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Between The Pipes: Adrian Denny on the Mammoth's road trip, Clayton Keller's best offensive start of his career + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: to The Sean O'Connell Show. We're at hour number three
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  Speaker 1: now here at All Trade Staffing, 182 West Haven Avenue
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  Speaker 1: in South Salt Lake City.
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  Speaker 2: 801-313-1234.
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  Speaker 1: All right. You got it right. Yeah, yeah. Adrian Denny,
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  Speaker 1: Between the Pipes, brought to you by Valley Plumbing, Heating,
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  Speaker 1: and Cooling and Aladdin Industries. And looking slick in the
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  Speaker 1: brand-new Hometown Remix sweater for the Utah Mammoth. The alternate
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  Speaker 1: U logo, the Tuskew logo on the front, the Mammoth
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  Speaker 1: logos on the shoulder. You got the official, like, that's
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  Speaker 1: the real one, okay? Adrian Denny's wearing the expensive one,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: This is it, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: It's not to be confused with Cougar Blue. It's beautiful
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  Speaker 3: mountain blue.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: I might not take it off. Or during the game
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  Speaker 3: last night, game went well. Might just keep it on.
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  Speaker 1: Forever. Looks great.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I haven't seen it up close yet,
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  Speaker 1: so this is the first one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it would be fun to wear it in.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I was walking around the Delta Center last
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  Speaker 3: night during the Teddy Swims concert just, you know, in a...
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  Speaker 3: Mountain blue, hometown remix jersey, just like everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: Nice. I love that. So this Utah Mammoth team on
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  Speaker 1: the road right now. We've talked about this the last
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  Speaker 1: time you were in. They've got a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: tough road stretch in front of them, although last night
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  Speaker 1: they got over on the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2, picked
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  Speaker 1: up some points on the road with Cosa in goal.
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  Speaker 1: What did you think of the game last night?
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  Speaker 3: I thought they were in control for– Most of it.
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  Speaker 3: You look at the third period, Toronto got 12 of
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  Speaker 3: the 18 shots. They tied it. They got some good
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  Speaker 3: chances late. Kosa, for the third straight win, huge saves
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  Speaker 3: and huge moments. He's 4-1. So, you know, just during
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  Speaker 3: the course of starting with 13 of 19 on the
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  Speaker 3: road and an 84-game season, the more wins you can
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  Speaker 3: chisel from your backup goaltender, that's good. 4-1 is his
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  Speaker 3: record now, winning another one-goal game. They're 5-0 in one-goal games,
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  Speaker 3: 10-6 overall. So there's another good response. The team's been
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  Speaker 3: great at responding after a loss. They're 6-0. They're the
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  Speaker 3: only team in the NHL that doesn't have two straight losses.
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  Speaker 3: So they've been able to regroup after having a game
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  Speaker 3: like they did on Sunday that went away that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the losses have gone.
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  Speaker 2: They just.
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  Speaker 3: just kind of lose themselves for a little bit and
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  Speaker 3: get back into it, but run out of time. But
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  Speaker 3: I think the bigger thing is how they've responded and
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  Speaker 3: not let anything slide. In their losses, OC, just get emotional.
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  Speaker 3: The game just starts slipping, and they're just not able
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  Speaker 3: to pull it together because they're trying so hard and
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  Speaker 3: everything falls apart.
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  Speaker 1: Who needs to fix that or lead the charge toward
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  Speaker 1: fixing that? Obviously... You know, everyone's involved in an effort
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  Speaker 1: like that one, but are you looking at Bear? Are
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  Speaker 1: you looking at Keller as the captain? Who can calm
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  Speaker 1: the storm when it starts to happen?
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  Speaker 3: It's so funny because in the losses, we're talking about emotion, composure, maturity,
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  Speaker 3: lack thereof.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: In the wins, you're talking about emotion, composure, maturity. So
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  Speaker 3: I think it's... something that won't be a season long thing.
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  Speaker 3: I think that, you know, hopefully last night was the
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  Speaker 3: turning point to realizing, okay, this is what we need
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  Speaker 3: to do. We're sick of having practices the day after
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  Speaker 3: a loss and going through the same thing over and
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  Speaker 3: over again and coming back out, winning the next game
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  Speaker 3: and then coming out the next game, seeing a little
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  Speaker 3: adversity go their way and just not being able to,
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  Speaker 3: to handle it.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned they're the only team in the NHL without
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  Speaker 1: back-to-back losses so far, but we're also looking at a
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  Speaker 1: pretty long stretch now where there's not back-to-back wins.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, nine straight games.
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  Speaker 1: It's win, loss, win, loss. It's like going back to
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  Speaker 1: your first grade class when your teacher hands you a
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  Speaker 1: paper and is like, can you recognize the pattern?
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  Speaker 2: The pattern is.
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  Speaker 1: That you're winning one and then you're losing one. How
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  Speaker 1: concerning is that.
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  Speaker 2: If at all? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: Um in in terms of concern level especially being on
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  Speaker 3: a road trip for me it's just about what what
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  Speaker 3: can you chisel what can you take um from these
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  Speaker 3: six straight games and if you win one more in
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  Speaker 3: the next three you're 500 on the trip anything else
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  Speaker 3: after that is is house money um but you're not
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  Speaker 3: gonna you know you're not gonna respond every night like
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  Speaker 3: they have been all season right you're you're going to
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  Speaker 3: go into games against teams that are hot, teams that
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  Speaker 3: you catch at the wrong time, and you're going to
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  Speaker 3: lose that second game in a row. So ideally you
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  Speaker 3: can string together another win or two in a row
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  Speaker 3: before we have to have this conversation of how great
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  Speaker 3: the team is after losing a game. But I think
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  Speaker 3: 10-6 with so far what has been 10 of 16
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  Speaker 3: games on the road, I think you're good with it.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're happy with Sebastian Kosa on the other
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  Speaker 3: end of it. Kosa probably doesn't start that game last
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  Speaker 3: night if everything's going perfectly with Kralva Malka. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: now you know you've got a backup that you can
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  Speaker 3: go to when you're like, okay, let's give Veggie a breather.
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  Speaker 1: Which is interesting because it's like, I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 1: great problem. Well, it's not a problem when you have
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  Speaker 1: a good backup, but it's something we talked about last
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  Speaker 1: year where it's like, yeah, you don't really trust what's
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  Speaker 1: going on with goaltender number two, and so you maybe
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  Speaker 1: have to overuse Veggie. But Veggie rose to the occasion
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  Speaker 1: in that stretch last year, over the course of a
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  Speaker 1: season actually last year. And now the question that's starting
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  Speaker 1: to stir a little bit is like, what's going on
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  Speaker 1: with Veggie?
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  Speaker 2: Is that something that.
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  Speaker 1: Needs to be addressed? And if it needs to be addressed,
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  Speaker 1: how do you address it?
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  Speaker 2: In my opinion, I think he's going to be fine.
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  Speaker 3: His November and December last year was not great, and
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  Speaker 3: you just kept having to roll him out because Vitek
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  Speaker 3: Vanacek wasn't winning any games either. He won five games
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  Speaker 3: last year as Utah's backup. Sebastian Cosa has already won four,
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  Speaker 3: but Vemelka's resume in the NHL with Utah, is he
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  Speaker 3: perfect for A whole season, no. Does he have stretches
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  Speaker 3: where you're like, oh boy, and then he'll come out
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  Speaker 3: and get that game. You're like, okay, that's it. Veggie's back.
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  Speaker 3: Thought that we might have seen it against Minnesota last week.
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  Speaker 3: Game Utah didn't win, but Philly was a tough one.
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  Speaker 2: On Sunday. Didn't see a lot of shots, which isn't
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  Speaker 2: always advantageous. The Flyers.
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  Speaker 3: played a decent game. They had Utah pinned in their
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  Speaker 3: zone the whole time offensively and their typical low event
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  Speaker 3: team that picks their spots and can grind you and
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  Speaker 3: then they'll get something point blank that's a scoring chance
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  Speaker 3: and all of a sudden they've got four goals on
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  Speaker 3: 22 shots which is not atypical but it wasn't a
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  Speaker 3: great game on Sunday and then they flipped back out
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  Speaker 3: with Sebastian Kosa yesterday which shows that maybe we all
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  Speaker 3: kind of felt the same way.
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  Speaker 1: Do we know if Clayton Keller's locker is like the
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  Speaker 1: same spot in the building where John Stockton's locker used
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  Speaker 1: to be and there's some sort of like weird juju
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  Speaker 1: or magnetic force there to where you're just an assist
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  Speaker 1: monster if you are in that place? Clayton Keller is
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  Speaker 1: sort of deferred scoring to those around him, but he
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  Speaker 1: is facilitating at a higher level than we've ever seen
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  Speaker 1: in his career.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's off to the best offensive start. in his career.
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  Speaker 3: He's got 21 points, 16 games, three assists last night
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  Speaker 3: factored in on all three Utah goals for the mammoth
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  Speaker 3: on the power play this year. He's, he's been involved,
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  Speaker 3: but within he's been involved in all but six of
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  Speaker 3: their power play goals, which you've gotten four from the
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  Speaker 3: second unit. So everything is run through him on the
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  Speaker 3: power play points are there five on five.
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  Speaker 2: The mammoth did change up.
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  Speaker 3: Last night, they put Anders Lee and Barrett Hayton with
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  Speaker 3: Clayton Keller and Schmaltz and Gunther.
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  Speaker 2: With Jack McBain.
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  Speaker 3: So three of the four lines did change up just
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  Speaker 3: to try and get some more five-on-fives. Power play has
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  Speaker 3: been great. Best power play in the league. They have
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  Speaker 3: more multiple lines. power play goal games this year than
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  Speaker 3: they did last year.
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  Speaker 2: They played 16.
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  Speaker 3: They have eight games this year with at least two
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  Speaker 3: power play goals. Last year they had seven. So power
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  Speaker 3: play is great. Five on five metrics show that the
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  Speaker 3: mammoth probably underperformed a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Five-on-five.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe should have 10 or 11 more five-on-five goals.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: You expect actual performance to catch up with metrics when
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  Speaker 3: you're in a situation like that. Same thing when 40%
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  Speaker 3: of your shots are going into the back of the net.
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  Speaker 3: You know that for a team or a player, maybe
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  Speaker 3: things are going to level out a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned Barrett Hayton. I really like him.
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  Speaker 1: I liked where they put him last night. I like
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  Speaker 1: that he got into Sergei Bobrovsky's head. He had Bob
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  Speaker 1: flopping in the crease because he was looking for interference calls.
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  Speaker 1: And Hayton, I mean, look, the first one, borderline, he
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  Speaker 1: got called once. But he was in the head of
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  Speaker 1: one of the, I mean, Stanley Cup goaltender.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was going on all night. The first goal
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  Speaker 3: that counted. Bobrovsky was outside of the crease and Hayden
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  Speaker 3: was pestering him. But even with Bobrovsky being outside of
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  Speaker 3: the crease, by rule, you still have to avoid the goalie, right?
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  Speaker 3: So there was contact, but Toronto didn't challenge it and
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  Speaker 3: Hayden did a good job of kind of being sneaky there.
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  Speaker 3: On the second one, he was in the crease.
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  Speaker 2: Goalie interferes. Tackled the guy. That's okay. I'll take that.
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  Speaker 2: any day of the week.
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  Speaker 3: You get a goal waved off for goal interference because
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  Speaker 3: you're in the crease grinding. And then OC, third period,
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  Speaker 3: Toronto had just tied the game. Barrett Hayton is again
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  Speaker 3: swarming in front of the net, and he's just kind
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  Speaker 3: of buzzing. And Darren Radish, one of Toronto's best defensemen,
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  Speaker 3: is coming over trying to nudge him away. And Hayton
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  Speaker 3: just wouldn't budge to the point that Radish eventually got
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  Speaker 3: tangled up with him to the point he cross-checked him.
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  Speaker 3: Mammoth go on the power play, take the lead, get
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  Speaker 3: the game-winning goal from Schmaltz from that penalty that he drew. So,
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  Speaker 3: Hayton was a pest. Keller drew a penalty. Hayton drew
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  Speaker 3: a penalty. That line, Anders Lee said it after the
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  Speaker 3: game to us on the radio. He's like, yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: just went out and worked, like every line I'm on.
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  Speaker 2: We just go out and work.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome to see.
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  Speaker 3: And.
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  Speaker 1: Again, points on the road, hard to come by. Successful
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  Speaker 1: outing in Toronto. Let's talk about what is next for
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  Speaker 1: this Utah Mammoth team because, like you said, this is
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  Speaker 1: one of their longer trips of the season. It'll be Montreal.
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  Speaker 1: I imagine reeling in French from what happened to them
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  Speaker 1: last night where they gave up a four-goal lead in
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  Speaker 1: the final two minutes and 40 seconds of regulation.
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  Speaker 3: To a team that was winless in 9, 0-7-2. Canadians
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  Speaker 3: had won five straight games. They're cruising there. I think
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  Speaker 3: the narrative, what you're hearing from around hockey today is, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they didn't play great. They were up 4-0. But you
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  Speaker 3: still don't expect that to happen. 4-0 with under three
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  Speaker 3: to go, and you lose 5-4 in overtime, so... Nothing's
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  Speaker 3: ever ideal, right? The Mammoth went into Philly on Sunday,
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  Speaker 3: the game after their captain called them soft. So now
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  Speaker 3: you're going to face a team, Montreal 9-3-3, had a
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  Speaker 3: five-game winning streak until last night that just lost 5-4.
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  Speaker 2: So hopefully it.
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  Speaker 3: Can be something that starts another little slide for them.
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  Speaker 3: Canadians have only lost more than one in a row once,
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  Speaker 3: started the year winless in three. So hopefully the Mammoth
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  Speaker 3: can hand them that second straight loss. coming back the
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  Speaker 3: night after that, which if you look at the night
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  Speaker 3: in hockey last night, O.C., the Mammoth beat the Maple
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  Speaker 3: Leafs to sweep the season series there. And the talk
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  Speaker 3: of the morning is because about 20 minutes after that,
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  Speaker 3: a 4-0 lead evaporated in Montreal. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're wearing the hometown remake sweater, as we already referenced.
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  Speaker 1: I think that the NHL did a good job with
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  Speaker 1: these this year. I think that a lot of teams
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  Speaker 1: look really good. Did you have favorites besides this Utah
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  Speaker 1: Mountain Blue one?
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  Speaker 3: I like Montreal's that they wore last night, not just
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  Speaker 3: because they blew a 4-0 lead, but I thought Montreal
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  Speaker 3: was sharp.
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  Speaker 2: I like Florida.
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  Speaker 3: I think, gosh, anytime you can lean into palm trees
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  Speaker 3: and beaches, I do like that. Mammoth will wear these
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  Speaker 3: for the first time tomorrow in Montreal. Did you see
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  Speaker 3: what the Mammoth did last night, OC, with the black helmets?
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  Speaker 3: Usually it's white helmets, salt white jerseys, and the game
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  Speaker 3: before they're going to roll out their first third jersey ever,
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  Speaker 3: the hometown remixes, they came out with black helmets, white jerseys.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember who it was that, tweeted about that,
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  Speaker 1: but apparently the NHL has encouraged that because of the
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  Speaker 1: digital advertising around the rink, the blackout that creates a
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  Speaker 1: better contrast. Is that what you heard as well?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw what Cole Bagley tweeted out. That was
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  Speaker 3: the first that I had heard of that. But we've
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  Speaker 3: gotten fans who have noticed stuff too, like Mikhail Sergachev's
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  Speaker 3: white stick is hard to see in certain areas makes
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  Speaker 3: sense um so everybody that that i heard from liked
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  Speaker 3: it uh i liked it because they won the game
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  Speaker 3: so guess what we've got a new thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny because we get like we talk a lot
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  Speaker 1: about uniform combinations in college football right the nfl has
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  Speaker 1: finally started to branch out a little bit there for
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  Speaker 1: years and years it was like no you wear what
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  Speaker 1: you wear except on thanksgiving you can color outside the
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  Speaker 1: lines Now they're starting to switch things up a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: alternate helmet colors. And I find myself, I'm such a
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  Speaker 1: hypocrite because I always wanted the NFL to be more creative,
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  Speaker 1: but now I'm like, no, don't do that. It looks
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  Speaker 1: weird in the NFL. In hockey, I'm open to it.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's a me problem, but the NHL,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the NFL no fun league, resistant for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Where's the NHL stood on all this stuff?
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  Speaker 3: I think the NHL has been really... open and proactive
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  Speaker 3: and progressive. And the number one reason I think is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you, you roll out a hometown remix Jersey
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  Speaker 3: like this one, and it's not just your fans who
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  Speaker 3: are taking notice. It's, you know, casual bystander over here
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  Speaker 3: who knows that we have a team, but, Oh, that
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  Speaker 3: looks really cool.
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  Speaker 2: I want one of those.
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  Speaker 3: And, and as I say, then you get them on
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  Speaker 3: the escalator and what's the, what's the next thing. And
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  Speaker 3: then they buy a hat and then they're, flipping through
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  Speaker 3: the channels, watch a game on TV, and then somebody
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  Speaker 3: they know has a ticket.
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  Speaker 2: They're coming to a game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got a friend like me who's like, why
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  Speaker 1: are you wearing that if you don't go to the games?
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  Speaker 1: And you're like, well, okay, I'll go to the games.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a good way to put people on the
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  Speaker 3: escalator to keep growing your fan base.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about this before we came on air. Four
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  Speaker 1: sweaters this year. You've got your Home, You're Away. You've
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  Speaker 1: got this one, the Hometown Remix. Winter Classic sweater to
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  Speaker 1: be released. And obviously, if you're a Utah Mammoth fan,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to, put aside some budget to make sure
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  Speaker 1: you get all of them this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, we, we had some fans on hockey night in
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  Speaker 3: Utah last night, like debating, like, what do we do?
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  Speaker 2: We can get to get, get to get one. Like
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  Speaker 2: we can, we can't lose.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to wear this at five games, winter classic, uh,
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  Speaker 3: once in a lifetime thing. If you're looking for a
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  Speaker 3: timetable there over the years, that's typically been something that's
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  Speaker 3: been released in terms of the winter classic sweater in
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  Speaker 3: like late November. So, That's just the timeline, historically speaking,
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  Speaker 3: on the Winter Classic jerseys.
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  Speaker 1: I am very much holding my breath because my nephews
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  Speaker 1: are coming in. The whole family is going to be here.
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  Speaker 1: I promised them we'd go to the Winter Classic, so
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  Speaker 1: we did the whole ticket shebang. But got to do
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  Speaker 1: the full thing. Got to get the sweaters. I'm very
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  Speaker 1: curious to know what they look like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, can't wait to see.
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  Speaker 3: That's the other thing, too, because, as you said, you
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  Speaker 3: roll out the– Hometown remixes, you roll out the winter
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: classic jerseys, and then there's a separate line of hoodies, hats, jackets,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: mini sticks. You can also.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think they listen to the
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: show and take my suggestions. What I want for the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: winter classic one, I want a skeletal mammoth, like a
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: mammoth fossil. It's not very wintry and not very Christmassy,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: but that's what I want. It's more like a Halloween
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: classic in that case.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: There's just so much stuff you can do with the brand.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: It's in such an infancy still that, you know, you
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: look at the original six teams, like how many more
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: colors can you make a Blackhawks jersey here?
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: The Bruins brown one, by the way, kind of cool.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Looks good.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But the Bruin, the Bear, yeah.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: But so there's just so much room to grow and
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: stuff you can do with with this brand and these colors.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, going to get more. Always want more.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: So, you know, talk about the team, OC, like another
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: save or two, like another five-on-five goal. Always want more
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: on the branding side, too, and we'll get it.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: On the road for eight more days, Montreal, Ottawa, Vegas,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: before they come back Thursday, November 12th, against St. Louis,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: and then it'll be five in a row at home.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: St.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Louis, San Jose, Vancouver, Colorado. anaheim so uh points hopefully
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: piling up on that home stretch before you get toward
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the end.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Of november tricky thing about that one is starting that
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: home stand a night after you're in vegas wrapping up
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: six straight away so um Yeah, you always come home
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: and you think, okay, we'll exhale here, and that first
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: game might be tougher than any of the games that
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: you play on the road trip, especially this one being
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Utah's second back-to-back of the year next week.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: All right. I'm going to ask you to get out
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: of hockey mode for just a second because you know
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: what this week is in.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: The state of ours.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Happiest person in Utah that it's a 10 a.m.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Game. You're happy about that.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I'm happy about that because we play at 5 a.m. Okay.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: So sorry. Sorry, everybody.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: So all of you people who are mad because you
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: have to get up early, they did this for Adrian
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Denny so that he is not in conflict with his.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Do you know how many people that I've told since July? Like,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: what do you do on November 7th? We play at
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Ottawa at 5 p.m., so pretty much every window is
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: a mess, except for noon Eastern, 10 Mountain.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Sign us up.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: My old roommates. Former player on the team when I
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: was up there called me yesterday, and I was like,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: when are you going to get up there? Are you
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: going to go to the tailgate? I'll stop by and
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: see you guys. He's like, oh, no, I'm going to
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: a Saints game, and we're going to the LSU-Alabama game instead.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I was like, what is wrong with you? You're leaving
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the state on the most important sports day of the year?
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: But conflict, man. Schedules just get mixed up. It's terrible.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Unless you're Alabama any other year, you'd be like, yeah,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: absolutely go to that game. As long as it's not
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: on the day of the Holy War, the first top
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: ten Holy War ever.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: It's a great college football Saturday.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: We've been talking about it since the conference schedules came
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: out a year ago.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Who would have thought?
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: How are you feeling?
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I feel good. I told you, OC, first of the year.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Morgan Scali is the head coach going back to my
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: feelings and my emotions watching the Vegas bowl last year
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: when Utah took it to Nebraska and they didn't stop.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I'm watching that.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: I'm like, this is how it felt in oh three
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: and oh four when Morgan Scali was on the team
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: and urban Meyer was the head coach. That's what I,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: that's what I.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Feel from, from this team.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: And, and, Morgan and his coaching staff is, you know,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: that game in Cincinnati is what we're talking about. Just
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: came out and went to town in the first half.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard to overcome the predictable nature of college
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: football when it comes to that stuff, right? We know
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: that it's a problem. We know it's an issue. the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: look-ahead spot, everyone is like, watch out for this, watch
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: out for this. Hey, hangover losses are a thing.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Watch out for those.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: They don't sneak up on anybody, and yet they still happen.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: And they managed to not only avoid the loss, but
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: they came out and it was over at halftime. And
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: then the second half issues, I think, were a result
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: of it being over at halftime. But, yeah, it was
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: really fascinating to see that from, again, a first-year head
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: coach with first-year coordinators on both sides.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Of the ball. And for me, OC, that was one
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: game since week one that Mammoth didn't play on Saturday.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: So able to sit down, watch the whole thing, and
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: enjoy it. That's what you want to see if you
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: don't get to see games in their entirety and when
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: you don't have college football Saturdays open. And I loved
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: every second, especially of that first half. It was just enjoyable.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: They weren't messing around. There weren't penalties. There was nothing
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: that Utah in that first half did that could have
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: done that a little better. It was all, we're going
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: to town.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: That is Adrian Denny, Between the Pipes, every week brought
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to you by Valley Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling, and Aladdin Industries,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Utah Mammoth Insider, who is rocking that new Hometown Remix sweater.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: They look a lot cooler in person even than they
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: do online, by the way. So the little details are great.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Mountain blue, not cougar blue, just in case anybody.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: He's wearing blue during Holy War week, but it's very
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: distinctly different blue.