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Between The Pipes: Adrian Denny on Utah Mammoth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Game 5 vs Golden Knights tonight in Vegas + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Sen us. You tuned to the Sean O'Connell Show from
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Shawn O'Connell Show. Our number three
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  Speaker 1: starts with Adrian Danny. We go between the pipes with
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  Speaker 1: the Utah Mammoth insider. You can hear him on Mammoth Daily.
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  Speaker 1: Our friend and NHL Hockey insider, Adrian.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome, How are you so pos c? How's it going man?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for coming up to lake Hill's mom.
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  Speaker 3: You kidding me.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't miss an RV parking lot sale for the world,
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  Speaker 4: So it just worked out perfect.
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  Speaker 2: These things actually are really cool.
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  Speaker 4: Just I could look all day in these things. Just
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  Speaker 4: go inside, sit down, do some work. Yeah, I'm I'm
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  Speaker 4: all in on this.
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  Speaker 1: The problem I have is I'm like I need this one,
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  Speaker 1: and then I walk into the next one.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, nope, I need this one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there's not a bad decision to make and walk
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  Speaker 1: into the big expensive one, like, yeah, I need this,
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  Speaker 1: I definitely want this one. That's one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. But in any case, let's get to some
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  Speaker 1: NHL hockey. Let's get into some Mammoth Versus Nights back
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  Speaker 1: on the road tonight at the Fortress in Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Series all tied up to two.
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  Speaker 1: We were watching with great interest the other nights when
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  Speaker 1: Utah battled back from being down three zero, took the
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  Speaker 1: four to three lead, gave up the equalizer lates and
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  Speaker 1: ended up unfortunately losing it overtime on home ice to Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: But now it's a three game series.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 4: And I told James Peterson, our executive producer, stopped by
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  Speaker 4: during the second intermission on Monday night, and I said,
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  Speaker 4: I don't have a feeling one way or another where
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna win this game or tonight. But watching these
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  Speaker 4: guys right now, they can win this series because they believe,
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  Speaker 4: they've they've got the confidence. The way they made three
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  Speaker 4: to think three two, I thought, Okay, nothing is gonna
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  Speaker 4: turn these guys aside.
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  Speaker 3: And going into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: For me, that's that that was one of the bigger things,
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  Speaker 4: right It's a first year playoff team together, Are they
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  Speaker 4: gonna have that confidence and swagger that they use the
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  Speaker 4: regular season to get to this point. Sometimes you'll see
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  Speaker 4: a team go out and they'll they'll play good, but
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  Speaker 4: you can just tell they're a little tight, and they
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  Speaker 4: don't win the one goal games and they come close,
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  Speaker 4: but two to two here going into game five. I
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  Speaker 4: saw something in Game four that to me really made
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  Speaker 4: a statement from this group as a whole.
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  Speaker 3: They believe and they're they're not.
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  Speaker 4: You know, afraid of anything here, and for me, that's
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  Speaker 4: that's the biggest thing you could ever have.
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  Speaker 2: One thing I've noticed through this.
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  Speaker 1: Series, and I think think you know, the final ten
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  Speaker 1: or so games in the regular season is and I
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  Speaker 1: know this is like low hanging fruit type stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: it feels like.
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  Speaker 2: When they're giving up goals, a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: The situations where this team is giving up goals is
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  Speaker 1: not because the other team is better, Oh that guy's
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  Speaker 1: shot is just that good or whatever. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: it is like, oh, there was an obvious error by
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  Speaker 1: the mammoth that led to the score, and you never
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  Speaker 1: want to make those errors and you never want to
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  Speaker 1: make that excuse. It's just like, well, as long as
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  Speaker 1: we played clean hockey. We're gonna win. But there are
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  Speaker 1: plenty of teams out there, most of them are not
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I think all of them are not
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Where they're doing their darnest and they just don't have it.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not enough.
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  Speaker 1: They're just not good enough, even at their very best,
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  Speaker 1: to win these meaningful games. And when you see this
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  Speaker 1: team giving up goals, it's like, all it's explainable. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: that happened because that thing happened first. That happened because
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  Speaker 1: of that error pass. That happened because of that mispuck handling,
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  Speaker 1: that happened because of some miscommunication in front of.
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  Speaker 2: The crease or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And it feels like the errors are explainable, which means
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  Speaker 1: I think they're fixable, and with that comes adjustments hopefully
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  Speaker 1: for game five.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: That one hundred percent makes sense, and you can look
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  Speaker 4: at it taking that another step in. You know, Vegas
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  Speaker 4: in the last couple games in particular, has controlled the
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  Speaker 4: Utah zone five on five. They've had a lot of
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  Speaker 4: puck possession, but they haven't necessarily generated a lot of offense.
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  Speaker 3: They've had the.
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  Speaker 4: Puck, but I think the frustration down in Vegas is
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  Speaker 4: haven't done very much with it, and Utah has made
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  Speaker 4: them work. Eleven of their twelve goals have come within
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  Speaker 4: seventeen feet of the net. So everything Vegas has gotten
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  Speaker 4: in this series, they've had to work. For tip that
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  Speaker 4: made it for to four, the puck that they threw
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  Speaker 4: in to win the game on Monday Night, they they
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  Speaker 4: have had to, you know, lift the offense and really
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  Speaker 4: force it against against the Mammoths.
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  Speaker 3: So so that's one thing.
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  Speaker 4: So you could you could say, what they've had the
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  Speaker 4: puck for so much longer, and you know the shot differential,
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  Speaker 4: But then you can look at the Utah side of
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  Speaker 4: it and say that the Mammoth have generated offense and
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  Speaker 4: fast and they haven't needed, you know, to possess the
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  Speaker 4: puck for.
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  Speaker 3: Minutes at a time to get their goals. They've been able.
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  Speaker 4: To stretch pucks up ahead, use their speed and skill
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  Speaker 4: to score. They've got eight goals on their last forty
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  Speaker 4: two shots, which is about some math on the air,
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  Speaker 4: about seventeen eighteen percent shooting percentage. So that's that's high
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  Speaker 4: and you're saying, gosh, is that going to continue to come?
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  Speaker 4: But if you look at the last month of the
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  Speaker 4: regular season, the Mammoths scored four goals or more and
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  Speaker 4: ten of their fourteen games, and their shooting percentage was
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  Speaker 4: exactly where it's been in the last couple of games.
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  Speaker 3: So they've put.
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  Speaker 4: Up four goals in two straight contests. So Utah has
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  Speaker 4: been able to generate offense quickly with their speed, but
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  Speaker 4: they've also done a good job of coming back and
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  Speaker 4: getting another goal four times on the home stand, on
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  Speaker 4: all eight of their goals they scored another goal less
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  Speaker 4: than six minutes later, and in the case on Monday,
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  Speaker 4: they scored two goals twenty nine seconds apart. They scored
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  Speaker 4: two goals just over three minutes apart. Right, So the
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  Speaker 4: Mammoth have been clicking. They've they've been able to take
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  Speaker 4: advantage of what they do well, and that's generate good,
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  Speaker 4: high opportunity, high end scoring chances. In Vegas has had
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  Speaker 4: to really really work for it. So so I think
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  Speaker 4: that's I think that's a positive. Plus the Mammoth is
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  Speaker 4: we now go into games five, six, and seven plan
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  Speaker 4: every other day after we played two games and six nights.
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  Speaker 4: They've been able as the younger team, a much younger team,
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  Speaker 4: to really manage the minutes and spread everything out across
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  Speaker 4: the board. Vegas has really leaned on their stars, and
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  Speaker 4: they're older, and they played a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Michael played thirty three minutes the other.
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  Speaker 4: Night, and and I'm I'm not gonna say that's that's
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  Speaker 4: a really bad sign for Vegas. It's NFL and everybody's
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  Speaker 4: condition well, but it's it's another little thing to watch
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  Speaker 4: for as we break down every single microscopic detail and
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  Speaker 4: what could be a seven game series here. Utah's younger
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  Speaker 4: and their guys are going to be fresher.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I asked this question we had Mike Fulton. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well I've asked.
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  Speaker 2: This question to every hockey guest we've had this week.
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  Speaker 1: How many times did we see Veggie lose his stick
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  Speaker 1: with the other team, you know, ready to fire one
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  Speaker 1: off this year? I mean, I don't recall seeing it
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  Speaker 1: other than we saw the other night. But you watched
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  Speaker 1: every single game all the way through. So how many
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  Speaker 1: times did that happen this year?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: Twice on Monday and twice all year?
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  Speaker 4: Probably there were some scrambles in front, and that's that's
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  Speaker 4: how Vegas got their final goal. I think I think
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  Speaker 4: Veggie can be I think he think he can be
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  Speaker 4: a huge factory. I think Utah holds the goaltending advantage.
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  Speaker 4: He gives up four goals in regulation on Monday five
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  Speaker 4: for the final. Only twice this year did he give
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  Speaker 4: up four more goals in two straight starts.
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  Speaker 2: So I also want to talk about two of those goals.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, did redirects from Howden? Yeah, we're ridiculous. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 4: that's what we're talking about. Vegas having to work to
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  Speaker 4: get at what they're getting. So that's that's that's huge.
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  Speaker 4: And and Howden's a playoff player.
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  Speaker 3: Man, he's a third line forward.
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  Speaker 4: You don't hear anything about him, and then you watch
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  Speaker 4: him in a playoff series and you're like, hmm, I
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  Speaker 4: kind of like him.
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  Speaker 1: Going back to before the playoffs started, I was asking you,
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  Speaker 1: you know, who needs to step up for the mammoth,
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  Speaker 1: Who needs to be somebody that really emerges in this
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  Speaker 1: first series against Vegas? And you threw out He threw out.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Tannem's name was one of the first ones. Has
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  Speaker 1: he lived up to what this team needs from him?
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  Speaker 3: I think he's been great.
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  Speaker 4: He moved up a line on on Monday night in
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  Speaker 4: the middle of the game.
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  Speaker 3: There's just something about him.
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  Speaker 4: And we talk about Vegas and all the playoff experience
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  Speaker 4: that they have, but Brandon Tanne's a guy that can
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  Speaker 4: add it for the Mammoth. He's gone to the second
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  Speaker 4: round in for of the six years that he's made
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, he's made the playoffs and now seven of
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  Speaker 4: his nine years playing in the NHL.
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  Speaker 3: There's there's just.
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  Speaker 4: Something about that, that big game.
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  Speaker 3: Situation that that he's in.
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  Speaker 4: And he scored the game winning goal for Providence in
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  Speaker 4: the Frozen Four to win an NCAA championship.
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  Speaker 3: Over Jack Eichel.
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  Speaker 4: It was off the face off play, uh Providence was
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  Speaker 4: going up against iikeel that they win the face off
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  Speaker 4: and and Tanna scored the goal.
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  Speaker 3: So he's he's he's just kind of got He's just kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of got that uh ilk kind of if you will,
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  Speaker 4: of big game. Does it appear in the box score,
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  Speaker 4: not necessarily, but but he's just kind of out there
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  Speaker 4: and you know, hitting guys and and adding adding a positive,
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  Speaker 4: positive impact.
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  Speaker 2: What are they doing with JJ Patterka in this game.
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  Speaker 4: Based on the reports that we got for Morning Skate,
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  Speaker 4: it sounds like JJ is gonna go down to the
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  Speaker 4: fourth line.
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  Speaker 3: It also sounds like Hayton could be back.
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  Speaker 4: He was taking line rushes at Morning Skate in Vegas
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  Speaker 4: today with Michael Carconi and Alexander Kerfe. So sounds like
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  Speaker 4: Hayton Beryl tell us game time decision. But if based
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  Speaker 4: on the reports from morning Skate today, it sounds like
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  Speaker 4: Hayton could be back. But Turka goes down to the
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  Speaker 4: fourth line. He didn't play for the second half of
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  Speaker 4: the third period and overtime, and and Bear, you know,
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  Speaker 4: gave gave a good answer like it's just it's just
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  Speaker 4: part of part of this.
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  Speaker 5: He see.
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  Speaker 3: He gave an example.
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  Speaker 4: It's like Clayton Keller, Nick Schmaltz when they were coming up,
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't all, you know, rainbows and strawberries and and
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't all fun fun times like there's there's there's things.
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  Speaker 4: And remember Logan Cooley last year got benched in a
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  Speaker 4: in a game and in late December after he took
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  Speaker 4: a penalty, and just just kind of the process. I
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  Speaker 4: I think for JJ it's it's it's gonna come. No
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  Speaker 4: goals in the playoffs so far twenty five in the
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  Speaker 4: regular season, you hope you get one or two. Has
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  Speaker 4: it shot the puck either, Like there's been some instances of.
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  Speaker 3: Like JJ, shoot that man.
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  Speaker 2: Well there he had a bad game the other day, right,
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  Speaker 2: and there's that's fine. Right. The reason I say it's fine.
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  Speaker 1: Is because, like, here's a big acquisition for this team,
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  Speaker 1: and he gave up some important assets in order to
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  Speaker 1: get him, and.
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  Speaker 2: Him having a bad game.
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  Speaker 1: If this team is not deep enough, if this team
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  Speaker 1: is too dependent on bringing in a guy like that,
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  Speaker 1: you can't move him down a line or you can't survive.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously you didn't end up winning the game. He
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  Speaker 1: turned over the puck that led to the I think
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  Speaker 1: it was the second Vegas goal that so it had
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  Speaker 1: a big.
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  Speaker 2: Outcome on the game.
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  Speaker 1: But like, I think you're in a good situation when
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  Speaker 1: you can say a player that caliber, we we can
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  Speaker 1: actually afford to in playoff hockey not play for several
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  Speaker 1: minutes or not playing overtime, or we're gonna bump him
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  Speaker 1: down tonight, We're gonna work through this with him. I
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  Speaker 1: think it really says a lot about how well this
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  Speaker 1: roster has been constructed around the potential star players.
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  Speaker 4: And he is a potential star player one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 4: And the great thing about JJ. Oh see, is he
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  Speaker 4: can be the reason you give up a goal. You
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  Speaker 4: can be like, where in the heck is JJ? And
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  Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden he pops in two
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  Speaker 4: in four minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's uh, Bears a great Bear's a great communicator.
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  Speaker 4: And he said they had a they had a talk, but.
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  Speaker 2: They said we had to talk and we'll keep that
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  Speaker 2: talk between Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You can imagine though, third period and overtime, sitting on
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  Speaker 4: that bench and Bear isn't calling for JJ. How that
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  Speaker 4: how that feels you came like, just think of that.
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  Speaker 2: But that's a motivator.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of Colin for jjre colling for anyone. Last
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  Speaker 1: time we were talking, I was like, what's the atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: going to be like at the Delta Center? And now
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  Speaker 1: that we've seen it, you've felt it. We've been in
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  Speaker 1: that building, the players, the national broadcast, the radio broadcast,
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  Speaker 1: the local TV broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: I have not heard one pundit go more than three.
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  Speaker 1: Minutes talking about this series without mentioning how crazy that
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  Speaker 1: building is. It's like the old playoff jazz energy that
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  Speaker 1: is no longer there. For the basketball has just transplanted
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  Speaker 1: itself to Utah Mammoth Hockey.
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  Speaker 4: I think Monday night was a step up from Friday
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  Speaker 4: really too.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me that I couldn't go on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like it.
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  Speaker 4: And maybe the funnest part for me on Monday you've
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  Speaker 4: seen like that big, huge mammoth parachute that they drape
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  Speaker 4: across actions.
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  Speaker 3: We got it in our.
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  Speaker 4: Section and I gotta I gotta bob the parachute up
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  Speaker 4: and down and go nuts at the start of overtime.
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  Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I mean you hear Steve Levy and he
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  Speaker 4: said he texted Mike Breen right like, I think this
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  Speaker 4: is louder than than the finals.
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  Speaker 3: But what a scene.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, I think that this Game five, Yeah, this
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  Speaker 4: is why you have me on and that's why Valley.
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  Speaker 3: Plumbing once all in and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: But Aladdin Industries about eighty percent of the teams that
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  Speaker 4: win Game five win the series. But you know, I
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  Speaker 4: was talking with Bryson Bianucci at lunch about an hour
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  Speaker 4: ago from our sister station, ESPN the Fan, and they're
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  Speaker 4: they're asking about momentum caring from one game to the next,
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  Speaker 4: and my feeling on that is Game four team had
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  Speaker 4: a three nothing lead, another team took a four to
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  Speaker 4: three lead, it was five to four and overtime. Nothing
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  Speaker 4: comes from that. You move on to Game five. But
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  Speaker 4: game five, you win Game five, I've you're coming home
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  Speaker 4: to win Game six.
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  Speaker 3: We can take it.
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  Speaker 4: Can you come on Friday night? Can can we make
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  Speaker 4: you part of that?
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna be in South Dakota Collins.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, that's right, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Brutal.
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  Speaker 4: All right, well, yeah, I think I think the game
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  Speaker 4: five though, if you come out and you don't fall
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  Speaker 4: behind three nothing in the first period, because they came
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  Speaker 4: out and had another good, strong first five minutes, and
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  Speaker 4: Bear said we need better starts, obviously. If you can
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  Speaker 4: come out and not fall behind three nothing, that's that's
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  Speaker 4: that's my biggest thing of why you don't win tonight.
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  Speaker 4: If you you can win Game five and you're coming
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  Speaker 4: back to the Delta Center to win a Game six
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  Speaker 4: and move on to to round two.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what is that? The slow start thing? We've talked
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  Speaker 1: about this with Utah football in the past. We've talked
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  Speaker 1: about this with the Jazz. This was actually a thing
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  Speaker 1: in my own fight career where you come out of
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  Speaker 1: the locker room you feel like you're Jazz, You're ready
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  Speaker 1: to go, and then you get your ass kicked in
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  Speaker 1: round one and you got to bounce back. What is
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  Speaker 1: contributing to that for the Utah man, because it feels like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, in the last three games especially, it's been
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  Speaker 1: like you get six minutes in and Vegas will have
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  Speaker 1: a goal and it'll be like they've got seven shots,
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  Speaker 1: Utah's got one or got none.
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  Speaker 2: What's what the slow starts.
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  Speaker 4: The most bizarre thing about it is if you look
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  Speaker 4: at the last two seasons in the regular season, Utah
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  Speaker 4: is the best team in the NHL in the first
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  Speaker 4: five minutes, in the first ten minutes of the game,
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  Speaker 4: in terms of shot differential, in terms of goal differential,
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: and as I started off our segment today talking about
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: there there's no fear, there's no sign of you know,
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: playing in the playoffs for the first time and learning
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: lessons you haven't seen glaring stuff like that. Vegas has
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: started great, and you look at the regular seasons, that
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: has been the least of Utah's concerns. They've nobody's been
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: better in the end, I coming out in the first
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: five minutes, in first ten minutes to starting a game,
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: I guess you could say Friday night, maybe some jitters,
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: maybe some adrenaline. Monday it hurt them because they scored
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: seventy two.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Seconds in the game.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: So maybe being on the road, maybe that's where you
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: can tilt that. Maybe you can pull that back into
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: your side, because oc your first period shot totals in
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: the last three games six six and three is not
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: a high percentage situation to get the game off to a.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Good start, and.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Chances are if you fall behind three nothing again, you're
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: not gonna have a comeback on the road.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: The Utah hockey community, in the Utah sports community, has
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: really embraced Mammoth Hockey. It's one of the most exciting
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: things that's happened in my lifetime covering sports in the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: state of Utah and being a resident of the state
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: of Utah.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: It's absolutely incre edible.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: These players being embraced by the community, them embracing the community.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: We got to make sure we're calling them the right names.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: The right nicknames is yeah, okay, and you're on the
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: broadcast and you're on Mammoth Daily, so you're a you're
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: a thought shaper. Okay, you're a trend setter. When it
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: comes to this kind of stuff. So, James, James, are
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: you prepared. Oh I'm I'm more than prepared. Okay, we've
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: been waiting on this, Yeah, telling you so game got
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: some ideas.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: So let me just tell the little backstory why why
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: I started compiling this list.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: So I'm sitting in the media.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: Section when they have us in the corners of the
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: of the building. I'm in one of those corners there,
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: and one of the one of film media members was like,
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: I saw someone wearing something that said you're killing me Schmaltz,
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: and I went, oh, that's great, And I'm like, wait,
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: I can do that for most of the other players too,
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: So let me let me give you I'll start with
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: the Captain, Adrian Denny.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: How do you like the Zodiac Keller?
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: I like it. I like it.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: I like it, James, because you've seen you've seen his eyes,
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: you know, when he's possessing a puck when he's talking
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: to the media, and he'd rather go do some work
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: to help to focus on his game and his uh
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: mental well being, right, So I like that.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I got one for you with Keller, James.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: Okay, natural born Keller, natural born, natural born Keller.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Or if he's having really bad stretch, we can just
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: call him Helen.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Oh Clayton more like Helen oh Man.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: We won't do that to you.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: Okay, So this one, this one's one I'm I'm gonna
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna ask you guys for your feedback on this
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: because this one I'm not as I'm not as I'm
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: not sure I love it as much.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: But the one we're gonna start getting wild. Okay, the
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: list they're gonna.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Start this one. This one's kind of wild.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: So you've heard of you know, they're they're they're a
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: sponsor every I think it's twice a year they have
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: the Rocky Mountain Gun Show, right shout out to those guys.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: How about the Wasatch Mountain Gun Show. I can't get
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: behind to gunther, I can't. I can't get behind that one.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: It's a little list.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: What what else do you got, James, That's what I
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: got for That's that's that's the only one.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: I'm like, that's the only the only thing I could
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: think of for gun The.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Guns I found is actually a really really difficult name
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to do, like a play on words.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: With what what about Rocky Mountain Gunner Show?
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Okay, I think, yeah, I think I think we could.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Go with that's that's what that's what Bear calls him, right.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Gunner Gunner?
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Okay, I did not.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: I didn't realize he went by Gunner with at least
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: the coach there, so that that's much better.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: See I put a question.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Beture of that one.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: It gets lost because people can't quite decide if it's
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: a Bear's accent where he's just like leaving.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: The just going like Gunner, but I think he deliberately.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Is it is Gutner?
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: Now for Logan Cooley, this is another one that I'm
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: not sure about, but I'm thinking like ice Cooler because
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: he's he's clutched right ice like clutch or we could
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: go little giants and just call him the ice box.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I like icebox. What about what about Coolie? Then the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: other side of the pillow, get it, get it? We
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: got to shorten it somehow.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Uh Krause sour Krause.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: This one's good.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: I like Sauer Krause sour Krause.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's all right, Nerman october Fest folks.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Now, this one he's about krausfirerouse crossfire, but krousfire or
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: house fire rouse Fire.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Crousefire, you think that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Maybe he's red Redhead too, red Beard at least? Yeah.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: Okay, but Kilchev this one I really like. But I
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: just know o C He's gonna hate it. Serga Chevy
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: like a rock.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: It's too much.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: And I don't know, it's just brand associated and he's Russian.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: They don't drive Chevys in Russia.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Okay, how about or just how about just Chase like
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: Chevy Chase.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not on board with that, mostly because I
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: keep hearing all these like anecdotal stories about how Chevy
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Chase's actually like, yeah, the worst celebrities out there.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: That's true.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: He's really awful to people.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: Apparently, maybe fifteen years ago that would have been a
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: better one. Okay, Okay, Now I think you told us
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Adrian that the JJS for JJ purkis stands for John
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: Jason act.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so John Jason Jingleheimer Schmidt.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: But you got a guy named Schmidt too, Yeah, that's
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: and then or you could just say it for both
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: of them. You could just say his name is my name.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: That's it, that's right. And then the Jack mcpain.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm what about McBain of your existence?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Like that's something you can use on a broadcast.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Adrian, yeahs like the bane of the Las Vegas.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: That sounds like something Mike would say, you know, after
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: a big hit.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: And then the last one I've come up with is
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: for Yamamoto Yamaha aka the piano man. Oh yeah, tickling
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: the ivory.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I like that, James, Uh, can I give you one
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: for Schmaltz? Can you call him Schmaltz pox one time?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: You know, it's like smallpox.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: It's a deadly disease.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: Killing the other team Schmaltz pox.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: They're dying of Schmaltz pox out there. Can we get
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: that in there?
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: That's that's Yeah, might be a little edgy for Hockey
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Night in Utah.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: But uh, all they can do is say, don't do
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: that again?
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Uh spray tannaf How did I not come up with
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: that one? Here's what I'm reading, Okay, Adrian, Danny is
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: a great sport and he's right here in front of me, James.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: He doesn't like any of these.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I think there.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I think there's body language and like he's not gonna
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: use any of these Oncat.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: It's never gonna happen. I don't know. We've struck out here.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: I saw him in person when I gave him Zodiac Killer,
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: and I I believe you're gonna use that one.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I okay it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I think uh, I think sauer Kraus has it has
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: a chance.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I think McBain of your existence has a chance.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Can you eat mail me?
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: These James absolutely put a little more preparation into it.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: I'll erase the ones for effort though a for effort,
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: I'll take out Serga Chevy. Don't worry about that. No
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: guns show. We're gonna gunner is what we landed on there.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Eight zero seven hundred.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: If you want to submit any ideas, our whole goal
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: now is to get something into the radio broadcast with
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: a you know, the starting point of that nickname being
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: right here on the shottle Conn Show.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: We'll do our best.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm all in. I'm all in.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Well before we let you go do the Mammoth win tonight?
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: And if so, how does that look?
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: My key for the Mammoth tonight that's different from the
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: last three games is kind of what we talked about
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: in terms of don't all behind three nothing, but can
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: you come out? Can can you establish the tone with
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: ten first period shots. I would feel good about the
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: trajectory of the game. If we don't start pinned in
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: to our own zone for the first five to ten minutes.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Can can you have even or more shots than Vegas
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: in the first period and it hasn't mattered. And we
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: talked about how opportunistic Utah's bed, but I would feel
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: I would feel that you're in a better situation to
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: win if you can come out in the first period
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: and kind of dictate the tone. Maybe you get a
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: goal in the first five ten minutes and take it
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: from there.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Like Friday Night.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Mammoth Golden Knights Tonight Game five, the series, as you know,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: is tied up to two, a crucial and like Adrian
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: just said, most of the time, it's like an eighty
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: percent ready to be in a kind of a decider.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: If you can win game five.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: For the rest of you, win Game five, we're winning
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Game six.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: We're not going back to Vegas on Sunday, we get
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: the weekend off.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I love that idea. Any other surprises around the league
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: for you.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: The Oilers on the brink with Connor McDavid suffering.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: They were, and now they're a win away from being
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: three to three and going back home for a game seven.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: It's it seems like that's Edmonton every series.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Every year they.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Fall behind and then all of a sudden they're back.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: And I'll tell you this, So see, it looked like
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: they were done for good when Anaheim went up three
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: games to one. Gosh, it looks like Minnesota is probably
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: in a pretty good spot to take care of Dallas
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: there at home for game six. The Montreal Tampa Bay series.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: They've got a game five Sunday. In Game four, the
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: only game in that series that did not go into overtime.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: So that series has been has been pretty crazy. Oh see,
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: can Pittsburgh erase a three to zero deficit and win
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: the series four games to three? It all started, it
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: sounded like they're down three to oh they practice Friday,
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Sidney Crosby gets hit in the back of the head
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: with the puck and it sounded like it just kind of.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Light in the mood from that point on.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Wow, Yeah, they got some laughs.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Funny stuff can can change momentum.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Hockey guys are weird man in the best way. It's awesome.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: That is Adrian Denny. That is between the pipes.
• 29:33
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• 29:35
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• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you for coming all the way up here too.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Oh oh see on Friday, when I'm back downtown for
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: game number six, I'd love to see one of these
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: babies parked in front of the station.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: That's a great idea.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get that sunseeker over there. We'll put a
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: big decal of my face on the side.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Do this because it's the parkings, you know, they got
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: all the meters and stuff.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Just bring some cones.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Put two cones on the back of the RV, two
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: cones in front, and they'll be like, oh, they must
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: have a permitter.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: They're supposed to be here.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, I'm just gonna pull up onto
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: the plaza right next to the note and right next
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: to the puck.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and just put it there. Just put it there.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not a bad idea.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Big thanks to Adrian Danny, Big thanks to Paris RV
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: for having us out here at the Leyton Hills Mall.