota, and then one of them
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  Speaker 4: is probably only gonna make the conference finals, which is
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  Speaker 4: a little bit sad. It's you want to see that
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  Speaker 4: kind of goal late. You want to see those matchups
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  Speaker 4: in the second and third round. So yeah, I it's
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  Speaker 4: amazing to see the trade. And I love Quinn Hughes.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's he's, you know, number two in the
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  Speaker 4: NHL defenseman right now. But I just don't love that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, It's like that, it's the moment of elation
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  Speaker 4: to the moment of oh wait, two of these teams
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  Speaker 4: aren't going to make it to the conference finals.
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  Speaker 3: The frustration for Vancouver.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, he wasn't eligible to sign a contract
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  Speaker 1: elsewhere until the summer, but as you said, it looked
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  Speaker 1: like it was festering. Maybe some surprise they didn't wait
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  Speaker 1: till the trade deadline. Maybe Jimmy Rotherford realize.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, point of no return.
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  Speaker 1: As the details the move comes in, it appears he
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  Speaker 1: was basically total Cannuck's management. He was not going to
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  Speaker 1: resign with them when the contract spared in twenty twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: so they started rebuilding the team and they treated j
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  Speaker 1: tm nort the Rangers last January. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: it's enough of a return. Listen, Williams maybe a fifty
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  Speaker 1: point defenseman ross he's a good player. As you said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what this first round pick will be
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  Speaker 1: how Ogrim develops. I don't know what the other offers were,
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  Speaker 1: but Clearlyvan Cooper said.
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  Speaker 3: This is the best we can do right now.
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  Speaker 1: And from Billy Garran's perspective, there's a riskers Well, there's
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  Speaker 1: some thought that well, no matter what, he wants to
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  Speaker 1: go to Jersey and play with his brothers. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: think if he goes there, and as you said, they
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  Speaker 1: have great success. If they win a Stanley Cup. He
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  Speaker 1: loves playing with Caroll Caprisov, he knows how much they
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  Speaker 1: love hockey Minnesota. Then I can see Quinn Hughes putting
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  Speaker 1: his stamp down. But there's no doubt it's a risk
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  Speaker 1: from Billy G's perspective, Hughes because hey, no offense, I
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  Speaker 1: want to play with my brothers.
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  Speaker 3: Anyways, I'm going to Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna spend time there.
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  Speaker 4: And the biggest thing for athletes is as much as
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  Speaker 4: you want to go play with your brothers, you want
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  Speaker 4: to go play with the good players. You want to
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  Speaker 4: be in good cities, you know, winnings everything. So if
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  Speaker 4: they can win, they can show that they have a
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  Speaker 4: squad that can compete for years. I mean Quinn Hughes
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  Speaker 4: is a competitor. This isn't a guy that you know.
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  Speaker 4: They spend time in the summer together. They all live
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  Speaker 4: in the same house down the street from each other.
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  Speaker 4: So to me, I'm like, I don't think it. Eventually
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  Speaker 4: down the line, they're gonna want to play together. But
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna end up loving being in Minnesota. I mean
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  Speaker 4: it's a really you know, family friendly town. The team's great.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you get a great GM there, good ownership,
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  Speaker 4: so for me, the fans are great. So you spend
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of time there, and you know, as
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  Speaker 4: much as the it's enticing to want to go play
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  Speaker 4: with your brothers, I think he's they go on a
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  Speaker 4: lengthy playoff.
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  Speaker 2: Run this year.
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  Speaker 4: I think definitely he's gonna stay resigned, gonna consider it.
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  Speaker 4: And now Billy Garan's got all I mean, he's got
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  Speaker 4: months of time directly with Quinn Hughes having a relationship
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  Speaker 4: with him. They're gonna be at the Olympics together, but
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna play with brock Favor right now up.
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  Speaker 2: Until the Olympics. Do you think it's a reason.
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  Speaker 4: You think there's a reason why he's playing with brock
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  Speaker 4: Favor because he's gonna play them at the Olympics.
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  Speaker 2: They might go slave in favor.
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  Speaker 4: But I if the indication of the first two games
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  Speaker 4: is anything like these two guys, it's a great tandem.
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  Speaker 4: They're a little small, but they move the pucks so well,
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  Speaker 4: they defend well.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see. But it's just a lot of time.
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  Speaker 4: So I just think with that much time, Billy Garran's
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  Speaker 4: gonna wo him and he's gonna woo wooed him into
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  Speaker 4: a contract for sure, long term one maybe, or maybe
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  Speaker 4: it's just a three four year contract that you know,
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  Speaker 4: a maximum amount of money, and that kind of puts
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  Speaker 4: him in a position to kind of play with his brothers.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, at the end of the day, I
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  Speaker 4: think Quinn Hughes is in the driver's seed, but I
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  Speaker 4: think he's going to resign in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: He wells book definitely has time to entice them and
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  Speaker 1: Ivious see if they can win.
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  Speaker 3: That would go a long way towards that.
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  Speaker 1: Canuck's officially now on the Gavin mckennough sweepstakes.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens for them meantime.
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  Speaker 1: The other major trade, the Edmonton Oilers and the Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: Penguins as Oilers finally make a change in net. They
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  Speaker 1: got Tristan Jarr and forward Sampulin from the Oilers, Stuart Skinner,
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  Speaker 1: Bret Koulak and a twenty twenty nine second round picks.
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  Speaker 1: Edmonton fills the gap left by Kulak getting Spencer Stassy
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  Speaker 1: from the Nashville Predators. But the big story is here,
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  Speaker 1: replacing Skinner, big part of a team that you know
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  Speaker 1: took you to the Stanley Cup back back finals, well,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't quite good enough. It was talked to Elliott Frieman
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  Speaker 1: about this on NHL Network on Friday, because I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in life, most things are subjective. This guy good,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's bad, it's everyone's opinion. But in sports are
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  Speaker 1: generally objective. You can look at stats, look at data,
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  Speaker 1: and objectively speaking, can you tell me that Tristan Jarry
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  Speaker 1: is demonstrably better than Stuart Skinner and fritzid I know
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like to some lateral move. But the point is.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't believe necessarily that Stuart Skinner could be a
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  Speaker 1: guy that could take him the Cup again.
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  Speaker 3: So is Jarry better? I'm not sure. Maybe he is,
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  Speaker 3: maybe he isn't.
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  Speaker 1: But they didn't feel like Skinner was gonna be the
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  Speaker 1: answer this time around.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like, if you're an Oilers fan, Jarr's an.
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  Speaker 4: Upgrade, I think so, I think a slight upgrade. I
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  Speaker 4: I just think it was untenable, you know, with Skinner
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  Speaker 4: at that point, there's just too much noise and the
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  Speaker 4: noise gets so loud, and I don't know if.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just one of.
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  Speaker 4: Those things that I think it's was a decision that
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  Speaker 4: was on everybody's mind since last year in the finals.
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  Speaker 4: I know, it's a guy that's brought into the finals twice,
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  Speaker 4: and people say Skinner is a two time finals goalie,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm like, yeah, but Pickard was there as well,
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  Speaker 4: and Pickard bailed them all. Well, if it wasn't for Picker,
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  Speaker 4: they would have been out of the playoffs two years
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  Speaker 4: in a row. So it's tough to kind of measure that,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, make sure you don't look at that
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  Speaker 4: through rose colored glasses. So I think I do believe
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  Speaker 4: that Tristan Jarr is a slight upgrade. Now can he
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  Speaker 4: stay healthy, I don't know. But the scary part of this.
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  Speaker 2: Is the the.
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  Speaker 4: Future of Connor McDavid rests firmly in the hands of
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  Speaker 4: Tristan Jarry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Calvin Pickard.
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  Speaker 4: That that is where we're at right now, because a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people were kind of like scratching their head
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  Speaker 4: at the move just because you know you're going You
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  Speaker 4: waited this long, and there was obviously rumblings for years
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  Speaker 4: now for Stuart Skinner to be moved, but you.
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  Speaker 2: Waited this long for this trade. So time will tell.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's two and zero, you know, is sub
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  Speaker 4: nine hundred save percentage though, and it hasn't been he
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  Speaker 4: hasn't been stellar, but Edmonton's been playing a lot better.
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  Speaker 4: And that here's the thing is that when Edmonton's playing
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  Speaker 4: better hot game, they're scoring at will. I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: really just need a goalie to be We've said it
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  Speaker 4: for years. You need marginal goaltending from the Edmonnton Oilers
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  Speaker 4: and they can kind of outscore their problem. So with
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  Speaker 4: Connor and Leon and how hot those two are right now,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, I just think it's going to be. This
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  Speaker 4: is TikTok TikTok for Stan Bowman and the group. So
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  Speaker 4: I think they can't be idle the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 4: I think they got to go make another trade, get
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  Speaker 4: a defenseman, but they got Spencer's dasiny. But I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if that's a band aid over a situation that's
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  Speaker 4: kind of a decoor that leaks a little bit of oil.
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  Speaker 4: But I just think it's more personnel, and it's nothing
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  Speaker 4: against those guys are good players, but you need another guy.
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  Speaker 2: You need a top four quality defenseman.
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  Speaker 1: And as you said, from Edmonton's perspective, they hope it's
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  Speaker 1: at least a marginal upgrade from Pittsburgh's perspective. They blew
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  Speaker 1: a five to one third period lead at home Saturday
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  Speaker 1: night against your Sharks, who beat them six five and
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  Speaker 1: o t next night, blew a three nothing third period
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  Speaker 1: lead against a really mammoth and lost five for and overtime.
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  Speaker 1: Skinner didn't play either game. Your boy archer, she Lovs
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  Speaker 1: and cerkee Mrshov got the stars. Skinner and Dry went
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  Speaker 1: head to have new teams Tuesday night. As were recording
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  Speaker 1: this Wednesday, Edmonton wins at six to four. This is
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  Speaker 1: a Pittsburgh team JD which has been a pleasant surprise
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  Speaker 1: contending for a playoff spot, but now golden he.
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  Speaker 3: Might doom them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, they they have three goalies that I think
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  Speaker 4: they have to make a move another one they I
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  Speaker 4: think there was rumblings that they're gonna flip. They could
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  Speaker 4: flip Skinner and they could flip Kulak if they wanted to.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't a great start by either one of them.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean, I think Skinner was left out to
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  Speaker 4: dry a little bit. I tweeted, wouldn't it be funny
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  Speaker 4: if Skinner gets a shutout? And then immediately when I
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  Speaker 4: tweeted that, the Pittsburgh Penguins took three consecutive penalties and
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  Speaker 4: it was like a four minute five on three, it
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  Speaker 4: was like, well, there's that, and then it was you know,
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  Speaker 4: they just filled the net. But yeah, I think it's,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you just kind of they've lost a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of steam. I think they're not playing the same
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  Speaker 4: way they did. You know, a couple injuries here and
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  Speaker 4: there to some guys and they're just playing a little
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  Speaker 4: It was their power play that was kind of carrying
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  Speaker 4: them early in the season has not done so recently,
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  Speaker 4: and it's been a little bit. Even though it's in
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  Speaker 4: the top of the league, it's it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 4: let them down a little bit. But they've kind of
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  Speaker 4: built such a great cushion, So we'll see kind of
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  Speaker 4: where they can go from here. But this it's it's
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  Speaker 4: dire straits for them, and it's uh. I do think
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  Speaker 4: a she Lovs or a Skinner could be on the
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  Speaker 4: move again, and then they'll give the net to Mirshov,
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  Speaker 4: who you know, he was a little bit shaky his
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  Speaker 4: last game, but the young guy that you got to
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  Speaker 4: kind of give some time to. So the interesting moment
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  Speaker 4: for Dubis they got there, they're kind of in this
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  Speaker 4: weird limbo purgatory that he's got to figure out a way.
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  Speaker 4: Either they're buying or they're they're selling, and it's it's
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  Speaker 4: rebuilt time. So but I don't know if you can
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  Speaker 4: with with Sid the kid, if you can rebuild ever.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean if you have three goalies, you have
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  Speaker 3: no goalies.
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  Speaker 1: I know the way the world is now, it's a
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  Speaker 1: two goalie system, but three definitely is a crowd right now,
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  Speaker 1: so they'll need to figure that out. Meantime, a guy
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  Speaker 1: who's had a blazing start two months into a breakout season.
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  Speaker 2: So I didn't even notice haircut, I did. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: gotta hear great, it looks fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, buddy, appreciate I apologies for not noticing that
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  Speaker 4: you great.
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  Speaker 2: You look like Chris Chillios.
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  Speaker 3: Now, well, I have a story about that now that
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: you brought it up.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: In Buffalo last week, it was known intermission break, some
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: me yelling out Chlie Kelley.
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: I go over. I'm like, I guess, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: My good? Good to see you. I guess Craig Muni.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, Craig, how you been. Good to see it?
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  Speaker 1: Because remember my wife like, yeah, nice to see you again.
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  Speaker 1: No girl looks on maybe a granddaughter my kind I
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  Speaker 1: see because my brother I do man nice beeech is
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  Speaker 1: a guy because I've been in my great great because
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  Speaker 1: where you're living.
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  Speaker 3: I go Hermosa Beach.
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  Speaker 1: He's a great great have been good about Tracy's great,
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  Speaker 1: Kelly's doing really well.
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  Speaker 3: Is awesome. He's like, you look great, man, Thanks, how
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  Speaker 3: about you in the area? Great cool, It's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I started talking to the little girl make you big
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  Speaker 1: tast Thompson fan I was talking to earlier.
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  Speaker 3: He's great. He's like, yeah. The brother in law goes man,
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  Speaker 3: you're an unbelievable player.
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  Speaker 1: I got no thanks. I appreciate it, and I definitely
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  Speaker 1: have my moments. But now, no, you don't worry.
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  Speaker 3: Buffalo's coming around. Tase Thompson's great.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, he goes, great, Senior Kelley, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: you got it, buddy, Craig hook line sinker as you
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  Speaker 1: can ask Chris.
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  Speaker 3: Barter's on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, he goes, she goes Craig and he played
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  Speaker 1: with Celios. He goes, they were they were defense bearing
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago.
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  Speaker 4: They played together, and he recognized you as Chris Chilios.
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  Speaker 4: That is fucking insane a time. That is so funny,
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  Speaker 4: and you played it right. You played him like a
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  Speaker 4: fiddle fiddler on the roof.
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  Speaker 1: Like Jody Shelley was appalled. He's like, what it was
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  Speaker 1: the gumption on you for he thought I was Jellios?
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  Speaker 1: So I just played along. He goes Hermosa Beach, Tracy,
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  Speaker 1: all that is accurate?
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  Speaker 3: Word?
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  Speaker 2: Can you go to prison for that? Impersonating Chris Chilios
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  Speaker 2: John Shannon.
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  Speaker 1: Then we see later on he goes, I just saw
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  Speaker 1: Craig muny I so to I ask him about seeing
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  Speaker 1: Chris Chellios Craig the whole story.
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  Speaker 2: He goes, what the hell is Chris Chillio is doing
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  Speaker 2: to Winnipeg, right, now.
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  Speaker 1: The only giveaway after I realized JD that wasn't me
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  Speaker 1: is I called him Craig. Nobody ever, ever the issue
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  Speaker 1: the world hockey players ever called him by a first name.
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  Speaker 1: If there's somebody that you saw, they would never say hey, Jason,
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  Speaker 1: always Bejunich.
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  Speaker 2: But it was a bit.
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  Speaker 3: I would should have said Munes.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: But I mean in the moment, I just say, oh, Craig,
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: like I think later I dropped a Craiger to kind
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: of make it sound like I knew.
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: A little more.
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: That is so good all off asking you how your
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: haircut is? You leave with that story to start the show.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't want to get around too much, like
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: it's already getting around. Like Jody Shelley went and told
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: everybody at TNT like I saw John Davidson of the
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Columbus Blue Jacks.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: He goes, hey, I heard Craig Muni bran In you
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: thinks you're christ Jell.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: I gotta we gotta, we gotta get Chris Chillius in
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: the podcast at best on five eight jelious is at
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: least five eleven.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Imagine j D, you saw a guy that you played
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: and go, hey, did you shrink three.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Inches at best, you're five six.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: No, five seven in a quarter.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: We're dropping down now.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: I saw it. I said it was five.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: Eight, and then Hickey, no, let's listen, because you're staying
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: five six.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: That's bullshit.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: I'm doing the exact.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Number because I see five eight, and Hickey goes, you're
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: not five I go, all right, five seven in a quarter.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know they stack shit that high.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: Celios is listed at five to eleven.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Again, I've worked with them. I'm gonna say it's five
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: to ten and a half. I talked about three inch different.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: I imagine you worked with twenty years ago and three
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: inches short, and you go.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Hey, you've been a few shrug three inches that's age.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: He's probably like age. You know you've trained crazy? All right?
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: That is not That is a great story. Clearly clipped that.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: I can't.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: I can't post another Chris Chelio say then berg story
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: on my Instagram. Very inundated with whatever the NHL cuts.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: How but you've been doing it yourself though last couple
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: of weeks we've been.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I run the social media account. I'm an I'm
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: an unpaid intern.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: This is what it's come to.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: Episode sixty.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Is this one's coming for the Blackhawks, one of Chris
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Chelliy's former teams. Two months into a breakout season nineteen goals,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: forty four points thirty one games, but dard On injured
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: reserve upper body injury until the new year. A freak injury. Jude,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: You're watching Hunts going, what the hell does happened? Literally
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: seconds left off the draw. The Blackhawks now in jeopardy.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: They lost in Detroit four nothing Saturday night, the first
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: game with Uppa dard three to in Toronto on Tuesday.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Quinn Hughes, as we talked about, so now in Minnesota.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Connor hell Bucks back of the Jets after injury. He
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: came back rather quickly, although they went three eight and
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: one and twelve games without him. Now the Blackhawks in
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: the stack central could be done. What a terrible injury,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: terrible moment for Connor Bedard.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: And then a terrible loss last night to Toronto. They
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: were leading that whole game, They're leading the whole game
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: and then they just turn over to Austin and then
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: just what was it like sixty seconds later they give
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: one up to Joshua in front of the nets. So
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: that one was a heartbreaker, and I thought they played
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: a good game against Toronto. But yeah, I time will
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: tell you know, a separated shoulder. We're hearing from from
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: Kevin Weeks. That's what he said, separated shoulder. So you
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: know it's it's that's a tough balance and that happens
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: a lot with the centerman. You know that it's a
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: lot of torque on your body within those face offs
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: and you're in vulnerable positions. You know, you've seen I've
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: seen a lot of injuries like that, especially recently. You
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: know the Josh Norris that there's a couple of them
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: where you know there's a little bit of jostling at
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: the at the at the drop of the puck and
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: you're in this weird position kind of hunched over and
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: you just saw his shoulder just kind of get jammed.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: And yeah, it's tough because you know this is this
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: has been the guy that's led them just you want
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: to say breakout season, but you know, even though it's
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: just thirty in the late but it's a breakout season.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: I thought he's played fantastic. He's been great, huge consideration
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: for Team Cannon. I do I think they still bring him.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: I still think if he's healthy, you bring him. If
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: they use this as a way to not bring him,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: I think I'd be a little bit disappointed. I think
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: he's earned to at least be like the thirteenth forward
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: or or you find a place from the play, just
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: because how dynamic he's been and how good he's been offensively.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: I think putting him with even better players would be
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: something that's really good for this. For this, you know,
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Team Canada, team that has just a wealth of talent
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: right now that they have to pick from it all.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Everybody seems to be playing good on Team Canada versus
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Team USA.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: You see some guys struggling. But anyway, I.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: Think it's time will tell. It's gonna be the Jets
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: kind of have the door open for them a little bit,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: so we'll see if they can kind of claw their
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: way back in. And it's the central is not the central.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: But when you actually look at the Western standings, I
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: mean they're not It's not like crazy, it's not a
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: huge difference, you know what I mean, Like there's some
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: teams that can claw their way back in. You know,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: obviously the Sharks with an absolute enormous win last game,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: and they're trending in the right direction.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: But you got Utah and you got the Jets.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, some teams need to go on a run here,
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: but I I think, I don't think, and never had
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Chicago making the playoffs, and this just will kind of
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: put the nail on the coffin a.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Team that nobody had making the playoffs but decides to
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: make a move. Buffalo Sabers Yarmo Kkalinen is the first
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: GM the Savers have hired to that position with previous
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: NHL GM experience since they hired Scotty Bowman in nineteen
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: seventy nine.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Let that sink in.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: That's forty six years without ever trying a general manager
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: that had done the job before.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Do you have any experience? No, you're hired forty six years.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: It took for them to go. You know what, Let's
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: get some who's actually done this before.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Kevin Adams is out, Kaka Lin's in, Lindy Rough's days
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: are numbered, he'll get kicked upstairs.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Another change for the Buffalo Sabers JD.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Brutal, Yeah, Lindy at home, Rough on the road, Lindy
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: ruffles of Chiff, Yeah, I think you know it was
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: the stats on Terry Pegula since he's been an owner.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: There are absolutely gru sagrig how porous it's been, like
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: how bad it's been.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Terry needs to just let go of the wheel. Here,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: hire me, I'll go there, Bring me there. We'll make
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: the hard decisions.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: But you're gonna be the president of hockey Operations overseeing
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: To Kevin Adams, I'll go No. I like, I like
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: kick a line, and I think he's he's a no guff.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: He did some he did a good job in Columbus
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: kind of getting that team going and making some big
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: moves and making some some some hard decisions.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: So I think he's.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: He's the guy that it's They said it was a
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: long process. Now can he finally turn around the Buffalo Sabers.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: The poor Buffalo Sabers fans that are just some of
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: the best fans in hockey. They're just sticking around and
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: they get pissed on, shit on, slapped in the face,
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: and they just keep coming, keep paying their money for
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: their tickets. Are they finally going to get something? So
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: I think Lindy's on the move. I think there's gonna
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: be some big changes. I think Yarma will kind of
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: take is he gonna take the season or do you
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: think more he was able to see enough in watch
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: enough because he knew he was getting the job for
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: a while to then kind of correct.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I think that high senior advisor in May. So he's
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: had almost eight months. Now, I go, okay, I can't
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: see what's going on here. The Sabers have won three
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: in a row, fourteen year off route.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: He's not taking the season. If he can make some moves,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: he'll do it now.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Perfect time, right now. You get on a three three
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: game winning streak, you come on in, Come on, Ova,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Come on Nova. I mean, there are only six points
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: out of a playoff spot with the game in hand.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: So needless to say, are the Sabers making the playoffs?
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: No?
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: There, but I'm glad they're making the change because he
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: almost seems like you said, a least he's a track record.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: He said he's gonna trade. He said he's got a
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: trade one goalie, which I liked. He's like they have
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: this three goalie system there.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, back to the three goalies.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Insane, I asked Marty, it's awfully, who the hell likes
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: a three goalie system? Bold strategy Cotton, Yeah, no, doubt
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: about it all right, Still they come here in NHL unscripted,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: we'll talk to William Ecklund of the surprising San Jose Sharks,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: talk about Willie's journey in hockey and what San Jose
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: is up to. It's coming up next right after this.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: You're an NHL unscripted So our next guest drafted seventh
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Overbrall but the San Jose Sharks in the twenty twenty
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: one NHL draft. Last season, he enjoyed a breakout campaign
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: with the Sharks, atting new career highs and goals, assists,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: and points, and he's now a core piece on one
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: of the most exciting young teams in the NHL.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: And is William E. William Welcome on the scripted.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Great to see it, man, Thank you, thank you very much.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Anytime we can.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Get some Sharks lons of good news for me and
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: JD and the Sharks have taken a big step this year.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: How do you describe the energy in the room right
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: now as you guys are pushing for a playoff spot.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he's so much better than the years prior.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: I feel like, you know, our whole team has been
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: been way more involved than we've been you know, we've
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: been enjoined us a lot. So yeah, it's been fun
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: for sure.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: What was the expectation, Willie?
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Obviously like and you know, you can be honest because
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: you know, for me working in media, like our expectation
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: for you guys was was not to be last, but
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: like certainly not to be where you're at. So like,
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: how you know, what's been the conversations in the room
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: now that you guys are you know, now in a
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: playoff spot and now do you feel like the expectations
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: have now shifted?
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: I mean, I don't think we listened too much to
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: do the media and what woul the guys outside say.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: I feel like that's something that's been strong for the
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: last couple of years.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: Obviously maybe we didn't expect this either from from the outside,
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: but you know, our core group, we were expecting big
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: things out of us, you know, and obviously you have
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: a lot of guys that's been taking big steps this year.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: I think that that's been helping a lot obviously.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: So I think you know, throughout the rosters we we've
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: been we've been doing a really good job.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the expectations it's always tricky because I'm
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: sure you guys believe in yourselves and you hear what
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: outside noise is. But you know, as far as the playoffs,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: is that a goal that was discussed by coaching by
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the players.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: I like that, you know, on point, Like I think,
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: like you know, in our heads. I feel like even
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: in training camp, we had a really good team, and
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: I feel like every game we even those first game
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: we lost and we were like, you know this, this
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: doesn't matter. We can still turn this wrong because I
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: feel like we have a really strong way of coming
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: back in games and and and then you know this
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: year and finishing off more games that we didn't do
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: last year.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: I think that's something that's been helping us a lot
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: this year.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: I remember in training camp I kind of was looking
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: at the roster and I texted to Fole, I texted Tough,
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: and I was like, I was like, it's kind of
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: a sneaky roster. Like the guys start, they played their
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: kind of capabilities. But you know, you got a good
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: mix of veterans now and you're kind of getting on
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: that cusp of being a veteran. But for you, like,
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: who's the guy that when they speak in the room.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: It's like they're the locker room dad. Everybody shuts up
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: and listens.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: I think, you know, I think Ree West does that.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Re Wal.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: You know, he's been in he's very vocal in that way,
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: and then when he's he's talking, everybody's you know, quiet,
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: I feel like, and they listen because he's really good
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: at that. You know, obviously you're not going to have
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: your your A game every game. It's got to be
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: a lot of ups and downstairs to season after those games.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: He's been really like honest with us, and we've been
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: honest with the shot her, like, you know, we can't
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: have you no three to four games of these.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: You have one of these and then it's gonna be
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: gonna be one off. You know, you got to.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: Get back to what you're doing. And that's something that
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: I think he's brought in a lot.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's important to have kind of everybody on the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: same page and kind of rolling in the same direction.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I think what's always tricky to William is just that,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: you know, in terms of this team overall, I mean
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: that the comebacks have been pretty special. I mean, you're
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: down five to one third in Pittsburgh doing six to
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: five in overtime and you set up John Klingber's goal
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: to start the comeback score to make it five three.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Where do you rank that feeling when you win a
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: game like that.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's probably the craziest game I've been a
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: part of in that matter of fact, Like it's it's
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: just crazy when you're down five to one and in
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: the third period, I mean you said, don't know, just
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: turn it on somehow. We were just putting pucked in the
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: net and just around the net, and you know, six
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: and five everything can happen. You know, obviously they missed
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: that up at empton every putting on the post, and
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: you know that's what you felt.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Like, Yeah, we kind of got a shot here. So yeah,
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: amazing feeling.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: I talk a little bit about John Klingberg because you know,
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Clay I played with Klinger in Dallas and and I
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: know he's got you know, the hips and really struggled
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: with some injury stuff, and you know, he was really
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: honest in an interview recently about like his struggles mentally
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: a little bit and physically, and since then he's been
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: you know, eight points in like five games. Like how
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: how has it been to have a d man like
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: him that can walk the point and especially in the
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: power play.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: You know, Claire is first of all, is a great guy.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: You know, after that, the best guy ever.
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: And you know, I didn't know him before this year,
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: but obviously being great guy and on the ice, you
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: can just see how how skill he is and how
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: skilled had been in this league for a long time,
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: and the things that he's done.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: He's such a good player.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: Didn't break up passes as just end up being like
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: a two and one or a three on two like
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: he he just makes those breakup passes looks so easy.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: And you know, obviously it's been rolling a lot lately
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: and that's something that helps our team a lot.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: You your father, Christian, brother Victor all played for the
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Historic and Jerk Gardens team excuse me, in Sweden. The
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: team has been around for more than a century. What
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: is that fan base? Like we were talking on offer
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: and being from Stockholm, it's a beautiful city obviously, but
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: playing for that club specifically, it's been a family affair
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: for you.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's you know, it's a huge thing.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: Obviously my dad played it for thirteen fourteen years.
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: And I play there and then my brother's playing there,
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: so's it's really cool experience. I mean, it means a
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: lot for my family, and you know, that's so much
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: passion from that fan base, likes it's crazy. Some of
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: those games, like it's always packed and they screamed the
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: whole game, and it's like it's like going to a
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: soccer game in Europe, like it's it's insane, like he
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: sometimes it's you.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: Don't hear yourself even talking to night, So it's crazy.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Do you have a crazy fan experience from playing out there.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: I mean, like my first my first game, I think
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: I played with jache of Josepson and he played with
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: my dad too, so it was like that was my
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: first game up there, and that was like the first
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: game I played and I was like I had my
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: cage on. I was sixteen seventeen. I was like, shit,
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: this is this is sick and it was Patrick Berlan
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: was on the team too, and a couple of those guys.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: So that was my first game.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: That experience was just packed all game and we ended
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: up winning that game three two.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: But you know, just being in that moment.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: It's so crazy, how like how how passionate they are
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: every day.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: How disappointing, Ah is it for the Sharks? Was traded
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Fabian Settle and knowing you wouldn't be.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Able to play Fortnite with him as often, did you
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: find somebody else to play that wonderful game with.
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's you know, I mean more more more a FIFA.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: I mean we play like because he's not out of us.
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: We play a little once in a while.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's not gone, he's yeah, don't worry.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: And then and that doesn't know what a computer is, so.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: He's not gone from the world. He's just gone for
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: the team.
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: Go ahead, Yeah, so you still play about me? Me
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: and him and russemus Sandine used to play a lot
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: of nhallow FIFA.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: So yeah, who's the who's the biggest nube in those games?
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I should say that. No, it's
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: sometimes it depends on the day he's having a good
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: day or not. But give it to sets.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: You gotta give it to SATs, have to have to
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: give it to him. Listen, man, we gotta you know
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: talking about I. I got to cover you last year.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: I'll be there in March all sort of do a
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: couple of games for you guys. Uh and I love
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: watching your your your game and how it's evolved over
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: time and how you've added little elements of like defense
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: and you know, the penalty kill has always been something
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: you're great at, and I you're a great net ferunk
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: guy in the power play as well, So like, is
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: that something that you know with conversations you had with
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: coach Worsowski or is it just something that you've wanted
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: to be you know, obviously we all want to play
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: twenty five minutes a night and stuff like that, but
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: it was something that you really worked on and focused
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: on in the off season to kind of keep getting
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: better and better in all these different situations.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's just so many different things that you
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: want to get better at.
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: And but also like after a while when you figure
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: out how the league works, you also like you have
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: your especially like what you're good at. Yeah, the stuff
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: you have to be really good at. That's something that
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: I think, like, I know my skating is good, like
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: and you know my edge work and how that works,
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: but I need to be really good at that because
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: that's my game. So that's something like I've.
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: Been focusing on, like, Okay, how can I even it
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: even better? At this?
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: And you know, my shot has in my opinions, has
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: to be better. But especially in my the things you
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: have you have to be even better at. So that's
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: something that I'm but always trying to get into myself
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: that like, help you get an even better player?
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Well it's getting you.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: It's getting you a lot of notice from a lot
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: of people, and you know a lot of people kind
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: of have you penciled on the Sweden's Olympic roster for
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: upcoming winning Olympics, which I'll be at as well, So
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to come to the Swedish house. As
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: you can see, you got a little bit of in
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Canada swag back. But is that something that's you know,
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: on your mind And is it tough to kind of
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: focus on the season when you have that kind of
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: kind of hanging around and the possibility that you'll be there.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's you know, obviously it's something I can't really
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: control that much. You can only do the things that
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: you do here every day.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: And I've been trying.
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: You know, obviously it's you wouldn't be there so bad
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: you want to play for your country. That's you know,
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: I've been really unlucky with that stuff. You know, throughout
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: the years, I'm injured and stuff like that. So I
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: really want to play for my country and really want
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: to want to do that, but also I need to
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: focus on our team and and myself. I can be
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: a better player, and I think that's something that you
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: know they see too, So let me sure do my
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: game well.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: One guy who hopes to be there for Team Canada
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: is Macklin Cell Brainy, your teammate.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: He's having an unbelievable season.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: William, What can you tell us about Cell Brandy that
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the average fan doesn't realize.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of things you could say.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Mac.
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: You know, he's an idiot, it's funny, he's you know,
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: he's a really good guy. You know outside of the
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: ring too, he's it's really professional too.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: He you know, he doesn't he doesn't.
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: Really get tired either, and like in the game you
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: can see he's just going, going, going. I don't think
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: he's he's ever getting tired. And that's something that really
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: impressed me, Like how much of him moder this guy
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: has like throughout even on defense or or offense. Like
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: obviously a skill we all know about his skill, but
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: this guy, he drives it every every night.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: Is that because he's just dominating Mike Potenza and he's
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: making Mike pretend to just work him out every day
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: of the strength out for this.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: Has to be you know, he's on the table every day, so.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: He leads the league and table.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I know Pazi kind of alluding man to do you
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: you know he's living with Jumbo and Tibeya. Did you
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: kind of see a little bit of Jumbo rubbing off
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: on him at all? And because I know he was,
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: you know he was, He's very professional, but you know
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: you see him kind of loosing it up a little
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: bit more and more.
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure, he's getting more and more vocal too,
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: and I think that's you know, obviously, like he's going
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: to be even more vocal than he's getting older and older.
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: But that's something that's he's the leader of this team.
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: He and he knows that too, and it's going to
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: be even better, you know, for the years to come,
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: and he's got to be even more and more vocal
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: when you confident with that. But that's something that he's
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: going to break to the game too.
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: I'll go ahead, Heywayiam, I was curious just with with
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: with Maclin celebrity. The thing I love about him that
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: he's had since day one in the NHL is that
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: obviously has a ton of skill, but he's got that
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: that edge, that nasty edge to his game. You know,
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: we also we all saw him going toe to toe
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: with the most cider a few weeks ago against Detroit.
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: Was that something he had right away when he got
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: to camp that you could tell that he had a
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: bit of a bit of that edge to his game.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but he's he's playing a fair game, you know,
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: he's he's he's got an edge to his game. But
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: he's also like he's always competing, always being that guy.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: So I feel like, you know, he's been that since
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: stay a month from camp.
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: He he really wanted to do to be that guy,
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: and he is that guy now. So like to be like,
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: you have to be into that those nast situations sometimes too,
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: and he's doing a terrific yeah with that too.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: What uh, how is the relationship between I know everybody
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: asked questions about him and Smitty and Fresh Prints, but
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: how funny is that just to sit in the room
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: and shake your head at these guys the nonsense that
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: they do night in and night out.
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you hear something funny ship, so it's it's always fun.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: They sit behind me on the plane too.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: So it's, oh no, what did they kick in the seat?
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: Sometimes you know Smdia, I get Smitty has those he
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: now he's watching everything on his goggles, so.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: He's not even watching an iPad anymore.
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: So like you just look back and this guy has
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: like goggle songs like watching us, like straight out of there.
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: You think he's like watching something, but he's just like
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: looking at his shows in the goggles.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Wait, he's watching like shows or a shift and in
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: those like watching shows and it.
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: Shows in the goggles, you know what. I like those.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: So I was trying to I might get one of
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: these two because it looks nice.
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's sitting like this, and it was like sometimes
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: I wonder if he's sleeping or not because he's just
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: sitting and.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: Watching it like this.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: What are those called? That those like the new those
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: new Apple.
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: No it's not not dose, but it's something else that
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: he mentioned to me. So it's like it looks like
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: regular like regular clasts pretty much.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: But it's yeah, it's nice.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: He's in twenty forty right now.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Sure, it's the way in the future for sure.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Well, William, this was great man, seriously, congrats and all
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the success with the San Jose Sharks, and obviously because
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: of JD's ties to San Jose, were always plump for
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the Sharks. But it's good to see the teal out
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: there fighting and obviously you're having a fantastic year.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: So keep it going, man. Thanks for you giving us
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: some time.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: Thank you very much, appreciate it.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Good luck, buddy, Thank you.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Cinephal sixty is hammn It The Oscar Race is shaping
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: up to be a two horse race, all Thomas Anderson's
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: one battle after another against Chloe Joao's Hamnet. It got
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: huge reviews, especially when the premiere of the Toronto Film Festival.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: It's now available in theater's Golden Globe nomination. Since came out,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Hamnet dominating. I've got Jesse Buckley winning Best Actress and
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Chloe Jo's gonna be up for Best Director.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Maybe it wins Best Picture. Bottom line is this.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: If you like Shakespeare, you like your period pieces, you're
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: gonna like this film. It's a three hanky movie, as
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Roger Eber used to say, very emotional and sad about
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: William Shakespeare, his wife.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: The focus is more and his wife and their child.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I will not disclose further whit's called Hamnet and not Hamlet,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: but in case you know the real story, perhaps you
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: know why the ending is a really rousing emotional film.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: And again she won an Oscar.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Previously, Chloe jo did for making No mad Land, that
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: one best picture that COVID year. So she's back with
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: another contender, and like I said, I can clearly see
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: it doing well among critics certainly, and artists who appreciate
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: the restorer of power of art. Again, what's gonna win
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: that race? One battle after another?
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Who knows? But go check out Hamnett. If you like
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: your Oscar caliber films, you're gonna love this period piece.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Mescoal, by the way, is playing Shakespeare, Jesse Buckley playing
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: his wife.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: A thought as well on Rob Reiner, just a shocking death.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Awful to hear about. Really talented director.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I mean you think of it as an actor meathead
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: and all in the family is so great him an
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: archie Bunker, But as a director. I rewatched Misery about
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: six months ago because there are Kathy Bates in a
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: podcast and she goes, you know, I forgot how funny
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: that movie is for a horror movie. It's really funny,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: and she goes, the credit is to Rob. He kind
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: of found the moments of humor within that. And Jimmy
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: conn who was very stir crazy obviously, you know, but
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: the American President, you know, stand by me.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: He was a terrific director. I interview years going Cinophile.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Roberret could not have been more jovial, very affable, guy, funny.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: And when Harry met Sally, he told me the story
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: of what he directed the famous orgasm scene. He said
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: that he actually sat in the chair and started imitating
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: as if he was a woman having an orgasm, just
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: to kind of give Meg an idea. And he looked
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: over and there was his mom staring at him, because
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: of course his mom has the famous line I'll have
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: what she's having, which was given by Billy Crystal. Rob
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: also created Seinfeld through Castle Rock. We had lots of
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: producing assignment. So terrible loss of Rob Ryan or JD.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: It's just a stunning and tragic death.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was that's a that's a that's a tough
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: way to go and yeah, it's it's it's straight.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Out of a horror movie.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: So you know, I I just watched I watched something Hiss,
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: you did something for Spot, you did the Spinal Tap.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the new movie also.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I always liked him. I always thought he
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: was a guy that was you know, you know, very
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, it just seemed like a great human being.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: So it's just one of those things like very nice,
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: didn't didn't pick sides. Was was very forthcoming with his
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: time and a talent. So it's sad to see something
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: like that go, especially.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: That we haven't gotten you to the episode yet. Your
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: thoughts neither hand it or Rob Reiner.
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: Well, I have quicker on Reiner. I mean, it's horrible,
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: tragic story. You know, if you're fortunate enough to have
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: a family that maybe is not struggling with a member
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: who has substance.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Abuse problems or mental health problems.
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: You know, definitely appreciate that these days because there are
• 40:02
  Speaker 8: families out there who are who are struggling with these issues.
• 40:06
  Speaker 8: As far as Hamnet, I've heard this is a dark one,
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: like a real tear jerker.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: But love the.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Love the career arc for Chloe Jao.
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: You know, she makes this incredible film in Nomad Land,
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: takes the marvel gig with eternals that doesn't quite work out,
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: so it goes back and makes another sort of, you know,
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: smaller film with two of the best actors in the
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: game in Paul mescal and Jesse Buckley. So I'll probably
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: check that out. I'm actually looking forward to that one.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I love the fact you said kind of followed the
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Clooney model. One for them, one for me. I'll go
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: make the Robin we you didn't work out, fine, I'll
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: go make Albert film. By the way, you weren't crazy
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: about Jake Kelly tal You said you liked it. You
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: didn't love it, though. George Clooney's no film on Netflix,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: which I liked a lot.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: I liked it.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: I love Clooney. I'll watch anything with Clooney.
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: I My old thing is, like, with everything going on
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: in the world today, this was just a conversation I
• 40:57
  Speaker 8: was having with a friend. With everything going on in
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: the world today, is there an appetite for a film
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: about a rich fame, this privileged, middle aged man who's sad?
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: You know, the question is yes.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: To an excellent a lot of Hollywood Nabel games.
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, he also said he never fights with his wife,
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: which is fucking lie.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Great call by JD. I love you never.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: You've never once disagreed with your wife and said, hey,
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: I don't think you should get the lobster tonight.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: I think it is salad. Anybody that's come on.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: If you're hiding when you go all my wife, I
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: never fight. Yeah, you're just lying, and that's okay. We
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: all he you're lying, right, you don't love your wife.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: You can argue your your wife was never a co
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: pilot in the car with you and then just flippingly
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: not giving you good directions.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: It's never happened.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: These are everyday occurrences. It's okay to be honest. Doesn't
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: mean you don't love your.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Idiots.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: Back to the Bucks.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Shout out to the Blues content manager Brian Santa Maria
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: with the team's anthem singer stuck in traffic before Saint
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Louis played the Bruins last week, the member of the
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: team's video production crew was called into action, saying the
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: national anthem before puck drop.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: JAD.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: We've talked about the ebugs system, but talk about performing
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: under pressure, an anthem performance pressed into duty.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: That's amazing, that's pretty cool. I Uh, there's so many listen.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: You gotta be ready, could.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Be ready just sing the anthem.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: That's crazy, you gotta be ready to go my uh
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: because I'm just looking at the notes. You said, Jade,
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: you're supposed to set me up. Jad, what's the most
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: memorable anthem performance?
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: I want to set you up. I saw give you.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: I do my idea. You can go for it. You
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: don't need me to ask the question. Oh, well, I
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: have an anthem story.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Okay, Well I have an anthem story.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: Please.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: I know it's during COVID.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: My uh my, My wife Jillian did the anthem when
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: we were in the bubble and because you know, she's
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: a singer, Broadway singer, all that stuff, so she did the.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Anthem and I was the only one that knews.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: So I was like sitting there and I'm like, I'm
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: on the ice and she kind of comes on the
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: screen because they're like on the JumboTron and she's singing,
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: and as soon as she comes on the JumboTron, all
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: the guys just help just cat calling.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Just all the guys are like.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Gd gd oh shit.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: We ended up winning the game too.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: We won the game, so all the guys were loving
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: it and We're like, it's gotta be every game.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: And it was only one game.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: But but yeah, she's open to uh to do national anthems.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: She's done a few of them, so she did it.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: Starts spangled bannerm assuming should both.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: She can learn O Canada. I don't know if she
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: can do the French part, but she can learn O Canada.
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  Speaker 2: All right, better learn Canada. She's doing it kidding me.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna say, always be available.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you want to talk about fighting?
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  Speaker 1: George Clooney disagreement with them in the Dumur's household a
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  Speaker 1: couple of minutes left a Ranger reunion quite a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Monday night, former Rangers captain Jacob Truba and longtime Blue
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  Speaker 1: Shirt fan favorite Chris Cryder, ranking the third all time
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  Speaker 1: in Rangers franchise history three hundred and twenty six goals,
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  Speaker 1: they both returned to MSG with the Doxy beat their
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  Speaker 1: former team for to one, one assist for Truba, no
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  Speaker 1: points for Crider, but nice tributes for both these guys.
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  Speaker 3: Cry Do you think of it? Jeddy?
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  Speaker 1: Thirteen seasons in New York Classy returned from the fans there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's it's tough to go back.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's especially when you've been there that long,
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  Speaker 4: and then he was he went all the way to Anaheim's.
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  Speaker 4: You're way out west, you're only playing in New York
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  Speaker 4: once a year, so you really cherished that return. And
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  Speaker 4: good job by MSG. I mean, he's one of those guys, Crider.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this is a guy you could argue if
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  Speaker 4: they hadn't won, you could have probably put his jersey
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  Speaker 4: in the rafters just as long as he's been there
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  Speaker 4: and how good of a player he's been for that organization.
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  Speaker 4: So I do think you know, both him and Truba.
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  Speaker 4: The way they left too, was was a little bit
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  Speaker 4: you know, in the middle of the night. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it was kind of these weird I don't think the
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  Speaker 4: fans of you to ask them, wanted them to go.
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  Speaker 4: I just think it was kind of a product of
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  Speaker 4: the environment. So those are always tough, because it's not like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, fans got tired of them. Fans will still
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  Speaker 4: want those guys around and still clamoring for him. So
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  Speaker 4: they come in and they you know, beat on the
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  Speaker 4: beat on the old team and the Rangers, and the
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: Rangers look like shit again, can't score goals, and uh,
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  Speaker 4: but this Ducks team. Man, it's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 4: It's more fun to win to me playing an MSG.
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  Speaker 4: So I think they're pretty pretty happy right now, Crider
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  Speaker 4: and Truby because after every game they get to put
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  Speaker 4: their toes in the sand.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah and uh yeah, living the good life.
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  Speaker 1: During California last year, quite a week for Canadian's goltening
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: prospect Jacob Fowler.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, Jacob's ladder.
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  Speaker 1: Montreal desperate to find reliable goaltending, the twenty one year
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: old former BC star gets to call NHL debut against
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  Speaker 1: the Penguins, stopped thirty six of thirty eight shots habs
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  Speaker 1: win four two. He started three of Montreal's last four games,
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  Speaker 1: going one to one and one. But perhaps more surreal,
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  Speaker 1: he joins the list of Canadians goalies that includes Ken Dryden,
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Wat and Carrie Price, who started and won their
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: first NHL game against the Penguins. I saw on the
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  Speaker 1: ticker Samuel Montambau now sent to the HL. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think Fowler is here to stay?
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  Speaker 4: Well, unless until momin Book can find his game, which
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: is maybe what they're doing and getting his confidence back.
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  Speaker 4: I mean this goalie tandem of Dobe sh Monbo has
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  Speaker 4: just been riddled by you know, lack of confidence and
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  Speaker 4: they just can't seem to get their game. They're they're
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: both tremendous talents, but they just can't seem to put
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: it together. In the goaltending position is a very fickle bitch,
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  Speaker 4: and mentally it's tough to If you lose that feeling
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  Speaker 4: and you lose that confidence, it can be tough sledding
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  Speaker 4: your angles aren on.
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  Speaker 2: So Dobe's just played a little bit better. You know.
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  Speaker 4: Montreal's kind of up and down. They've you know, win
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: some games, losing games, so they're very helter skelter. But
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: Fowler has you know, been touted as the guy, and
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: you know it's there's not many teams that have three
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: goals that could potentially be a number one. So you
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  Speaker 4: got to be happy for the Montreal Canadians. It's just
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: finding which one and then riding the high hand because
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: you know they need to, you know, continue to stack
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: up points and and keep playing some good hockey. You know,
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: they're one point out of the playoff spot now, so
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: sorry they're they're in one point in, but you got
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: everybody chasing you, and this this division, this conference is
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: going to come down to the wire. It's going to
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: really be the last game you might see four or
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: five teams switching positions. I think it feels like one
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: of those years. So you got to keep winning games.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: You got to find a goalie that can get you there.
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  Speaker 4: So I think Montreal potentially has a guy in Fowler,
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: but I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be tough.
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: I like do Beach when he's on more than I
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: like big goalies, and he's, uh, he can be the guy,
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: and he's been touted as the guy for them.
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  Speaker 1: So I was about to say, dob off to a
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: great strut then really hit the skids. Montebo's yet to
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: really get rolling. So we'll see if Fouler could be
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: the guy. Flyers beat the Habs. By the way, for
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: when last night, I'll be in Philadelphia for Amazon Prime
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: checking out the new look Canucks against a surprising Flyers
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  Speaker 1: currently right now third in the Metropolitan Division.
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  Speaker 3: That'll do it for us. Thanks for checking out NHL
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  Speaker 3: Unscripted Episode sixty.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks again to William Ecklin. We'll see you next week.
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  Speaker 1: Special Holiday edition. Happy Honekhau the Towel. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: you all again soon.
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  Speaker 2: Hey Maslotov.
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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart Podcasts.
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